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Definitely gear addiction can be a problem. I think that was the message of Flat Earth Santa. I pray you reduce your stress - and your skin will look better as it used to.
Α phone is ideal for your vlogs and black and white drama sketches. You are only using nature to justify the purchases. You don't really care how the out of focus birds feel.
As a musician, gear acquisition syndrome was a problem. I healed myself from it by finding contentment with the gear I had . Cameras (& lenses) are the same. I still hunt like Panasonic focus, looking everywhere at stuff I don't need.
I foolishly got into buying guitars for a few years, and suddenly had 12 of them after living with 3 for almost 20 years. I decided it would be better to buy pedals. As it turns out, I don't have enough feet to tap 25 different pedals. On the camera side, I've decided that I can live with my last camera purchase, but lenses are still my weakness.
I know the pain of gear addiction. As I look at my 20+ vintage Soviet lenses on the shelf that I had specifically made for them, I can only think of what lens I am going to buy next. It never ends.
No, mate. Lenses are never a part of GAS. You buy lenses and keep it for life, if it's good, it's not like cameras where new ones come out and they get old. Lenses are immortal. Unless you break them.
This tragedy will never happen to me. I’m perfectly happy with my G7, G9, X-T1, X-T2, X-T3, and the few others. I never look on Amazon warehouse and I didn’t remove the badly scratched Ricoh Thetis from my basket in an outworldish masterpiece of strength. Why should I scroll through used offers for reds and arris? Just to know I can’t afford? Even if I would consider the X-H2, why should I check the prices for the Blackmagic 4K? Just to get a new body for my mft cinema lenses? Certainly not. That would be madness. But on the other hand, wouldn’t the 4K not deliver the cinematic footage of my DJI mini crashing into a tree? Or would canon be the one for that? Do I need full frame to get the slowmotion shot of the propellers splinter away or shall I go for super 35? Of course, I never ask myself any of that. Nor would I know about the cashback Panasonic offers for the SH1. No, I’m sober. I really pity all of you gear junkies here.
I'm selling all my expensive Sony stuff pretty soon and going back to the GH5S. I bet if you used a G9 or G85 again, it would look great, it's lighter, and your content would just be as good. 😄 The full frame background blur thing is fun until you realise the camera is full of other compromises. Sell the A7SIII and get 7 or 8 G85's 🤣
@@robingossman3385 Its lightweight, the lenses are cheap and small so it's perfect for travel work. The image quality holds up against any of my full fame cameras even when in low light situations (to a point). The dual media card slots, unlimited recording, color science, and more. It's the user experience. The Sony cameras are boring to use. They have great autofocus but the GH5s has DCI-4K, Video tools and a much better user experience.
Thanks for the reply. I do own a Gh5s, but I honestly needed someone to tell me why I should be grateful and stop fixating on all these fujis, Sony's and Canon, when I have what I need.
@@intheblues I loved my G85 when I had it a few years back but be serious, M4/3 sensors are woeful in low light. The crazy stabilisation does pretty much negate that issue though.
"All I HAVE is the perfect camera. All I HAVE is the perfect cameraaaaa....". Nah, it just doesn't have the same ring to it. Keep doing what you're doing :)
You can be forgiven for your GAS, because you actually create something valuable with all this gear. Majority of addicts are just for the gear on this path.
Thank God I am at the end of the tunnel 😅 After restless years of buy/sell/buy gear, I found peace with a Pana S5, 16-35 f4 and 50 1.8... I am buy-gear-free since october 🤣
Ive spent Sooo much on so many camera's and lenses trying to get that pro level cinematic look. I finally got fed up and purchased a used ARRI Alexa Classic. The search is over. the 2k Prores 4444 footage looks WAY WAY Better than any 4k, 8k camera Ive ever owned. throw the stupid specs out the window! when it comes to the narrative movie look, Arri is King. it just looks and feels better. i picked up the whole package for 5k. however it is a HUGE TANK.
It's called Idealist. You have a target in your mind for a specific field. But you can't reach it, no matter how much research and test you do or how many expensive tools, equipment you buy. Because your ideals are at higher level than what the reality can provide to you, there is always something missing and you never get the sadisfaction of reaching your goal. But you never give up either. This is very different than addiction. Addict is mindlessly bound to something, repeatedly does it, because it feels good, or ok. Idealist is a pursuit of perfection, an often unreal goal beyond what realism can provide you. But you are still locked in a research loop. But it's also a sign sometimes, that idealism is pursued because you don't find this life enjoyable to live, so you hide the fact with some other goal to keep yourself busy. Maybe you will never be happy, never able to reach your goal. But a lot of other people have lesser goals and with the amount of information you share with people, from your researches, helps many many people taking the right decision. So perhaps you won't reach your goals, but a lot of people become happier with the information you share with them. Perhaps that's something to be happy about.
What we need is to form an open-source Camera community and produce our own cameras, software, lenses etc. And everyone credible, part of the system will share the earnings. Then we can at least "create" what we want, instead of waiting for it. And the competition will have to step up their game. This would be a very big serious project however.
In your case, the gear acquisition syndrome is perfectly ok, since you have a camera channel and live off it, so to speak! It's only bad for the losers who constantly buy new stuff and don't live off it. I'm still waiting for your review of the GH6!
I suppose I am a loser too and people do think it and the post did not give any hint of irony. But then I enjoy using different cameras and spend less per year than on a premiership football season ticket or a golf hobby. I am an end of range scavenger so have not lost vast amounts keeping an eye on the market and knowing a bargain. I remember being criticised for having a new camera from someone who had a stable of horses for fun so we do choose our extravagances but like to think of other indulgences as being for losers. At least when I comment on cameras I have used a gamut of them whilst people, especially those who have only ever heard or buy of Canon, are restricted in their hobby and ability to comment on kit in general. Especially with Canon given their lacklustre commitment to mirrorless aps-c and poor results from their 1/2.3" sensors in compacts. I have settled down to m43 now though and it seems sufficient for any hobbyist and the current attempt to make us all buy a resurrection of the 35mm film frame in mirrorless still with the massive lenses and high cost in the digital world a bit desperate to say the least. Now my funds are limited I use new Olympus bodies with their 2.5 year warranty and second hand Panasonic lenses and this extra optionality sure cuts costs and with massive secondhand availability. I actually sold my last Fuji as stabilisation is never going to be cheap and actually have not bought any new kit and am investing it in the Winter fuel bill. I was tempted to buy a 1" Panasonic compact but it will only fill up with dust if not already full like my last purchase and the GX880 is pretty small. I enjoyed my gearhead days and cannot say I really regret things.
You've found the secret: get closer! You'll always get better footage the closer you can get to your subjects. The addiction is real. It killed me to cancel my R7 pre-order because I needed to buy a car. And I already have an R6 and R5. I guess I'll get over it. No, I won't. I'll keep lusting for one until I get it. A couple of observations: the two blackbirds early in the video were likely a fully-fledged subadult still begging its mother for food. Baby birds will beg as long as their parents will still feed them. Just like adult children. The black and white bird is an Eastern Kingbird, North America's largest flycatcher. And yes, you have shot it before, pretty recently as I recall.
Take one shoulders-up portrait with a 14mm lens and you realise getting closer is one of the most stupid "secrets" in photography. Getting low at least works with most things. Sorry if this comment is too aggressive, I'm tired
Sold most of my stuff a couple of months ago. All I have right now ist a X-T3 with a 35mm F2 and a x100t. Cured from GAS, it's so liberating. Just enjoying photography and more money left for Travelling 🤷🏽♂️
Love your content. I keep laughingso hard, it's like watching gear review/comedy rant. I still remember watching your videos with x3000 back in 2018 ish. Good to see you grow your channel to >120k subs. Good job mate!
Master photographer Master philosopher…I am not buying gear, but I am addicted to your channel, because of the excellent sarcasm….I took so many great pics with my old kodaken wonderzoomblitz 35 mm…Hasselblad from my dad, could not afford the film…have canon dslr, 12 years old, so many great memories, because I always had it with me, not afraid I might break or lose it. Yeah, Z9 buyers, can you afford to lose it?
It's not the cameras, it is your body. When you are young you have more connective tissue and nicer cartilage so the footage looks smoother and stable when walking.
The dopamine hit comes from the hunt, not the actual item! We need to findways to get that hit from others things……the net and UA-cam has just exacerbated this as we all research gear. I can pretty much do all i need with any one of the cameras I’ve owned. Hey ho….maybe the price of Gas and Electricity will force my cure!
I was on Prozac for a short time and the desire to buy gadgets just disappeared so the hit is very true of serotonin. At that time it was symbolic calculators but the never ending search for that elusive mirrorless camera that was not irritating in so many respects took over. I am sure these manufacturers knew what a lucrative weapon that cripple hammer is and wielded it with great skill and dexterity. Olympus bringing out their mirrorless stripped of all controls and a viewfinder was the opening shot in a long line of bodies need to be endlessly relaced for just a bit more but never enough. Now that the emphasis is piling on the esoteric video gubbins, understood only by bloggers in the main, what is left of us non phone, press the red button for video, still photographers really have little need to change stuff which is a relief in some ways.
Still lovin' your channel. Down to earth no BS entertaining critiques. Love your stories (back/board room shenanigans of the Camera manufacturers are my favorites.) The struggles of little insects being relentlessly hunted by ravenous Woodpeckers are good too. Not to mention the officious Canada Goose. Lots of comic book material here. Your acknowledgements to Markus P and others are really well placed. MP in particular is another very generous and down to earth soul. On gear, I have 2 G9's. Love them and cost way less than one Sony A7 iii. I'm thinking of satisfying my gear urge by getting the new 9 mm Pana Leica. Far cheaper than useful than upgrading a camera body. Thanks again for your great content.
This channel always puts a smile on my face, one of the best UA-cam camera channels out there. Real talk now If we achieve contentment with the camera gear we currently own, we won't end up buying a camera every 5 minutes. I hate videos that say 10 reasons to buy sony A7S iii or any other camera, and next minute 10 reasons 1 month later not to buy it. Its difficult because as a content creator they have to provide info on the newest and latest gear, but at the same time not sucome to buying new gear every second its not easy. Plus youtube content creators can add to addiction but no one is perfect but keep up the good work your a very funny guy.
For the 240 fps shots, use Topaz VEAI and play around with the settings. It does great things on my A7S III 240 fps, not perfect but better than the out of camera shots. I have before and after footage using it on my page. It can take a while to process depending on your computer specs, but it's worth it.
So much photography-related comedic enjoyment oozing from your videos, especially this one. I laughed out loud a few times like when you were voicing each bird’s inner monologue. I think the “whaaaaat?!” expression from the goose would make a nice gif. I watch camera reviews all the time (most-recently the Fujifilm x-e4). Deep down I know I should just stick with my Sony a68 with a non-functioning back lcd because I have all these lenses and filters I like to use with it. I can’t give those up. If you need someone to take that Fujifilm X-H2S off your hands though . . .
Also the "Redwing Blackbird Female" at 7:42 is the best thing you have ever done. I agree it is fantastic.You've said this is the best thing you will ever do. SELL everything. You have done your best work you say, so move on. This is it you've done it all. It's time for you to take up lawn bowls or basket weaving. Seriously I'm a friend... walk away. LOL 😂😂😂
Six years in and he's almost got there. Stay strong it's coming soon. I predict a title very shortly when the penny finally drops: 'It's all about the light'. Get out at sunrise on a day with just a few light clouds and you will get all the 3-D pop you've been dreaming about.
I wanted a better camera to film all my hobbies...Now I don't have money for my hobbies... Btw you should definitely upload that swan clip alone and it will go viral
The better path is to work on skills and learning to squeeze the most out of what you have. Having said that, I might have the worst case of GAS ever known to man. We need 12 step program.
I enjoy your videos a great deal. Despite your latest reviews of the H2s I just got one (I was a Canon guy for many years, but switched to Fuji a few years ago). After a few hours I am pleased with it and being an owner of an X-100S & V, XE1, XT-2 and 3…I am not missing the dials. So far I am able to program the dial/buttons in the H2s to my needs. For sure the dials are great, but so far not having them is not a deal breaker. I really enjoy the IBIS, finally I can use my Fuji 16-55 2.8 lens without getting blurry shots in lower lights. I tested this lens in my H2s, as low as 1/13 of a second and I am very happy with the results. As you say, there is no perfect camera, otherwise this Chanel will cease to exist. Time will tell about the H2s, really not able to say for sure if I will keep it, but for now I will. Thank you for your videos. They are informative and you keep viewers attention (at least me) by inserting humor and keeping it light. Thank you
I've been through 4 or 5 camera bodies and about 20 lenses. Right now with the canon R7 and the rf100-400mm, the rf100mm macro and the rf18-150mm lens I'm getting 24mm out to 640mm field of view with that 1.6x crop sensor and all of it in my bag weighs less than 10 pounds! It's also the least expensive and most fully featured kit I've ever carried lol! I'm selling off a lot of my extra stuff. Thank you Canon!
Oh the 🎥 cinema!! Nice f rw b bird Casey! Another brilliant idea from. (Your welcome!) A oh the cinema t-shirt! I'll take a cut :) have a great weekend man
That monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey floating behind your left ear totally works. You are not bald. We have similar hair styles. After a brief argument with the passport office we agreed I was neither bald, nor of brown hair, but “shaved”. Power to the follicle challenged ✊.
Kasey, I know exactly what you're going through. I have GAS...badly. I have the GH5, S1H, A7S3, A74, Canon R5, XT4 and now a GH6. Do I use them all? Yes, but nowhere as much as if I only had one or two bodies. I have been planning on consolidating to two systems, but they all have advantages and disadvantages. I am primarily a filmmaker and while the S1H/GH5 gets most of the usage in that area, I wanted something with vastly better AF for times when I am filming alone. I love manually focusing though. I went on this journey to create and now I am always watching and see what others are doing...that I have to stop. Anyway, if you ever want to trade, let me know.
@thailander The GH5 isn't great in low light. I use the 25 1.4 II ASPH, 10-25 1.7 and Sigma 18-35 with speedbooster on the GH5/GH6. I highly recommend the GH5S if you are mainly doing video in low light.
"it always looks muddy, like a swamp. Even though it is a swamp..." See, Sony reptilians even has swamp detect now. Can Canon do that?! Didn't think so!
Ya see, that's why my consistant acquisitions are always older and dirt cheap :3 Except for my A7siii, though I got a stonkin' good deal on that which was paid for via vintage film cameras so, really, it was free. Ish...
Wow if you only new how TRUE you are I am at the top of this addiction, I am so glad you are talking about this I have so much Greer and hardly ever use it, like z9 and A1 with all the lens ! And of course Canon looking good with the Rf 85mm 1.2 ps grow your dam hair back love you
I'm grateful for there are other real UA-camr that use other brands and realise Sony Yellowish Green. Hate that, stay because of the spec but definitely missed the Canon superior colour science Anyone who disagree have never use other brands
Yeah, your video dropped just as I was opening up McBain's website to look at lenses. I think gear addiction is one part dopamine dragon chasing and another part experience dragon chasing. I love learning new gear so much, even when the long term prospects are limited by said gear's long term limitations. I should have just been a womanizer. It would have been cheaper even if you can't sell them when you are done with them.
Holy crap dude .. you're speaking to my inner demons. How? Let's talk about the time my girlfriend gifted me a 20G aquarium and a book about aquascaping, secretly she knew I think. A year later I had 15 aquariums from 5G to 75G in a bachelor apartment?! It took me five days to move everything from there into a 1 bedroom so I could live in a place that wasn't 85% humidity in the winter. Clearest my pores have ever been mind you, but still.
@@tompotter8748 DO NOT read any books by Takashi Amano if you have an aquarium store nearby or any history of obsessive/impulsive buying behaviour. You've been warned. My flat was pretty and I slept really well thanks to the water sounds ... so not all bad. ;)
I have the A7siii and a BMPCC 6K Pro. Two worlds I sit in. One arse check on either chair, the cushions differ (the Blackmagic’s is less comfortable than the Sony’s) so one cheek sits more comfortably but grows lazy and flabbier while the other works overtime but is more contented and has found greater meaning and satisfaction, either way both are often empty vessels for a load of shit.
😮NOOOOooooo I feel I am about to have an intervention perpetrated on me. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME! I HAVE NEEDS!!! OK I am glad I explained myself. I will now take the video of pause knowing that I know, you know that what you are about say DOES NOT APPLY TO ME.... because I"m special and different!!! 🤣😂🤣
I don’t have a problem my first two cameras was me finding myself T7i and A6100 I choose canon and from there I went to the EOS R and now I’m working on my final piece the R6
Lol so true, I am using Facebook exclusively for marketplace, now I started with adapted lenses, I have 4x 35mm plus lots of other stuff and everytime I sell something I am hurting. It is the hunt for the bargain indeed my friend
Love from Indonesia ! 🇮🇩 at the begining when i see your videos i don’t get the jokes. .. but nowadays … your awkwardness is entertaining hahaha comeover to Bali, Indonesia
Just remember bud lots of people think you are awesome and we love you. I mean I saw you got a buzz cut....I usually do this when im feeling down. Lets hang out :P
Lens won't create the 3d pop, see your duck is well framed and on a plane. The trees in background create a "wall" ending the depth, the branch at the front with the lighter green creates the shallow foreground and the water is the ground that goes up and to the right (lighting, colouring shades lead the eye), creating that depth. The duck has lighting that adds to that effect. Think of it like video game 3d modelling, you've probably seen a screenshot of character model inside an editor. You can recreate at home using... a box... no one is reading this...
Definitely, the GAS is real, for camera users. However, there are some ways to tackle it, or to manage it. First, you need to just find a good combination of body+lenses that fit at least 80% what you want and need to do, and that you enjoy using. Then, it depends. You either quit your GAS additiction, like you would quit smoking. Or you get a Gear Renting Syndrome instead, which is cheaper, and can help you relieve some of the GAS pain after using some rented gear. Or... you can develop Gear Trading Syndrome (basically a hybrid between GAS and GRS presented above), where you cotinuously buy and sell gear, so you don't end up amassing 10 bodies and 30 lenses, but you change some of them. In the best scenario, you understand that new gear is a ton of marketing, and except for some uses and some particular products, they won't bring you a game-changing experience in any way, compared with what you are using now (unless you use only 10+ year old gear). And you invest in courses, lighting gear, car, travel etc., that will really help you up your game and get great photos, while also making you enjoy it. Also, I enjoy your intro music, hope you will publish a full-version song out of it someday. And like your new intro, featuring a more visible Thor's Canon cripple hammer.
I'm about to buy an X-H1 because I'm afraid for my X-T1's dear life. That model is rarer and rarer to find on the second-hand market and mine has been traveling with me for 3 years. I just want to protect it, man 😢
I'm really lucky, I'm poor. I have an A6400 and kit (sh*t) lens, so I have to live with that. I drool over cameras every day but this is my reality. It turns out you can take some amazing photos with it, who knew!
The fact you do comedy in your content makes the likelihood of staying relevant very high. I can see in the next 4yrs channels dyeing off if they don't integrate a secondary aspect. Prosumer cameras have reached there peak. Real new additions would put them out of affordability. I can see the addition of Ai being a big market shift.
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Definitely gear addiction can be a problem. I think that was the message of Flat Earth Santa. I pray you reduce your stress - and your skin will look better as it used to.
Buy the Sony A1... I'm going to keep bugging you about it until you do it. . . . DO IT.
The shaved hair looks awesome on you my friend. And thank you for your conspiring videos, which are always inspiring!
Α phone is ideal for your vlogs and black and white drama sketches. You are only using nature to justify the purchases. You don't really care how the out of focus birds feel.
As a musician, gear acquisition syndrome was a problem. I healed myself from it by finding contentment with the gear I had . Cameras (& lenses) are the same. I still hunt like Panasonic focus, looking everywhere at stuff I don't need.
"I still hunt like Panasonic focus" 😂
i dug out my old k2000 and had a blast creating sounds and playing
I foolishly got into buying guitars for a few years, and suddenly had 12 of them after living with 3 for almost 20 years. I decided it would be better to buy pedals. As it turns out, I don't have enough feet to tap 25 different pedals.
On the camera side, I've decided that I can live with my last camera purchase, but lenses are still my weakness.
I still hunt like an ef 100-400mm on R7 with speed booster, 2x teleconverter, ef to rf adapter, and extension tube with a UV filter fitted.
Lolllll
dude please stop telling the truth let me live in denial
Yo! surprised to see you here, keep up the good shit.
It turns out that the perfect camera was all the friends we made along the way.
I know the pain of gear addiction. As I look at my 20+ vintage Soviet lenses on the shelf that I had specifically made for them, I can only think of what lens I am going to buy next. It never ends.
Them being multiple addictions? Them isn't quite clear.
But Takumars though.. And old Nikkors... And NEW Nikkors!!
No, mate. Lenses are never a part of GAS. You buy lenses and keep it for life, if it's good, it's not like cameras where new ones come out and they get old. Lenses are immortal. Unless you break them.
Totally agree .. is like a techdrug… 🙈. I own Olympus , Panasonic , Sony , Fuji, actually and past leica, Nikon and Canon … all with prime lenses
This tragedy will never happen to me. I’m perfectly happy with my G7, G9, X-T1, X-T2, X-T3, and the few others. I never look on Amazon warehouse and I didn’t remove the badly scratched Ricoh Thetis from my basket in an outworldish masterpiece of strength. Why should I scroll through used offers for reds and arris? Just to know I can’t afford? Even if I would consider the X-H2, why should I check the prices for the Blackmagic 4K? Just to get a new body for my mft cinema lenses? Certainly not. That would be madness. But on the other hand, wouldn’t the 4K not deliver the cinematic footage of my DJI mini crashing into a tree? Or would canon be the one for that? Do I need full frame to get the slowmotion shot of the propellers splinter away or shall I go for super 35? Of course, I never ask myself any of that. Nor would I know about the cashback Panasonic offers for the SH1.
No, I’m sober. I really pity all of you gear junkies here.
Did you go to the barber and say, “have you see the matrix? When neo first got out the machine? I want that haircut “. Great video
I'm selling all my expensive Sony stuff pretty soon and going back to the GH5S. I bet if you used a G9 or G85 again, it would look great, it's lighter, and your content would just be as good. 😄 The full frame background blur thing is fun until you realise the camera is full of other compromises. Sell the A7SIII and get 7 or 8 G85's 🤣
Whats so special about the gh5s to you?
@@robingossman3385 Its lightweight, the lenses are cheap and small so it's perfect for travel work. The image quality holds up against any of my full fame cameras even when in low light situations (to a point). The dual media card slots, unlimited recording, color science, and more. It's the user experience. The Sony cameras are boring to use. They have great autofocus but the GH5s has DCI-4K, Video tools and a much better user experience.
Thanks for the reply. I do own a Gh5s, but I honestly needed someone to tell me why I should be grateful and stop fixating on all these fujis, Sony's and Canon, when I have what I need.
@@intheblues I loved my G85 when I had it a few years back but be serious, M4/3 sensors are woeful in low light. The crazy stabilisation does pretty much negate that issue though.
@@robingossman3385 no Dude, try the a7s3 of the a74, just the AF will convert you into the biggest fanboy ever, it's almost like magic!
Your footage looks good, but it’s your personality that brings me in.
"All I HAVE is the perfect camera. All I HAVE is the perfect cameraaaaa....". Nah, it just doesn't have the same ring to it. Keep doing what you're doing :)
Some of those Panny vlogs are the best vlogs of all time. So much swagger. And deservedly so! Epic picture and stabilization. Legend.
You can be forgiven for your GAS, because you actually create something valuable with all this gear. Majority of addicts are just for the gear on this path.
Thank God I am at the end of the tunnel 😅 After restless years of buy/sell/buy gear, I found peace with a Pana S5, 16-35 f4 and 50 1.8... I am buy-gear-free since october 🤣
Same here now time to look for lenses!
@@CarlosCruz1988 nope, I am fine! :D
same here! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
S5 was the best buy
@@MinimalWave1982 don’t let that f/1.8 aperture lense get to you! Jajajaja
It feels like as if we were in a AA meeting I guess. Knowing that I'm not alone struggling with this issue is helping me. Thanks for sharing ;)
Ive spent Sooo much on so many camera's and lenses trying to get that pro level cinematic look. I finally got fed up and purchased a used ARRI Alexa Classic. The search is over. the 2k Prores 4444 footage looks WAY WAY Better than any 4k, 8k camera Ive ever owned. throw the stupid specs out the window! when it comes to the narrative movie look, Arri is King. it just looks and feels better. i picked up the whole package for 5k. however it is a HUGE TANK.
It's called Idealist. You have a target in your mind for a specific field. But you can't reach it, no matter how much research and test you do or how many expensive tools, equipment you buy. Because your ideals are at higher level than what the reality can provide to you, there is always something missing and you never get the sadisfaction of reaching your goal. But you never give up either.
This is very different than addiction.
Addict is mindlessly bound to something, repeatedly does it, because it feels good, or ok.
Idealist is a pursuit of perfection, an often unreal goal beyond what realism can provide you. But you are still locked in a research loop.
But it's also a sign sometimes, that idealism is pursued because you don't find this life enjoyable to live, so you hide the fact with some other goal to keep yourself busy.
Maybe you will never be happy, never able to reach your goal.
But a lot of other people have lesser goals and with the amount of information you share with people, from your researches, helps many many people taking the right decision.
So perhaps you won't reach your goals, but a lot of people become happier with the information you share with them.
Perhaps that's something to be happy about.
What we need is to form an open-source Camera community and produce our own cameras, software, lenses etc. And everyone credible, part of the system will share the earnings. Then we can at least "create" what we want, instead of waiting for it. And the competition will have to step up their game. This would be a very big serious project however.
@@ChargedPulsar 👍👍👍
@@ChargedPulsar Spectacular idea. Willing to join me?
In your case, the gear acquisition syndrome is perfectly ok, since you have a camera channel and live off it, so to speak! It's only bad for the losers who constantly buy new stuff and don't live off it. I'm still waiting for your review of the GH6!
Guess I fall in the "Loser" category.
@@robgerety i was beeing ironic ;)
@@MinimalWave1982 Me too
I suppose I am a loser too and people do think it and the post did not give any hint of irony. But then I enjoy using different cameras and spend less per year than on a premiership football season ticket or a golf hobby. I am an end of range scavenger so have not lost vast amounts keeping an eye on the market and knowing a bargain. I remember being criticised for having a new camera from someone who had a stable of horses for fun so we do choose our extravagances but like to think of other indulgences as being for losers. At least when I comment on cameras I have used a gamut of them whilst people, especially those who have only ever heard or buy of Canon, are restricted in their hobby and ability to comment on kit in general. Especially with Canon given their lacklustre commitment to mirrorless aps-c and poor results from their 1/2.3" sensors in compacts. I have settled down to m43 now though and it seems sufficient for any hobbyist and the current attempt to make us all buy a resurrection of the 35mm film frame in mirrorless still with the massive lenses and high cost in the digital world a bit desperate to say the least. Now my funds are limited I use new Olympus bodies with their 2.5 year warranty and second hand Panasonic lenses and this extra optionality sure cuts costs and with massive secondhand availability. I actually sold my last Fuji as stabilisation is never going to be cheap and actually have not bought any new kit and am investing it in the Winter fuel bill. I was tempted to buy a 1" Panasonic compact but it will only fill up with dust if not already full like my last purchase and the GX880 is pretty small. I enjoyed my gearhead days and cannot say I really regret things.
Oh my God I can absolutely relate to this. Although I still can because I'm still crazy.
That shot was indeed gorgeous! The background perfectly tonehd out , and the lighting. Just perfect!
You've found the secret: get closer! You'll always get better footage the closer you can get to your subjects.
The addiction is real. It killed me to cancel my R7 pre-order because I needed to buy a car. And I already have an R6 and R5. I guess I'll get over it. No, I won't. I'll keep lusting for one until I get it.
A couple of observations: the two blackbirds early in the video were likely a fully-fledged subadult still begging its mother for food. Baby birds will beg as long as their parents will still feed them. Just like adult children.
The black and white bird is an Eastern Kingbird, North America's largest flycatcher. And yes, you have shot it before, pretty recently as I recall.
Take one shoulders-up portrait with a 14mm lens and you realise getting closer is one of the most stupid "secrets" in photography. Getting low at least works with most things.
Sorry if this comment is too aggressive, I'm tired
@@TheDeltaMoo Well, maybe it won't work for portraits, but for wildlife it is very true. Atmosphere absolutely wrecks image quality
Sold most of my stuff a couple of months ago. All I have right now ist a X-T3 with a 35mm F2 and a x100t. Cured from GAS, it's so liberating. Just enjoying photography and more money left for Travelling 🤷🏽♂️
Love your content. I keep laughingso hard, it's like watching gear review/comedy rant. I still remember watching your videos with x3000 back in 2018 ish. Good to see you grow your channel to >120k subs. Good job mate!
your content is insanely good in quality, i laugh my ass of while trying to learn as an amateur, keep it up man, thank you!
Master photographer Master philosopher…I am not buying gear, but I am addicted to your channel, because of the excellent sarcasm….I took so many great pics with my old kodaken wonderzoomblitz 35 mm…Hasselblad from my dad, could not afford the film…have canon dslr, 12 years old, so many great memories, because I always had it with me, not afraid I might break or lose it. Yeah, Z9 buyers, can you afford to lose it?
It's not the cameras, it is your body. When you are young you have more connective tissue and nicer cartilage so the footage looks smoother and stable when walking.
The dopamine hit comes from the hunt, not the actual item! We need to findways to get that hit from others things……the net and UA-cam has just exacerbated this as we all research gear.
I can pretty much do all i need with any one of the cameras I’ve owned. Hey ho….maybe the price of Gas and Electricity will force my cure!
I was on Prozac for a short time and the desire to buy gadgets just disappeared so the hit is very true of serotonin. At that time it was symbolic calculators but the never ending search for that elusive mirrorless camera that was not irritating in so many respects took over. I am sure these manufacturers knew what a lucrative weapon that cripple hammer is and wielded it with great skill and dexterity. Olympus bringing out their mirrorless stripped of all controls and a viewfinder was the opening shot in a long line of bodies need to be endlessly relaced for just a bit more but never enough. Now that the emphasis is piling on the esoteric video gubbins, understood only by bloggers in the main, what is left of us non phone, press the red button for video, still photographers really have little need to change stuff which is a relief in some ways.
Still lovin' your channel. Down to earth no BS entertaining critiques. Love your stories (back/board room shenanigans of the Camera manufacturers are my favorites.) The struggles of little insects being relentlessly hunted by ravenous Woodpeckers are good too. Not to mention the officious Canada Goose. Lots of comic book material here. Your acknowledgements to Markus P and others are really well placed. MP in particular is another very generous and down to earth soul.
On gear, I have 2 G9's. Love them and cost way less than one Sony A7 iii. I'm thinking of satisfying my gear urge by getting the new 9 mm Pana Leica. Far cheaper than useful than upgrading a camera body.
Thanks again for your great content.
This channel always puts a smile on my face, one of the best UA-cam camera channels out there.
Real talk now If we achieve contentment with the camera gear we currently own, we won't end up buying a camera every 5 minutes. I hate videos that say 10 reasons to buy sony A7S iii or any other camera, and next minute 10 reasons 1 month later not to buy it. Its difficult because as a content creator they have to provide info on the newest and latest gear,
but at the same time not sucome to buying new gear every second its not easy. Plus youtube content creators can add to addiction but no one is perfect but keep up the good work your a very funny guy.
Never stop stopping.
The color in the room looks so good.
I have had to ask my self before each purchase “ Does it Solve a Problem?” If no problem - no purchase
Some of us remember the Thai FDR-X3000 days. Monkey Island, finding new and disgusting vegetables. Good times. Also, Simpler times.
For the 240 fps shots, use Topaz VEAI and play around with the settings. It does great things on my A7S III 240 fps, not perfect but better than the out of camera shots. I have before and after footage using it on my page. It can take a while to process depending on your computer specs, but it's worth it.
I've bought lenses that I've never even taken out of my house :(
So much photography-related comedic enjoyment oozing from your videos, especially this one. I laughed out loud a few times like when you were voicing each bird’s inner monologue. I think the “whaaaaat?!” expression from the goose would make a nice gif. I watch camera reviews all the time (most-recently the Fujifilm x-e4). Deep down I know I should just stick with my Sony a68 with a non-functioning back lcd because I have all these lenses and filters I like to use with it. I can’t give those up. If you need someone to take that Fujifilm X-H2S off your hands though . . .
Also the "Redwing Blackbird Female" at 7:42 is the best thing you have ever done. I agree it is fantastic.You've said this is the best thing you will ever do. SELL everything. You have done your best work you say, so move on. This is it you've done it all. It's time for you to take up lawn bowls or basket weaving. Seriously I'm a friend... walk away. LOL 😂😂😂
Dude, I relate with every second of this.
Six years in and he's almost got there. Stay strong it's coming soon. I predict a title very shortly when the penny finally drops: 'It's all about the light'. Get out at sunrise on a day with just a few light clouds and you will get all the 3-D pop you've been dreaming about.
Camera gear and bikes, always looking for something else even when iv got top of the line and don't use them all that often
After my new camera arrives I'll report back here to ask permission to buy anything else new. Or maybe after the next one after that....
I wanted a better camera to film all my hobbies...Now I don't have money for my hobbies...
Btw you should definitely upload that swan clip alone and it will go viral
The better path is to work on skills and learning to squeeze the most out of what you have. Having said that, I might have the worst case of GAS ever known to man. We need 12 step program.
Hilarious! And ohhhhh soooo true. Its not the arrow but the archer. Thanks for making me cry with laughter.💕
Stunning plane shot. I can see why the studios were fighting over it.
I giggled through the whole vid. Amazing job!
I enjoy your videos a great deal. Despite your latest reviews of the H2s I just got one (I was a Canon guy for many years, but switched to Fuji a few years ago). After a few hours I am pleased with it and being an owner of an X-100S & V, XE1, XT-2 and 3…I am not missing the dials. So far I am able to program the dial/buttons in the H2s to my needs. For sure the dials are great, but so far not having them is not a deal breaker. I really enjoy the IBIS, finally I can use my Fuji 16-55 2.8 lens without getting blurry shots in lower lights. I tested this lens in my H2s, as low as 1/13 of a second and I am very happy with the results.
As you say, there is no perfect camera, otherwise this Chanel will cease to exist.
Time will tell about the H2s, really not able to say for sure if I will keep it, but for now I will.
Thank you for your videos. They are informative and you keep viewers attention (at least me) by inserting humor and keeping it light. Thank you
15 years on UA-cam I feel the pain. Love the content.
I've been through 4 or 5 camera bodies and about 20 lenses. Right now with the canon R7 and the rf100-400mm, the rf100mm macro and the rf18-150mm lens I'm getting 24mm out to 640mm field of view with that 1.6x crop sensor and all of it in my bag weighs less than 10 pounds! It's also the least expensive and most fully featured kit I've ever carried lol! I'm selling off a lot of my extra stuff. Thank you Canon!
How good is the video quality?
And I'm sitting here with my newly arrived a7iv happy as I can be for at least 2 days
Oh the 🎥 cinema!! Nice f rw b bird Casey! Another brilliant idea from. (Your welcome!) A oh the cinema t-shirt! I'll take a cut :) have a great weekend man
Glad you talk about this! Keep up the good work!
That monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey floating behind your left ear totally works. You are not bald. We have similar hair styles. After a brief argument with the passport office we agreed I was neither bald, nor of brown hair, but “shaved”. Power to the follicle challenged ✊.
Excellent video. And I must say that the thumbnail was spot on perfect in every way.
At least you make videos with your gear. I have more cameras than I have UA-cam videos.
The disease is much worse for me. I even like old film cameras, including 4x5 cameras that cost $15 to take a single image.
Kasey, I know exactly what you're going through. I have GAS...badly. I have the GH5, S1H, A7S3, A74, Canon R5, XT4 and now a GH6. Do I use them all? Yes, but nowhere as much as if I only had one or two bodies. I have been planning on consolidating to two systems, but they all have advantages and disadvantages. I am primarily a filmmaker and while the S1H/GH5 gets most of the usage in that area, I wanted something with vastly better AF for times when I am filming alone. I love manually focusing though. I went on this journey to create and now I am always watching and see what others are doing...that I have to stop. Anyway, if you ever want to trade, let me know.
@thailander The GH5 isn't great in low light. I use the 25 1.4 II ASPH, 10-25 1.7 and Sigma 18-35 with speedbooster on the GH5/GH6. I highly recommend the GH5S if you are mainly doing video in low light.
"it always looks muddy, like a swamp. Even though it is a swamp..."
See, Sony reptilians even has swamp detect now. Can Canon do that?! Didn't think so!
The LUMIX G95 got more shots of doves in focus than the Sony A6400. I just had to get a Sony. Panasonic has heart
Ya see, that's why my consistant acquisitions are always older and dirt cheap :3 Except for my A7siii, though I got a stonkin' good deal on that which was paid for via vintage film cameras so, really, it was free. Ish...
Wow if you only new how TRUE you are I am at the top of this addiction, I am so glad you are talking about this I have so much Greer and hardly ever use it, like z9 and A1 with all the lens ! And of course Canon looking good with the Rf 85mm 1.2 ps grow your dam hair back love you
I'm grateful for there are other real UA-camr that use other brands and realise Sony Yellowish Green.
Hate that, stay because of the spec but definitely missed the Canon superior colour science
Anyone who disagree have never use other brands
Yeah, your video dropped just as I was opening up McBain's website to look at lenses. I think gear addiction is one part dopamine dragon chasing and another part experience dragon chasing. I love learning new gear so much, even when the long term prospects are limited by said gear's long term limitations.
I should have just been a womanizer. It would have been cheaper even if you can't sell them when you are done with them.
No addiction here. Frustrated by prices and discontinuation of cameras though
I've got lgv40 stock app, and I'm happy, and mostly people are amazed by my work. Not professional of course, but to casuals, they were amazed.
Holy crap dude .. you're speaking to my inner demons. How?
Let's talk about the time my girlfriend gifted me a 20G aquarium and a book about aquascaping, secretly she knew I think. A year later I had 15 aquariums from 5G to 75G in a bachelor apartment?! It took me five days to move everything from there into a 1 bedroom so I could live in a place that wasn't 85% humidity in the winter. Clearest my pores have ever been mind you, but still.
This is hilarious 🤣😂
(Also, I’m sorry!)
@@tompotter8748 DO NOT read any books by Takashi Amano if you have an aquarium store nearby or any history of obsessive/impulsive buying behaviour. You've been warned.
My flat was pretty and I slept really well thanks to the water sounds ... so not all bad. ;)
Still think your owl footage from earlier in the year was the most magical. Good stuff though.
I have the A7siii and a BMPCC 6K Pro. Two worlds I sit in. One arse check on either chair, the cushions differ (the Blackmagic’s is less comfortable than the Sony’s) so one cheek sits more comfortably but grows lazy and flabbier while the other works overtime but is more contented and has found greater meaning and satisfaction, either way both are often empty vessels for a load of shit.
Good title: Gear addiction, wonderful video.
😮NOOOOooooo I feel I am about to have an intervention perpetrated on me. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME! I HAVE NEEDS!!! OK I am glad I explained myself. I will now take the video of pause knowing that I know, you know that what you are about say DOES NOT APPLY TO ME.... because I"m special and different!!! 🤣😂🤣
I know the pain. I've recently decided to radically reduce my gear. I'm down to just a Leica TL and three lenses. It feels good not having clutter.
I don’t have a problem my first two cameras was me finding myself T7i and A6100 I choose canon and from there I went to the EOS R and now I’m working on my final piece the R6
G.A.S. is real. I've redirected mine from cameras to synthesizers - so now I have even more sh!t than before 😄
Loved the cowboy toothpick goose!
OMG... the third time I watched this and still laughing my arese off!
Lol so true, I am using Facebook exclusively for marketplace, now I started with adapted lenses, I have 4x 35mm plus lots of other stuff and everytime I sell something I am hurting. It is the hunt for the bargain indeed my friend
Our next camera is always the perfect camera.
hi Kasey here an idea, get a G85 and try to find out how much your technique improved by comparing it to your older videos.
I upgraded last week from a Canon 60D to a R6 and I feel like I have a new life and purpose😄 📸
The GH6 would bring Glory to your Heart ❤️. .
Debunk Mode Engaged = Owl shot much more magician-like in its abilities.
Love from Indonesia ! 🇮🇩 at the begining when i see your videos i don’t get the jokes. .. but nowadays … your awkwardness is entertaining hahaha comeover to Bali, Indonesia
Just remember bud lots of people think you are awesome and we love you. I mean I saw you got a buzz cut....I usually do this when im feeling down. Lets hang out :P
Being given a Z6iii to replace my Z6ii would make me very happy.
But I still have a lot to learn (A LOT)
Got the GH6 last month, made me happy ;)
Gear acquisition syndrome is real I have way too much shit than what I actually need for a hobby. I'm burning money that can be used for other things.
Your videos are really funny, you would meka e great comedian😁
Emo Emu appreciates Dramatic Goose.
Looking good with the return of the old buzz cut!
Very nice shots ineed. The dubbing is almost better.
Lens won't create the 3d pop, see your duck is well framed and on a plane. The trees in background create a "wall" ending the depth, the branch at the front with the lighter green creates the shallow foreground and the water is the ground that goes up and to the right (lighting, colouring shades lead the eye), creating that depth. The duck has lighting that adds to that effect. Think of it like video game 3d modelling, you've probably seen a screenshot of character model inside an editor. You can recreate at home using... a box... no one is reading this...
Just bought the Canon R7 happiness will be mine!
Definitely, the GAS is real, for camera users.
However, there are some ways to tackle it, or to manage it. First, you need to just find a good combination of body+lenses that fit at least 80% what you want and need to do, and that you enjoy using.
Then, it depends. You either quit your GAS additiction, like you would quit smoking. Or you get a Gear Renting Syndrome instead, which is cheaper, and can help you relieve some of the GAS pain after using some rented gear. Or... you can develop Gear Trading Syndrome (basically a hybrid between GAS and GRS presented above), where you cotinuously buy and sell gear, so you don't end up amassing 10 bodies and 30 lenses, but you change some of them.
In the best scenario, you understand that new gear is a ton of marketing, and except for some uses and some particular products, they won't bring you a game-changing experience in any way, compared with what you are using now (unless you use only 10+ year old gear). And you invest in courses, lighting gear, car, travel etc., that will really help you up your game and get great photos, while also making you enjoy it.
Also, I enjoy your intro music, hope you will publish a full-version song out of it someday. And like your new intro, featuring a more visible Thor's Canon cripple hammer.
I'm about to buy an X-H1 because I'm afraid for my X-T1's dear life. That model is rarer and rarer to find on the second-hand market and mine has been traveling with me for 3 years. I just want to protect it, man 😢
I'm really lucky, I'm poor. I have an A6400 and kit (sh*t) lens, so I have to live with that. I drool over cameras every day but this is my reality. It turns out you can take some amazing photos with it, who knew!
💯, amazing photos don’t require no fancy cam! You’re killin it 😜😃
For a second there I thought you were bashing my G95 that I am getting in the mail any second now.
I probably have close to 100 lenses but I usually use the same 4.
24mm 1.8,
70-200 2.8,
24-70 2.8
50mm 1.8
The fact you do comedy in your content makes the likelihood of staying relevant very high.
I can see in the next 4yrs channels dyeing off if they don't integrate a secondary aspect.
Prosumer cameras have reached there peak. Real new additions would put them out of affordability. I can see the addition of Ai being a big market shift.
You definitely need a RED next though 😎
I can tell you're from Canada, because of the Aurora on the wall.
Aden does have some sweet walk in deals... the biggest pit of despair for me is small rig / tilta rig build bits and pieces