Thinking about upgrading to the Samsung S24 Ultra | 273

My Z Fold 4 is acting up...and that's got me thinking about the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra sooner than I typically do phone upgrades. https://www.geektherapyradio.com/

Episode Transcript

(00:08):
Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You'vegot your mental curator, Johnny Hamburger.
Thank you so much for joining meagain this week. I got a comment
on my last YouTube upload, which, by the way, here's something I
would like to kind of clarify forpeople listening to the podcast who also subscribe
to the Geek Therapy Radio YouTube channel. Google has gotten rid of Google podcasts.

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Google podcasts as a platform doesn't existanymore. So instead, what Google
has done as it's integrated podcasts withYouTube. So recently, within the past
few months, less than that lastcouple months, maybe two or three months,
you've been able podcasters have been ableto import their RSS feeds into YouTube.

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So now YouTube is also a podcastplatform. So now my you tube
channel, geek their Pyer radio YouTubechannel automatically gets each new podcast that hits
that RSS feed, and it automaticallyapplies the thumbnail, the background image,

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whatever image I upload to the backend of my podcast podcast platform, which
is spreaker by the way, that'sthe back end we use at the radio
station. Also, so if Ido a show on the the Apple Vision
Pro and then I make a thumbnailof the Vision Pro and me or whatever
that's what gets automatically fed into theYouTube RSS podcast feed. So that's why

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you see sometimes and I'm trying tomanage this, like how do I,
how do I do this? Whereyou'll get like the video version, you
know, you're watching me right now, this video version of the podcast,
the intent the intentional video version ofthe podcast. But then within a few
days later you'll see the like almostthe same title or similar title show up,

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and then it's just a static backgroundof a thumbnail and you're hearing basically
the same audio that's in this intentionalvideo. It's kind of a I don't
know how YouTube is. It's somethingto navigate here and where it gets kind
of interesting and where it gets honestlya little bit frustrating. And first of
all, I appreciate that podcast areintegrated automatically into YouTube. Now YouTube takes

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your RSS feed and automatically generates apodcast video for people to listen to.
Part of the confusion though, islike I imported the RSS feed and I
have like four hundred back shows goingback to like twenty seventeen. It's literally

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hundreds of in individual podcast episodes.So sometimes, so what's happening now?
What I'm seeing now is I'll getthese comments in negative comments or trolls or
even sometimes good comments of something thatI put out five or six years ago.
Like a show from twenty seventeen hitsYouTube now. So people are like,

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why are you talking about the AppleAirPods Max or whatever Apple's headphones they
came out in like twenty nineteen.Why are you talking about MacBook Pro Throttlegate?
Remember when Mac was still on theIntel I nine processes. Why are
you talking about Throttlegate now, dude? And like, yeah, the show
is from years ago, but it'sjust now hitting YouTube because YouTube has integrated

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podcasts because Google got rid of theGoogle podcast and now it's all integrated into
YouTube. So yeah, you're seeingthese new uploads of shows that are five
six years old. So I'm mitigating. I'm dealing with that kind of confusion,
and it's I feel like, well, YouTube comments are YouTube comments.
But people I don't know that theyalways put two and two together, Like

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if I'm talking about the M oneMacBook Pro thirteen like launch, you might
be able to put two and twotogether that maybe this is audio from a
few years ago. But I don'tblame the YouTube viewer I don't blame new
people who just find the channel.It's kind of confusing, and I want

(04:18):
all of my episodes to be availableon YouTube as audio only. So yeah,
there's gonna be shows like cringe cringestuff, like early on cringe stuff
from twenty seventeen twenty eighteen that aregonna be now suddenly in front of a
lot more people than twenty twenty fourand they're gonna think it's new and fresh,

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and maybe not all of them aregoing to realize that it's five or
six years old yet. So anyways, that's why you're seeing more podcasts on
YouTube period, not just Geek TherapyRadio, but others because my RSS feed
geek Therapy Radio podcast rss feed isnow integrated into YouTube as well. Overall,
it's a good thing. It's alot more exposure to a lot more

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audience. I know that I dothis, and maybe some of you listening
or watching this YouTube video also dothis. Where sometimes you just put on
a video and you'll leave the tabopen in the background while you work,
while you study, while you dowhatever. There's entire YouTube channels low five
beats whatever to study to, whichis not necessarily designed for you to sit
there watching for seven hours straight.But it's something that you put on YouTube

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and then you minimize it or youjust keep it in a background tab somewhere.
So that's what podcasts are on YouTube. That's what even videos like this.
You know, if I'm doing theintentional video, I don't intend.
I don't expect every single person tosit here and watch it for thirty nine
minutes or whatever it winds up being. But I kind of expect people to

(05:44):
turn it on and maybe minimize itand go about their day doing whatever they
want to do. But it's howeveryou want to watch this. And I've
also been more intent on more I'vealso been more intentional about recording the video
versions of these podcasts, even ifit's just me sitting in front of a
microphone with my guitars or whatever's goingon in the background behind me, because

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if people don't like it, whatever, Like I don't make any money off
of YouTube. I think I makelike twenty bucks every few months off of
YouTube. I don't I'm good,Like I don't need. I don't need
this outlet to to generate money.If it does generate money, that's awesome.
But I'm very intentional with with howand where I put ads, especially
in this long form stuff. You'llnotice that I put the ad brakes in

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the commercial breaks, in the divisionbetween segments, that it's not just me
talking. And then an AD appearsout of nowhere. It's kind of welcome,
you know, we'll come back togeek thera per radio in a moment.
Don't go anywhere, we'll be rightback. And then you see an
AD and another little more peak behindthe curtain here. I didn't know I
was going to spend the whole firstsegment talking about this. But for those
of you who just maybe finding theGeek Therapy Radio podcast, maybe you're just

(06:53):
finding this here on YouTube. Thisis Geek Therapy Radio is actually a radio
show airs in Houston, Texas onKPRC nine to fifty am radio. It's
an iHeartRadio station, so that's whythere are the segments. For there's four
segments, and the timing of itgoes first segment eight minutes, so it's
eight ten eleven ten eight minute firstsegment, ten minute second segment, eleven

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minute third segment, and then anotherten minute fourth segment, all totaling up
to about thirty nine minutes of actualaudio content because when it airs on the
radio, in between segments, youhave three, four or five minutes of
ads of radio spots for god knowswhat, and then on the podcast.
So when you listen to the podcast, that's why you hear it kind of

(07:42):
me going to breaks like that.But if you're listening to the podcast,
or if you're watching this on YouTube, it it's instant you get right back
to this segment. Especially if you'relistening to the podcast, there's less commercial
breaks in the podcast. Anyways,More Geek Therapy Radio coming up. Speaking
of a break, don't go anywhere. Welcome back to Geek Therapy Radio.

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You've got your mental curator, JohnnyHemburger. As I'm recording here, I'm
seeing Microsoft and whatever calendar pop upon my screen that I have a have
a I have a team's meeting toget to here in the next few minutes.
Uh yeah, we'll see about that. So I might have to You're

(08:26):
not going to notice any difference.But practical, logistically speaking, I might
have to end after this segment andcome back to it. You won't notice
anything's going on. What I didwant to talk about this week though,
Again, Welcome back to geek TherapyRadio. You've got your mental curator,
Johnny Hemburger geek Therapy Radio dot comand all the socials. Just type in
geek Therapy Radio or Geek Therapy Radiopodcast and you'll find me Facebook, Instagram,

(08:48):
TikTok, YouTube obviously in various otherplatforms. X geek the Geek Therapy
Radio podcast, and you've got me. So here's the biggest bugaboo that I've
been dealing with over the past fewweeks. This phone that I'm holding right
in front of me with this coolkind of cassette case protective case on it

(09:09):
is my Galaxy Note nine. Yeah, from twenty seventeen twenty eighteen thereabouts.
I'm back on the Galaxy Note ninebecause my fancy schmancy Z fold four Sam's
Galaxy Z Fold four is bugging outon me. Let me open it up
here. What's happening is and I'mputting this out there into the world.

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Well now it's not even it's gotissues. It's got issues. There we
go, thank you for getting myunlocked screen for me. The main issue
is that the spen doesn't work atall or it's sporadic, and also that
the screen rotation doesn't always work,and so there's a chip in here that

(09:58):
controls It's like the gyroscope, it'sthe barometer, it's the light sensor.
It's all happening on one chip,magnetic sensor. That sensor, that chip
is is not happy. And itdidn't start happening until the one UI six
update. What is this here?Come on, bring it back up.

(10:20):
Yeah, it didn't happen until theone UI version six point zero update.
That's when these problems started to happen. So I'm hoping that the next major
firmware issue will correct this problem ofscreen rotation and spen not working. I'm
hoping that's a firm More update becauseit didn't happen until after the last firm
More update. The most recent securitypatch obviously didn't do anything to mitigate it.

(10:45):
So I have done a full factoryreset. I know you're wondering,
well, did you check your settings? Yes, that's a good question.
Did I checked all the settings?I even did a full factory refresh.
No. No, Only the onlysoftware on there is the software that comes
with it, So I didn't downloadany apps. I went down to factory
just bone level fresh install nothing onthis phone and had the same problems,

(11:11):
so it's definitely something that I'm hopingis firmware based. I'm hoping it's just
some it's not talking to that sensorcorrectly, and that a firmware update does
the trick. So for now I'mback on my Galaxy Note nine because the
spen on the Note nine definitely works. This phone still works fine. It's
getting along in the tooth. It'sshowing its age, and that I have

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to constantly keep charging this. I'mon this all the time for work.
I'm doing things with it. Itburns through the battery. This phone gets
like hot in my hand. Itgets really warm in the hand, and
it just chew through the battery throughoutthe day. I have to keep it
plugged in. And the one reasonI think that's happening is that since this

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is a phone that's from twenty seventeentwenty eighteen, that's at least minimum six
years old by this point, ifnot longer. The fact that it still
works mostly fine is a testament.But in six seven years, software and
apps just get so bloated and resourceintensive that that's where it starts, making
older phones kind of chug and worka lot harder and burn through a lot

(12:16):
more battery. It's not because thephone is necessarily bad or the processor is
bad. It's that the apps justkeep getting more and more advanced. So
if you have like the Facebook appor a Messenger app on you and you
downloaded it back in two thousand andsix, there's six years of that app
just getting more and more resource intensive. More, there's more features added to

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the app, more things that it'sasking the phone to do all the time,
so that it's like a It wouldbe kind of like if you drove
an old like Volkswagen Beetle, likea nineteen seventy two Volkswagen Beetle with a
one point eight liter air cooled fourcylinder making twenty seven horsepower whatever thirty horse
power, and you used to liveon this kind of flat street, and

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through some geological process, now you'reyou're more and more living on a hill,
living on an incline. The carstayed the same, but what's being
asked of it has increased. It'smore as being asked of the same hardware.
And that's what's happening to old phones. Yes, they work just fine,
and they're you know, they youpush it and you push it and
push it, but you just you'reburning through so much more battery. It's

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slower to do. Some things likevideo editing apps get more and more intensive
and require better processors and everything.So this is the Snapdragon eight forty five
in this Galaxy Note nine from sixor seven years ago. Now we're up
to snapdrag In eight Gen three inthe new Galaxy S twenty four, and
the z Fold sixth cent's about tocome out sometime. So so yeah,

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I'm on the Galaxy Note nine andI'm waiting for a firm wore update for
the z Fold four here. Otherwiseit's been a fantastic phone. But I'm
also a little bit frustrated. AndI'll just be honest right now, is
that in my Amazon shopping cart,I feel like so in my Amazon shopping
cart, I do have the Stwenty four Ultra, and I am I

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am a day away maybe from justgoing ahead and getting it because for a
few reasons, you know, ifmy wife's listening whatever, I need the
phone to I need a modern phoneto work. As it's becoming increasingly clear
to me with with my line ofwork, is that I can't get away

(14:31):
with I can't get away with havingan underpowered phone anymore. And as great
as the Note nine is, it'sjust what I do with it is asking
a tremendous amount these days, especiallyfor my job. The other thing is
Z four four great. I lovethe folding screen. I love how it
turns into a small tablet when youopen it up. Like all that stuff

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is wonderful. Even the cameras onit are are pretty good, are really
good actually, but it does doesn'tfit in a gimbal. One of the
things I like to keep with meis are those DGI O M gimbals for
your phones that kind of clamp onto the phone and you just put your
phone on the gimble. I've gotit. Do I have the gimbal next

(15:15):
to me somewhere, Maybe I canreach over for it real quick and keep
vamping here. I don't see it. I don't see it. I'll put
it well whatever, you know whatI'm talking about. But the folds,
since they are thicker and they're notdesigned the gimbals are not designed to clamp
on to this the fold. It'sa little bit too thick for all that,

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and it's just non intuitive to usewith the gimbal versus the gimbal that
it. You know, the Djigimbles are designed to clamp around normal rectangular
phones. And I do quite abit of video work with my phone,
and that's another reason where I'm thinking, like maybe I'll go to the S
twenty four. I'll go back toa standard phone. Not because I don't

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like folding phones, but because it'sbecoming increasingly clear that in my day to
day work life it's a priority tobe able to put a phone on a
gimbal and just film on obstructed.And the other thing is some apps don't
work that great yet on foldables becauseit doesn't know if it's a this is
a folding phone, is this atablet? Is this just a regular slate

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phone? Who knows YouTube shorts islike that. It has been where it's
kind of been funny to use ona folding phone and a tablet Android tablet
at least, And I'm just soI'm just kind of leaning towards, you
know what, I'm the type ofperson that will I've said it on the
show before, especially when it comesto phones, get at least two at

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minimum two to three years use outof a flagship smartphone. That means,
really, what should have happened isI get the z Fold four and then
I wait two or three more generations, Like the next time i'd consideration upgrading
the z Fold four is like thez Fold seven or eight. You know
that that far down the road.Or if I had the Galaxy S twenty

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one, I would still be rockingthe S twenty one for a few generations,
two or three years until I'd beconsidering again the S twenty four S
twenty five whenever that comes out.So part of my soul hurts that I'm
even considering upgrading my phone after onlyhaving this for a year and a half
or so. Maybe maybe it's alittle lesson. I think I got this

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like November twenty twenty two, Ithink is when I got the z Fold
four, and so I've had ayear and a half. It's a little
bit before my deadline of my thresholdof upgrades. But again, I'm just
venting to y'all, letting y'all knowmy thought process, because maybe there's some

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people out there that kind of havea similar thought process or sympathize with what
I'm going through right now. Isthat I might have to upgrade my phone
sooner than I thought to the Stwenty four. We'll see more geek there
Per radio coming up. Don't goanywhere. Welcome back to Geek Therapy Radio.

(18:07):
You got your mental curator Johnny Hamburger. In the previous segment and segment
two, I was talking about mysmartphone woes in that my Galaxy Z fold
four, as awesome of a phoneas it is, is having an issue
with one of its sensors. Thatcontrols the s pen that controls screen rotation,
that's the magnetic sensor, that's thegyroscope, that's the light sensor.

(18:29):
It's all happening on one Apparently onechip handles all that, and that chip
is, for whatever reason, malfunctioning. I'm hoping that it's just a firmware
issue because those problems didn't arise untilafter the major update to one UI six
point zero. So I'm hoping thatit's a firmware fix because it's left me.
And if you listen to the previoussegment, I explained that I'm kind

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of leaning towards getting the S twentyfour Ultra for multiple reasons, and basically
that it's this is quicker in thephone upgrade cycle than I typically like to
make a phone upgrade. Like Imentioned in the previous segment, I like
to go at least two or threeyears between upgrading phones. I used to

(19:15):
go a lot longer than that.I would go five, you know,
up to five years, maybe alittle more than five years, because in
my opinion, phones have kind ofplateaued as far as like the user experience.
Yes, the cameras get better andbetter and better, but honestly,
case in point, I've been usingthis Galaxy Note nine from twenty seventeen or

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eighteen, I forget when, andit is ninety eight percent as good as
anything out there still for just gettingon Facebook, checking your emails, doing
just kind of general smartphone things.Where it starts lagging behind is in battery
life and it gets hot in theprocess, or is just going one hundred
percent all the time. As Iexplained, because it's not that the phone

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got crappier, it's just that thatapps get more and more intensive. Apps
get more Every update of an appmakes it more and more resource intensive,
so it just gets bloated. Theapplications get bloated and bloated and bloated.
It is just asking more of thesame hardware. So the phone's not getting
bad, it's just that the softwareand the demands on it are increasing.
So while it's fine for texts andfine for zoom calls and fine for all

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this stuff, where it starts boggingdown when I start asking it to do
more intensive things like some video editingand lumafusion and just even skipping around to
a whole lot of multitasking. Thisphone gets real, real warm because the
processor just doesn't stop. It's showingits age. So I'm looking at the
S twenty four Ultra. It isin my Amazon shopping cart right now.

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There's a deal on it. It'smanageable, and I'm considering it. And
also, these slab phones fit intogimbals better, and I do a lot
of that type of work. Andthe cameras on the twenty four are very
S twenty four Ultra are very aregreat. I'd read don't quote me directly

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on this, but I was reading. I think it's from GSM Phone Arena
or it was a very respectable smartphonewebsite. I Google searched, does S
twenty four Ultra record ten bit video? Meaning ten bit video that I can
later import into Da Vinci Resolver myvideo editors and have way more control over
color grading and this and that.And it said, yes, that that

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the Galaxy S twenty four Ultra hasten but ten bit h EVC HDR ten
plus recording. I knew it was. I knew it was HDR ten I
knew it was HDR ten plus.And that's all fine and dandy, But
was it ten bit? Like it? Was it truly ten bit? And
I still need to do more furtherverification. I don't have an S twenty

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four to test. I want toimport the video into Da Vinci Resolve and
see how much I can manipulate thevideo. Typically, what happens with smartphone
video is it looks exquisite on othersmartphones when you're looking at content on your
smartphone, things shot with the smartphonecamera look excellent on a smartphone camera.

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Where things fall apart, typically classically, is that you take that footage from
your smartphone and then you put itin your audio or your video editor,
and you're looking at it on anineteen twenty two twenty five inch twenty seven
thirty two inch screen and you see, oh yeah, that's uh that it
doesn't hold up well. When youblow up the image to a big TV

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or or whatever kind of the smallsensor, You're very aware how small the
sensor actually is when you blow upthe image to an actual the size of
a TV or a computer monitor.So I'm trying to see if that's the
case or not with the S twentyfour. I don't have high expectations.
It's not like it's not like I'mgoing to import video from the S twenty

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five for Ultra into Da Vinci Resolveand work on it in four K or
even eight K on on my screen. Here. I know that there's gonna
be a bit of you're gonna bea bit disappointed if you start pixel peeping.
But what I just want to knowis is the is the video usable
to make content like for the museumor kind of the ultimate kind of run

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and gone set up. And Iknow the answer is yes. I know
a lot of you watching this orlistening to this right now have have edited
smartphone video on your computer on abig screen. And yes, there are
pros and cons and trade offs toshooting with this smartphone, but everything's usable
because it all boils down to contents. I mean, that's the most important
thing anyways is really we're gonna thisis where the conversation is going now,

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because I'm just stream of cons consciousnessflowing here. I watched a video the
other day on YouTube about the dgiOsmo Pocket three, which is I don't
have it, but I've just heardwonderful things about it. It's so popular
it's hard to get it's it's usuallysold out at least on Amazon, so
it's a very popular. Everybody intheir grandmother videographers and cinematographers who have who

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you know, are using a runand gun set up an EDC kind of
pocket camera, swear by the Pocketthree to digi Osmo Pocket three, so
I know I have pretty high confidencethat it's that it's a great camera.
Now. One of the videos Isaw was, you know, it's one
of those things like how to shootcinematic content with a Dgiosmo Pocket three,
which really really what that video issaying and videos like that are saying,

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it's how to shoot cinematic content withanything, is really what it means,
how to shoot cinematic content with yourGalaxy Note nine from twenty seventeen. And
Here's where I'm getting at with allthis is that actually to make compelling content
that people want to watch and thatpeople stick around. For the camera,
you use a lot of people,novices just getting into it. Amateurs might

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think that the camera is the mostimportant thing when it comes to making good
video content, but the camera isactually one of the last things of importance
and one of the least important thingsin making compelling content. In no particular
order. There is a sequence tothis, But the most important thing is

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the storytelling. What story you're tryingto tell. Is it a good story?
Because if it's a good story,then the camera doesn't matter. So
after the story and what's the storytelling, then you come up with a shot
list. Then the thing is cinematography, framing, lighting. Then you go
down to audio is just as ifnot most important, it might be number
two on the list. You haveto have a good story, good audio,

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good framing, good cinematography, goodlighting, good editing. And then
down the list, like one ofthe last things on the list is the
camera, because you can tell acrappy story nobody wants to watch in eight
K with the six thousand dollars Sonycamera. If the content sucks, if
it's something that people just don't careabout if it's not a compelling story.

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If the audio is bad. Youknow, I'm a big proponent of this.
If the audio is bad and you'reshooting in a juicy four K video,
it even with the best lighting.If the audio is bad, no
one's gonna watch it. It's terrible. So there's so many other on getting
as there's so many other factors inwhat makes a video like a good video,
what makes content and good content thatthe act the camera you're using is

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way down on that list. Itmight be one of the last things you
can shoot. Compelling content that looksgreat, that sounds great with a three
sixty p potato, as long asthe storytelling's good, as long as the
shot list is great, the locationsyou are a great, as long as
the framing is great, as longas the cinematography is great, as long

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as the editing is great, aslong as the audio is great. Then
down to the bottom of that listis that three hundred and sixty potato camera.
All that matters is the story,is the framing, is the cinematography.
Because all these other things that gointo it, the camera is actually
the one of the lead important partsof the entire ingredients of what makes a

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video good or not, of whatmakes content compelling or not. So bring
that back around to I know thatif I get the Samsung Galaxy S twenty
four Ultra, that if I pixelpeep on a giant forty two inch four
K monitor is what I use anlg TV oled TV as my main monitor
here. I know that if Ipixel peep on a forty two inch four

(27:26):
K O lead monitor that, yeah, it's not gonna hold up. Jack,
shut up, he's downstairs and hehears me, and he's just an
idiot anyways. Yeah, So Iknow that if I'm shooting content with the
S twenty four Ultra and it itdoesn't look ass good pixel peeping as my

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Lumix S five here, I'm not. It doesn't really matter because it's gonna
look good enough. It's gonna lookgood enough. And if I'm doing things
right, lighting things right, doingproper framing and everything that It's S twenty
four is going to be an amazingtool for that. So that's why I'm
considering it. Also, like Isaid, it fits into the DGI gimbals

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way better than a folding phone doesthis. This thing doesn't the s twenty
The z fold four not great forgimbals. So what would I do with
the z fold four if I getthe S twenty four Ultra, Like,
what would I That's the rub is? Like this is if I get the
S twenty four Ultra. It's alittle bit quicker in my upgrade cycle than

(28:30):
I am usually comfortable with. Iusually go two to three years minimum before
upgrading my phone, and I'm ata year and a half maximum with the
z fold four, And I'm consideringupgrading to the S twenty four Ultra.
Not necessarily because the z fold isbad. It has an issue right now
that hopefully gets fixed in a firmwareupdate, but I could use the better
cameras and the gimbal ability of theS twenty four Ultra and the horsepower.

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More Geek Therapy Radio coming up,Don't Go Anywhere, Welcome back to Geek
Therapy Radio. You've got your mentalcurator, Johnny Hamburger. So I've spent
most of the show talking about mywhere I'm at with my kind of smartphone

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smartphone life, considering going to theS twenty four Ultra the other thing that
I'm thinking about, and there's nolike time crunch on this. I think
the phone is taken priority as faras upgrades are concerned over this next item.
But my Lumix S five. You'rewatching this video right now with my

(29:41):
go to Sony ZV one. JustI love the ZB one. I didn't.
I did a review, kind ofan impromptu review on the show of
the ZB one that if you havejust one camera for everything, Desert Island
camera Sony ZB one, it isso it's so versatile, and the image
is so good. This is aten ADP image, and it's not I'm

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not particularly lit, you know,amazingly. I've got my light panel over
here and I've got a little lampover here. But the image is good.
I'm picture profile six, will colorgrade it a little bit ten ADP.
It's one inch censor, great camera, Sony's EV one. But this
lumis X five, which is LumixS five Panasonic, my panty Lumix S

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five exquisite full frame camera, absolutelyexquisite. There are there have been the
Mark twos. So you have theSony Lumix S five, Mark two and
the Mark two X. The Marktwo X is what I have my eyes
on because it has more features thatare are applicable to videographers, which is

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what I do for my my dayjob for the museum IP streaming. Open
gate six K it's like five pointeight K, but full open gate recording,
meaning you're using the entire sensor.No pixel binning, no nothing like
that. It no quantization, isjust every pixel available in the sensor is
open gate for you to use.That's what I mean. So open gate,

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full frame, all the other featuresthat it has a full size HTMI
output versus the micro HDMI that thefirst generation has. There's all sorts of
other features that are very very appealingto me as as a videographer. The
improved autofocus system now it's based onwhat is it ulidar or phase detect auto

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focus, So it's just as goodas the Sony's and Cannons out there now
with the with the LUMOXS five,Mark two and Mark two X. So
the auto focus is important to mebecause I'm doing a lot more kind of
off shooting from the hip kind ofstuff and vlogging stuff where I'm going to
hold the camera out in front ofme and I needed to fix on my
where the auto focus for the firstgeneration Lumix S five has always been a

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pinch point. It's always been oneof the issues. If you go back
and watch reviews for the Lumix Sfive, especially you know after it came
out, was hey, great caramor great gram are great, great,
great great great, gret great.But the auto focus is not as good,
not nearly as good actually as theSony's and Cannons. I would say
that it's borderline usable when you're shootinglike ten eighty P sixty's probably the best

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bet for the autofocus system in thefirst generation Lumix S five because it's based
on frames. Part of the autofocussystem on the first generation is just based
on frame data. So the moreframes per second you're sending into that system,
the better the auto focus is.Versus doing four k twenty four frames
a second, the auto focus sucksbecause you're only you're feeding in a lot

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of pixels, and you're feeding ina lot of pixels at only twenty four
frames a second, So it's nota whole ton of of available information for
the auto focus to work. Ifit's if it's based on pixels, When
it's based on the frames being givento the autofocus processor. But the new
ones Mark two Mark two X havethe same kind of autofocused system as Canon

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and Sony, and it's way quicker, locks on a lot faster, and
that's something that I've come to realizethat I need in my next kind of
camera upgrade purchase. It's not anythingcritical right now. It's not a make
or break to what I do atthe moment. I can wait on it,
but it is something that I'm lookingat. I think I would keep

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my first gen S five as aBCAM, so if I'm doing interviews or
things like that, I can haveit off to the side as a BCAM
that will match the footage will matchthe Mark two X that I do eventually
get. Limis also came out witha new twenty eight to two hundred lens,
which is about the same size asthe twenty to sixty kit lens that

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comes with the S five. Nowit's you can get twenty eight to two
hundred and about the same amount ofsize. The trade offs for that is
that it starts at a f Ithink it's F four, and then it
goes to when you're at two hundredmilimeters. The lowest is F seven.
Point one, so you're losing somestops. It's kind of slow at the

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top end of two hundred, butof two hundred milimeters, but it's still
like twenty eight to two hundred anda lens that's the same size as a
kit lens. Holy crap. Thatis appealing to a lot of people and
appealing to me. It has builtin OIS, optical image stabilization, auto
focus, all that good stuff.I've seen reviews of it. It's nice

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and sharp and crisp, and itlooks looks great. In the trade off
of a F four to F sevenpoint one is not that big of a
deal, especially considering the size.Considering the image stabilization, which the OIS
makes up for a bit. Itmeans you can shoot at as open as

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possible at a lower frame rate andstill have buttery, you know, stable
footage with that. The built inoptical image stabilization in the lens itself and
the body stabilization means you have awhole ton of stops of stabilization. That's
one thing that panasonic cameras have beenknown for is they're just excellent, kind
of class leading stabilization. So there'ssome cool things happening with the l amount

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system right now. So that's thelens mountain system that Panasonic uses is l
amounts. So I'm looking at theS S five two X and eventually that
possibly that twenty eight to two hundredlens. Again, that's nothing critical,
that's nothing that's like on the tableright now. I think my priority is

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what I am using all the timeanyways, which is my phone going to
that S twenty four old trip becauseI think that's going to be kind of
that's going to fit what I domuch better. Somebody on your team,
Mike the team leader for our socialmedia team at Houston Museum and Natural Science,
he's got the S twenty three.He got that, I don't know

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a little less than a year ago. It looks awesome. The footage that
comes off of it is amazing,and having the ultra wide and then the
wide and then the telephoto and allthat stuff. Now the S twenty four,
so the S twenty three Ultra doeslike ten x optical zoom, whereas
the most optical zoom on the Stwenty four is three X. That's kind

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of a trade off, although reviewerssay that you're going up to ten x
looks almost just as clean as theoptical ten X at the S twenty three.
We'll see about all that. There'snot gonna be many scenarios where I
am gonna be ten X magnified usingmy self smartphone camera. This is not

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gonna happen very often. The I'mgonna go that telephoto with it. But
yeah, smartphone upgrade a year anda half or so into my upgrade cycle,
which is six months sooner than Iusually do, I'm thinking about that,
but I'm I'm giving Samsung like onemore day to do a major,

(37:12):
firm more upgrade on this, onthis Z fold four, and then I
don't know. This is what painsmy heart about it, and what pains
my wallet a little bit about thisis like, it sucks to know that
I have such an awesome foldable phonethat I wouldn't be using every day,
and that bothers me that it's thatI'm leaving something that's perfectly viable, perfectly

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useful in the year twenty twenty four, that it's excellent in the year twenty
twenty four, kind of sitting hereon my desk. I know that I'm
gonna tinker with it. I knowthat there'll be There'll be like weeks and
months that I'm only using the Stwenty four Ultra, and then there's a
be weeks and months and I'm goingback to the Z fold four. I
like that idea about having two kindof flagship things. But yeah, it's

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upgrading sooner than I thought. Butthat's gonna do it for this show.
Thank you for hanging out with me. One thing I learned in the past
few shows is a talking about Appleis you might as well be talking about
religion or politics. It's so incrediblydivisive. But anyways, you know what's
not divisive there shouldn't be, isthat you are worthy of love, you

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are worthy of giving love, you'reworthy of receiving love, and you are
worthy of your own self respect.If you don't remember anything else from any
podcast that I ever do, whateveryou listen to you from this episode,
from last episode, for any episode, I always end the show by telling
you the truth that you are worthyof love, worthy of giving love.

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It means you are worthy of sayingI love you to somebody. You are
more importantly deserving of someone telling youthat they love you. You can accept
that love, and you are worthyof your own self respect. One of
the ways we get there is byleaning into our geek things and in our
hobbies as long as they don't hurtother people. Thank you so much for
listening to Geek Therapy Radio. Youare loved. I'll talk to you next time.