Today we're taking a look at ClickCon. It's a convention for photography in
downtown Chicago. My friend Adam suggested it. Sounded really interesting
to check out. We just went to the trade show. They have a lot more. Depends on
pricing tiers of registrations and all that. But you can do panels, informational
things... All that sounded really interesting, but we just went for the
trade show. At the trade show with all the booths you can check out a lot of
gear that you might not be able to see elsewhere. You can also buy a lot as well.
Procam was the large sponsor for this event. So they had a large booth with a
lot of gear from pretty much any company that you could imagine for photography
and videography. But you could also buy it throughout the tradeshow itself. A lot
of the booths had things for sale at certain percentage off usually, which was
nice. It's quite the challenge getting to downtown Chicago. Especially in my case
it's around a two-hour drive. But Adam and I decided to go to one of the
suburbs because he's closer in and then take a train to Union Station. From there
we needed to get to the actual hotel, which I think was about 1.2 miles.
But that's still pretty long walk. So we used a ride-sharing service.
I think that was the first time that I've ever used any type of service like that.
It was interesting going into someone else's car and being like okay.. let's go to
the hotel. Of course Adam handled all that, which
is very helpful and definitely a good benefit having a friend there to get
things done. The hotel itself seems like a great one
for a photography convention. It's very classy inside even if you just wanted to
take photos outside of the convention. I took one of my Canon EOS M50
cameras with 11 to 22 millimeter lens and the Boya microphone. With that setup
I was doing mostly like interview style videography and just trying to get some
clips of the convention. So we're gonna look at all that grouped up and then in the
description of this video you can click on time codes to select which area. We
have the x-rite company. Didn't do too much there, but it talked a little bit
with them about the color correction stuff and (they) quizzed me on my camera. I don't
have zebras on the M50, so it's not ideal. But maybe in the future I'll try to do
more color grading and things like that.
Those are intense! Is that like a acrylic on it?
Rep: Acrylic, yep.
Those are the metallic ones? Rep: That's metal. Yep.
30 by 45...
So that is $315. (okay) I mean that's before the mount. I think the mount on
something this size is like another $40 bucks. (ohh)
So you're looking at $360..$370.. right around there.
It's... it is $25 to get one of these. I mean with this we do
use your image. (okay) So then it's sent to you with your image on it whichever one
you choose and then you can really see...
(If) you do video you should check this. So it's our auto start video player.
Scott: Oh nice!
So it's going to just auto play right when that relief button is
released.... Scott: Okay
So we've got volume. We can pause, resume. And then so it only plays
videos and slideshows. So we can skip through multiple videos or multiple
slideshows. So this can be a portable portfolio if you want to carry your
videos on you. Instead of pulling out a phone and going to YouTube...
pull out your branded portfolio that is you. Or you (can) add it onto packages,
seniors.. families.. Adam: Is that battery replaceable?
It's not. You charge it and plug into your computer, but we have a 1 year
warranty on them. Yeah, so they come in white and black. The inside all the same.
And then the other one is our full wrap, so these are $99 for 4 gigs and this one is
$129 for 4 gigs as well.
Later this year we're gonna release a 32 gig, which I
believe is going to be $149 and $179. Scott: Okay
We've got a new drive. Our duo, so USB to "C".
I don't know if they have anything type-C, but that will go into your computer or
if you have an Android phone or anything like that.
Yeah, yeah so... you kind of... You kind of match...
You find a drive that fits your brand. Your logo. Who you are and what you
want to portray. Then find a box that works with it. So you can do flash.
Adam: I love some of these like the crystal looking... Rep: Yeah, yeah, crystal USBs are great.
They are crystal so if you do drop em on concrete or tile that they can (ohhh... yeah)
shatter, but they have weight to them.
They're nice they've got a metal top and it's actually... Adam: Feels quality.
Yeah, it's the only device that we actually subsurface engrave. So everything else is
surface, but this one's actually inside. Adam: That's awesome.
it keeps the crystal clean on the outside
And then you have in more depth to your logo.
Scott: Ohhh, yeah. That's quite heavy.
Adam: How much does like a normal...
Rep: 4 and 8 gigabytes are (USB) 2.0.
16 to 128 is (USB) 3.0.
They start at $19 go all the way up to a 128 for $78. And then the more you buy the
more you save. So you know by like 20 of these for your logo on you save like
15-20 percent.
Rep: they're small...
and lightweight so...
Adam: Probably good for budget-conscious? Rep: military families
Rep: budget-conscious but military families. Where the spouse
that's in service can carry this in their pack.
When it's full loaded it comes with an optional easel as well.
Adam: Okay, nice.
Adam: this one is like an embossed.
Where that might not necessarily be (wanted)...
But then I see this one where it's just a straight leather.
Rep: Hi there, how are you? Do you guys print?
You're at the right place! We do papers we have been around for over 425 years (1584)...
Hahnemuehle! Are you familiar with Hahnemuehle?
This is our newest paper. That's a metallic paper.
It's 100 percent cotton.
Michael: So that's actually before and after makeup.
Michael: That's like a different style. Ron: Oh.. ohh.. shi.. wow!
And same with
this woman she like appears and disappears...
Adam: How hard is that to do? Scott: Well the...
Scott: Is it like a specific place that only does this type of printing?
Michael: Well, I print it myself...
We have a 1000 lumen, 2000, and this one goes all the way up to 8,000 lumens.
So runs off the internal battery. So you can run cord free. Turn it on it'll tell you
how long you're running at that level and the amount of time you have.
So you can really plan the shoots.
Adam: Does it have where you can hot swap a new battery at all or no?
No, you can always plug in and run it off AC. Adam: Okay
That's half power right there... Scott: Haha, oh yeah.
So then quickly just got a nice diffuser...
To rapidly change, well they took my attachment for the fresnel but...
The fresnel would go on there. Adam: Okay, that's a cool ahh...
Yeah, we build them right in Monterey California
Adam: It's light weight too! Could easily have someone with a boom... (yeah)
and not struggle too hard with it.
Rep: What this adapter is, so you can put them
in a Profoto, softbox, Bowens...
You've just got to get a Bowens to profoto adapter.
Goes in the Elinchrom really easily.
Adam: But you could definitely get that into off you know...
Rep: 1510 Pelican and all your gear and everything in there. (right)
yeah, because you only get one carry-on
And you're not checking us!
Person: So that's why I'm just eye-balling everything I'm trying to pick up. Thank you!
How's it going guys? Got some great bargains today. Yeah, 20% of everything...
Already low price and on top of that we're throwing in a rebate, up to 50...
Great deal on a travel tripod if you're in the market. Normally you'll find this on sale
for $99 it's 65. No rebate for that, sorry. It's already down this low...
And then, ahh, this is a super deal.
The tripod alone is $300. Carbon fiber, wanna feel it? (Oh yeah!) Yeah.
with the VA-5, which is our one of our top-selling fluid heads.
Of course, as an online video person...
Making videos all the time about photography. I do.. a lot of it is really
video. So in my case checking out the microphones and things is really
interesting. There's a company Saramonic, very helpful representative
showing us the different microphones that they had on there.
Ahh, the build quality, sound quality...
is quite a bit different on these guys. This would.. as far as
microphones of that style, which are cardioid condenser microphones. This is pretty
much the Cadillac of those. (okay) much bigger diaphragm...
So it's, ahh, no.. no battery?
No battery, right. Yeah, runs on the plug-in power.
It's got a unique shock mount that actually
holds the mic very well. You don't need to have a furry ball on one of these
guys either, uses a double thick wind screen. These are all metal construction
on the outside here and then this also comes with TRS and TRRS cables. So you can
use it with your mobile device out of the box. You don't have to go buy a separate
cable to be able to do that... Scott: Nice, I'll have to check those out.
This is a really great micro shotgun microphone.
So that's not a shotgun microphone. That's not a shotgun microphone...
not shocking right the cardioid condenser microphone means they got a
big open pattern up front, right. This guy is a full shotgun microphone, but in a small
format. In order to have a shotgun microphone
you need an interference tube, which is what this is here.
Sound comes in from the side and gets bent back towards the
capsule and sound coming in from the front cancels that sound as well. Which is why
you get side rejection on these guys. Get more directionality out of it. This
one has the same type of rounded shock mount. It also has a high-pass filter in
the back, so if you're moving around like you are now that causes low frequency
vibrations... We can filter that out at least in some respect with this. Double thick
windscreen and again the two cables $79...
About $20 bucks more for the shotgun version...
I did check out the Canon booth. Didn't do too much
there, but it's nice they had a area for cleaning sensors and things free so all
the can users could get their stuff fixed up. Also, I did talk to one of the
reps really quickly didn't get anything interesting out of it, you know, new
cameras or anything. But he was curious about the M50 and what I thought of it.
So I told him about that...
With the Sony booth they had a lot to show off.
They had the brand new A7r IV to check out. The main thing that I noticed with the
camera is the grip. It's a lot better than the previous version. it's more
substantial. It's just a lot nicer in the hands. Now, I didn't look at it
too much. But definitely interesting camera. Of course it has a lot of
megapixels. That'll be up to you if it's something you want to check out. So have
you ever looked at the STF?
Adam: I've seen them reviewed and stuff online...
So the thing you'll notice when you look at it... it's got like
this weird kind of dark ring on side of it. So it has basically a
filter on the inside. So it's a 100 millimeter 2.8 lens. Because of that dark
rings it's gonna meter at f/5.6. But that ring is going to smooth out the
bokeh beyond what the aperture blades can do. So points of light, things like
that are going to be perfectly circular. And then it's stupidly sharp that lens is.
Like showing it off to some of the sales guys. So one of the guys down the counter
I snapped a photo of them and they zoomed in and you could see that tear
like in his eye... it was crazy!
Also, another representative showed off
the new features with their autofocus system. You've got the animal autofocus
plus the human eye autofocus. You can have it prioritize on the person
or the animal.
There we go, it's on animal mode...
it's tracking the dog. Now we're going to...
International symbol for animal and people (haha, nice)...
Right to him. (Should I move around?) I'll move the camera...
Nikon was there, of course. They had their Z cameras lined up. They had models
there to take photos of. Definitely a nice setup.
We did quickly check out
Sigma my friend was interested in the new F/1.2 lens, but they did not have it
to check out. Also, he did look at the 100 millimeter F/1.4. That's a huge
honk'n lens!
It is a hefty lens. It is but...
Ev.. All of the image... Rep: Goes to 1.4, it's really fast...
And it's really sharp
Adam: All of the images I've seen coming out of this thing you're
absolutely amazing! Rep: Yes!
Adam: I think after a long day I probably want to monopod it though.
Rep: That's why there's a tripod collar. Adam: You've got it.
(Sigma Art lenses) are design for sensors well north of 50 megapixels.
That's why they sing on everything current.
I did ask them about the EF-M lenses and
the representative did not have any information. He wasn't even sure they
were gonna release them in the United States.
So that's up in the air. Who knows what's going to happen.
We did check out Panasonic quickly. I did talk with the
representatives a little bit about the phase detect autofocus not being the
cameras, and also the full-frame camera and how the GH-5 series might go in the
future. They seem to be thinking that it's gonna stick around, which is good.
But of course they were not super thrilled with my questions...
Adam: (I noticed Godox is) going away from the twist-on to the lock.
Well, we just got the new X2s and it does look like it does have that.
Adam: I've got whichever the most recent pro Sony one...
(Nice...) Oh it is a little bit thinner. (Yeah)
Adam: I do like the big display on the Pro S, but... which I have.
I've got the old version of this and I've got the current Pro S.
Adam: The switch lock... Rep: Switch lock...
Yeah, like see how the new ones the new type of tightening...
Maybe this one later... not now. (right) Yeah. (Okay)
Adam: Alright, well thank you.
Fujifilm was there, of course. They had some cameras set up to check out.
They were also doing a lot of printing, which was a little interesting.
They had all their instant cameras as well.
Litra was there. I had done a
previous video on their original Litra light. They had a new version to check
out. That looks nice. They also had a larger light that had a
lot more features and a full screen and they had some type of diffusion on it.
So that's the 2.0 of what you used and then we have a pro.
Which is bi-color, oled display, and app controllable with some really nice accessories.
it was a big look at ClickCon. The photography convention in
downtown Chicago. Interesting trade show. I might try to go to more in the future.
And it was really convenient to have a friend there to help get there and do
things that I'm not usually doing like ride-sharing services and all that.
Super helpful.
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