What type of camera gear

[rekomaniac]

Hello,

I don't know if anyone heard about Isabel Paige, is an youtuber (pretty famous), I just like so much the quality of the image, and I try to figure out what type of camera she use. I've search on the internet, but nothing about this.

Maybe someone more experimented with an eye for this can tell me

Thank you

ps. I didn't put a link cause I don't know if is ok for the forum rules.

 

[Mark S Abeln]

I don't know if anyone heard about Isabel Paige, is an youtuber (pretty famous), I just like so much the quality of the image, and I try to figure out what type of camera she use. I've search on the internet, but nothing about this.

Maybe someone more experimented with an eye for this can tell me

I watched a couple of her videos, and the quality is pretty good. She has developed her own distinctive style, most likely due to her experience.

Something like a Sony ZV-1 could likely do it without a problem. She also uses a drone.

But what's really important is everything besides the camera:

• Beautiful scenery.
• An attractive young woman as the main subject.
• Effective storytelling.
• Emotional expressiveness.
• An evocative lifestyle of living simply, in nature.

ps. I didn't put a link cause I don't know if is ok for the forum rules.

Yes it's OK. Just don't post promotional links.

 

[lehill]

Hello,

I don't know if anyone heard about Isabel Paige, is an youtuber (pretty famous), I just like so much the quality of the image, and I try to figure out what type of camera she use. I've search on the internet, but nothing about this.

Maybe someone more experimented with an eye for this can tell me

Thank you

ps. I didn't put a link cause I don't know if is ok for the forum rules.

I looked at "The Hardest Days of Winter". I recall my grandparents had a wooden stove, a hand water pump, and an outhouse at their cabin in the woods.

Of course, Mark is right when he says it's not the camera. These are not casually shot, spur-of-the-moment videos. There's time spent planning and setting up - that part is not recorded. She probably does something like this tailored to her own needs. Like the link says, you can start out with your cellphone (and maybe a tripod if you're a one-man show).

She uses a lot of color tones to set the mood for each scene. I simulated some of them while using an old used Sony A6000 I bought for US$350.


Cold mood for some outdoor shots (candle-lit scene shot in tungsten white balance). A warm LED (~3000K or less) or incandescent light bulb is similar to candlelight.


Warm mood for indoor shots (candle-lit scene shot in daylight white balance)

There are a few fancier ones done in post-processing (or video editing). My video editing software has tons of different ones.


Something I dug up to simulate some of her low-contrast scenes.

In another post, you mention you had an A7 IV. You can do this stuff right now. Go light a candle and start playing with white balance settings on your camera.

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[surrealalex]

I looked around to find gear and discovered a particular lens, that I found very interesting:



This is a manual 35mm Sirui anamorphic f1.8 1.33x lens.

See here: Sirui lenses

So she is interested in film making. This lens comes with a replaceable mount for Sony E, m43, Nikon Z and Canon M. If she uses more than one, at least one of her cameras is of this type.

The lens itself is for APSC format and requires a full frame camera to be switched to APSC mode.

The bokeh is quite shallow in several scenes, see foreground and window background, which speaks for a full frame camera:



Looking at the reflection in the window, we see a small camera, possibly with a mic mounted on top:



I didn't find other examples.

So we can still only guess what our anamorphic lens girl is using.

Besides that she is using a drone, my guess would be a Sony full frame camera because of the bokeh.

She also uses a black mist filter in some of her scenes (see scenes with lights in them).



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[rekomaniac]

Thanks very much for the answers guys.

I think is very much about the camera here. The image is so clean even outside at night, the dinamic range is superb, and the colors... for me is something super nice that grading that she have. On the phone u can t see too much, but on a big monitor is smth else.

My first thought was that is something from Fuji, or Sony with slog but is hard for me to think that she film herself in slog and expose well every shot.

Thanks

 

[Mark S Abeln]

Great catch.

I also noticed her use of a diffusion filter of some sort.

 

[Mark S Abeln]

Thanks very much for the answers guys.

No problem.

I think is very much about the camera here.

But maybe not as much as you might think. Video has a way of masking the defects of noise and softness. Also, don’t forget the influence of the subject matter and presentation.

The image is so clean even outside at night, the dinamic range is superb, and the colors... for me is something super nice that grading that she have.

Yes, her color grading is nice, although I think some additional brightness would be good, but the “underexposed look” is fashionable these days.

On the phone u can t see too much, but on a big monitor is smth else.

I agree.

My first thought was that is something from Fuji, or Sony with slog but is hard for me to think that she film herself in slog and expose well every shot.

It’s easy to use S-Log as long as you expose well and know the capabilities of the camera. If anything, she seems to underexpose a bit, but that could also be the intentional result of grading.

 

[Bob]

Any decent camera with the right lens will produce similar results. She pays particular attention to lighting and chooses times of day where the lighting has a particular mood. Color balance can be changed in post processing anyway.

Many beginners say, "I love that photo, what kind of camera was it?"

Instead, the question should be, "How did they achieve that lighting?"

 

[rekomaniac]

Any decent camera with the right lens will produce similar results. She pays particular attention to lighting and chooses times of day where the lighting has a particular mood. Color balance can be changed in post processing anyway.

Many beginners say, "I love that photo, what kind of camera was it?"

Instead, the question should be, "How did they achieve that lighting?"

Ok sir, what means decent camera? I have an A7 iv and I can t achieve these colors even in slog. Maybe u say that I don't know to grade, but on all YouTube I didn t saw an A7 iv clip with these colors, even if u search cinematic, film look or normal clips with A7 iv.

Yes, is good lighting but I don t asked about that, for me the interest is in the colours, that fine grain, that soft sharp skin (yes, soft-sharp!). I think is about the filters how good eye guys wrote here, and a nice codec from a mistery camera

 

[Bob]

Any decent camera with the right lens will produce similar results. She pays particular attention to lighting and chooses times of day where the lighting has a particular mood. Color balance can be changed in post processing anyway.

Many beginners say, "I love that photo, what kind of camera was it?"

Instead, the question should be, "How did they achieve that lighting?"

Ok sir, what means decent camera? I have an A7 iv and I can t achieve these colors even in slog. Maybe u say that I don't know to grade, but on all YouTube I didn t saw an A7 iv clip with these colors, even if u search cinematic, film look or normal clips with A7 iv.

Yes, is good lighting but I don t asked about that, for me the interest is in the colours, that fine grain, that soft sharp skin (yes, soft-sharp!). I think is about the filters how good eye guys wrote here, and a nice codec from a mistery camera

By "decent" I mean an interchangeable lens camera with UHD and fast frame rate - fairly common specs these days.

 

[Video-vs-photo]

Not sure what you are talking about honestly.
Maybe this is why people said love is blind?

If you are not able to recreate this looks with your a7IV learn more or sell and try something else . ( partially joking )

 

[Mark S Abeln]

Your camera can certainly do it, because it’s not the camera but the processing.



Try downloading feee trials of video editing software and see what LUTs or Profiles or Film emulations they offer. It could be something that comes with the app.

But ultimately it’s getting experience in color grading and being able to reverse-engineer any look you want.

 

[PhotoTeach2]

Thanks very much for the answers guys.

I think is very much about the camera here. The image is so clean even outside at night, the dinamic range is superb, and the colors... for me is something super nice that grading that she have. On the phone u can t see too much, but on a big monitor is smth else.

If it was "the camera", then virtually EVERYONE with that (specific) camera would (only) be doing that type of work, (because that would be what that specific camera does).

She is indeed an excellent videographer, and there is indeed something special in her lighting, time-of-day/night, and exposure & processing techniques, but I suggest "she" could do virtually the same with any camera.

 

[rekomaniac]

Not sure what you are talking about honestly.
Maybe this is why people said love is blind?

If you are not able to recreate this looks with your a7IV learn more or sell and try something else . ( partially joking )

Thanks for answer, can u give a reference with one single clip with same image? I am really curious about what you say about that mirroless line

 

[Mark S Abeln]

Ok sir, what means decent camera? I have an A7 iv and I can t achieve these colors even in slog. Maybe u say that I don't know to grade, but on all YouTube I didn t saw an A7 iv clip with these colors, even if u search cinematic, film look or normal clips with A7 iv.

Don’t look specifically for A7IV video clips.

Cameras produce output in a variety of standard, well-defined color spaces, which are largely neutral starting points for color grading. Professionals can and do use multiple cameras, but still manage to get the same look between them.

It’s not the camera.

 

[Bob]

Why not just ask Isabel directly? Post a comment to one of her latest vids.

 

[PhotoTeach2]

Why not just ask Isabel directly? Post a comment to one of her latest vids.

But he will need to ask more of her ... (aka share her "secrets"), because it is not (just) the camera.

She does have a nice "style", in more ways than just her techniques.

 

[Video-vs-photo]

Not sure what you are talking about honestly.
Maybe this is why people said love is blind?

If you are not able to recreate this looks with your a7IV learn more or sell and try something else . ( partially joking )

Thanks for answer, can u give a reference with one single clip with same image? I am really curious about what you say about that mirroless line

Honestly speaking, learn grading with Davinci Resolve! Get single frame, look at waveforms and vectorscope and voila, secret is decrypted. And your camera is very capable!

Looked at some of her images and there is NOTHING special, unseen or impossible.... NOTHING. Most of the stuff looks like low contrast LR presets with strong tint/WB shift. With LUTs these days you can make anything to look as anything and even blend or mix several looks/LUTs.
Also there are tons of scenes with very deep DoF which could account for cheap camera even some old iPhone .

And yes better ask her, there is no secret in the equipment. Her secret is in the content.

Maybe you can also point to some frames that you can not get? Maybe I am missing something... Also maybe show some examples from your camera? Like try to replicate some of the scenes?
Something else, aside from camera what lighting setup do you have?

Something else 2:
https://www.youtube.com/@isabel_paige/videos

When you scroll down you can clearly see what progress she made with the time. You can see different look on clips from before two years. And totally different clips from before 3 years. So it seems like she learned lighting and grading well during this time. Aside from adding more content!!!
So you if progress with same steps you are now 3 years from the target. IF you start creating content and learn lighting and grading along the way!

Sorry you can not just go and buy new camera and get the same look.

Especially you need to master soft light and proper skin/scene color correction.

 

[Jste88]

She uses a LUMIX but I forget what model. It was about 800-1000$ second hand when I looked a year or so ago. She had a picture of herself holding it in a mirror on her Instagram but she has since taken it down. I think it’s a g9. It has color grading in camera, she’s not doing it in the editing stage, as she’s previously mentioned. That’s a lot of the “style” people on this thread keep referring to.

 

[Skreppah]

Hey, she's using a Fujifilm Xt4 I think. Was asking myself the same thing and got to see it in one of her videos with Hannah (Hannah was filming her getting in the car with the camera in hand) zoomed, and ta-da ! Fujifilm X-T4.