Hey guys Brandon here, thanks to your awesome feedback on my last video here,
Linus decided to let me take another crack at it and this time I'll be talking about something camera related.
One of my favorite pieces of gear that we use here every single day, the Metabones Speed Booster
or as Linus likes to call it the "make all my lenses better-matron".
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Ok, so it's not magic.
What it actually is, is a focal reducer which allows your aperture,
which you can learn more about in this video on Techquickie,
on any lens to be one-stop faster than it would otherwise be possible.
Ok, we've been through this before the video, no camera talkie mumbo jumbo you speak in plain English.
Ok, alright ... alright sorry.
So, let me try this again, the speed booster bolts onto your camera and sits between the camera
and a compatible lens and has three main benefits.
Number one is that it widens the field of view that your camera can see
by a magnification of 0.71 or 0.58 depending on the model.
Number two is that it adds overall sharpness to the final image that you get out of your camera
And number three is that it seemingly increases the amount of light that enters your camera,
but we'll get more in depth on that in a moment,
because if you're anything like me you're probably sitting there going:
"this is voodoo magic, it sounds way too good to be true"
and honestly the first time I read about this adapter I spent no small amount of time making sure
it wasn't an elaborate hoax or April Fool's or something.
Thankfully it wasn't and all Metabones had done was figure out how to implement a general use focal reducer,
something that no one has actually done in the photography world.
Let's get into how this thing actually works.
Typically you have your lens in a camera body, where light enters and hits your sensor like this,
but here's what happens when you add the speed booster to the same setup.
The light converges onto a smaller field than before.
Condensing the light this way allows for a wider field of view and more of the light focused onto a smaller area,
effectively giving you more usable light on your sensor.
For the photographers and enthusiasts out there,
this is the opposite effect that a typical teleconverter would give you.
A teleconverter would spread the light over a larger area,
narrowing your field of view and decreasing the amount of light that is usable on the sensor,
giving you a cropped in and darker overall image.
Now, the important part to note here is that the speed booster will only work with cameras that have
appropriate spacing between the lens mount and the sensor:
the Blackmagic Pocket or Panasonic GH4 for example.
And with lenses that are designed to cover a larger sensor size than your camera is equipped with.
For example here are three different size lens circles,
each specifically made for a different size sensor, Full-Frame, APS-C and micro 4/3.
So while the full frame lens and the aps-c size lens will both work on a speed booster paired with my
Blackmagic pocket camera, that uses a Micro Four Thirds mount,
the theoretical pairing between a Micro Four Thirds lens and a Micro Four Thirds camera would not
work with a speed booster.
This allows general-purpose photography lenses like this one, made for a full-frame camera,
like Burkle's Canon 60d SLR,
to not only fit my Blackmagic camera but work even more effectively at a speed of up to one
two thirds of a stop faster, giving me better performance in low-light outside
of the studio, as well as the ability to get a much shallower depth of field like in this shot here.
Now, onto the last of the main benefits of the speed booster.
It's a common assumption that putting more glass behind or in front of a lens
would lead to a loss in overall sharpness.
And while this is true for teleconverters since they magnify the aberrations of a given lens,
the speed booster actually has the opposite effect since it compresses the original image of the lens,
reducing the visibility of these anomalies in the glass.
Now, it is true that the glass within the speed booster will have its own set of aberrations,
but Metabones has done a great job of specifically correcting for this
and that is how they can achieve the seemingly impossible better image quality with more light captured
So, onto my conclusion.
Which is one that I already knew before I started making this video
because I've been using the fs700 version of the speed booster since its release over a year and a half ago.
As well as the Blackmagic pocket one, since I bought it for myself about a year ago and this is it.
The reason the speed booster is one of my favorite tools is that it offers an immense amount of flexibility
and new possibilities with the same camera equipment that I might already own.
And while it is not always needed when trying to shoot something far away,
it actually might do more harm than good in that situation.
The same goes for if I wanted a deeper depth of field, work for macro close-up,
but it does allow me to make this shot into this shot.
And while I understand there are other ways I could achieve this,
nothing does it with quite the simplicity, affordability and flexibility of the speed booster.
Speaking of simplicity, affordability and excuse me ...
... let's channeling Brandon there for a minute.
Affordability and flexibility
Dollar Shave Club they deliver
high-quality razors directly to your
door and all you have to do is sign up
for the club so that's the simplicity
the affordability comes in where it's
like yeah there are only a few bucks a
month and you sign up and then well it's
affordable so it's pretty
self-explanatory and the flexibility
comes in with you ... you don't even have to
get razors you could get there dr.
carver shave, butter you could get there
after shave, you could get there one wipe
Charlies butt wipes for men,
So they have all the same qualities of the speed
booster except completely different
because it's... it's high-quality razors
and they come in the mail, so that you
can leave the house looking like you
leave the house and you don't have to
leave the house in order to achieve that
because if you think about it it's like
a freakin paradox: you have to go out to
the store to look presentable to go out
to the store how can anyone do this?
Ok, obviously it's not quite that
complicated but Dollar Shave Club makes
life even simpler so shave time shave
money Dollar Shave Club the link is in
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