- Today is a good day.
These finally came in the mail.
This is actually something I ordered a couple weeks ago,
finally got here.
Now remember that old Arri Alexa I bought for six grand
on Craigslist the other day?
Now this is an after market EF mount
by a company called Leitax
and this is gonna allow me to put on cheaper,
less expensive lenses on that camera.
So this looks like the mount itself,
and I believe this is a coupler.
These must be some shims.
Now the camera's over at the studio,
so let's head over.
I feel like taking the motorcycle today.
Let's go!
(rock music)
(motorcycle engine roars)
(door opens)
- All right, we got our goods here, we got our camera.
Here we go. (groans)
This is a PL mount, which is like the industry standard
for professional lenses.
PL lenses are fantastic, but they're also very expensive.
So this has to go in place of here.
First I gotta take these screws off.
Oh my God, these are on here (beep) tight.
Oh, God, I'm gonna strip these.
I don't wanna do that! (groans)
How the (beep)?
All right, I got one out,
I mean this is the right tool and everything,
it's just, do I force it out
and potentially strip the screws?
Or do I just,
these are just in here so tight! (groans)
Come on, motherf-
I think this is just too skinny,
I can't get a good grip on it.
It's like a little pencil.
All right, look what I got.
This should give me a little bit more leverage, right?
Okay, please let this work.
This is the only other torqued tool that I have.
(fake sobs) It's not the right size!
What am I to do?
All right, this is the only other thing
that can clamp on to a bit this small that I have.
Is this a bad idea?
I hope not.
(gasps) It worked! (laughs)
I do not recommend using a power drill
when you're talking about working
right next to the camera's sensor.
Supposed to be using precision tools only,
but this worked!
Oh, easy!
And it's off, okay.
All right, so now what?
Did I just pull off the wrong screws?
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Oh, (beep) I did! (groans) (beep)
(beep) (beep) I am such an asshat, damn it!
It says pull out the seven screws,
and I pulled out the seven wrong screws.
And I practically stripped these screws trying to do that.
I'm an idiot.
I wish they had said that in the instructions.
Don't pull out the seven screws that you see
in front of you, look deep into the holes
that are super deep and dark, looks like a bat cave,
and back there, there are seven screws.
That's, dang it.
This is taking forever, man.
(drill buzzes)
Why aren't you coming out?
Oh, there's a video I can watch!
(upbeat music)
What am I missing?
I'm just gonna start taking out screws for funsies now,
I don't know what I'm missing.
Good thing I got a warranty for this camera.
Oh wait.
Do I just yank on it?
I don't want to, though!
I don't want it to break.
(laser noises)
With these seven screws out,
it's definitely supposed to pop off.
I guess I just yank on it?
And just pray nothing breaks, I guess.
This doesn't feel right.
(gasps) It came out!
Now there's this cable dangling.
They really need to give us better instructions
on how to take this thing apart.
I'm really appreciating now how easy it is
to put a PL mount or EF mount on all these newer cameras.
'Cause those you just take off four screws, off, on, done.
Look at this beautiful sensor right there.
Now let's just hope that attaching this thing
is a little bit easier now.
All right, so we got our seven screws, nice and tight.
Now we just gotta screw this mount on
and I think we're finally good to go.
All right, moment of truth.
Hey, there we go! (claps and cheers)
Putting on this EF mount was actually really easy,
it was the taking off the PL mount
that was a pain in the ass.
Look at this, it looks so weird
with this little stubby lens on here.
Now one thing to keep in mind is that this does not have
any of the electronic contacts for the lenses.
So if it's a lens like this, I can't control the aperture,
so I have this kinda older lens, it's a Contax Zeiss
with an EF mount adapter, fully manual.
And it's like a vintage lens, so it wasn't very expensive.
I think it was like 200 something bucks.
Oh, look at there, that's a pretty good title too!
Cheap vintage lenses on an Arri Alexa,
that's a good title right there! (gasps)
Let's go see how this does!
Oh my God, this camera.
This camera is so heavy, I've got the little lens on here,
we're at an F4, we're gonna get a couple of shots out here.
When you look at the background, you can kinda see
some of that triangular bokeh in the background,
how it's shaped almost like a stop sign.
The thing about shooting on vintage lenses is that
they're less about getting that perfect technical lens,
and just having something with a little bit more character.
This is actually pretty neat.
Check out the way this lens flares, too.
Look at that, it's like a spiderweb almost.
We got a lotta light here, and I wanna open up this lens
so I'm gonna throw on an adapter here,
which will adapt to this plate right here,
and slap on this mount box over here.
And let's see how this looks.
(intense music)
It's actually kinda cool how much of a difference
you can actually see with these lenses.
It definitely has that kinda old school,
classic, vintage look to it.
Like the way the flares hit, the way the bokeh looks,
and kinda just the colors get a little muted almost.
That mixed with the Arri Alexa that has
that kinda filmic style,
it's honestly kind of a cool combination.
And also, Sam's wearing a jacket,
and it kinda makes him look like a detective, sorta.
Yeah, that's like a detective collar, right?
- Mmhmm.
- [Gene] It looks like a trench coat but it's not.
Detective music!
(intense music)
- Oh, hey there!
(Gene and Sam laugh)
That's so good.
Sam is taking one for the team.
Holy (beep) you guys. (laughs)
My motorcycle was just stolen!
I think.
What?
Is this real life?
It's not here.
Quick interruption, that motorcycle underneath that tarp
is not my motorcycle, that's Kari's bike.
I'm not trying to do some lame joke
where I'm like, "Where's the motorcycle?
"'Cause it's under a camouflage tarp, ha ha!"
No, like legit, my bike is gone.
Did that just really happen?
They must've come here with pickup truck
and loaded it on the back or something.
Wow.
- Hi! - Hello, miss.
Whatcha doin? - Hi!
Just bringing my period one class in from dismissal.
- Oh, good.
Tell me if you notice anything, okay?
So, I come out to the jeep, right?
- Go ahead and take a seat guys.
- And then I come here to the trash.
- (gasps) Did you call the police?
- No, not yet.
- Well hang up with me and call 'em!
Why are you calling me?
- Isn't that crazy though?
Part of me was hoping that Carrie would be like,
"Oh, yeah, remember I was gonna take it into the shop!"
or something, I don't know.
All right, so check this out.
This is a shot from yesterday's vlog.
Here, look at this.
Look at that, right there.
Boom, motorcycle.
Last night, it was there.
This morning, it's gone.
Poof!
- [Automated Voice] Thanks for calling All State,
where you're in good hands.
- I need to report a stolen vehicle.
- [Insurance Agent] Oh, I'm sorry about that.
You must have been shocked when you didn't see it.
- Yeah, oh yeah, no I walked outside
to take out the trash and I was like,
"Wait a second, something's missing." (laughs)
- [Insurance Agent] Oh my goodness.
- Did you notice that when you came in this morning,
that the dirt bike wasn't there?
- No, I didn't.
- Yeah, it's not there.
- It got stolen?
- Yeah, last night.
- Somebody stole your bike?
- Yeah, dude.
(Gene and Sam laugh)
Yeah, crazy, huh? - Dude, that sucks.
- [Gene] I know, that's crazy.
(sad music)
♪ You were a part of me ♪
♪ I swear you'll always be ♪
♪ I swear you'll always be a part of me ♪
♪ I'm not sure if I even really know me ♪
♪ Something in you feels like myself ♪
- All right, now I wanna see
how some of these low light shots look here.
There's a lot of different colors and lights back that way,
so we should get some interesting details in the bokeh here.
So it definitely has cool characteristics for sure.
I've had this lens sitting around for seven, eight years now
and finally I'm getting around to testing it more heavily.
Oh, man, this is looking so good.
85 millimeter out in the city, you can't go wrong.
I also wanna see how this looks to something
a little bit more modern, like this.
This is the Sigma full frame 85 T 1.5 cine lens.
Now I think there's a few things
that are obviously different,
like the chromatic aberration is much much more intense
on the vintage lenses, you can see a lotta that
kinda purple fringing, especially off the headlights
on the Zeiss lenses.
Whenever you see purple around a light like that,
or off a reflection like off of Sam's glasses,
that's all chromatic aberration that you see.
But with much more technically correct lenses,
gets rid of a lot of that.
The shape of the bokeh, like on the Sigma, it's super clean
even if you stop down a little bit.
It's nice and round on the vintage Zeiss lenses,
but as soon as you stop down a little bit,
you see kinda those shapes appearing,
you kinda see the shape of those blades a bit.
Not necessarily a bad thing,
but just stylistically different.
Anyways, finally all done
with the police report and all that stuff,
got this for insurance,
and everything should be taken care of
in the next couple weeks.
And it definitely hasn't been fun
and always feels kinda personal.
I mean, obviously they just wanna steal a bike
and chop it up into little pieces,
or sell it to, I don't know what they're gonna do with it.
But anyways, hopefully you guys enjoyed this video
and I'm gonna read some comments to try to cheer myself up
a little bit.
So Pixar is working on the Pixar Comes to Life series
in which they bring characters from the movies to life
with the help of lookalike actors.
Maybe you should sign up for the guy from Up, of course.
I've had just one too many Up jokes in the comments.
Okay, I'm gonna get so ripped.
I actually realized how much chubbier I'm getting
when I started editing that kinda tribute video
for the bike, and I realized how much skinnier I was
just about a year ago.
But you just wait, soon enough, I'm gonna be so shredded.
And then that will be the last I have to hear of Up jokes.
And plus, I'm sad right now, okay?
I need some positive comments in my life.
Let's see what else.
I swear it wasn't this small, is the title of your sex tape.
(phone drops)
I mean come on, there's gotta be
at least one positive comment in here, right?
Random fact of the day, I was born in a taxi.
Oh, if that's true, that's kinda cool. (laughs)
Just curious, has anyone won one of these giveaways?
I never see announcements for them.
I'm actually really bad at announcing the winners,
but yeah every giveaway I've ever done,
we've contacted the winners and sent it to them
and sometimes they'll send us selfies of themselves
holding the prize and I'll throw it at the end of the video.
But all in all, I had a few people
just kinda like their privacy
and I don't really feature them.
But here's somebody that won an SSD hard drive!
(chill music)