Hi everyone I am Wang Gang
Today I will share a special video with you
Many fans have been asking us what kind of devices we use
What do we use for video shooting?
Today I will share with you about it
The first is a phone I bought in 2017.
It was a difficult decision when I bought the phone
I used it for taking photos and shooting videos.
For a few months.
It has stopped working.
It's broken.
Afterwards, the second one is this
a Cannon Mirrorless Camera
Actually, there's another one before it
A Sony DV for home use.
As I didn't know how to use it
I couldn't figure out how to use it so I sold it after a few months
I lost quite a bit of money on that one
The price depreciated a lot
Then
There was also an M10
One sold
One was given away to a friend.
This is M6
M10 was before M6
I seldom use this one now.
It's basically an ornament now.
I seldom touch it.
And
After the M6 is this one
This is a bit more professional DV made by Sony
We used this one for about..
...about 6 months.
I impulsively bought two
For the first one
I bought it for over 10,000 RMB
The second one was around 9,000 or 8,000 RMB
I don't remember exactly.
I occasionally use it
for live streaming etc
It can still turn on. Let's have a look
This can be flipped over so it's kind of convenient
The only downside is
its color performance
not very good
The color saturation is not enough
And this
It is called GoPro right?
The only good thing about it is that it's small
Portable
And it's waterproof
But there are very few use cases
I bought two
They cost me around 6000 RMB
Later I got these ones
I also bought two
This mirrorless camera
Mirrorless cameras are not expensive
I finally understood why they said mirrorless cameras are not expensive
The costly part is the lenses
A lens might cost over a few thousands RMB
The one we are filming with right now is a G Master lens
It costs over 10,000 RMB. 24-70mm
We also have this
At the beginning I didn't know much about cameras
I was just hoping to
I just wanted to improve image quality so I bought this
Long-focus lens
and this 135mm fixed-focus lens
Actually, we don't really use it much for filming cooking videos
It's more suitable for photography
Two mirrorless cameras plus the lenses
these probably cost 100,000+ RMB
For real
And yes
they did improve our video quality by a lot
However,
we upgraded to this camera last year
just to shoot 4k
But with 4k we faced another problem
Low framerate
The video lags sometimes
Then we changed again
Recently we got this
This one actually
in its category
is not super expensive
but not cheap either
The body
80,000 to 90,000 RMB
Plus the accessories
and all the miscellaneous items
over 100,000 RMB
Though it looks pretty big
It contains a lot of add-ons
And it won't do much without the add-ons. Let's talk about the memory cards.
3 cards
512 GB
4,000 to 5,000 RMB each
4,000 to 5,000 each, 3 cards cost over 10,000 RMB
So this is pretty expensive
You may notice that sometime we have aerial footage
We use this drone
How much is it?
22,000 RMB including the accessories
In fact, the one we bought was low end
with just a damage insurance
Things like box and some others are free with it
Unlike my buddy
My buddy Huanong Brothers
They also bought a specific screen for it
And a specific explosion-proof box
That's a few thousands more. 5,000 to 6,000, right?
5,000 to 6,000
However, in my opinion
It depends on your personal financial situation
This cost over 20,000 RMB
Besides
These lenses
This was recommended by Tim
Including the previous one
This
This film camera was also recommended by Tim
Speaking of lenses, comparatively
This fixed-focus lens
It's much cheaper than Sony
And better cost performance
And
This voice recorder
It's around 4,000 to 5,000
It's also for a better audio quality
Also
Monitor
And this microphone as well
This microphone is not cheap. One costs over 1,000, and we got several
This microphone is for mirrorless. And this one
This is the oldest microphone. It's for this one
It's for this
And then for this
How much is it?
Over 300 for one. We bought three
There's a date on it
Bought on 2019/5/18
This was bought on 7/15
This should be the oldest one
Look
This one was too close to the flame when cooking
It's a bit burnt
In fact, our cameras
Like...
Like this one, you know, this one
When we first started filming cooking videos
It got a lot of smoke. Why?
Because it has a very wide angle
So it has to be placed close enough
Sometimes when I cooked, the fire could even burn the camera
This camera also
Also, you know
Made through the hardship
And some computers as well
Actually, computers are
Not cheap, either
We do the video editing and
Make some other things, or go for a business trip
Such as these laptops
They also cost over 100,000
So far, all the devices we have
All the devices and equipment
I made a summary yesterday
The total is almost 500,000 RMB
I cannot believe I have invested so much
If I didn't calculate, I wouldn't know
I was shocked when I calculated it
In addition
What's the name of it?
Lavalier (collar microphone), right?
The wireless mic, and also the one I'm using
This one was a repurchase
I actually lost a whole set of lavalier. Wasted a few thousand
There's not much other stuff
Then let's talk about this thing
Why we bought this thing
It's because, our videos
need to catch up with mainstream
What is the mainstream
The mainstream for the future is
4k 60 fps, right?
It's like
The image quality is very fine
What's the point we bought it?
The point is it can better reproduce what we are filming
Instead of I need some advanced adjustments
Like the color tones or what
Or some delicate scenes
We don't use these features
Actually
Many fans have criticized us recently for losing humbleness
Like buying these unpractical items, or whatever
Actually, you don't even know
what our true demands are
We buy thing according to our demands now
Comparatively rational
It's not like, we bought a lot of stuff at the beginning
Spending hundreds of thousands irrationally
This time we did a one time investment
Filming camera, and also computer for post-production, and lenses
Everything adds up to around 200,000 RMB
Now we are more rational
If you are interested, in the next episode
Or some time later, we can talk about our...
Our account
So far, in these few years
The earning, or the other aspects
If you are interested
Please do say it in a comment
"I'm interested"
If you wanna know about these stories
Then hit the like button
And then say you wanna know in the comment, and that's it
We will arrange one episode afterwards
Talking about the earning and cost of our self-media
Actually, I've heard someone saying things likes
I earn over 100 million a year
Or over 10 million
Or millions per month, or whatever.
We will talk about it in the next episode
Alright. At last, let's give some suggestions
To those who want to start a food self-media
Or whatever self-media
One advice is that
Please be rational when you buy gears
Do not buy all of them all at once
If you buy it but never use it
Then sell it
You will lose a lot
Lose quite much
For example, we have already gone through 3 years
That's how we end up with so much stuff
I guess these are
May be counted as antiques
Can be counted as antiques
Just one advice for you guys
If you want to be a self-media creator
You need to think about it thoroughly
Start with the mentality of "I'm just trying something new"
Have the mentality of sharing. Don't start with, say
Ah, how much I should earn after I'm in
Or whatever
In this way, you might stress out if things don't work well
Just try to have some fun, which should be good enough
That's how we are doing it even at this moment
We spend almost all of our effort on cooking
Speaking of gears, one more thing is
Pay after shopping around
Compare at least three sellers
Because now online shopping, or wherever
Buying things can be quite complicated
For the same machine
They give you a quote
200,000
Say, 200,000
However, if you have some relevant friends or relationship
It might be 110,000 or 120,000 RMB
That's a big difference
So if you buy
Please pay after shopping around
Also, be careful
Do not be scammed
Although we have used these cameras for long time
They are still functioning
Including this
M6, right?
Including lens and body, it was over 4,000
Surely now it doesn't cost much
But if you wanna be self media
and don't wanna invest too much
You may consider a used one
Because it's still functioning
And speaking of cameras
This one shoots 4k videos, right?
This is only 1080p
And voice recorders like this
They are all usable
If anyone is interested, you can PM me
You know
Anyway, they are all usable
OK, that's all for this episode
I'm going to lunch now. It's noon already
Bye bye