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@mercerits trendy to be a lemming 🙄. And that’s what a lot of personalities on YouTube are doing and once someone enters with non NPC thoughts and actions, you’re berated. That’s what stopped me from posting things on YouTube and social media in general, but I’m getting older and I have worthwhile years in the industry. I sure as heck can voice my thoughts and opinions and shouldn’t give a rats a$$ about what people say.

This is exactly why smartphones and smaller cameras like the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS are so appealing to me. You can move quickly, stay discreet, and still capture great images. I put together a great nimble kit for this project and I’m actually planning something similar with the ILS in NYC, grabbing shots in some premium locations to give the production a much bigger feel without a big crew or footprint. And I’m definitely grabbing some long and discreet shots.

If watching camera YT has taught me anything, it's that there's no such thing as bad attention. In fact, if you can stir up some haters, then your videos will get more "engagement" and you'll do better in the algorithm. The two 'personalities' on YT who keep starting arguments with each other are all the better off for the controversy. So I say... post away! Anyone who brings some experience and/or some nuance to the table will definitely be ahead of the pack, especially for camera-related content.

I don't know if it's overbearing as much as it's an exercise in futility for at least 60-70% of the shots. But my biggest issue is that the utility LUTs just make everybody's footage look the same. Now I don't necessarily mean anyone on this site, but if you go on YT and watch 90% of the reviewers, their footage all looks the same and a majority of those guys have their own businesses separate from their YT channel. So to eek out an extra stop or maybe two, depending on the shot, let's shoot Log, slap a LUT on there and call it a day... or do a CST... now it's like I shot with an Alexa... and call it a day. That just doesn't really interest me anymore. I'd rather have DR limitations I'm forced to work around and get more interesting images. Just a thought I've been wrestling with. It's not like I'll never shoot in Log, I'm just opening up other options and exploring different color profiles now there's 10bit video in almost any camera.

It’s a real fun camera to use. It actually brought my muscle memory back to the days of manual focusing. I remember when people used to talk condescendingly to people who relied on autofocus. Now it’s flipped. So funny. The negative comments I read about using this camera is mind boggling. If the camera isn’t for you, just go about your business. Why try to bash the person wanting to experience something different?

Maybe late to the party.. Left-Handed Girl is maybe the latest film completely shot in the wild (and with a phone)