Thank you!! Happy to have you here at the beginning. Going to work hard on this this year.

Exactly, I love mine, and with the money I saved, I could get a gimble for the few walk and talks I need to do. :D

Haha, understanding how to use the equipment is half the battle!! Thanks and welcome aboard.

Thank you so much! Im just getting started!!!

Thanks, Felix! I suppose being a photographer helps with the production quality. Itll be interesting to see what I can accomplish in 2023

THANK YOU! Im at the airport flying away from CES right now! Should be able to make some pretty good infotainment out of everything I saw there

Thank you! It sure would be cool to turn this hobby into a job some day

Interesting! Your photos definitely shouldn’t have noise at a low ISO.. depending on what you mean by low. But yeah! That’s a great idea for a video. It’s going on the list!!

Thanks, AllTheBest! I cant even imagine a future with 600,000 subscribers but what a dream that would be! Im just getting started, but Im not stopping; heading to CES this week to see all the newest tech

Thank you!! It’s climbing pretty good for only have a few videos up- I dare say this might work out in the long run!!

I’ve never actually used the a7c other than in a studio where I gave an interview about Bitcoin mining, of all things. It seems basically like it’s the full frame brother of this camera.

For SUPER small objects, I use a 105mm DG DN Macro lens. It can focus on things just a couple inches in front of it, so something like a quarter can be full screen!

@@NicholasJamesJohnson thanks brother I appreciate it!

I believe it, too! I’m more motivated than ever:):) I’m really surprised how fast this is growing. I’m adding like 50 subscribers a day!!

@@NicholasJamesJohnson it’s the personality the quality the entertainment value the informative value! I clicked on thumbnail bc it seemed cool! Wishing you even more success!

Hahaha, thank you!! Getting in on the ground floor

At my desk I use an Apple Studio Display - but whenI was showing how the stabilization works on that lens, thats just a 52" 4k TV plugged in with an HDMI cable. ZV-E10 has a microHDMI out that can go straight into a TV!

The iPhone WOULD make all of this easy - and its 4k and the audio is pretty good, but yes, you could DEFINITELY step up the production value by going with a mirrorless camera, a boom mic right on top of the camera - since it looks like youre sitting only a few feet from it and a nice, probably 30mm f/1.4 lens for what youre doing. Your lighting looks good, the sound in that room doesnt seem to bounce around too much, and if you used an on-camera mic - like the rode video micro 2 on the cheaper end, or the rode videomic NTG on the higher end, you could pretty much cap out your overall production quality... Also, Id be happy to answer some questions about whatever things! feel free to send me an email at iamnicholasjamesjohnson@gmail.com

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Just going to email you Nic, your great at what you do and I don't have any doubt you will go far on YT

I’m pretty sure that lens is a manual focus lens. Which, especially at 1.2, would make it extremely hard to use for video of any kind. If you move half an inch, everything is out of focus at that aperture. You would have been better off with the Sony 50mm 1.8 ‘standard’ lens. Or even better the OSS version of the 50mm 1.8

@Nicholas James Johnson yes, it's manual focus. unfortunately those other two lens are way out of my budget at the moment. But I will keep the camera on a desk arm and the products will always stay on the desktop. It will always be pretty much the same distance. Of course some b-roll here and there. I will not be in the frame... no talking head or something like that. Just desktop view. Do you think it will be better in this case?

@@TheArtmann Oh, if youre not going to be in the shot and the camera isnt going to move, then yes. You'll be able to make it work. But it will be more work than having a lens with autofocus. This should get you started though, so yes!

@Nicholas James Johnson I just found a cheap Sony SEL50F18 lens E50mm F1.8 OSS for around $200 new. I guess I will cancel the other order. I know I sound like a total noob (to be honest I just made screen capture videos or filmed with the phone), but this OSS lens is for APS-C right? I mean, it will be compatible with ZV-E10?

@@TheArtmann yep! That is the exact lens you want!

Oh! I used a few different ones in that video - the shots at the warehouse were the 30mm 1.4 (amzn.to/3G7v4YL) and the shots at the studio are on a 50mm 1.8 (amzn.to/3CeSwSL)

Have you tried using HLG3? That’s what I’ve done in this video; they’re not exact but very similar. I think by default it’s on PP10 on both camera. Then you’re just adjusting for the light difference with shutter speed or iso

@@NicholasJamesJohnson I always used HLG3 as long as I had my A7C, but since I changed it for the A7IV, I switched to S-Log3 and I liked it so much on the A7IV. And then came the ZV-E10. I’d like to keep using S-Log3 on the A7IV and find something to match it on the ZV. But I’ll try that. Let’s see. Thanks for chatting…

I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on gear! It’s incredible how easy it is to spend WAYYYYYYY too much money on lenses and cameras. I do shoot professionally so I have an excuse. But I keep proving to myself, here, that you can almost match the really expensive setups, cheaply

Thanks! I do have another channel called Space Design Warehouse - but Im tired of talking about money and crypto, Im starting a new channel for camera stuff!

a 50mm f/1.8 is going to be both the most affordable and produce an incredible looking picture at 1.8. But, it would change the way you shoot - I see that you appear to be just a couple feet in front of the camera, and with a 50mm, in order to get your whole upper body, with the guitar and everything in frame, youd need to back it up probably 6-10 feet or so, which would THEN change how you capture audio because you'd want to match your newly nice looking picture with perfect sound, so then you'd be looking at something like the rode wireless go II microphones which can just clip on to your shirt or your strap and get the sound super close to the source, which would step that up as well.. OR, choice number 2 would be the 30mm f/1.4 from sigma. That would allow you to get closer and not change too much the way you shoot from how you do now. You WILL need a microphone, though, the onboard mic from literally any camera, no matter how nice the camera, is not sufficient for pro-sound.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Nic, fantastic, thanks for the reply much appreciated. When it comes to sound I'm ok that's my thing I have a Mix pre and lots of different mic, although you may not tell watching some of the video. But your advice is gold and like I say, It helps a lot. Anyone of my followers wants to know about this kind of thing, I will be sending them over.

I am out of Orlando, Florida!

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Awesome Brother, well you have a buddy and solid resources in Atlanta. 🎉 I have a Set laid out, just need to slow down 🤣. Praying Blessings over your KZfaq Journey awesome start.

It IS a bit of a ridiculous looking little camera, specially with something tiny like a 50mm on it.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson sneaky 🐍📷

Well that would be tougher to test in this being the winter season; ambient temperature makes a HUGE difference in how fast these cameras overheat. But with a barBQ channel I can see your concerns. There are a few clever fixes: first one solves another problem of long recording and that’s battery life; if you use a dummy battery, the battery is what produces like 30% of the heat from the camera running so that will elongate the time before overheating. Also opening the screen, and third seems really funny, but actually does work, I did tests with my a7iv which also overheats; you can buy these little stick-on heat sinks on Amazon, super cheap, strangely effective! You’d open the screen and stick it right on the back of the camera when recording. Also stay away from sunlight and get the white version if it’s available.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Thank you for the helpful tips!! I appreciate your advice and your channel.

Oh by all means. The Sony a7iv is a better camera in every conceivable way. But depending on your budget, is it $2500 better? For me, yes!

Thanks Mr. Mitter!! I’m shooting this week!!

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Looking forward man!! I'm shooting this week too haha! All the best! This channel is amazing☺

Thank you!!! We’re just getting started

Yes you absolutely can stream in 4k with extremely good quality. You'll need a thing called a 'camLink 4k' and thats true for the a7iv also - both cameras can also stream directly through USB but they limit the frame rate to 15fps at 4k. The camlink lets you stream the full resolution and quality.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Thank you very much Sir, if you don’t mind, can you suggest me a good lens for my stream ? ( 3-4 feet away from Camera ) . Many greets and keep going this great Work 👌

That is called a LaMetric Time clock. Here's a link amzn.to/3QI9W1g

Could be a lens thing, could also be I mean, it’s a $2500 camera! It really should be better. Sensors are getting so good, finally.. and actually I think the sensor in the ZVE10 is the same one from the a6400, 6500 and 6600 so it’s not even very new. Imagine what they can even improve on let’s say ten years from now. They’re going to need to start adding the computational features that iPhones use to keep improving.

Well, coming from the guy who uses an a7iv AND and a7siii to make KZfaq vids, I can’t say I believe there is an overkill!! Welcome, and for sure, I’ll take a closer look at the fx30- I’m actually not all-together that familiar with it.

Depending on how far away you are from the action, I’d suggest the Sigma 18-300 DC OS or sigma 150-600 OS With sigma lenses the ‘OS’ means optical stabilization. With Sony the lens name will have ‘oss’ optical steady shot.

Sony 70-350 G is also a good middle ground. 350 gets you pretty far. Mind the aperture though.

You probably film in 4k and it can only be done in 25 or 30 fps. zve10 is good for studio and bipod. For sports or vlogging I would buy a camera that can film 4k 60fps and your footage will be much better in movements.

Also since it has no in-body stabilization, if you’re using a lens that also has no stabilization, no human on the planet can hold the camera steady enough if it’s even a little telephoto to make good footage.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson If Sony builds in the stabilization that a gopro or a dji action has, then it is the perfect camera. For now, I'm filming with the zve10 on a gimbal or stabilizing cinematics with sony catalyst browse.

What about the auto focus and battery backups ???

What do you mean by “better photos?” Is that camera a higher resolution? The ‘goodness’ of a photo starts with the photographer unless you’re comparing a very small sensor to a very large one. Also, no one should ever use built in mics for anything other than syncing audio.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson better photos as in the photo experience is better and the jpegs are better. The microphone is so good on the Z30 (best of any camera on the market) it is good to use. I have an external mic and don’t bother connecting it up. This isn’t for studio work, professional KZfaqr setting but using for Vlogging or travel etc. Yes if you want to do fully professional videos you wouldn’t use it but for most use cases it is actually passable. I don’t consider the one on the ZV E10 is. I forgot to mention the kit lens is better on the Z30 as well, but no doubt you’ll tell me no one should be using kit lenses!

@@pankajmandal522 Autofocus isn’t quite as good as Sony (I also have Z1) but much, much better than a LUMIX G6/9 (I have a G9). It is good and good enough. Battery backups I am not sure what you mean- battery length? Not sure, but I have a couple of batteries and have had no issues.

Haha, oh there’s no question the a7iv is a better camera, and anything beyond a glance you’ll see it looks better. It’s just a surprise how it’s barely better in a tripod situation. Take them both out for night time street photography and the a7iv is about 75x better! You definitely made the right choice as long as you can still eat and pay your rent!:)

Welcome! I just got back from CES in vegas, let’s see what I can come up with

What does my pronunciation say about me?

Huh, how about that! I just went down a rabbit hole because of this and it turns out people say that word a whole mess of different ways! Since the word is Japanese, they pronounce it even differently, still.. But then again, they would pronounce my own name “Neek” instead of “Nick” so I would chalk this one up to regional dialect. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5Zypclj0Z69o5c.html

@@NicholasJamesJohnson okuh then. there are working professionals that create youtube videos with proper content than youtubers pretending to be professionals. in asia we would read your name as neek but wouldn't keep calling you neek after hearing you say it. so if you want to keep going with it excusing yourself, then cool. professionals at least have the respect of where a word comes from and it shows.

@@pagpapaitim Like I said, I looked it up, and youre (obviously) right about the pronunciation.. I'll make an effort to say it the correct way going forward. (However, I did already record a video with the word Bokeh in it a bunch of times, so that'll come out in the next few days and hurt your ears). Aside from that, I am a working professional:) I shoot for IMSA, motorsports photography.

IMSA, in fact! A7iv shoots up to 10fps. Also, with a camera that tracks this well and focuses this fast, we don’t need to rattle off as many photos in a row as we did before to get a winner.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson I guess you're super human who can take the exact photo of sports cars as he wants without having a lot of FPS

I don’t know about superhuman, but I’m getting paid to do something I love so that’s pretty super!

@@NicholasJamesJohnson great.. good for you

Haha, it’s not for everyone; I much prefer the interface and buttons from the a7iv. But the quality for the money is there!

Feedback appreciated.. I sometimes feel the opposite way when I’m watching videos where it sounds like one side of a conversation and there are a lot of pauses. Dramatic pauses, or pauses for humor make sense, or breaks for story telling and impact.. But when delivering information, for me, personally, I prefer the ‘j-cut,’ which is what you were hearing here, where one sentence starts as the previous one is still ending. It brings a ten minute video down to about 8 minutes in the edit and is meant to waste less time. But i have heard before, and again with you, now, that it’s not everyone’s favorite delivery when it comes to an edit.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson When your face to face with a person and listening to them talk, does it bother you when they pause for a breath? Probably not. We grew up that way, and it's our normal and things we are not used to, can be strange, and strange can be uncomfortable/unpleasant. And furthermore, as handsome as you are, is not why I came here. You have knowledge and I want that knowledge. TRANSLATION, I want to learn. TRANSLATION, I need to focus on the message you're delivering. But instead I'm distracted with the delivery. TRANSLATION, it's difficult for me to absorb what you are saying, because of how you were saying. Additionally, I need time to hear, to consider, to absorb, to learn, to retain it by locking it in memory. Your pauses are necessary to give me time to absorb and learn. (and hopefully without distraction) With you speaking so fast, I REALLY don't have enough time to absorb it and lock it into my memory. Speak slowly enough that the uneducated, like me, can learn the content you are presenting. Otherwise, us idiots have no reason to come here and watch you. Early in the video I decided you were highly skilled and educated, and it made me want to hear your message. Why did you make this video? So we could sit here and admire you? I doubt it. Because you want to share your knowledge? Ask yourself, how fast do I have to talk before they can no longer gain knowledge from what I’m saying? You know, that point does exist. But where exactly is it? You're very smart. Think about it. Find that answer. Grow that new nugget of knowledge and steer your future by it. You don't just whip the camera around and snap the shutter. You have a reason for everything you do. Because B causes Z, and G causes D. You design your actions to acquire a specif gain/outcome. Because you considered it long enough to know. You drive carefully, slowly, intentionally, and obtain the result in your sights.

@@NicholasJamesJohnson I agree with Welder if people are so simple minded as to move on because you have to take a breath, I wouldn't want them to subscribe.. I think you will find all the folks who have commented would stick around

Oh man, that would be a dream!!!