hey welcome to green light happy holidays and merry christmas to all of you out there
uh happy hanukkah happy kwanzaa all all the merriest to all of you and your family as well
um today we're talking about something that i'm very excited to talk about it's a
minimalistic cinema rig basically it's a minimalistic cinema camera
we're going to be talking about it here today um how i have it all set up and uh what i did
to modify it to make it into a powerhouse cinema camera uh in such a small package
so it's kind of awesome my wife letting me do this kind of again in a sense because i did this with
um um i had done this before with uh my smartphone with which is uh the phone i'm currently using
right now as um as a camera for green light for these videos and for youtube but basically this
is going to be my cinema camera for when i do anything with music videos commercials
and or feature film work and stuff like that so um let's uh bring it in closer here so what i
have here is the xt30 from fujifilm and i love how their their cinema look is patented by fujifilm so
nobody can copy uh their look and this is all a patent for 35 millimeter and for actual uh
film like a film negative so they brought that over into a digital and no one could touch them
on this basically so their sensor is so different than everybody else just on the cinema looks alone
the sensor is an aps-c sensor which i have said here before on my last video which i'll have
at the end of this video so i have the camera here and basically i have um a camera
uh like a hood for the monitor as well so that um i can have that all hooked up together and
i can see uh what i'm recording and i don't have any glare from the sun or anything like that and i
can see it perfectly and make sure that everything is in focus so i have that as well up here you see
is just the charger and stuff like that so i want to take that out but right here this is one of um
my pride and joy between uh these lenses basically this is used lens it's got scuff and it's got like
a lot of like um hits and stuff like that on the edges and stuff like that you see it's not like
even right there and stuff like that and then um inside if you uh look inside of the lens um it's
kind of like cracked over here um over here on the right uh on basically on your left uh so on the
left here as you can see this is a fujifilm xt30 with a helios 58 millimeter lens a 44
to 58 millimeter lens um and it has a futasi um adapter lens adapter for it as well for fujifilm
and i have a lens hood here for when um i have any kind of like sun or glare or anything like that
as well on here so it's really cool all this type of stuff when i put it all together we're gonna
check out some footage in a little bit let's just talk about uh the 58 millimeter uh helios here uh
real quick with this being a vintage lens um and doing what a lot of uh five thousand ten
thousand dollar or even more they can go all the way up to like fifty thousand dollar um uh price
points for these cinema lenses that uh big studio uses so to get uh their um lens flares and uh
um their bokeh that you would like you have to get this lens this is uh the most famous lens right
now on the market and and it's not even the market you got to get it through ebay um or in vintage
uh circles for lenses um look in your local goodwills salvation armies anything like that
you know garage sales and stuff like that too if you know anybody that's into photography and stuff
like that as well or you see anything with old photography photography kind of stuff and look
almost like this this is a new camera by the way so um this is a on an xt30 uh fujifilm xt30
it only shoots up to like 30 frames per second when it comes to 4k uh images and then 60 frames
uh for a 1080p which is not bad for such a small camera and under um a thousand dollars so you can
get this for under uh a thousand dollars currently right now just to body the camera right now
and then purchase and then uh use the rest of the money to purchase purchase yourself some um some
vintage lenses that are really good so this is fifty on ebay so go ahead and check it out on ebay
for everybody to check out uh for all the things that i purchased here um this uh lens hood you'll
find it on amazon as well and this is kind of a funny story too this one's actually a funny story
um i was looking at a sony a dslr um kind of like accessories and stuff like that and this popped
out i was checking out uh sony accessories and stuff like that and then this popped out to me
on amazon and what was awesome is that it had a better kind of like
uh more of a boxy kind of look to it more of a filmmaking kind of look to it because all the
other ones that i've seen on amazon for other dslr dslr cameras looked kind of janky so i just didn't
go for it so i'm glad i went for this one so let's quickly uh put on uh the other lens that i bought
too and we'll discuss it as well so as you can see here this is the takumar 28
to 80 millimeter lens uh macro lens actually um so it's a zoom lens and it has macro abilities
on it too as well so that's another key feature and a big thing that is huge when it comes to um
when it comes to independent filmmakers and uh vintage lenses and people into vintage lenses as
well is uh the macro feature they say big time to look into the macro feature this lens here
also has a futasi adapter as well and it stays fixed on here because since these are cheap
adapters for some reason it doesn't want to come off i tried it when i went to miami for
thanksgiving which we'll see some footage i forget what this is called exactly but it's a
it's a leveler um my grandfather and my dad used to call it a leveler basically i have that there
so i know when um i'm not leveled or anything like that uh when i'm all freehand my sister had a
vintage lens there that i wanted to try out and it was also a takamura pantex lens but i couldn't get
it off of this um zoom lens and that's most likely because the futasia kind of is a cheap kind of
lens but um but it's still worth it and for what i need it for and so i let it just kind of sit here
and it stays here fixed onto um my zoom lens and i kind of consider that as well with the helios
as well even though it comes on and off with no problem and i've tried that with no problem now
uh right now you're going to see some footage uh that i have taken on thanksgiving with my family
and it's just a little bit of footage here and there telling you which lens is what so you can
see uh what uh this looks like and you get to see uh some settings as well afterwards as well
so it's really cool here all that footage that you saw with my family um currently uh my
my parents have moved from that home already uh so they don't live there anymore um which is kind of
which is also some low light test footage if you notice too as well for the fuji uh xt-30
which is something a lot of people are talking about too that i can't do low light very well
i i believe it did a phenomenal job uh with the footage that you saw there and that was already a
compressed compressed footage that you're seeing that i already had re-edited into my phone with
imovie so all of this this whole video is edited on my phone and imovie so if it looks phenomenal
to you hopefully it's in 4k um it might not be in 4k but uh this video is mainly to inform you how
good it looks and as a filmmaker and um choosing a good price point and not going over your budget
or or buying things that are unnecessary just because it looks cool um this looks cool already
and i didn't purchase too much i bought something that was important and i bought something that was
less important for very very minimal price ten dollars is nothing for this and you can
check out in the description below for all these things as well including the case the
case right now the case itself is it should be um thirty dollars when i bought it for the
because this is the same exact case that i purchased on amazon for um my rode uh wireless
microphone that you can go ahead and check out here on this channel too as well which i'll leave
at the end of this video you'll see it there and you also see a breakdown of the body of uh this
uh xt30 that i have uh um that i'll leave a video at the end of uh this video as well too so both
of those videos you can go ahead and check them out so this is thirty dollars uh currently online
um and it used to be like 20 or something when i bought the the road so uh let's break this down
so as you can see here this is my minimalistic cinema rig so i hope this was informative for
you and uh you thought it was very very cool um uh setup let me know down in the comments
down below and if it's helpful for you so you understand that you don't really need
to go big or go home in a sense when you're doing micro budget filmmaking and stuff like
that you still can get phenomenal footage from a lot of these 4k cameras and you can get 4k
images phenomenal from your iphone uh currently that you're looking at right now and you saw
some footage from this camera as well and it's all under a thousand dollars as well so let me
know what your thoughts are on that and in the description below you're gonna find all
uh the links on amazon for all of uh these things that you see here everything that you saw here
on this video so i hope you're having a happy holidays and i will see you here next time later