Damn, sweet find! Can't wait to see footage shot from it.

I just wished they'd make a battery grip for the R7... which sounds impossible at this point

Good thing you picked it up at that price before the Loch Ness Monster could!

I have same combo. Will be using it for aviation photography

yes i have 2 canon 80D, i use them in my event photography they are still excellent i love them

24-70 2.8 was the first lens, the nifty fifty was ordered at the same time, but came a week sooner. That wide lens is next, but till then I use my 360 camera or shoot 180 degree drone stills, not a lens per day, but that's how I roll.

Thank you! Looked to upgrade my 7D mkii and found r7s are only 900 from walmart online but was very sad to hear there were pairing issues with my lens but this gives me hope!

Comparing apples with chocolate bars. Lr is still a raw development tool at heart. AP is a full flow editor with raw development included. Presets are for lazy superficial sheep. A catalog is more a burden than helpful. Lr was invented when most photographers had no clue of file management. No knowledge of files and directories. Even photographers have evolved since. 😂

I have a question does it put your drone over 249 grams with these nd filters or not

Jeff, your background looks good. What lights are you using as the colored backdrop light?

Battery dies way too fast...I barely used mine after a 2020 purchase...went to use it the other day (2025) and I go find out the battery died...since my purchase time of 2020 I probably used it 12-15 times..then the battery dies SMH...now I am stuck with the Q3 since I cannot afford 60 dollars for a battery that will die after a hand full of uses.

Well, the more lenses you own the more the non photographers will think you're a "real" photographer. BTW, I grabbed a beer instead of a bourbon cause, you know, it's beer. And unlike some women who've been in my past, beer doesn't get upset when I grab another beer.

You provided a broadly generic range; however, for me as a landscape and nightscape photographer, 70%+ of my images are created using my Nikon 14-24Z and 20%+ using my Fuji 18mm F/1.4. The only time I'd miss a 200mm+ lens is if I was photographing the Eastern Sierra, but I do have the Fuji 90mm F/2 that would fill in nicely.

Cheers coffee drinkers and bourbon drinkers.

My 70-200 f2.8 II stopped focusing so I sent it into be repaired at shop in my state

70-200 f 2.8 for dirt racing at night. Thanks for the input as always Jeff!

My necessity with my 90d are my 70-200, 24-70 tamron g2 and sigma 10-20, depending on spot may use my 17-50 2.8 also.

The best part of RF glass? It’s dropping the ass out of the EF second hand market. The EF L lenses are absolutely beautiful and I feel like they render something a little more characterful with the enhanced precision of the mirrorless body, blended with the ‘ethereal’ softness of EF 1.2 aperture. I can’t explain it but, I played with the 50mm 1.2 EF and RF side by side and I really thought the EF felt more organic. Don’t get me wrong, if I could foot the extra for RF glass, I would be on that like bacon through a duck. Great video with real information for people with worries. Awesome job.

Amen, I recently heard an interview with a photo-journalist who said she was told “This a great image, but the second someone takes a picture of a bunny playing in the snow… no one will remember this.” What you said here “ask yourself why this photo matters to ME” has become the basis for every image I take. My photography has become more about attempting to capture the emotion over anything else. And I am all the happier because of it.

Sir why we did not see rolling shutter in our face .we saw our exact reaction what we do in camera we do not feel that our face become in different moment of time ? So why so

I've been doing nature photography for over 25 years. I gave my sister and brother in law two 20x30 metal prints and asked them to tell their friends that if they want, I can sell them prints. I followed up by telling my brother in law, everybody will admire these prints but I bet you that non of your friends will want to buy a print from me. The only pictures people are interested in buying is pictures of themselves.

I totally agree with you on pretty much every point you made. I've come to those same conclusions over the past few years. I know that my photography is getting better, but the photos that I am making are ones that tend to ask questions and no longer just blatantly pretty. I'm getting less and less interaction, but finding much more satisfaction in my work. The biggest offshoot of this is that when somebody says that they like a photo of mine, it is because they actually care about it and it isn't just a kneejerk reaction to seeing something familiar and far overdone. The pure glut of photographs to be found online is mind numbing and the ones that are getting the likes and engagement are the ones that look like everyone else's in that they are over processed, over saturated, and of very popular subjects. They all blend in far too well.

I have this speedbooster on my R7 and it is a problematic one. On one hand optically it is good. I never suffered from detail loss. Contrast loss is insignificant so it's optically good. But the autofocus is really poor. Used/tested on the lenses: (failed) 24-105 F4 EF (1) 50mm F1.4 (mostly failed) EF 50mm F1.8 (mostly was ok) EF 50mm F2.8 (almost never fails) 55-250 EF-S STM So it's not like you can take the lens and use it on this without double or triple checking. Not good. And the real magnification I've measured is somewhere between 0.75 and 0.76, most likely 0.75 instead of 0.71 as they say. This means the crop factor is 1.2 instead of 1.136. And while it might seem an insignificant difference, in reality it's not. If Canon APS-C sensor covers 1/1.614^2=1/2.6=38.5% of the full frame sensor and correspondingly the same amount of the lenses that is cutting 61.5% of the lens out, than with this speedbooster it's 1/1.2^2=1/1.44=69.44% of the frame (30.66% of the full frame size is lost). With normal 0.71x coverage it would be 1/1.136^2=1/1.29=77.52% of the frame, so 22.5% of the full frame is lost. And by the way to get the real full frame look you need some 0.63x to get there. Thus, this speedbooster loses 8% of the full frame lens area and more than 10% from normal x0.71 speedbooster. Correspondingly your sharpness will decline by the same rate. It's not catastrophe but would be much better if Meike was honest to tell this.

The Knuckle always goes on the right. The downward force tightens the grip.

Hi there! I'm having a bit of trouble understanding this product. Could you let me know what materials it's made of? How do I set it up and where should it be mounted? Also, I'm a bit confused about how this is a "Full Review" when I can't see all the parts or the complete product. Thanks for your help!

I know this is an older video, but I'm looking at this lens today. Can you tell me if it's noisy during video?

LOL... "even in my case!" - implying that you are a better photographer than all your viewers. Unarguably, there are photographers who produce work that others care about and even pay for. You seem to be pretty sure that nobody in your audience could possibly fit that category. I find this pretty condescending. If you want people to care about your photos and they don't, you just aren't that good.

Neewer makes good products at a good price -

I can see using this nice piece of equipment for overhead shots for when I’m filming my grilling recipes. Love new toys. Great video.

This will definitely come in handy for my streaming ideas. Absolutely buying one. Right now in fact lol.

The backdrop idea was amazing 🔥 definitely looking into getting one myself

Youre right, and thats fine and all......but some support would be nice you know?

Hey there - I know I am late to the party, however here is one reason you did not mention. The powers that be at go pro, for reasons only known to them ,,,,changed the F codec on hero 9 and up !!!! So if you have an older computer you have to either buy a patch or are out of luck. I bought a 12 and have to do a huge dance to get it to work on FCP Apple. Good content thank you.

This is what I keep telling my friends and family who keep saying “you should sell these!” I have to keep telling them that the reality is, nobody cares about my photos. I do it for fun.

Photography allows us to reconnect with the world we see, it gives an extra sensory perception and embodies "the art of seeing". Photography has allowed me to fall in love with life again. No one cares except me (and maybe my mum). I have always made it my own personal journey. Only I know what it took to get that shot, and the experiences are just as valuable as the images, but the icing on the top is capturing the shot that is a keeper. The girl on the bed, the environmental portrait shots your girl, the family shots, the landscape shots, the street shots, the travel shots, the macro shots. I do it all because it makes me happy.

How true. We look for affirmation from others. Especially us photographers. We want others to view our photographs and say to us, wow, you're a great photographer. We crave that to fill our egos. But, in reality we are only great in our own minds. Speaking from personal experience here. I got my bubble busted on a multitude of occasions way back when I was doing photography years ago. It was a learning experience for me. Moving forward, I'm photographing for me. If others like what I do great. if not, then I'll move on, and chalk it up to experience. No biggie. I'm not very good at telling a story with my photo's, maybe someday I'll learn how. But, until then, I'll just keep shooting to please myself.

I don't care if people like my photos or not with one exception. The only person's opinion I care about is my client who's paying me to take photos.

watched some of ur videos and subscribed, quality content 🙏

Totally agree, and I have a story to tell with each picture, something AI will never have...

Totally agree. I use Flickr to share my images and for a backup of processed images. I have been debating to just turn off the comments option and stop posting to different groups on Flickr. Nothing against Flickr, just tired of wasting my time to see how many likes, comments and feedback that I get. I have over 3 million views, that will not buy me a cup of coffee. However the contacts I did make did result in a few images being published and one print on display at a hotel. My favorite satisfaction in photography is making calendars and books to give as gifts and to have some sort of a hard page product to share for the few that are interested and mainly for myself which is good enough.

Why does anyone care?

The only thing bad vid the hero 8 is that you can't buy gopro battery anymore. I have a hero 8 that I use and 2 of my 3 battery has swollen. And I had to buy 3rd part batteries.

Your the man Jeff. Appreciate your awesome videos. Always look forward to watching them.

3.7 Billion. That's almost as much as you have in your bank account, right Jeff? Seriously though, I think your comment about us getting some crumbs while the heads of that corporate giant cleans up is more truth then poetry.

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