Hey Brian! The comment I made about taking the "M4/3 Guy" moniker was meant to be humorous. Of course you're the only M4/3 Guy! Please except my apology, didn't mean for it to seem aggressive. I appreciate your videos very much and I would never dare think about taking your moniker. Can't wait to see what the future of this channel brings. - Ismael Rodriguez Photography :)
No worries. I wasn’t sure, you see all sorts in the comments and you get guarded. I did mean what I said in the video though that people should check out and sub to your channel. You have a few great videos on the small studio setup, I call my similar setup a pop up studio. I enjoyed watching them. Anyway, Ismael Rodriguez has a far more cosmopolitan sound to it than “that micro 4/3 guy” I sound like a math equation lol No offence taken here and I hope you are not offended on your side. Very best wishes to yourself and your channel
Nice to see you back out taking photos. Gear reviews are ok but I far prefer being out and about looking at the countryside firing off a few pictures 👏👏📷📷
Speaking of older photos of historical places -- somewhere I have some prints (negatives are long gone) of a stretch of Hadrian's Wall from 1976 -- when I was 13 and with my father in Europe and the Middle East for a year. And while we were exploring a rural and tumble-down section of the wall, I took a few shots with a plastic, fixed-everything, 35mm point-and-shoot camera -- meanwhile my father stumbled on the rough surface of the top of the wall and broke his toe! What great memories!!! 😉😉😉
This was refreshing to my mind. I felt like I was right there, experiencing Hadrian’s wall. The lush green grass, moody sky, and the beautiful stone of the wall were a feast for the eyes. Seeing the compositions created as you filmed the surroundings motivated me to document my own area. I am saving this video as one of my favorites. Thank you.
From Spain.Estupendo que nos hables de los lugares que visitas.Hace doblemente interesante tu canal.A mi me ha servido para interesarme más por los lugares que fotografió.Un cordial saludo
Thanks Brian. That was an interesting commentary and I enjoyed the way you described how you were taking the photograph, you r composition and the settings, eg f stops.
would love to revisit up north again. during a trip to edinburgh and musselburgh i did not have any form of camera, let alone DSLR other than a cellphone, which i didnt even use the camera on i kinda wished i had a proper camera. i didnt have much interest then :( 19:55 reminds me of the time seeing the orange and yellow leaves reflecting on the water during a stroll with dad, i think that was one of the decent shots i did all week.
Brian, that was a most refreshing video. I have followed you for a long time and have really enjoyed your work. When you started doing gear reviews, I thought you were going off the boil and becoming “just another” reviewer of gear on UA-cam. It didn’t suit you mate. I stopped watching. But this video has touched me and it’s good to see you are back. Well done 👌👌📸📸
@@seanlonsdale thank you. I appreciate that. Unfortunately YT is a fickle mistress, to have a channel survive on YT it needs growth and the bigger growth the better as far as they are concerned. The videos I enjoy doing are the walkabouts, describing what I see and “having a chat” with my viewers. Unfortunately they don’t get huge views, usually well below 1000, YT isn’t happy because their advertisers don’t get a big foot fall and YT does little to promote the video. However, sell your soul to the devil and review products and it instantly increases to several thousand views and they get happier (even if I’m not). If you REALLY want to get the channel to go astronomical then introduce controversial politics into videos, left or right wing it really doesn’t matter, as long as you don’t go too far as to put advertisers off then you are the darling of YT and your views will go into the hundreds of thousands or even millions. I have some soul left, which is why I really stamp out politics on the channel even though I’m actually a very political person myself. It’s a real balancing act at times. So unfortunately I shall still do some reviews, I rely on the income, what little there is of it, but for my sanity I NEED to make more videos like this one. I hope you continue to enjoy them and please feel free to skip the reviews, I won’t be offended. Very best wishes
Lovely Brian! I’ve enjoyed reading about Hadrian’s Wall since I was a teenager and finally saw one of the larger tourist sites in 1986, when the two of us were the only people there, getting lost in the early morning fog! Very atmospheric! Yes, if only stones could talk, they and the trees would have a lot to tell us. So glad you got out and about, Brian. Yes, your channel, your life, and life is far too short to even read silly comments people post. I’m jealous of the autumn colour, we’ve just got our leaves back on the trees.
@@trishf29 thanks Trish. I actually thoroughly enjoyed my wander. As a side note I’m not from Carlisle originally I’m from the east coast in a town called Wallsend, so called as it was at the eastern end of Hadrians wall. Very little of it exists there now (read almost nothing). However the original path of the wall was followed by two lines of cobble stones. The street I lived on was across the original route and mu house sat atop the original path. The lines went up to our back yard gate and continued from our front door. So as a child I actually lived on the wall in the east and now I’m only a mile away from the wall but at its western end. Claim to fame time lol Even more fun is that Mrs. 4/3 cousin is married to a real Roman (she lives in Rome) who does reenactment and he’s been stood on the wall in full centurion uniform lol
@@ThatMicro43GuyNo wonder you’ve done a few Wall videos. You’ve a sense of place. We were at Housesteads, travelled along the wall from Chollerford to Housesteads, then on to Haydon Bridge. Still remember that drive - and the fog! We did a tour of the UK in Mar/Apr 1986, hit Switzerland, and Chernobyl blew up. After UK we went to Austria where we have relatives. Love these little ‘place’ videos, Brian.
Crocs?!?!?!?!?! I though that *NOT* drinking tea was bad enough -- but crocs? Well that settles it Brian -- I still love your channel, your photos and your content -- I'll just put up with the coffee and crocs!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s alright for you younger fitter types but I’m getting older with swollen feet and legs and I’m too fat to see…..er I mean too old reach my shoe laces so I need shoes to slip on. Lol
@@ThatMicro43Guy -- 😁 Younger and fitter??? I'll take that complement though I don't resemble it (age 61 and overweight, arthritic left knee and now something wrong with my left thumb!)!!! But I do have a nice pair of athletic shoes ("trainers" for you) which have laces, but I can leave them laced up and slip them on and off! I do have actual hiking shoes for when I go 'off trail' -- but yup, those are a challenge to get on/off and laced up!
Congratulations on the rebooted channel. I'm still interested in what kit you use, even if you don't "focus" on it. There are plenty of Roman remains for you to investigate in Cyprus when you get there. Look after yourself!
Thank you. I still usually put which kit I use in the description of each video. On this one the video was the Pocket 3 the stills were E-m1 mk1 & Lumix 14-140 f3.5-5.6
I enjoyed the shots with settings shown. I was surprised to see f10 as I'm often led to believe f5.6 is a sweet spot and its downhill to go smaller. Also yes 14mm did add interest. I was pleased to note you didn't like the cluttered shot although I hoped you might pluck something unexpected from it. See you next time
@@peternumber19 the proof is often in the pudding. Each and every setting has pros and cons, they all interact with each other and they are all a compromise. I find f10 or 11 acceptable for most instances but going to f16 or f22 can cause refraction issues often showing as green or magenta edges. However, most post production software can get rid of that very well. I could have gone more open but that would have reduced my DOF which I didn’t want to do. As long as you are aware of what the controls do and how they interact then it’s easier to make the decisions of which compromises are acceptable for the shot you are taking at the time. If I’d had bright hard sunshine, especially from the rear of the subject I’d have been aware to look out for the refraction effects and maybe decided to sacrifice DOF for the photo. As it was it was dull and cloudy with very soft light I reasoned I’d not have an issue. The shot I suggested was cluttered may have been much improved by opening the aperture out and putting the foreground out of focus and making my focus point further away down the wall. Another thing may be to have held the camera much higher and looked more down on the subject to give an increased sense of distance along its length and shot in portrait orientation. A further idea could be to pick some of the bright red berries featured in another shot and placed them close to the camera on the wall in a little group. The shot of colour would initially draw the eye away from the dark stone clutter but the converging parallel of the walls sides would lead it to the vanishing point. Lots of ways to change the same shot
Give me a shout first Mike, there are several far better places to see the wall especially at the fort at vindolanda a few miles further on. You’d love that place as they have built a full size watchtower to go into
This is fab, your videos were a great inspiration for me to start making my own videos and I have really enjoyed the process - thanks for being the spark for that enjoyment!
I'd say don't worry about the channel's name. I believe many are photography enthusiasts, we like inspirations and mean no harm basically. Thank you for the video. 👍🙂
Gran Britannias Roman history has always fascinated me. what they bought to this Island... and what they left. Like the Wall, and let's not forget, the roads!....I've always wonder what the soldiers thought when they were informed by their superiors that they were to be sent to that ''wet soggy Island'' on the further most northern outpost of the empire.
@@BrianLesliePerry I can only imagine a response similar to “WHERE!!! What the f…..” In truth the Monty Python “what have the Romans ever done for us” sketch from Life of Brian which you allude to is actually more of a history lesson than a comedy sketch “REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? XERXES: Brought peace. REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!” Brilliant
Hey brian I am an all camera guy myself but do love my GH6, that and my Sony A7Sii get the most use but still love my little 800D Apsc canon for photos and my dji pocket 3 is seriously good for a wander and vlog cam. I know you have binned street for a while but hope you get back to it soon. I too get collared by worried types whenever out with a camera. Amusing as they are surrounded by them 24/7 attached to a mobile phone :)
@@Memory_Gatherers I have done a couple of tentative street shoots but have been accompanied at all times. Still have not really got my confidence back
@ I went for a pub meal in a small Welsh village - absolutely beautiful and took a photo of the inn with hanging baskets etc and a Karen stormed out demanding to know why I was taking photos of the pub. Never been back…never will.
@@sweden_ove2074 admittedly today I was using a 14-140 zoom but it would have been a great day to use the 14mm f2.5 I have too (brilliant little lens) .
Hi Brian , nothing to do with this video but I want to update you about some information I gave you about HSS on the G100D .I mentioned my Nissin i40 and i60 did this up to 1/500th which is correct but I have just found that the i60 will only do this with the head horizontal facing forward, tilt it any other angle and it reverts to 1/50th. The i40 the smaller of the two is fine tilt the head any which way and it will stay at any flash speed up to 1/500th. Why the difference I've no idea.
Well if we're gonna be picky it was 1900 years but since you're a fellow Brit and fellow Northerner I''ll let it slide that you're rounding up haha. All the best from Yorkshire.
Hello from Across the Pond Mr. Brian, Hadrian wall. That is very cool. I do not have access to thousands of year old things like that here. I want to come visit there very much. All the historic sites scattered around would have me running from spot to spot like a crazy person. I have a question for you. My son races gocarts. I want to put a camera on the cart to film his perspective of the race. Generally the races are at night on a poorly lit track. Do you have a suggestion on what camera would be best to get for this? I thought actiin cam but they perform poorly in low light. A lot of the smaller MFT camera's are suspect with auto focus in these conditions also. Im drawing a blank. I have the OM-1 Mark II but really not wanting to put it in jeopardy with all the wrecks. Any ideas? If your looking for ideas for the channel .... answering dumb questions like mine. 4 or 5 questions would make an episode.
@@gregdyer7227 where across the pond? I know it’s a tiny continent and you’re all on first name terms lol Yes, I’m lucky where I live for the historical side of things. When I served along with the USAF and took them around on visits they were always amazed when they realised the age of our history. I don’t say this in a nasty way, but when I point out that your country is coming up to its. 250th anniversary in 2 years time yet we have a cathedral in my home city dating back to the 11th century, so four times older than your country, and that’s not unusual, nor particularly old for UH buildings. It does tend to make them stop and think and wonder. However, to the question, personally the only thing I would recommend is an action camera and for several reasons. Firstly they are designed to be tough in that sort of environment, much tougher than a normal camera, second they have wide angle lenses as standard (huge DOF) so AF becomes much less of an issue. They are very small and have lots of mounting options available at low cost including helmet mounts to get that POV experience. They are extremely low mass compared to even a small M43 camera, super important if helmet mounting. I really don’t see an M43 camera being noticeably better in low light. The IBIS in a M43 is generally electro mechanical (sensor moves) and thus more susceptible to impact damage. They are weatherproof where many small M43 are not nor the small lenses. My personal choice (which I’m also planning to buy this month) is the DJI Action. I’m going to buy the v4 combo but they have just released the v5. All the tests I’ve seen of both the Action 4 and 5 they have beaten the equivalent model of go pro in image quality, low light and reliability. I’m buying the 4 as it does what I need it to do but it’s now discounted because of the release of the action 5 I really do not personally believe a M43 is a competitive option I’m afraid. Best thing is see if anyone has an action camera to try for one or two races.
@ThatMicro43Guy Thank you. Yes. What you said about the age of the building in your town. That is the main reason I want to visit. I'm not sure if the US will ever have buildings that old. From what I see here, when a building gets old they tear it down. It doesn't seem to matter what the condition of the building is. I watched a office building get purchased and tore down because it blocked the view of the building behind it. Now it's just a large area of grass. Thank you for the advice. I was afraid that was going to be about my only option. I was hoping there was an Olympus camera that I had just overlooked. Keep up the good work my friend. I love the content. Who knows. I might see you on the street one day if I ever make it over.
@@gregdyer7227 you’ll have to be quick, I’m emigrating to Cyprus in March lol One option I’ve just thought of is the Olympus TG7 it has a decent 12Mp sensor and is very shock proof and weather proof and has a digital IBIS. Not sure how well it would work but it may be an option
@ThatMicro43Guy Thank you Mr. Brian, I didn't even think of that one. I just realized a question you asked. I'm in Talladega, Alabama Southern US Just country folks from down south.
Wonder how many of the local houses are built from stones from the wall? At ;east their foundation stones maybe. Aah, you commented on this, never mind. Thanks
@@steveschnetzler5471 most of them if they are older than 200 years old. Much of the wall had inscriptions carved into the stone for various reasons and there are several buildings in villager along the route where those same inscriptions can be seen in the stone work proving that the stones were indeed pillaged from the old wall. Much easier to obtain stone if someone else has already quarried it.
Nice video. Enjoy the day, have fun. I have a question. I like my MFT cameras, and understand the doubled focal length, I can see that in the photo. What I don't understand is this thing about the aperture. My MFT cameras read the same f-stops as my Full Frame camera. Yes, an MFT sensor may gather less light, but plenty enough to record images. I can control Aperture, Shutter, and ISO just the same as any other camera. I think the Aperture myth of doubling in MFT is just a Red Herring invented by marketing scheme for Full Frame. Are people really saying that f22 in MFT is actually f44? That makes no sense to me. Keep up the good works.
@@don_at_large not an easy quick answer but here goes. Most people don’t describe the issue properly and I struggle too. The F number is a mathematical equation of the diameter of the lens vs the focal length. An f1.2 lens will be a bigger diameter than an F1.8 and both bigger than a 2.8 etc. let’s stick to FF for now. The f number refers to the total amount of light across the whole lens, were you to take a measurement of light intensity at the centre of the sensor it should be the same as any other point on the sensor. This can be changed by using an iris to reduce the diameter and that is what happens when you stop a lens down. Were you to replace the sensor with one 1/2 the size (1/4 the area), a M43 sensor, then you would still have the same amount of light at any point on that smaller sensor, just that the sensor would let a lot of that light from the lens stream past its sides. You’d only see part of the picture Because that smaller sensor is only seeing the middle portion it would appear to be zoomed in by a factor of two, in other words it’s angle of view would be half that of the larger sensor on that lens. I e. A 100mm f2 lens would give the appearance in the sensor of a 200mm f2 lens. Note it is still a 100mm, we are just ignoring some of the light around the edges. That causes us problems in that if I pointed my lens at a person on the FF using that lens and the head filled the frame from X distance (say 10 feet) it would appear zoomed in on the face if I replaced it with a M43 sensor. To fill the frame with the head correctly I’d have to move to 2X the distance (I.e 20 feet). The light reflected off the face is what we measure so, in theory, both the sensors would have the same exposure settings to get the same amount of light on the sensor, say 1/60 at f2 for an example. We know that doubling the distance to the subject from the sensor (camera) increases the DOF by double the distance and we know that stopping the iris down (making the lens diameter smaller) also increases the DOF. it gives the impression to the eye with the doubled distance as though we had shut the f number down. We have not of course as the quantity of light hitting the sensor is the same, it’s an illusion. However, to regain that shallow DOF at that double distance you would need a faster lens by a factor of 2. This would of course necessitate reducing the shutter speed by a stop too. In other words even though the lens angle of view acts like a 200mm lens the DOF is still acting like that of a 100mm lens, as that’s what it physically is, the lens hasn’t changed just the distance from the subject. Hope I didn’t lose you. So no, it’s not hype, it’s purely physics. The important thing to remember is that it is possible, whatever the press say, to get superb bokeh from a M43 camera, you just have to approach it properly. One advantage of M43 for landscape and macro photographers is that where you apparently have a wider DOF and lose bokeh for portraits it means that the lens shut down haas a much wider DOF for those shooters who want everything in focus before the lens has refraction issues. Hope that helps
@@ThatMicro43Guy Thank you so much. Am doing a copy/paste so I can keep your reply for reference. Yours is best explanation and reasoning I have ever experienced. I am disabled Veteran with cognitive challenges I fight everyday. Your explanation in simpler terms, great help to me. Thank you so much for your work and effort.
Rubbish photographs? That describes most of my images. The difference between a professional and an amateur is the professional only shows their good images. Hopefully the professional photographer has more bangers than the amateur. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
Thanks for the detailed views of the wall.
Hey Brian! The comment I made about taking the "M4/3 Guy" moniker was meant to be humorous. Of course you're the only M4/3 Guy! Please except my apology, didn't mean for it to seem aggressive. I appreciate your videos very much and I would never dare think about taking your moniker. Can't wait to see what the future of this channel brings. - Ismael Rodriguez Photography :)
No worries. I wasn’t sure, you see all sorts in the comments and you get guarded.
I did mean what I said in the video though that people should check out and sub to your channel. You have a few great videos on the small studio setup, I call my similar setup a pop up studio. I enjoyed watching them.
Anyway, Ismael Rodriguez has a far more cosmopolitan sound to it than “that micro 4/3 guy” I sound like a math equation lol
No offence taken here and I hope you are not offended on your side.
Very best wishes to yourself and your channel
@ThatMicro43Guy Thanks for the encouragement. It means a lot coming from an experienced photographer like yourself. Cheers my friend. 📷
I have been switching back and forth between nikon and em 1 mark iii..fun although my to is olympus in good light.. nikon at night or indoor sports.
Good video. Photography centric rather than gear centric. Congrats on the rebooted channel. Keep having fun.
@@petercameron4380 thank you
Nice to see you back out taking photos. Gear reviews are ok but I far prefer being out and about looking at the countryside firing off a few pictures 👏👏📷📷
Speaking of older photos of historical places -- somewhere I have some prints (negatives are long gone) of a stretch of Hadrian's Wall from 1976 -- when I was 13 and with my father in Europe and the Middle East for a year. And while we were exploring a rural and tumble-down section of the wall, I took a few shots with a plastic, fixed-everything, 35mm point-and-shoot camera -- meanwhile my father stumbled on the rough surface of the top of the wall and broke his toe! What great memories!!! 😉😉😉
This was refreshing to my mind. I felt like I was right there, experiencing Hadrian’s wall. The lush green grass, moody sky, and the beautiful stone of the wall were a feast for the eyes. Seeing the compositions created as you filmed the surroundings motivated me to document my own area. I am saving this video as one of my favorites. Thank you.
@@AprilClayton wow, praise indeed. Thank you April. You are always very kind.
From Spain.Estupendo que nos hables de los lugares que visitas.Hace doblemente interesante tu canal.A mi me ha servido para interesarme más por los lugares que fotografió.Un cordial saludo
Gracias, mis mejores deseos para ti.
Very informative Mr J. 👏
@@TonyTony-gj8to thank you
I learn such a lot from my failures that's why I rarely delete them! Thank you for the history lesson I found that very interesting! Take care!
Best way to learn. You take care too.
Thank you Brian for showing us some history, nature and of course photography in an interesting area.
@@petersimpson40 you’re welcome
Hi Brian--congrats on the revamp and looking forward to seeing what you have in store//and YES!! YOU are the Micro four thirds guy
Good morning from Thailand, I enjoyed your walk through the purpose of the wall as well as the landscape impressions
Thanks Brian. That was an interesting commentary and I enjoyed the way you described how you were taking the photograph, you r composition and the settings, eg f stops.
I don't like to must Tec stuff so I think your reboot is great I like though behind the photo
would love to revisit up north again. during a trip to edinburgh and musselburgh i did not have any form of camera, let alone DSLR other than a cellphone, which i didnt even use the camera on i kinda wished i had a proper camera. i didnt have much interest then :(
19:55 reminds me of the time seeing the orange and yellow leaves reflecting on the water during a stroll with dad, i think that was one of the decent shots i did all week.
Brian, that was a most refreshing video. I have followed you for a long time and have really enjoyed your work. When you started doing gear reviews, I thought you were going off the boil and becoming “just another” reviewer of gear on UA-cam. It didn’t suit you mate. I stopped watching. But this video has touched me and it’s good to see you are back. Well done 👌👌📸📸
@@seanlonsdale thank you. I appreciate that.
Unfortunately YT is a fickle mistress, to have a channel survive on YT it needs growth and the bigger growth the better as far as they are concerned. The videos I enjoy doing are the walkabouts, describing what I see and “having a chat” with my viewers. Unfortunately they don’t get huge views, usually well below 1000, YT isn’t happy because their advertisers don’t get a big foot fall and YT does little to promote the video.
However, sell your soul to the devil and review products and it instantly increases to several thousand views and they get happier (even if I’m not).
If you REALLY want to get the channel to go astronomical then introduce controversial politics into videos, left or right wing it really doesn’t matter, as long as you don’t go too far as to put advertisers off then you are the darling of YT and your views will go into the hundreds of thousands or even millions. I have some soul left, which is why I really stamp out politics on the channel even though I’m actually a very political person myself.
It’s a real balancing act at times. So unfortunately I shall still do some reviews, I rely on the income, what little there is of it, but for my sanity I NEED to make more videos like this one. I hope you continue to enjoy them and please feel free to skip the reviews, I won’t be offended.
Very best wishes
Lovely Brian! I’ve enjoyed reading about Hadrian’s Wall since I was a teenager and finally saw one of the larger tourist sites in 1986, when the two of us were the only people there, getting lost in the early morning fog! Very atmospheric! Yes, if only stones could talk, they and the trees would have a lot to tell us. So glad you got out and about, Brian. Yes, your channel, your life, and life is far too short to even read silly comments people post. I’m jealous of the autumn colour, we’ve just got our leaves back on the trees.
@@trishf29 thanks Trish. I actually thoroughly enjoyed my wander. As a side note I’m not from Carlisle originally I’m from the east coast in a town called Wallsend, so called as it was at the eastern end of Hadrians wall. Very little of it exists there now (read almost nothing). However the original path of the wall was followed by two lines of cobble stones. The street I lived on was across the original route and mu house sat atop the original path. The lines went up to our back yard gate and continued from our front door.
So as a child I actually lived on the wall in the east and now I’m only a mile away from the wall but at its western end.
Claim to fame time lol
Even more fun is that Mrs. 4/3 cousin is married to a real Roman (she lives in Rome) who does reenactment and he’s been stood on the wall in full centurion uniform lol
@@ThatMicro43GuyNo wonder you’ve done a few Wall videos. You’ve a sense of place. We were at Housesteads, travelled along the wall from Chollerford to Housesteads, then on to Haydon Bridge. Still remember that drive - and the fog! We did a tour of the UK in Mar/Apr 1986, hit Switzerland, and Chernobyl blew up. After UK we went to Austria where we have relatives. Love these little ‘place’ videos, Brian.
@@trishf29 if you look at the channels playlists you’ll find a Hadrians wall one. I did a few videos o long the route a couple of years ago
Crocs?!?!?!?!?! I though that *NOT* drinking tea was bad enough -- but crocs? Well that settles it Brian -- I still love your channel, your photos and your content -- I'll just put up with the coffee and crocs!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s alright for you younger fitter types but I’m getting older with swollen feet and legs and I’m too fat to see…..er I mean too old reach my shoe laces so I need shoes to slip on.
Lol
@@ThatMicro43Guy -- 😁 Younger and fitter??? I'll take that complement though I don't resemble it (age 61 and overweight, arthritic left knee and now something wrong with my left thumb!)!!! But I do have a nice pair of athletic shoes ("trainers" for you) which have laces, but I can leave them laced up and slip them on and off! I do have actual hiking shoes for when I go 'off trail' -- but yup, those are a challenge to get on/off and laced up!
Mk ii, excellent ❤
Keep your head up my friend. Your an inspiration!
@@MoonContradiction thank you
Congratulations on the rebooted channel. I'm still interested in what kit you use, even if you don't "focus" on it. There are plenty of Roman remains for you to investigate in Cyprus when you get there. Look after yourself!
Thank you.
I still usually put which kit I use in the description of each video. On this one the video was the Pocket 3 the stills were E-m1 mk1 & Lumix 14-140 f3.5-5.6
I enjoyed the shots with settings shown. I was surprised to see f10 as I'm often led to believe f5.6 is a sweet spot and its downhill to go smaller. Also yes 14mm did add interest. I was pleased to note you didn't like the cluttered shot although I hoped you might pluck something unexpected from it. See you next time
@@peternumber19 the proof is often in the pudding. Each and every setting has pros and cons, they all interact with each other and they are all a compromise. I find f10 or 11 acceptable for most instances but going to f16 or f22 can cause refraction issues often showing as green or magenta edges. However, most post production software can get rid of that very well. I could have gone more open but that would have reduced my DOF which I didn’t want to do.
As long as you are aware of what the controls do and how they interact then it’s easier to make the decisions of which compromises are acceptable for the shot you are taking at the time.
If I’d had bright hard sunshine, especially from the rear of the subject I’d have been aware to look out for the refraction effects and maybe decided to sacrifice DOF for the photo. As it was it was dull and cloudy with very soft light I reasoned I’d not have an issue.
The shot I suggested was cluttered may have been much improved by opening the aperture out and putting the foreground out of focus and making my focus point further away down the wall. Another thing may be to have held the camera much higher and looked more down on the subject to give an increased sense of distance along its length and shot in portrait orientation. A further idea could be to pick some of the bright red berries featured in another shot and placed them close to the camera on the wall in a little group. The shot of colour would initially draw the eye away from the dark stone clutter but the converging parallel of the walls sides would lead it to the vanishing point.
Lots of ways to change the same shot
@@ThatMicro43Guy thanks for the detailed reply. The foreground out of focus thought is interesting. Glad you didn't pick the berries. Cheers Peter
Nice place to visit Brian: & like ur commentary. Have put it on my bucket list & not too far to travel for me.
Give me a shout first Mike, there are several far better places to see the wall especially at the fort at vindolanda a few miles further on. You’d love that place as they have built a full size watchtower to go into
@@ThatMicro43Guy Will do Brian: keep meaning to go there. Been to Birdoswald & Sycamore Gap before the vandals cut down the tree.
This is fab, your videos were a great inspiration for me to start making my own videos and I have really enjoyed the process - thanks for being the spark for that enjoyment!
@@oldcameragoodcamera very humbled. Thank you.
Native British woodland plants "Lords and Lady's" ( Arum maculatum ). Great vid Brian and yeas you are the one and only "That micro four thirds guy"!!
@@jameshenderson5385 thank you.
Very enjoyable video, Brian. And the chat at the end was very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
I'd say don't worry about the channel's name. I believe many are photography enthusiasts, we like inspirations and mean no harm basically. Thank you for the video. 👍🙂
@@PhotoswithArt Ismael has been in touch and I had misread it. It was humorous. He’s a good guy. Check his channel out at @ismaelrodriguez74
Looks like you're ready for Christmas 😁
Gran Britannias Roman history has always fascinated me. what they bought to this Island... and what they left. Like the Wall, and let's not forget, the roads!....I've always wonder what the soldiers thought when they were informed by their superiors that they were to be sent to that ''wet soggy Island'' on the further most northern outpost of the empire.
@@BrianLesliePerry I can only imagine a response similar to “WHERE!!! What the f…..”
In truth the Monty Python “what have the Romans ever done for us” sketch from Life of Brian which you allude to is actually more of a history lesson than a comedy sketch
“REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES: Brought peace.
REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!”
Brilliant
Nice video. Keep producing more. Also i love the Neil Armstrong analogy - onwards and upwards :)
More to come!
These shots are great for future reference. Well done. Ditch th Crocs get proper footware.
Well done...
Hey brian I am an all camera guy myself but do love my GH6, that and my Sony A7Sii get the most use but still love my little 800D Apsc canon for photos and my dji pocket 3 is seriously good for a wander and vlog cam. I know you have binned street for a while but hope you get back to it soon. I too get collared by worried types whenever out with a camera. Amusing as they are surrounded by them 24/7 attached to a mobile phone :)
@@Memory_Gatherers I have done a couple of tentative street shoots but have been accompanied at all times. Still have not really got my confidence back
@ I went for a pub meal in a small Welsh village - absolutely beautiful and took a photo of the inn with hanging baskets etc and a Karen stormed out demanding to know why I was taking photos of the pub. Never been back…never will.
@@Memory_Gatherers these people are unbelievable in their self righteousness
Great I Enjoyed your little jaunt . & The romance regarding the Historic Men & Women. Who stood before you, if only Wall's could Talk 👍
@@williamgraham1062 absolutely, what a tale they’d tell.
Thanks
@@trishf29 thank you Trish
What a delight to see this new video !!
@@martlet530 thank you
That was a great little video, Brian.
@@oc2phish07 thank you
Very nice video. Yes, a wide angle prime is nice and creative if you want to develop
@@sweden_ove2074 admittedly today I was using a 14-140 zoom but it would have been a great day to use the 14mm f2.5 I have too (brilliant little lens) .
Hi Brian , nothing to do with this video but I want to update you about some information I gave you about HSS on the G100D .I mentioned my Nissin i40 and i60 did this up to 1/500th which is correct but I have just found that the i60 will only do this with the head horizontal facing forward, tilt it any other angle and it reverts to 1/50th. The i40 the smaller of the two is fine tilt the head any which way and it will stay at any flash speed up to 1/500th. Why the difference I've no idea.
@@toxophillus72 thanks for this. I wonder if it does this with my godox?
I've heard that some Godox work well and some don't , no idea which ones sorry.
Well if we're gonna be picky it was 1900 years but since you're a fellow Brit and fellow Northerner I''ll let it slide that you're rounding up haha. All the best from Yorkshire.
@@polisheverything1970 even more picky it’s. 1902 years AD122 lol and best wishes from Cumbria too lol
Hello from Across the Pond Mr. Brian,
Hadrian wall. That is very cool. I do not have access to thousands of year old things like that here. I want to come visit there very much. All the historic sites scattered around would have me running from spot to spot like a crazy person.
I have a question for you. My son races gocarts. I want to put a camera on the cart to film his perspective of the race. Generally the races are at night on a poorly lit track. Do you have a suggestion on what camera would be best to get for this? I thought actiin cam but they perform poorly in low light. A lot of the smaller MFT camera's are suspect with auto focus in these conditions also. Im drawing a blank. I have the OM-1 Mark II but really not wanting to put it in jeopardy with all the wrecks. Any ideas?
If your looking for ideas for the channel .... answering dumb questions like mine. 4 or 5 questions would make an episode.
@@gregdyer7227 where across the pond? I know it’s a tiny continent and you’re all on first name terms lol
Yes, I’m lucky where I live for the historical side of things. When I served along with the USAF and took them around on visits they were always amazed when they realised the age of our history. I don’t say this in a nasty way, but when I point out that your country is coming up to its. 250th anniversary in 2 years time yet we have a cathedral in my home city dating back to the 11th century, so four times older than your country, and that’s not unusual, nor particularly old for UH buildings. It does tend to make them stop and think and wonder.
However, to the question, personally the only thing I would recommend is an action camera and for several reasons. Firstly they are designed to be tough in that sort of environment, much tougher than a normal camera, second they have wide angle lenses as standard (huge DOF) so AF becomes much less of an issue. They are very small and have lots of mounting options available at low cost including helmet mounts to get that POV experience. They are extremely low mass compared to even a small M43 camera, super important if helmet mounting. I really don’t see an M43 camera being noticeably better in low light. The IBIS in a M43 is generally electro mechanical (sensor moves) and thus more susceptible to impact damage. They are weatherproof where many small M43 are not nor the small lenses.
My personal choice (which I’m also planning to buy this month) is the DJI Action. I’m going to buy the v4 combo but they have just released the v5. All the tests I’ve seen of both the Action 4 and 5 they have beaten the equivalent model of go pro in image quality, low light and reliability. I’m buying the 4 as it does what I need it to do but it’s now discounted because of the release of the action 5
I really do not personally believe a M43 is a competitive option I’m afraid. Best thing is see if anyone has an action camera to try for one or two races.
@ThatMicro43Guy Thank you. Yes. What you said about the age of the building in your town. That is the main reason I want to visit. I'm not sure if the US will ever have buildings that old. From what I see here, when a building gets old they tear it down. It doesn't seem to matter what the condition of the building is. I watched a office building get purchased and tore down because it blocked the view of the building behind it. Now it's just a large area of grass.
Thank you for the advice. I was afraid that was going to be about my only option. I was hoping there was an Olympus camera that I had just overlooked.
Keep up the good work my friend. I love the content. Who knows. I might see you on the street one day if I ever make it over.
@@gregdyer7227 you’ll have to be quick, I’m emigrating to Cyprus in March lol
One option I’ve just thought of is the Olympus TG7 it has a decent 12Mp sensor and is very shock proof and weather proof and has a digital IBIS. Not sure how well it would work but it may be an option
@ThatMicro43Guy Thank you Mr. Brian,
I didn't even think of that one.
I just realized a question you asked.
I'm in Talladega, Alabama Southern US
Just country folks from down south.
A lens I like as a walk around lens is the Olympus 12-50mm that has macro. It does a little of everything.
Wonder how many of the local houses are built from stones from the wall? At ;east their foundation stones maybe. Aah, you commented on this, never mind. Thanks
@@steveschnetzler5471 most of them if they are older than 200 years old. Much of the wall had inscriptions carved into the stone for various reasons and there are several buildings in villager along the route where those same inscriptions can be seen in the stone work proving that the stones were indeed pillaged from the old wall. Much easier to obtain stone if someone else has already quarried it.
Nice video. Enjoy the day, have fun. I have a question. I like my MFT cameras, and understand the doubled focal length, I can see that in the photo. What I don't understand is this thing about the aperture. My MFT cameras read the same f-stops as my Full Frame camera. Yes, an MFT sensor may gather less light, but plenty enough to record images. I can control Aperture, Shutter, and ISO just the same as any other camera. I think the Aperture myth of doubling in MFT is just a Red Herring invented by marketing scheme for Full Frame. Are people really saying that f22 in MFT is actually f44? That makes no sense to me. Keep up the good works.
@@don_at_large not an easy quick answer but here goes. Most people don’t describe the issue properly and I struggle too. The F number is a mathematical equation of the diameter of the lens vs the focal length. An f1.2 lens will be a bigger diameter than an F1.8 and both bigger than a 2.8 etc. let’s stick to FF for now. The f number refers to the total amount of light across the whole lens, were you to take a measurement of light intensity at the centre of the sensor it should be the same as any other point on the sensor. This can be changed by using an iris to reduce the diameter and that is what happens when you stop a lens down. Were you to replace the sensor with one 1/2 the size (1/4 the area), a M43 sensor, then you would still have the same amount of light at any point on that smaller sensor, just that the sensor would let a lot of that light from the lens stream past its sides. You’d only see part of the picture
Because that smaller sensor is only seeing the middle portion it would appear to be zoomed in by a factor of two, in other words it’s angle of view would be half that of the larger sensor on that lens. I e. A 100mm f2 lens would give the appearance in the sensor of a 200mm f2 lens. Note it is still a 100mm, we are just ignoring some of the light around the edges.
That causes us problems in that if I pointed my lens at a person on the FF using that lens and the head filled the frame from X distance (say 10 feet) it would appear zoomed in on the face if I replaced it with a M43 sensor. To fill the frame with the head correctly I’d have to move to 2X the distance (I.e 20 feet). The light reflected off the face is what we measure so, in theory, both the sensors would have the same exposure settings to get the same amount of light on the sensor, say 1/60 at f2 for an example.
We know that doubling the distance to the subject from the sensor (camera) increases the DOF by double the distance and we know that stopping the iris down (making the lens diameter smaller) also increases the DOF. it gives the impression to the eye with the doubled distance as though we had shut the f number down. We have not of course as the quantity of light hitting the sensor is the same, it’s an illusion.
However, to regain that shallow DOF at that double distance you would need a faster lens by a factor of 2. This would of course necessitate reducing the shutter speed by a stop too.
In other words even though the lens angle of view acts like a 200mm lens the DOF is still acting like that of a 100mm lens, as that’s what it physically is, the lens hasn’t changed just the distance from the subject.
Hope I didn’t lose you.
So no, it’s not hype, it’s purely physics. The important thing to remember is that it is possible, whatever the press say, to get superb bokeh from a M43 camera, you just have to approach it properly.
One advantage of M43 for landscape and macro photographers is that where you apparently have a wider DOF and lose bokeh for portraits it means that the lens shut down haas a much wider DOF for those shooters who want everything in focus before the lens has refraction issues.
Hope that helps
@@ThatMicro43Guy Thank you so much. Am doing a copy/paste so I can keep your reply for reference. Yours is best explanation and reasoning I have ever experienced. I am disabled Veteran with cognitive challenges I fight everyday. Your explanation in simpler terms, great help to me. Thank you so much for your work and effort.
@@don_at_large you’re welcome
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Rubbish photographs? That describes most of my images. The difference between a professional and an amateur is the professional only shows their good images. Hopefully the professional photographer has more bangers than the amateur.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
@@martingreenberg870 I’m lucky Marty, I don’t need to pick my best, my photographs are all of a consistent quality…..they’re all rubbish lol
Great video, please drink plenty of fluids you look very dehydrated....I'm no doctor but just concerned.
Thank you, I will
David Bailey! Who's he?
Lol