Cameras Will Never Be The Same #PhotoCamera, #LandscapePhotography #NatureShots

I'm currently in Canada and for the last week I've been jumping between one national park to the next. I'm testing out three new cameras from DJI and of course I brought my drone as well. I have seen some incredible things and the footage looks amazing. Technically this video is sponsored by DJI but they haven't told me anything that I have to say. They just gave me these cameras and said go have fun, share what you've learned with your viewers. Camera number one, and probably the one that I'm most familiar with, this is the DJI Action 5. This is an action camera. This is the most rugged of the bunch. It looks very similar to the Action 5, but almost everything has been upgraded. Just a few of my favorite features of this camera. It has a removable front lens, so if you happen to scratch this thing, you haven't destroyed your entire camera. It has two touchscreen displays, one on the back and one on the front. A lot of times when you're using a camera like this, you're recording yourself, so it's nice to be able to see yourself in the front. This camera now has better image quality, better ISO performance, better battery life. It also has a variable aperture for the first time ever. The next camera I've been testing on this trip has been the DJI Nano. This is a very unique action camera and it has split up the camera from the screen itself and you can separate these two. You can connect them together with magnets and when they're connected they will transfer power and data back and forth from each other or you can use them completely separate wirelessly. So if you want to mount this camera somewhere else, but then view the feed on this screen, you can, and you can connect them this way, or you can connect them this way, depending on whether you're going to be filming yourself or somebody else. Now, I was probably least excited about trying out this camera. I felt like I don't really need the ability to separate these two functions, but... This one surprised me the most. I loved how small and light this camera is, and I loved mounting it on top of my hat. There's a hat clip that came with it that was awesome. There's this magnetic lanyard that can fit under your shirt, and then this camera snaps right to your chest. And because this camera is so small, I would just forget it was there. And of course, with a standard action camera, if you're gonna mount it to your head or your chest, you can't really see if it's recording or what you're recording. But now that I have this extra little viewfinder here, I could completely control it, I could change the settings, I could start and stop it, all from this wirelessly. All right, I am currently recording on both little action cameras. The Nano and the Action 5. In my limited testing so far, I have noticed that the footage out of the Action 5 looks noticeably better. They have the exact same settings, 4K 60 on wide field of view. The third camera I've been testing is the DJI Osmo 360 II. This is a 360-degree camera that literally shoots in all directions at the exact same time. And it's very difficult for me to explain what this camera is capable of doing. You just have to see it for yourself. Because this camera is always recording everything, it shoots crazy looking footage and you can't really do anything with this raw footage. But when you take it into DJI software, you can really create anything you want after the fact. So the camera that I find myself grabbing the most often is actually this one, the 360 degree camera. Although I don't love the extra post-processing that I need to do, it allows me to just Start recording on the camera, and I don't have to think about anything. Now, probably the biggest reason that most people get one of these 360-degree cameras is because of the selfie stick mode. And when you hold this camera in your hand with the included selfie stick, the stick... Completely disappears. This is very hard for people to understand or comprehend how it's working. To be honest, I don't even fully understand how it works. It looks like you have a professional camera crew following you around when in reality, you're literally just holding this. You don't even have to think about it and you can frame up the shot after the fact. On this trip, I've gotten to meet a bunch of different landscape photographers and I've been shocked by how many of them have a 360 degree camera with them. And I keep asking them, What are you doing with that? Why do you need that? And each of them has told me, oh, I just like being able to get this third person perspective of me hiking through the woods or discovering this new location. It's the easiest possible way that you can get B-roll of yourself working without you really having to think about anything at all. And of course, the other piece of gear that I brought on this trip that I would never leave home without is my little bitty DJI drone. I just. I cannot believe the image quality that I can get out of this thing that's literally the size and weight of a toy. I've been filming with drones now for over a decade. I've used some of the big, very scary, expensive stuff that could literally kill somebody if you hit them. Seeing the footage out of this little drone has made me never wanna fly one of those big drones again. I love how easy it is to pack and travel with this drone. I love how quick it is to set up and start flying it. I love how cheap it is in case I wreck it or lose it. It's not the end of the world. And the footage looks amazing. Now, there are plenty of competitors when it comes to action cameras and 360 cameras. But the main reason that I personally would choose DJI over the competitors is because of their integration with wireless audio. I am currently wearing right here a DJI microphone. And each one of these cameras, even the small nano, has a built-in wireless receiver for these microphones. The built-in microphones on each one of these cameras sounds incredible. If you're nearby, all right, let's do an audio test. I'm recording on the internal mics on the 362 But it's incredibly close to my face right now. I would imagine I sound pretty good, but now let's get the camera further away How do I sound now? But if you're over a distance like I am to this camera right here, or you're in a windy environment, you can add the windscreen to this microphone. You can put the camera across a field and still have perfectly clean audio from your subject. DJI already makes my favorite microphones. I already bought them. I already own them. So it's nice knowing that these new cameras can connect automatically without the need for an additional receiver or wire or adapter. Who are each one of these cameras for? When it comes to the drone, they're so incredibly cheap and easy to use. I just feel like, why not have one? And for those of you worried about the safety issues, that's a valid concern, but these have never been safer than they are now. They have built-in collision detection. They literally will not let you run into something. And if you lose connection to the remote control, it will literally fly home and land itself. You probably already know if you need an action camera. The trailers for these cameras are always unbelievable. You see the most amazing footage you've ever imagined of people surfing and skydiving and bungee jumping. And it's easy to start thinking, wow, if I had that camera, I'd be able to get footage like that. But of course, you need to be doing those crazy stunts as well for action sports. Getting the camera close and ultra wide angle is exactly what you want. But when you start taking photos and videos of other people, places and things, you might find that these two lenses are a little bit too wide. Each of these cameras does have the ability to punch in digitally, but even still, when you punch in all the way, it's still a relatively wide field of view. All right, this is ultra wide, wide, and this is standard de-warp. Now, speaking of wide angle, The 360 2 is far wider and I know it's easy to look at the specs of this camera and go wow it films in 8k that's absolutely incredible but keep in mind that's 8k spread out over 360 degrees. For wide angle shots of course this camera is unbelievable and when it comes to all of these crazy edits that I'm doing right here you literally can only do it with a camera like this. But keep in mind, similarly to the action cameras, when you try to zoom into this footage, for example, if you were trying to take a portrait of somebody, this is not the right camera for the job. For me personally, I love snowboarding, kiteboarding, skateboarding. And I would buy a camera like this if I wanted full-body third-person video of me doing those sports. If I didn't need full-body shots, I'd go with one of these action cameras. If I wanted the most convenient and smallest possible, and I was willing to give up a little bit of image quality for it, I'd go with the Nano. But if I wanted the top-of-the-line image quality in the most rugged body, the Action 6 is the right choice. This is incredible.