# Manny Ortiz: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-29, Manny Ortiz has 735,000 subscribers, 86,582,107 total views, and 481 videos. It ranks #102,665 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Manny Ortiz](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Manny Ortiz is “The Strange Appeal of a Tiny Lens\| Viltrox 26mm F2.8 Pancake”, a long-form video published Oct 20, 2026.
- These are Manny Ortiz’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jul 31, 2025 and Oct 20, 2026 (46 long-form videos and 2 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 41,077. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Why I’m Ditching Light Stands Forever (This $150 Cart Changes Everything)” (160,331 views, Oct 27, 2025). Least viewed: “I love experimenting with my photo edits in @LuminarGlobal” (8,547 views, Aug 22, 2025).
- Median length: 12:33 for 46 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Manny Ortiz’s consecutive uploads were a median of 6 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 30 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Strange Appeal of a Tiny Lens\| Viltrox 26mm F2.8 Pancake](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/uXBpaz_AuHM/) | 2026-10-20 | Long-form | 38,961 | 9:41 | 1.1x |
| [Is There a Wrong Way to Hold Your Camera?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/aTqYpCi0DwY/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 25,659 | 9:53 | - |
| [Turning an Ordinary Garage Into a Professional Photo Studio (pt3)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/8LlRkj0nfCo/) | 2026-09-29 | Long-form | 44,125 | 10:06 | 1.07x |
| [Sony Just Beat Nikon at Its Own Game](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/_EisZlDVr10/) | 2026-09-15 | Long-form | 51,796 | 13:40 | 1.27x |
| [The Most Advanced Off-Camera Flash Setup I’ve Ever Used](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/EPt9AmP7DKQ/) | 2026-08-31 | Long-form | 29,120 | 8:05 | - |
| [DJI Pocket 4P: This Solved My Biggest BTS Problem](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/NvQzcY5jN94/) | 2026-08-30 | Long-form | 31,884 | 8:18 | - |
| [The Decision Has Been Made](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/SXylbExE594/) | 2026-08-29 | Long-form | 63,857 | 9:13 | 1.47x |
| [We Built the Ultimate Off-Camera Flash Cart](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/eg6VVA5_yGo/) | 2026-08-25 | Long-form | 32,755 | 6:33 | - |
| [Sony A7R VI: Here's What I Really Think (After 20,000 Photos)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/uRmMvCb5JGw/) | 2026-08-01 | Long-form | 81,366 | 24:59 | 1.51x |
| [The A7RVI Just Beat the Hasselblad X2D](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/u0iGLf2z_Sk/) | 2026-07-31 | Long-form | 46,861 | 14:10 | - |
| [The Photography Studio That Changed My Life... and Why I Might Leave It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/_RmKul7DyDU/) | 2026-07-09 | Long-form | 43,192 | 12:53 | - |
| ["Sony's Newest Camera is Broken"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/kdyMl_QKnro/) | 2026-06-30 | Long-form | 60,713 | 11:34 | 1.42x |
| [I Tried Replacing ALL My Cameras With the Leica Q3 43](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/gPwjSjZKgt0/) | 2026-06-25 | Long-form | 63,059 | 18:52 | 1.86x |
| [Can Hasselblad’s $4500 Zoom Replace Primes?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/2BcUe6XqKyc/) | 2026-05-31 | Long-form | 15,869 | 11:26 | - |
| ["The Sony A7RVI is Absolute Bullsh*t"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/KetS1Bw9rVU/) | 2026-05-29 | Long-form | 67,402 | 20:20 | 2.13x |
| [Sony A7RVI – The Plot Twist Nobody Saw Coming… (But There’s a Catch)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/h-Ya6OXJTU0/) | 2026-05-13 | Long-form | 66,007 | 20:58 | 2.09x |
| [I Have Options… Here’s Why I Use Canon for client work](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/B8pIOgaR1Rw/) | 2026-05-11 | Long-form | 29,216 | 12:24 | 1x |
| [My 2026 Camera Bag (Only What Made the Cut)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/6gzkrFhDqEk/) | 2026-04-30 | Long-form | 38,320 | 10:38 | 1.48x |
| [I Used the Hasselblad X2D for 6 Months… Here’s the Truth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/6BoZOErQfIk/) | 2026-04-29 | Long-form | 89,621 | 17:08 | 3.14x |
| [The Part of Photography Nobody Shows You (BTS)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/oZV2VKhM1fk/) | 2026-04-16 | Long-form | 15,711 | 14:05 | - |
| [The Sony A7RVI Rumors Are WRONG](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/ip16EsGhIfg/) | 2026-04-14 | Long-form | 24,999 | 14:14 | 1.12x |
| [This Camera Should Be Obsolete… But It’s Not](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/jI5oQvptN54/) | 2026-04-10 | Long-form | 17,558 | 7:08 | - |
| [Are we at peak 35mm?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/GQ0JvKELuz8/) | 2026-03-31 | Long-form | 27,255 | 6:24 | - |
| [Still Untouchable. (2026)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/gxDQsY9SpiI/) | 2026-03-30 | Long-form | 34,115 | 13:42 | - |
| [Sorry, Viltrox](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/RbQ-9v7a9TU/) | 2026-02-28 | Long-form | 84,063 | 13:25 | 1.08x |
| [The graphite grey 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/GEI7kowVKSI/) | 2026-02-25 | Short | 16,938 | 1:31 | - |
| [I sold my A7SIII for the A7V- 3 months later](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/RTARdN33M-g/) | 2026-02-24 | Long-form | 71,634 | 10:10 | 1.06x |
| [My #1 Lens for Studio Photography](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/pp83HA8Trow/) | 2026-02-18 | Long-form | 17,862 | 6:42 | - |
| [The $469 Lens Canon Desperately Needed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/-dsInvGkN-w/) | 2026-01-31 | Long-form | 29,710 | 11:03 | - |
| [Canon R6III vs Sony A7V – What I Love and What I Don’t](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/_pLJFr0oPS4/) | 2026-01-27 | Long-form | 89,110 | 28:47 | 2.47x |
| [The Canon R6III- What Specs Don’t Tell You](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/3Dj3yG5NuPI/) | 2025-12-30 | Long-form | 47,239 | 15:24 | 1.39x |
| [I Shot My First Photos With the Sony A7V… Here’s What Happened](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/BTzzGkq7HSc/) | 2025-12-15 | Long-form | 79,796 | 14:57 | 2.46x |
| [Building a Photo Studio From Scratch: My FIRST 7 Purchases](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/d-jHQNlHa1g/) | 2025-12-05 | Long-form | 74,822 | 11:30 | 1.82x |
| [Sony A7V First Impressions– I'm buying it. Here’s Why](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/srmpGN7z8VM/) | 2025-12-02 | Long-form | 137,823 | 17:30 | 2.55x |
| [After 13 Years with a Camera, These Are the Lessons That Stuck"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/l6l0I4s8WVQ/) | 2025-11-30 | Long-form | 23,095 | 15:13 | - |
| [It's OFFICIAL-The Future of on Location Flash Photography is Here! 🤯](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/CeHD4ENm5RM/) | 2025-11-12 | Long-form | 45,679 | 6:14 | 1.16x |
| [So… About Those Sony A7V Rumors 👀 + My R6 III Reaction](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/Wn_Y_oW44Rs/) | 2025-11-11 | Long-form | 33,311 | 11:12 | - |
| [Why I’m Ditching Light Stands Forever (This $150 Cart Changes Everything)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/hQUX8PWFhWo/) | 2025-10-27 | Long-form | 160,331 | 11:06 | 3.27x |
| [How Is This Lens Only $2,000?! (Laowa 200mm F2 Bokeh Monster)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/KlFSqkh4Jfs/) | 2025-10-14 | Long-form | 35,663 | 12:43 | 1.25x |
| [10 Minutes. No BS. Studio Photography Tips That Actually Work](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/_KmfR73LoOU/) | 2025-10-01 | Long-form | 62,364 | 10:54 | 2.18x |
| [Photographers: Aftershoot Just Made Portrait Retouching Too Easy!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/4eEUq62kLHs/) | 2025-09-26 | Long-form | 12,934 | 14:57 | - |
| [The Portrait Lens to End All Portrait Lenses: Shooting with the new Sigma 135mm F1.4](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/6o1Q5iNpVVg/) | 2025-09-09 | Long-form | 131,353 | 10:47 | 2.69x |
| [Hasselblad X2D II – First Impressions (WOW)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/XIiZeFQmyMc/) | 2025-08-26 | Long-form | 71,734 | 26:22 | 1.77x |
| [I love experimenting with my photo edits in @LuminarGlobal](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/r4kuKVQ0at4/) | 2025-08-22 | Short | 8,547 | 1:09 | - |
| [My All-Time Favorite Portrait Lens, Upgraded: Sigma 200mm F2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/ABKIEVr_Nsg/) | 2025-08-19 | Long-form | 77,439 | 15:58 | 2.15x |
| [Medium Format Portraits after 2 years- Addressing your comments](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/SrBfFcHKul0/) | 2025-08-13 | Long-form | 18,838 | 13:34 | - |
| [Hands-On with the new Blazar Mantis Anamorphic 25mm & 100mm](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/Gg7-zTAsNSY/) | 2025-08-05 | Long-form | 26,436 | 10:44 | 1.03x |
| [RX1R III vs A7CR — Why This Comparison Fails](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mannyortiz/videos/O4TWq6jQ5XI/) | 2025-07-31 | Long-form | 24,529 | 17:51 | - |

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