I watch camera conspiracies to know how I am being lied to

Hi, I watch Ted Forbes (The Art of Photography) for his history and artistic heritage vids; Thomas Heaton for his landscapes and others ,etc etc. But this channel has it all. You cover techniques; gear reviews; artistic and historic aspects; crystal-ball gazing; camera workings for so many models; editing ... ad infinitum. I am not saying you are perfect nor ever make mistakes - such is impossible. But I do know, from watching for quite some time, that you are uber reliable, informative, good-humoured, educative and trustworthy to a very high standard. I have learnt much - and continue to learn from what I consider to be the best all-round photographers' channel available. And, in case anyone thinks that means you are jacks of all trades but masters of none, I urge comparison with any other channel. I am so grateful this channel exists and I value it very highly. (This comment was not sponsored by anyone but I am always open to a few quid / dollars / yen / cakes / beer. :) ). Seriously, who has a better all-round channel? 1.2 million subscribers could be wrong but I believe they are not.

I love photography but I’m currently just using my phone, due to other financial obligations. One day I’ll love to own a proper setup and you guys help keep that passion going. Thanks for the impartial content

Just a note: Mirrorless cameras using silent mode are silent. My Olympus EM5 MkII is so silent on silent mode that I can shoot continuously and nobody knows I pressed the button. Also, all full frame 4k overheat. That's why companies like Sharp are going 8k on m4/3.

Great list. I'll add that camera manufacturers seem to also frequently tell fibs about: battery life (# shots); ISO (fudging the values to make their images seem cleaner at the same reported ISO vs. competitors); wifi user experience (it sucks in real life); weather sealing (no standardized testing, how well it works varies a lot from camera to camera); accuracy of the live histogram (it's based on the processed JPEG incl. picture profile not the actual RAW sensor data).

Main thing to remember when reading specs for any technical kit - 'up to' starts from zero ;-)

hey guys.. as a former White House News Photographer for CBS NEWS. was the pool guy most often on the weekend. but you were talking Silence.. well. I was there during film and digital days.. or years. Now.. the press office would yell out.. "LIGHTS" instantly the two lights they had up were turned off. this was the sign ... no more photos or video to be shot. Anyone seen still shooting or any still photographer making a shutter sound would have their White House ID card pulled.. no questions. no nothing. You were out instantly. The main White House ID is the highest in Wash. DC have this and you are admitted everywhere. the gold standard of You Have Arrived. I did for 12 yrs.. But yeah.. I learned to carry my small range finder 35mm LEICA.. totally silent.. always.. I kept two with me. for colour and B&W.

I just want to point out a feature of quiet mode that isn't about how much noise the shutter/mirror makes. It's about how much vibration it causes. I was trying to shoot shots of the full moon at 300mm focal length on a crop sensor camera. This lens did not have image stabilization or VR. I could not get a tack sharp picture of the moon. Out of frustration I accidentally switched the dial to quiet mode and took a shot. It was sharp. I tried again. Sharp. I tried continuous quiet mode. All images were sharp. I went back to regular shutter speed. Not sharp. It seems that the mirror flip action combined with shutter speed causes enough of a slight vibration to throw off sharpness at far-reaching focal lengths. In regards to 4K, you might get the resolution size of 4K, but you aren't going to get the added benefit of HDR, HDR 10 or Dolby Vision. Those have to be separately color graded and programed as an added overlay on the 4K video.

"Why would you need 12 frames per second if your subject is not moving." LOL

Welcome to the world of marketing... It happens in all industries, even highly regulated ones, Remember the emission claims for diesel by Audi/VW? They even put a program in the ECU to trick the test. Lying/misleading is part of corporate business these days. It sells product. They calculate the risk, and even if caught, the fine/consequence is usually worth the risk. So they do it. There is laws surrounding mis-leading marketing, but it is hard to claim that it doesn’t do it, if technically it can, so most people don’t challenge it and companies keep doing it! I wouldn’t be surprised if companies challenge you on this, as stating that they comments are lies!

Chelsea is freaking hilarious

My favorite lie is when car manufacturers say 30mpg but on your best day you can barely get 7

I don't think you picked on the GoPro enough... The amazing videos they post on their website are COMPLETELY DECEPTIVE. They shoot in flat mode and in post processing sharpen and color grade for the final result. They also frequently use a gimbal for stabilization and almost always shoot in immaculate lighting conditions. An interesting vlog subject would be to critique "sample" photos and videos provided by various marketing departments and to explain why average Joe's don't get this in real life.

God. How much money is Squarespace spending on KZfaq?

I have 2 pretzels if you want to buy them. Also, my Canon has a silent mode. very simple to use, you switch the lever from ON to OFF! Canon is so far ahead of the game!

I suggest you (as in everybody) just don't confuse megapixel with the level of detail. The megapixel advertised are true but this only means the resolution your image has, not the level of detail you can get out of it. The resolution of an image can enable higher amounts of detail, given high quality glass (as tony said), but the actual image is still the exact same amoutn of pixel in width and height no matter how bad your lens or level of detail is. Those "actual" megapixel you can get with a certain camera/lens combination only indicates how much you could scale down you image before you notice it. Just zoom in on any image you took and decide whether it is getting pixelated or soft first. If its soft, your lens is the limiting factor, if its pixelated, the sensor is.

Morning coffee and watching. Thank you for creating this content! I love the dynamic between you two and the info you bring. :D

"If you took a pretzel and broke it in half and said now you have two." LOL

I must say, I watched your video about "5 Lies Camera Companies Tell You" with great amusement. Having been in advertising for 45 years (I just retired), I was a first-hand witness to all the lies advertising agencies will tell prospective buyers in a desperate attempt to boost client sales. Whenever I watch TV with friends and commercials are shown, I often say, "That's a lie...that's a lie...that's a lie...and here's why they're all lies." From drastically retouching a local politician's photo to look younger and more appealing to voters, to creating out and out lies (oftentimes outrageous lies) in order to sell a product or service, ad agencies will gladly, even enthusiastically, lie because if they can push sales just a little further, they could earn a big bonus from the client. Those "5 lies" are, in most probability, more like 50 lies...you just never realized where they were lying and/or had no way to put it to the test like you could with your "5 lies." The thing that always amused me the most was when camera ads boasted about megapixel counts (this is one point you missed altogether). You may have noticed an asterisk and teeny-tiny type at the bottom of the ad mentioning "effective megapixels." A 24 megapixel sensor might in actuality only have 20 (or less) "effective" megapixels. In other words, megapixels that can actually be used to record a photo. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that every digital camera you ever bought had much fewer "effective" megapixels than you thought you were getting.

My Fujifilm cameras DO have a silent mode. Set the camera to silent and set the shutter to electronic, and the camera is totally silent. In fact, recently I had forgotten that my camera was set for silence and when I tried to take a picture I thought the camera was broken. When I realized my mistake, I checked my memory card and found that while I was fooling around trying to figure out why the camera was broken, I had actually shot five pictures.

OK normally I don't point out errors you make but you said its rare that a photographer would be in a situation that they could take advantage of the full FPS when shooting sports. As a former sports photographer here are a few really regular scenarios that I used my max FPS. 1. Shooting baseball and having the camera locked on second base catching a stolen base. 2. Mounting your camera above a backboard when shooing basketball to catch those cool overhead shots. 3. Shooting locked on to a goalie for either hockey or soccer, especially during shootouts or penalty shots because even though they move left or right they often stay on a flat plane. 4. Shooting the tipoff in Basketball. 5. Shooting a serve in tennis. 6. Gymnastics shooting the rings. I think you get the point, any situation were the athletic action is stationary you can use those high frame rates and the quickest and easiest way to switch modes is to just toggle the focusing switch to manual on your lens for that shot and get your true as advertised FPS. Just a critique not a criticism and I love your channel. Congrats on the One Million subs. Best, Larry

OK, Chelsea now you did it! I'm one of your most loyal listeners and I'm 75 AND a grandmother! 🤨😤😖 Little old ladies are mentally all right - usually...

According to Nikon manuals on silent mode: "The mirror stays up while the shutter-release button is pressed all the way down. The mirror is lowered (more quietly than in single-frame mode) only when the shutter-release button returns to the halfway position, allowing you to control the timing of the click made by the mirror." So it's not silent as in "no sound", but in that you can control when the mirror is lowered again, which can be more discrete than the up & down in short succession that occurs in regular shooting mode.

Guys, you are soo nice to listen, so much good attitude there.Thank you for those great smiles and very-nice yo hear conversation.

I love Tony and Chelsea, so funny and Inteligent! Always a good time watching their videos!!

My Samsung NX1 does 4K video without cropping any of the sensor. It's fantastic that I get that from a camera that was made in 2014. I love the camera so much. I just got it but it's already the best camera I have ever owned. It uses the H.265 video codec and it doesn't overheat ever. That means that my files are have the size and hold 4 times as much detail as other cameras using the H.264 video codec. It is just an awesome camera and even the autofocus system is just as good as modern cameras. I highly recommend the Samsung NX1 camera.

Fantastic episode you guys. You’re really the stuff!! Such valuable information.

My favourite is the "2 stops better low light performance at iso 6 million or sth"

You guys are so honest and grounded. Wish half my day was as balanced. Well done.

Hi Tony & Chelsea. Really educational camera video. I had no idea (but should have guessed) all the mis-information claimed by camera companies. And how about computer companies claiming 8 hours of battery operation, when in fact it's more like 4-5 hours. I read their tests were done, surprise surprise, under optimal conditions with the internet turned off, screen lighting turned down to the minimum setting, etc. And right, we live in a "We're #1" world. We're #1 in customer service. It's actually, "We're #1 in sales"(because of our misleading marketing campaigns). Whenever a company says "We're #1," I always think of what Chelsea said: "Shouldn't a third party decide this and NOT the manufacturer?" If we really want to know the quality and specs of a camera or any other product, then we should watch shows like yours, KZfaq reviews, Consumer Reports, and so on. Thank you guys for giving us a heads-up on camera company "lies." I bookmarked you!

Thanks for the video guys , excellent as always :-) A couple of points , 1) you can get really close ( feeding from your hand) to a Humming bird , so it's possible to use your phone to take photos. 2) The max FPS can be useful and achieved in manual focus when the subject is by all accounts stationary, eg. a bird on a perch flapping wings , moving its head etc. Keep up the good work :-)

That's the reason i test the camera myself and not rely on other people.

How about “you’ve got to get a 4K TV to watch football.” Sports channels realize the best output from most cable boxes is “1080i” so they transmit football game coverage at “720p” because interlaced video does not render fast motion as well as progressive video. The best performance your expensive TV can deliver is from the over-the-air signal, but only when the station actually transmits in 1080p (which is not all the time).

This isn't solely related to cameras, but in general a lot of electronics like to push the idea of: * "Water resistant", or "Water proof to 5 feet in under 1 second", or something similarly deceptive. Basically a trick to say "You can get this wet, and it _might_ not die." For reference, look at most "water proof" items, then look at a decent quality scuba watch. The difference is noticeable. * Drop tests where it shows the product leaving someones hand, and a jump cut to it falling to the ground. It will include a line about it "survives accidental falls up to 1 foot", or something similar, to imply it's highly durable. In both shots, the product technically only dropped the listed foot, but the video makes it _seem_ like it dropped from 5 feet or more. Some companies reword this to "from a great height", or similar. If you see an uncut video of them throwing it off a roof, ladder, etc. assume that they did multiple takes and went with the take where the item actually survived. They don't need to disclose if it's only 1 out of 100. * "Helps protect against..." implies that it _does_ prevent X, whether it be fog, snow, viruses, cracks, or whatever, but may actually do absolutely nothing. The idea is that the device _might_ have the *potential* to do something, but that it is not a guaranteed. Even if the tag line is immediately followed by "Manufacturer guaranteed!" It's a separate sentence, so it's ambiguous enough to mean the manufacturer guarantees that the product is the product, but *does not* guarantee that their _claim_ about the product or it's _suitability_ for applications X, Y, or Z. * "Made in America." The parts were molded, tested, and partially assembled somewhere else. The final screws may have been twisted into place on American soil. By prisoners in a privately run prison. Very few, if factories make products in America from start to finish. Most that do still get their raw materials from elsewhere. From what I understand, this tag line can also sometimes just be in reference to where product _research and design_ took place. Example: K-3 visa engineers may have drawn up a blueprint on American soil, then had it created elsewhere; I believe there has been increased regulation against that specific type of deception, though.

Great review - thank you for revealing the technical details behind the M- false claims...

I'm surprised they don't claim "The worlds most expensive camera" because we all know that the higher the price the better your pictures will be.

I couldn't believe it when Fuji was advertising the X-T100 and that it HAD 4K VIDEO RECORDING!!! but at 15 fps hahahaha

I thought the Megapixel part of the conversation was hysterical! After spending a lifetime in the photo industry I remembered my years as a photo processor were we would tell young photographers who would bring in their shots that where out of focus! On these occasions we would tell them that the next time they brought in their film to ask whoever was processing it to add “SHARPENOL”to the developer! 😂😂😂

Megapixels is a number that only states the amount of pixels and thus the resolution of the pictures (actual files) your camera will produce. What color these pixels (on your sensor) record or if they actually make your pictures sharp has nothing to do with that...it’s still the same number of pixels... So with sensorshift (or is it pixelshift ?) the sensor doesn’t increase in megapixels, but the final picture could. Perceivable megapixels is just an indicator of the quality of a lens you put in front of a sensor... The fact that people don’t know or understand this, is not the manufacturer fault. Consumers want to know the megapixel count, so it’s probably emphasized because of it... (My first digital camera ever, didn’t record audio, with the videos...so when I went to buy a new camera, I asked if this one did. The answer:”I don’t know, but it does have Megapixel !”). High FPS without continues auto focus could be used to get sharp hand held pictures with slow shutter speeds. And fast auto focus with still subjects could also come in handy for candid shots. Most people who see me take a shot, start moving at that moment...so if auto focus is quick enough to focus BEFORE the subject starts moving, could in a handful of cases in a couple of years come in handy. The problem, I think, is that most consumers nowadays believe they know what they are talking about and manufacturers tell them exactly what they want to hear. As long as you don’t ask for more...because then they buy something else (from a different manufacturer, that does give them what they want...). I would suggest that the bigger problem is the consumers ignorance and unwillingness to educate themselves. So yes...it’s most definitely misleading advertisement. But they need to, to sell their products...

We should Mention that the "Silent mode" on cameras starting with the α7S really is silent :)...

Megapixels are just the manufacturers "theoretical megapixels" after taxes lol

Thank you very much Tony & Chelsea for the valuable information.

Thanks for the info, great job

Chelsea you were on fire in this video. You are so funny, I couldn't stop laughing. A great video guys. Those sneaky manufacturers, I would not trust any of them.

I watch these videos for the Squarespace segues. I don't even own a camera.

Amazing video,definitely giving me hints for my next photography tutorial and photoshoot!👌

@0.40 Chelsea was going to say “dope ass website.” 😂😂😂

Hey Tony, the "cone of silence" worked for Max Smart (086), DIDN'T IT?

Silent mode sounds louder than regular mode...

I graduated from Ringling School Barton design a little bit ago and you guys are very helpful in starting a business and helping with the fine details and the insights into a different cameras lenses and the capacities of each and your phone, poor viewpoints thank you and continue your work

That last example with the humming bird is probably the phone taking a photo of a photo which in turn was taken by a much better camera :P

I didn't hear the silent mode at all :) On a side note, that new Spiderman multiverse movie looks very jerky, like it was filmed in 15 fps on the Fuji ;)

You should have mentioned that Sony and other mirrorless manufacturers didnt lie about silent mode/silentshutter. All you hear is the Aperture closing down, if you arent Shooting wide open

Which Lightroom model should I buy guys, I heard there was a combo photo shop Lightroom package and also folks having trouble with a few editions of L/R

Another great podcast, learned a few things along the way. About the FPS, I was wondering if picture size might also affect it, such as having max pic size selected in both jpeg and raw capture mode, not to mention the speed rating of your SD card, might these factors also play a hand?

Chelsea is so funny 😂 she genuinely makes me laugh sometimes

How come you didn't include the FF equivalent lenses? When Olympus puts a dinky little thing next to a 600 f4, claiming it does the same thing...

So, I just started making my Square Space website, bought my domain, etc., and I'm not finding this quite as easy to do as you make it seem (for a complete novice), though I recognize I still have it pretty easy. I think You two should set-up a demonstrational Square Space account, and walk your viewers through the process. I think That would be a great video, and I trust Square Space would approve!

Very true and very well done! Camera manufacturers are taking the consumers for a ride because consumers are easily falling pray to these gimmicks and they know the consumer mentality. People should take them to court.

So, an advertized 24MP sensor is actually using 4 times 6MP photosites with 2 for green, 1 for red and 1 for blue (Bayer filter)? Is there some computing that is made by the camera to extrapolate the value of the missing pixel (the one between 2 reds, 2 blues and 4 greens) to give us a file with 24 actual MP, each having an RGB value of X bits with half of them being extrapolated? I think this would deserve a video in itself. I mean to explain how a camera sensor works actually.

My name is Kevin and I accept your apology

Chelsea At 24:40 "yeah, this is showing off a different feature... like how to share pictures you took with the different camera" ......so funny I spit out my coke....lol...outstanding!!

I was a mechanic/optic engineer P.E. with Bell & Howell in the early 1960’s doing NASA projects. We also make inexpensive camera’s like Super 8 movie cameras. My favorite was the “Foton 35 mm.” It was the first motor drive 35mm camera. It was a spring mechanical motor drive. It also had a iris shudder so it was so silent that it was court room Qualified. Lastly, we tested ALL lens we made. From the 10” in diameter lens for the U-2 and SR-70 for HYCON cameras to the Super 8 movie camera. All the lens could resolve more lines than any of the films that they could ever use.

Lie #1 "Mirrorless Re-invented"

Did your watch just say 02:04am?! Dedication. Edit: just remembered the 12-hour clock, used to 24hr. Not so dedicated 😂😂

NEED more of this PLEASE, with most photography, paying money for a camera is really big deal with them, after work hard month by month for the money. Thanks for sharing ab the half of truth.

You guys are great team. Thanks.

You're the best.

Basically, cameras are lightproof boxes with glassed holes. So what do you expect from people selling such nonsense? Marketing is art, not science ;)

this was i always talking about ever since...good point tony & chel.

First off, compliments for a great series of videos -- you both set a mark for professionalism and quality of content few others match. Wondering, as you do, how and why some of the more perplexing design decisions are made, and how a respected company can make the claims they do, I sometimes imagine a design team meeting in a boardroom with engineers, production people, lawyers, accountants, marketing and research specialists, and maybe even an ethics person whose job it is to keep everyone apprised of how a proposed course of action is apt to be viewed by the public. Every person in attendance is apt to have a requirement in conflict with someone else in the room, excellence not always being compatible with profit. Compromise will be the rule of the day and the bottom line is that a camera must be produced that is competitive with the offerings of other manufacturers in a particular niche. The controlling standard, when it comes to performance and feature claims, is going to be the defensible-rationale. In other words, the supposed specifications will have to be competitive with the claims the competition is making, and so long as it's possible to offer a defensible argument supporting the claim, there will be no question of ethics...

Hence, the birth of the "asterisk".

Lower end P&S cameras are pretty much all diffraction limited, so the effective resolution is rarely close to the sensor's physical pixels. Back in the early digital audio days, we used to look at the actual signal-to-noise ratio to rate an audio chip in terms of actual bits vs. marketing bits of resolution. So today, you have cameras with 8 real megapixels and an additional 12 marketing megapixels. I'm sure that applies to many kit lenses, too.

Thanks for the video Tony and Chelsea!!

How refreshing to see how the world really works. Keep it up. Love the presentation.

Foveon by Sigma was a good idea that didn't take off. Could you do a show on that technology?

"silent mode" as shown.. Nikon call it "Quiet mode", so it not an half truth XD

HAHAHA "like breaking a Brezel into half and saying you have two" best comparison ever... love you guys!

Nicely done. Good for a Saturday morning smile.

Sounds like Tony & Chelsea need to take a course in color theory when it comes to pixels.

How about "waterproof" point and shoot cameras? It would seem that if they say waterproof to xx feet on the box, then you can put it in water up to the depth rating. But then if you read the very fine print on the warranty, water damage is not covered!!!

Thank you! Talking about these issues before watching this video get me into a lot of trouble with my fellow photographers.

Really nice and good video. I appreciate your efforts

Since Chelsea is the Queen of Segue, shouldn’t the SquareSpace coupon code be “Chelsea” instead of “Tony?”

One Question !! Where is " Pixel" ??? 😊

Merci pour votre honnêteté et pour votre aide aux amateurs et pro de la photo! très bonne vidéo comme toujours

Guys, the ad says the d says "world's fastest autofocus ON 24-200mm RX100 VI COMPACT CAMERA." They did NOT say "The World's Fastest Autofocus." Sort of like saying the "THE XYZ car is the highest rated car in its class," because they can subjectively say that the XYZ car is in a class by itself. You gotta read everything and question everything.

I would rather have the worlds most accurate autofocus 🙏🏼😜

All companies lie... it is called Marketing.

Love the humor in this one. Much more entertaining than previous podcasts.

Hi there, Tony and Chelsea, so nice to listen to the two of you, I really like the way you work together!, and the way you both take turns to follow each other with a sequence of facts and ideas as if it is a very carefully edited script, but I suspect that it is quite spontaneous, if not, and it is actually carefully rehearsed and edited there are more than a few 'professional' film makers need to work very much harder!. The piece on megapixels has always interested me, I have often wondered how the two greens one red on blue can make more than one picture element on the final output, so now it seems that my 24 megapixel camera might only be giving me 6, but if all the others are the same then I'm no worse off!. The autofocus issue is another one where there seems to be no intent to inform us, just bamboozle, autofocus speed with a manual lens will take forever!, any system is as much dependent on the lens as on the camera, they both take part in the same procedure, but do so quite separately!. Cheers, Richard.

Don't mirrorless cameras have actual silent modes? Obviously SLRs can't have silent modes? I guess I need to do more research?

This is great one! Canon is most misleading and Sony is 2nd.:-)

Loved it ! I'm guessing ..all these marketing gimiks originating from the heads of the marketing teams that they spend millions on rather than the technical team who actually makes the cameras.

That look on Tony's face after the grandma comment... hahaha

+1 for Chelsea being the World's coolest youtuber.

Noticed JP doesn’t drop F bombs in his vids. Why did he go all Gary Vee on your vid?

The Guide Number Games: Quite irksome for me is the flash "Guide Number" which used to be a decent technical measure of light output capability with which one could compare speedlights. The Guide Number (in meters or feet, as specified) is supposed to represent the distance at which the flash will deliver a proper exposure for ISO 100 and a f/1 lens aperture. It dates back to flash bulbs, which would have a GN rating for a bowl reflector of rellatively standard size for the size of the flash bulb (big bulbs like the Press 25 would have a bigger bowl than smaller bulbs). One would convert that to the film speed in use (e.g. divide it by four for Kodachrome 25 film, or by approx. two for Kodachrome 64), and use focus distance to determine the lens aperture required for a proper exposure. Some other adjustments were made if used in a different size bowl reflector than the one generally used for it. I've got a Metz 60 CT-4, rated with a GN of 60 in meters. Also have an Olympus T32 designed for their OM system - with a GN of 32 in meters. These are two examples of honest GN ratings as neither one has a zoom head. The T32 has an AOV coverage for a 24mm focal length lens (35mm format). The Metz 60 CT has an AOV coverage of 28mm focal length (35mm format). Now enter the "zoom" head and the manufacturers began playing all sorts of guide number games. I'm picking on Metz as I've got a number of their speedlights. Metz created the 40 MZ family. These have a zoom head that goes from 24mm to 105mm focal length coverage (with a couple variants having a flip out panel that would take it down to 20mm). The model number, 40, like most Metz, represents the guide number in meters, except it's not for the zoom head at 24mm, it's for the zoom head at 50mm focal length coverage (35mm film format). Great flash units, but with the zoom head at 24mm focal length, the GN drops to 28 (in meters). A few years later, Metz releases the 54 MZ. I've got two of the 54 MZ-4 and they're very nice. Do they put out more light than the 40 MZ heads? Nope. They're actually identical. The 54 MZ has a GN of 45 (meters) when its zoom head is full out for a 105mm focal length lens (35mm format). It's shortest focal length (without flipping up the WA diffuser) is 24mm. Same zoom range, and its GN at 50mm is 40, and its GN at 24mm is 28. So we go from marketing the SCA 3000 era 40 MZ-1/2/3 to a few years later with the SCA 3002 era 54 MZ-1/2/3/4, with dramatically different GN claims. In reality, they're the same across their zoom ranges. Most "high power" shoe mount speedlights have a real GN of about 28 (in meters) when the head is set for 24-28mm focal length lens AOV coverage. Yet the modest, lowly, low profile and compact (and old) Olympus T32 gives you a GN of 32 (104 in feet) for 24mm AOV coverage, more light power than all these others - albeit without a zoom head - so you get a GN of 32 regardless of the lens focal length being used. Want more light? You need an old (nearly vintage now) potato masher like the Metz 60 CT-1/2/3/4 or the Sunpak 555, with a comparatively very large Xenon tube - or go to a bare bulb in a 5" bowl reflector like the Quantum Qflash, or the Godox Witstro 360, or the Godox AD200 (Pro) with EC200 remote head cord. Sunpak reentered the fray with a resurrection of its 120J II (dedicated for Nikon or Canon only). Be ready to wear a battery slab or brick using one. It truly is the Guide Number Games and you have to read the fine print to determine what the Guide Number given truly represents - if you want to compare the light intensity output of two different speedlights.

Hi! I love Your show. Thank You for that. I have a question. Let’s imagine I am making a black and white jpg photo on any camera. And than, will it use all pixels in the sensor, or will it use normal rgb pixels like You explained, and than remove saturation?

Like goes for her being best KZfaqr. I trust her. :)