Apart of being good photographer ,you are great story teller.Peace out.

Great inspiring honest video.Looking my self to photograph Milwaukee Art Museum for some time,t his video will make it hapen faster.Thanks

Can you please do a video how to use affinity to make digital neg for alternative printing ex cyanotype@john magnoski

I really wish kf allowed more than 2 square filters to be stacked. It looks like the filter rails can be unscrewed, so with some careful measurements, I could probably 3d print a rail that stacks 3 or 4 filters, but it would be nice to be able to stack 3.

Amazing pictures and inspiring story 😍👏🏻

How you compare this one with polarpro summit kit?

Thank you, John, for the insights on the K&F Concept Square Filter System Pro. 👍

Is there a command in Capture ONE that allows multiple selected images to be OPENED AS LAYERS IN PHOTOSHOP OR AFFINITY PHOTO? (like lightroom has?)

Thank you for the review. I use Formatt-Hitech. I believe the person who started Wine Country worked for Formatt-Hitech.

Thank you! Great and thorough review.

Definitely need something with this level of precision, but can it be used for top down/flat lay shots as well? Rigged to speed rail somehow?

Amazing work. Do you know if it works with the sigma 14-24 dg dn for sony?

I started to do B&W photos and it's the first time I see a video to realized them so easy. Thank you John!

Useful advice, particularly on the buying decision!

Spot on, great video! One huge benefit of the C1 is that it puts the camera in a sphere more or less putting the axes on the image plane, great stuff.

Good

Good evening. I picked up my cameras again the middle of last year. After reading about how to use and set film simulations in Fuji cameras, I learned that the X100S I bought a few years before lacked the ability to store white balance adjustments with the custom setting. That determined the need to upgrade my X100S to the newer X100V. Unfortunately, a new one could not be found and used instances were selling over list. However, I had a good year and decided to buy a used X100V at slightly over list. It was a good upgrade and I used that camera quite a lot last year. in fact, I have it with me on the road this year. It produces excellent images and is quite usable at higher ISO values. My encouragement to anyone buying one of these lovely cameras is to spend time with the manual and watching YT videos on its use. It can do a lot. It will take reps to make all of that stick. It is worth the effort. Great video. Thanks... and God Bless!

Your work is lovely. I came by here because I am looking for a square filter system. I recently bought a Bronica S2A to shoot film. Film shooting requires filters. Thanks for posting a review of the K&F Concept system. I then decided to look at some of your other videos. This one attracted me. I am an amateur photographer and have been for 50-some years. I have taken on work now and again, but mostly for friends or for students who needed headshots but couldn't afford a professional. So, I'm a hack. But... what you say in this video rings true regardless of what one does. I've been watching a lot of Alex Kilbee's videos recently (he's a great teacher) and am reminded of Stephen Pressfield's work as a writer. Pressfield's thesis is "Be professional. Show up every day. Do the work." Kilbee's words and teaching is very similar, although I don't know if he's read Pressfield. What does this have to do with your video? Well, I hear the same theme resonating in your presentation. Get out, make some images, do the work for yourself that needs to be done as well as the work that pays the bills. I think that approach sets things up for God's providence to step in and take over. Because you did that work, you won a favored client. That's God's providence, my friend. Blessings...

Thank you this is very helpful. Though my eyes fail to discern the subtle workings of split toning on the mountain image, I can make it work with others.

Hey John, great review! Trying to figure out if anyone makes an adapter so this will work with Fuji 8-16mm (no filter rings). Any help/thoughts greatly appreciated! -A

Amen to all that,John.We definitely should print our work.NNothing beats a beautiful framed print on the wall as opposed to the photograph sitting on your HD or phone.

Brilliant tuition,I have learned so much from this video.Thank you very much! Please do some more BW conversion videos in Capture One.

Great video, thanks for this. Convincing me to get one. Although I find it funny how photographers talk about the cost of things - I work in film and the last tripod head I bought cost me £4000 GBP... Not to downplay the cost of this head, it's expensive in terms of stills - but in film you learn very quickly that quality and precision are VERY important, and very costly to produce. Worth the money though.

Capture One has basically done nothing to improve the HDR and Pano. features. After splitting from Phase One in 2019 they floundered with poor management for over a year before hiring Rafael Orta as CEO in late 2020. Orta's vision seems to be trying to pass off sub grade improvements as the finished product, then moving on to something else and in the process introducing more and more bugs that, again, don't get fixed. And, on top of this they seemed bent on pissing off as many users as possible while raising prices to industry high standards. Both Phase and Capture One are owned by the same private equity firm, Axel, and their vision is profit before anything else. Orta is driving Capture One to a shell of it's former self and they are starting to lag behind the competition. After going to subscription Adobe did little in the way of innovation for years. Now, in the last couple of years they are starting to innovate again and Capture One is the looser in this. This from a Capture One user since V-7 and I love the product it was and still use V-22 but will not update or give them any more money until they change their ways.

GFX is such a great system.

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Great review man! Have you ever tried using the ND filters without the CPL? Does it change performance in some way?

Can you recommend a heavy duty tripod for this Cube Head?

I have a question about the difference between Geared Panning and ClickPan. What are the differences in the function of panning or rotating the camera? Or what are the differences in usage logic?

It’s an awesome head. Highly precise and robust.

John, I couldn't quite see, from the video, where the center of rotation of the two axes with the "radius" that gives axis of rotation at a point "remote" from the rotating part ... it can allow you to put a lenses perspective center at the center of the mount's rotation, so that you can get, for instance, warp-free panoramic images...but, I think that the rotation center would require you to mount the camera on a rail that puts the lens in the right location... perspective center determination is another subject. ...

John; I gave up on balk heads 30+ years ago: the sudden changes when you tighten an axis, the sudden total "flop" of your 600/4.0, when you try to just "tweak" the position in pitch, oh, or horizontally...the tiny "neck" of the ball head allowing the wind to cause your setup to vibrate around the neck axis... so, back to a manfroto Giant 3-way head, or almost anything other than a ball head. (My Arca Swiss 4 x 5 just couldn't sit still on a ball head!)

one reason for this cost, is that this head is designed as a kit item to go with the arca-swiss F line or M line monorails, which can go to 8x10" size (like the sinar system, the back frame can be exchanged for 4x5"\5x7" or 8x10" standard carriers) so the structure is there to support 8x10" lenses at full rail extension and hold it at that angle, and for this tech. you need to pay for it, as the more rigid the system, the stronger materials you need to use, aka steel or titanium rather than aluminium or pvc for parts.

Can you please explain how you use two lenses? when / out is you get using them?

Would love to know your thoughts on Arca Swiss D4 geared head

I would have loved to had that clarity of attitude and purpose (not to mention confidence) before I spent 40 years in jobs I had no interest in, much less enjoyed. Excellent advice, but admittedly a bit bittersweet when viewed in the rear view mirror.

thanks for saving me a lot of time and frustration. I use Aurora for HDR. It is not great either... I am eager to learn... what is the best software tool for doing HDR merging? Is it lightroom? Also, does anyone know what the HDR image editing people in Vietnam and India use? I will continue to use them because I cannot afford the time it takes for post-production. But for the one-offs that i need to turn around in a matter of less than an hour, I would love to know what tool they use so I can do this myself for small, quick turnaround of an HDR image.

Hi John, thank you for your great review! Just a quick question, why did you choose the Arca Classic quick release type over the Fliplock?

Have you tried stacking CPL + 2 ND filters? Any vignetting issue?

Because of "photographers" like you, who test cpl in the studio, I bought this k&f set which has little to none pollination effect

curious to know - why spend so much on this kind of head for interior/architectural photography, when we can do corrections in Lightroom. presenting I am doing commercial photography as a professional and using Ball Head from Manfrotto. I understand this would be much smoother for framing and operation than ball head but still why worry for minor corrections which can be rectified in the post. pls share your experience for knowledge

What pouch did you use to carry these knf pro holder system with all those framed rectangle filters?

Thanks for the useful review, seems a good bit of kit

Thank you.

I really want this for tabletop product photography. Im currently using a ball head tripod and is so frustrating when i get the framing just right and then i tighten the ball head again and it shifts a little or i get the framing that I want but its slightly off level. This thing would solve all of my problems i think

I have the 801113 Monoball Z1dp quickset classic. Is this good for architecture photography?

Will this work with Sigma 150-600 Contemporary?

Nice tutorial dude.

Have you noticed color shift?

Thank you this is really helpful.