Very nice and detailed. Will try this 🙂👍🌳

well explained 👏

Best explanation of BBF i have seen. I now use this all the time.

Great video

Keep up the excellent work, Jeffrey!

Great video ! I echo your thoughts !👏

Have you ever tried a solar power bank? I have used one on a remote trip to Quebec. The price does not seem to bad, because of the two included batteries.

Very nice video....( what song is it ??? very nice music ) i got my 28-400 and it´s really good for hiking. Replace my heavy 100-400 and i´m happy with the handling,weight and Quality !👍

I have a film cp30 m5 hybrid which is great. But I’m honestly looking for something really light for hiking. I mean really light. I currently am using a Sony a7cr and one lens 20-70 f4 zoom to cover everything. I’m just looking for something that will work and be lighter than my current setup. Do you have any recommendations? I don’t need the strongest or one that holds the heaviest camera since this Sony setup is around 2.2lbs. I mean something stable would be good for long exposures. I just want something for hiking, waterfalls and so on.

The only problem I have with the Kirk LP-70 is that the ¼-20 holes are in the front. I carry my camera / lens on a BlackRapid crossbody strap so I need to attach that to the foot. (yes, I can and have attached the strap to the camera but that puts a lot of weight from the lens on the camera ring.) You can attach the strap connection to the front of the LP-70 and that works fine for carry but it does require that you install the lens on the Arca plate front to back. The LP-70 does have a QD connection and it's nearer to the back of the foot so if BlackRapid ever comes out with a QD connection for their straps, this would be a non issue. And if you already have a strap with a QD connection, there's plenty of room on the LP-70 to attach the lens back to front. The Leofoto NF-01 is similar in design but a little shorter and about ½ the price. However, it is even more problematic to use with both a ¼-20 strap attachment and an Arca Swiss plate because it's shorter. Interestingly, both the Leofoto and Kirk ads show the lens/camera hanging upside down from their respective feet but don't call attention to the fact that with the strap connection the way they show it, you would have to completely unscrew the strap connection from the foot each time you want to mount it on your tripod.

Thanks for the helpful tips! 🙏🏼

Nice explanation that I found interesting. I do want to comment on the tree branch coming in from the left. I find it distracting and would consider removing it.

Lightroom has advanced enough recently I don't use Photoshop for anything any more. The enhancements to masking are really useful. Nice job explaining and illustrating this subject! Thanks for your efforts...

I have the same ball head in the 52mm version (site rant: the whole world uses the metric system , only the USA stays with old europe middle ages inch, yard, pounds... 😉). Since 2 years now. And I bought this, because its an exact chinese copy of the three oder four times more expensive head of the American brand Really Right Stuff. I think, this American "luxury" gear brand comes into trouble because all the Chinese cheap brands produce the last years at the same high level with the same machines to form the metall. My ball head looks exact the same s in the first day. And I have a second panoramic plate above the ball under the arca Swiss plate. Very handy to use, if the underground is not very even. For panorama shots. I bought it for 100 € at amazon. Thanks for the review, and that the tension screw isn't there is for me not an issue.

Made it much easier to choose! Thank you

The Tamron is by far the better lens. It is much sharper in every picture. I had a dilemma whether to go for the Nikon 24-200 or the Nikon 24-70f4 and the Tamron 70-300 and after this test, without a doubt the second option. I prefer to change the lens but have much better quality

Personally I'm holding out for Tamron to bring their 50-300 to the Z mount. I'd love to pair that with the 24-70 f/4 for a relatively lightweight setup with good reach and IQ. Seems to have a decent close focusing distance too.

If my gear fails, then it's telling me that either A it wasn't prepared or B it wasn't meant to be my day. The way I look at it is that if my tripod broke, I would then go to stabilisation in my camera. If my tripod failed, I would just shoot handheld. Why didn't you take the thread out and try and straighten the bolt or find a different bolt from your other tripod? Probably could've fitted in there the usually a universal size alright we just shoot handheld given that most of the modern cameras have stabilisation if you don't have stabilisation then yeah, that's an issue, but you just have to push your ISO. I can go down to half a second now. I would still be able to use the tripod and use a shutter release cable or the other solution you could've gone with is some tape and just tape the top of the tripod so it doesn't move. Always carry tape in my bag. You will break something sometimes including yourself. I've even taped a camera to a tripod because the bracket had broken and I was able to get the bracket half onto the plate and then I use some tape around the camera yep some good old gaffer tape and it worked really well. I've got the shots that I needed, always carry tape in your car and when I buy a tripod, I make sure I get a few extra screws with it and an extra ball head in the car as well but I'm very very prepared. I'm wondering, could you have the bullhead out in the tripod?

Good advice on all fronts. I keep an older tripod in my van at all times, in case I walk out of the house without one of my preferred tripods, but I've never thought about a failure of the tripod or head. I think I'll start carrying a spare clamp in my bag that I can at least mount to the tripod in the event of a failure, though movement is limited. A clamp is cheap and doesn't take up much room. I use a quick change system from Leofoto - receiver to mount to the tripod, and plates to attach to the heads. It's really convenient for swapping out one head for another. I use a gimbal for long lens support and a ball head for short lenses. Quick and very secure. Anyway, it would be easy to attach a plate to a spare arca clamp. I might even get a cheap panning base and attach the clamp to that.

Great advice Jeff. Did you consider building a little platform of some sort, using rocks or whatever, to set your camera on? I’ve done that before, not because my tripod was OOC, but because I was lazy and didn’t want to get it out. I found a couple of pretty flat rocks, set them on a bigger rock that was just the right height for my composition and fired away. 😎

This seems a good solution for backup your SD card to a external ssd drive. I am hobbyist photographer and own a Nikon Z50 (great travel camera) as you know one SD card slot on the camera. So backing up my SD card to a ssd drive is a good idea. I have serval questions. My first question, while traveling for serval days or weeks, I would like to backup my photo daily (after the day of shooting), can I backup just the files I want to backup for each day? Second question I use a Window PC for my post editing, can I read the SSD drive photo files into my Window PC?

It's not interesting for me for landscapes. It doesn't really offer anything that the Z6 or Z7 don't already offer plus I hate flippy screens. It's clearly aimed at video shooters which is fine. The best mirrorless I've tried for landscapes was probably the S1/S1R if only it wasn't so big and bulky. If they came out with a slimmed down S1 with maybe 32mp and everything else the same that would be perfection.

The depth of field is the exact same as full frame … the confusion arises because of the crop sensor. Hang an Apple on a string take a photo with a full frame camera then a Micro 4 thirds camera with the same focal length and aperture but don’t change positions of each camera you’ll get the same depth of field. A classic example is a head and shoulders shot with say a 50mm lens on a full frame camera and then a M4T camera with a 50 mm lens with same f stop but having to move back because of the crop factor on the M4T camera thus changing depth of field.

Excellent overall explanation, very well explained.

what is the difference between VR reduction and vibration reduction?

hi, are you using a NISI or Kase CPL?

How do you set the camera up?

Hi. I am a little confused. When you have a 67 mm lens. You still need to step-up to 82 (lets assume that is the filter size) with the step-up ring and can not use the inlay correct? So the in-lay is only for lens of the same thread size and still can not be used with a step-up setup? - so vignetting still possible

Thank you Jeffrey. Your video is so helpful. I have spent a day trying to sort it out and yours is the first complete video, showing the whole process. Cheers Mandy. P.S. do you have a video showing how to save the focus stack to MY MENU? Many thanks

They shoot landscapes with the Canon RP, bro lol come. Be real. You don’t need 45 mpx for landscapes.

Great explanation. Now, here's a wrinkle. I cover mostly events. With people constantly moving. Would back be a plus for me?

I also have the Sherpa roof rack and wondering how you mounted Pelican cases to it. Also, did you say you put 2 adapt plates together for your platform? If so, were you still able to use the bolts that came with it from Sherpa Thanks.

Great idea!

I shoot HH a lot, and often with a 3.7kg telephoto. A good technique is to stand almost side-on to the subject, bring your left hand up to hold your right shoulder, left arm raised parallel to the ground, and rest the whole rig on the resulting 'platform'. Brace, force the eye-piece hard against your eye, fire a burst. Also works well when you're down on one knee. I also find using a monopod unextended with the bottom end wedged into my jacket pocket is pretty stable. And yeah... two bodies if tripod shooting or to avoid lens changes at a beach or a windy and dusty environment. Nice vid - cheers.

Yes, I enjoy watching photo vlogs, that’s one of the reasons I started my channel. And yes, it’s a lot of work, I haven’t had the best year vlogging though, health issues and family issues have really hindered my vlogging.

Great video that gave me a lot to think about when I head out to photograph not only waterfalls but for any landscape photography. I like the idea of using a telephoto lens with longer reach to capture a different perspective. Guess I'll have to start bringing along my 70-200.

Another excellent video especially the fliters discussion. Other videos I've watched the presenters have either said there is (1) no reason to use them or (2) the discussion becomes very technical about how the filters work, probably more information than most people need. For those reasons I haven't bought any filters but after watching your video I plan to get some. I find your videos insightful, easy to follow along, not loaded with unnecessary technical jargon and not too long.

Another excellent video. I shoot handheld most of the time but plan to start bringing along a tripod on certain hikes. Yesterday, with a hurricane approaching, it was very challenging holding the camera steady so I cranked up the shutter speed. Since I wasn't hiking I was able to brace myself against my car, a sign post and later sit on a rock. Eventually the wind won out and I packed up to wait for a better day.

Excellent video. Your explanation how to use the Tone Curve is the best I've come across but, like you, I'll probably use masking most of the time.

great video… I’m trying to follow it. I’m good up to the “tap here and choose paste”. I’m not finding anything that will allow me to paste. I’m apparently missing something important you’re saying.

Great video! I have been getting deeper into editing with Lightroom and Photoshop so this video comes at the right time.

I so much miss the U1-3 on the Z8. The custom banks in that camera are not saved, so when I change them during use they stay changed.

What's your overall impression after a year of using the X50 v2 over your old explore 35 v2? I'm looking at getting the smaller x40 v2 or the Explore 35 v2 to complement my X70 HD and I'm torn on which one would work best.

Should I detach the lens while updating?

Definitely interesting concept and discussion. I definitely find that I learn the most from my "bad" photos and I find that when I go back and look through raw photos from an older shoot, my opinion about which is better has changed and I wonder why I never edited this photo or that. Thanks for the video!

Is this brush reusable ? Please help

I like your attitude, there's no right or wrong answer, it's a personal choice. It's good to see someone else's thought process. I particularly appreciate your emphasis on separation of the feature you want to highlight. That one thought is easy to overlook when your view is the "whole world". Small details can be very interesting. Thanks for taking your time to share your thoughts. (I also like the other side of the river!)