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- So apparently, I'm in Ireland, northern Ireland, Belfast?
Game of Thrones, that's where I am.
King of the North.
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I'm a fan.
So apparently, we're on one of the sets
of Games of Thrones, right now.
But who cares about that?
We're gonna be talking about why I haven't been using
this camera that I'm using, now.
I'm using it, the Sony A7, or no,
the Sony A7, why do the numbers have to be so confusing?
The Sony A73, the reasons why
I haven't been using it as much, lately.
Also, I have a sword.
John Snow's.
King of the North.
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So we're doing some random shooting arrows.
Kind of doing this Game of Thrones tour
with this guy, actually,
Will, right? - Yeah, yeah.
- Will, tell my audience how many roles
you've had on Game of Thrones.
I've been a Wildling, mostly, I've been a White,
I've been a Knight of the Vale,
my brothers have been Starks, Boltons,
my dad's a Dothraki, my dogs, they're dire wolves.
(laughing)
- [Host] And what's it been like?
- It's been really intense, really fun,
as good as you can imagine it to be.
We're making Game of Thrones, that's amazing.
- [Host] I feel like, I was saying to Peter,
I feel like Game of Thrones has changed
your guys' whole family.
- It really has, yeah,
Before that, we were lifeguards,
and just living a normal life in an Irish village,
and now we're showing you guys,
and really cool people, the sets of Game of Thrones.
- But the real question is, did you have
that beard before Game of Thrones?
I did, I did. - So you were a lifeguard
with this beard, were you?
- Yeah, yeah. - Oh, boss!
Okay, so it didn't change that.
- I'm like an aqua Viking.
(laughing)
- [Host] How cool are his dogs?
- Yo, I want them for myself.
- You can't have them, Pete (laughs).
- Worth an ask.
- For all of you Game of Thrones fans, this is Winterfell.
Doesn't quite look the same, though.
Heavily CGI-ed, Heavily CGI-ed.
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All right, enough child's-play.
Maybe some of you noticed that, in Banff,
I wasn't actually filming on the Sony.
I didn't even actually bring it,
I just brought my 1Dx2, and there's a
few different reasons for it.
There's things that I really like about it,
but there's also some things that I
really don't like that much, yet.
Nothing huge, really, but all these things put
together kind of just make me feel uneasy.
For example, one of the problems that I've been having is
that the base ISO's so high, that
I've been having a lot of vignetting issues.
You know, you get that ugly x thing,
when you're using variable NDs.
Yeah, that's not cool.
I don't really like that.
I don't like having such a high base ISO,
so I've been trying some of the other picture profile,
and not using S-Log2, even though
that's kind of what I wanted it for,
was all that dynamic range.
So that kind of gives me mixed feelings.
No flip LCD screen.
I really just wish that every single video camera,
every single DSLR, mirrorless, everything would
just have a flip LCD screen.
I keep saying this.
There's no reason not to have it.
Photographers want it, bus. (loud engine revs)
Photographers want it, videographers want it,
everybody wants it.
Just put flip LCD screens on every camera.
One of the things that I mentioned earlier,
when I made the first video with this camera,
I talked about how I thought it was cool
that they had a slow motion setting on the dial,
but then I realized that it's not
even the highest quality slow motion,
so it's basically a useless dial.
I just don't understand why camera companies do
these kinds of things.
And then one of the biggest things
has been the whole post side of things,
working with this Sony camera.
I don't think people understand the massive difference
in time, when you go from 1080 to 4K,
especially when the 4K codec isn't quite as efficient,
isn't quite as solid, so playback in a video editor
isn't super clean, super smooth.
It just really slows you down when
you're trying to edit, and it's
just skipping every two seconds.
It's kinda the DJI drones.
You almost always have to convert the footage
into ProRes to be able to play them back, at all,
or you just need a crazy powerful computer
to handle it, and that's gonna cost you a lot of money.
The camera might be cheap, but then the computer
you need is gonna be really expensive.
And I actually ended up buying a new PC
to handle the 4K on this camera.
So not only does it take longer to edit,
but then also, export times are way longer,
extra hours, and then you multiply
that by two, three videos a week,
and it takes up a lot more time to edit, and to export.
So there's some interesting things,
that I'm not really liking it, so far,
that much, that whole side of things.
I mean, don't get me wrong,
I love the 4K thing, but is it worth it?
Not sure, yet.
Also, color profiles.
Initially I started shooting with the S-Log2
to get all that dynamic range,
because that's one of the big reasons I got this camera.
I wanted more dynamic range.
I wanted a more cinematic, filmic look,
and then the colors weren't that good in S-Log2,
so now I've been shooting in HLG3.
This would be HLG3.
Lemme know in the comments.
Is it any better?
Apparently, this one is a lot better,
so I've been testing it out,
and I'm getting some mixed results.
Sometimes it looks really good,
and sometimes it's just not that good.
So yeah, that's another thing.
Color science (scoffs).
I'm just not enjoying it as much
as I like the Canons, a lot of times.
But it's not all bad.
There's been some good things.
For example, auto focus has actually been pretty decent.
(chuckles) Apparently I spoke way too soon.
If the Sony doesn't have a lot of contrast
on the face, or whatever it's trying to focus on,
the auto focus kinda sucks.
Yeah, I spoke too soon.
Carry on.
Now, ironically, I had to film
this whole bit sitting right here,
again, because the auto focus wasn't working,
and I'm like, "Oh, the auto focus has been great.
"I haven't had any problems,
"haven't even had to go through playback
"and make sure it's in focus."
And then I was like, "Oh, it'd be so ironic
"if this shot wasn't in focus."
And then I went to go play it back, and it wasn't in focus.
So I had to redo this whole thing.
But for the most part, auto focus has been,
actually, pretty decent.
I haven't had that many issues,
other than, pretty much, this shot, right here.
And then one of the biggest things, for me,
that I've really enjoyed, is the size difference.
The 1Dx2, and the Sony A73,
kind of have similar video specs,
but the size difference is gigantic.
Not only the cameras, big difference, there,
but also the chargers, the batteries.
Yeah, there's a big size difference,
and when I'm traveling, I really like
to keep things light and small.
So yeah, this has definitely been a
really nice thing about the Sony.
But if I'm honest, probably the biggest reason
why I haven't been enjoying the Sony is
I'm just not used to it.
It takes a long time to really get used to a camera.
That's why I kinda wanted to commit
to myself, that I would try this camera out,
use it on a bunch of videos, and then
really make my conclusions based on that.
And it's really just fun to try new cameras.
It kind of spices things up, a little bit,
makes it a little bit more exciting,
'cause you got a new camera, and the image looks different
in 4K, and all that stuff.
It's just fun to try new cameras,
and I'm actually really excited that
pretty much all the companies are releasing new cameras.
There's a new Nikon mirrorless.
The Canon mirrorless just got announced, I think, yesterday.
I've heard a full-frame Panasonic is coming.
I don't know if that's true or not, I've just heard that.
The Sony A7S3's supposed to come out,
A lot of new cameras, and I just love it.
I love that the camera companies are kind
of pushing each other, and I just wanna try them all,
and see how good they are.
So if you're interested in a camera
and you want me to review it, maybe leave a comment,
and I'll try to review those cameras.
And really, I shouldn't be complaining.
We are living amazing times, in terms of filmmaking.
Never has there been so many options
that are so cheap, so good, just jam-packed
with all these different features.
Yeah, it's just really exciting.
Also, if you're wondering why I'm here,
it's not because I'm just a massive Game of Throne fans,
even though I do like the show, that's not why I'm here.
I'm at the Power of Video conference event,
speaking here with my friends, Peter,
and a lot of other cool people.
So I hope I met you, because this
will come out in the future.
I never understand how that's going.
All right, bye.
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