- [Gene] Good morning we're doing a little bit
of adventuring out in San Luis Obispo.
I got a cool little toy in the backpack,
so we're going to go hike out to some caves
and see if we can get some cool shots.
- [Carrie] Nude beach, that way.
Caves, that way.
- [Gene] Let's go.
Wait, where you going?
Hey come back here!
Stop looking at him!
- He's like lotioning up.
There he goes, the speedo's coming off.
The speedo's off.
(laughing) - [Gene] Okay.
Let's turn around, let's go the other way.
(cheery instrumental music)
Quick detour, actually.
Oh yeah, look at that.
(laughing)
- Happy anniversary.
- I think I am gonna need a Bandaid.
I guess this is what I get for hiking
with like beach flip flops
like I knew it was a bad idea,
but you know how sometimes you're like
this is probably not a good idea
but I'm gonna do it anyways,
now I have many regrets.
What're you looking at?
Hi Carrie!
- Oh, I think I'm gonna be sick.
(cheery music)
- Anyways, let's try that again.
I got a few new goodies in my bag,
and we're in Idaho, I think.
No, are we in Idaho, are we in Montana?
I think we're in Montana, it is beautiful here.
So times like this I just want to be able
to fit everything into a little backpack
like this and just go out into the middle
of places like this.
So I'm always looking for stuff that's nice
and small and lightweight.
This is a Geekoto X25 Defender.
That's a fancy name for this tripod, like "Defender."
(laughs)
This was not necessarily the most lightweight one
but they had a lot of really good review on Amazon.
I figured I'd give it a shot,
but this one's cool 'cause not only do you have
this center column here, but you can get
some extra height outta there,
but you can also turn it to the side.
I don't know exactly when I specifically would use
this feature too much but I know a lot
of photographers that would,
and also what's cool is I have this base plate
on my camera which is for the large gorilla pod heads
and this also fits onto here as well
so I could switch between this taller tripod
and my gorilla pod without having
to switch out that base plate.
This is pretty good maximum height, huh,
I'm five eight here and it's going over my head
so that's pretty good.
And then just fold up pretty nice and small
so I've just been slinging it like that
but this definitely is feature packed like
for example you could take off one of the legs
and turn it into a monopod, but I am still on the search
for the lightest weight tripod out there for,
if I'm doing a long big hike.
So, let me know if you have any suggestions in the comments.
I think there's a train coming quickly pull out the drone.
How fast can we get the drone up in the air?
I need a flat surface.
(drone whirs)
(upbeat electronic music)
That was a pretty quick takeoff time.
Let's go see if we could find this train.
Oh, there it is.
There it is. - [Carrie] Oh!
That is so cool!
(music continues)
- [Gene] That's a huge train, holy crap!
(music continues)
- No wonder... - When's it gonna end?
Well, that's pretty cool right there,
with the mountains in the back.
And we got the Polar Pro filter on there right now.
So we're getting the shutter at 150,
so that should be pretty cool for the shutter.
This looks awesome!
See right now the train's going backwards,
but I'll just reverse that shot
and it'll look like the train's going forward.
That was good timing.
Thanks for the heads up
on the train - (laughing) Yeah.
- She heard it in the distance.
Choo choo!
She's like, "Get the drone out, pronto!"
So yeah this is still my go-to drone.
It's the Mavic 2 Pro.
Shout out to Polar Pro for sending this out to me.
It's a ND4, ND8, and a 16, comes in a set of three,
but one of the things I'm most excited about right now
is this new lens I got it's a 20 millimeter full frame lens,
so it's a nice vlogging distance I can hold a camera
at this distance and I can still get a reasonable vlog shot
but what's crazy about it is that it goes to 1.4
so obviously you need to adjust it
with the ND filter I got right here.
Look how blurry that background is, it's a wide angle lens,
but it's an F 1.4, that's pretty awesome.
Look how soft that background looks,
so this is just me if I were to walk around vlogging.
Look at that shallowness.
See, look, Carrie's like right behind me,
and she's out of focus.
So this is a Sigma Art lens, it's definitely not cheap,
but I don't believe there's much else like it
out there right now, and there are definitely pros and cons
to this lens that I'm already noticing
but why don't we take it around a little bit
and see how it works.
One of the things we really want to see is Aurora Borealis,
did I say that right?
- I think so.
- Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights basically.
(laughs)
but seeing the Northern Lights is definitely a hit or miss.
When I was in Iceland for a whole week the goal was
to see it and we left without seeing it at all.
This is like rock skipping Heaven, every rock here
is a perfect rock to skip.
There's even this giant one.
Watch this.
(laughs)
You guys like our rental car?
It's pretty baller, right?
It only has like 80 miles on it,
it's brand new, we booked like the cheapest 4x4 vehicle
and they were just like, here's a free upgrade.
So, yes!
- Are you trying to get a Chevy sponsorship right now?
- Yeah, Chevy! (laughing)
- Yeah, Chevy, sponsor me!
Unless Jeep wants to sponsor me first.
Whoa, this looks straight up like a scene from a commercial.
See, Chevy, this already looks
like a Chevy commercial right here.
Look at this, this is like the most beautiful place
I've ever seen in my life.
It actually looks like a great photograph.
But just, with our eyes.
(instrumental music)
We're in a city called Whitefish now,
where we're staying for the next two days.
This place is crazy, it's just so different
from what we're used to back home.
Where are all the skyscrapers?
What is this?
Are these like little teepees that people made?
So people have been saying,
"Watch out for the bears, they're starting
to come out this season."
So let's hope the title of this video is
"The F 1.4 20mil lens" not "How I got attacked by a bear."
So first, obvious downside of this lens
is there is no image stabilization,
so let me turn on the digital image stabilization
on the camera just to smoothen things out a little bit
and there hopefully that's a little bit better
and I don't have a gorilla pod or anything attached
to this camera right now which would help stabilize
it a little bit more.
But how's it look?
Do you guys like how it looks at F 1.4?
Look how blurry Carrie is.
If Carrie were to say anything, she'd just be
like a blob in the background.
Hi there.
- Blob.
- This is F 1.4 right now, but my other lens is an F 4,
so if we were shooting with that it would look
a little bit more like that.
So we can at least see a little bit of detail
on Carrie's face, I can still walk next to you
and I can get both of us in the shot
and you're still somewhat in focus,
but F 1.4 is crazy as F 1.4 I'm right next to you,
and you're all blurry, it's definitely a whole lot harder
on the auto focus on the camera too
'cause it has to make all these micro adjustments
to stay up and sometimes it'll lock on
to the wrong face and if it's focused on Carrie,
then I'm all blurry.
- What would you do if you saw a bear out here?
- Bears are tricky 'cause there's black bears
and brown bears and I'm pretty sure
that what you're supposed to do,
is the complete opposite depending on the type of bear,
I can't ever remember which bear, you're supposed
to do what with, if a bear comes up one
of us will probably play dead
and the other one will start making a bunch of noise.
Everything will be messed up.
We should probably do research on what we're supposed to do.
Quick cut-away, according to the National Park Service,
what do you do if you see a bear.
You want to travel in big groups and you want
to look big but stay calm.
So you're going to basically be like,
"Oh my god, I just encountered a three legged bear.
Look, I'm a human, I am not a threat to you,
do not attack me, I'm big."
And hopefully the bears don't attack you,
but then if that bears not having it
and they start jacking you up, then you have to identify,
Is it a brown bear or black bear?
Alright, so here's the part where it's tricky.
If it's a brown or grizzly bear,
leave your pack on and play dead.
So lay flat on your stomach with your hands
behind your neck and spread your legs
to make it hard for the bear to turn you over
and remain still until the bear leaves the area.
Fighting back increases the intensity of the attack.
I think you're a brown bear.
Oh no, I'm getting attacked.
Ah, ah!
However, if the attack persists,
so, if the bear continues to like cut you open,
then fight back vigorously.
Wait wait, what, so you're supposed to be like this
for as long as you can and then once you realize
I'm almost dead, then that's when you're supposed to fight.
What.
Or carry bear mace, that sounds like
the more reasonable answer.
So that's with the brown bear, then if it's a black bear,
then do not play dead, try to escape,
find a car or something.
And if that doesn't work then fight back.
So yeah, if watching this video helped you
survive a bear attack you can send me a postcard.
(footsteps)
I am so glad I have this lens right now,
'cause it actually looks so good.
I'm all the way wide open in the F 1.4 right now,
and I'm utilizing it.
In most cases this F 1.4 is a bit too much,
but in some cases, like right now, it looks so good
and this lens is wicked sharp too.
There are definitely a few downsides, though.
For one the lens does protrude out,
kind of like a fisheye lens, so if you're the type
that likes to put on a UV filter to protect your lens
then you're out of luck here, and also the lens cap
is one of these it's not one of those flat ones
that you could place on, because again,
the lens looks like a bubble.
So it has become a little bit annoying
to fit this bigger thing in my pocket opposed
to a flat thin little lens cap
and since this thing protrudes out
so much you definitely want to keep it protected
as much as possible, just because it's so exposed.
Things come up and scratch it,
you can scrape it against something pretty easily.
Probably one of the biggest issues, is the fact
that you can't just thread
on like a 77 or 82 millimeter ND filter
'cause of the way the lens is shaped.
I actually shoot on the Eos R, so I do have my ND filter
that sits in behind the lens, so if you happen
to be shooting on one of the cameras
that has internal ND filters, then this isn't going
to be an issue but I realize
that most cameras don't have this option
to throw this ND filter in behind.
So that is one thing that is really nice
about this Canon RF system is that I have the option
to just do that and it is a variable,
so I can just adjust it right here,
and it's nice and easy if you do want to put an ND filter
in front of the lens, there are a few companies
that do make ND filter specifically for this lens
but it's going to be much bigger.
But a huge advantage of F 1.4 is
the spectacular low light capability of this lens,
like here, the fact that you can see is pretty awesome.
This is my iPhone 10 S Max it like doesn't see anything.
And this also would have been the perfect lens
to shoot the Northern Lights, but unfortunately,
it doesn't look like we're going to be able to see it.
So one tip don't travel somewhere and assume you're gonna
be able to see the Northern Lights.
Go to a place and hope you can see it.
And if you see it, that's awesome.
- It's like chance, 100% like chance.
- Exactly and it's not very common, but if we were
to see it, this would be a great lens because you get
that super wide angle lens at an F 1.4.
Whenever we drive through one of these little towns,
I'm always so curious on what goes on in this town.
You know what I think would be really cool,
is just go and live in a tiny town for a few months.
Wouldn't that be cool?
- Yeah that
would be. - Would you be up for that?
- Yeah.
- Carrie has Summer break, so maybe for one Summer,
we'll just go and pick a random little town,
and just live there for a little bit.
Just imagine how many dogs we could have
if we lived out in one of these ranches.
- We could have a dog ranch.
- I'm sure there's a lot of people watching
that don't live the city life
and they're like, "what are they talking about,
this is just so normal."
(laughing)
But to us it's really interesting.
Check that out, population of 1044.
It's very specific, you think they have
to update the sign every time someone moves out?
Anyways, we're heading back today.
This has been an awesome trip and this lens,
I'm digging it.
One final thing is the sound it makes
when you shift focus so I do have
a Rode Videomic Pro Plus, I think is what it's called,
on there right now, and you can kind of hear every time
the focus shifts, so here I'll let you listen.
(soft mechanical shift)
And here if I just use the onboard microphone,
that's on the camera then you're going to hear it,
even more so here's that.
(mechanical tapping and clicking)
So yeah, if you're running internal audio
that's probably going to get a little annoying.
It's not the quietest lens I've ever heard
but at the same time it's not the loudest lens
I've ever heard either it's kind of right there
in the middle where you can hear it
but it's not terribly loud.
Anyways thanks for coming on this little journey with us,
let's read some comments from our last video,
which was all about the slider by edelkrone.
Top comment was from Josh Haynes,
"That moment you realize three
more inches makes a huge difference."
Those are the blacklisted words from this channel is
"up" and "inches."
If I say any number, and then inches after that,
immediately you guys turn
into a bunch of perverts so thanks guys.
"Damn, this actually looks really sexy,
man I've already spent too much money on my credit cards.
Stop."
That's what I do, convince you guys to max out credit cards,
and this lens is only like 1000 bucks
but it's awesome there's not much else like it
and there's the Canon 24 millimeter L series 1.4
But those, uh, four millimeters.
Oh no, I gotta stop saying measurements
of anything but that four millimeter difference
makes, makes a difference, dammit.
I'm gonna get it again in the comments.
The GAB PACK Family says "I watched your UdeMy class
and it was the best two and a half hours I spent this year.
Please make another one and make it very long."
First of all, thanks to everyone that took my course
and also rating it so high
that I got the little top rated banner
on the website I'm very proud of that little band.
I never got a college diploma, but that's,
that's close enough, the top rated banner, I like it.
Tekky Ty says, "Can you do a video where you run through
some of the professional videos you've done for clients?"
That's definitely one I wanna do, it does get
a little bit tricky in the commercial side
of things because there are a lot of NDAs
that get signed, the bigger and companies gets,
less you're allowed to talk about it publicly.
I'm looking for that fine line project
where I can shoot a commercial
but still bring you guys along with me
and talk about everything we did.
For example I've never really worked
with Apple but I know their contract for working
with them is really intense and by the way NDA stands
for Non-Disclosure Agreement, so if you sign it,
it says you're not allowed to talk about this thing.
I have been doing a lot of projects for Boeing
and I am trying to get some footage, out of that,
that I'm allowed to show but most of it is classified.
I'm working with their government division.
I got to film their F-15s, F-18s, Apache helicopters.
I'm not allowed to show any of that footage, though.
(groans)
Oh, I did recently direct music video for Pepe Aguilar,
phenomenal Latin artist,
but I do have a lot of behind the scenes footage
from that and I believe I'm allowed to share that,
so maybe I'll make a little video
about shooting music videos
that could be kind of interesting, right?
(cheery electronic music)