- why not just have monochromatic sensor and filter wheels to have both 1. Great texture 2. Accurate colours, without that purple effect David was talking about Wouldn't that make perfect camera? A little more complicated but you literally have best of the best of both worlds
Just put mine (mirrorless) into "creative BW" (shooting RAW). This way you'll get the BW preview (EVF and display) to better judge contrast and light. Bonus: It will still be a color image at the computer because RAW (as long as your camera manufacturer isn't especially... creative). Or shoot jpeg if you want to "commit" to BW. Well actually, no, don't do that. Less light per pixel, yeah. But with the performance of modern cameras and AI denoise these days... Esp. with the high megapixel count, noise starts to look an awful lot like film grain (at least to me), which I pretty much enjoy. Have fun shooting :)
As a professional working photographer, this channel is quickly becoming one of the few camera related channels that I actually watch consistently. David, love your work and understanding of photography, and appreciate you sharing your passion to a larger audience. As someone who very regularly shoots black and white, I thought you did a wonderful job of explaining the differences from color shooting.
David should have a photography course. And it would be a unique experience because he isn’t just focusing on the rule of thirds or the horizon, but he’s explaining the hole in the lens that lets light through. I’ll never forget it.
@@casperguo7177 I actually never went to a class, just learnt from the internet, but trust me there are people who won’t talk enough about the mechanics of it, their ideas are more like hacks.
@@AdamSambuco the good ones do, of course. But I don’t think many explain things like david does, or like Neil Degrasse Tyson does. They are professionals but they also sound like educators. Look at Marques, he’s great but I don’t think his explainers are as good.
@@daniyal._personally I think David is great and has some really good takes on photography, but that was the most brief and basic explanation of aperture that I think I've ever heard. That was the "I'm putting this in here because it would be rude not to say anything, but let's keep it brief because most people watching this video already know" explanation. Any photographer worth their salt would be able to give that explanation in passing. He didn't really explain the *important* part of aperture which is that it controls your depth of field (he made a reference to that when talking about the man with the spiral, but never explicitly said it). If you want a really, full depth explanation on basically everything you need to know about the fundamentals of photography, Tuts+ actually has some great 3hr explainers on RU-vid. It may sound daunting, but they're worth the time (and it's *only* 3hrs vs much more struggling on your own).
That shot of Marc Rebillet and the shot of the subway are so cool! Also love attention to detail in the talking head photo review section where the set is mostly monochrome spare for a few red highlights. Fantastic video, hope we see more like it soon!
Purple fringing around tree branches is most probably due to Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration or LOCA, which refers to the fact that different wavelength of light can be focused differently by the lens. So in high contrast scenes, such as tree branches in front of a bright sky, the purple or green wavelengths appear slightly out of focus when the other wavelength are in focus, hence the purple or green fringing. Demosaicing and compression algorithm might accentuate that optical defect, but I doubt they are the cause of fringing, as some lenses are corrected for less LOCA 😊
Actually, it's Lateral Chromatic Aberration that's responsible for the purple fringing David described. Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration (LOCA) is when out-of-focus areas in front of and behind the plane of focus display color fringing. But I agree that David is trying to blame the demosaicing process for a characteristic of the lens. (If he were right, then all lenses would display the same amount of color fringing on any given camera, which is most definitely not the case.)
Noticed this too, either lateral or longitudinal chromatic aberration could cause this. He's not really describing either one, he's making up something about demosaicing. He didn't say that it wasn't slightly out of focus, nor did he say it was at the corner of the image. So it's hard to tell which one the picture was displaying without knowing his camera settings or the rest of the frame. He also mispronounced ISO 😢
Debayer demosaicing can cause similar issues but mot this strong. For example around small red flowers the red may smear out. I have studied this in images taken both with rgb and monochrome sensors so it is easy to compare.
I think *some* amount of it could be explainable by debayering, but yeah I agree that it's unlikely to be noticeable like that example was (which was likely a LOCA or LACA issue). If you have a really good lens on a good camera, debayering does an awfully good job of being really sharp and convincing you that there isn't interpolation happening.
Loved the video. I was always critical of a monochrome camera or B&W photography but a few months ago I tryed out a B&W analog film and actually loved it. Since then at least half of my analog films have been B&W. Digital i still lean more toward color. (also loved the Marc Rebillet cameo at 5:56 :D )
I am INSANELY impressed with David's photography! I'm playing around with B&W film now, and understand how different the photo taking process is. Great job, and I'd love to see more of these videos on the channel in the future!
Absolutely awesome content! Really interesting and well filmed/edited! One small critique, I would prefer it if the moving background behind the illustrations were moving much slower. It does distract a bit...
Cinestill sticker and panoscan (xpan?). Can we please have an exclusive channel for David’s film photography, please, thank you! Your images are great David!
I waited to watch anything, was honestly 10x more happy watch this over the Asus ROG phone. Love the main channel but sometimes this slaps better, sometimes.
Lived the vid, all the photos are draught 🔥👌 beautiful compositions, nice use of light and shadows. But the cinestill sticker on your lap caught my eye, haha. I need those tooo🙈😹
Some of those shots were amazing. The one from above of that woman in the centre of the frame with blackness all around her. Tha Hand on the wall one was really beautiful too. What a great eye you have for these shots. Definitely the kind of photography I love.
Okay I think it's about time for another channel, Manual Focus. Now how can I add 3 numbers from my M8 without burning $9000 that obviously I don't have.
Considering David is a writer/reasearcher at MKBHD....I remember when I found his channel a long time ago and thought...THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING WITH A CAMERA!
His explanation and craft in not just photography but everything he talks about is remarkable! So glad you are a mainstay on WVFRM and this studio ep is amazing!
Davids photography theory explanation is so understandable and great , man please do more camera review and photography sessions like these DAVID !! 🤠🤠
It's nice to see a review with more thoughtfully created images. Lovely work. I also enjoyed how you explain the concepts as well as the details of the camera. Look forward to seeing more of your content going forward.
4:25 the purple halo is chromatic aberration, caused by the way light interacts with the glass elements in your lens. This can be fixed using certain arrangements of glass, such as Apochromatic lenses.
There is one downside of monochrome cameras: You lose the ability to mix the signals from the three colour channels. For example if you want a blue sky to appear dark gray, you take less from the blue channel. The green channels controls how bright green subjects like plants appear in the photo. If you still want to influence that mix, you have to use a colour filter, but that means that you have to make that decision before you take the shot, while a colour sensor allows you to mix the colour channels in post.
A monochrome Leica will be my gift to myself once I feel like I have “made it” as a professional photographer. Its my equivalent of a doctor buying a Rolex or a lawyer buying a sports car.
With the amount of post process programms and how good they are now I don’t see anybody giving 9k for a monochrome. I mean ok I understand the essence of leica and what gives you but the trade off is pretty expensive. I would go with a Sony A
