Hey, this Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today I'm going to take some photos with the Viltrox 23 millimeter f/1.4
and the Canon EOS M5. The skies today are not great for photos and that
buzzing noise... I'm sure it's not great either. I'm gonna go to a different area.
That's a really nice tree. Backdrop of more color...
Let's try to frame it as I'm walking. Get pretty close with these. they're somewhat wide.
Not an especially exciting photo. Try to get closer, shoot up into it..
I think I over dressed slightly for today. Yesterday, had ahh, I think it's called
snow squall and that was intense. This time it's a little brisk. I'd rather be warm than
cold and if I over dress in other areas my hands will be better like this. This spot right here...
Probably too far but...
So far the autofocus is feeling really prompt.
I think it's a matter of trying to push yourself a little bit to get out. Today I was thinking, ehh..
I did something yesterday. But I really wanted to try this lens out with M5 for photos.
Probably one of my favorite features of these lenses is that they're fully internal focus.
With the 32 millimeter, the 22 millimeter, they have an inner barrel that shifts... I
just.. am not a fan of that style of lens. But with these ones they're fully internal with
focusing, with everything. I mean of course the zoom lenses sometimes have two types of
external movement. But a prime would just have one. So in this case it does not.
I have to say using these Canon cameras really motivated me to just use
full manual settings. Because I don't trust their aperture priority modes and
especially with the M5 it's very simple because it has the three dials on there.
See how close I can get...
It's about right here for the minimum focus. That's pretty good!
I really do hope Canon comes out with a revised version of the M5. Because it does have a lot
going for it. I would like it physically larger. I would like it to have the stabilizer, the
new sensor... things like that. I'm sure it would be pricey at that point...
My main guideline with doing fully manual is the histogram.
Put it on screen small so it doesn't take up a lot of space. And you just want to get
that peak in the middle. It's really that simple, so you adjust shutter, aperture..
ISO which in this case I'm not touching the ISO. This looks slightly dangerous.
Sometimes I like to focus a little closer with a large aperture so you can see that blur in
the background. Now I've got some colors around. That's what I've been looking for.
Once the leaves go away it is challenging to get an interesting photo because it feels very busy.
In this case, something straight-on, pretty difficult. Especially with a wider field of view.
It is dark enough I think I might want to bump up to 200 ISO.
That way I can have access to the 5.6 maybe, without going too low on the shutter speed.
Yes... really nice! See if I can get over there easily.
Try to get as much color as possible.
I was wondering what was going on with my viewfinder. I had the diopter moved.
I was thinking maybe it was the lens, but it was not. It was the viewfinder diopter.
These areas right now you wouldn't normally be able to get into because they'd be full
of brush in the summer. So this is that period where you get interesting stuff
but you also can get in there and get the photos.
Once winter hits you can get in there, but making something interesting of it is a challenge.
Oh these are nice. How they're coming off the tree and then they just hang there.
So something like this you can get in there and get some photos you might not be able to get
in the summer.
Let's see, a lot of birds around.
Just hanging out. Hopefully they don't poop on me. Excuse me, coming through!
Now where this goes... I am curious!
I don't think that's gonna work out.
I had no idea this area was a thing. It looks like they've basically abandoned it.
Because all the signs are totally junked. Have to look at my GPS to see where exactly I am...
I can hear the construction so I think I looped around.
I don't think I can go that way but...
Very nice!
Ideally it would be great if I could get blue skies with
these nice colored leaves, but today is not the day.
Really really nice, glad I came out here. This is beautiful and an area I never knew existed.
This lens focus is good. We'll have to see the actual photos.
Need to explore this a lot more in the future...
This is ahh quite a bit of area that didn't know about.
That was the first photography outing with the Viltrox 23mm f/1.4 and the Canon EOS M5.
Hope you enjoyed the video. Really beautiful area! This combination seemed to work nicely.
Autofocus was quick and just didn't have any issues any quirks that I noticed.
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