This guy makes any camera shine.

[Emanuel]

Even one on a smarphone...

 

[maxJ4380]

I'd like a dollar for every time he says oppo find...  I believe the more youtube camera reviews i watch, the more cynical i become and the cynical part maybe exponential... 

i did like the intro, for a guy who lives in the country, its nice to see some travel footage. Although the title,  travel film could be "code"  for you, secretly need a new 8k  camera phone. That in turn would probably necessitate a new tv, new computer, and maybe some other peripherals. So for me, probably not going to happen.  Perhaps this new oppo is amazing, and good on them if it is. Personally i cant take a camera phone seriously if it doesn't have a lens cover. Every single lens i have bought except a couple of 2nd hand lens from japan have had lens covers. If  smart phone manufactures cant put a plastic lens cover on it then their not taking their product seriously.

During the into did think to myself one could  do a similar thing with a gimbal and any phone camera or perhaps even an action camera.  Sure enough a gimbal seems to be the secret sauce, oh and add 8k of course and the occasional hand held shot for added realism.  I shouldn't knock the guy, at least he's out and about doing stuff, while i'm content to simply watch it, in my comfortable desk chair..  It was nice of oppo to send him the phone to vlog with, after that my mind boggles at the boat trips, plane trips, bike hire, and i'm thinking at this point his his business financials must be going backwards. 🙃 I did learn a few things from the behind the scenes part, so thanks for that .

PS. Somebody should probably tell the dude,  that you ride bikes,  you don't drive them. It sounds kinda lame to anyone that does actually ride one.

 

[Emanuel]

Without mention I guess everyone is missing the overheating stuff... : X Hard to beat Apple's external thing. I think there are other Androids out there doing the same, no?

[fuzzynormal]

The secret sauce is skill.  

As someone that used to make my living doing travel videography decades ago, this Brandon guy has really honed the judgement it takes to get the shots.  There's so much going on out there in the environment and he's able to omit it, control it, and/or shape it into something impressive.  It's really quite a thing to do.

He could make any camera in manufactured in the last 15 years look similar to this.  In fact, he has.

This guy is a cinematographer that really knows how to chase the light, compose a shot, and also create advantageous serendipity.  Which might sound like a paradox, but it really isn't.  

But, yes, images like this sell cameras.  Okay, buy the camera if you'd like and start the path to making an edit like this.  You can't buy his boots-on-the-ground experience though.  He's casual about it all during his "how-to" segment, but it really is the biggest factor here.

[fuzzynormal]

4 hours ago, maxJ4380 said:

i'm thinking at this point his his business financials must be going backwards.

I'ma going to guess he's too good for that to happen unless he wants it to.

[fuzzynormal]

5 hours ago, Emanuel said:

there are other Androids out there doing the same, no?

Yeah.  That's why marketing is so important to the companies trying to sell 'em.

[maxJ4380]

6 hours ago, fuzzynormal said:

The secret sauce is skill.  

 

Your right of course. I did forget to mention that some skill is involved

6 hours ago, fuzzynormal said:

I'ma going to guess he's too good for that to happen unless he wants it to.

 I was being slightly facetious.  I can see how its a win for oppo to send him a smartphone to "vlog" with. Less clear to me is how brandon li wins ? I guess you could call playing with a 8k smartphone a win. Theres only a link to take you to the oppo site.  Am i over thinking it, if i presume theres some code in the link that tells oppo i have come from a brandon li youtube ? 

Ok i had a look at some of his other vids there are some affiliative links  for gear and there's a camera course and gimbal course to purchase if that interests you. I guess his approach is slightly more refined / tasteful than the usual here's the links to everything i use youtube shrill. 

 

 

[BTM_Pix]

I originally read the title as “This Guy Makes Any Camera Shite” and thought my cloud account had been hacked.

I enjoy watching Brandon Li’s stuff, particularly the self shooting ones. Self shooting as in shooting on your own as though someone else is shooting rather than self shooting in the vlogging context.

Tripods basically.