Sweet video! I so wish I had the money for a nice camera. Photography has always been a great interest of mine. I'd love some more of these kinds of video tutorials. Much better, more engaging than some monotone drone who's done the same speach too many times talking about this kind of stuff.
Just signed up the forum to join the photography community on here.
Nice video covering the basics, looking forward to more photography stuff. I own the Panasonic GH3 (micro four thirds sensor), got it used off ebay a few months ago and have been loving shooting video with it. Only gripe is the cropped sensor but I didn't fancy paying 2-3 times the price for a full frame camera. I might get a speed booster, though the metabones ones are very pricey. Could you make a video on budget friendly speed boosters?
I love using manual settings myself on DSLR's. It give you the freedom to do what you like with the image. After completing 3 years of Photographic Media at High school, I have really found a passion for adjusting the settings on my camera :) Also bellow I caught that shutter mid way through closing :P Great video!!!!!
You don't have to buy an expensive camera. I shot some great photos with my phone. Composition and a good eye are much more important. You could get an older and used DSLR for little over 100$ plus a nice prime lens. For under 300$ you can take pictures that are 90% as good as pictures taken with a 3000$ camera. Don't be scared away by expensive equipment!
And yes, nice video. Hope it motivates more people to try photography. Just seems like the more pictures are taken the worse peoples photography becomes. Nobody has to think about it anymore now that their phone can take good pictures and many of them.
@Logan@DeusQain I think you could have mentioned that you don't need a camera as expensive as a Nikon D750 and that cheap, used equipment will be good for people who want to try photography since the expensive equipment seems to be the biggest turn-off for many. Maybe I'll write a beginner buyers-guide.
Thanks very much for making this one, guys. Definitely cleared up a lot of uncertainty about certain aspects of digital photography. I now actually really want to start having a serious go at it. Cheers :) Also gives me something to do with my Grandpa. I'm really looking forward to the next video, have a good one.
@Logan@DeusQain I don't completely agree with your comment on crop sensors not being photography sensors/cameras. There's tools for the job, Id consider a ASP-C sensors perfectly fine for photography, and most astro photography is done on smaller sensors than that, usually 2/3 or 1/2 sensors. Though I don't disagree with the general comment that a full frame sensor is generally better as you have more room to work with, but for a beginner, or.. most people, ASP-C or similar is a great sensor size (i realize you were talking about 4/3 sensors, so maybe you were being specific to that).
Pretty awesome that you're doing this guys. I'm sure a lot of us want to get into photography but need a quick and easy guide on where to start.
Since you asked for some input on where to take this, I'd say put out a video or two discussing how you took photos of various subjects, like how nature shots are different than sports shots and food shots and so on. Just show us some artsy things you did, tell us what you did, and maybe encourage the community to post some of its work. Pull the best submissions and show them off in a video or something.
I tend to justify my position by asking if you would ever shoot with Kodak Advantix Film.
Maybe it comes from the fact that we both shoot film. While I understand most people's position on this, I have a thing for Prints, and while some people will say that you won't notice the difference between a 12MP and 21MP or 40MP print at a medium size, I've noticed, and it bugs the crap out of me.
Nothing quite like a 6x4.5cm 80MP Sensor.... unless you start looking at the RZ67 ProIID with the RZ80 Digital back.... or you can look at a Hasselblad, but last I checked they only go up to 60MPs on their digital backs.
You do not necessarily need a super expensive camera to get into photography. You can get a Nikon D3200 or 3300 for roughly 300 dollars and then pick up a used 50mm 1.8d nikon lens for another 100 bucks and you can get exceptional results.
Yea, I don't agree with Logan on this either. Most wildlife photographers use crop sensor formatted cameras because they achieve a further zoom with full frame lenses on crop sensor bodies. Also, many many photographers use crop sensor bodies and achieve excellent results. They are generally cheaper and can achieve similar results to their full frame counter parts. Some people dont want to spend a thousand plus dollars to get great pictures and it isn't necessary.
I've had this camera for about a year and I'm quite familiar with it by now and it also does great video (for a DSLR).
I see the point of people here saying a cropped camera can get you far and that's true although cropped sensors start falling behind in challenging conditions such as low light.
I think you get most points across on ISO, aperture and shutter speed but sometimes you loose me with how you present ISO as some value that aperture and shutter should be adapted to. If you can always stay at ISO 100 and throw more light at the scene sure but else I think ISO is pretty fluid and you might change it close to as often as shutter speed or aperture depending on what scene and preference you have.
Awesome video guys. Just curious - will Albert be featured in any of the photography videos? He always seemed to be a camera wizard. BTW - what happened to him?
I think the sentence was poorly worded when he said "keep it as low as possible"
As I was there, when he said it, and we were discussing it off camera, we are saying that you should keep the ISO at the lowest setting for the lighting conditions to reduce the quantity of noise/grain.
Shot to shot I agree a larger sensor can be better. A 24mp ASP-C sensor compared to a 24mp full frame sensor for example, the full frame will win, it gathers more light as the light gathering per 'pixel' is larger so you can capture more light with a smaller ISO, the advantage is obvious.
24mp ASP-C compared to a 40mp full frame (illustration purposes only i didnt do the math) would give you a larger frame but the same light per pixel, and smaller sensor would gather the same detail (if using the same lens) and the same pixel density it would just not pick up the surrounding part of the image the larger sensor picked up.
I think @The_Bowtie give another good example of my main point, different tools for different jobs.
You generally don't get any full frame sensors for astrophotograpy for example (excluding people using DSLRs), I actually am not sure why as ive never checked, but the sensors that are used tend to be CCD small format but much larger pixel size to maximize light gathering
