“They are like ND Filters but for your eyes” when talking about sunglasses is probably one of my favourite things I’ve heard this year and that is now 100% how I will describe sunglasses to anyone who asks👌
4:50 - That's the maximum flash sync speed. If the shutter is any faster than that, there is a chance that the flash will only illuminate part of the film.
I know Gerald is being facetious when talking about the M4-2 haha. But I love the M4-2! It's definitely a piece of Canadian history. Fun fact: Midland was chosen because it had the same number of letters as Wetzlar, the German manufacturing city. 1/50th was the sync speed because of the design of the cloth focal plane shutter. In my view, I think it's the best bang for buck Leica M camera.
True, this was my first M camera because it was somewhat affordable. Then I read in several places that the mechanisms were simplified and that this camera is less serviceable/adjustable than previous models, so after using it for a while, I ended up selling it and replacing it with an original M4 instead.... which came from a dealer in Canada.
Loved the old set with the tool bench in the background, but I gotta say, the minimalist set vibe shows off your table much more, which I really like. I know it was there before, but I didn’t notice it as much.
Just under ten minutes of geeking out and goofing around with a Canadian photographer buddy. This is the best stuff you've done on this channel since 'Not a Podcast.' Please keep it up!
The lightning bolt arrow is the highest shutter speed the camera can do without rolling shutter. Usually 1/60 for horizontal-travel focal plane shutters, and around 1/200 or 1/250 for most vertical-travel shutters. It's known as the flash sync speed because flash can only expose your whole frame properly up to that shutter speed. There are some modern workarounds like firing the flash multiple times as the shutter rolls: this is good if you hate capacitors and want them to die.
Nice to see the old Leica. Back in the 80s-90s I collected them; it brings back so many memories. I shot with them daily as well, mostly 'street' photography, also live performances, when I was living in NYC. I had working models going back to the early 1930s. Often they would work perfectly even after decades. The biggest issues would be 'delaminating' or deterioration of the mirrored surfaces in the rangefinders, and also the Canada Balsam glue that they used to bond together the lens elements just happened to be a perfect medium for fungus to grow in. Often the cameras and lenses would be stored in their beautiful leather cases for decades, and leather being hygroscopic, it would attract moisture and destroy the optics. Anyway, Leicas - (made by Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar; but invented by employee Oskar Barnack in the 1920s originally just as a test camera to run clip-test batches of 35mm Cine film [around 3 feet long, or the width of your arms stretched; yielding approx 36 exposures!] in order to precisely determine the film's ISO [sensitivity/speed]. This was how the standard 35mm film still format was born!!!) - were the cameras which made a huge percentage (I don't remember the exact numbers, but IIRC it was said to be well over 50%) of all the historically important photos taken during the entire 20th century! Leica was the #1 choice for photojournalists, war photographers, etc. right up until 1959, when the first SLR pentaprism camera, the ubiquitous Nikon F, was introduced. Many photographers still preferred the smaller size and much more quiet operation of the rangefinder Leicas. (They sat in the hand like a nice P08 or PPK.) I collected Nikons too, even though they didn't have the ergonomic feel of the Leicas... Unfortunately, I ended up not keeping a single example of the 50+ Leicas or many Nikon Fs that I owned back then, and even though I know I wouldn't be bothered to shoot film anymore, I kind of regret not keeping a Leica IIIc or M3 just to fiddle with. They were really beautiful examples of design, copied by everyone, and now all pretty much obsolete. I think Leica makes digital cameras now, but I have no idea how well they are regarded by modern users...
Mr. Undone, just to let you know - my wife things you monitor with the Fireplace is TOO distracting. I was watching this video and when she came up from our basement pantry with dinner supplies, she saw it an commented. I was listening to the interview and did not latch onto that. Something to consider.
After really bad sales because of the M5 (the innovative and very misunderstood "ugly duckling") and internal competition with the Leica CL, Leica's Wetzlar leadership was thinking on stopping the production of the M series and put the efforts to a more "promising" line, the R cameras. Fortunately, in Canada, Walter Kluck, leader at ELCAN (Ernst Leitz Canada) and his team proposed a cost effective version of the older M4, naming it the M4-2. Changed many materials, and adopte the "replaceable parts" logic instead of serviceable and adjustable ones. It was a great success and laid the foundation for all its successors. The famous and desired M6 is basically an "improved" M4-2. The M5 was the last fully mechanical and adjustable camera in the original M lineup.
Hi Gerald, love your reviews and all the information you provide. Could you do a review on the new Z cam E2 - F6 pro. It would be really nice to see if they fixed all the problems from the earlier model with the firmware updates. They came out with and how much better the new model is. Thank you and keep up the good work.
@@geraldundone I appreciate you trying new things. Would have been easier to stick to the uber geek brand you've worked so hard to deservedly build. Anything new comes with "mistakes", but hey, sometimes you just got to change stuff :)
Hi Gerald, great new talk show style design! I do think your fireplace display can be more elegant, its a really aggressive fire in terms of room design in my opinion right now.
Love that you are trying new things in a new space! Not super loving the vibe but it seemed a bit more chaotic / unscripted than your usual stuff. Also could be that I am not use to seeing you do this kind of content. Will look forward to seeing what this new change brings.
Nice! I think you’ve got the interview framing better now. If you’re still willing to experiment, maybe play with the height of you vs the interview subject (but it’s not bad rn), and I suppose you could move the tv to be at midpoint between the two of you. I like the relaxed vibe!
Dear Mr. Undone, it is with a serious tone that I write to you as you are a man of great purple powers! Please look at the new Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K Full Frame!! How well does it work with your Kondor Blue HDMI cables?!
Great talk show set. This reminds me of the time David Letterman was interviewing Harrison Ford, and they talked about the microphones for the first 15 minutes. JK JK JK
Onabags are great. I bought the bowery on 2012/2013. In 2021 the inside padding excretes(?) black sticky wax stuffs when it's pushed too hard. So any 1kg camera will make my hand and my bag sticky. I torn up the separator padding and sent video to Ona just to ask about this. Surprisingly, they sent me a new bag. To Asia. Free of charge. I'll be their customer for life.
At least 20% of the things I've said are accurate. Thanks for having me instead of the bear for this episode!
"Sunglasses: they are like ND filters but for your eyes" had me absolutely rolling. Subscribed.
You mean instead of Bearald
The little flex with the Palm Angels sunglasses tho 🔥
@@peter5477-kz4vj am I missing something? What’s wrong with the parrot pro?
“They are like ND Filters but for your eyes” when talking about sunglasses is probably one of my favourite things I’ve heard this year and that is now 100% how I will describe sunglasses to anyone who asks👌
Such a safe space for nerds. I'm a camera nerd from Argentina and just enjoyed whatever this was. keep them coming
4:50 - That's the maximum flash sync speed. If the shutter is any faster than that, there is a chance that the flash will only illuminate part of the film.
Thank you, sir, I was looking for this exact comment.
“They’re like ND Filters, but for your eyes” 😂💀
I’ve been waiting for someone to say it! Finally!
Amazing 😂😂😂🤘🏻
That's a great camera / lens - 4:50 YES I"M yelling at the screen, shutter synch for flash.
Kids today...
Wonder if it supports the Godox V1
What's a flash? Like a COB LED that blinks? 😜
@@geraldundone I think it’s what’s on the tv
@@geraldundone blinks so fast some would say it even strobes.
That person yelling at the screen right now is me, Taylor.
Got you good!
Same lmao
I know Gerald is being facetious when talking about the M4-2 haha. But I love the M4-2! It's definitely a piece of Canadian history. Fun fact: Midland was chosen because it had the same number of letters as Wetzlar, the German manufacturing city. 1/50th was the sync speed because of the design of the cloth focal plane shutter. In my view, I think it's the best bang for buck Leica M camera.
True, this was my first M camera because it was somewhat affordable. Then I read in several places that the mechanisms were simplified and that this camera is less serviceable/adjustable than previous models, so after using it for a while, I ended up selling it and replacing it with an original M4 instead.... which came from a dealer in Canada.
The original M4 is a thing of beauty as well. A few thousand were made in Canada and will say Midland/Canada on their top plate. @@heiner71
4:02 "Leaf Shutter"... removes lens to show a cloth focal plane shutter.
Yup
I was looking for this comment. All good though- Taylor is a good guy.
I laughed way too hard when Taylor said, "They're like ND filters, but for your eyes."
you should have your previous interview playing on the TV in a loop for your next interview
Gerald PLEASE do a podcast. I could listen / watch you and a guest talk about anything and everything for hours!
Loved the old set with the tool bench in the background, but I gotta say, the minimalist set vibe shows off your table much more, which I really like. I know it was there before, but I didn’t notice it as much.
"Apologies to Patrick Tomasso we ran out of time"
“What’s up with that?”
Love this fire site conversation! "They are like ND filters but for the eyes!" (sunglasses) 😂
This is my new favorite late night variety show, hands down!
Just under ten minutes of geeking out and goofing around with a Canadian photographer buddy. This is the best stuff you've done on this channel since 'Not a Podcast.' Please keep it up!
Folks, we truly are seeing Gerald becoming Undone.
The lightning bolt arrow is the highest shutter speed the camera can do without rolling shutter. Usually 1/60 for horizontal-travel focal plane shutters, and around 1/200 or 1/250 for most vertical-travel shutters. It's known as the flash sync speed because flash can only expose your whole frame properly up to that shutter speed.
There are some modern workarounds like firing the flash multiple times as the shutter rolls: this is good if you hate capacitors and want them to die.
I really enjoy the new talkshow format. Love how you reinvent to keep it interesting.
Nice to see the old Leica. Back in the 80s-90s I collected them; it brings back so many memories. I shot with them daily as well, mostly 'street' photography, also live performances, when I was living in NYC. I had working models going back to the early 1930s. Often they would work perfectly even after decades. The biggest issues would be 'delaminating' or deterioration of the mirrored surfaces in the rangefinders, and also the Canada Balsam glue that they used to bond together the lens elements just happened to be a perfect medium for fungus to grow in. Often the cameras and lenses would be stored in their beautiful leather cases for decades, and leather being hygroscopic, it would attract moisture and destroy the optics.
Anyway, Leicas - (made by Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar; but invented by employee Oskar Barnack in the 1920s originally just as a test camera to run clip-test batches of 35mm Cine film [around 3 feet long, or the width of your arms stretched; yielding approx 36 exposures!] in order to precisely determine the film's ISO [sensitivity/speed]. This was how the standard 35mm film still format was born!!!) - were the cameras which made a huge percentage (I don't remember the exact numbers, but IIRC it was said to be well over 50%) of all the historically important photos taken during the entire 20th century! Leica was the #1 choice for photojournalists, war photographers, etc. right up until 1959, when the first SLR pentaprism camera, the ubiquitous Nikon F, was introduced. Many photographers still preferred the smaller size and much more quiet operation of the rangefinder Leicas. (They sat in the hand like a nice P08 or PPK.) I collected Nikons too, even though they didn't have the ergonomic feel of the Leicas... Unfortunately, I ended up not keeping a single example of the 50+ Leicas or many Nikon Fs that I owned back then, and even though I know I wouldn't be bothered to shoot film anymore, I kind of regret not keeping a Leica IIIc or M3 just to fiddle with. They were really beautiful examples of design, copied by everyone, and now all pretty much obsolete. I think Leica makes digital cameras now, but I have no idea how well they are regarded by modern users...
Duh guys that isn't an arrow, it is the lightning bolt symbol for flash sync speed of 1/50 sec. Everyone knows that but you guys, LOL. Cheers
Great to see Taylor here - I mean - I love the bear, but he doesn’t talk as much as Taylor
I really appreciate the outtakes, they always make me laugh! Keep up the great work!
Mr. Undone, just to let you know - my wife things you monitor with the Fireplace is TOO distracting. I was watching this video and when she came up from our basement pantry with dinner supplies, she saw it an commented. I was listening to the interview and did not latch onto that. Something to consider.
I don’t know what this is, but I like it. Keep ‘em coming in this format.
I need those ND filters for your eyes!
I think we’re a little too early for the fire Gerald. Maybe by like a week or 2 😂❤
Great vid
HAHA This format IS GREAT! Shoutout to wedding shooters.
Not a LEAF shutter!
It was a CURTAIN or FOCAL PLAIN shutter…
(4:03)
Yeah... I thought it was strange that there were no leaves on it. 🍃🍂😜
@@geraldundone It must be Autumn already.
This is like watching one of those videos where they give a rotary phone to a 15 year old kid and ask him to make a phone call.
this has some Erik André vibes i keep waiting for Gerald to drive a dune buggy out of his desk
I would watch the hell out of this! Gerald undone talk show??!!! Like what?!
After really bad sales because of the M5 (the innovative and very misunderstood "ugly duckling") and internal competition with the Leica CL, Leica's Wetzlar leadership was thinking on stopping the production of the M series and put the efforts to a more "promising" line, the R cameras. Fortunately, in Canada, Walter Kluck, leader at ELCAN (Ernst Leitz Canada) and his team proposed a cost effective version of the older M4, naming it the M4-2. Changed many materials, and adopte the "replaceable parts" logic instead of serviceable and adjustable ones. It was a great success and laid the foundation for all its successors. The famous and desired M6 is basically an "improved" M4-2. The M5 was the last fully mechanical and adjustable camera in the original M lineup.
Woah, that pre-role ad just played at 2x speed. I normally watch youtube videos at 2x. But the ads play at 1x speed. This time it played at 2x. Crazy.
Yeah, the fire is a bit much. What about: Toronto skyline? Lake Louise? Group of Seven painting?
This is the cross-colab we need in our lives. Nice work guys!
I see Gerald with a Leica and got really really intrigued
And then... disappointed. 😂💜
@@geraldundone I would love to co-review a film camera/stock with you if I’m ever in the area ;)
The fireplace is, indeed, a lot
The answer to this video is yes.
I don’t understand what I watched but I’m here for it 😂
lets go someone else that rocks an M4-2
This taylor guy is so rich man. He owns so many cameras and goes on tours and everything
This studio setup is really cool
Very cool. BTW, cloth focal plane shutter.
Red Letter Media when?
next episode: Gerald interviews himself
Hi Gerald, love your reviews and all the information you provide. Could you do a review on the new Z cam E2 - F6 pro. It would be really nice to see if they fixed all the problems from the earlier model with the firmware updates. They came out with and how much better the new model is. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Is it hot in here or is it me? (Anyone’s guess whether I’m referring to Taylor or that raging inferno)
"They are like ND filters for your eyes" amazing lol
It's very interresting the idea. It can work. That's something "fresh, interesting and fun" your new show project.
I can’t believe you interviewed Taylor and no one mentioned Bear Weldings.
this could really work with a drummer and a bass player
can't look at anything but the fire :)
Yeah... it's a bit intense. Got some new stuff for that screen coming in next month's videos.
@@geraldundone I appreciate you trying new things. Would have been easier to stick to the uber geek brand you've worked so hard to deservedly build. Anything new comes with "mistakes", but hey, sometimes you just got to change stuff :)
Hi Gerald, great new talk show style design! I do think your fireplace display can be more elegant, its a really aggressive fire in terms of room design in my opinion right now.
Taylor should start a channel
I would watch it
Part of that shot is lit.
Love that you are trying new things in a new space! Not super loving the vibe but it seemed a bit more chaotic / unscripted than your usual stuff. Also could be that I am not use to seeing you do this kind of content. Will look forward to seeing what this new change brings.
Dude just sold me on a tamron lens for documentary film work... seems pretty run and gun all in one!
I like more laid back content, basically everything about new studio... but TV with video of fire playing back is a bit much for my taste.
It creates warmth in the highlights.
I’m here for the nonsense, give me MORE
What did I just watch 😂😂😂😂
Cool! Thanks for sharing it. ✌️
The red stripe cant be for flash sync. Its a Leah shutter. Flash is possible at pretty much any speed
Do more of this...short and relaxed with awesome guests; I loved it.
"ND filters for your eyes"
-Taylor Jackson
That lightning arrow IS max flash sync - slow, but that's how they were!
Nice! I think you’ve got the interview framing better now. If you’re still willing to experiment, maybe play with the height of you vs the interview subject (but it’s not bad rn), and I suppose you could move the tv to be at midpoint between the two of you. I like the relaxed vibe!
Hmm mildly interesting people talking , one behind a desk. What does this remind me of ? Oh yeah tv talk shows 😀
Dear Mr. Undone, it is with a serious tone that I write to you as you are a man of great purple powers! Please look at the new Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K Full Frame!! How well does it work with your Kondor Blue HDMI cables?!
Is anyone else waiting for Gerald’s review of Atomos Ninja Ultra?
"They're like ND filters for your eyes"
jeepers
Love the series! Next episode, potato jet?
Every guest, even if they are boring, will be 🔥
Great talk show set. This reminds me of the time David Letterman was interviewing Harrison Ford, and they talked about the microphones for the first 15 minutes. JK JK JK
PLEASE GET CASEY FROM CAMERA CONSPIRACIES ON - OMG
What did I just watch? 😂
The fire!!
I like your Undone tries something new
Onabags are great. I bought the bowery on 2012/2013. In 2021 the inside padding excretes(?) black sticky wax stuffs when it's pushed too hard. So any 1kg camera will make my hand and my bag sticky. I torn up the separator padding and sent video to Ona just to ask about this.
Surprisingly, they sent me a new bag. To Asia. Free of charge.
I'll be their customer for life.
Good lord I’m old. You guys didn’t recognize a flash synch mark….
The fire is a lot.
My new puppy has been peeing on that exact teddy bear for the past 3 weeks. Sorry Teddy
Doe Leica Canada still make Leica products of any sort?
The lightning bolt/arrow is the flash sync.
What did I just watch? 👀
You gotta get Josh Yo on the show.
Time to get the ATEM set up for the talk show.
He’s crazy!
Is it just me or was this the Terrance and Philip show?
🔥
Whenever someone busts out an Ona bag, I KNOW they rich rich 🤑
How much are they??? Asking as, his wife. Lol.
Haha, such a vibe
This new set reminds me of when joe rogan made that red studio and everything went weird. Nd for your eyes cracked me up though 😄
I feel like the thumbnail and the title of this video changed
"where do you tend to rub it?"
TEDDYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
I wanted more
I loved it.
The arrow is indeed for flash. To sync it.