hey Peter Gregg Miami Florida welcome to the Christmas room sit back relax you
are about to watch a Peter Gregg video something warm human and wonderful
happens when you watch Peter Gregg what I want to know is is the one point to
crop a deal-breaker is it may be an inconvenience is it a little
inconvenience or is it a big big big inconvenience all right well let's find
out this is not going to be too long of a video
I'm the a nine right now and the reason I got the a nine is is because the focus
system is similar in nature to the A73 the a seventy three let's call it an a
seventy three so I have a Canon 50mm L with the Sigma MC-11
adapter on the camera now so what's the reason that I did that is I wanted to
show you what a 50mm looks like in 24p because we're recording 24 P even
though the timeline is going to be a 30P so if you see it a little bit choppy
that's why but I can't show it to you otherwise the difference so let's say
you're gonna get the A73 the A73 I want to call at the A73 and you want to save
a little bit of money so you need a 50 millimeter because you want the
compression and you want the blown out background which I can't say that I
blame you so what they have from Sony is a Zeiss
55 millimeter 1.8 so the lenses on the camera right now what do I have it set
up its the 50 millimeter Canon L which means it's a 1.2 but I don't have it set
to 1.2 I have it set to F 1.8 because this lens is an F 1.8 now this lens goes
on the Sony body very nicely because Sony is making a really strong effort to
make their their bodies smaller because in the minds of many people mirrorless
equals smaller all right and I can understand
that honestly because that's one of the ways to shrink down a camera however I
think in my opinion this is a personal opinion because other people have the
complete opposite as a matter of fact I will say something in favor of the Sony
sighs after I say something against it alright this GH what is this the five of
the four this is the GH4 the GH5 is the same size basically
it's just about the right size camera so it looks like you know people are not
people but the camera companies are aiming towards smaller and smaller so
what happens is when you have a big lens to put on there like this 50 millimeter
1.4 on a small body it looks very awkward it kind of looks
kind of like if I put this on here it's kind of like a weird balance even
holding the A9 is weird now just so you know the A9 from Sony the A7R3
from Sony and the new coming out or is out in parts of the world A73 from
Sony are basically the same body there's a few different changes the A9 has an
extra dial on top so you can control a few things
the A7R3 has a lock on the button where you the PSAM button to the mode button
and you have to hold it down to turn it whereas something like the the gh4 and
the GH5 if you push the button down you can't turn this but it'll pop up and it
freely will turn all right so the A73 doesn't give you that option you
actually have to hold it for it to turn I don't like that I like the Panasonic
implementation the best I have a choice push it down for it to be locked all the
time or release it for it to be unlocked all the time so that's on the A7R3
okay the A73 which I don't have it's not out in the United
States yet it's coming it does not have that pop up button so the lock is not on
that dial so that's basically the biggest amount of difference is in
actually looking at the bodies between the three cameras the the extra dials on
the A9 the lock are on the permanently locked dial on the PSAM the mode dial
on the A7R3 and on the A73 you get none of those so I like the A73 in
theory the best I haven't held the camera yet so I'm always reserving that
last little ounce of opinion until I actually have the camera in hand so with
easter and passover and them being closed and i ordered mine from B&H it
probably won't be till next week when the cameras get shipped and that's even
if I'm in that first shipment because I understand that the A73 threes the A73 is
actually really really being sold so back to what we're doing in this video
I'm gonna put this lens now the the lenses the 50 millimeter lens from Sony
is $1,400 dollaria for a 50 millimeter 1.4 what's the purpose of that lens why
would I be aiming for that lens the reason that I'd be aiming for that lens
is because I want to do compression of a lens and in combination with the f-stop
I want to get a beautifully blurred out image in the back all right now I'm not
going to talk much about compression but compression also adds to the blurred out
background and the way or the size that the background appears in your
background so the the bigger the millimeters the more compressed and the
more compressed the more flattering that's the general rule so let's say a
25 millimeter F 1.2 on the the Panasonic GH4 GH5 even though it's a
1.2 it's going to give me some background but a 25 millimeter lens is a
25 millimeter lens is a 25 millimeter lens no matter how you crop it it
doesn't change the physical aspects of the lens so it does not have the same
compression that a 50 millimeter lens has so Sony in their way to reduce the
size to go with their much smaller bodies they came out with a second 50
millimeter lens except the second 50 millimeter lens is not 50 millimeter
it's 55mm so they add five more millimeters so that kind of like if
you're in a tight space like I'm in an inside room so if you're an inside room
in a living room how big is the room if you're in a second room in your house
where you're using it kind of like as they make do studio or your your you've
got your tripod in the kitchen and you're looking over the dining room
table which has the living room as the background you still have a limited
amount of feet so the that camera is against the back wall which you can't
see all right but right where the camera is is the wall that Christmas tree is
against that wall and the difference between their two there is 24 to 25 feet
so that's a pretty good sized room not too many people have a room that large
however if you go multi room like you put the tripod in the kitchen and you
look through the the pass-through counter and you sit in the dining room
and then the people never know you know that that's your setup but it's also
inconvenient if you have kids or if you've got friends you've got family you
know you've got to be able to record when there's not gonna be traffic
otherwise it's gonna mess up your video all right so the big question here is
the 55 millimeter I'm gonna look at how much is in the background now I didn't
crop this because normally on the 50 millimeter I have been cropping to taste
I don't like all the air up above my head and I like to crop between the
Santa Clause on this side and the grandfather's clock on that side but
this time the 50-millimeter in 24p now the reason
I pick 24p is because I'm going to show you what the difference is when you go
from 24P to 30P this is something a lot of people don't talk about it's oh
it's not much of a crop it's very very little ok so let's say you want to save
a little bit of money like five hundred dollars and get the 50 millimeter 1.8 to
55 millimeter 1.8 for $900 instead of spending fourteen or fifteen hundred
dollars on the 50 millimeter 1.4 so what kind of a handicap is that going to give
you in terms of space alright let's stop this let's switch it over to 30P which
is going to be the native timeline for this video and put the lower price lens
even though it's a lower price lens it's still a really really good lens it's a
zeiss tagged lens and the optics are very good it doesn't go down to one the
way they kept it small doesn't go down to one point four it goes down to one
point eight and the other way they kept it smaller is instead of 50 millimeters
it's 55mm so all these little things are little by little just inch by inch
handicapping us now the question is does it matter to you or it doesn't because
if it doesn't then you don't have to worry about this but when I'm going to
change to this to get something similar I'm already hitting the back wall so now
I'm thinking hmmm I'm gonna have to do something about this alright so let's
switch the you to the to the to the Sony lens these the zeiss 55 millimeter 1.8
now get a good look now because as soon as I change the lens I want you to
compare the difference of what we are doing here even where the table is
because I got a feeling actually I know I'm gonna have to pull the table back a
little bit because I have it in line with the edge of a door there that's my
marker I know I'm gonna have to pull it back to the middle of the door so let's
do that let's go change the lens I'll be right back okay through the magic of
editing you didn't have to watch me walk all the way to the camera wait
they changed lens put the other lens on take this lens off so now we're we've
changed two things I've changed to the Sony native lens the 55 millimeter 1.8
and I've changed some 24P to 30P that's what he looks like
I don't know what that was about alright the 30P this is the lens that I took
off so the the the 50 millimeter lens is the Canon 50 millimeter lens and now we
also have autofocus operating which is also face detection which is one of the
reasons that this camera is very likeable and this is the MC-11 adapter
from Sigma now from pictures or for pictures the combination of the 50
millimeter L lens and and pretty much yeah I've just about every lens from
Canon that I've had the Canon mount that I put on the MC-11 for pictures not
video works very well I don't have a problem with it at all when I switched
to movies it works really poor I have a hundred percent problem but now with
this you noticed we have the 1.2 crop in effect and we also have the 55
millimeter so we lost 5 millimeters which is not that great but instead of
tilted for us instead of being a 45 millimeter they went the other way to 55
but in this mode and with this lens I have the advantage of having full-time
Sony autofocus which in my opinion is kind of comparable to the Canon dual
pixel focus I have a Canon 80D right here okay and with the dual pixel focus
on this camera I can tap and I can track I can do that on the Sony so I'm doing a
few test shots with this flash unit that's why this is sitting over here
like this okay that hey you want a commercial for one of my products this
is a better bounce card this is the flash diffuser that I invented in 2003
2004 and I've been selling ever since then
and it's the best one I'm sorry that's the way I feel about it that's why I
invented it not to sell flash diffusers it's what I needed but I'm not using the
phone because if I use the phone it actually will kill my face detection and
I do one face detection because I'm gonna go over to say hello to jingles
who very much looks like he's kind of knocked out so again we're watching this
on the Sony A9 and even though it sounds like it's probably not fair to be
doing it on the A9 the focus systems are very similar I've read where it's the
same focused system and I've read where there's a few different things
regardless the focus systems on the A73 and the A9 were is basically the same
foundation so I expect it to do the same so this gives me the freedom to walk
away from the desk to be myself and come out here and say hallelujah and turn
around and sit down and I can actually tell you a story once upon a time in a
land far far away ok so this focus system allows me to pretty confidently
it's not perfect it's it's got its own problems and I'll tell you one of the
problems that no one has even talked about I think I've seen one person
comment on it and that's been it and and that is something called focus breathing
focus breathing is hard to see but it's there on the Sony camera system
including on the A9 if I step back and I step forward alright
find yourself a marker on the one side and mark it with your eyes now watch how
the picture itself gets bigger and smaller as I move and it follows focus
with me so I'll come here and I'll sit down and it followed focus with me and
the picture is actually a different size now it expands and contracts and that's
is focus breathing and when I come up here the picture is
again getting bigger or smaller now unless I actually pointed out to you you
would not have noticed it but if I scrub you know what that means if I say I
scrubbed that means I took the playhead in the NLE or the software in the
computer and I moved it back and forth quickly I could see the picture pulsing
like this okay does that happen on the Canon on the 80D well I had never
noticed before until I noticed it on the Sony so I tried doing some video with
the dual pixel focus on the 80D and I scrubbed and the picture does not change
size so there's no focus breathing on the Canon compared to the Sony so but
that isn't the point it's not going to deter you if I if I didn't mention it
you wouldn't have noticed it maybe one out of 10,000 people would have noticed
it and then one out of a thousand of the people that did notice it which is very
few would have actually commented on it so it's not a major issue the bigger
issue is I can't move the walls I cannot come over and knock out that
wall and move the tree farther back or whatever background that you're going to
be using because if you're gonna go full frame and you want 4k Sony is the only
game in town at the moment with a focus system that's going to be face detection
and full frame so that is kind of like my highest priority so the canons have
been beautiful but they only go to 1080 and the 1080 that they do give you is
not that good so if I do put the 50 millimeter lens on the Sony A9 or any
of the 3 the triplets you know the a7s2 which is supposed to
come out with A7R3 the A73 are the 3 the A9 and the new A73 so if you're gonna
do manual focusing that gives you a few other options what's the biggest sensor
you can get if you do manual focusing well you've got Michael for
Third's but you could step it up from micro four-thirds and go to something
like the 5d mark 4 but that takes it from a 2x which this is the crop factor
here 201 74 on the 5d mark 4 so you see what I mean when I say it's the only
game in town is the Sony if you want full-frame so if you don't need
full-frame then boom BAM done the the gh 5 and the gh series is is becak
basically the best camera camera Sony is a good computer that takes pictures
because it's more computer the the it isn't for nothing that you hear so many
people go like the menus on here are terrible well they're not really
terrible they're they're very hard to get used to they're not logical and
things are buried inside of other things so if you have two months with the
camera and you get to know it intimately you're gonna go hey what's the problem
with the menus there's no problem for me but a lot of people do have that
shellshock of moving over from camera system to the Sony and I would be
included in that because I use the Canon system very heavily into the Nikon
system which is doing nothing with video at all and then panasonic has risen to
the top I think it's the best camera that you can get and even with that I'm
going with the full-frame abilities of an A73 had $2,000 and we can't throw
that out you know as if it's like nothing is you know if it's nothing for
you to spend $2,000 or $4,500 and get the a mine or $3,200 and get the A7R3
if that's if you want more megapixels but you lose how many focus points there
are because they're 693 on the on the $4,500 camera that I'm using now and
there's 300 and something and even much less depending on what you're looking at
contrast or phase detection on the $3,300 camera but take it down to the
two thousand dollar camera and whoa what are they doing they put
all the focus points and basically most of the guts of the focus system of this
$4,500 camera whoosh right into the A73 so the A73 becomes a bargain
bargain but you need to get that one little gotcha
understood I'm not labeling it as good or bad at the moment I'm just labeling
it in a way where you can understand this is what the picture is going to
look like at 30P so let's change the lens one more time let's leave it at 30P
and let's put the 50 millimeter on and just kind of show the difference between
55 and 50 and you're gonna see it's not that much difference but since we've
gotten this far we might as well take it all the way down so you go okay I'll
spend the extra money on the on the 50 millimeter from Sony with the full focus
capabilities let's see what it looks like well I don't have that lens but
this is a 50 millimeter L lens from Canon they should be comparable in 50
millimeter being 50 millimeter but that's not always exact either but let's
change from the 55 to a 50 and we'll lose the autofocus I won't be able to
walk around like I can now another cool thing I love about the autofocus I can
do this and it'll focus right on that that's a
Canon 80D in case you never saw what one looked like and then it's back to me
all right so let's put this on now you're going to see the difference still
staying at 30P if you actually buy the more expensive Sony version of a 50
millimeter 1.4 lens all right so let's change it I'll be right back again
alright I'm back I focused on this target because now with the 50
millimeter Canon lens I can't use automatic focus in the in the camera
because it really is very poor with the meta bones so even though I have a lav
mic on which is right here just on time you can make sure it's on otherwise
there's no sound in this whole video I have a lab mic on here I'm free to
walk around and if I come over here you're kind of gonna say Peter I'm
getting dizzy you're out of focus that's okay
we are at actually I do need to check that okay I checked I wanted to make
sure I was at F 1.8 so this way all the lenses in this entire test is at F 1.8
so that just occurred to me cuz I just changed the lens again so I'll head up
the Zeiss over there so the Zeiss lens is quite small
let me grab it since the focus is not going to change and just grab the lens
and it's very small you know I don't think you call a lens cute but this goes
with that body the A9 the A73 that's coming out in the u.s. those of you that
you have it you know on in Europe you will actually enjoy this lens because
it's very sharp it's the Zeiss 1.8 lens you know I'm
going to put all the stuff that I've been talking about on a my own page on B
and H B and H gave me a page baby and all you got to do is click on that and
anything that I used in this video including the mic
everything except him hey will be available on that page so you can go
read about it and one of the secrets to using the B & H page is you can read
comments because you're getting my comment period here so there's other
people and some of them are dumb ok but some of them will give you something
very interesting to read so all the equipment that's on there Yuri comments
and then anything that you do buy no matter what it is from B&H I will get a
finder's fee it doesn't cost you anything it just helps bring some money
into the channel so that I can buy cameras and stuff so I appreciate that
so this is what the 50 millimeter looks like not much of a difference right I
didn't see that much of a difference between the 55 and the 50 that's on
there now however if I was going to spend
900 or 950 I don't remember how much disease is I would like to find the 50
millimeter Zeiss lens the Sony lens on sale because I'll get a one point four
lens because that's the point why I'm even moving to full-frame is because I
do want my backgrounds blurred out now alright thank you for being with me
today I will catch you later Peter Gregg Miami Florida bye-bye you have just
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or down arrow thingy next to the title on mobile apps duly noted and Jingles is
sitting there so patiently because he got he knows the habit now don't you
look none of that stuff he knows the habit now that at the end
of the video he's waiting to come up on his little table now he's beginning to
think this is his spot yeah he's beginning to think this is his spot
let's pick him up so he came to say hello we just ate a little while ago he
had a half a meatball made with ground turkey and a nice cup of veggies all
mixed in and the vitamins and you know something
I think he's gained some weight you know I think you gained some weight hmm I
think you did so he wanted to say hi and I know you guys wanted to say hi Jingle
Bells rocks right because this is jingle bell time at the end of the video it's
Jingle Bells Jingle Bells Jingle Bell time alright guys thank you for being
together with me in this Jingle Bell time and Jingles has allowed me to come
into his little special time and that's what we got catch you guys later bye bye
okay you're ready to go down okay now you're back on your couch and
we got to go we got to go over and turn the camera off manually because the
phone is not operational I would lose the focus but this is Jingle Bell time now about time
never mind about the camera! Bye Bye :)
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