Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator, Johnny Hamburger.
Thank you so much for joining me again this week. I got a comment
on my last YouTube upload, which, by the way, here's something I
would like to kind of clarify for people listening to the podcast who also subscribe
to the Geek Therapy Radio YouTube channel. Google has gotten rid of Google podcasts.
Google podcasts as a platform doesn't exist anymore. So instead, what Google
has done as it's integrated podcasts with YouTube. So recently, within the past
few months, less than that last couple months, maybe two or three months,
you've been able podcasters have been able to import their RSS feeds into YouTube.
So now YouTube is also a podcast platform. So now my you tube
channel, geek their Pyer radio YouTube channel automatically gets each new podcast that hits
that RSS feed, and it automatically applies the thumbnail, the background image,
whatever image I upload to the back end of my podcast podcast platform, which
is spreaker by the way, that's the back end we use at the radio
station. Also, so if I do a show on the the Apple Vision
Pro and then I make a thumbnail of the Vision Pro and me or whatever
that's what gets automatically fed into the YouTube RSS podcast feed. So that's why
you see sometimes and I'm trying to manage this, like how do I,
how do I do this? Where you'll get like the video version, you
know, you're watching me right now, this video version of the podcast,
the intent the intentional video version of the podcast. But then within a few
days later you'll see the like almost the same title or similar title show up,
and then it's just a static background of a thumbnail and you're hearing basically
the same audio that's in this intentional video. It's kind of a I don't
know how YouTube is. It's something to navigate here and where it gets kind
of interesting and where it gets honestly a little bit frustrating. And first of
all, I appreciate that podcast are integrated automatically into YouTube. Now YouTube takes
your RSS feed and automatically generates a podcast video for people to listen to.
Part of the confusion though, is like I imported the RSS feed and I
have like four hundred back shows going back to like twenty seventeen. It's literally
hundreds of in individual podcast episodes. So sometimes, so what's happening now?
What I'm seeing now is I'll get these comments in negative comments or trolls or
even sometimes good comments of something that I put out five or six years ago.
Like a show from twenty seventeen hits YouTube now. So people are like,
why are you talking about the Apple AirPods Max or whatever Apple's headphones they
came out in like twenty nineteen. Why are you talking about MacBook Pro Throttlegate?
Remember when Mac was still on the Intel I nine processes. Why are
you talking about Throttlegate now, dude? And like, yeah, the show
is from years ago, but it's just now hitting YouTube because YouTube has integrated
podcasts because Google got rid of the Google podcast and now it's all integrated into
YouTube. So yeah, you're seeing these new uploads of shows that are five
six years old. So I'm mitigating. I'm dealing with that kind of confusion,
and it's I feel like, well, YouTube comments are YouTube comments.
But people I don't know that they always put two and two together, Like
if I'm talking about the M one MacBook Pro thirteen like launch, you might
be able to put two and two together that maybe this is audio from a
few years ago. But I don't blame the YouTube viewer I don't blame new
people who just find the channel. It's kind of confusing, and I want
all of my episodes to be available on YouTube as audio only. So yeah,
there's gonna be shows like cringe cringe stuff, like early on cringe stuff
from twenty seventeen twenty eighteen that are gonna be now suddenly in front of a
lot more people than twenty twenty four and they're gonna think it's new and fresh,
and maybe not all of them are going to realize that it's five or
six years old yet. So anyways, that's why you're seeing more podcasts on
YouTube period, not just Geek Therapy Radio, but others because my RSS feed
geek Therapy Radio podcast rss feed is now integrated into YouTube as well. Overall,
it's a good thing. It's a lot more exposure to a lot more
audience. I know that I do this, and maybe some of you listening
or watching this YouTube video also do this. Where sometimes you just put on
a video and you'll leave the tab open in the background while you work,
while you study, while you do whatever. There's entire YouTube channels low five
beats whatever to study to, which is not necessarily designed for you to sit
there watching for seven hours straight. But it's something that you put on YouTube
and then you minimize it or you just keep it in a background tab somewhere.
So that's what podcasts are on YouTube. That's what even videos like this.
You know, if I'm doing the intentional video, I don't intend.
I don't expect every single person to sit here and watch it for thirty nine
minutes or whatever it winds up being. But I kind of expect people to
turn it on and maybe minimize it and go about their day doing whatever they
want to do. But it's however you want to watch this. And I've
also been more intent on more I've also been more intentional about recording the video
versions of these podcasts, even if it's just me sitting in front of a
microphone with my guitars or whatever's going on in the background behind me, because
if people don't like it, whatever, Like I don't make any money off
of YouTube. I think I make like twenty bucks every few months off of
YouTube. I don't I'm good, Like I don't need. I don't need
this outlet to to generate money. If it does generate money, that's awesome.
But I'm very intentional with with how and where I put ads, especially
in this long form stuff. You'll notice that I put the ad brakes in
the commercial breaks, in the division between segments, that it's not just me
talking. And then an AD appears out of nowhere. It's kind of welcome,
you know, we'll come back to geek thera per radio in a moment.
Don't go anywhere, we'll be right back. And then you see an
AD and another little more peak behind the curtain here. I didn't know I
was going to spend the whole first segment talking about this. But for those
of you who just maybe finding the Geek Therapy Radio podcast, maybe you're just
finding this here on YouTube. This is Geek Therapy Radio is actually a radio
show airs in Houston, Texas on KPRC nine to fifty am radio. It's
an iHeartRadio station, so that's why there are the segments. For there's four
segments, and the timing of it goes first segment eight minutes, so it's
eight ten eleven ten eight minute first segment, ten minute second segment, eleven
minute third segment, and then another ten minute fourth segment, all totaling up
to about thirty nine minutes of actual audio content because when it airs on the
radio, in between segments, you have three, four or five minutes of
ads of radio spots for god knows what, and then on the podcast.
So when you listen to the podcast, that's why you hear it kind of
me going to breaks like that. But if you're listening to the podcast,
or if you're watching this on YouTube, it it's instant you get right back
to this segment. Especially if you're listening to the podcast, there's less commercial
breaks in the podcast. Anyways, More Geek Therapy Radio coming up. Speaking
of a break, don't go anywhere. Welcome back to Geek Therapy Radio.
You've got your mental curator, Johnny Hemburger. As I'm recording here, I'm
seeing Microsoft and whatever calendar pop up on my screen that I have a have
a I have a team's meeting to get to here in the next few minutes.
Uh yeah, we'll see about that. So I might have to You're
not going to notice any difference. But practical, logistically speaking, I might
have to end after this segment and come back to it. You won't notice
anything's going on. What I did want to talk about this week though,
Again, Welcome back to geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator,
Johnny Hemburger geek Therapy Radio dot com and all the socials. Just type in
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TikTok, YouTube obviously in various other platforms. X geek the Geek Therapy
Radio podcast, and you've got me. So here's the biggest bugaboo that I've
been dealing with over the past few weeks. This phone that I'm holding right
in front of me with this cool kind of cassette case protective case on it
is my Galaxy Note nine. Yeah, from twenty seventeen twenty eighteen thereabouts.
I'm back on the Galaxy Note nine because my fancy schmancy Z fold four Sam's
Galaxy Z Fold four is bugging out on me. Let me open it up
here. What's happening is and I'm putting this out there into the world.
Well now it's not even it's got issues. It's got issues. There we
go, thank you for getting my unlocked screen for me. The main issue
is that the spen doesn't work at all or it's sporadic, and also that
the screen rotation doesn't always work, and so there's a chip in here that
controls It's like the gyroscope, it's the barometer, it's the light sensor.
It's all happening on one chip, magnetic sensor. That sensor, that chip
is is not happy. And it didn't start happening until the one UI six
update. What is this here? Come on, bring it back up.
Yeah, it didn't happen until the one UI version six point zero update.
That's when these problems started to happen. So I'm hoping that the next major
firmware issue will correct this problem of screen rotation and spen not working. I'm
hoping that's a firm More update because it didn't happen until after the last firm
More update. The most recent security patch obviously didn't do anything to mitigate it.
So I have done a full factory reset. I know you're wondering,
well, did you check your settings? Yes, that's a good question.
Did I checked all the settings? I even did a full factory refresh.
No. No, Only the only software on there is the software that comes
with it, So I didn't download any apps. I went down to factory
just bone level fresh install nothing on this phone and had the same problems,
so it's definitely something that I'm hoping is firmware based. I'm hoping it's just
some it's not talking to that sensor correctly, and that a firmware update does
the trick. So for now I'm back on my Galaxy Note nine because the
spen on the Note nine definitely works. This phone still works fine. It's
getting along in the tooth. It's showing its age, and that I have
to constantly keep charging this. I'm on this all the time for work.
I'm doing things with it. It burns through the battery. This phone gets
like hot in my hand. It gets really warm in the hand, and
it just chew through the battery throughout the day. I have to keep it
plugged in. And the one reason I think that's happening is that since this
is a phone that's from twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, that's at least minimum six
years old by this point, if not longer. The fact that it still
works mostly fine is a testament. But in six seven years, software and
apps just get so bloated and resource intensive that that's where it starts, making
older phones kind of chug and work a lot harder and burn through a lot
more battery. It's not because the phone is necessarily bad or the processor is
bad. It's that the apps just keep getting more and more advanced. So
if you have like the Facebook app or a Messenger app on you and you
downloaded it back in two thousand and six, there's six years of that app
just getting more and more resource intensive. More, there's more features added to
the app, more things that it's asking the phone to do all the time,
so that it's like a It would be kind of like if you drove
an old like Volkswagen Beetle, like a nineteen seventy two Volkswagen Beetle with a
one point eight liter air cooled four cylinder making twenty seven horsepower whatever thirty horse
power, and you used to live on this kind of flat street, and
through some geological process, now you're you're more and more living on a hill,
living on an incline. The car stayed the same, but what's being
asked of it has increased. It's more as being asked of the same hardware.
And that's what's happening to old phones. Yes, they work just fine,
and they're you know, they you push it and you push it and
push it, but you just you're burning through so much more battery. It's
slower to do. Some things like video editing apps get more and more intensive
and require better processors and everything. So this is the Snapdragon eight forty five
in this Galaxy Note nine from six or seven years ago. Now we're up
to snapdrag In eight Gen three in the new Galaxy S twenty four, and
the z Fold sixth cent's about to come out sometime. So so yeah,
I'm on the Galaxy Note nine and I'm waiting for a firm wore update for
the z Fold four here. Otherwise it's been a fantastic phone. But I'm
also a little bit frustrated. And I'll just be honest right now, is
that in my Amazon shopping cart, I feel like so in my Amazon shopping
cart, I do have the S twenty four Ultra, and I am I
am a day away maybe from just going ahead and getting it because for a
few reasons, you know, if my wife's listening whatever, I need the
phone to I need a modern phone to work. As it's becoming increasingly clear
to me with with my line of work, is that I can't get away
with I can't get away with having an underpowered phone anymore. And as great
as the Note nine is, it's just what I do with it is asking
a tremendous amount these days, especially for my job. The other thing is
Z four four great. I love the folding screen. I love how it
turns into a small tablet when you open it up. Like all that stuff
is wonderful. Even the cameras on it are are pretty good, are really
good actually, but it does doesn't fit in a gimbal. One of the
things I like to keep with me is are those DGI O M gimbals for
your phones that kind of clamp on to the phone and you just put your
phone on the gimble. I've got it. Do I have the gimbal next
to me somewhere, Maybe I can reach over for it real quick and keep
vamping here. I don't see it. I don't see it. I'll put
it well whatever, you know what I'm talking about. But the folds,
since they are thicker and they're not designed the gimbals are not designed to clamp
on to this the fold. It's a little bit too thick for all that,
and it's just non intuitive to use with the gimbal versus the gimbal that
it. You know, the Dji gimbles are designed to clamp around normal rectangular
phones. And I do quite a bit of video work with my phone,
and that's another reason where I'm thinking, like maybe I'll go to the S
twenty four. I'll go back to a standard phone. Not because I don't
like folding phones, but because it's becoming increasingly clear that in my day to
day work life it's a priority to be able to put a phone on a
gimbal and just film on obstructed. And the other thing is some apps don't
work that great yet on foldables because it doesn't know if it's a this is
a folding phone, is this a tablet? Is this just a regular slate
phone? Who knows YouTube shorts is like that. It has been where it's
kind of been funny to use on a folding phone and a tablet Android tablet
at least, And I'm just so I'm just kind of leaning towards, you
know what, I'm the type of person that will I've said it on the
show before, especially when it comes to phones, get at least two at
minimum two to three years use out of a flagship smartphone. That means,
really, what should have happened is I get the z Fold four and then
I wait two or three more generations, Like the next time i'd consideration upgrading
the z Fold four is like the z Fold seven or eight. You know
that that far down the road. Or if I had the Galaxy S twenty
one, I would still be rocking the S twenty one for a few generations,
two or three years until I'd be considering again the S twenty four S
twenty five whenever that comes out. So part of my soul hurts that I'm
even considering upgrading my phone after only having this for a year and a half
or so. Maybe maybe it's a little lesson. I think I got this
like November twenty twenty two, I think is when I got the z Fold
four, and so I've had a year and a half. It's a little
bit before my deadline of my threshold of upgrades. But again, I'm just
venting to y'all, letting y'all know my thought process, because maybe there's some
people out there that kind of have a similar thought process or sympathize with what
I'm going through right now. Is that I might have to upgrade my phone
sooner than I thought to the S twenty four. We'll see more geek there
Per radio coming up. Don't go anywhere. Welcome back to Geek Therapy Radio.
You got your mental curator Johnny Hamburger. In the previous segment and segment
two, I was talking about my smartphone woes in that my Galaxy Z fold
four, as awesome of a phone as it is, is having an issue
with one of its sensors. That controls the s pen that controls screen rotation,
that's the magnetic sensor, that's the gyroscope, that's the light sensor.
It's all happening on one Apparently one chip handles all that, and that chip
is, for whatever reason, malfunctioning. I'm hoping that it's just a firmware
issue because those problems didn't arise until after the major update to one UI six
point zero. So I'm hoping that it's a firmware fix because it's left me.
And if you listen to the previous segment, I explained that I'm kind
of leaning towards getting the S twenty four Ultra for multiple reasons, and basically
that it's this is quicker in the phone upgrade cycle than I typically like to
make a phone upgrade. Like I mentioned in the previous segment, I like
to go at least two or three years between upgrading phones. I used to
go a lot longer than that. I would go five, you know,
up to five years, maybe a little more than five years, because in
my opinion, phones have kind of plateaued as far as like the user experience.
Yes, the cameras get better and better and better, but honestly,
case in point, I've been using this Galaxy Note nine from twenty seventeen or
eighteen, I forget when, and it is ninety eight percent as good as
anything out there still for just getting on Facebook, checking your emails, doing
just kind of general smartphone things. Where it starts lagging behind is in battery
life and it gets hot in the process, or is just going one hundred
percent all the time. As I explained, because it's not that the phone
got crappier, it's just that that apps get more and more intensive. Apps
get more Every update of an app makes it more and more resource intensive,
so it just gets bloated. The applications get bloated and bloated and bloated.
It is just asking more of the same hardware. So the phone's not getting
bad, it's just that the software and the demands on it are increasing.
So while it's fine for texts and fine for zoom calls and fine for all
this stuff, where it starts bogging down when I start asking it to do
more intensive things like some video editing and lumafusion and just even skipping around to
a whole lot of multitasking. This phone gets real, real warm because the
processor just doesn't stop. It's showing its age. So I'm looking at the
S twenty four Ultra. It is in my Amazon shopping cart right now.
There's a deal on it. It's manageable, and I'm considering it. And
also, these slab phones fit into gimbals better, and I do a lot
of that type of work. And the cameras on the twenty four are very
S twenty four Ultra are very are great. I'd read don't quote me directly
on this, but I was reading. I think it's from GSM Phone Arena
or it was a very respectable smartphone website. I Google searched, does S
twenty four Ultra record ten bit video? Meaning ten bit video that I can
later import into Da Vinci Resolver my video editors and have way more control over
color grading and this and that. And it said, yes, that that
the Galaxy S twenty four Ultra has ten but ten bit h EVC HDR ten
plus recording. I knew it was. I knew it was HDR ten I
knew it was HDR ten plus. And that's all fine and dandy, But
was it ten bit? Like it? Was it truly ten bit? And
I still need to do more further verification. I don't have an S twenty
four to test. I want to import the video into Da Vinci Resolve and
see how much I can manipulate the video. Typically, what happens with smartphone
video is it looks exquisite on other smartphones when you're looking at content on your
smartphone, things shot with the smartphone camera look excellent on a smartphone camera.
Where things fall apart, typically classically, is that you take that footage from
your smartphone and then you put it in your audio or your video editor,
and you're looking at it on a nineteen twenty two twenty five inch twenty seven
thirty two inch screen and you see, oh yeah, that's uh that it
doesn't hold up well. When you blow up the image to a big TV
or or whatever kind of the small sensor, You're very aware how small the
sensor actually is when you blow up the image to an actual the size of
a TV or a computer monitor. So I'm trying to see if that's the
case or not with the S twenty four. I don't have high expectations.
It's not like it's not like I'm going to import video from the S twenty
five for Ultra into Da Vinci Resolve and work on it in four K or
even eight K on on my screen. Here. I know that there's gonna
be a bit of you're gonna be a bit disappointed if you start pixel peeping.
But what I just want to know is is the is the video usable
to make content like for the museum or kind of the ultimate kind of run
and gone set up. And I know the answer is yes. I know
a lot of you watching this or listening to this right now have have edited
smartphone video on your computer on a big screen. And yes, there are
pros and cons and trade offs to shooting with this smartphone, but everything's usable
because it all boils down to contents. I mean, that's the most important
thing anyways is really we're gonna this is where the conversation is going now,
because I'm just stream of cons consciousness flowing here. I watched a video the
other day on YouTube about the dgi Osmo Pocket three, which is I don't
have it, but I've just heard wonderful things about it. It's so popular
it's hard to get it's it's usually sold out at least on Amazon, so
it's a very popular. Everybody in their grandmother videographers and cinematographers who have who
you know, are using a run and gun set up an EDC kind of
pocket camera, swear by the Pocket three to digi Osmo Pocket three, so
I know I have pretty high confidence that it's that it's a great camera.
Now. One of the videos I saw was, you know, it's one
of those things like how to shoot cinematic content with a Dgiosmo Pocket three,
which really really what that video is saying and videos like that are saying,
it's how to shoot cinematic content with anything, is really what it means,
how to shoot cinematic content with your Galaxy Note nine from twenty seventeen. And
Here's where I'm getting at with all this is that actually to make compelling content
that people want to watch and that people stick around. For the camera,
you use a lot of people, novices just getting into it. Amateurs might
think that the camera is the most important thing when it comes to making good
video content, but the camera is actually one of the last things of importance
and one of the least important things in making compelling content. In no particular
order. There is a sequence to this, But the most important thing is
the storytelling. What story you're trying to tell. Is it a good story?
Because if it's a good story, then the camera doesn't matter. So
after the story and what's the storytelling, then you come up with a shot
list. Then the thing is cinematography, framing, lighting. Then you go
down to audio is just as if not most important, it might be number
two on the list. You have to have a good story, good audio,
good framing, good cinematography, good lighting, good editing. And then
down the list, like one of the last things on the list is the
camera, because you can tell a crappy story nobody wants to watch in eight
K with the six thousand dollars Sony camera. If the content sucks, if
it's something that people just don't care about if it's not a compelling story.
If the audio is bad. You know, I'm a big proponent of this.
If the audio is bad and you're shooting in a juicy four K video,
it even with the best lighting. If the audio is bad, no
one's gonna watch it. It's terrible. So there's so many other on getting
as there's so many other factors in what makes a video like a good video,
what makes content and good content that the act the camera you're using is
way down on that list. It might be one of the last things you
can shoot. Compelling content that looks great, that sounds great with a three
sixty p potato, as long as the storytelling's good, as long as the
shot list is great, the locations you are a great, as long as
the framing is great, as long as the cinematography is great, as long
as the editing is great, as long as the audio is great. Then
down to the bottom of that list is that three hundred and sixty potato camera.
All that matters is the story, is the framing, is the cinematography.
Because all these other things that go into it, the camera is actually
the one of the lead important parts of the entire ingredients of what makes a
video good or not, of what makes content compelling or not. So bring
that back around to I know that if I get the Samsung Galaxy S twenty
four Ultra, that if I pixel peep on a giant forty two inch four
K monitor is what I use an lg TV oled TV as my main monitor
here. I know that if I pixel peep on a forty two inch four
K O lead monitor that, yeah, it's not gonna hold up. Jack,
shut up, he's downstairs and he hears me, and he's just an
idiot anyways. Yeah, So I know that if I'm shooting content with the
S twenty four Ultra and it it doesn't look ass good pixel peeping as my
Lumix S five here, I'm not. It doesn't really matter because it's gonna
look good enough. It's gonna look good enough. And if I'm doing things
right, lighting things right, doing proper framing and everything that It's S twenty
four is going to be an amazing tool for that. So that's why I'm
considering it. Also, like I said, it fits into the DGI gimbals
way better than a folding phone does this. This thing doesn't the s twenty
The z fold four not great for gimbals. So what would I do with
the z fold four if I get the S twenty four Ultra, Like,
what would I That's the rub is? Like this is if I get the
S twenty four Ultra. It's a little bit quicker in my upgrade cycle than
I am usually comfortable with. I usually go two to three years minimum before
upgrading my phone, and I'm at a year and a half maximum with the
z fold four, And I'm considering upgrading to the S twenty four Ultra.
Not necessarily because the z fold is bad. It has an issue right now
that hopefully gets fixed in a firmware update, but I could use the better
cameras and the gimbal ability of the S twenty four Ultra and the horsepower.
More Geek Therapy Radio coming up, Don't Go Anywhere, Welcome back to Geek
Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator, Johnny Hamburger. So I've spent
most of the show talking about my where I'm at with my kind of smartphone
smartphone life, considering going to the S twenty four Ultra the other thing that
I'm thinking about, and there's no like time crunch on this. I think
the phone is taken priority as far as upgrades are concerned over this next item.
But my Lumix S five. You're watching this video right now with my
go to Sony ZV one. Just I love the ZB one. I didn't.
I did a review, kind of an impromptu review on the show of
the ZB one that if you have just one camera for everything, Desert Island
camera Sony ZB one, it is so it's so versatile, and the image
is so good. This is a ten ADP image, and it's not I'm
not particularly lit, you know, amazingly. I've got my light panel over
here and I've got a little lamp over here. But the image is good.
I'm picture profile six, will color grade it a little bit ten ADP.
It's one inch censor, great camera, Sony's EV one. But this
lumis X five, which is Lumix S five Panasonic, my panty Lumix S
five exquisite full frame camera, absolutely exquisite. There are there have been the
Mark twos. So you have the Sony Lumix S five, Mark two and
the Mark two X. The Mark two X is what I have my eyes
on because it has more features that are are applicable to videographers, which is
what I do for my my day job for the museum IP streaming. Open
gate six K it's like five point eight K, but full open gate recording,
meaning you're using the entire sensor. No pixel binning, no nothing like
that. It no quantization, is just every pixel available in the sensor is
open gate for you to use. That's what I mean. So open gate,
full frame, all the other features that it has a full size HTMI
output versus the micro HDMI that the first generation has. There's all sorts of
other features that are very very appealing to me as as a videographer. The
improved autofocus system now it's based on what is it ulidar or phase detect auto
focus, So it's just as good as the Sony's and Cannons out there now
with the with the LUMOXS five, Mark two and Mark two X. So
the auto focus is important to me because I'm doing a lot more kind of
off shooting from the hip kind of stuff and vlogging stuff where I'm going to
hold the camera out in front of me and I needed to fix on my
where the auto focus for the first generation Lumix S five has always been a
pinch point. It's always been one of the issues. If you go back
and watch reviews for the Lumix S five, especially you know after it came
out, was hey, great caram or great gram are great, great,
great great great, gret great. But the auto focus is not as good,
not nearly as good actually as the Sony's and Cannons. I would say
that it's borderline usable when you're shooting like ten eighty P sixty's probably the best
bet for the autofocus system in the first generation Lumix S five because it's based
on frames. Part of the autofocus system on the first generation is just based
on frame data. So the more frames per second you're sending into that system,
the better the auto focus is. Versus doing four k twenty four frames
a second, the auto focus sucks because you're only you're feeding in a lot
of pixels, and you're feeding in a lot of pixels at only twenty four
frames a second, So it's not a whole ton of of available information for
the auto focus to work. If it's if it's based on pixels, When
it's based on the frames being given to the autofocus processor. But the new
ones Mark two Mark two X have the same kind of autofocused system as Canon
and Sony, and it's way quicker, locks on a lot faster, and
that's something that I've come to realize that I need in my next kind of
camera upgrade purchase. It's not anything critical right now. It's not a make
or break to what I do at the moment. I can wait on it,
but it is something that I'm looking at. I think I would keep
my first gen S five as a BCAM, so if I'm doing interviews or
things like that, I can have it off to the side as a BCAM
that will match the footage will match the Mark two X that I do eventually
get. Limis also came out with a new twenty eight to two hundred lens,
which is about the same size as the twenty to sixty kit lens that
comes with the S five. Now it's you can get twenty eight to two
hundred and about the same amount of size. The trade offs for that is
that it starts at a f I think it's F four, and then it
goes to when you're at two hundred milimeters. The lowest is F seven.
Point one, so you're losing some stops. It's kind of slow at the
top end of two hundred, but of two hundred milimeters, but it's still
like twenty eight to two hundred and a lens that's the same size as a
kit lens. Holy crap. That is appealing to a lot of people and
appealing to me. It has built in OIS, optical image stabilization, auto
focus, all that good stuff. I've seen reviews of it. It's nice
and sharp and crisp, and it looks looks great. In the trade off
of a F four to F seven point one is not that big of a
deal, especially considering the size. Considering the image stabilization, which the OIS
makes up for a bit. It means you can shoot at as open as
possible at a lower frame rate and still have buttery, you know, stable
footage with that. The built in optical image stabilization in the lens itself and
the body stabilization means you have a whole ton of stops of stabilization. That's
one thing that panasonic cameras have been known for is they're just excellent, kind
of class leading stabilization. So there's some cool things happening with the l amount
system right now. So that's the lens mountain system that Panasonic uses is l
amounts. So I'm looking at the S S five two X and eventually that
possibly that twenty eight to two hundred lens. Again, that's nothing critical,
that's nothing that's like on the table right now. I think my priority is
what I am using all the time anyways, which is my phone going to
that S twenty four old trip because I think that's going to be kind of
that's going to fit what I do much better. Somebody on your team,
Mike the team leader for our social media team at Houston Museum and Natural Science,
he's got the S twenty three. He got that, I don't know
a little less than a year ago. It looks awesome. The footage that
comes off of it is amazing, and having the ultra wide and then the
wide and then the telephoto and all that stuff. Now the S twenty four,
so the S twenty three Ultra does like ten x optical zoom, whereas
the most optical zoom on the S twenty four is three X. That's kind
of a trade off, although reviewers say that you're going up to ten x
looks almost just as clean as the optical ten X at the S twenty three.
We'll see about all that. There's not gonna be many scenarios where I
am gonna be ten X magnified using my self smartphone camera. This is not
gonna happen very often. The I'm gonna go that telephoto with it. But
yeah, smartphone upgrade a year and a half or so into my upgrade cycle,
which is six months sooner than I usually do, I'm thinking about that,
but I'm I'm giving Samsung like one more day to do a major,
firm more upgrade on this, on this Z fold four, and then I
don't know. This is what pains my heart about it, and what pains
my wallet a little bit about this is like, it sucks to know that
I have such an awesome foldable phone that I wouldn't be using every day,
and that bothers me that it's that I'm leaving something that's perfectly viable, perfectly
useful in the year twenty twenty four, that it's excellent in the year twenty
twenty four, kind of sitting here on my desk. I know that I'm
gonna tinker with it. I know that there'll be There'll be like weeks and
months that I'm only using the S twenty four Ultra, and then there's a
be weeks and months and I'm going back to the Z fold four. I
like that idea about having two kind of flagship things. But yeah, it's
upgrading sooner than I thought. But that's gonna do it for this show.
Thank you for hanging out with me. One thing I learned in the past
few shows is a talking about Apple is you might as well be talking about
religion or politics. It's so incredibly divisive. But anyways, you know what's
not divisive there shouldn't be, is that you are worthy of love, you
are worthy of giving love, you're worthy of receiving love, and you are
worthy of your own self respect. If you don't remember anything else from any
podcast that I ever do, whatever you listen to you from this episode,
from last episode, for any episode, I always end the show by telling
you the truth that you are worthy of love, worthy of giving love.
It means you are worthy of saying I love you to somebody. You are
more importantly deserving of someone telling you that they love you. You can accept
that love, and you are worthy of your own self respect. One of
the ways we get there is by leaning into our geek things and in our
hobbies as long as they don't hurt other people. Thank you so much for
listening to Geek Therapy Radio. You are loved. I'll talk to you next time.