Haha yeah.. [Luckily] my wife has an equally strong shoe obsession as I do for gear, so we have our separate offices and let the hoard grow out of control!

@@NicholasJamesJohnson I figure I just got a new lens so it's fair that I wait a bit this time lol. Love your videos, I don't think I'll be swayed into using smoke but I do dig the look you've cultivated for your studio :)

Hey thanks!! It’s the haze :D

I think the specifics aren't addressed because it's different for different cameras. As long as you dont over saturate the cleaning tip, you won't do any damage by cleaning it with your camera on. You dont want the fluid to drip off and cause a short anywhere inside the camera, but that would only happen if you put WAY too much cleaning solution on the applicator. I would try cleaning it with your camera off and if you see the sensor moving around, then turn it on with stabilization turned on. Your camera MIGHT lock the sensor when it turns off and it might not. But the cleaning kits have several applicators in the kit so you can 'burn one' while figuring it out.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Thanks. I am worried that I might damage the IBIS stabilized sensor if it is not locked into position when cleaning.

Yeah with 30mm and the zve10 you probably need the camera about 6 feet away for a medium shot. Make sure you don’t have active steady shot turned on, that will zoom it in a little further still. If you need the camera super close to you, you might consider the 16mm f/1.4 lens instead.

Oh yeah absolutely. That’s a great combo

I used a Sony a7siii and a Sony a7iv to make this video.

SORT OF yes. But the 10-18mm can only go down to f/4 and the 16mm can shoot at f/1.4 which will improve shooting indoors remarkably.

Ive been meaning to shoot a short at 600mm just to see what it looks like. I'll need like 150 feet in front of my desk cleared!

@@NicholasJamesJohnson hahaha 🤣

Interestingly, when you have the Sony a7siii in HAVC-HS which makes the file sizes smaller with the h.265 compression, the only options you have are 10bit. I have it at the lowest bitrate, so 4:2:0 10 bit at 30mbps - vs shooting at 100mbps. I actually didn't know all that until you commented this and I checked the camera to SEE why it was in 10 bit!

​@@NicholasJamesJohnson That sounds interesting! Perhaps it could be a great idea for a future video. I'd love to see how you've automated your background lighting, and having links to the products you use would be really helpful.

@@ChaseJamison I was making a video in the warehouse that was like an hour of filming, and I was demonstrating stuff, building these immersion tanks for my other channel, but I didn’t realize that my main camera had overheated after like 15 minutes and shut off!! It was so much work to reshoot that I’ll always use a monitor now. It IS funny how hard it is not to look at yourself, though I agree. I script almost every word I say on this kind of video! I guess the only tip I have is to go on a long walk and listen to music that doesn’t have words, then open up a pages document and type out pretty much one side of a conversation where you’re explaining whatever thing to someone who you know pretty well.. Any time I try to just wing it, even with subjects I know pretty well, I always end up making the edit take SO LONG because my thoughts won’t collect and I say too much extra garbage. But if I write it first, for me at least, it seems like I can crank out a ten minute video script in like an hour, and then filming only takes maybe 25 minutes! I should do an ‘entire process’ video. I’m sure everyone’s process is super different.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson yea, I'll need to figure something out, my last video took about 2 hours of filming, but editing it down took countless hours of work to get it to 25ish minutes. My current format (unboxing instrument reviews) doesn't lend itself well to pre-thought out scripts, but I need that skill for the video I'm working on now. Funny story, I recorded something two days ago and my camera overheated for the first time ever BECAUSE I was using it on the monitor as well as having it plugged in. Thankfully I heard it turn off as I was shooting really close to my camera on a 16mm lens.

Yep, the b cam just goes back and fourth forever.. I don’t cut to it ALL that much, I more often punch in to the main shot for cuts, but I think that motion just makes such a nice shot to occasionally cut to. Road noise is surprisingly not a problem. I’m sure if you cranked up the volume and put on studio headphones when watching my videos you could MAYBE make out a car going by once in a while? But I live in a suburb and there just isn’t a lot of noise out there. If like a garbage truck stops at the end of the driveway I’ll obviously have to take a pause. House noise is practically silent!! I am so happy with this new house, all made out of foam filled block, and the door between the garage and the house is steel and heavy. That was a surprise. For sure.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Cool, thank you!!

@@ChaseJamison haha sorry; there’s an introductory price right now that’s way lower than what it will be in the future so I didn’t want to make it sound better than it was when people watch this 6 months from now:) SO CHEAP THOUGH for how good it is!

@@NicholasJamesJohnson ha, makes sense. Seems like a pretty good deal. I'm still working on getting my gimbal to work, can't seem to get it balanced correctly 😕 thankfully I don't really need one immediately

I am completely sure it will!

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Thank you! I was able to snag an Open Box'd one for pretty cheap off Amazon. I'll reply back with my findings 🙌

Here’s the link to Brandon’s video; that part starts a little after the 8 minute mark. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpCwf2OIarF1rrMsi=hKtVtJPfhfEBmXcx

@@NicholasJamesJohnson thx man.