I've been wanting to feature more photographers on this channel for a
while now. I had a really good opportunity recently with my friend James. He's been
in Thailand for quite a few years, but it came back to this area for a little bit.
We were able to organize something together. But we're gonna go to different
videos for this. The first one is about gear. Of course, we're gonna look at his
equipment with his street photography. He has a real large focus in journalism. I
think is really oral history, which is his main focus. With that comes all of
the photos side of it. So we're gonna look at his gear this time. He has two
different sets of gear. Two different kits! We've got one for all the street
photos and then one for all the extra stuff like tripod work. Let's take a look
at that. Hope you enjoy it. When I do street photography I do this. The 30 f1.4 or
I do the 20 millimeter, because that 20 millimeter it's... I I love the 40
millimeter on a full frame so the 20 millimeter is just that equivalent. At
nighttime if I'm doing street photography at night in Bangkok I'll use
the 30 millimeter f1.4 exclusively. (okay) And then even wide open
it's still pretty sharp, so the only thing is that CA (chromatic aberrations) is really bad...
The CA on that.. on that 30 millimeter is so bad. So if you get like a sunset and
there are cars coming at you... all of them have purple headlights. (okay) yeah...
Neon lights and fluorescent lights have that halo around it. Any fluorescents
have just purple all around it. Kinda ruins it, but...
A solid photojournalist lens.
I use that a lot. Rain, shine, winds, ice, sand and then...
(The Canon for the stand-alone stuff?)
Yeah! (or as tripod stuff?)
Yeah.. Anything I'm gonna do like a like a panorama...
And I also.. this is my Lowepro (Passport)
Camera Sling III that I had to repair. I don't recommend this bag. (yeah) Like I do
but I don't because the zippers were so poor that it just ripped open on New Year
and I'm walking around with my bag like wide open. But this zipper up here I've
had to replace. And like down here I've had to sew it back on. (yeah) But something
like this is good for like.. I'm on the motorcycle a lot and I don't want to
carry a big backpack. (okay) And if I'm like out walking you know it's really
non-threatening you look like a tourist. No one really minds.
And there's space in here, space in this one for like a tablet.
(oh right)
So I put my... got like a 10 inch Windows tablet.
So my Canon I got this super super cheap tripod. It's like a..
Zomei, but it is it's the copy of whatever that really popular model is
right now. (mm-hmm) As it goes for like a hundred fifty
bucks. This one was I think like $100, but it's pretty solid. It's pretty solid.
And it's... you can detach it. It becomes a monopod...
And then like you can put different heads on it. I have a like a video head.
I prefer the video head so I can get like a smooth pan, if I do, if I do like a
landscape or or like b-roll something. I like that smooth pan. But this it was the
smallest one. And when I came back to the States I put the smallest head cuz that
video had its like (yeah, yeah). My little jelly rolls. I've got my Colorspace. This
is my backup and then all the different chords and stuff. And extra.. the extra..
cloth, keep it in a nice dry place.
And then in here I have some Russian lenses on my Pixco reducer where like
this does EF but it doesn't do focus. These are autofocus chips that I can use
on the 80D, but when you put it on the micro four-thirds it just reduces, it's
not smart. (mm-hmm) There's no there's no focus confirmation
on it anyway with manual lenses, but... (right) And then the lens that I tell
everybody they should own... It's my Helios 44m and then these are
like these are like if you can get through it, but like its click-less and it...
It's really nice. The quality, quality is better than it then it seems like it
would be especially for an old lens. (oh yeah) And then I use the, I think this is a Pixco
adapter, and they work (for infinity focus on EF mount) Some work some don't.
But I usually use EF lenses exclusively on an EF body. I don't I don't like to
put them on my micro 4/3rds. (right) So this is a mess, give me a second here.
So this... we've got...
24, is that the 24 or the 50... That's the 40, 50 and then this is the tank. It's not a good
lens. I don't recommend it, but you can beat it up. (okay) I don't, I really don't
recommend that lens. Umm, and I've got your standard like EF-S lenses in here.
And then in here, this is my
(okay, do you use flash much?)
I don't, only when I need to. And then in
here I keep the 24 and it's got its got the (okay, variable ND filter) yeah the
variable ND on there. (Yeah) and I mean it's it's a super sharp lens it's nice,
but it's not good in daylight. Yeah I was thinking maybe you might want to try
that 40 millimeter, but I didn't I didn't think fast enough.
And so I usually cram everything in there, but for street photography if I'm
gonna use this for street photography it's usually gonna be the 40. (okay) I'll go like...
(A little smaller?)
A lot smaller, man. Especially unlike a 5D. You put this 40 millimeter on a 5D and
that big huge 5D becomes (yeah) real tiny.
I'm gonna take this quick release plate off.
But so yeah this
one's got the red grip on it. The red thumb because I'm always
sort of like gorilla grip, man... (ohhh)
and then I use... I don't use the... I have the hood for this, but I don't use it cuz
it's silly. I just use a little slim guy. The hood for this it's like this big.
Really? Well if you travel a lot and if it goes in an airplane with air pressure
changes, and in Thailand you need this. Especially during this time of year.
That is a nice compact... even with the grip. Well so I can take the battery off and
then it's just super.. (yeah) super handy (That's interesting) Yeah, oh this? Yeah
because my hand is so big I mean if I'm not using... I've got some speed lights, but
I don't usually use them (mm-hmm) So yeah, put that back on there it fits my hand.
(okay) I've got another one for the 80D that I don't have, but it kind of curves
down and over. (okay) So it curves over the prism bump. (nice) But this guy I
was really kind of disappointed when I got this. I thought it's gonna have two
batteries, but it's got one. How's that work? Well it's because it's so small.
Because it's so small it's only...
(Oh, it uses the internal plus...)
yeah (okay) So it's the...
(yeah, makes sense) Yeah, but then you've got the one the the internal battery...
(The Pentax I use had that set up. So you have to take it off to
change the internal. Yeah, which is kind of a pin in the ...
8 and 16 gig (okay) and I have the
speeds. I've marked the speeds. They're not very good cards.
I have a plastic bag really
tightly folded up. I have the battery cover for my extra battery. (Okay) And I
have I have a lens cloth. (makes sense!)
You can stick SD cards in here. They're great.
It's interesting to see what kits other people use. Especially in
different types of photography that I don't normally do. So with street
photography is great to have James there with his kit so I could see what he uses.
See how he works and learn from that. In a future video we're going to be going
to the actual city market that we checked out. We took photos at. Tried to
talk to people. Take photos of them. A lot of other situations that were pretty fun
and interesting. Of course, all of the links for his social media will be in
the description. I'd suggested checking them out.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed the video.
I'm Scott from Photography Banzai.
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