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classes for creators. Ahoj, here is everything,
everything I have when it comes to filming and photography with a smartphone. Well,
I've been creating videos and tutorials on this channel for a number of years and I
thought that you might be interested in seeing how I'm going to finalize
the smartphone filmmaking and photography kit for 2021. Which items I'm keeping,
which items I'm replacing and which items I highly don't recommend because they can definitely
destroy or hurt your footage and photos. For the new faces, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula.
If you're all about photography and video, consider subscribing to this channel. My phone
is iPhone 12 pro. I use it all the time. Sometimes I also use Android Samsung Galaxy s10 plus.
That one though this year I'm gonna exchange for a different Android. I have no idea what yet.
It depends on what they're gonna come up with. I need both systems. I need Android and I also need
Apple because I review quite a bit of products and I really want to know truly what the compatibility
is like. Here and there I like to film handheld but most of the time I actually prefer using
gimbals because I get better stabilization. Now, I review many smartphone gimbals
on this channel. I have many of them and I switch them all the time because I need to see how it is
actually working with them, how they perform. And I need to be able to answer all the questions,
whatever you are asking me. However, my 3 preferred gimbals are these. For filming stuff for
my family, just on the go, personal stuff, when I don't want to shoot in manual mode, just fully
automatic it is Hohem iSteady V2 all the way. If I want to film manually with VND filter and perhaps
anamorphic lens for better stuff, I use DJI OM4 because I can directly attach counterweights.
For important videos when I want full creative freedom, being able to load any lens on this phone
with any filter without any doubt Moza Mini P. This can handle it all, no counterweight needed.
It's like working with a gimbal for a big camera. Well, it is actually made for small mirrorless
cameras and action cameras as well. It is a bit more time consuming to set it up at first,
get it balanced properly but it is absolutely worth it. Let's move on to tripods, monopod
and phone mount. Now, I've been working with 4 different tripods over the years. I only have 2
now. When it comes to tripod for a smartphone, you don't need to buy a very heavy duty one.
It doesn't have to be heavy. Lightweight tripod is just enough but stay away from a very cheap
tripods. I had one of those very cheap ones. I bought it so I can keep it in Europe when
I'm there and I was going crazy. It was wiggling on me all the time, I had to tighten the screw
every time before I actually put the smartphone on. It is not worth it. Well, I hated it. The
tripod I use is old. I use it for I'd even say 7 or 8 years. It is this one. Cameron T210PH.
To mount the phone on a tripod, I optioned just for a cheap phone mount. It works well.
You can turn it horizontally or vertically. I don't feel the need to buy an expensive one.
Monopod is a must-have as well. I use it when I'm filming with gimbals. I find that it is the best
to have just a very lightweight monopod. After a while if you have your smartphone loaded with
lenses and filters on a gimbal, you will feel the weight. This phone already has 3 lenses. Wide,
ultrawide and telephoto. Now, this phone is not cheap and it has a very good lenses. The quality
of the video and photos are amazing and it's fun to play with lenses on the market, the cheap ones.
I bought cheap lenses with cheap filter and I tried different brands of anamorphic lense
and I tried different brands with other cheap lenses and filters. I was wasting a lot of money.
Every time the result was the same. I was not happy. Why would I want to put something on this
phone which is going to degrade the quality even more? If I'm going to put something on this phone
it's better be equally good. This year the winner for me are Moments lenses hands down. I use their
Moment phone case to which I can attach anything. For filming I love the anamorphic lens ,for
photography and some video I love the tele lens and macro lens. I use them when I take photos in
their Moment app because I can save the files in RAW instead of jpeg. Those are the keepers. And if
you ask me, so far I really haven't had the need to buy even more lenses. To film in manual mode
filters are a must. And for advanced photography filters can help you to achieve more creative
and interesting results. Let's start with the basic VND filter. Up till now I was just using
a cheap one. 52mm Promaster filter and sometimes I tried the Tiffen filter as well.
All has changed until Moment sent me this large filter which I will get to later.
Since they started selling the same filter in 52mm size quite recently, I immediately ordered one
and this one I'll use from now on. Here's why. First of all to attach them to the Moment phone
case you need this Moondog labs 52mm filter adapter. Promaster is light and it works well
when you don't need to block too much light. Once you crank it up you will
see this ugly cross hatch pattern. The same will happen with Tiffen. On top of it it's
a very heavy filter and every gram extra is a problem if you are using smartphone gimbals.
The only way to get rid of it would be to ease up but then you are not going to have it properly
exposed. You could also film in a higher frame rate like 60fps and higher. That way you don't
have to crank it up all the way. You don't need to really block it that much but it will kill
your phone storage. The cross hatch makes your video look ugly and it certainly brought down
many of my videos as I didn't see it clearly on the phone screen but once I uploaded the video to
my computer, it was already too late. So Moment guys did the same thing like Freewell. Now
Freewell filters I use exclusively for my big cameras but since they don't make,
I didn't find those filters in 52mm size, I turned to Moment. Moment split that one filter into two
different filters. 2-5 stop ND filter and another one is 6-9 stop ND filter. That way they are
avoiding the cross hatch pattern. First I only ordered the 2-5 stop ND filter and I found out
that on a very bright day I need stronger so I ordered also 6-9 stop ND filter.
Now these filters are not cheap but I'm simply done with having my video destroyed all the time
and being disappointed all the time when I see it on the computer. I'm also going to be using this
filter with my small mirrorless camera because I need 52mm filter for that. This one is a keeper.
Those 2 are gone. For those wondering how to attach the 52mm filter to anamorphic lens,
you need this filter adapter. Don't worry, I'll link all of this below in a video description.
You don't need to write it down. Can you use variable ND filter on telly lens and macro lens?
Yes you can but you will need to get different size of a filter. You will need
67mm and you will also need filter adapter pack where you can find all attachments to be able to
attach variable ND filter to those lenses. Here is a telephoto setup and here is a macro lens
setup with 2-5 stop VND filter. Besides VND filter I also like to use circular
polarizer when it comes to photography. For that one I just use Tiffen, the cheaper option. Again
52mm filter and you can use the same attachment as for variable ND filter to mount it on your phone.
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explore your creativity. It's time to talk about microphones. For my family stuff, my personal
stuff, I don't really use external microphone. I just use a built-in microphone and a smartphone
and when I film b-rolls for this channel, I don't use sound at all. But if you're someone who
really wants to use external microphone, who's using the smartphone to actually film
his YouTube channel or other stuff, I would highly suggest this Comica wireless microphone. Last few
months I use it pretty much outdoors exclusively. First of all you can move away from the camera
and you will be always heard. I just hide it under my t-shirt, nobody even knows I have it on me.
Plus when it is windy, you just turn a bit sideways away from the wind like I did when I was
filming this video and you won't get the ugly wind sound... the shot as I'm kind of walking away from
the camera. My smartphone will be positioned on a tripod the whole time. If I left it on a gimbal,
each gimbal has drift. That means that it will start moving. I stopped using
the Rode microphone outdoors. This furry thing. My friend Jana thought it was duster. She started
cleaning my dashboard in a car with it. It was always destroying my audio when it was a little
bit windy. It was catching up and I had to be very close to it to hear the sound. I think for me it's
a thing of a past. Now, out of curiosity I also tried these cheap plug-in microphones. This one
is for Apple, this one is for Android. I don't see much of a difference but for those interested let
me show you how much of a difference you will get with the audio. So now you are listening to audio
from a smartphone. I don't have the microphone plugged in. This is strictly from iPhone 12 pro.
Now you are listening to an audio from the little plugin microphone
and iPhone 12 pro. So this is the sound you will be hearing once you plug in the little microphone.
I'm not sure how much difference you hear. I know it might be a little different but
it's not that much of a difference I think. Let's talk about lights. The only
light I bring, I actually keep in my camera back at all times is this cheap RGB light if
I'm filming something specific. Yes you can light up your object if you're filming in darkness but
you can also use it for special effects and light transition which I will show you in a near future
in the future videos coming up on this channel so don't forget to subscribe if you're not subscribed
already and that's it. That's my smartphone filmmaking kit and photography kit 2021. Hit the
thumbs up if you found this video informative and if you have any questions, comments,
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