The Highs And Lows of Our Professional Journeys | The PetaPixel Podcast

[@jorgeq1115]

I enjoyed the high energy, Jordan, don’t let them dim your light.

[@pete_au]

Jordan! Don't stop doing the high energy intros. They are perfect. You're a natural!

[@davidsfilmmaking]

What!! love that thumbnail😂😂

[@charlesmcguffy]

I want to know what Jordan's band was called xD

[@Christian_from_Copenhagen]

I'm reminded of the recent Jon Stewart quote, "Look what time hath wrought!" 😄

[@thatjordandrake]

@@charlesmcguffy Going to keep that top secret to prevent googling.

[@MK-vn1qt]

I have been watching you the whole time, 12 yrs. I miss the good old days of mirrorless revolution. Each and every one of your episodes was so exciting and entertaining.

[@shaka-surf]

The Chris and Jordan™Brand. I'm here for it.

[@MattParson]

10:34 Fuji seems to be the only company getting MF price to a reasonable amount. Phase One and Leica counterparts are such a massive investment. If I were Pentax, I would re-launch the 645z system with some modest modern features and priced as the gateway to get into MF

[@bwoodsjr]

That thumbnail alone is gonna make me come back to this after work. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@stefchenko009]

just updating you guys, the NX1 is starting to fall apart a bit so I actually pulled the trigger on a new A camera now relegating my poor baby to B cam duties (I got the Lumix S5 ii)

[@yawningmarmot]

Great thumbnail! 12 years really is a long time :)

[@bishwatntl]

Thanks, Jordan, for your softer entry :)

[@senorchivo90]

I love the idea of a Chinese AF lens roundup. Viltrox has been killing it lately. Meike is on the up. Yongnuo is expanding. TTArtisan is moving into AF lenses. Now 7Artisans, too. They're filling that low-to-mid budget hole left by first-parties that was previously occupied by pretty much just by Sigma and Tamron.

[@Wildridefilms]

Sirui as well! Unfortunate that just E, X, Z mounts have the option to use them.

[@NathanWilkinsonTed]

Thanks for the 📷🎥news! And the inspiration 💪🏼

[@MessyHot]

Love hearing about folks first jobs. Mine was working on the tech bench at an Amiga computer dealership

[@PrinceMeowmers]

Chris aged like fine wine.

[@cordel25]

Speaking on dunking donuts,i met my wife online and when i went to meet her in Vietnam i used to wait for her on a dunking donuts...im pretty sure was a dunking donuts well adapted to the culture and way of life of vietnamese people...few years later they closed,sadly...was funny to see the young students barging in to buy some donuts after school while i waited my future wife(at that time) to finish work at nike office Now about the dynamic duo(trio now) it was amazing before and still amazing now,its like that kind of experince when we meet someone and that someone becomes your best friend for life,can feel the same here so it just make thing easy when you have to look your friend's face several hours per day(i guess) Without minimizing jaron work and presence thats its a plus for sure,we can see a nice love triangle 😅 Anyway keep it up guys!

[@johnehman8685]

Jaron, in light of your supermarket job experience, did you know that Edgar Wright filmed the supermarket battle scene from Hot Fuzz in the hometown store he had worked in as a young man?

[@PetaPixel]

I knew the first half of that but not the second! That's cool!

[@saidharshini4187]

the main segment is what I asked in speech pipe like months before, you guys are really listening 😭😭

[@PetaPixel]

We listen to every Speakpipe and read every comment!

[@saidharshini4187]

@@PetaPixelyou guys are amazing

[@timothyboucherbirder]

My first camera was a Yashica FX-3 with a 28mm lens. Loved that camera. All manual - learned how to expose photos.

[@vickybrassington921]

TCSTV is how I found Chris originally and I loved him as a KZbinr and since then I have actually made a few purchases from the Camera Store (and want to go visit next time I am in Calgary). It's how I then found PetaPixel and the podcast. I still love those videos for gear reviews (and the new The Camera Store videos too)

[@ac1320]

I still forget the different segments of photo/ video industry don’t necessarily interact. Livestreamers have been using/ testing the Mevo system for IRL streaming for years. There are whole backpack livestream kits out there. Some vloggers have been trying to use standalone systems for things like off-grid or camping, events like VidCon, etc.

[@kylehaggard7348]

Like I said before, the top gear trio! moved from one platform to another and still kicking

[@W00dy_NL]

That Canon EF 50 1.8 plastic fantastic was my first 'propper' lens too Jaron! Bought for 90 euro's. It was a nice upgrade to my 28-90 zoom.

[@CalebThomasMedia]

So… where can we stream Jordan’s old band?

[@christill]

There definitely are a lot of people out there who only use single point and recompose, S-AF and single shot modes with cameras that are far more advanced than they actually need (Jordan just said the same thing when I resumed the video after writing this which is quite cool). But I also think it’s great that we do have this amazing technology now. I just wish we had less model releases, less extreme consumption and more of a collaborative system of camera design rather than competitive.

[@arvidjohansson3120]

I had summer work selling then delivering fresh strawberries. Unlike Chris it did not ruin strawberries for me. Instead it ruined every strawberry flavoured food, which now tastes like overripe or rotten strawberries.

[@davidwoods80]

Great to hear how three talented guys clawed and scratched their way to the middle.

[@TripleKOShorts]

Nice to hear about your first jobs! We all have to start somewhere. :D

[@nmecredy]

Thanks for the tip about Broader Focus - very interesting videos

[@PetaPixel]

Hey glad you enjoyed them. There won't be any more though! -Jaron

[@nmecredy]

Never say never 😉

[@nmecredy]

I have subscribed, just in case...

[@flavorhostage]

Salinas! I've stopped at the In-n-Out there. Haven't been there for years since my sister & brother-in-law moved from Paso Robles to Portland.

[@bingbong4848]

Like fine wine...😊

[@MarkThomas1]

Jaron, Did you go in the darkroom with your wife and see what develops?? 😀 The old ones are the best..... Great episode and loved to hear your backgrounds. Cheers all.

[@HenryPiffpaff]

Things expired from there on

[@gewglesux]

Energy/volume levels are just fine..

[@inorogNL]

I still remember watching my first video you made - panasonic gh2 😁

[@evanisashark1596]

Hearing Santa Cruz things hurt my brain, wild. And very expensive, can confirm

[@mortenjensen2457]

Yet another brilliant show! I have no idea what Chris is talking about when it comes to his fly-fishing stuff, though...

[@PetaPixel]

It's ok, neither do Jordan or I. -Jaron

[@mortenjensen2457]

@@PetaPixel 🤣

[@hedorahh]

"Prostitution~!" Chris, I am torn between laughter and disappointment :)

[@niccollsvideo]

Welcome to the Chris Niccolls experience.

[@badasiandriver]

Are we talking about Star Market in Salinas ?

[@PetaPixel]

We are! I grew up in Salinas. -Jaron

[@yawningmarmot]

I wanted to quote the movie Airplane about black coffee, but I reconsidered xD

[@Matt.2024]

No thank you I take it black. Like my men.

[@NASA-Shill]

It looks like Jordan donated his hair to Chris over the last 12 years.

[@thatjordandrake]

My hair was never that thick and lustrous.

[@DavidNunezPNW]

So where can I find those Audacity settings 👀

[@PetaPixel]

They're in the video description and on the postcast episode story PetaPixel.

[@petercofrancesco9812]

Great to hear your rags to riches story and Jordan jumping on his future wife. Weird to hear my name and Chris pronounced it right 😀

[@jonathanbaker5338]

Wow! First job at Star Market? Is that the one in Salinas, CA? If it is that was my first job back in 1988! And you described it perfectly. 😂

[@ericaceous1652]

I did enjoy that Toonami throwback Jaron "Find out on the next exciting episode of Dragon Ball Z!"

[@the_wiki9408]

39:10 - Jaron wincing at the 9/11 comment, LOL

[@JoePollardSLC]

"Something good came out of 9/11". Incredible remark

[@secretsofthelake1966]

Actually in the dark, you don't need that much light. As an underwater videographer, I need less light power during a night dive than on a well-kit coral reef in shallow water.

[@FAKEROONEY]

Jordan saying "let's go shoot some animals." During the segment on the underwater drone by far has the greatest potential to be funny if taken out of context!

[@jazzstream]

awww, the good old halcyon days when jordan had hair and chris didn't , what could possibly go wrong !

[@NotAnotherChannel_Channel]

Young Chris / Young Jordan, Still Young Chris / Jordan With Way Better Hair

[@JamesSallabim]

I didn't know Jaron grew up in Massachusetts. I am from Belmont and live in Oregon now, weird to know I accidentally followed him edit: immediately sad to learn there's a different locally owned star market grocery on the other coast

[@PetaPixel]

Its a common store name haha -Jaron

[@RicanStudio]

You know Chris wanted to say, “He pumped @$$.”

[@RaymondParkerPhoto]

Jordan, I think you served me at Timmy's. 😀

[@PetaPixel]

I hope we were both pleasant. - Jordan

[@greysuit17]

Nah coffee and running a cafe is my dream

[@nmecredy]

For you information a coffee shop in the Netherlands sells cannabis! ( and it may also sell coffee)

[@lucas_92]

Thanks all! About the hiss - I don't think a compressor would get rid of it, so I'm guessing Jordan uses a noise suppression filter? Unless that's basically what the "Threshold" and "noise floor" are doing in the settings y'all left above. Thanks again, and I hope you feel better soon, Jordan!

[@Makeshift_Housewife]

Find out when we will have a guest! Next time on dragon ball z!

[@TrueCA7777]

regarding the Logitech cam, i still don't understand why they are so expensive. I feel like sony should undercut them with a under 500$ APSC Emount webcam. No Battery, no buttons, nothing. Just come cable inputs. If they don't make money on the body, they will make their money on lenses.

[@dj_laundry_list]

What I really wanted to know about professional journeys is why Chris doesn't like 35mm FL. I'm sure there's some kind of story behind it... has he ever mentioned why?

[@Nick_6x7]

To me, 35mm is to 28mm what 45mm is to 50mm. I have a 45mm lens and I might as well have a 50.

[@PetaPixel]

It's partially a bit, partially because I believe he thinks it's boring. That's my understanding anyway. -Jaron

[@dj_laundry_list]

@@PetaPixel Thanks!

[@AadidevSooknananNXS]

1:07:21 did indeed mean nothing to me :/

[@anthonysmith9864]

I would have thought one of the lows of the journey to be sony not doing common sense firmware updates to at least make their premium models on par with other companies premium models. Like say sony a7rv not doing in camera time lapse or focus stack.... I'm joking. The real lows are comments like mine 😁

[@Donbros]

Chris became bigger somehow

[@MinoltaCamera]

If Justin Bieber was a videographer

[@unknowncaller4739]

You guys aged like 40 years in 10 what the heck

[@dannners]

I always thought you guys owned TCS and were trying to drum up sales. 😮

[@H4ElGi]

Everyone: my kids isthe best that happened to me! Chris & Jordan: my kids is the lowest point in my life, oh g

[@hidekigomi]

The first episode I saw Chris and Jordan was..... both were in bath tub (SD cards testing?) and Jordan's mom found that out? 😂

[@funtaril]

Jaron left out how he got into PP!

[@PetaPixel]

A lucky combination of circumstances. I'd written for PP before but only part time. The publication I was working at in 2020 dropped a large number of staff (Digital Trends) and at the same time, DL Cade who was the editor here decided to go on to different things. He asked if I was interested in the role, and I said yes. Been a fun ride ever since!

[@vinhsanity]

19:03 Dang Jordan - “Let’s go shoot some animals”

[@Nick_6x7]

Other than the bad autofocus what’s so bad about lumix for photography? Worse thing about lumix is lens selection.

[@Wildridefilms]

Both MFT and L mount have a lot of lenses.

[@Nick_6x7]

@@Wildridefilms yeah but lens prices are through the roof for L mount. Not many entry level brands yet. Hopefully Samsung will make some interesting cheaper lenses.

[@alen2937]

Well somebody is bragging about spiciness... go get them Chris.

[@JudoDogMD]

Hey I’d love a remote underwater drone. *$45,000* (crawls back into hole)

[@nelsonZeledon]

I have gas For Buying used really cheap stuff Like a gfx50r for 1700$ Or a7rii for 500$

[@gradypicinich2404]

Ahh yes, the PP podcast. Featuring the PP guys

[@larrywhite8590]

The pc on the desk is just silly. And Folgers and Timmie’s is not coffee. A hot flavoured drink yes but coffee no.

[@sjpconnor]

Um...camo headphone cups?

[@PetaPixel]

So, they were the only pattern option from this maker for this particular pair of headphones. They're absurdly comfortable, but not attractive. At least I went with red, right?

[@macbaar6073]

body weight.... and lenses weight....

[@RickR69]

2012 was three years ago shut up

[@BBEEKKAY]

Chris no joke, as another half asian, before I gained weight and started shaving (after marriage), we could have been dopplegangers.

[@rivereee]

Nooo sax man

[@POVwithRC]

Asking if cameras are too good nowadays is such a weird question. Doubly so because the caller was fanning his own balls about suffering being somehow a virtue. We do not use leeches or lobotomies anymore, nor should we suffer with substandard gear. If that's what you want to use, feel free, but keep your suffering to yourself 😊. I'll take the latest and greatest happily. Every advancement means less workflow friction.

[@PippetWhippet]

Those things don’t work, but traditional photography does. A better example is the person who flies a helicopter to the top of mountain peaks. If all you wanted to do is see the view from up there, cool, you do you. Don’t pretend you’re a mountaineer however. People who actually enjoy mountaineering and consider the view at the top just to be the icing on the cake will never respect you, and you will never get to see the view from the top of Everest. Very few mountaineers will either, but you’re locked out from the pinnacle of mountaineering because you don’t have the skill when the technology limits you.