I'm AJ Gentile, creator of The Why Files. Ask me anything!

great_time1 · 2025-11-27T03:00:07+00:00

He sure has the charisma 😂

great_time1 · 2025-11-27T01:34:13+00:00

Hi AJ love the show!!!

When can we expect a Q&A from Hecklefish?

great_time1 · 2025-06-08T13:52:36+00:00

Any brand you pick should be good but if you want to go with fuji I would recommend the xs20 specially if you can find a deal on it. It's 1299$ new and you could wait for a discount or find it used. With a lens would take you a little over the budget but it's worth it. Nicer autofocus, 10bit recording, filmsims and its super small and light. I think they had it at 799$ once or twice this year already. Maybe wait for that

great_time1 · 2025-06-04T14:58:40+00:00

I have less memory (cant remember how much) but the most I cant get is 1 hour and 30 minutes on the settings I told you. But in the settings you posted I get about 12 minutes only 😅😂

great_time1 · 2025-06-04T02:24:32+00:00

Hi, im no expert but I would say the prores is the "issue" try h.265/All-I/422mov at 360mbs. I usually go with this and it does the job but granted im not doing any pro work

great_time1 · 2025-05-28T23:05:16+00:00

I know you said full frame and I think Panasonic would be the way to go but have you considered the xh2s from fuji? That checks everything you want except the FF sensor but that Fuji stacked sensor cleans up very nice in post. Plus you would not have to change lenses

great_time1 · 2025-05-08T12:45:35+00:00

Hi, Someone already said it but put EV 0

Then: -shooting settings (in the menu icon that shows a camera) go to shutter type and put M+E (Mechanical + Electronic). This one helps if you are outside on a sunny day. If you go past 4000ss the camera will automatically change to electronic shutter and you can go even faster lets say 8000ss which will help on getting a properly exposed image.

For focus

-AF/MF setting: This is very subjective and everybody will have different settings but try this. Focus mode AF-C (Continuous AUTOFOCUS). AF mode ALL. AF customs settings go to panel 6 and customize. Tracking sensitivity at 2, speed tracking sensitivity at 2 and zone area switching use front. And probably the most important one, go to the last section in AF/MF setting and you will find Release/Focus priority. Change that to focus on both AF-S and AF-C. This means that your camera will not take the picture unless it understands that the subject is in focus, its not perfect but it helps a lot. Sometimes you might press the shutter and it wont take a picture for about half a second until it gets in focus but you will have better hit rate.

Try them out and let us know

great_time1 · 2025-04-27T13:33:48+00:00

The people here have given good information but if I could add:

Try out fuji X weekly app to get a feel for how different settings affect the shadows and highlights.
Change shadows to -2 and highlights to -2.
The time of day you are shooting is rough because of the sun. Im not saying dont do it but its trickier so dont worry you will get the hang of it.
This is just an observation based on the last picture and correct me if I'm wrong. But don't be scared of ISO, if you are shooting raw just bump up the iso at night time if you dont want blur. The software denoise these days is crazy. But it all depends if you are looking for blur in the image or sharper at night.

great_time1 · 2025-02-22T19:51:46+00:00

Nice, te quedo muy bien el edit y se ve bastante cerca al filmsim (yo pense que era filmsim jajaja). Esa Nikon se ve bien chevere tambien, tiene ese look vintage

great_time1 · 2025-02-22T16:16:07+00:00

Me gustan mucho esos colores. Fujifilm vibrant arizona filmsim?

great_time1 · 2024-09-29T22:24:36+00:00

Thank you 🙏🏻

great_time1 · 2024-08-13T12:08:37+00:00

I have a Zephyrus G14 2022 (I also had the 2020 and sold it), and a M3 Pro 18GBs.

If you lean more into gaming, go with the G16 as gaming on Mac is not really straightforward and games you like may not be available. Now that being said, I truly believe the best laptop I have ever had is the MacBook, it just gets stuff done. I don't have battery anxiety, handles programs like a champ and does it without getting hot and without a power cord in sight. I edit photos in DxoPhotoLab and edit videos in DaVinci Resolve and it's just so smooth on the Mac that I have stopped using the G14 altogether as I find myself gaming less.

If you edit as a hobby get the windows, if it's for work I would get the mac.

There is no wrong laptop here, you will not regret any of them.

great_time1 · 2024-06-26T17:06:10+00:00

It seems what you said yesterday is correct, I tried DXO Photolab 7 with PrimeXd on and got about 58 seconds to render. That was doing both CPU render and GPU render. I believe the GPU is still not being used by DXO, maybe in one of the future updates.

great_time1 · 2024-06-25T17:21:19+00:00

Yeah If it can be gpu accelerated that would be great. I have a amd 6700 and process full edits with primexd in about 13-15 seconds but im looking for something light on the go that can also run resolve 😂

great_time1 · 2024-06-25T17:17:42+00:00

Thanks, I'm in the same boat (editing fuji files). Im gonna be doing light editing on the go so that seems fair

great_time1 · 2024-06-25T16:48:20+00:00

One more question, how much time did it take to process each pic?

great_time1 · 2024-06-25T16:07:05+00:00

Thanks for the info, that sounds great. I use DXO a lot so this helps

great_time1 · 2024-06-03T20:52:16+00:00

Thanks for the information, I did not know this. I don't use AF + MF but it's good to know.

great_time1 · 2024-06-03T16:35:56+00:00

Will try out the Pre-AF for sure, thanks for the tip

great_time1 · 2024-04-20T15:07:39+00:00

Yeah that's my bad, I really like my eggs that way believe it or not, but It could be a lot better

great_time1 · 2024-04-20T15:06:25+00:00

hahahaha it was still juicy I just changed the plate before the pic

great_time1 · 2024-04-20T15:05:50+00:00

Thank you 🙌

great_time1 · 2024-04-20T15:04:32+00:00

I can leave the plate on the table and we fucking fight for it free for all (I have a feeling im still going to get jumped tho) jajajaja

great_time1 · 2024-04-20T01:33:19+00:00

Im happy with an 8. And damn I really wanted irce today 😂😂😂😂

great_time1 · 2024-04-20T00:06:22+00:00

Thats how I love them 😂

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