- In this video
I talk about the Fine Brothers react controversy,
I talk about the Sony A6300,
and then I talk about shooting 4K
on the 1DX Mark II from Canon
and the Nikon D5.
Let's get into it.
Hey there, Caleb Wojcik of DIY Video Guy
and I'm in a new space.
Built these shelves.
A lot of these old cameras are actually from my dad
who used to be a photographer
and we're going to do some news.
This is something that I've been wanting to do for a while
on the channel where new cameras get announced
and new random YouTube controversy
over people trying to trademark words like react happen,
and I want to actually get in front of the camera
and record things quickly
and so what I've decided to do, at least for the time being,
is to set up a dedicated room
with my video stuff sitting there
and just be ready to film a little bit quicker videos
and put them out just for YouTube, nothin' crazy
in the production value wise
but because I actually get a lot of my news
from YouTube, from the people that I subscribe to.
I'm talking about Vox
or I get stuff from like Wired
and Verge for tech news,
things like, now I'm blanking,
other kinds of news...
(beep) Vice, Vice is the one I was thinking of.
Other kinds of news to actually stay in the loop
on the world tech, camera stuff, etcetera.
So, if you are really into cameras and video
and making videos for the web and for YouTube and stuff
I wanted to have a little bit more of a free flowing
kind of news segment, at least in this video,
and we'll see how it goes
and if I keep doin' stuff like this.
But, in this video
we're going to talk about three main things.
The whole Fine Brothers react controversy,
which I recorded a podcast episode where I talked about it
but just wanted to chime in on that a little bit here.
Also going to talk about how some of the pro level,
like the entry level pro DSLRs
like the Nikon D5
and the Canon 1DX Mark II are now shooting 4K video,
which I find to be interesting
in that five to six thousand dollar price range
and I see that then trickling down
into the 5D series,
the 70 and 80D series, who knows,
other Canon and Nikon entry-level DSLRs
will probably start shooting in 4K, is my prediction.
We'll talk about that a little bit.
And then also some news about Sony
and some of the cameras and lenses
that they're coming out with.
(computer voice)
Siri just thought I wanted to talk about 4K.
(beep) We're also going to talk about Sony a little bit
with their new A6300 and some of the lenses
that are coming out with that as well.
And, like I've said before, gear is an important piece
of making videos.
It's not everything but it tends to be what news
and other types of current videos
that are being made
people want to know about.
They want to know, okay if I'm gonna buy a camera
what's gonna come out soon and what should I do.
So, first I'm gonna touch briefly, very very briefly,
on the Fine Brothers react controversy
and then we'll move on into those cameras.
If you're on YouTube a lot
and you subscribe to a lot a YouTubers
you've probably heard about
this whole Fine Brothers controversy
where they trademarked reacting videos
and then wanted other people to make a bunch of react videos
that they were going to call
part of their React World Network and everything
and I had the pleasure of hanging out with some YouTubers
this past weekend
and it was interesting to hear people
that have been YouTubing for a while
give their opinion about what they thought
the Fine Brothers were even thinking doing this
and the whole controversy behind
how they've had other channels like take their videos down
and how they've been aggressive towards people
like Ellen and things like that.
And it was just interesting
for me to hear other YouTubers talk about how they feel
like they've, ya know, stood on the shoulders of giants
and they weren't the first ones to do
the kinds of videos that they do on YouTube let alone ever
and so to take a style of video
like the Fine Brothers had,
granted they made it very, very popular
with their different series of Kids React
and YouTubers React and Elders React and everything,
to take something that they didn't necessarily create
and then to say that they could trademark it
and then, ya know, have people partner with them
and send them money and what we talked about
was this video
that CGP Gray had made on his channel,
his actually his second channel, so CGP Gray Two,
is a parody video
about how he was going to trademark stick figures
and then you could make stick figure videos.
- [Voiceover] I just, like I draw stick figures
because I don't have a lot of artistic talent
and I figured other people without a lot of artistic talent
can also draw stick figures,
and like I wanna get in on that now.
So like, I own stick figures.
So, yeah, it's gonna be great.
I'm gonna help you make YouTube videos
by, where you, I help you,
listen, like you're just gonna pay me money
if you use stick figures, okay?
Like that's the way this is gonna work.
- He would get money from you and it would be a one-way
kind of interaction where you make stick figure videos
and he would get the money,
and I'm not really doing this video justice or anything,
but the fact that YouTube
is a very, very small community
actually for how big the numbers are,
subscribers and views and all that stuff.
there's probably a thousand to 2,000
channels with a million subscribers.
And if a group of them
don't like something
that another YouTubers is doing
based on maybe copying or stealing
or trademarking and doing crazy things with content ID
to block what other people are making.
Ya know, a lot a YouTubers came
to combat the Fine Brothers
and their decision and stuff like that.
And I think there were definitely copycat people
of okay, I'm gonna make a YouTube video
about the Fine Brothers because it's popular right now
and I want to get a lot of views
and new subscribers and stuff
but a lot of people were not happy with how that went down
and so I talked about this on my podcast as well,
episode 59 of the DIY Video Guy Podcast
and I would just recommend
that if you're ever going to make a big decision
with your business involving very legalese things
like trademarks and content ID on YouTube
to get some peer opinions
before making an announcement video
and even get peer opinions
on that specific announcement video
so you sound like actual human beings.
Next I wanna talk briefly about the Sony A6300,
the 6300, it's a new upgrade to their mirrorless camera
and it shoots 4K for a thousand dollars
and you get interchangeable lenses
with the Sony mount on there
and I just am continually surprised by Sony
and what they're able to put out
and specifically this push to 4K
and I think it's really making other companies out there,
like Canon and Nikon,
get 4K into their pro-sumer
and entry-level DSLRs and other cameras.
Now, I know Sony didn't start 4K or anything
but a lot of their recent cameras
and all the way up through the A7 series
into the FS5 and 7 are putting a lot of pressure
on Canon owners like myself
because of the 4K and the image quality
and being able to just use a Metabones adapter
to switch over to those cameras,
it's very, very tempting.
I have friends that are trying to bring me over
to the Sony side.
But I really do like my C100 Mark II,
sticking with it for now.
But I'm getting off track.
The A6300 is a pretty cool looking camera.
It's very, very small and then they announced
a new series of these G lenses,
so let's take a little bit closer look at the 6300 here.
You can see a thousand dollars on B and H there,
mirrorless body.
Look at that.
So, it doesn't have a screen that flips all the way back
like the RX100 Mark IV
but, ya know, it has a little bit of an articulating screen
and this is a pretty strong manufacturing
for a mirrorless camera
and the A6000 was a very, very popular camera
and then they came out with a bunch of G series lenses.
These lenses are a little bit more expensive
than your introductory lenses
but Sony's trying to compete with ZEISS glass
and with these G series lenses
to be super, super fast autofocus, low aperture,
and compete with, ya know, Canon and Nikon lenses
that have been around for a long time in the still world.
So, it's tough still to say
that you should go Canon right now
with a lot of the things that Sony's doing
camera and lens wise.
So be on the market for more information
about the 6300 as it becomes available
as well as I wanna get my hands on some Sony cameras
and test them out a little bit
so I can give you guys my opinion after using them
and not just hearsay and news and things like that.
And for this last group let's bring it in a little bit here.
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So in the last couple months
there's also been a couple announcements
from Canon and Nikon for their higher level
professional type grade cameras,
the Canon 1DX Mark II has been announced
as well as the Nikon D5
and specifically what's interesting to me about those
is they both have 4K video
and they're around, ya know, five six thousand US dollars
and they look decent.
I mean they're not gonna be 12 bit,
444, anything crazy quality wise in video
but right now we use 5D Mark IIIs from Canon
for our still needs
with my wife's wedding and portrait photography business
and so, ya know, maybe upgrading to 1DX Mark IIs
to do that type of work as well as it gives me the option
to start shooting 4K in the videos that I wanna do
so there's just a lot of options
between different camera manurfacturers
and the 4K footage is looking pretty good
with a lot of these cameras.
I know they take them to ideal environments
and they grade 'em and all that stuff
to make 'em look really good
but these cameras are starting to look really good.
Makes me wanna keep upgrading
and it makes me just want to get my hands on
and test 'em for you guys to give you a little bit of a look
at what it's like to actually use these cameras
versus, ya know, spec sheets and things like that.
So what do these pro level cameras getting 4K really mean
for the rest of us that maybe aren't shooting
with five, six thousand dollar cameras and, you know,
that are getting the entry-level ones
that are sub a hundred thousand dollars?
It means to me that 4K is coming to these DSLR cameras.
It's already prevalent on mirrorless cameras
from Panasonic, Sony, etcetera
but I do think that Canon and Nikon
can't go another year or two without putting 4K video
in their cameras.
So you'll see that
I would guess later this year in 2016
and that's kind of it for news right now.
Sony A6300, excited to get my hands on that
and try it out, little tiny 4K mirrorless camera
as well as if you're gonna do some sports photography
and you need a lot of frame rate bursting for photos
but you also wanna shoot video,
the Nikon D5 or the 1DX Mark II from Canon
are gonna be some pretty solid options
for doing both photo and video.
So, I'm excited to go get my hands on some of those.
I don't think I'm gonna go to WPPI this year in Vegas
but I will be at NAB in April in Vegas
to check out some of these cameras
and kinda see what it's like to use them.
So that wraps up this news episode right now, ya know.
Don't try to trademark words like react it's,
(irritated exhale)
what were they thinking?
What were they thinking?
I don't know.
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