- What's going on guys,
today we're gonna try something slightly different,
and make a short little video.
The videos I usually make
that are about like 10 minutes and 4 seconds long,
did a lot of time to make, and this week,
work's been really crazy, I gotta go to Florida tomorrow?
I'm gonna be in Melbourne,
where a lot of space stuff happens,
and I wanna take you guys along!
But a lot of that stuff is classified,
and I'm just not allowed to show
any sort of behind the scenes footage;
I'm not even allowed to take pictures with my phone.
So times like this, I just wanna be able to sprinkle in,
little videos, here and there.
So here's something real simple we can talk about,
and I chose a perfect background, because I'm wearing black,
the background's black, and this thing is black,
so we just all look like a chameleon over here.
I have no idea why I tried a unique background today,
let's go back to normal.
Now this here is a Lens Mount adapter,
but what's nice about it is that
it has a variable ND filter built in, check that out!
And this one's all brand new from Canon,
and it's built for their RF line-up so
so far the EOS, or the EOS RP.
And surely many more cameras to come
with Canon's RF Lens Mount.
Most of us probably already know what an ND Filter is for.
Basically to darken down the image
so you can open up that aperture,
get a nice shallow depth of field,
even if you're in a really bright place.
If you want the deep dive on ND filters and polarizer
then I got a video just for that.
Most of us are familiar with these.
And these kinda thread on,
on top of your lens,
but basically every time you switch out lenses,
you have to make sure that you have the right thread size
for it.
A lot of times if you have lens hoods like this,
it won't fit on after you put on your filter
and also your thread diameter changes,
so a lot of times you need a different size lens cap.
You can't just use the same lens cap.
Oh actually that ... that.
That actually kind of works.
So never mind.
Another thing is,
the more layers of glass you have in front of your lens,
the more likely you're gonna be able to see it.
It's kind of like if you're in your car
and you just shoot through the window.
A lot of times,
if your window is clean enough,
you're fine.
But sometimes you lose a little bit
of that super sharp contrast.
And also you're more likely to see this
if this is getting hit directly by light.
So by throwing this on here and losing this,
I notice a little bit more glare that
I typically don't like.
So the beauty of having the ND filter behind the lens
is that it basically fixes both those problems.
Some cameras, like the Arri Alexa mini or C300 Mark II,
they have these filters that slide in
right in front of the sensor.
And on cinema cameras like the Red
that don't have a build in ND filter,
then you have to slide it into this matte box.
You have to have your different densities of ND filters
and you gotta load it into your tray,
and then you can load it into your matte box.
And what's nice about a matte box is
that you can keep the glass covered in a shade
so depending on your focal length,
you wanna just try to keep as much light off
that ND filter as possible.
A single ND filter is gonna be better
but again you don't wanna carry around a bunch of these,
right?
So variables,
super convenient,
but they are two layers of glass in here.
I believe it's a circular polarizer
and a linear polarizer or something like that.
I'm not 100% sure.
But you rotate one of them
and it gets the whole image darker.
The downside of that is that a lot of times
I see a little bit of a color shift
and also a little bit of vignetting can happen.
I was really on the fence of getting this adapter
because it was like 400 bucks,
which is really expensive.
I had to pay full price for it by the way.
And this was a pretty decent quality one from Tiffen
and it's like 80 bucks.
So it is a whole lot more money than getting
a couple of these,
but it's actually kind of nice.
First of all,
to adjust the variable ND filter,
it's just this little tiny knob right here.
And the throw is very short
so you can literally go from the darkest setting
to the brightest very very easily.
So if I'm vlogging like this,
which I do pretty often.
I have my thumb right here so I could pretty quickly
adjust the brightness, which is real cool.
I like how it also stops at the top and bottom.
So if I just go like that, it's at the top.
I know it's at the darkest setting.
And if I just go like that,
then that means it's the lightest.
Opposed to these,
where a lot of times they have these markers on the side
but it's kinda hard to use.
You're like, where's the ...
okay this is the brightest,
the darkest.
A lot of us just end up just turning it until it changes.
But before I keep talking,
let me just take this out real quick.
Should we go to the mountain biking shop
that's down the street?
I go hiking a lot and every single time I go hiking,
I see a mountain biker zoom past me.
I'm like,
that looks way more fun than what I'm doing.
But they're kind of expensive from what I heard,
but hey,
it doesn't hurt to just go to the shop real quick
and take a peek right?
Outside exposure.
To inside exposure.
Look at that, just with one hand.
With one hand.
- Look mom! No hands!
- We're on our way to look at a mountain bike.
Not buy.
- Just like you go to the shelter to "just look at dogs".
(gravel crunching)
- Yeah!
Oh God I'm so tired!
We went in the shop and the price tag
for some of these bikes were insane.
There was some that were $8,000,
like the electric ones.
We were like, holy crap!
We were just like, give us like,
your most basic one.
Maybe one day we'll get one of those electric ones
cause I'm tired.
Oh God, that was fun though.
I almost ate it pretty bad,
but I didn't.
I'm alive.
I guess that's the only down side of this ND filter.
So this is as low as this ND filter goes.
And when I take it out it's actually not a huge difference,
so it's not like you always have to take it out
when it gets dark.
But definitely when you want the best low light possible,
like right now I'm all the way up at 12,800 ISO.
So I definitely wanna pull this out,
but yeah the only thing is
there's like a big opening on the side of the camera now.
And they also have like a clear filter
when you don't need an ND filter,
which you can get.
Yeah, I wish there was like,
a little storage container that I can just like,
throw this in safely.
And just cover the side of camera
because right now there's actually an opening between
the lens and the camera itself.
So I'm gonna slide this back in.
But overall, I'm actually really liking this ND filter.
Like, look at this is dark.
And it's bright.
And I can just do it all with one hand.
How cool is that?
Anyways,
we just took this whole trail to come all the way
down here and now we gotta peddle all of the way up it,
so.
Wish us luck.
How are you biking up this hill?
I have no idea how Kari's doing this.
It's dark,
I'm tired,
I have an ND filter in here
when I don't want it to be in there.
I don't know how people peddle up entire mountains
and stuff.
This is crazy.
I should've bought that $8,000 one with an electric motor,
then I would be able to keep up.
Anyways now that I just bought a mountain bike,
I just,
of course I find out that Onewheel
just announced the new Onewheel.
And I've always wanted one but they're so expensive,
but there's new ones under 1000 bucks
and oh I just bought a mountain bike.
Guys, I'm so bad at resisting temptation.
But overall this lens filter is definitely pretty sweet
because I didn't I didn't really see any vignetting.
And I didn't really see colors shift until
just that very very top.
But unless you're filming, like, the sun,
you're probably never gonna get to that point.
Let's say you're filming,
it gets dark and you need to pull out your ND filter.
First of all,
this kit didn't really come with any sort of container
to keep just this alone in.
Like maybe in the case,
they could've put a little sleeve
to just slide this into possibly.
And obviously you're not gonna just wanna leave this open.
You don't want a bunch of dust to fly in there.
And of course,
light can leak in there and splash on to your sensor.
So, obviously not a great solution
to just leave that exposed.
It would have been really cool if they had
some sort of cover that flips up,
where like a little slide-y door
or something that you can just close up.
But as of right now,
if you want to remove this ND filter,
you take this out.
Don't know where I'm supposed to put it,
but then they sell these clear ones
that you could slide in here.
Maybe the clear one comes with like a little pocket,
or case that you can store this in safely.
I don't know.
If anyone's bought one, let me know in the comments.
There's also gel holders and circular polarizer
that you can slide in here.
Anyways,
I gotta get packing.
Got a few videos queued up for you.
So, cool things coming.
See ya later.
(smooth electronic music)