- Can you steer?
- Yeah, just get on it
and don't be crashing into my stuff, right?
Watch the stuff.
Put the front foot on there, kick forward.
You'll be fine.
- Nope, didn't go well.
- Trying to teach my brother how to ride the surf RipStik.
He flew all the way here, all the way to Canada
from Finland, just to challenge me in a B-Roll Battle.
- (laughs) I'm gonna kill him.
- I don't know what he's thinking.
He's obviously gonna lose.
(80's style synthwave electro music)
He's learning.
First a little brotherly tom-foolery.
- Whoa! Ohps! (giggles) woo-oh!
- Here let me drag you, let me drag you.
- (laughs)
- Yeah you're doing it.
- I'm ambushing his channel.
It's way cooler with the younger one.
Oh, my glasses, they look really nice in here.
My glasses looks really nice in your lens.
- Wait, did he just say subscribe to his channel?
Is he trying to self-promote?
- No, I didn't get to that point yet.
- Guys, is he trying to self-promote?
- Make sure to subscribe to my channel.
- Stop self-promoting on my channel.
- You don't need to watch his stuff anymore just watch.
(laughs)
- (laughs) Eh, Karma.
(combative violin music)
( music reaches a crescendo)
To spice this B roll battle just a little bit
we're not gonna get to choose which lens we're gonna use.
We're gonna let Trouble choose for us.
At first glance this looks like some sort of cult activity
but we're just using Trouble to choose
which lens we're gonna have to use.
First up we have the Canon 70-200 that one you guys all know
Second up 24mm f/1.4.
Third 35mm f/1.4.
Fourth 85mm f/1.8.
then we get a little bit trickier the Zeiss 50mm
this ones a manual lens, so no auto focus.
Still a great lens though.
And then the wild card, the Helios 44-2
it's a 58mm manual lens.
It's vintage, it's weird, it's quirky.
The wild card.
Three locations, three lenses chosen by Trouble.
B roll battle.
Okay so if I didn't mention, we're gonna do
a B roll challenge for my channel and a photo challenge
for my bros channel. - my channel.
- Time to figure out what lenses we're gonna be using
for what locations.
So location one, you wanna go first
or you want me to go first?
- You go first.
- Okay location one.
Wooh, I'm a little scared.
Number three, the 35mm f/1.4.
- I think he's rigged this.
I think he's somehow weighted this die but, uh--
- I will take that.
- - he'll take that, okay.
So that one is taken, not available anymore? (laughs)
- We didn't really make up the rules.
No you can get the same lens.
- Same lenses as well?
- Same lens, yeah any lens yeah.
- So I still got the option.
Alright guys.
- It'd be more fun if we don't get the same lens.
- Pray for these little fingers.
- What are you hoping for?
Which lens?
No, no better question is what are you not hoping for?
- Well probably the worst I'd be with is with this big boy
but I kinda wanna challenge myself, so.
Let's see.
- You don't like the 70-200, eh?
- It's hard.
It's harder to shoot really tight.
I shoot mostly with the Sigma 35 all the time so ah.
- It's a good lens.
- Like that one. - Let's go for it.
- I'm gonna do a quick and one!
- One! (laughs) He gets the lens that he didn't...
- That's okay, I haven't gone to the gym lately
so I can work on my biceps today and the 70-200 is mine.
- 70-200 good luck getting some B roll with that.
Nah I'm just kidding, it's a great lens.
- Urgh. - What?
- This is for the video one.
- Yeah video.
- Oh shoot! - (laughs)
- I thought this was for photos I thought
okay maybe I can pull this off with the for photos
but if this is for video this is going to be challenging.
Oh gosh.
- Gonna have a good time with that.
Alright location two, location two.
I'll go first again.
Give me a good one, give me a good one, six!
Ohh, the wild card!
(tuba riff plays) The Helios 44-2.
- Hwanh, hwah, hwaongh.
- Oh manual focus and all this one is,
this one's gonna be a challenge okay, uh.
I'm not looking forward to loca --
well I'm kinda looking forward to it.
I think it'll be fun.
- Location number 2 from the younger brother.
- You're gonna get the 70-200 again.
Hey, same lens! - No! (laughs)
- We are both on the Helios.(laughs)
- Hey but I have experience withthis.
I shot a year ago portraits of Matti with this lens, so ah.
- This is true.
Except this is going to be video, so good luck.
- That's true, that's true. (laughs)
- (laughs) Alright the final location.
Location three.
Let's find out what lenses we're gonna be using.
I'm kinda hoping I get the 24mm that would be number two.
Mmmm please number two.
Number four 50mm Zeiss, another manual lens.
- You're going back to your roots.
- I guess no auto focus for this challenge.
- Location number three I'm gonna get the Sigma 35.
Come on, come on.
- You're not gonna get it.
- Number five.
Going with the Zeiss as well.
Well it's just gonna make it easier.
Less lenses to use today.
Don't mind using these bad boys.
- (Laughs)
Alright we are here at spot number one.
You guys have probably seen this before, recognize this
iconic, I guess, iconic from my videos.
Little alleyway that goes into a parking lot.
Um, first up 35mm 1.4
Should be pretty easy.
We are using the Canon EOS-R just because we both have one.
And we're shooting in 60 frames per second
because well it does 120 but only I only need 720, so.
So 60 frames per second it is.
No stabilizers, none of that just the lens and camera.
- Can't really say I've done the B roll sequence
with the 70-200 but it's gonna be a nice challenge.
Matti says it's pretty easy to do
but I don't know if I trust him.
I think he's trying to set me up for a fail right here
but let's do this.
- It's not so bad, you got this.
As long as you can get the lens on the camera
- When you live in Canada and the weather is not too warm
it's actually kind of hard to do the basic things.
You guys don't understand if you don't live in Canada.
- It's already like spring weather here but then
I think yesterday or the day before we woke up
and just snow everywhere again.
What the heck.
Get me outta here, get me outta here.
(slow 80's style synthwave electro music)
So there you go, you saw my little B roll clip.
Pretty normal for my stuff.
It's kinda my focal range.
Ah, now let's see what my brother comes up with the 70-200.
Might be a little bit trickier.
(slow 80's style synthwave electro music)
Okay so that was spot one this here is spot two.
And this one is gonna be pretty interesting 'cos we're both
using the exact same lens, the Helios 44-2 58mm F2
I think that's what it is, manual lens, so yeah.
You can't do the typical push-pulls as easy at least
when you got auto focus.
Okay, let's get to it.
(R&B music)
Alright, third and final spot.
We're both on the Zeiss 50mm, another manual lens.
I haven't used manual lenses for a long time
this feels really weird.
- I'm fine.
I've been using manual still for such a long time.
- I'm so behind sometimes.
- (laughs) YouTube land.
- YouTube film-making is just very different
from normal film-making, right?
- I've been shooting weddings so I've been shooting manual
so much with that.
- Yeah, totally different.
Okay, let's make it happen.
(80's style synthwave electro music)
Okay confession time.
That was really, really tough.
It sucks not using the lens that you're used to.
I'm trying to talk to the camera here.
- Yeah it's true, okay.
- (laughs)
- Just wanted to stare at my beautiful self
in the LCD screen. (laughs)
- (laughs) Get out of here.
It is really hard not being able to use the lens
thatyou're comfortable with, the one that you're used to.
The one that you really like using.
But it is also kinda cool to try out new lenses.
And I think that's kinda like a mark of somebody who's
a professional.
They can basically use any lens any equipment
and still make it look decent.
Yeah the look changes and it's really horrible,
we didn't have any gimbals or anything like that
so it was definitely tricky trying to come up
with interesting, creative B roll.
Not to mention manual focusing.
Manual, I haven't manual focused that much in a long time
and it is tough, it really limits you in
the kinds of things you can do.
I really appreciate auto focus now.
But in the end I don't think there's any winner
or loser here necessarily.
You can come back, come in loser,
nah I'm just kidding.
Ah I don't think either of us won or lost.
I think it's just a different perspective
and it turned out different because of the lenses and stuff.
I don't know, what do you think?
- I definitely won.
- (laughs)
- But it's okay, but it was true, it's true.
- The humble one, the humble one over here.
- Trying different lenses was a nice experience
because a lot of times you just grab your bag
and just choose your favorite.
But this forced you to try different lenses
and shoot totally differently than we're used to.
- Should have seen the panic on his face
when he had to shoot with the 70-200.
- I was pretty much about to jump on a plane just fly home
and say, "Screw this, we're not filming today.
I can't film with this camera or lens."
- Also the worst part of the day was trying to figure out
how to use the Helios 44-2 on this EOS R.
We were having some issues with that.
That was like a good half an hour of Google-ing.
- That was the second point of the day where we almost
gave up and just wanted to go. - (exhales deeply)
We were very close, very close.
Anyways, that was interesting.
B roll battle.
Maybe we should make this a re-occurring thing.
I don't know it was really tough that I didn't necessarily--
- So we're both losers now.
- (laughs)
- Because I lost the first B roll battle.
- (laughs) Aw man!
- I just wanted to.. You're in good company.
- Welcome to the worst loser's club. (laughs)
Meh.
(slow 80's style synthwave electro music)