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Thanks for the video. Pocket 3's continuous focus is horrible. Such a let-down from what could be a brilliant little camera.

It’s not much of a budget lens if spending nearly $2,000 turns out to be a disappointment. I think I’ll stick with my RF 100-500 and if necessary,i will just get a 1.4x and enjoy better image quality over the extra 100mm reach. Thanks for your insight, not everyone will agree with you but you certainly raised some excellent points.

You deserve more subscribers , you are really informative and talented.

The image looks great but having had the Osmo Pocket 1 and losing all my filters, I'm not sure I'd invest 130€. How did you cut the background noise out - is that Davinci Resolve ? Pretty impressive.

That extra bit of width on the image is kinda nice, what do you guys think?

So here we are 8 months later, and although Canon still hasn't gotten off of their @$$ and made this lens more available, their are a LOT of folks out there, who have used, owned, and reviewed it. Seems to be really solid. I myself rented it for a week, and I'd say, it is > the Holy Grail for small bird photography. It is going to be SO much more useful than any $12K or $16K Big white prime, ever could be. I'm just curious if you still think it was a good decision to cancel your order ? Or if you might reorder it ?

Do you have a shortlist in mind when shooting this??

Does it wirelessly connect to a phone?

I was curious this wholllle time. How do you sync your mixset with the video??

No thanks, I'm sticking with my Pyxis preorder.

Yaaawn

Hi Hugh, Thanks for another fantastic video. Because of your review of the Pocket 3, I bought one to use for my pilgrimage. I have just finished walking just over 1,000km on the Camino Frances, Finisterre & Muxia. Brilliant camera & mic system, so very grateful for your advice. Best wishes (& Buen Camino) Gavin Ayre

Your videos are really good man! Which woods did you film that in?

I don’t do product review but i find this video is honest and true. I bought some products and used different camera brands. You are true a good review is a product that you love to use it. The viewers will find it close to them if your product review is practical to you.

Well done Hugh! I found you via your thoughts on the new Canon C400, love your approach and your style.

This is the type of content I need at this point in my career for our wedding film business ! Subbed mate

Love this message. I haven't been approached for reviews yet but I am sure because I am still a super small channel. I will keep these tips in mind for sure. Thank you Hugh!

Nice work, it's important to maintain ones ethics. Swag interferes with that process, the human animal being what it is. I did a short on ethics in photography recently - warned of pink eye for photographers using dirty 'lenses'.

About the moza slypod.. Iv seen just positive reviews but i was still concerned if it would wobble because you know it SEEMS TO ME THAT IT WILL. i was getting into product videography at that time and with s probe lens ANY wobble will show. Got the product, used it for 1 min 30 sec and sent it back , it was unbearable with the probe lens. Good product, nobody mentioned this.. got an edelkrone slider instead, everytime I had any problem they helped me out instantly.

Your strait honesty is so so appreciated, just thank you. Always a pleasure to watch your work.

Thank you so much Hugh. Incredible video, and it help me so much after to try understand so much times the bad translation in Portugueses and English of the Instruction PDF download from the Zhiyun web site, an huge catastrophe. You really help me. Kind regards and everything good for you.

Did not help me actually stabilize the video. I could see in the short footage when you were actually driving you had the same issue when you started to get to speed. BAD STABILIZATION. Why is it so damn hard to find this information. The in phone features do nothing to combat this. micro jerking. its horrible.

Always love your videos, Hugh. Just one audio suggestion. Lav mics, in general, sound really "dead" to my ears. Clear, but dead. Since you filming in such a beautiful location, why not mix in some of the ambient audio, too? Since you have the Osmo pocket 3, you can always have a second camera running and just get the audio off of that. I think it would just add another dimension to your Vlogs. Hope that helps, and look forward to your next video. Mark in Marin County, California

Funny, i subscribed after one of those sigma 18-35 vids. Anyway, good video, cheers.

Great advice

I bought the sigma lens based on your review videos. I didn’t need to know the lens curvature or anything mad complicated. Just to hear the genuine thoughts of someone who uses it regularly. I love the lens and I’m thankful for the review you put out on it. Cheers Hugh! 👍🏻

Excellent points in there Hugh! 👌100% agreed. Now, please make another cool horror short! 🤩

Top stuff. Integrity wins in the end.

there is nothing wrong with giving impression and providing footage before a camera is released to the stores to give first impression , sure there is some marketing involved as company's have designed it for certain segment , but its not like reviewers must say this is the best camera on earth period or something silly like that. many youtubers who are affiliated with brands often provide educational material ,

So who do you think "I" am? Why do you assume I would do this ... I have close to 500 videos posted on CZcams and only one "product placement": czcams.com/video/RA790XPMc8s/video.htmlsi=8rNUi4XQM_-g1ypt&t=50

Nice video. I have a small channel and recently have been contacted by a company who make AI gimbals and offered me a free gimbal in exchange of the review. It was very tempting as it's a first time that any brand wanted to work with me but after a serious thought, I refused the offer because first of all I don't know much about the gimbals and secondly I can't do any reviews in which everything I say is not my own.

Thanks Hugh! You shared so many good things in this one!

Great advice and thank you for sharing! I will take your points on board and try to apply them to my channel.

Well Hugh good points, but look at it that way. The benq thing may attract few as*holes like me who think that you are professional and not knowing about calibration doesn't make much of a sense to me, you've sold that BenQ monitor and you could use that money to buy something like that DJI pocket 3... Its probably worth getting few uncomfortable comments, rather than do mics for 130 sitting on your shelf 😉 I think ppl in general if they have the money should buy stuff which is interesting to them for reviews and then just sell it. If some product videos taking you a day or 2 to do, you could also get paid job and have money for things you actually want to support because you like them and see some sens in doing the review for them.

Thanks for your video. I was torn between this or the Insta360 Go 3S. Ended up ordering this one as I think I'll be more happy with the video quality and storage capacity.

Mirrorless? Hell I’m selling my Sony FX9 for the C400. It is everything I need and dreamt of in an extremely compact body. This is the closest you come to an Arri Mini LF for the common man.

This comment section is mostly “video” shooters it seems not production filmmakers or cinematographers You can’t compare DSLr / Mirror less cameras to cinema cameras. When you have a 1st and 2nd AC - Multi dialog channels / sound techs and cinema glass you need this type of form factor. This isn’t a videographer camera. It’s a production camera. :) 😊

Gorgeous actress, stupid movie. Let her be in something more intelligent, please.

Terrible

To the ones complaining about the c400 not having still capabilities.. higher end cinema cameras are not for you. Move on.

It definitely looks good, and I can see why you'd be tempted from the R5 or R6. As a C300 mkiii user I'll be holding off for a while, but there's a lot to admire with the C400.

Nice to hear your thoughts on the C400. As you were sat down, is there not a Canon app to set manual focus? Oh well, just proves that no AF system is perfect.

You know the funny thing is I've been watching your channel since I bought the R5C and last month I ended up picking up the C70 for my second cam. It was a really hard decision that I had to roll the dice on. I only had 2,000 bucks to spend but after I brought the R6 Mark II home I realize I did not want to spend $2,000 bucks on a camera I didn't love. Now I have a C70 and an R5C and I am still in the beginning stages of getting used to the C70. I can say the battery life alone has made me fall in love. However not having a full frame sensor in 2024 wasn't a great idea for me to purchase.

32-bit float could not be added in firmware because you’d need to have two physical A-D converters… one for the high amplitude (Loud stuff) and one for the low amplitude (quiet stuff). It’s like trying to add DGO after the fact. That’s down to the sensor itself. But… you could add support for the camera to understand 32-bit float files. Wouldn’t really help if you can’t get the audio in that way unless they did it through the USB-C port some how.

Thanks for taking the time to create this impression video Hugh!

I got one of these for my bowling content. No matter what I use tripod wise when the ball hit the lane it bumps even being way back so I figure go with this and maybe it will be strong enough to not notice that little bump

I would never switch my mirrorless for a camera without ibis and my camera has to be able to take high quality pictures as well. Mirrorless rules!

A no brainer. Will pair perfect with my C70. The FF RF we've been waiting for!

It’s a DCI sensor which does not offer the height for 3:2 open gate.

Your R5C is struggling a bit here with AF