Originally posted by brofkand Perhaps I'm unusual, I'm not as interested in gear reviews on YouTube - many of them (except likely the Pentax reviewers) are from people that get the equipment for free and so they're not going to tell you what they really think or the gravy train will dry up. I can't stand the Northrups. PHOTO UNIVERSE has recently moved into more of a fine art / photograph presentation format and I am greatly enjoying that move. His reviews were good but the art aspect is what intrigues/inspires me more.
Honestly, I thought my reviews were awful... they were really about how the cameras fit for the work I was doing or wanted to do, so they were very centered on my own needs. In fairness though I tried not to call them reviews.
I'm much happier with my 10 month user report on the XPro3, I thought that was actually useful for someone to watch with a bit of decent and unique content I hadn't seen or read about elsewhere. Personally I never want to just go over the same stuff as everyone else, but try to add to the knowledge base somehow.
I'm not overly fond of the Northrup's presentations either. That's what you get when the presenters are trying to succeed at youtube and not just doing what they do and bringing you along or at least that's what that feels like. Thomas Heaton is an example of a guy I think who has struck a decent balance between growing the channel and keeping it organic or at least maintaining that illusion or feeling that it's organic. You feel like he'd be doing it whether he filmed it or not.
I'm glad your enjoying my new direction. I'm definitely enjoying making those videos for sure. It's awesome to hear that someone is appreciating them! Thank you!!!
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Originally posted by clackers I think this is problematic, Midnight Visions.
A YouTuber survives by having many thousands of hits. They hope to become so popular that they get freebies, money or even a sponsorship from a brand.
So, you would never do that with a niche brand that maybe has 2 percent of the market, it doesn't make sense. The Cameraville Guy discovered that.
So, our objectives as photography lovers and lovers of the Pentax brand runs counter with a vlogger, who *must* go mainstream.
That's a big part of it.
And why everyone absolutely should try to support the channels they enjoy as much as they can. It's a grassroots thing and supporting the smaller channels (<100,000 subscribers) is the only thing helping them make more content you like.
I am trying to build my channel now on Large Format Film, the travel/art aspects of photography including darkroom fine art printing, and a bit of digital which right now is mostly Fuji with my Pentax bag waiting for the K3III release. But the topics I'm covering are the topics I'm interested in and not picked because they will set my channel on fire. (obviously)
If I added a Canon Rebel and a few lenses and dumped the Fuji and the Pentax I could increase my channel views and subscriptions by a factor of 10 easily. but I enjoy the Fuji's (and the Pentax's) I don't enjoy shooting Canon's. But I also don't enjoy spending 60 hours a week making videos that no one's watching either...