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I've been reading about the mirror. Less cameras, systems. If you have thought this would be considered one of the pen from Olympus, they're excellent. The benefit is that you have a removable ends so you can extend it. You can get a little pancake lens, a little fixed lens, say, which is be nice for a portrait. Work on it. This has got a little bit of a telephoto on it. This is their 14 to 20 14 to 42 which would This size sensor is basically half of that, so you double that so 14 to 42 would be the equivalent of a 28 to 84 on here. The quality is excellent. It's got a huge range. It's a raw shooting. It has all your manual controls, including bracketing. This one is nice because it has this ridiculously useful articulated screen, which is also a touch screen. So Sony has some Marylise cameras out cameras that Nikon can. They all have the smaller ones. Fuji has their Siri's, which has gotten phenomenal reviews in terms of the quality of low like capabilities of some of the Fuji camera...

s. So I think they're great. The One thing is whether removable lenses, a feature or a bug to you, because one having to carry around multiple lenses means you have to carry around multiple lenses something like this, which would be considered more of the point and shoot from the cannon. Same basic size sensors on here. Same basic quality. Raw shooting, manual controls, all that sort of thing. Usually these air gonna have a greater telephoto range because it's a fixed lens that can't be changed. It also has folding optics, so they're going to be much smaller with these sorts of point and shoots. So appointed shoot that has a fixed lens to it, which wouldn't be considered muralists, though even that's obviously is mirror elicit has no mirror on it, um, is great, and we'll give you more telephoto range. This may have some more quality, and it will give you more capabilities. When you do run out of range of whatever this lenses, it's a tough call. The nice thing with some of these here is that you can get what are known as super zooms, right ridiculous ones. There are point and shoot cameras that both Canon and Nikon make, and other ones that go from, like 24 to in what looks like basically this. But this size, it's a fixed lens. You can't remove it. But a 24 to over 1000 lens in a raw shooting camera is going to give you the same quality of something like this. No, no, for what we talked about before about how most of us are seeing and sharing and enjoying our photographs. Especially if you like doing street photography. Where you want to grab somebody. You're in Italy and you don't want to get arrested for stalking. You know, people, something this small, which is gonna let you shoot that, you know, coffee shop across the way. Beautiful, gorgeous. You know, close ups is amazing. Gives me chicken skin just thinking about it. I had 1000 millimeter lens on a pocket camera. That's raw. Shooting is awesome. So it really depends upon what you're using it for. How much of it is street photography? How much? Using it to travel with? What you gonna use? It is a commercial. You're gonna sell the work real good questions. One of the things. A lot of these now have WiFi connections connections to it, this one on my SLR. The Nikon doesn't have a, um doesn't have a built in. Only were hooked up to it right now. Now, uh, a built in WiFi. So it has a little external a WiFi transmitted to it. But that is something to consider on your cameras, Like this one, which has it built into it. If you have a way of instantly connecting to your mobile device from your camera, even a big boy camera, that may be a big feature for you because it immediately lets you either tweak it with the apse on your camera or share it instantly or just transfer your files wirelessly. So if your camera has WiFi capability, take that into consideration some other ones. This this has a gyroscope energy PS built into the Olympus TG Siri's so that it could be if you're doing travel photography, the fact that it will automatically keep track of every place you took a picture and you put it into something like light room, which has the maps feature. It will automatically take that GPS information and track out your entire vacation automatically. You drank you want? Take a couple questions from the Internet, please. Tossem. Um, we have a question from Sam Cox. Um, is GoPro convertible to infrared? Has anybody ever done that? I've never heard of that. Um and I would say, is a default, probably. No. It would be something where you could check with a company like life pixel dot com and see if they would do that. The benefit of that? Because the main thing, it's an extreme sport. Cameras. It's default setting in underwater. The problem is, with underwater, you wouldn't. I have some underwater cases that I used my underwater cameras on, and almost all of the infrared spectrum has cut almost immediately into the water. So you're left with almost nothing as soon as you're going to water so you wouldn't shoot infrared really underwater. And in terms of an experience, extreme sport, especially video, as cool as it is, it's probably wouldn't be my priority. So I dont think its possible on. Nor do I. Would that be at the top of my list for conversion? We have a question from word critter. If you could talk really briefly about what you feel are the advantages of mirror lists over a mirrored DSLR, please. Um, well, size first off a mirror, The true single lens reflex camera that's using a prism and a, uh, shudder set up where you're needing to the light comes in and bounces up and goes through your viewfinder. So you see, the actual world is nice because you see the actual world. But it's not what you're gonna photograph, because when you press the shutter, the mirror goes out of the way, the shutter goes up and it exposes whatever the thing is, whatever your sensor or film plane is, So this is actually a different set up than this. It's nice because you're actually seeing the real world. But you're not seeing your exposure, right? That's why we're constantly chipping right. You all know the origin of the word chipping. Who you look at the back working anyway. So the benefit of an SLR is you're seeing the real world. The detriment is you're not actually seeing what you're grabbing. You actually have to look at to see if you got the correct exposure because you're not actually looking at the final image. A Marylise camera, by definition, is using electronic viewfinder, not a single lens reflex. It's not tilting this mirror prism out of the way. And because of that, whatever you see is exactly what you're gonna get. It's being processed on the fly through the back of the camera, through the back of the electronic viewfinder. So, uh, a mere list camera or even a pocket camera has the benefit of you actually seeing what you're going to get its It's accurate. Um, the most people are looking at a mirror list. Camera versus an SLR is on terms of the size that they're much smaller, the sizes depending upon what Marylise you're talking about, you can get see size sensors. Um, um may even be some full size sensors that are in the Marylise range now, so your sensor in the quality of the glass that's going into the Marylise is excellent. But they're smaller because they don't need the entire prism set up in order to do this view finding that's hence, the term muralist. So they're smaller. They can have excellent quality. You have the benefits of, um, removable lenses and variable lenses. Um, the question is whether it's annoying to you like as an example in this pen. Siri's There is no visual viewfinder. You actually have a little attachment that I use That gives you a small little electronic viewfinder up here so you can do this and get your lens up to it. But as a default, I have to look at this. So in bright light outside, I'm looking like this, and this is not how we traditionally take pictures. It is on our IPhones and a mobile cameras, but this is not in a bright light. It's hard for me to compose. I really do want to come up here and look at this. So that is the benefit of these is we're We're looking through our viewfinders and were able to compose the scene in bright light. That's why the nice thing about the even the this point and shoot camera, you'll notice it actually has a real viewfinder for bright light. So it's not a going through a mirror, but it is. Let me look through the viewfinder. So, um, he answered the question for a small travel street photography, the mirror lists or the point shoots are great just because they're infinitely smaller and the quality now on them is amazing. They're also gonna probably have. If you have the something like a super zoom, they could have a ridiculously wide range In terms of resume. The benefit of an SLR is it's always gonna be the highest quality. And it's going to give you the ability to have this viewfinder That's gonna be the most brightest, beautiful view of the scene. You're not looking at a pixellated image of electronic viewfinder, so yeah, yes, Question about quality. I've got a friend with converted color and black and white cameras There d to hundreds. I've taken some poor traits with him, and they tend to be very noisy. The D 200 was That was the pre jump in terms of the quality that the sensitivity, the high I so capabilities of the Nikon Siri's. So the 200 is definitely is. Before the jump, the 300 was really one of the first ones that had some decent high I s O noise. So I would consider that the thing with infrared because basically, you have a monochromatic image that the noise is going to show up war. So in an infrared just by the definition of you. You can't hide it in all these colors. Um, it's it's these nice, beautiful, no black skies. So, um, I wouldn't to be honest, rather than get something like a D 200 converted. I'm not gonna have the eso noise rating. It's not gonna be alive. You camera that the 200 didn't have live view on it. So you're gonna have to do manual exposure compensation to get it done. I would do this over an SLR in heartbeat. That's me. I mean this. You'll have more fun with this. This will be on your hip. 24 7 Especially with a nice, sexy leather case again were all those, you know, photography bars, you go to try to pick people up in. You know, this is a hot hot item. This will let you shoot amazing quality. And if you're going well, I need more megapixels. Number, click, click, click, click, click. I just made 100 megapixel file and I got full white angle and I got all this stuff so I would go over an electronic viewfinder with good raw shooting capabilities with a nice sensor over an older SLR. Um, unless you had such great glass, You just go. But I can't. I can't part with the glass. Knock yourself out. I would go with That's me personally. That's one of those religious blue state red state questions that I'm not gonna get it with. That, um, points you you said that you've converted that to infrared. Now, would you contend me? Would you not necessarily converted back? But can you just put much one trick pony and that's it. And you're good to go. That's it. That's all it does. That's the nice thing is that this can be since it's under one trick pony. It's small enough it stays with me if I haven't converted this one, and I'm carrying around a big boy camera. Now, all of a sudden, I went from a fun afternoon out in Venice to a pain in the butt. So this thing, like I said, I can keep with this or even a regular small fanny pack, which should be called a bum back is if you're in Australia, you never call this a fanny pack. Don't get me started, but this is a bum bag, and a bum bag is You can't even get a small one. And that should allow you to put your GoPro an infrared camera and SLR your IPhone. Your olo clip. Literally. You can end. You know, you've got your little, you know, mono pod for getting up up here. So you I will travel even with a small little fanny pack and have half a dozen cameras with me. And I'm just giddy as a pig in slump. Yes. Would you like crap? I noticed that you carry 7100 weight. Well, it's cost and cheapness. And, you know, I was sponsored by Nikon for or 10 years before they had even their full size sensors with the start of their the D 100 stuff. Um and so the glass was all made. Whatever known as the GX series is all the crops sense of the seaside sensor. And so all my glasses geared toward that size sensor. Um, So even though you're gonna pick up a great addition of ISO sensitivity or low light sensitivity, if you go with a full frame for me, the sensitivity, even on something like 7100 which is not an expensive camera, is amazing. I'll show you samples of shooting, you know, stage productions, no augmented light action, razor sharp telephoto. You know, not even using in a really fast glass. And I could get away with murder and high eso. So from that standpoint, for what I shoot and the resolution that I need, it's 24 megapixels. I'm low light shooting. It's lower, it's less weight, it's cheaper. And I can use all the glass. Yeah, that's why I haven't converted to a full frame sensor and lens set up. Does that mean I don't lust after it on a daily basis? Yes, I do. And I feel I feel much degraded in my masculinity because of not having a full frame sensors. But I'm also very confident my masculinity. So I This is a follow up. I was recommended to be to buy the 7100 but then by the expensive lenses that when you would someday go to the full frame, you recommend you certainly can. The nice thing about that and some other ones, and actually, some of the, um, full frame cameras will do a crop into a D x, you know, format. So you can actually get the benefit of what would seem like a telephoto lens on top of the full frame sensors. So there are benefits in terms of full frame. Beyond just the sensitivity. The concept of buying the best glass that you can is always a great one just because that will stay with you. And if the camera supports using a non D X optimized lens so you use a full like as an example, Um, this one right here for the Sigma is can be used on a full frame or a crop sensor as well. So if you have that option than great than you've, you know, killed two birds with one stone, so to speak. But you are gonna pay mawr and then the lenses. They are more expensive lenses. By definition, they're bigger. And there it's a good question. It really depends upon what you're doing. If you're making your living at it than you know your cost of your equipment, you've got, you know, don't compromise. That's what you're making your living. You're getting that back. You just need to calculate that money into your jobs. You know, that's that's how I put everything I and I do that with joy, Like the helicopter, you know, even like the GoPro. Because you have to go. OK, what happens if this died in the waves? You know, in other words, Or I crash the the something like the copter. I'll on a good day. I'll get $1000 of joy out of that copter by crash it after a day And I got the money shot. I'm happy. I'm happy as a clam. How many waterproof cameras have I popped Shooting waves over and over again? At least half a dozen of these. Is it worth it if I got that shot, that one wave that one back lit inside that cathedral insider Totally worth it. No hesitancy. Is that it? Is that pleasure that I got worth the hundreds of dollars? Totally. Because the alternative is buying $100, Ferrari and going through a male midlife crisis. I'll go through my midlife crisis buying these like potato chips, right? I get my jollies on this, and if they break or die, I haven't lost anything. I crashed the Ferrari. I'm gonna hear it. Yeah, I always put everything in the amount of joy I get out of it. And for, You know, I don't do Starbucks. How many? Thousands of dollars of thistle. Right here. This is a year of Starbucks, right? So I choose my addictions. The question Yes. Color versus black and white infrared. Um, I like, um, having some color. I would not do a straight black and white conversion again. We'll get into it with the infrared class because, um, by having some color in it, usually again, the traditional CPS and scions will talk about white balance and setting a custom white balance. But by having some color in it, then all of a sudden everything that you could do with color and say something like light room or adobe camera raw photoshopped becomes a viable option. If my foliage is a sepia and my skies are scion or blue or vice versa will be talking about being able to swap channels in different ways. We can get the blue skies like we have on our scene over here. Um, I can go into light room and say make all the blues darker or make all the blues later and Aiken separate out by basically I've got a mask built into it all. My CPS, the scions, or instant masks based upon adobe camera on light room. If it's a pure black and white, there is no differentiation. I have to manually mask out the sky if I want to change it in terms of lightening and darkening it or manipulating it so I don't use super color. If you're familiar with those because that if you squint at a super color infrared, it has the same tonality. The foliage and the sky is basically the same shade of gray, and because of that you're not getting the drama of infrared. They are distinct, so you can manipulate them in light room and get that drama. But then I'm manipulating every single shot to get what I'm trying to go for. And for me, it's the drama. It's the Ansel Adams dark sky light foliage. You know what she did with Amber's and Red filters? He wasn't shooting infrared, but he would get that kind of drama because he would be putting amber and red filters on top of his black and white cameras. So anyway, so I like either with standard or enhanced color, not super color with the great questions and I think in terms of the camera settings, I'll go through the basic ways of controlling exposure in cameras. There are three areas your F stop or your aperture, which is the opening in the camera. The shutter speed. How how long the shutter is left open and the Esso or the sensitivity of your sensor or what used to be the film plane. Eso used to be a s A. So those are the three things and the main thing that you want to know, obviously a shutter speed is going to give you either your motion blur emotion freezing, which we're gonna be dealing a lot with in this class. And your F stop is going to be giving you a shallow or a deep depth of field. Everything in focus for your landscapes very shallow for your portrait. And we're gonna do a little live shoot with a still life. But I think we'll show that in samples that were shot out in the field. So I think that we don't need to do the live shoot, especially since you can't see the camera settings in here where we're going into where you can see is I change the f stop. Um, when you change the f stop, you can see the depth of field change. So I think we'll do that with the in camera shooting. So if you were to put a figure on that desk over there a figure, a figure, financial figure, financial figure, I thought you mean like a nude reclining? If you were to put a ballpark figure on the desk, could you give us give us a number? We're not. We're not gonna hold you to it. No, because I hadn't thought about that. But I can tell you, as we're talking about, even the biggest expense over there was the Nikon 7100 which you can get it Costco with two lenses or even with a nice kit lens with this nice 18 again, this is the kit lens. Now that you can get with it at Costco, they're 18 to 200 which is the equivalent of a 27 to 300 millimeter lens with a very nice camera. And I think that's 1600 bucks, something like that, under under two grand for a really nice lens and a really nice camera with card and everything else, so that's the most expensive thing out over there. Even the big glass like my telephoto lens over there is I don't know what currently costs on that, but that's, you know, maybe over $1000. But there will be less the things like the GoPro's that's 3 50 if you max out. Even with toys like the extra led background on it, Um, this is probably one of the more expensive things over here. In terms of that, the copter, which I don't have up here like I said, that is also is gonna be around 1400 if you get the top of the line that the Phantom vision to Plus is the current one on that, which is great. Great camera raw shooting with a gimbal with a great in a multi axis. Campbell on it. Great for shooting video. That's a brand new set up, so I'm none of those are really expensive. The point shoot cameras, things like that. Waterproof one 303 50 for the new Olympus TG three, which will go down to a one atmosphere for doing underwater scuba action Macro