So beautiful!
All right hello from the Big Cottonwood Canyon, I think that's the name?
near Salt Lake City... well, near... like an hour away
we are here searching for some fall colors,
these landscapes are beautiful, these mountains are beautiful
but they are packed with people, it's Sunday, so we just parked the first spot that we could find
this is a campground, we're just walking through it and taking some photos
we are both shooting today with 35mm cameras and lenses
she's shooting with her Fuji x100t
I'm shooting with my a7rii and a Rokinon or Samyang, 35mm f/1.4
and we are both shooting in color and jpeg
I have to change the film simulation, the last time we were shooting I had it in black and white
What are you going to use now?
Hmm, velvia
Why?
Because it's vibrant reproduction ideal for landscape and nature
There's tons, there's provia, which is supposed to be good for
That is like more faded
No, it just says: "Ideal for wide range subjects"
Then there's astia, which is softer color and contrast for a more subdued look
I have standard... and vivid
Oh, you have film simulations?
No
What are those?
They are standard and vivid, and I'm going to use vivid because this is very vivid
I think we can take one just to compare the film simulation, maybe
That was with astia, let's try velvia
Whoa! So vivid
Just kidding
I can't tell the difference
That's astia, that's velvia, I guess the sky is a little bluer
I think these things are pretty cool, on those trees, they look like eyes
That one actually looks like an eye
You got your Fuji colors, but I got my bokeh
My goodness, shooting in color feels different
It's fun! You have more things to play with
Do you feel like a normie?
Uh? Normie?
A normal person
No, I guess, yeah
Not like that, no, loose
stand like you normally would, don't put your arm out like a weirdo
just stand there
thank you
Color is one thing, but
I have to get used to the focal length, this is 35mm - not a focal length that I usually use
What do you usually shoot with?
I usually use zoom lenses, and they all start at 24 or 28, and just because they
start at that focal length, that is the one that I use the most, I guess
I have 35 in the zoom lens but I rarely use it, I guess
We came all the way here looking for fall colors and she is taking photos of the restrooms
That's called art
No, I just like the brown
The brown?
I like the brown
For some reason, this lens is not focusing
It focuses close, I can focus on the camera just fine and on that rock
but farther than that, that grass, it just doesn't focus
it doesn't even do it when I try manually, it doesn't go past a point
I'm going to...
That's not good!
This is a new lens to me, but it's a used lens that I got on ebay
Oh, now it's focusing
Well that was not cool
But it's good that it's doing it now, right?
Yeah, just get it off the camera, put it back on
turn it off and on again
or maybe it's the camera, but that never happened with any other lens
it has to be the lens
it's focusing now
That looks pretty cool, it's probably not a good photo
but what I like about this lens is that it's wide enough, kind of, 35mm, and super fast, it's f/1.4
so you can get a blurry background on wide shots, if that makes sense
This is not like your classical
50-85mm lens where you have a very close-up of something and you can blur the background
I was able to capture this table right here and still blur the background
It's pretty cool to have a fast wide angle lens
Even though the video is called the "Battle of 35mm", this is not a battle,
this is not even a challenge or anything like that
we're just having fun and it's not even fair to being with...
It's a lie! It's clickbait!
Yeah, clickbait
It's not even fair because the cameras are completely different,
this is a full-frame 42MP camera with a f/1.4 lens
and that is an aps-c camera with a tiny, tiny lens
well it's an f/2, so it's bright enough
but they do not compare whatsoever
Yes, this one is much better, is that what you meant?
Yes
Look at the size! Bigger is not always better
Hold that
Oh my god, no I don't want that
I can take this anywhere
Do I take it anywhere? No
But could I? Yes
This is really good glass right here
But it's very little glass
Yes
Her f/2 is like an f/3 equivalent in full frame
As I said, it's not fair, this is much faster
it's going to be able to create much more bokeh, blurry backgrounds
but I'm going to be using it, I'm going to be shooting at f/1.4 because, you know, I'm
doing the effort of carrying this weight and this size, so I should be rewarded
You're cheating
I'm not cheating, because this is not as convenient to shoot with
that is much easier to shoot with, you have an advantage there
I should have the advantage of a faster lens
I couldn't hurt anybody with this, though, it's not a weapon
Hey! Here! Here! I was saying...
so the cool thing about having a 35mm f/1.4 is that I'm trying to take this picture right here
show it to them
you see kind of brown, red, here?
then green and then all the trees in the background?
I can point here, to the red part
I can focus on this red grass and the background is still going to be in the frame
but it's going to be out of focus, and I love that effect
I mean, it's just very, very subtle, of course, it's not completely out of focus
it's just a little bit, but I think it makes for a great image
Why are you laughing?
There is a lot of people here
This is the Solitude Mountain Resort, it's closed now, but it might make for cool images
wow, that looks pretty cool
I like it
One thing I've noticed, because this is the first time i shoot the a7rii
in jpeg mode, is that it limits the jpegs to 18MP
I had no idea
so we're shooting pretty much at the same resolution, 16 versus 18
I didn't know that about this camera, I just don't know why it does it, though
I don't know if it's a technical
It's trying to be more like the Fuji...
limitation...
This is beautiful!
I'm struggling here because I have to choose between horizontal or vertical,
it should be square
i think that Hairball's green goes really well with these brown tones here
Too bad he's very dirty
No, that's better
Is it?
He looks legit
Those are cheap shots
What do you mean by cheap?
Cliche
Cliche?
Yeah, not original, not good
Cheap
All righty so we made it to Park City
This was the place where the Olympics happened, in 2002, I don't know
We're just going to take photos around here
Rotate... the other way... a little bit more... okay
I like the combination of the kind of white shoes, because they are dirty
They're very dirty
The brown socks and the green and the stones
I think I got something
nice
It's the red flower, right?
But it's the light
There we go, I got the "toque"
I don't see it
The sunlight is just kissing it, over here
It's the only red one, and is touching the light, it's lit up
I don't like that, sorry
Okay
I'm going to take a picture
This is one of those cases where it's not wide enough to take the whole building
I can move my ass, but not too far
You can get up there
But I can't...
Actually, it's too wide from here
Horizontal, vertical... who knows, I just did both
I would do horizontal there, I think
Yeah
What was that?
Oh, I just like the purple with the rust color
Trash can!
This is really dumb, I don't like it, I don't like it
Alrighty, so we are done
this started as a trip looking for fall colors, it ended up
being a street photography kind of day, which is fine, but yeah
She's used to shoot her Fuji like you did today, you didn't do anything really new
But I'm not used to shoot my camera in jpeg, 3x2, and color
It was definitely different
When I shoot black and white, I'm thinking most of the time what I'm going to do to the photo
I'm thinking about, I'm gonna make the the mountain darker
Now, I was not thinking any of that, because it's a jpeg
it's gonna be the final result, so it was a little bit...
an interesting change, but it was, I think, good
We're going to head back down to Salt Lake City
I hope you all enjoyed the video
Thank you so much for watching
and see you in the next one!
You have to say goodbye
Bye