YouTubers Try to Tell Between Canon and Sony Shots – Can You?

Photographers and filmmakers constantly argue over what camera takes better images and video, but when asked to pick whether footage was shot by a Canon or Sony camera, these YouTubers struggle to tell them apart.

Youtuber Parker Walbeck and members of the film school Full Time Filmmaker captured 10 clips on both a Canon R5 and a Sony Alpha 7S III using identical settings and color graded them to get them to look as close to the same as possible.

Walbeck then showed the two clips to a set of YouTubers to see if they could tell which clip came from which camera: Peter McKinnon, Sam Kolder, Daniel Schiffer, Jared Polin, Armando Ferreira, Matti Haapoja, and Sam Newton. To up the ante on the drama, Walbeck put money on the line: whoever guessed the most correct would win $10,000.

Each test was designed to highlight specific categories -- such as resolution, low light, focus tracking, or focus racking -- to give the viewers something to base judgments off of other than color, which as mentioned was specifically designed to look as close to identical as possible.

When it was all said and done, a majority of the YouTube judges could not tell the difference between the Canon and Sony footage with anything better than 50% accuracy. McKinnon took the win though and managed to guess seven out of 10 clips correctly.

Walbeck says at the beginning of the video that the idea behind the test was to see which was "better," Canon or Sony, but the results of this test don't really do that -- a fact they later admit to. Instead, the reaction from each of the judges shows that there was next to no discernable difference between the quality of the two cameras. Before the results were shared, just about everyone felt as though they did poorly and none spoke confidently about their picks.

As they eventually say in the video, most would agree that in most of these tests, unless you saw them side by side -- and even then -- it would be difficult or impossible to tell the difference. Admittedly, the professionals who use these cameras daily still picked incorrectly half the time.

In short, neither camera is "better" and either would work splendidly in the hands of a creator. For more from Parker Walbeck, make sure to subscribe to his YouTube Channel.

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Jared Polin is Crowdfunding a 256-Page Bernie Sanders Photo Book

In 2019, photographer and YouTuber Jared Polin -- also known as FroKnowsPhoto -- received an all-access pass for 48 hours in order to document the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders. He is seeking backing on Kickstarter for what will feature around 100 photos in a 256-page book.

Polin says that that the "Bernie Photo Book" will take readers behind the scenes of the Sanders campaign that encompasses a journey that started in Iowa, went on to Denver where Sanders met a crowd of 10,000 supporters, then Los Angeles where Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hosted a rally at Venice beach, and ended where it began in Iowa ahead of the state's caucus.

"In total, I captured over 3,000 images and was able to edit it down to the 'best-of-the-best with honors sir,'" Polin says. "The final book will include roughly 100 photos from the road."

Polin says that when he reads a photo book, he always finds himself wanting to know more about the photo and what the photographer was thinking when they captured it. He hopes that he has addressed this need with his photo book.

"I always want to know more. I want to know what the photographer was thinking in that moment. I want to know what was going on behind the scenes, I want to go inside their mind. That’s why I’ve decided to include a page-by-page audio commentary by me, that you can access via a QR code, which will allow you to download as a podcast or stream from anywhere in the world, at any time," Polin says.

The hardback book will be 14 inches tall by 10.5 inches wide and will have around 256 pages, feature around 100 photos, and will weigh over six pounds. Each two-page spread will be 14 by 21 inches which allowed Polin to print with a full bleed, edge to edge, without cropping.

At the launch of the Kickstarter, which concludes on August 7, 2021, Polin says that the book is designed and ready to go to press with a printer he has secured in Italy, but in Bernie's words, he is yet again "asking for your financial support."

To that end, Polin is offering several limited edition signed prints in various sizes as well as other incentives. The book itself is slated to cost $60 plus $15 for shipping. You can see all of the options for backers on Polin's Kickstarter page.

Disclaimer : Make sure you do your own research into any crowdfunding project you're considering backing. While we aim to only share legitimate and trustworthy campaigns, there's always a real chance that you can lose your money when backing any crowdfunded project.

_Image credits: All photos by Jared Polin and used with permission. _

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