good explanation but anoying music

I'm so glad I found this video. I bought this contraption years ago, and couldn't even remember what it was for. Now I am using it for video conferencing, on my desk. My monitor is 26" high, so the camera angle was always awkward. Now I am using this "Decade mini tripod plate" with a pair of "PlatyPod gooseneck stackable mounts". One gooseneck holds my webcam, exactly at face-height so it looks natural, and the other holds a Lume Cube light off to the side. The goosenecks are thin enough they don't block my view. The whole setup is stable and looks very professional. Lots of possibilities for this handy little gizmo!

This was so helpful, thank you so much!!

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Will that work with the mb-d12 also or do I need to buy the mb-d18??

I have the z7ii with this adapter and lens. My issue is it is saying set aperture at highest level. It will not allow me to shoot in 2.8f stop is there a way around this?

Very good video for me. Please, share your auto focus settings for macro photo with 850+105mm macro

How to set my contrast if I only have the Spyder colour checkr?

I wanted to learn about time lapse

Great video, I was looking at "Timed" and "studio" but did not know what they were for, Now I do thanks to your explanation

great tutorial! thanks.

very nice video for beginners very detailed

WHAT THE F------ ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? YOU SAY YOUR THUMB IS DOING SOMETHING, BUT WHAT/////

pas de sous titres , donc a la benne

Thanks!!! 🙏 you’re a great teacher. I enjoyed your direct teaching method. You didn’t say anything that was not related to the instructions. Wonderful!

You keep saying that the lens was broke, but it looks like a trim piece around the lens?? Was the actual glass lens broken or not?? To me that is the main thing to worry about! And I didn't hear if the actual lens was broken?

I wonder why people don't have some kind of a camera rig or cage for photo camera? The only rigs are for video, mainly to mount things to.. But I think s lightweight carbon fiber cage around a camera and the lens would definitely protect it if was dropped and wouldn't be in the way. It would even help in something like wildlife photography. And you could set the cage down on the dirty or muddy ground if needed.

What ball head are you using?

Great video Mike. You have a great way to say things clearly. Subscribed and looking forward to viewing further videos.

Steps: Take picture with checker, make copy, crop to checker. Export it to software (or drag it in), adjust to align and fit, save it as a preset. Back in LRC, in the develop module, the preset should appear, apply it to the photo. (If it doesn't appear, restart LRC or go hunt for it in the preset library.) These steps must be done for each lighting scenario. This just calibrates color, and can be a starting point for editing.

I'm hoping to use my checker when I take photos of paintings and try to keep the original colors. So you didn't create a profile (for me, those are on the right side in the basic section), rather you created a preset in the software that you applied to the photo. I hope that's right, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept. I thought that the software was somehow in/a part of LRC, but it's not. Very interesting.

It is possible to make a BW-optimized profile (50 + 2 x 50 patch method) on a single sheet of paper by shrinking down the patch size to only a quarter of the paper size using the printer driver setting to print 4 pages on 1 sheet. This prints the patches on a give quadrant of your paper. Use a ruler to guide the Colormunki/i1Studio over these tiny patches. Turn around the paper and print the second patch series on the other half of the paper and you will have last quadrant left, where you can print a test image to see if the profile is properly generated. If you use the normal method like above it would take 4 sheets of paper. The 4-in-1 method saves you 3 pages of paper without quality loss.

Close ups would have been nice

The 45.7 mp D850 can be used in DX mode at 20mp so no need for a D500 . You can get to 300mm up to 750mm as well in DX at 20MP on the better D850 . D500 has one frame faster burst rate over a gripped D850 thats it.

Thank you

why dont I have the option to update? Mine just has the version listed and "done". It doesnt look like yours within firmware.

I got 2 new original nikon grips for £400 uk mint condition the l brackets are £35 uk

How do these compare (for printer profiling) to the older x-rite eye-one/i1 and x-rite i1iSis 2 ? Ive just opened a studio need to create profiles for both photo papers and sublimation setups.

Very good info. But why is there distracting music playing in the background so loud I have struggle to hear our guy talking?

A big thank you from Seattle. This video was super helpful 🙂

Wow ..Can you please do this on the new Xperias?

Thanks so much! Just what I was looking for.

Very helpful for a guy that just bought the lens. And it's gonna try and figure out if you made a mistake. Thank you for your video.

Thank You !

Hi thankyou very helpful.

Thank you so much!!! 🤝🤝🤝

Which brand of USB card reader are you using?

I don't use Lightroom where can I do this in photoshop?

Excellent tutorial! Thanks for making.

I checked the X-Rite site, every item is out of production.

9/7/2023: I've had my (used) copy for 9 days; out on shoots 3x. I paid $560; that didn't include the foot/collar, a front filter, hood (another $150 I dropped)= $710 I'm getting what I paid for....a HALF-ass telephoto that more often than not DOESN'T critically focus on moving objects. I NEVER would've paid full price. Lots of blown shots (sports type). I'll be buying a D500 body within a few months and hoping the high FPS rate will rescue this lens. I used it on a DX body...making the minimum focal distance 300mm. This is a hard lens to use if birds aren't your thing (not mine)....because it forces you to re-think everything...like almost 20ft. in front of you....isn't. WHEN it works, it's fine; not great! My copy is under-whelming for AF ("hunts"), nuts to hike with (I have) at 5#, hand holding is possible yet impractical for long periods, and...a more practical lens + tele-converter MAY be of more use/higher quality. Lastly, the zoom rotation collar is TOO long a motion for the full range. Nikon should shorten this throw. One last note- and this is another experiment....use the latest/greatest software available, such as Topaz AI or LuminarNEO to MAXIMIZE image quality...ie critical sharpening/focus.

FFS use cm, m etc. Stop imperial crap

It is really poor design of this "studio". 1st turning knob (to calibrating position and back) is utterly stiff and awkward. Fingers slip and it is easy possible to press middle button at the wrong time. They could not design more cumbersome awkward device. Than it dangles in neoprene sleeve, on a zipper, cumbersome again, than Micro USB cable reveal how old it is and is VERY sensitive to cable length, often provided cable not long enough and not working with extension, so it needs powered usb hub ... software is really basic, too. Device itself could done much more, but no options. Like reading colors from material to make sure identical colors are used in drawings.

To bad you didn't show the result against your calibrated screen...

Thank you very much. You are the only one that could explain it very clear and yo the point. 👍🏼👍🏼

lucky guy that it the camera itself was not broken! I just dropped my D850 yesterday and it is broken! I had the lens hood on too. It hit the ground hard on the right side of the camera by the control panel. Now when I take a picture it is dark in the viewfinder and doesn't want to focus or do anything and then when I take the picture its black. I can take picture just fine with FV on though. I am crying cause it's going to spendy to fix this!! As it fell from my hand I watched in slow motion and horror and then just stared at the ground and wanted to cry. Funny thing is it's supposed to be so durable and obviously fell just right to break something. I fell while my D5500 was around my neck and it crashed to the ground hard and was just fine. From now I will have my neck strap on!!!

(ATTENTION !!!! Regarding the new Calibrite PROFILER - incompatible "with the Colorchecker STUDIO" spectrometer : Despite Color PROFILER showing the Icon of the Colorchecker Studio (spectrometer hardware), as of yet August 2023, will NOT work (at least until next year, I was told by Calibrite) !!!!! ( I lost 10 precious hours (including night) trying to get it work -- Had the "troubleshooting* page at PROFILER had dedicated a paragraph to this "issue" that would not have happened. Granted... if one looks in details on can, here and there, "understand" that Colorchecker Studio" (the most expensive of the bunch) would not work. But the little clarity and warning is clearly very much NASTY. At least they could make the ICON disappear from the Profiler software and let it reapear with un update once it works with Studio. (since now it will stay grayed-out for-ever, whatever you do (subscribe, install-unsinstall CCStudio from all instances and taskbar etc-clean-install...restart-etc all over again in other sequence...)

Very helpful. But one question - the device directions suggest waiting 10 minutes before scanning the color patches; others 3:47 suggest waiting up to the next day. You seemed to scan immediately after printing. Can you please comment. Thank you.

Thank you for a good review I just got it to my D850 to use until I can afford a 2nd 400mmF2.8 E FL or G VR lens

The picture control setting obviously has no effect on RAW data. But when the camera saves a preview image inside the raw file, does the picture control setting affect the way that the preview looks like? Or, when I use Adobe DNG converter to generate an embedded preview image, does DNG converter make the preview according to the picture control setting? Is there any way to change is afterwards?