Excellent!!!!!!!

Hi. Thanks for these informative videos. I appreciate it a lot. Just a few questions: 1) How do these fluid heads perform in the freezing temperatures? Are they still usable? If I want go to Nordic countries - will they still perform well during -10 or -20 Celsius? 2) How that particular head will perform with lighter setup? Let's say I want to use it with mirrorless + some 50mm prime. This will be lightweight setup. Will it be balanced on 0 counterbalance setting or it will be constantly moving back to the center position?

Great video Scott.

AF issues around 7:00, is it always that bad?

Thanks!

Will the older model 300mm f/2.8 AF-D lens be good enough ?

great video... we're probably getting close in a lot of respects... but I think for alot of people, cost is a factor. My mobile is 5 years old now. Probably due for a new one... but this one still runs, and still does everything i need it to. 🤷‍♂️ i like the ones just released, so i might wait 12 months till their on sale 😉👍

camera companies are uping the prices too, cause they know photographers arent updating the bodies as much anymore... so they need to garner more revenue per unit sold

Mirrorless focusing is still not as good or reliable as the DSLR modules... yes you can move the postion to anywhere in the frame... but try focusing in a dark club or restaurant... no good. Apart from that, LOVE mirrorless.

watched a really interesting doco the other day about the photographers at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, half were on film, and half were diving jnto the new digital tech. Was fascinating to see the film guys have to pick thier moment to shoot, as they only had 36 frames. 🤯🤯🤯 Now you can keep the shutton button pressed non stop for the whole event.

Dynamic range and the elimination of the mechanical shutter. The Heat, The Heat. Yes that is insane. I was photographing a band playing outside in about 90 degrees with heavy humidity and the sun was already down. I almost burnt my nose when the camera shut down do to overheating. This was about 10 years ago. Please dedicated stills camera bodies without video.

The Nikon 100-400 doesn't weight 3kilos, it's just 1.4 kg.

Excellent vídeo, thanks!.

Beautifully explained Scott! Awaiting your upcoming videos.

I finally get it!!!!

Z6iii in low light, or inside is unbeatable! Good complement the the Z9

Over the years , I had the Z6, Z7ii and now the Z9… I will buy the Z6iii as a backup camera… the smaller size, in travel, is great, and I loved so much the Z6! I will keep my 24-120 on it, and my long lenses on the Z9!

Difficult to find anything to dispute in this video. I'm a photographer. Photographers love to offer subjective opinions 😊

EXCELLENT! Dynamic Range is also effected by file format. For example, jpg files have 8-bit RGB pixel values ranging from 0-255, while 16-bit RAW formats would have 16-bit RGB pixel values ranging from 0 - 65,535

Thank you for your thoughts. After thinking about the topic myself for awhile, I do feel there will be ways camera bodies will hopefully continue to expand to more closely mimick human vision. Perhaps concave sensors that present wide angle captures without distortions, dynamic ranges that make exposure stacking obsolete, depth of field feedback, 3D stereoscopics, etc

Very good coverage of the basics of exposure. I would comment on one thing though. The graph you put up for shutter speed vs stops of light should have been curving down with the stops of light showing negative values with each doubling of the shutter speed. Your graph was set up to show positive stops of light as if you were getting increases in the amount of light with increased shutter speed. So the graph coulld have been set up with shutter speed on the X axis and light stops on the Y axis. That way as you increased shutter speed to the right the light would have shown as losses of light stops going negative on the Y axis. I think most people got what you meant though.

Where did you find the time to put together a video during the Fall warbler migration?

Even the best of us can learn from each other. Salute.

I agree that the potential for more improvement lies more in the video side of hybrid cameras. For example, I would think that increases in frame rates to 600 f/sec in raw would be very attractive to specialists who wish to apply slow motion to very fast moving subjects. At such frame rates, efficient light gathering becomes even more important which suggests the importance of the continued development of sensor technology. I see the global shutter as central to this functionality which already exists in some current cinema cameras. But, if you enjoy capturing extreme slow motion video of humming birds, dragon flies and the like with your hybrid camera then, like me, you will be waiting in line for the first future hybrid camera to arrive with such advancements. Most, like you, have significantly more diminished expectations/needs but many have very lofty dreams. My hope is that manufactures see a viable market for the dreamers. Remember, complacency is never a driver of technology development. Being content with ones life in Kansas will never find one heading down that 'yellow brick road'.

I don't know where to start. You said it's 'simple'. It's simply wrong as far as most of the fundamentals go, and doesn't really discuss much of use about dynamic range. Starting at the most fundamental, exposure. At 4:14 you start talking about 'appropriate exposure', without saying what 'exposure' means or what the adjective 'appropriate' would mean when applied to it. A bit later you put up a caption which says 'ISO increases exposure by boosting the signal’, which reveals that you don't know what exposure is. It's the amount of light (that you keep talking about, without knowing the right word for it) and 'boosting the signal' (even if that was what ISO does, which it doesn't) wouldn't and doesn't change it. I know there are loads of internet sources that will tell you this nonsense, but that doesn't make it any more true. That's why when I see it I comment on it, in the hope that content creators will stop and learn their basics before passing on incorrect stuff to people they're trying to teach. There are loads of similar errors, mostly tied up with this core one. Anyhow, onto DR. The human eye has six to seven stops of dynamic range if you measured it in the same way as you'd measure a camera's sensor. The '24' figure only come in by counting in the action of the eye's iris (aperture control), its 'shutter speed', and slow adaptations that occur in different conditions - so if your eyes have adapted for night vision you can't see the same bright levels as when it's adapted for bright light. If you put all these adaptations into a camera, and allowed for your aperture control giving you maybe 6 more stops, your shutter speed control 12 more and ad them to the 12 that a decent sensor has then it has 30 stops of 'DR', miles better then the eye. The eye seems so good only because it's got a really great image processor working behind it. That's not the problem with DR - the problem is that our display media, be it print or display top out at about 9 stops. So, when you're creating a photo with a scene of high brightness range you're left trying to create an optical illusion of how to squeeze the appearance of a wider brightness range down to 8 stops or so. Most large sensor (mFT and bigger) cameras give enough sensor DR to cope with most scenes, but you need to control exposure properly to do it, which this video said nothing about and which your 'exposure triangle' will never tell you anything about.

You made the topic easly understandable Scott. A timely discussion given all the grief the Z6iii got about it's DR. I thought the technonerds were making a mountain out of a molehill.

Very basic and for the beginner, well presented!!

Explained in a simple clear manner, thank you!

Helpful indeed Scott! Thanks for sharing!

Was mirrorless really an advance? Or a way to reduce prices and in place of a beautiful viewfinder give us a crappy screen? It wasn't for size because there are a number of SLR's that are as small as today's Mirrorless cameras.

On the contrary the earlier photographs were incredible. Nevertheless, once we hit 4K we are starting to produce images that look like cartoons. I don't think we increasing by generations more, but just more children from the same family.

I specialize in ultra large format analog photography and my cameras are all based on 19th century technology. I buy a camera and some lenses and I never need to upgrade for my entire life. That isn't realistic for photographers who want or need digital gear, but it is a point to note that not every photographer wants or needs any improvements. All of my workflows are based on the 1830s to 1850s discoveries. I use a digital camera to shoot behind-the-scenes videos and photos of my darkroom and fieldwork, so I don't think I will buy a new camera until mine is broken. I am using a Canon R6II for that work. I enjoyed the video.

Great review! Yes I agree, I love this lens!

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After the Z9 and R5 level of camera the only improvements that can come are in dynamic range and video capabilities.

Same performance in a more compact, smaller, lighter system makes sense to me as I will use it more often, and I will increase the chances to become a better photographer, right? And don't tell me that I can use the phone, at this moment it's not on par yet. It's miles away in usability and others. At this moment, I much prefer to carry a heavy good camera, but it would be nice if it was smaller and lighter And less expensive 😂😂😂

Beginners struggle... photography is not rocket science. A couple blurry images and you will choose a faster shutter speed.

I love this lens, some think it should be able to do anything but it is a small area of photography. Some understand it better than others who think it's too much focal length.

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And now we have the Z 28-400

Have used Magpul for years, simple, strong and it works. If it’s not comfortable add a Shoulder Pad. What is scandalous is paying Top Money for a Lens, then the first thing you do is change the Foot because it is not Arca or QD! Wake up Companies and listen to your Customers: Good, informative video. Keep well & stay safe 👍🇬🇧

Interesting but overpriced.

Hi Scott, thanks for the breakdown and explaining each of the set up. I was tempted to buy the Wimberley for the weight saving ( I do have a big gimbal not suitable for hiking), after the conversion, tax, and shipping, it was going to cost me nearly 450-500 our local currency, so did not go ahead. after thinking hard and trying to find a cheaper solution, I came up with this, I mounted a small ball head on the monopod, tilted the top 90 degree and clamp the tripod collar sideway, with the few fine tune tension adjustment on the ball head, it woks almost like what the Wimberley side mount does, I could not be happier, I can carry it on my shoulder and doesn't dig in at all.

I think the next step is spatial photography

Totally agree with what has been said with tech cycles. Sensor tech has leveled out and now we are seeing performance focus on cameras. It's funny reading forums from younger photographers saying this camera or that camera has bad AF, when all the modern cameras are lightyears ahead of where we were 10-15 years ago with DSLR AF systems. Pretty much every camera on the market now can handle what was considered high performance years ago. Will be interesting to see what will drive people wanting to upgrade in the next 5 years. I personally use two Z6iis for weddings and they are more than enough, great buffers, etc. 14fps is plenty for action. AF is good and we have eye AF now, which I didn't have when I shot D700s for years. We are spoiled!!

I’m still waiting for the mirrorless replacement for the Nikon D500.

I would like see intelligent exposure control ….were the exposure compensation dial is a thing of the past.. particularly in bird photography against the sky.

Pre capture, Global shutter and continued auto focus improvements excite me most about camera tech advancements!

Ahh yes just what a wildlife shooter always wanted. A tripod that whistles while you’re out in the field bringing attention to you… can’t believe you recommend this.

Good review as usual, so thanks for that. Maybe you can use you contact with Leofoto to suggest they consider a tripod custom build feature, given the parts across their range are so standardized. A customer would choose spider (size/bowl diameter, cex or non-cex, etc.), maximum leg diameter, number of sections, section length (standard or long), leg lock type (standard rubber twist, poseiden style aluminium w/rubber inlay, or flip-lock), and finally color (standard carbon finish, color, camo). I am sure most people would be willing to pay a 10 to 15% surcharge and wait 4-6 weeks for delivery, but to me it would be worth it if I can get exactly the combination of features I want. Furthermore, when looking at the Leofoto offerings in the USA, South Africa, and Europe, it is clear they already make market specific models so it would a small jump to create an online configurator.