David Johnston

OPG Fall Product Showcase 2024

David Johnston
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Join expert photographer David Johnston for the next Outdoor Photography Guide Product Showcase. David will review photography products from Peak Design, MPB.com, OM-SYSTEM, Bay Photo, and Fujfilm.

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Sony a7RV
Bay Photo MetalPrints™️
OM-1 Mark II
Peak Design Outdoor Bag Line
FUJIFILM GFX100S II

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Hello, everyone and welcome to the Opg Fall product showcase 2024. My name is Leah and I will be your moderator today and we have a great lineup of sponsors for today's event where you are going to get to see products from peak design M pb.com OM system Bay Photo and Fuji Film. And of course, here to take you through all of these amazing products is photographer David Johnston. I'm gonna introduce him right now. Give him a moment to make sure you're all familiar with him if this is your first time joining us. Welcome, David. We're very excited to have you. I'd love for you to start us off by telling us a little bit about yourself and uh anything you want to include in the intro before we start diving into these products. Yeah, absolutely. My name is David Johnston. Uh I've been a professional photographer now for about 10 years. It's been a great journey. Uh It's been a fun time and I've loved getting to share information with you guys on outdoor photography guide. I've really enjoyed being able to share the joy of photography with you and I know that photography is so much about going out and enjoying the experience and capturing the moments. And today we're gonna be talking about a lot of pieces of gear that you can look into that really going to maximize that experience. And as I was going through and using all of these pieces of gear in the field, reviewing them, gathering my thoughts on them. I thought the connection between all of them and from the point of getting ready to go on a trip to actually capturing the images to researching equipment all the way to getting your photos printed. As the end result. All of these maximize the photography experience, excuse me, especially the outdoor photography experience that you can have. And as photographers, you know, we love to capture the moments, but it's our privilege to be able to preserve those memories and experiences too. And all these pieces of gear that we're gonna be talking about today are are gonna help you do that. So I'm excited to share those with you guys. All right. So I would just like to let everybody know before David gets started with our first product. I am here to keep an eye on the chat box. So if you've got your chat box handy, should be below your video player on the website. Or if you're watching on youtube, you can use the chat there and you can put any questions into that box and whenever we get a break in the action. I'll make sure to ask your questions to David so that you can get all the information you need about these fantastic products. That's out of the way. I think it is time to get started with our very first product. So David take it away with product number one. Sure. First, we're gonna be talking about the peak design outdoor Backpack series and bag series. These are absolutely incredible. I've packed now a couple trips with these bags. Um They make two of the larger backpacks in two different sizes. So that's a 25 L and a 45 L. I'm holding with me right here, the 25 L and it comes in this really nice deep purple color or a white or a black. So they have color options here. Now, what's great about all their outdoor line or they come with this great material on here that's actually made of recycled nylon. This is a climate neutral company which I love about peak design and they do a great job of designing their products to reflect that I've even looked into their company, how they treat the employees and it is a great company. I've had several of their products for my photography. Let's dive into this bag when you want a photography bag that is not only easy to adjust, um but easy to take on trips, has a lot of different uh ways that you can pack your gear into this with their different gear cubes in the backpacks. Um It's just a great bag to use. Like I said, this is the 25 L, but inside you actually have a, an adjustable and an expandable 10.5 L bag here that you can put your leg laptop in or something like a water bladder that you can stuff in here that you can use on the trail as well. So this isn't just a travel backpack. They've made those before with peak design. This is really an outdoor bag. Um When we're talking about outdoor, especially packing our gear in a bag. We're really worried about weather protection and they've made ultra cinches and ultra zip that they call on these to be sure that all your gear is sealed up. So you do have uh access on the rear of the backpack through the back pad. Uh But you also have top access through this now to be sure no water is getting into the bag. You can actually pull this part of the bag up and cinch it closed, which is a great feature to have on the camera back. Um, inside you, you actually have pockets galore that you can stuck different, a stick, different accessories down in here. Um All the pockets on here are great too. Now, what I love and maybe this is just personal, but uh I love all the different pockets on the straps, you know, if we're going out for photography, we have like camera batteries, uh memory cards that we have stuck all over us and the more pockets that we have kind of on the shoulder straps, especially right here. That's gonna be on your chest of where you want them to be easy accessible. Right here. You have two pockets that expand that you can fit pretty much anything into. And then they also have adjustable and removable waist straps on here. Now, I loved this feature when I took them out of the bag. Honestly, I was like, would I ever really use that? And the answer is yes, packing these on trips, having them, having the ability to put them on the back and put them around your hips, uh, really takes a lot of the weight off the back and if you're doing, um, a long distance hikes, um, maybe eight miles, you know, these are great to have to take that weight off your back. Now, I talked about pockets. Each one of these actually have a zipper pocket that's a little bit expandable on each one of those that's gonna be on your hip. Now, if you're like me, you get a little bit peckish, a little bit snack ish on the trail, you know, stick a few granola bars down in here, maybe some mixed nuts. And it's a great solution for if you're getting, uh, a little bit hungry on the trail on each side of the bag. Like look at this. This is like completely weatherproof. You're not gonna have any moisture abrasion proof, uh rubbing up on rocks. It's not gonna tear this. This is some really sturdy material on here on each side. They also have expandable water, um, water packs that you can put in here and they have these cord hooks that you can easily adjust and make these tighter or looser as you want to. The thing about Peak design and this has happened, I started buying products from them and using their products since about 2010. Uh So they've been around the block. Every single product that they've come out with has been the most easy strap bag accessory to adjust. Get on your body, right? Make your photography experience more comfortable and more handy because I don't know about you guys out there, but any time I'm out in the field and my bag is uncomfortable. I don't want to take it off, get the shot, put it back on, take it off, get the shot, put it back on with this, with the different entry points. Uh, the weather ceiling on this and the different adjustments that I can make as the trail progresses or the, the, the extensiveness of the hike, how hard it can be. Um You can adjust this as you go too. Now, there is another piece of gear that I wanted to talk about from Peak Design and that's their 7 L hip strap. Um, thinking about hip straps, different bags. I haven't always been a proponent of hip straps when it comes to photography. And these could be lumbar packs. You may even throw around the, the phrase fanny pack. I wouldn't go that far. This is more like a hip strap lumbar pack, um, that you can put on here. Again, it's made from the same material has the same really protected zipper straps. You can see the weatherproofing on the zipper straps here. Um, and really easy just to pull, they have a a nylon cord that you can easily pull and get those out. Some storage in here. A little bungee strap where you can keep your keys and be sure those don't fall out on the trail. Because can you imagine, have I been there before of losing my keys on the trail? I'll leave that up to your imagination, but the answer is yes. Um, it's a difficult situation to find yourself in and now I don't have to have that anymore inside of the bag. There are even more pockets that you can get into tiny little side pockets that are adjustable that you can put batteries, memory cards, anything like that in these. There are also uh adjustment straps in here that you can find too to adjust your way through. And then outside of that little zipper pocket, you have more adjustable, expandable straps and even more accessories that you can use um for this bag. Now you may be thinking, OK, why show both of these bags, why not get just like one or the other? Right? I think pairing these two together as a bundle would work really well. And this the 7 L bag, the hip strap um actually comes in the same colors as this. So if you're a fashionista photographer, um maybe that's your thing. I like to mix and match colors just on what's available. But maybe if you wanted to match your colors, you get the same colors of these. If you threw the something like the 25 L or on longer hikes, maybe an overnight hike, you could use the 45 L on here. Put this one on your back and then put this one around your waist. What happens is you turn 25 L into, you know, 32 L, you turn 45 L into 52 L. So there are a lot of adjustments here that you can make with just these two bags. And the thing I love about both of these is they're light enough. This is 2.5 pounds. This is way lighter than that as it being a month smaller bag. But you can use either of them as a day hike bag. I've used this one just to carry a small camera around with uh if I'm going on a hike like with the family or with my daughter, I use this bag to take with me, uh, on those hikes and put a small camera in with a small limbs. But like I said, they are a climate neutral co uh company. They do great jobs with their design. Um, they treat their employees great. I love this company. The tear shell fabric on the out outside, like I said, is made from that, uh, recycled nylon and it does not scratch, it is weatherproof. You're not gonna have to worry about being trapped and down porters and the outdoors. And like I said, all of the adjust ability and making it so easy to put these on and off. Like if you look at how easy this is, it's a, you know, kind of like a button hook on one side. If I can angle this down, you can kind of see this button hook right here and then you connect it on the front with this tiny strap and you're good to go to put these on and off. Adjust these bags, make them do what you want, your adventure and exploration activity. It doesn't have to be the longest hike, but this bag definitely comes in handy and look, I'm a camera bag junkie. All right. I have four on my wall over on the opposite side of the camera. I have a closet full that my wife has been nagging me to get rid of and I just added my favorite one to the lineup. This uh Peak design, the outdoor line of camera bags. I, I just love them. Um, and they've come in handy so much. Uh, Leah, they, they're a great company. I don't know. W which one would you go for? Would you go for the, the purple? The, the black, the white? What do you think? I, I would say the white, it looks very sharp but I would also destroy the white very quickly. So I feel like the purple is where I would head. Ok. Ok. I, I like the purple. I think it's a good color. It looks really, really nice. Uh We actually have a question on the backpack specifically coming in from Paul. Um, and Paul, I was thinking the same thing. There's a lot of organization in here. Paul wants to know. Does the backpack include the camera cube? And how much camera gear would you say David? Does this hold in general? That was the second question. Yeah. So the backpack does not include the cube when you buy it. Um And it also comes, it does have a rain fly that you could put on it too. But honestly, unless you're hiking in like 24 hours of rain, I wouldn't really worry and that's like a downpour. I wouldn't worry too much about the rain fly. Um Plus taking your cameras out and that kind of weather too. You know, I think this bag can do the job if you want to be extra safe, you can get the rain fly. Uh But the cubes uh with the organization for inside of the bag are actually sold separately um on peak design, but inside of the camera bag, I mean, it's, it's got a good depth and it is a little bit expandable, especially with this compartment on the front. Um If you don't wanna put like a jacket or anything inside, this comes out pretty far. Um I would even, you know, I have a very lightweight backpacking sleeping bag and I wouldn't hesitate to put my sleeping bag in here. It would definitely fit and sleeping pad. Um But inside you'd probably be able to fit um a camera body, a telephoto lens, a wide angle lens and either like a second camera body or maybe like a 35 millimeter lens. You have some adjust ability there within the cubes uh based on the cube sizes too, but that's about what you can fit in here uh enough for a quick overnight trip with the 25 L. Now the 45 L you can fit more and then pairing it with the 7 L uh smaller bag. Uh you can fit even more gear into, you know, like I said, I took a camera body with a lens attached to it on there and then I had my batteries, my SD cards and, and different items and accessories that I needed for that. Um So that's probably about what you're comfortably going to fit in here. Now, if you wanted to pack more of like the overnight stuff for a backpacking or camping trip, you could definitely sacrifice maybe a telephoto lens for, um, maybe like a propane tank to, uh, cook some food or, or brew some coffee in the morning. But, you know, like I said, they're adjustable. You can use these for a lot of different excursions and adventures and they're going to fit each one of those based on how adjustable that they actually are. Um, and I, I just love the material on the outside. I know I've said it several times. The recycled nylon material on the outside does just an amazing job with any outdoor element. Um, it's, it's just a great bag. I, I honestly can't say that much about it. 2.5 pounds for, for that amount of protection on your gear is pretty remarkable. Yeah, that 2.5 pounds was shocking to me. It seems like it's almost impossibly light. So that's a fantastic, uh, little point in its favor for that bag. Um, I haven't seen any of the other questions come in on this one, but if you're just joining us, that was our first product that David has featured today. We've got more coming and if you have any questions about any of them at all, that's what I'm here for. Go ahead and drop those into the chat box. We'll have numerous little pause points where I can get your questions into David. But with that said, David, unless you have any other closing comments about this specific bag line, I think I'm ready to move on to the next product. What do you think? Let's do it. All right, we are going to move on to M pb.com. They have got a lovely product for us to talk about here, the Sony A seven R five and we're moving on to that. I'll keep an eye on questions while David takes us through this product. Ok. Let's dive in to this camera and M pb.com specifically. Um First of all, let's start with a little story. Ok. It was a few years ago, I was looking to make a change with some of my camera equipment specifically lenses and I had some old ones that I wasn't using, that were in the shelf on my closet. Uh And basically what they were doing was just collecting dust. Uh They weren't being used, they were old lenses and I thought, you know, we were doing, you guys know what I'm talking about. You're doing a little bit of that clean out spring cleaning, maybe you having your neighborhood yard sale or garage sale. And I thought, you know what I should sell some of these, but I know a lot of people like in my neighborhood aren't that into photography. And I started looking around and I found M pb.com. Uh and what I did was actually sold those lenses to M pb.com to be basically kind of like recycled or recirculated uh back into the photography industry into fellow photographers because there are other photographers out there looking for those things. And with that credit that I was able to put on my M pb.com account, I was actually able to switch out and save money on the lenses that I actually did want to use. Now when you buy or sell from M pb.com, they put it through a pretty rigorous process of accepting that into their inventory to then sell to other photographers. They put it through checks of quality if it has any breaks. Uh They test out how it's working. Um They have a rigorous testing process when it goes through and I was actually like, wow, I'm kind of shocked that this is taking so long, but at the same time, I was like, I'm actually glad because I'm also buying some of these lenses and I want them, I want to be sure that they're high quality because you never really know what you're getting off of a seller on like Facebook marketplace or ebay or something like that. This is like credited. You're gonna get a high quality item from M pb.com. Now, when they send you something, they have different ratings on what they send you. Now, I, I wanted this a seven R uh five from Sony and it didn't come with the original box, but I, I can, can I just do a little bit of a unboxing for you. I it's been said that unboxing videos bring people a hit of dopamine. So I wanna bring you a little bit of dopamine with these unboxing just to show you the quality of boxing and shipping that M PB has and how much they care about what they're selling. So here are the boxes if it doesn't come with the original box, uh plenty of padding around this. Now, obviously, I've repackaged this a little bit because I have used this camera uh in the field, but you have a lot of packaging and then you take it out and it comes out of the box looking like brand new. Again, this is the Sony A seven R five, has roughly 61 to 62 megapixels inside of the sensor. This is a full frame sensor camera. Now, I have the older version of the A seven R two. Uh but I wanted to look at the A seven R five to see the updates to it. Now, it has an improved Autofocus tracking system. Uh and it has an improved megapixel count which megapixels are. You know, we'll get more into this a little bit later in the showcase. But um more megapixels are kind of just standard in cameras. Now, they're just adding more and more to it. What I love about this camera is how sturdy and durable it feels and how simple they've made all the controls. Like I said, I have the old A seven R mark two. Um But these controls are much more simplified. The camera menu is much better. The autofocus tracking is better, the frames per second is better. Uh I really love this camera and if you're worried about somebody, you know, selling this camera online again, go with M pb.com because they're gonna send you a really great product. I love this camera, especially weather ceiling. I talked about weather ceiling with these peak design bags and how much you want to protect your gear in the elements. Uh With this camera, you have a really nice coating of weather ceiling on the outside, the gaskets, uh and all the little switches on here that are actually a little bit hard to open because they're so weather sealed, I'll just open that one later, um are actually very well sealed, uh like some of these flaps on the outside, you can see they have a rubberized insert on here to keep all the elements out of the camera so that it doesn't break out on you. Um This one actually shoots great video too if you're looking to get into video as well, has tremendous low light quality for all those night photographers uh really solid camera here. Now, I I didn't just want to go with the camera and by the way, if you want to, you know, they'll send you the battery, they'll send you the charging cable, they'll, they'll hook you up at M db.com. So let's put this aside for a second. Now, I wanted some lenses to go along with this. A seven R five. and what I decided to go with, I'll go with the wide angle first. Like I said, some of these have original packaging, original boxes like this is so high quality, you would think this is coming from Sony themselves. Um I was actually very shocked to see how good of quality this bag was. Now again, I'm unboxing these for you guys to see what all is inside. So there's the box has the manual inside. Then you have the plastic wrapping, you have a a lens bag that you're getting uh with these like like new lenses and then you open up the bag and here's this lens. So if you're looking at Sony uh and high quality lenses, especially a wide angle lens that's gonna cover the full range of photography for you. This is uh the 24 to 70 G master two lens. This is a 2.8 uh at its widest aperture and let's just hook it up to the A seven R five real quick just so we can see what that looks like. And what I love about this is and I'll show you the second lens that I ordered from M pb.com too. I mean, this is a beast of a setup right here. This is, you're not gonna get a bad shot with this setup. OK. The G master lenses are great lenses to have on here. It has the same weather ceiling as on the camera and you're gonna get anything from a wide angle with the 24 millimeters all the way to a 70 millimeter shot. So you're covering your range up to 70 millimeters. Now, what if you want to go beyond that? What if you don't want the wide angle? Look, I'm glad you asked. Uh I also brought in this 70 to 200 F 2.8 lens from Sony, um which is in very similar packaging, you open it up manual inside, you have the lens bags, zaps and you have the F 2.8 70 to 200. So here's this whole setup. Now, if you're a photographer and this is your setup, you are in very good shape to get the shots that you wanna get. And remember that the great thing about this is the high quality testing guarantees that you are going to get good gear from M pb.com. Very good gear. Now, here's the thing they have recirculated over 500,000 cameras, lenses, camera accessories back into the marketplace. So they're big, you know, we talked about, you know, climate neutral with peak design when you're talking about recirculating getting those products back out into the market, that's way better than sitting on your shelf, collecting dust. That's way better than spending, you know, hundreds of dollars more on new equipment rather than buying used with like new equipment. Now, you can really find some great pieces of gear on M pb.com. These are the ones that I wanted to go with just because I shoot Sony more than any other maker. Um That's just because I have more Sony lenses. I think all camera companies are great. Uh But I wanted to go with the A seven R five to see what all of the hype was about. Uh And I got it from M pb.com because that's where I buy the majority of my camera gear and also sell the majority of my gear too. Um So great company to go with and you can see the quality and the care they take when it comes to packaging these uh listing high quality pieces of gear and you're gonna be sure that you're getting that high quality gear in return. Now selling these is a very easy experience too. You just submit what kind of gear it is. You put the condition on there, they send you a shipping label, you send it to them and then they rate the gear and give you the money based on the condition that they say it is. Uh they take yours into account, but then they also have to do their testing on it too. Uh And it's usually a very accurate estimate based on what they gave you online. So the process is pretty seamless. Uh And it's a great experience anytime you wanna buy some new equipment. Um So Lee, I just want to pause here any questions about this gear, the M PB process, um specifically because, you know, I, I think a lot of people get nervous when they are buying equipment, especially from used dealers. Um But you're not gonna have that with the M PB and like this, this camera is so good. I may not be sending this back to them. I don't, I don't know, just keep it. Ryan does have a question and it's specifically about the website. Uh I think it's a really good one and a lot of people are probably wondering this as well, Ryan. So thank you for sending it in. Uh Ryan wants to know if the photos on the website of the products are of the actual items or are they stock images of the item? Um Both. So sometimes they're of the actual item and sometimes their stock images. I would assume that's because um sometimes, you know, they've just gotten the product in and they're listing it. So they're using uh any stock images, but sometimes they do have actual images of the equipment on there. OK. So answer is a little bit of a mix there. Uh Looks like they've got a great process for making sure that you're getting high quality products. And the selling is really neat too. Like you said, that reusability getting something back, uh, into somebody's hands that's gonna use. It is really great. I'm gonna keep an eye on some more questions. But I wanted to ask David before we move on to the next one. Do you have time to go back? We have a question about the backpack. Absolutely. All right. We're gonna go to Paul here. So Paul wants to know if the backpacks are compatible with third party camera inserts or only with their own camera cubes. That is a good question. Um They are compatible. Um And, and I'm glad you asked that because I actually have some third party camera cubes. Uh both, you know, smaller ones for the, the hit belt or the, the, the smaller 7 L bag. And I also have some for some 50 L bags. Um And they actually worked. Now you're probably going to need one that's roughly, I don't know, 8 to 10 inches max. Um But any of those camera inserts are gonna work. Uh Like I said, I have multiple C camera bags for different companies and the inserts will, will fit in there too. Um So again, all of the, the material on the peak design bag is very adjustable. Uh Even some of the pouches are very flexible. So if it's not like a 100% fit, you can, you know, flex it a little bit and, and make it fit to what you need it to do. That's a really good question, Paul. I'm, I'm glad you asked that. All right, as usual, I'm gonna keep an eye on the questions as they come in. Uh Helen says, hi, sorry to arrive late. So this is a great time. Also, if you are also joining us late, I'm gonna just say what David has covered so far and then remind you that this can be replayed at any time. So if you missed any part of it or you wanna revisit it, you can come back and watch this later. So already we've two products with David Peak designs, Outdoor Bag line and M pb.com where we feature the camera, the Sony A seven R five and then a couple lenses. David likes to pair with that and we have three more products to feature. So we're going to move on to the next one, David. This is gonna be the OM system, the OM one mark two. So we're going into that next. Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna tease you guys just a little bit um by taking this lens. If I can keep it out of camera, it's, it's absolutely massive. Uh I'm gonna take the lens off and just look at the camera first. So this is the OM one mark two. And I, I've mentioned weather protection a couple different times with these products. Um I wanna tell you right now, this camera is the most weather resistant camera that I have ever used in my entire life. I actually was testing it, reading about it. Um I've taken it into the rain. I've taken it to photograph, you know, intense waterfalls with mist, fog, uh lots of different conditions, negative 10 °F uh going out and, and testing this lens, but here's, or testing this camera, I should say it never malfunctioned one time. So, what I did, uh, was I emailed om system, uh, just a random email. I said, you know what, I'm, I'm using this camera. Would you mind if I sprayed it with my water hose and tested the results, uh, and put that on video and actually shared it out on social media and they said, yeah, sure, go for it. So I set this up on a tripod. Uh, and I put the jet setting on my water hose, sprayed it for a good two straight minutes at all. Different angles turned it on and everything worked perfectly. Um, now I've never been in rain that fierce when I'm out taking photos, but I wasn't satisfied. I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to testing out capabilities. And I've tried to break this camera over and over and over again and I have failed to do so. Last snowstorm we had, I actually buried it under the snow and ice for a couple couple hours. Um, I wouldn't, it, you know, recommend that you do that, but this camera still works if you do that wherever you are. Um, so this is a very intense camera. You can take it anywhere on the planet and it's gonna work. Dust, sand, snow, rain, heat, cold. This camera will still work. So with that being said, it's called up to an IP 53 weather ceiling test. Basically what that means is spray it with your water hose, bury it in ice, try to break it and you're gonna be hard pressed to. So with this camera, um there's a lot of great things that, that come inside. Now, I actually took this on my last trip to the National Park uh in my home state, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. And I use this for a lot of different photos. Now, you may be looking at it and see the sensor in here. This is a micro four thirds sensor. Uh And it's kind of what O MS system is known for. They make these micro four thirds sensors, but don't let the size of the sensor fool you. They have a feature built into this camera called a high res image feature. Um And up to a certain point up to a resolution, uh you can actually handhold this and what it does is it takes multiple different frames and then basically stacks those together into one photo. Now, this can actually make photos up to 80 megapixels with the high res feature. We talked about megapixel count and how megapixels and more megapixels are being put in. This is your first look at a micro four third smaller sensor packing in more megapixels with the technology that's actually built in here. It's like a supercomputer inside this little camera. Now, there are a lot of, of capabilities of this camera. Obviously, it has fast autofocus tracking one of the cool things about the autofocus and why I think a lot of wildlife photographers are gonna like this camera a lot is it's paired with A I uh subject detection. So what that means is you can set A I subject detection in this camera to a person, a bird, an animal, uh all different kinds of things. And this camera will find those features, those subjects and it will track the focus across that using artificial intelligence that's built into this thing. Um That blew my mind. I tested it. I'm not much of a wildlife photographer myself. I kind of stick to the landscapes. I like to say, I'll photograph most things that don't move besides water. Um But testing this out with bird photography with which I have never been that good at. I'll be the first to admit that this camera made it super easy, not only the A I autofocus detection, but it actually can shoot at up to 120 frames per second. That is insanity. Like when I got my first camera, I was shocked at like three photos per second and that was 14 years ago. Think about how far we've come into 14, 100 and 20 frames per second. That is just silly that you're putting this into a camera and have the ability to do that. Um, so that made it, you know, I don't know how many times and I know a lot of you guys out there are watching and, and thinking the same thing, how many times you've been to a location you've taken a shot, maybe a wildlife shot because animals are moving constantly. They're unpredictable and you take a shot and you miss that one moment, maybe you got the right photo, but you miss that one fraction of a second that, you know, in your mind, as the photographer would have been the better shot, you're not gonna miss that with 100 and 20 frames per second. I guarantee that. Um So this will allow you to capture every single moment that you are out in the field. Now, I for one hate using filters in the field. The most annoying thing to me is to go out and have to take extra pieces of gear when my hands are cold. I talked about photographing with this in the snow when my hands are cold. I don't want to adjust a metal ring on my camera that's, you know, a fraction of the size of my fingers um and fumble around with that drop it in the snow, have to clean it off. I don't wanna do that. So the good people at OM system thought about that and they built in ND filters into the camera. So you have live in D in this camera that you can see on the L CD screen, it gives you a, uh, a estimate of what that's going to look like, kind of this, uh you know, created estimate of the movement of what you're photographing. And uh it shoots live in D up to Indy 128 which is a very long exposure. Now, you would need a tripod for that. I've handheld this at Indy six and Indy eight. And it's, I've been able to handhold that, which is pretty remarkable, but you would need a tripod for the Indy 128. Now, they didn't stop there. They also said, what other filters can we make obsolete here? Uh Let's throw in a gradual Indie filter. So what a gradual Indie filter is, it's a darker filter at the top and no filter down at the bottom so that you can photograph bright skies and dark landscapes. Uh And they built that ca that into this camera as well that shoots at grad Indie of 24 and eight uh in this camera as well. So basically everything besides a circular polarizer when it comes to filters is obsolete now with this camera. Um And I do think that technology is going to progress. This is our first look at it and Owen system is obviously miles ahead of the game already in doing that in their cameras. Now, I talked about some of my favorite things in this camera and I could probably go, you know, on and take you through the entire camera menu. Uh, but I'm a nerd like that, so I'm not gonna bore you to tears with all of that, but the buttons on top, very easy to select everything. Uh The uh uh custom buttons allow you to adjust things as you want, set those custom buttons to what you want. I, I don't want to tease that lens and then not show you guys. So I was talking about my birding adventure and um I wanted to use this along with the camera to photograph the birds. Um This is the OM system 150 to 600 lens and pairing these two things together, makes a beautiful wildlife photography setup. So this is at 150. If I zoom this all all the way out to 600 you're not gonna miss many shots with this. OK. With a micro four thirds sensor that can shoot high res um and a 600 millimeter lens. This is a great wildlife photography setup. I'll tell you that much right now. I was photographing single trees on mountains in the distance with this camera and lens uh because it's so good. Now the IP 53 transitions over into their lenses. Very weather sealed, very good lenses to use very sharp too. Um I was pretty surprised by the quality of the OM system lenses. Now, if you're not into wildlife photography, but you know, this comes in handy with landscape photography too, maybe you want a wide angle lens. Now, here's the power of something like a micro four thirds system, especially with high quality lenses like OM system has with their zu lenses. Uh When you attach this, if this was your entire setup, a wide angle lens all the way up to 45 millimeters, this is a very small setup. But again, you saw the telephoto lens, you saw how it goes up to 600 millimeters. If you're just using this 12 to 45 and a 150 to 600 how many shots are you gonna miss? I'd be hard pressed to go through my entire portfolio of photos and find a photo that this system wouldn't cover. Um lots of custom buttons on here. There's two on the front right here and there are a few on the back that you can reprogram to customize those for different autofocus trackings. The A I Autofocus Indie filters, Grad Indie filters, uh high res feature. Uh and those are very easy to find in the camera menu. You know how like in a camera you can go into the menu. You'd spend days looking for one feature that you. This is a very easy camera menu to follow. And it's from a company that's been making cameras high quality cameras for a long time. That's OM system. Um I was very, very impressed not only by the durability of this camera but also their lens selection. Like this is this thing is like a a Bazooka that you're carrying in your camera bag for capturing photos. This is insanely large and insane for how big it is. It's actually pretty light. Um And it has a lot of cool features. Uh There's a locking feature on here. Um It's just a great lens. I've really had a lot of fun and using this for wildlife and I'm not the, the best wildlife photograph photographer. I'll tell you that much. Uh, but I loved this lens and, and I love this camera too. I can't go on enough about how impressed I've been with OM system, the OM one mark two, the 150 to 600 the 12 to Uh, anything that I've gotten in the past, uh with them has, has been a great, uh, a great choice and a great investment too. And it sounds like you have really searched for the limits of what that camera can handle so that everybody else that's watching, you don't have to, you know, it can withstand a whole lot of, I just like to try and break things. I like to try and test the limits Well, this one seems to really have passed all of the tests. So that's a really great camera to have. Uh That's our third product. Um We do have two more. I'm going to pause for just a moment to let some questions filter in. If anybody watching has any. Again, that was the OM system. Om one mark two that was just featured and you have a chance now to ask some questions. We'll also get to some questions at the end. I don't see any popping in right away, David. So I think we can move on to the next product. We're going to go to Bay Photo and the metal prints. That's our next product that David is going to feature. So I'm gonna send it over to him and again, drop those questions if you have them. Yeah, I talked about all of these, taking you through the experience and making your photography experience that much better. You, you can ask any professional photographer or very seasoned photographer and they'll tell you that actually holding the physical print at the end of the day at the end of the shoot, um getting that physical print, a tangible object instead of just a digital file really completes the process. Um And it's almost, you know, a lot of photographers talk about this in like a romantic way, right? They're talking about uh finishing the process, getting the print just right. And I wish I honestly wish I had a video um of unboxing these prints from Bay Photo when I got them because my daughter was with me and she was unboxing them with me. And she was saying uh her reaction, she was like, whoa photos. Can I open this one? Can I open this one? Can I open this one? And I was like, yeah, sure, go ahead and they all, there's so many options with them. I think if you have a home printer, that's really cool for like photos up to, you know, 8.5 by 11. Uh And you can have some options with paper. But when you go with metal prints, uh you're not really able to do that very easily at home. And I love Bay Photos, metal prints. Um I also had a conversation when I was looking at these, uh I was talking with one of my friends who actually sells photography prints at something like art shows. Uh And he said metal prints are great people love metal prints and I can see why now not just to sell but to have in your home, uh on the opposite side of the camera, I have an entire wall that's covered in these metal prints because I love them so much. Um All the photos that I've taken on my adventures capturing and preserving and saving those memories to, you know, show people or just to enjoy myself. Uh I love going back to those moments. And experiencing that again just to show you they, they sent a bunch of these different samples, uh different brains. Here we go, try to get that glare off. Um So this is like a sheer gloss. Um, but they have different options of cuts that they have too. So they have different cuts on the corners. Uh This is just your standard square, but with uh these little holes which I'll get to in just a minute. Um And a lot of these aluminum prints like as you rotate them, they start to look just a little bit different. This is a matte finish or a satin finish. Um And this is a textured finish. I'll get to this in just a second but it does reflect some light, but it also has some texture on it. I'll tell you what kinds of photos are best for like these textured shots. Uh Again, this is your high gloss, but as I like, rotate this a little bit, you can see how the light just shines off of these just a little bit differently as the light is cast on them. Now, what are my favorite surfaces to print on? And I have some uh huge prints here uh to share with you that I got from Bay Photo. So I, I mentioned the satin finish. I can just kind of scoot back here and show you guys this. So this would be a satin finish. Um And it's just a really nice finish for like a waterfall shot because when you photograph waterfalls, what you want is that milky long exposure texture of the water, you want all that detail coming off, but maybe you don't want it to reflect so much. Um This satin finish on a metal print is real easy to do. Now, this one does not have any mounting on the back. I'll show you some with mounting in just a minute, but this is just a sheet of metal, uh with this photo printed on it, detail is very high, very high sharpness on a lot of these. Now you see these holes up in the top corners, there's a tiny little hole right here and it has it on all four corners of this print when they sink you. These, um, one of the things that they send you as well, even if it doesn't have mounting on the back are some of the mounts that you can put in your wall. So you have like your classic drywall, uh, anchors and screws that you can get at Lowe's Home Depot or any Home improvement store. These were my favorites though. Um, these little wooden pegs, uh and they're really cool. So what basically what you do for maybe a photo like this and this kind of finish if I could ever unscrew this, um from the peg is you basically take this and put it through the hole in front and then you screw this front piece on once it's totally on there, that hole is covered up, but you're left with like a really high quality uh mounting that comes off of the wall just a little bit. And then on the back, it has threads that you can actually put on a wall screw uh that comes out of the wall too that they've also included in the, the bag that they send you with this. But it just makes for, you know, a really nice presentation. This isn't something like you're gonna put on the wall with command strips and it's gonna fall off a week later. Ok? You have these really, really nice features for mounting these. Uh, and I love the, the faux wooden one here because it really matches with a lot of the browns and the greens in this print too. So that is the standard metal print, but this is the satin finish with also the, um, the wooden mounting peg uh on here too that just brings it out from the wall, uh, like this much if you can see how much is coming off right here, just a really nice offset from your wall. Um I don't wanna damage that front as I set it down, but I wanna get to the next one. So this is going to be your high gloss um finish and I'll try not to get reflections in this. Uh But this is a really big print. Uh This was an awesome one. I actually took this photo with the, actually took um this photo and the last one with the OM system camera. Um So this is kind of the print that, that high res feature can produce and the live ND feature. Um So this was fast moving fog that was going over the Smoky Mountains. And I captured this with that 150 to 600 lens as well. Uh So that just shows you the quality and how big you can print with a micro four thirds sensor. Uh But this is a high gloss print. Really nice color. You have your oranges, your pinks, your purple, your blues. Uh And the detail in this is is great too. Now, this one actually comes with mounting hardware on the back that already offsets that from the wall. Now I mentioned um how easy it is. Each of the ones that come with mounting actually have the uh hardware attached to it with instruction as well so that you don't have to look those up later. They just put it right on the print for you. So this is the high gloss here. Um Really nice look, especially with anything with a lot of color clouds, different things going on in the photo like that. Again, I don't wanna scratch these, but I'll put that one down. Next, I mentioned the textured print and I wanna show you guys this one textured print I feel like is a really niche surface. Um But I really like niche photos. Uh I really like those subjects that are kind of weird, kind of out there and I think the textured finish fits really well. Um with anything that is rocks or mud or black and white, that's grungy, kind of like an old film look. Um And this is what that textured look looks like. Now you can see it, it doesn't have that harsh finish, but it actually has tiny little uh bumps almost like a spray on bed liner for a truck. Uh It just has these really nice texture features that aren't glossy, it's not satin but it's not too reflective. Um And it pairs really well with some earthy textures like this. This was some uh were some mud tiles out in Death Valley National Park photographed in color. Uh These were actually purple reflecting the the skylight off of it. I had this framed up. Uh Actually I have another metal frame in my office that's of the same, just a different section of these mud tiles. I had this framed up and I thought, you know what, let's try it in black and white. Let's see what it looks like. Uh And I'm so glad I'm dead because I'll never turn back from this print. I love this photo and how it turned out and you can see the quality of bay photo with how much uh differences you have in your bright highlights, your whites, but also the deep rich black tones that are in here, how much you can pull out of a photo and then print it. And again, if you can touch this and it would be just like you were touching those mud tiles in Death Valley National Park. I love how the the different senses, the different experiences, how tangible this is, can take you back to the moment and the memory. Uh And I really love how Bay photo is integrated that into their metal prints as well. This has hardware on the back, a little bit different of a mounting system you see here um with kind of like the claw teeth that you can mount this to the wall with. Uh but again, I love, I love the textured look. I love how it feels. But again, it's kind of this niche like does it fit with this photo? I think any earthy rocky photos um would fit really, really well with that. Now, the last one I'm gonna show you is probably my favorite of the bunch. Um This one was also taken with the uh OM system camera. We have the hardware, hardware is falling off the back here. Um I'll do my best to kind of keep the reflections off. So this is actually the sheer gloss finish. And the reason I love I can angle this just right. If I just rotate this, you can see how the light actually reflects off of the brighter colors and the highlights of this photo. I've walked by my office at different times of the day with different lighting in my house and see how it reflects off of this part of the photo specifically up in the fall colors of the photo and specifically off of the waterfall itself and down here and some of the white water features uh and it's just really cool how it will reflect differently off of that metal surface. Again, this is the sheer gloss and they call it that because a lot of those metal tones come in with the brighter highlight sections. Like I said, this is a brighter part of the photo that metal reflection kind of comes off of that and has that featured really well. Now they also can send these uh prints and frames uh or prints these metal prints, I should say in frames. So this is in a black frame. I think it looks really nice with this kind of dark moody Fall photo. Uh But this black frame is big, it's durable. Uh And it also has the mounting hardware that is attached to the back of the photos too. So again, the the sheer gloss is probably my favorite of the bunch. Um But they have so many different textures finishes. Uh so many different mounting solutions that you have like these little pegs, the drywall anchors. It is a great company to go with. Um and I think I love it. Like I, I know a lot of photographers who say, you know what I wanna get into printing my own photos and selling them. Well, that's awesome. There's nothing better than holding your print, a tangible object and kind of seeing which finish you want on there. If you want to do this online, uh sell prints online, you can actually drop chip with Bay Photo too, so you can sell prints, you can cut out the middleman and just drop ship from the Bay Photo lab to your customer. Um And that is a great way to do it online too. So if you want to offer metal prints, go with Bay Photo. Uh I've been saying that for years actually, uh and have several of my own metal prints, acrylic prints, paper prints, canvas prints on the wall. Oh, I actually David, one of these features that we did led me to go to Bay Photo for a print before. So it's really great quality stuff. Uh I enjoy watching you talk about it and feature all of these finishes so we can see in real time like what that light looks like coming off of them. Um Oh, before we move on, Grace just popped a question in David. Are all the prints that you just featured, your photography. They are very beautiful. Thank you very much. They all are my photography, believe it or not. You know, I do a lot of gear testing. Um I do a lot of tutorial videos, uh, but it is nice to get out there and kind of just do photography and, and you know why you got into it in the first place. Uh So yes, these are all mine. It is nice, like with these different cameras, like this one, the, the OM system, om one mark two, the Sony A seven R mark five. Also the next camera that we're gonna be talking about in just a second. Uh when you're testing those out, it's so fun to test the different features and see what that's going to look like. Um And then kind of, you know, bring that creativity, the different ideas that these different cameras have the different pieces of gear and how that fits into your ideas about how to take a photo. It's, it's amazing to, to get that onto a print and, and see it really just come to life. Um I know, like I said, a lot of photographers get like romantic talking about their photos and how they look on, on print. But uh until you actually just hold it and you're like, wow, I, I actually made this um is a really cool feeling and if you haven't experienced that before, just go to bay photo, look at all the options that they have, see which finish you want. I recommend the, the sheer metal uh or the sheer gloss for waterfalls or, or bright highlights, but um the high gloss is really good. Like I said, the textured finish is great just holding something and feeling it. Instead of just looking at a photo on a on a screen is there's nothing better than that. Honestly, there is something to be said from not just paging through your digital albums and looking at things that way, especially when you create that image yourself. Uh Like David said, we have one more product to get to uh we are at the end of our product list. However, so if you've been putting on any questions for any of the products or if one comes in for this next product, make sure to drop it in. We'll try to get to it before we have to say goodbye. But we are on our fifth and final product of the showcase and that is from Fuji film. This is the G FX 100 S two. So I'm gonna have David Feature this one next. So we, we did the, the micro four thirds a second ago. This is a large format camera. So this is the G FX 100 S two from Fujifilm. As you can see, it's, it's pretty beefy. It's a, it's a pretty big camera, but that is because it has so much power inside of it. And even though it may look big and boxy, it's very, very lightweight, which I took it out of the box. I saw the box it was sent in and I was like, wow, ok. But then I picked it up and I was like, ok, that, that's something they're, they're on to something here now with a lot of cameras. Um, I'm, I'm kind of, I'm kind of nitpicky about the hand grip, how I'm actually holding the camera. This is the most comfortable hand grip I've ever held a camera with. I have larger hands. Um So a lot of those are feel a little bit small and fragile in my hand. Uh So I really liked the hand grip on this, which is also the battery grip as some uh might call it. So it has a pretty large battery grip in here. SD cards, go in on the side. Uh This has dual SD cards in here. Um And just a really clean, simple look, you know, II I feel like a lot of cameras when you get them, you get them out, you start feeling them, you're, you start OK, I'm gonna, you know, go out and take some photos. I'm excited to use this and you get out in the field and it has so many options that you're overwhelmed and it's paralysis by analysis. You don't know what to do first. This camera is so simple. Uh Even it being a large format camera, um It's so simple to use, you know, the buttons on here, you have custom menu buttons that you can program up on top, you have a huge screen that you can see what your camera settings are up here digitally. Um And then look at how big this sensor actually is if I can get it to reflect. So there it is it is massive. This is a large format sensor in here which can create ready for this. 100 and two megapixel photos, you can zoom in, you can crop, you can do whatever you want with these photo files. And there's nothing happening to the quality on that. That's 100 and two megapixels built into this large format camera. Just a massive amount. Now, the files are gonna be pretty big on that. But like I said, you can do anything you want to a file like that, you're not gonna be bootstrapped to OK. This is gonna be a little bit blurry now that I, you know zoomed in on it or cropped it in a little bit. Um It's also a high speed with powerful image stabilization in here. And as I even like kind of shake it around right now, you can feel that ibis or in body image stabilization uh bounce around and you can feel that stabilization in here, which is really gonna come in handy when you're hand holding photos, wildlife photography, maybe you don't wanna put your camera on a tripod for landscape photography. This is gonna help you out a ton, just hand holding if you don't want to take a tripod with you for a lot of those shots. I it's crazy how much stabilization is in here. I wish you guys could kind of like feel that rattle and bounce. Uh But it's really good to have that in here. Now, I I mentioned this a little bit with the prints. Um When you have a camera like this, that's simple to use, that has tons of technology built into it. Megapixel count is extremely high. Um You're doing something more than just taking photos with this camera. You are capturing experiences because of how you are not bootstrapped to image file size. You're not uh kind of limiting yourself on speed of a camera or technology in a camera, you're able to capture basically anything you want to with this camera. And, and I don't know if you guys have ever said this before, but for a photographer, probably the most heartbreaking thing you could say is this photo doesn't do this place justice. You're not gonna get that with this camera. Uh This camera can, can do it all. Uh It has image simulations of like film simulations of old fuji films uh from the film days that you can program into this with your photos um pixel shift. Now this is really cool pixel shift is actually taking different photos. But every single time you take a different photo, it it uh slides 0.5 pixels to the right. And every single time you're taking a photo, this stacks 16 of those photos uh every single time it's just moving slightly to the right to capture uh that shift effect and that produces 400 megapixel photos. Think about that, think of what you could do with a photo like that and how you could capture memories with a photo like that. That is the pixel pixel shift feature, which is shockingly easy to use because it will combine it into one photo um fast autofocus uh really accurate focus tracking with this camera too seven frames per second. Now, I I wanted to, to see what this looked like with the lenses themselves. Um And I'll say this about fujifilm, I've always loved their cameras. Um And it, it's, you know, it's, it hurts a lot to kind of single out a lens because there's so many great lenses out there. Fuji Film makes the best lenses. Um They are clear, they're sharp, they have the best glass produce the best images that are in my portfolio. Honestly, there are gr a lot of great lenses out there, but I've been surprised again and again and again with Fuji lenses um best glass out there, in my opinion. So Fuji Film, uh this is the 20 to 35 millimeter F four lens. Now with the GF lenses that go with the G FX cameras, they're gonna be a little bit bigger, but that's because of the amount of high quality glass that's actually inside of these has great weather ceiling on them and these lenses feel very, very durable. I don't know if you've ever like the seal on this with the lens in the camera and you just seal it into place that is a sturdy feel and you're not gonna be worried about, you know, damaging this too much as long as you're not being crazy. Um, like I tend to be with a lot of my camera equipment, maybe, you know, I'll put this one to the test. I don't know. Um what I love about these lenses and the reason they are maybe a little bit bigger is that uh it's all internal zoom. So all of the zoom is occurring inside of the barrel of the lens here. And why I love that is it protects your lens and your camera more against weather ceiling because that barrel isn't extending out beyond what's actually built here. Everything is internal. So you're not worried about that barrel coming out, getting moisture on it and then going back into the camera, uh 20 to 35 with a large format camera is gonna give you that classic wide angle look to like almost an old film look. Another reason I like these uh lenses is because they have aperture locks on them and you adjust the aperture on the lens ring itself. Uh So there's a little red button up top that's kind of the, it's the aperture lock, you press that down and you change your aperture to whatever you want it to be. And then when you let up on that, it's gonna lock it back in place. Um And I really love that so much with these lenses. Uh focus ring, zoom ring, just really smooth and really nice, nice, easy to adjust here. Let's get to the next lens uh that I wanted to try with this camera and this is the 100 to 200 F 5.6. Um So really this is your bigger lens with the large format, there's a 100 to 200. Again, all zoom is internal uh which is better for you if you want to protect your gear. Again, you have that aperture ring um that you can lock over an auto or in any of the others uh all the way up to F Uh So that's a really small aperture if you wanna get some nice sun stars um in there too. I, I just love this camera like the, the images that it creates uh how big the file sizes are. Um And I've done this too with some of my photos with this camera is actually just create a photo and then take it normally, but then I'll crop it into a panorama without having to do the whole panorama process. Uh And these file sizes are so big that it allows me to do that. Um But a tremendous camera here that, that you can use if you're looking to get a large format camera that's not going to be, you know, a load to carry around. Very easy to use straight out of the box. Clean, simple, but gets the job done that you want to get done. Um This is the camera to do it again. I mentioned how great fujifilm lenses are um cleanest I've used in my career uh and just a great overall camera. And before we wrap up, I just want to show you this, this sensor again. Again, I'm a gear nerd. This is a huge sensor. Uh It's massive in here. I, I love to see uh that and how you can actually uh grab photos with that. Um And I've really enjoyed my time with this camera too. Um Just a great camera. Ok. Well, that does bring us towards the end of our time here. We have a few questions that I'd love to get to quickly. Um We've got one coming in from Oliver that I'm gonna do. First. This is going back to the prints that you featured the metal prints. Uh Oliver wants to know how it is that you clean them. You say that one more time, how would you clean those metal prints? That is a great question. Um So when you have these, if I can get this tape off of the back of here, very durable, very durable. It actually has cleaning instructions on here. So hair and handling of metal prints, uh, gives you instructions. So handle them carefully, keep away from direct sunlight. Um, and you can clean it with, uh, a soft cloth, um, kind of like a lens cloth that you might use for your camera. Uh, or glasses like one of these I always have laying around. Uh, those are great to clean this off with, uh, but they all have instructions on how to clean them on the back. So it's kind of like, uh bay photo thought, what questions will somebody have after ordering one of these, if they've never ordered one before, and we're just going to send all of that information along with the print. Um, so they've been able to do that. They have all the cleaning instructions on the back, how to mount them on the back, how to put them on the wall on the back. Uh, all the instructions, uh, are there from them. So that's why they're just a great company, um, and do great things because they give you all the information up front and, and basically give you all of that for free so that you don't have to look it up or Google it later. Yeah, you keep your product looking just as good as when they ship it to you. So that's a really great way to do that. Uh We've got one more question. I'm gonna sneak in, uh, before we say our farewells, this one comes from Sarah. So Sarah asked how effective is the Eight Stop Ibis in practical use, especially in terms of handheld shooting the, the Ibis. You're talking about ibis. Um, yeah, it's very practical. Um, it, you can easily, you know, handhold something like that. I would say I have pretty steady hands. Now, that's not after I've had my morning coffee, maybe they're a little bit shaky then for sunrise photography. But, um, if you're talking about the, the Ibis system like that, um, it's, it's pretty handy. I wouldn't be worried about shooting anything down to 1/40 of a second. But I'm, it's not like I'm gonna hand hold something at half a second or one second. Uh, but 1/40 of a second is a pretty slow shutter speed to be hand holding and the Ibis system, uh, and that is, is gonna get the job done for you. It's, it's a great one. All right. Every single time I do a photography feature with David, I feel like I learn a little bit more about photography and how to say all of the different features myself. Uh So those are the ends of my questions, David. So before I send everybody off, are there any final thoughts you have anything you wanna send our viewers away with today? Yeah, just let me say, you know, all of these products are great. Um, I think if if you're looking for, for one of these, get the one that fits your photography best. Um And, and here's what I'll say about that too. Don't get so caught up into, you know, is this right? Is this wrong, blah, blah, blah. There's so much information out there if something hatches your eye and makes you just really say like, wow, that, that's really cool, you know, put your bag down, get your camera out, whichever one of these cameras or lenses or you know, backpacks, prints, you choose, get your camera out and take the photo if it makes you say, wow, then there's something there that's needed to be explored by you by the photographer and you need to be able to take that photo. Uh That is the most important thing whether or not you think you're at the point yet of being able to take that photo uh with your skill level, just try um just try and capture it. You know, we mentioned technology and all these different cameras and all the equipment that we talked about today, technology is making it easier and easier for photographers to, to, to share their memories. And I think that's the most important thing about photographers. And I was thinking about this the other day of um we the luckiest people on the planet, in my opinion, because we get to actually manipulate time. Uh We're able to freeze moments for eternity or we're able to use long exposures to, you know, streak water or clouds or smooth out water with long exposures. We're, we're so lucky to be able to manipulate time like that. Uh That if that moment hits you and you say, wow, take the photo and no matter what gear you have, no matter your skill level, just take the shot. Uh and then go from there and that's, that's the first step. So that would be my last little bit of encouragement for everybody watching uh both live now or in the future. Those are really great words to leave our viewers with. So thank you so much David. And of course, thank you for all of your expertise, your willingness to test out these products and bring all of the valuable information about them to our viewers. It's always fantastic to have you for these uh with that said though, it is time to say goodbye for this year's product showcase. Again, my name is Leah. This has been our 2024 product showcase with OPG and this is something you can come back to, so you can come back and watch the replay if you joined us late or just wanna revisit any of these products. And we have to finish with a thank you to all of our sponsors that is Peak Design M pb.com OM System Bay Photo and Fuji Film. And again, thank you to David for taking us through all of these fantastic products. My name is Leah. Thank you for joining us. And until we see you again, have a fantastic time shooting those photos.
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