Sony FE 85mm F1.8 vs Zeiss Batis 85mm F1.8 Field Test (In Thailand!) 

I agree. I love these guys.

I think it was between your portrait and elephant shot at 6:10 for best shot.

Gordon Laing .

Those parts were so good, I had to loosen my pants. Wait, what?

Helping with Banff Mountain Film Fest Adventure Filmmaking Workshop is always one of the highlights of my year! Glad you checked out the festival tour, there were some great films last year! Jordan @ TCSTV

SooGehts don't know what happened to Chris, but his photos on this episode are fantastic

National Geographic worthy image

I wanted to say the same!

thought the same exact thing

came lookin for this comment, was not disappointed

V PR do you ever actually use the weather sealing though?

Over a year later and yeah the Skin tones are more natural to my eye on the Batis. Also more Micro Contrast.

Just shoot raw and color correct in post.

@@beyondestination extra work & waste time..

6:14 aaaaand howdy to Tony Northup! 🤣

GH5 in V-Log. The deepest shadows are a bit blue, I'd grade it differently now. Jordan @ TCSTV

Do you need a macro? If you don't and you're serious about a portrait lens, it's hard to leave all that extra headroom and shallow DOF for a paltry 2.8. Yes 10 months late.

That was shot on the GH5. We also used a Sony A6500 & A7R II for some sequences. Jordan @ TCSTV

TheCameraStoreTV When are you reviewing the GH5?

Hi, I just got mine and I hear the same rattling sound inside the lens when the camera is powered off. However, it goes away once I turn the camera on. Did you find what the problem was? Some people say it's the OSS but some people say their copy is dead silent all the time. Thanks.

This really depends on how you plan to use the lens. If you're shooting a lot of portraits with available light, OSS is of pretty much no use. Because you need a minimum shutter speed to make sure you freeze the motion of the person and this shutter speed will be higher than the safe to handhold time for a 30/35mm lens anyway. Using it for the studio with flashes, OSS again doesn't matter.

Yep, someone covering the Olympics would shoot rolls and rolls of film, give them to a delivery service who would deliver them to AP or whatever service they use for delivery to places like Sports Illustrated, and they would get developed and put into papers and magazines the same day sometimes. With a camera like the Nikon F5 it rewinds and reloads very quickly -- you can do the whole rewind/reload in about 7 seconds -- maybe faster if you are a ninja at it -- so you can just wait for a lull during sports, reload, and strategically shoot the important shots like starts, finishes, famous athletes, crashes, etc. You might even sacrifice a partial roll so that you have a full roll at the beginning of something important. You just learn to shoot in shorter bursts like bursts of 3 instead of 20 like with a D5, or be willing to waste a huge burst on a front page moment or huge bursts all around and reload like hell. I've seen guys on TV shoot a half a roll or sometimes a whole roll as basketball players come down the court toward them, then reload while the players go to the other side then shoot another half or full roll on the way back -- you never get back a Micheal Jordan playoff moment. And, yes, some shooters have a roll in a body with a tele lens and roll in a body with a wider lens for when the play gets close, or even a long tele and a slightly shorter tele, or an emergency backup in case they get caught at the end of a roll, etc. You just had to be prepared and know WTF you were doing.

Okay, I can go back all the way to 1972-76 when I worked as a photo editor at a U.S. sports magazine. We would get photos mailed from the Olympics and other major events at a speed that, for the time, seemed astonishingly quick. Obviously, Mark Shearman and Tony Duffy were sending film daily to their favorite labs that would develop and make prints - very beautifully, I might add - nothing beat Tri-X expertly developed in HC-110 for a dramatic sports mood. At any rate, those wonderful photos were indeed taken on (many) rolls of 36-exposure film, on motor-driven Nikon Fs.

Ben Welles multiple camera bodies

love it as well, it's a modern classic.

No, the Sony 85mm F2.8 SAM is your inexpensive option. You can use any of the Minolta AF 85mm F1.4's or ger the new Tamron 85mm F1.8