hey guys Brandon here thanks to your awesome feedback on my last video here
let lius decided to let me take another crack at it and this time I'll be talking about something camera related
one of my favorite pieces of gear that we use here every single day the
metabone speed booster or as lonus likes to call it the make all my lenses better
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learn more okay so it's not magic what it
actually is is a FAL producer which allows your aperture which you can learn
more about in this video on techi on any
lens to be one stop faster than it would otherwise be possible okay we've been
through this before the video no camera
talkie mumbo jumbo you speak in plain
English okay okay all right
all right sorry so let me try this again the speed booster bolts onto your camera
and sits between the camera and a compatible lens and has three main
benefits number one is that it widens the field of view that your camera can
see by a magnification of 71 or 0.58
depending on the model number two is that it adds overall sharpness to the
final image that you get out of your camera and number three is that it
seemingly increases the amount of light that enters your camera but we'll get
more in depth on that in a moment because if you're anything like me you're probably sitting there going this
is voodoo magic it sounds way too good to be true and honestly the first time I
read about this adapter I spent no small amount of time making sure it wasn't an
elaborate hoax or April fools or something thankfully it wasn't and all
metabones had done was figure out how to implement a general use focal reducer
something that no one has actually done in the photography world let's get into
how this thing actually works typically you have your lens in a camera body
where light enters and hits your sensor like this but here's what happens when
you add the speed booster to the same setup the light converges onto a smaller
field than before condensing the light this way allows for a wider field of
view and more of the light focused onto a smaller area effectively giving you
more usable light on your sensor for the photographers and enthusiasts out there
this is the opposite effect that a typical teleconverter would give you a
teleconverter would spread the light over a larger area narrowing your field
of view and decreasing the amount of light that is usable on the sensor
giving you a cropped in and darker overall image now the important part to
note here is that the speed booster will only work with cameras that have appropriate spacing between the lens
mount and the sensor the Blackmagic pocket or Panasonic GH4 for example and
with lenses that are designed to cover a larger sensor size than your camera is
equipped with for example here are three differ Siz lens circles each
specifically made for a different size sensor full frame apsc and micro 43s so
while the full-frame lens and the apsc size lens will both work on a speed
booster paired with my Blackmagic pocket camera that uses a micro 43 Mount the
theoretical pairing between a micro 43s
lens and a micro 43s camera would not work with this Speed Booster this allows
general purpose photography lenses like this one made for a full-frame camera
like Burl's Canon 6D DSLR to not only
fit my Blackmagic camera but work even more effectively at a speed of up to one
two3 of a stop faster giving me better performance in low light outside of the
studio as well as the ability to get a much shallower depth of field like in
this shot here now on to the last last of the main benefits of the speed
booster it's a common assumption that putting more glass behind or in front of
a lens would lead to a loss in overall sharpness and while this is true for
teleconverters since they magnify the aberration of a given lens the speed
booster actually has the opposite effect since it compresses the original image
of the lens reducing the visibility of these anomalies in the glass now it is
true that the glass within the speed booster will have its own set of
aberration but metabones has done a great job of specifically correcting for
this and that is how they can achieve the L impossible better image quality
with more light captured so on to my conclusion which is one that I already
knew before I started making this video because I've been using the fs700
version of the speed booster since it's released over a year and a half ago as
well as the Blackmagic pocket one since I bought it for myself about a year ago
and this is it the reason the speed booster is one of my favorite tools is
that it offers an immense amount of flexibility and new possibilities with
the same camera equipment that I might already own and while it is not always
needed when trying to shoot something far away it actually might do more harm
than good in that situation the same goes for if I wanted a deeper depth of
field with for a macro closeup but it
does allow me to make this shot into this shot and while I understand there
are other ways I could achieve this nothing does it with quite the
Simplicity affordability and flexibility of the speed booster speaking of
Simplicity affordability and excuse me sorry I was channeling Brandon there for
a minute affordability and flexibility
Dollar Shave Club they deliver high quality razors directly to your door and
all you have to do is sign up for the club so that's the Simplicity the
affordability comes in where it's like yeah they're only a few bucks a month
and you sign up and then well it's affordable so that's pretty
self-explanatory and the flexibility comes in with uh you don't even have to
get razors you could get their Dr Carver shave butter you could get their After
Shave you could get their one wipe Charlie's butt wipes for men so they
have all the same qualities of the speed booster except completely different
because it's it's high quality razors and they come in the mail so that you
can leave the house looking like you leave the house and you don't have to
leave the house in order to achieve that because if you think about it it's like
a freaking Paradox you have to go out to
the store to look presentable to go out
to the store how can anyone do this okay obviously it's not quite that
complicated but Dollar Shave Club makes life even simpler so shave time shave
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