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- It is another beautiful day here in Toronto.
The summer's just been super nice, like really nice.
Probably one of the best summers
weather-wise in a long time.
But at the same time, it's kinda nice when fall comes around
you get into normal routines and
rhythms and stuff like that.
Yeah, I like that too, it's kinda nice,
you know what, let me stop for a second.
Sometimes I kinda get this pressure of like,
I have to do something because it's so nice outside.
I have to go outside, and then after a while,
that pressure starts getting annoying.
Like I just want to sit at home and watch a movie,
or something like that.
But I have this pressure of like,
no it's summer, I gotta go outside.
So, again, it's kinda nice that fall is coming.
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Speaking of summer ending, I decided to just to sale on
all of my presets, courses, everything.
A back to school sale because,
a lot of you are going back to school.
And yeah, sales are always fun.
So, all my stuff is on sale right now.
Check out the links down below for the presets
and the courses and all that.
But enough chit chat, let's go the real reason
why you probably clicked on this video (laughs).
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All right guys, I bought a new camera.
And it's been a really long time
since I've bought a new camera.
I bought a new camera, it's this one that I've been
actually filming this whole time with.
The Sony a7 III. (swanky music)
Yeah, I ended up buying a new camera.
I'm still not, I'm not switching
everything over to this camera yet,
and let's talk about the reasons why I did buy this camera,
and the things that were kinda keeping me from buying it.
Yeah, this is kind of like the real world test number two,
where I'm actually gonna film a couple more videos
using this camera, the Sony a7 III.
And, uh, see how it goes, because that's when you end
up finding one of the little, little quirks,
little things that start annoying you
and the things that you really like
about using it on a daily basis.
Funny enough, I couldn't get this camera anywhere.
I tried so hard to get it.
I asked the camera stores here in Toronto,
and none of them could like get me kind of ahead in line
because they're all just back ordered.
I asked Sony, Sony couldn't get me one.
Nobody could get me one.
I literally had to go on the internet, scour the internet,
and find one on Kijiji, it's like a CraigsList,
a place where you buy and sell stuff.
I found a guy, I think his name was Andrew,
was his name Andrew? I don't know, anyways.
Really nice guy, and he sold me this Sony a7 III,
so now I have it, and I can try it out some more.
For those of you who've been watching my videos,
I actually tested it out it Maui,
I had this camera for a week.
So I got to test it out a little bit when it first came out.
And I was really impressed with it,
but there were some things that
kind of scared me at the same time.
Scared me from switching away from my Canon cameras
that I've been using up until this point here on YouTube.
But I'm the type of person that
wants to always push the limits.
I want to be making the best videos possible
that I can make with the resources that I have.
And part of this is sometimes buying new gear.
And for me, there's a few things that I really get
annoyed about the Canon cameras,
especially their dynamic range.
That was one of the big, big things.
And this guy has a lot better dynamic range.
Even right now we should have
a lot better exposure of the background and me.
Everything should be pretty much exposed.
Nothing should be crazy over exposed.
So, I want to see if the Sony a7 III is
gonna make for better videos on my channel.
First of all I can film more 4K stuff,
and the dynam- all that stuff, yeah I want to see.
Is this gonna make my videos any better?
But the big question I think is why is this camera,
this specific camera so popular right now?
Why is it sold out everywhere?
Why is it on back order?
Like it's been on back order for like months now I feel like
It's been a really long time, and still,
you can't get your hands on this.
You can't just go to the store and buy it right now.
So here are my thoughts why I think this camera
is probably the hottest camera of the year,
by probably a long shot even.
And first off, I would say it's the price.
I think the price range is in that perfect sweet spot
where, it's not crazy expensive, and it's not crazy cheap.
It's somewhere between.
It's a couple thousand dollars,
so it's kind of in a sweet spot.
Most people can, over time, save up that amount of money
and buy a camera like this, and not feel horrible
that they spent the amount of a decent car on a camera.
It's probably the best bang for buck camera right now.
Another reason I would say, 4K I mean,
pretty much everything has 4K nowadays.
But a lot of the Canon cameras
really do 4K very well at least.
So this camera has 4K, dynamic range, I already mentioned.
That's a really big one for me.
This one, I think, is like 13, 14 stops dynamic range,
whereas the Canons are probably only like 10 stops,
which is like way worse.
It doesn't sound like a big difference,
but it's a big difference in the amount of,
if you don't know what dynamic range is,
first of all you can look it up right now.
But basically the difference between the brightest areas
and the darkest areas, it can capture a bigger amount
in that, I'm explaining this really badly.
Okay, if you're filming a window inside your home,
the window usually blows out.
The more dynamic range you have,
the better chances you have of keeping the exposure inside,
and the window, it might actually even be exposed
if you have a ton of dynamic range.
I don't know if that was any better, anyways, look it up.
Next we have the low light.
We all know that Sony cameras
are really capable in low light.
And this camera is no exception,
I would say it's right up there with the Sony a7S II,
maybe even better in some ways.
Like it's interesting, I've seen a lot of the comparisons,
and it does like insanely well in low light.
And I remember when the Sony a7S,
you had the first when a7S came out,
and I saw this video a guy filmed in just moonlight.
Just using moonlight, he filmed this whole video
and it was super cool and weird trippy looking,
because you'd never seen a video just lit by the moon.
So it was really cool to see.
This camera, huge low light beast,
probably one of the best out there.
And then I think actually one of the biggest
is the fact that it does 120 frames per second
without a crop, it's full frame, it's the whole thing.
So it's a really good slow motion camera, too.
And with the rise of YouTube and people like Peter Mckinnon,
120 frames per second is a really popular thing.
And it's not quite the same as something like the 1DX II.
It's not quite as good, but it's really high quality.
And it's something that a lot of people are wanting
right now, that nice 120 frames per second for that
cinematic B roll and all that good stuff.
So lots of really great things about this camera,
but there were some things that kinda
put me off or kinda scared me.
And first of all, it was the LCD screen.
I wish it just had a flip LCD screen.
If it had a flip LCD, I would be so happy,
this camera would be insanely good.
But, not being able to see if I'm in focus right now,
that hurts, I'm not sure if I can
fully trust this auto focus yet.
So, yeah, I would really like to be able to see myself.
Speaking of auto focus, that's one thing
that a lot of people like about this camera.
But coming from Canon, it's a downgrade in auto focus.
So that was one of the biggest things that kinda scared me,
not having a flip LCD screen,
and then the auto focus not being as good as Canon.
So can I trust this camera?
Am I in focus right now?
I don't know, I'm gonna have to go back and see
if this is in focus or not.
And then, B, the color science,
the color science in the Sonys isn't quite as good as Canons
in the sense that Canon is kind of a nice looking,
right out of the camera.
Whereas Sony takes a lot more work.
Especially since I'm filming in S-Log2,
so it's a really long flat profile,
there's gonna be a lot of color grading.
How much work is that gonna be get it to a good place
where the colors are really nice?
And can I get them to the same place?
That's a big question that I'm gonna have to answer.
But all that to say, I'm gonna give this camera a real shot.
I'm gonna be filming the next couple of videos,
probably just using this camera.
I'm gonna try my best, and we're gonna see what happens.
We're gonna see are my videos better quality?
Is it nicer having them in 4K,
the dynamic range, all of that stuff?
Or is it gonna be a downgrade?
Let's see, we're gonna find out.
A little experiment here on the channel.
So yeah, that's my new camera update.
And if you're curious about what lens I'm using,
its the 16-35 f/2.8 Sony lens.
That's kinda my go to lens for all things YouTube.
It just, it's a really nice range. I really like it.
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All right, so that's my new camera update,
and actually I've been thinking about trying to
kind of fix this no flip LCD screen issue thing.
And like, building a little bit of a cage with a monitor,
I want to get the smallest monitor I can possibly find,
put it front facing so I can see what I'm filming,
and maybe that would fix this whole no flip LCD screen thing
I don't know. I think it'd be an
interesting thing to try out.
If you guys are interested in that,
comment down below and maybe I'll get to that.
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I thought while I still have you guys,
I could give you guys a little bit of a tour of the office.
We've moved around some things,
and there's some new little additions, let me show you.
First of all, we decided to move things around a little bit.
If you guys, those of you who have seen the office before,
the desks used to be kinda right here side by side.
And now we've moved them to either side.
This works way better, and that means we can still ride
our one wheels around, you know.
Cuz you gotta make space for one wheel riding in your office
Also, very important, I got some plants.
This one's really cool. I don't know what this one's called.
But I really like this plant.
I like how like clean and nice it is.
Big fan of this plant.
I also got some smaller ones here.
I definitely want a lot more plants,
but I also need to be a little bit better at watering them,
for those of you who say my, way back,
when I had my home studio, I had a cactus at one point.
And one day, I just came in and it was just like (sad droop)
I didn't even know cactuses could die like that,
I thought they just last forever without water.
So, so yeah, this is kind of the office set up right now.
There's still work to be done.
We still need to get stuff on the wall.
We got the little Dope Squad sign up there,
it's not on right now, but, we still have some work to do.
Secret project will be here, uh, yeah.
More to come on that.
Uh, coffee table, we still need.
We got our couches in here, that was a big pain,
you guys remember that.
But overall, I like the way that
this office is coming together.
And yeah, it's just really nice
to have a space to work out of. I like it.
So yeah, that's the new little office tour.
Well it's not new, but, modified office tour.
Yeah, I'm gonna check out this footage now.
I'm really curious to see if it's holding up,
cuz this is the first video that I've made since the Maui
one on this camera. Let's see how it goes.
But first, just a little bit more riding,
just a little, little, little bit.
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I've gotten a little bit better on this thing.
And then of course I lose my balance.