All Things Joey
Focusing on all of my efforts around the art of making videos and social media. Camera, lens, and equipment reviews. I also share tutorials on anything I have learned over the years.
My friend recently gifted me this Sony ECM-XYST1M camera microphone. The benefit to using a mic like this is that you don’t have to use a 3.5MM cable which enables a cleaner camera set up.
Check out the video to see my thoughts and hear a comparison against the Deity D4 Duo.
I recently purchased the DJI Mavic Air 2 with the smart controller. In this video, I discuss why I upgraded from the original Mavic Mini and why the smart controller was a game changer for me.
Note: I called the Mavic Air 2 the MAVRICK Air 2 throughout the video… I keep doing it, I can’t stop, I am sorry (lol).
After my first experience with color profiles on my Panasonic G7, I steered away from changing the settings on the camera. I didn’t know what I was doing, and I just followed what other vloggers said to do.
The problem is… most vloggers what the most neutral color palette from the camera, so they can tweak the colors in editing.
Who wants to do extra work?
If you are using a few different cameras in the same video, I understand the desire to have the same color science through all clips, but I am sticking to the default settings.
I recently purchased a Sony 35mm F1.8 lens (SEL35F18F) and paired it with my A7C to make this review.
The low light performance is very good, but at the end of the video I was overly optimistic about the low light performance (I literally shut all of the lights off), as expected the ISO ramped up and caused some grain.
It still looked sharp and clear with very minimal lighting and I am looking forward to playing around with background lighting when I use it again.
My self-education of videography and lighting continues. I recently purchased a black/white pop up background and a fairly professional light.
I did some experiments on both background colors with different lights to see if I could get desired outcomes… with mixed results.
Genaray AK-230 Light:
https://bhpho.to/2SO8tv8
Black/White Background:
https://amzn.to/3pbSK5o
This is a short video of me messing around with a new green screen.
I bought a pull-up style green screen (vs the bendable version) to see if it would be easier to set up and create less shadows (since it wasn’t hanging).
Set up was definitely easier, but lighting is lighting (unfortunately).
Link to Neewer Green Screen:
https://amzn.to/3hIFpzT