Well said, only promote products you use or believe in. Great stance.

Darn Dehancer looks amazing tool for Davinci, but dawmn if it isn't expensive. The responsibility point that you mention is very important! I hope the channel grows with that in mind!

Great Video Brother!

IMO it does more harm than good to remove videos that don’t perform at first. Some content might perform better over time once the algorithm starts to recognize the content you’re putting out.

I'm 25 & I've been doing photography as my Hobby/ Freelance... for almsot 10 yrs. I use Manual everytime, I do it all myself... I hate that photography now a-days is all Photoshop, Lightroom, or A.I... I kinda like the Old-school I guess. I take the time to learn my camera settings, I dont crop or put a filter on my photos... I enjoy the challenge of taking a photos with the Manual settings, seeing what settings work on ny own, and the originality of the photo.

I used to watch Jared A LOT when I first started out in photography. And a lot of other creators. My thing was, if I see how different people do it, I can mix it all up and create my own way. I used to love the interactions he had with his Grandma Lil, and I truly felt for him when she passed away. Something changed though. he became arrogant. And for the life of me, I can't understand why. He's a great photographer, there is no doubt there, but the arrogance that oozed out of him drove me away. Most episodes became a roast of whoever was his target that week, and how he could do things better. I started my own business, in photography about a year after watching my last episode, and found creators within my niche, and jesus, they all seem to be best buddies, the big names in the field, crediting each other, saying to each other things like "you could have one this and you would have got this result. - What do you think?" instead of just bashing into each other about their styles. It was a refreshing world, and it reminded me of when I picked up my first camera and went to photograph the northern lights in Scotland. People were willing to share experience and not be bitchy about it, they'd come down and see how your images were turning out. But Fro....? Man he made me sad. I can credit him for teaching me most of what I know about photography, and I am very grateful for that. I probably wouldn't have had it in me to believe in my own capabilities if I hadn't used what his videos taught, but I just think he lost his grounding.

I started an instagram about a year ago, I started posted photos either every day, every other day, or at least once a week. Within about 4 months, I jumped to 1,000 followers. After I reached, 1,000 I was offered a photography job which took up a lot of my free time in photography. I started to post once a month now. My followers has staid steady at 1,080 followers now for 6 months. They only promote your channel when you post every day, or every other day. Even if they are not my best photos, I get more followers from the 5th day of posting than I would ever get posting my best photo randomly in a month. Still cant seem to get over 1100 followers for some reason. I was going from 30-50 followers a post to maybe getting 5 for 1 really good post, only to lose 5 more before I post the next photo. Its weird for sure.

Wow! That intro music sounds great!👍

Because IG & Threads are Trash! 🗑️

I think you can still make it full-time in 2021 and never looked back I shoot for business which is way easier than trying to find people to pay you

Preach

If anyone jams presets down your throat its the skittles guy

Jared has been punching at other Photography content creators for the best part of 10 years (possibly longer). His first target was Ken Rockwell, until he met Ken, started looking at some of his content, and backed off. Kai is just another target. I can't remember sitting and watching more than 30 seconds of a Polin video in a long time.

He's aint lying about Kai never the less love digital rev TV lol kai and lok are legends for me love the old dig rev TV soo nostalgic

Hi, I just a bought this device and tries it last night. I have a folder with 2 similar files, one is written TrLR.wav and the other TrMic.wav does anyone know the difference and why there are two files , not just one ? thanks

When I plug into 1/4" TRS at the bottom from my mixer, the audio that's recorded is terribly clipped and super small waveform and quiet. It works fine when going to the 3.5mm line-in on the side, but then I can't use the onboard mic for crowd sounds. Not sure what the issue is or how to fix it. I bought this because it says it supports line-level input via 1/4" TRS Anyone have any suggestions?

That was really cool Lane, enjoyed it !

Best review. Covered exactly what I was looking for. 👏

Had to close my 31K follower account a month ago because of this. Can't put anything under an individual hashtag anymore. Can't check certain hashtags for new posts. A new post will trend for 1-3 days & then will sit there for all eternity with no new interaction. All because they want it to be a clone of TikTok.

same experience

Kai is a comedian, Jared is a clown.

Soooo, basically your tweaker GF is coming over to ask for cash?

As someone else with 1.5k subs, I get a LOT more attention on my astronomy videos than my camera ones. I gotta assume it's because the learning curve is harder for amateur astronomy and the gear is nowhere as mature as on the photography side -- *but it's getting there quick* I also notice review videos about *buying new gear* do well and those where I teach something... do poorly. Go figure, people want to spend, but don't want to learn. Story of human nature =/ You're 100% right. I have a lot of fun making videos, but this won't ever become a business -- ship has sailed. There's guys with 50x my audience who can't make a living doing KZbin. I'm a Fuji fanboy and shoot all my family pics with an X100, and all my landscapes/"gas station at night' stuff with an old 50R 💚

Dehancer is De Answer!

Yo bro, what’s up with voice line?😢

Kai keeps it light and airy. Which, is what my dad photography mostly is. I’ll never shoot a baseball game professionally with a 600mm lens. I will tool around a city with an X100 though.

What a quality of editing and images, Lane. From Dehancer we want to thank you for your contribution to our community with such professionalism. We hope you enjoy our products🔥🎥🔝

Instagram has *always* sucked. From a user-interaction point of view, it's hard to use, it's clunky, hard to find what you're looking for, I don't know why it ever became popular.

The zoom feels cheap, I remember de the first version and that feels very pro and roboust 😢

if theres one thing that gets on my nerve the most is the toxicity that photographers say about other photographers and their photos. thank you for saying what you said.

WHY do people always want to 'be like someone else' instead of being themselves? If all we had on YT were PMK or MH or CN it would get boring REALLY QUICKLY! I watch the creators I do because they are unique in themselves, their content and presentation. YT is NOT a Hollyweird Studio Production platform it is YOU Tube. Meaning YOU and the content YOU create, not what someone else creates. A platform that allows ANYONE, EVERYONE to make content and upload it for others to see. While PMK is a good creator, he's a pitchman, a salesman. Early on he aligned himself with Casey Neistat to boost his own channel and "brand." If you didn't have a channel that was bigger and more popular than Pete, he would not talk to you, because he was all about promoting himself and his "brand." Don't be fooled. 99% of Pete's video production quality comes from Kirk. Peter may have the vision, but Kirk makes his vision look the way it does.

I only watch certain photo news stuff from him, but I never take any photography advice from him. His photos are pretty average at best.

No lies detected. 😂

yeah man I don't know, I watch some of jared's videos because they have information I need, but he's always seemed arrogant to me. also the "I shoot RAW" thing lol. okay? yeah, all of us do.

Some people take photos and some of us create images!

I just can't listen to adult males with their little baseball caps on backwards.

What was the xlr microphone you were using for this video?

So is there no way to set gain? I understand its 32 bit float but what if i still wanted to set my gain for piece of mind?

The irony of Jared Polin critizicing other photographers for "not being true photographers" when Fro doesn't have a photography business (and his LR presets blow btw), he's just a sponsorsman who earns money from making ads about new cameras. He doesn't care if the Sony A7IV uses the exact same motherboard and processors as the A1, making it a carbon copy as far as AF goes (120 calc/sec), he will say that the a6700/A7RV will autofocus better despite it has been proven they do not. and in fact are almost worse than a7iii when AI detection is off, since they do only 20 calcs/second, all in all because they're new cameras despite having vastly inferior electronic interface, lower dynamic range, worse buffer and worse high iso performance. Besides, his photo gallery is full of background blur spam with rule of thirds or over-curved blurry photos.

I think its dead. I went to school for photography. Worked for lifetouch (school portrait company). I've freelanced. Ive worked at an ad agency. I've done it all, and im only 28. I have some big problems with the industry. 1 people think because its easy today with technology, it doesn't have value in other word. "im not asking for prints i just want something i can post to social media. So i dont think you deserve to be paid for time and talent as much." 2 companies look at the gear you use and won't give you a job based on that. I've lost jobs cause i didn't look professional with the latest and greatest camera gear. Lifetouch made you have the newest camera and didn't help you get it. So basically, i couldn't keep up and quit. Now, the landscape is changing as well, thanks to Ai. Pros in Photoshop are no longer needed. I was replaced by the ad agency cause ai can do something in Photoshop that took me an hour. All is not lost, though. Photography has become my hobby now, and im happier now. Friend needs portraits of their kid for yearbook, sure. My friend needs a small ad done, ok. I do photography because i love it. Im not in it to make money. Am i sorry that i wasted my college education on it, kinda. But that's life. Things change.

As a business it is, it will limited to a few. As art form it would always be around! If as a business it wasn’t dead people would be posting photos instead of videos on how to take them (it’s what pays the bills), has photographers out artistic side doesn’t want to face it!

I subscribed, you do too

Does your screen black out for a sec when you stop recording

It better feel luxurious for the damn price 😂

Preach it brotha! Respect

Hey brother. Spot on. I watched a bit of the Kenya Trip of Mr.Polin. My own take it’s just not a happy bunch. But yes a bit silly. Kai is ok. Cheers.

Im playing catch up on your channel :) I started with flickr. If someone liked a pic of mine, I would go to their channel and have a squizz, but it never occurred to me that I should like any if I didn't. I sort of treat ig and flickr like portfolios now, examples of my work because I cant get my sh!t together to make a website.

I used to watch Jared when he did the thing with Steven and Todd Wolfe, Todd to be honest in the beginning used to sh!t me to tears but he chilled and was good. Once that format was gone, I don't know, too much fro not enough personality maybe, but I let it go. Kai (and Lok )is unpretentious and knowledgeable. Dry wit helps too :)

Instagram isn’t like it used to be back in 2015 now a days all instagram cares about is reels…🙄😒

Dude! LOVED it. Subscribed! Give us more! This is such a truthful, honest talk. We need more of this on KZbin. Forget the "niches" and the "equipment." With the advent of AI, what we need is simple, honest truth, not bells and whistles.