Thanks, have a great trip!

I don't do too much grading. I'm an old slide showing stills guy so I'm used to getting the look I think I want at the time of capture, and to do that, I use the picture profiles. Mostly just normal, but I will use Vivid on occasion, like the clip from which the thumbnail was made...that was shot in Vivid picture style. Thanks for watching!

@ I’m a geezer too that misses slides, especially Kodachrome and Fuji Velvia in more recent years. Shooting 4x5 chromes really makes you get it right the first time!

Manuel: I usually find that the f/2.8 is fast enough for most indoor situations and only use the faster primes for interviews or where I really need to soften the background. Like you, I miss the zoom more than the super wide aperture. If you shoot Sony, don't forget you have their Clear Image Zoom option, which allows you to zoom in with lossless (in video) quality. So, for instance, your 11mm f/1.8 Sony becomes like an 11-15.5mm f/1.8 zoom using the CIZ. It's super useful, especially if you map the Zoom to a custom button so you can access it easily. BTW, in this video, I shot all the pottery factory with the little RX110 vii, which is really slow but has a nice zoom, but only a one inch sensor. Sounds like an interesting project you've got going there.

@ Thanks! I hope I manage to pull it off. There is a newly PhD in marine sciences we know, who through her PhD met this fisherman who is fighting the pollution and decay of a certain bit of the coast of Sweden, so his descendants can also have a chance at living off the coastal natural resources. If that is something that interests you, you could film it and I could be your ac! In any case, I will use the gear I have, among other stuff, zv-e10 with tamron 17-70 2.8, and will leave the faster 1.4 primes for specific shots as you said. Happy new year!

@@ManuelParodiRamos Sounds like a great project and I think that's the perfect lens for it, a good combo of speed and zoom range. I'd love to help out, but it's a heck of a commute:-) Have a great '25

@@bobkrist1 for most people it is a long commute 😂. I’ll try to be organised and do it myself. Thanks for the inspiration

Finally I got to see the whole video. What nice colours those shots with the sun out! The pottery is so interesting! Wonder why they change to the women. Two generations…I guess it could be the war? In any case, I’m always astonished with all the places you manage to gain access. I think your humour is the most importantly skill I want to learn to copy!

Thank you, I try my best, but it's hard to find guidance online.

You'd love it over there, Mic!

Thanks Karl!

No, the older I get, the smarter I get in terms of eating weird foods:-)

@@bobkrist1 haha!

Thanks! It was early May.

Thanks, Paul, good to see you!

Congrats on the new house. You'll love it once you get over there. Take the mosquito precautions seriously:-)

Thanks, Mic! Hope all is well.

Everything is done in two languages, French and English. It was no problem. Ponant is making a play for more English speaking passengers so they are very conscientious about doing everything in two languages.

Thanks, Mic, hope all is well!

Delish! all the same Caribbean fruits!

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

Yes, the client wanted a very tight, sub-3 minute edit with just music and clips, no host.

@@bobkrist1how did you deal with batteries and storage? Do you keep things separate so to speak? Back-up recordings? I guess you could fill up a whole video only with that ☺️

@@ManuelParodiRamos Every night, I back up all footage to two separate 2TB SSD drives, and I have two, double bay battery chargers and I charge batteries every night as well. I don't reformat my cards in the field unless I'm running out of SD cards. So I have three copies of the footage, one left on the card, two on the separate SSD drives.

@@bobkrist1 no time to get to the lobby and grab a glass after handing over the films! Thanks again for everything. I’m enjoying very much your courses on “the great courses”. My wife, after seeing some of this footage is getting interested in all of this and is asking if we can do the course together! That’s thanks to you!

It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it:-)

I'll try to be more careful next time. Thanks for the heads up!

I have used the 2-5 stop variable and the 6 & 10 stop single strength magnetics with no vignetting in 16x9 or 4:3 aspect ratio. I will say that for best quality results, the single strength NDs are best. The variable NDs are convenient, but you have to watch for that crosshatching polarization effect at some angles in a clear blue sky. You may want to look at one of their kits that includes an ND 8, 64, and 1000, as well as the magnetic ring and a 3 stop graduated (not variable) ND.

Manuel: To be safe, I'd only use single strength NDs with the 11mm. The VNDs tend to show that crosshatching earlier with ultra-wides. My 2-5 stop ND shows no cross hatching at any stop with the 18-135, but with the 11mm, after about 3 stops it starts getting weird. Go with single strength for the 11mm.

@@bobkrist1 I’ll do. The wider I have is the sigma 16 so far. But planning to get either one of the 10-18 like zooms or preferably, the sony 11. There are so many options! I’m gonna have to stand in front of more interesting stuff and try to earn some money in order to keep the hobby alive!

Manuel: Thanks for the kind words. For interviews and on camera where I want the mic to be discrete, I am still relying on the Picomics. The mics are so much smaller than the Rode or DJI, the receiver has a button based menu, which is easier than swiping around the screen. But these mics don't offer onboard recording (they are too small) so I only use them in controlled interview environments. picogear.com

@@bobkrist1 Your are welcome! Always a pleasure. But in this video I thought you used something different. Or maybe it was just the lav with the windmuff and not the whole transmitter as in others?

@@ManuelParodiRamos No, that little black lav on my shirt is the mic, and the receiver was on the camera. It's the Picomic. I was an early fan of their design. I don't use it outdoors with moving subjects because a lot of these 2.4Ghz wireless mics are prone to drop outs if the subject turns his back to you. But for an interview subject facing the camera, it's my go to audio. It's also very easy to pin on people...you don't have to touch them, or run wires down their shirt, which, during the Covid crisis, was often a delicate operation.

@@bobkrist1 thanks for the explanation.