what is up creators this is tom welcome back to another video i've got an interesting one
for you today a bit of a new uh series so i'm here with josh brady one of my friends
and local videographer photographer so he does a similar thing that i do in my area and you guys
have seen josh on the channel a couple of times because he's amazing what do you call yourself
like a it's like a parkour athlete yeah okay so um flipping and tricking um and you guys have
seen him on the channel because i filmed that a couple of times and i'm sure we'll throw some
up on the screen throughout the video and but today i've got an interesting one because i'm
starting this series to talk to other creators about their camera gear their camera setups
and to just kind of get an idea on why creators use the camera systems that they do let's very
briefly just josh do you want to just like introduce yourself maybe just let people know
about the work that you do all right so my name's josh i'm a content creator from brighton as well
um i basically do design photography and video and kind of combine them all together to create
like coherent marketing campaigns predominantly for social media and stuff like that so
yeah i'll kind of you know shoot some video get some stills and then put it all together with
some design bits to make something for yeah people to share on their their website social medias and
just kind of covers all the bases then basically nice you sort of do like kind of everything
your your camera system needs to be able to do a lot of stuff yes yeah yeah i'm asking quite a lot
yeah so uh you know it needs no introduction it's the classic sony a7 iii super super popular camera
yeah iii um i actually used to shoot with this camera which you guys have seen videos on the a7 3
on the channel because i shot with this camera for a couple of years so this is a super interesting
interview for me because i have experience with this camera um but i decided that it wasn't
fitting what i did but you have still kept it or yeah so how long have you been on the a73 now
um i think probably you know like two years now okay right so exactly so it already wasn't
super new no you've you've kept using the a7 3 which yeah yeah is wicked because it is still
like a bit of a workhorse camera as well yeah i mean as i said it's
it's been so popular for such a long time with so many different people and um yeah
for the all the you know those same reasons it made sense for me as well so 873 um super
popular camera like i know tons of creators that still use it as i said i've already used
the a7 3 before um in terms of lenses what do you normally go with because this is a sony e-mount
like it's quite a mature camera like a lens mount now there's lots for it so why don't you let me
know what and let us know what lenses you use for the system well um i mean that was one of
the main reasons that i went for the uh the a7 3 to begin with is just because there's so much
to choose from when it comes to when it comes to lenses and everything like that
at the moment i've got a tamron 28 to 75 the 2.8 on here which again is like it's such a staple um
but you know it just does the job and it's such a good price and that that was the thing for me like
when i got the the camera it was very easy then to start uh just getting a bunch of different
lenses and stuff like that and it will continue to serve me then when i want to you know upgrade
and stuff like that and um i'm already in the right like space to do that basically
nice um so yeah tamron 28 to 75 2.8 on here which is like your classic so that was a big thing for
you in terms of a lens system that you wanted to invest into me mount lenses and then potentially
use that moving forward in the future exactly yeah i didn't i didn't want to because i had
before i'd had a um a lumix camera and um it was great and everything but it was very good
value for money but i didn't want to stay on that because investing in those lenses just didn't make
sense to me and then i knew further down the line i'd probably change to something else and have to
get rid of all that glass so yeah i wanted to make sure i went with something that
would serve me for definitely a longer period well it's kind of like the change i made to go to canon
but you you'll be able to yeah i went from sony to canon than you did the other way around
um but i suppose that way you could go on to what like the sony a7 s3 obviously but the yeah the fx3
yeah exactly would be a good option yeah fx6 then even going onto those kind of things and
all all the lenses will work for that as well so i probably should have prepped you for this question
before we hear the record button okay but i'm going to ask you one thing like the thing you
love the most about the camera yeah and then the thing that you dislike the most about the camera
okay if you need a second just let me know i think yeah no i think i can i think i can go okay sweet
so should we go with love so yeah what like what's the the one thing that like you love mostly um
i probably would be well maybe two things the the versatility of it because i shoot
so much of stills and um and video it provides a really awesome middle ground where i can
very much do both to the level that i want to do which is quite rare to find in a camera i think
um and yeah the the stills especially like the dynamic range you get out of the stills is
un unbelievable it's so i remember it being like a ridiculously good stilts camera yeah like that
was probably one of my favorite things about it as well exactly yeah it was good video not like
like really not like incredible but the stills really what like it's it's probably in
for instance if you were a wedding photographer yeah it's like more exciting i mean yeah i mean
you start looking at like what would be the next best thing for stills and you you the a7r and
stuff like that but all you're really getting is higher megapixels and and for me like 24 is
absolutely ample for anything you're doing yeah online social media website any even printing like
yeah well yeah exactly exactly um yeah no for sure so in terms of stills it's just yeah okay so
then we go on to hate what do you reckon the thing and i reckon i probably know this before
you answer it because it'll probably be the same answer that i had but i i'll hold off so
maybe what were you gonna say so if i guess this has been something that has niggled at me more
in the last kind of year than when i was first getting into it more and using it more but i think
um like that 8-bit video is just just not quite i mean that's what i'm gonna say oh yeah really yeah
um i mean i i like i quite like the colors and stuff that i get out of the sony i know that's
a problem for a lot of people but i i don't seem to to mine too much i've got my head around s-log
now um but yeah it would just be nice i think to have that that 10-bit option yeah so it was 10-bit
for me and also the lack of 60 frames a second in 4k yeah i suppose these aren't more newer features
yeah i don't think any anything was doing that no i probably could not but now yeah i mean that
would definitely be um that would definitely be for instance i'm gonna go and get it like this is
this is my sort of daily stills camera this is the canon eos r which everybody on the channel knows
that i absolutely love i did a video about it a few weeks ago and this is pretty similar yeah in
terms of specs to the a7 3 with the big exception that the a7 3 is a better video camera than the
usr because like the frame rate options on this are pretty bad yeah and the crop is yeah so yeah
the 4k crop as well so this does full frame 4k video yeah 120 frames a second or like in europe
we shoot 100 friends a second but um yeah at 1080p so it's like really good whereas this is like 720p
it goes down to yeah so yeah it definitely like well and it was i i remember when i was getting
this was in a similar time to when that was coming out or when it had i can't remember exactly but
i was deliberating between between the two and it was just that was just so much more expensive
and i was gonna be getting like less features so in the end it was just kind of a it was
a no-brainer like it although it was just the staple that everyone is shooting with i was like
wow i mean there's nothing nothing's going to be here at the moment for that for us for sure yeah
um okay so i've noticed that you got an atomos yes on there so maybe let's briefly so what like why
did you go for the atomos did you has it has it fixed problems that you had with the camera yeah
for sure actually that that probably could have been one of my hates actually is the the screen
on the camera itself is pretty terrible right right i mean normally when i'm shooting stills
i'll be going through the viewfinder but then like for video that's not really as practical so having
a better screen for one has made a just huge difference in itself especially when like pulling
focus and you know working with s-log and stuff like that i've got a um you know a custom lot
on here now that gives me a rec 709 to see when i'm shooting s-log so i know that like i'm in the
right the right sphere of exposure better better peaking tools yes yeah unlimited record time right
okay yeah so that's the whole list of things yeah exactly it's made a big difference and as i was
saying um the prores in here as well has made my editing life 100 times easier nice okay cool yeah
right because prores is a lot easier to work with when you edit on a mac yeah much smoother yeah
which i didn't i've not shot in prores on a camera because i just always shoot in an mp4 and i've not
had a camera system that actually because i when i was shooting with the a7 i didn't shoot with
the atomos and then i've gone straight to canon which doesn't shoot in prores so yeah um that's
super interesting that yeah i mean that's the case it's like a significant like double
double the speed of that's crazy processing and stuff so we've got a couple of wrap up questions
um so the first one would be why you still use the camera and haven't because you know
i think that's fair to say it's been like well the sm3 is probably about four years old now
like coming up to four years old yeah right so it is an older camera system in terms of the
more modern cameras that are available now um so why haven't you upgraded yet and uh
maybe potentially also what you might be looking at yeah we might have touched on it already but
well so i think um i've been kind of biding my time i guess a bit and investing in
other bits and pieces that will serve me for the long run so lenses lenses atomos lighting
mics that kind of thing um and in in the meantime whilst getting all that stuff together
kind of patiently waiting for the a74 i guess right okay nice which will hopefully
be i mean obviously that like the a1 came out recently which is yeah the the insane the best
a bridge camera like yeah yeah for sure would be insane so the a7s iii is that as i'm not tempted
you it yeah it's certainly tempted me but um because i shoot so much stills and although you
know a lot of people say and i'm sure correctly 12 megapixels is plenty um but i feel like that 24 is
just a sweet spot for me so i yeah also you do a lot of design yeah which means that potentially
you're working with your size and yeah move things around and do things a little bit more dramatic
extra flexibility maybe helping just a little yeah for sure so um yeah i guess just yeah investing
in other bits until potentially the a74 comes out and will hopefully you know basically be the same
as this but with 10 bit 4k 16 yeah that would be a happy man that definitely would be the dream
so uh sort of wrap-up question yes would you still recommend the a7 3
or would there be like an alternative camera or maybe like who you think it
still is the right fit for potentially yeah i would 100 still recommend it i think it's
really good for so many um i mean for anyone shooting stills first of all yeah absolutely like
yeah no-brainer yeah yeah no very enough um if you're doing uh stills and video like me for
for someone that is you know not having to shoot super high-end uh you know films like
if you're doing if you're doing um short videos and content creation and stuff like that like
for 99 of things it absolutely gives more than you would need anyway and like especially if you
are able to then invest in like better lenses and stuff like that yeah um i'd say it makes more
sense for doing content stuff rather than you know spending a hefty whack on a on a cinema camera and
not having as much to spend on the other bits and pieces yeah definitely definitely yeah no i mean
it totally it totally made sense i still feel like for when i was using the camera it would
still be a really good fit for like someone at the early stages of their like freelancing career or
wanting to just get a camera that does everything that they can take they can say yes to jobs
and then like you say later start investing in in other stuff because you seem to have like ticked
off the video ticked off the photo and then you can start making exactly the best i mean i think
i think in terms of like value for money it's still like pretty pretty hard to beat really
yeah and i mean you can do you know once you do start investing in those other bits
and pieces especially with good lighting and stuff like that you can do so much
um and you know 99 of people probably won't won't know what a shot on anyway like yeah true so
true we tend to like geek out about this stuff but yeah most people just want it to like look
okay yeah yeah yeah and sound okay there's good lighting and like a bit of bokeh then yeah yeah
i know for sure people are pretty happy normally for sure all right perfect thank you so much for
joining me josh i hope you guys have found this interesting um is there anything you want to plug
maybe do you want to just let everyone know your instagram maybe just so that people can follow
yeah yeah my instagram is jj brady one for my personal channel and then from there you'll be
able to find a link to my like work channel as well that's got all sorts of bits and pieces of
uh flipping design yeah photography flipping on your on your personal yes um i'll have hopefully
shown some of the more cool little bits of parkour and stuff i'll pull some stuff for your instagram
um but hopefully you guys have found this interesting helpful let me know what you guys
think of the series idea um and uh yeah i'll catch you guys in the next one thanks bye bye