I watched a few of Ordinary Filmmaker's videos and get a strong feeling that most of them were just dressed up/recycled stuff from Canon Rumors (i.e. this site). There is no real new info, and it takes longer to watch the video than reading the succinct summaries here.
Posts and links on this site have a title and/or a description. Notice how you know where a click will take you? That's the difference between a courteously posted link and anonymous slop.
Anyone with a modicum of common sense who has spent any amount of time on the Internet knows that there are always random, tangential and irrelevant links being posted in forum threads. There was nothing to distinguish yours from such slop, quite the opposite – typically when irrelevant (or worse) links are posted, the poster will actively try to anonymize or mask the destination of the click.
That's a general problem with YouTube, apart from its reliability. A few points are spread out and padded to make many minutes of entertainment that could be summed up in a couple of sentences or less.
Seems like a solid use case for AI – generate a transcript then summarize that transcript, providing both to the user.
I like the swallow in particular, great shot, Alan. I know how hard it is to catch a swallow in flight. The other BiF images are more from the backside, so the AF already had a relatively long time to get the bird in focus. I personally prefer more images of birds approaching or passing exactly by, so the AF has not that much time to focus on. What definitely helps is switching off eye detection, maybe simply because the R7's processor has to process less data.
The most useless and precious lifetime consuming youtube videos are those with guys sitting at their desks, presenting some cameras and/or lenses and talking blah blah (add n-times blah, n = 1, 2, 3, ....).
The only one remotely from the back was the Peregrine Falcon. Here are some of mine, taken with the RF 100-400mm on the R7. Puffins fly really fast as do Guillemots, and they are approaching or passing by. I used the R7/RF 100-400mm on a trip to Skomer when I had problems carrying heavier gear. One more of a Marsh Harrier with the RF 100-500 on the R7.
He is good as well as a few others like Jan Wegener. If a link is given specifically to them, I might go to it. But, if anyone does post a link, it is a courtesy briefly to say what it is about.
With some content creators it will be hard to tell if the hallucinating is from the original video or from the AI model creating the transcript.
