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what's up everybody
so I just wanted to quickly point out that it seems as though every single
time I come up with a video topic all the filmmaking video people here on
YouTube like Peter McKinnon and Travel Feels always seem to be just one step
ahead of me I think just last week Peter put out his video of what's in my camera
bag for 2018 and now here we are but regardless of that every content creator
uses different gear and has their own reasons for using certain things rather
than others and a lot of you guys have been asking me well what's in my camera
bag for 2018 now before we get into what's inside of
my new current camera bag we want to talk to you guys a little bit about the
history of the camera bags that have used the gear that have carried in them
and kind of how its evolved over time and what I've shaped into kind of what I
feel as though is a pretty minimalist camera bag when it comes to filmmaking
photography run and gun type shooting by the way I need to thank the people over
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Daniel Wellington so this right here is my pretty much first legitimate camera
bag before this I think I probably just used some random backpacks but this was
like my first actual camera bag that I got from
it was like Christmas Day back in like 2012 or 2013 something along those lines
this is obviously a bulky and hefty bag this is a bag that has you know tons of
back support lots of straps the waist straps the chest straps just a lot of
unnecessary bulkiness and it's kind of funny this one actually has this unique
little like rotating like carousel thing in here where you can put lenses I don't
basically I used this bag for a couple of years and it was just more than I
needed like significantly more than I needed I mean this thing can hold I
think like up to six or eight lenses probably two camera bodies so this was
my second camera bag and this is obviously a lot smaller a lot more
minimal I think this was advertised as kind of like a laptop bag that could
carry camera equipment and I used this bag up until probably maybe 2015 or so
I've actually used it a couple of times for airport travel just because it's
like really light in it it's just clean and simple so this bag was eventually
replaced by the bag that you guys have most recently seen in a lot of my videos
which is this grey backpack go get a lot of questions asking what this one is and
actually like this backpack a lot for just general use even though it is
technically a camera backpack it's made by Lowepro so this is the Lowepro wears
a straight line straight line BP 250 and this is a pretty expensive backpack I
decided to go with this backpack the reason being is it looked so far from a
camera backpack it honestly just kind of looked like a normal Street backpack
which I really liked it's a big part of why I didn't like that main first
backpack that I had is just cuz it looked so camera a tech backpack so if
you'll notice between those three backpacks there is kind of a theme and
it's that each one has progressively gotten smaller and less camera esque if
that makes and it's mainly because when it comes to
the equipment that I like to take on run and gun shooting I really find myself
getting distracted if I take more than is necessary if I take too many lenses I
find myself focusing on should I switch to this lens I could get this angle if I
use this ones I think that I tend to do better in the field and running gun
shooting when I have truly only what I needed
so now enter in the new backpack which is obviously quite a bit bulkier but the
thing I like about this one so much is it still looks pretty much like a normal
everyday backpack I again really don't like the whole camera backpack tech look
I think it looks kind of goofy I think it looks really obvious especially if
you're walking around it looks kind of touristy if that makes sense I just like
this simple and clean sort of minimal aesthetic ok so here it is this is a bag
that I'm rocking for 2018 this is a bag that I just recently got sent from
brevity this is a pretty cool company they make these very sort of minimalist
designed camera bags that have this neat design which is basically open this up
here this modular insert which is the compartment where all of your gear goes
that has the standard sort of velcro foam inserts that you can reorganize to
fit whatever you want to put in there but this whole insert basically can come
out this whole insert can come out away from the bag itself and then you have
basically all the important stuff the camera equipment right here alright so
let's start off with what most of you care about which is the main camera
equipment so basically what we have here you guys should know by now we have the
good old Sony a7r - this is the camera body that I've been using now for the
greater part of the last year and a half getting on to be two years amazing
camera for both photo and video this is rocking the 42 megapixel full-frame
sensor which is just incredible and even though for being such a high pixel count
sensor it still performs amazingly well in low light especially if you're
shooting in 4k on this guy I mean I've been able to shoot well
above ISO 6400 even up into like twelve thousand eight hundred and still got
some pretty clean images it also offers of course 1080 at 60 frames per second
which is great forceful motion it does do 120 frames per second but only at
720p which is a little bit of a downside but the most important thing and the
reason why I love this camera so much is its autofocus during video it is
incredibly accurate super fast very reliable so for things like vlogging
it's perfect so this is a big part of why I've stuck with this camera and why
I really have no intent of switching okay so big thing a lot of people have
been asking is what lenses do I use on this camera this is my main and primary
lens I'm using for almost everything and this is the 28 millimeter f/2 really
really great prime lens reasonable wide-angle also just a very fast
aperture so it's sharp it's great in low-light in general it's just probably
my favorite lens I've ever owned for any camera system and that's saying a lot
so the only other lens that I own for this Sony system is this guy which is
the Sony 50 millimeter F one point eight this is like the Nifty Fifty of the Sony
full-frame lenses in general it's just a good 50 mil I mean you can't really ask
too much of it it was only like 200 bucks so uh yeah 50 mil so of course
this is on so of course we have the rode videomic pro this is generally what I'm
using for pretty much all the audio in my videos so when I'm in here in the
studio I actually record audio directly to this external audio recorder and this
is the tascam dr-05 this is a really really simple budget audio recorder very
similar to something like the zoom h1 to be honest I got this probably back in my
2013 or 2014 why I chose it over the zoom no clue I think I just wanted to be
different but I've been trying to actually start recording more audio for
my videos a big part of what makes a good video
my cinematic video is sound an audio design so I've been trying to record a
little bit more sound other than just what comes out of the shotgun microphone
so this is a big part of that but I think I'm gonna be upgrading my audio
equipment here soon so balled up in this little lens cloth here is a variable
neutral density filter I get a lot of questions from people asking if I focus
I get a lot of questions from people asking if I use nd filters or any
filters for that matter this is the variable neutral density for
the 28 millimeter lens I use this occasionally if I'm vlogging outdoors
but to be honest I kind of just don't use it I should use it more because I
would get a little bit better looking images but yeah neutral density filter
lens caps and then in this little lower compartment here we have a charger as
well as a ton of batteries obviously you guys know that Sony's are pretty
notorious for being terrible with battery life this is only like a quarter
of how many batteries I have for this camera I don't really take that many but
I have so so many of them so there's lots of batteries and that's pretty much
it for the main compartment here this is where all the fun stuff is now you guys
will notice that this bag doesn't have a ton in it which is again kind of what I
was speaking about on how I'm kind of a minimalist when it comes to camera
equipment and what I take out when I'm shooting so we'll open up this little
front flap here we kind of just have some accessories stuff like that so in
this front little mesh pouch we just have some cables USB cables USB C cables
USB C cables for this guy which is the Samsung t5 portable SSD
superfast this is a 500 gigabyte version I use this for editing when I'm on the
go with my laptop and then of course I just have you know the good old wall
adapters for the you know charging and then a USB C dongle which has a card
reader USB inputs and also an HDMI output super nice
of course we got a USB power bank pretty crucial a think tank I think this is
called the pixel pocket rocket or something like that this is a Canon Pro
Services branded one that I got back when I was working at Profoto supply but
it's of course just filled with tons of SD cards you can't have enough of those
things I really also like shooting on Sony's because I don't have to have like
C fast cards or something like that just nice convenient cheap SD cards and then
also we have this guy which is the little grip that you guys always always
seem to ask me about what it's what's on my camera this little grip this is the
peak designs don't remember what it's called but it's just a basic grip that
goes onto the side of the camera and then gives me an ARCA Swiss plate on the
bottom which is pretty nice because most of my tripods and mounting equipment is
arca-swiss based so then on the side here we of course have the little
gorilla pod it's pretty self-explanatory this is the cheaper one it's not like
the big excel one and then I just have a basic like Amazon ball head on there
super simple combination really really cheap and it works great and I don't
need the big hefty one because the sony camera is not all that heavy and bulky
so I don't need the giant gorilla pod to support it this one works just fine
which is really great so now this bag also has another little front pouch here
which I currently don't have anything in it's got a top little pouch that has the
nice soft sort of microfiber fleece material whatever you can put like a
cell phone in or any kind of sensitive equipment and then it has this sort of
big open top main pouch right here which to be honest I just had my laptop
charger and other than that I mean sweatshirt wadded up tightly could
probably fit in there it's a pretty decent amount of space but again I don't
take that much stuff with me when I'm shooting so there's a laptop charger and
then that pretty much leaves only one other thing which is of course the
laptop which we have in the nice convenient laptop sleeve in the back
pack which is this guy you guys should have known this by now but this is my
new laptop this is the Lenovo yoga 720 laptop this is a really pretty powerful
machine I really like it for the fact that it has a similar design overall the
screen looks a yellow because I have like the night mode turned on for you
know reduced blue light but I really like it for the fact that it is similar
build to a MacBook it's pretty much an all aluminum chassis really really great
keyboard feels really similar to a MacBook as well but it's super super
powerful it has a core i7 7700 HQ which is pretty much the top Intel quad core
processor right now for laptops it has a gtx 1050 which is fantastic because it
actually is optimized well for premiere pro so it'll do better than a macbook in
those cases 16 gigs of ram a super-fast 500 gigabyte SSD and nvme SSD even so
it's it's better than most and then it's also a convertible like so so it can be
converted into a tablet it's just a great machine and it's super affordable
and it honestly kills the maxed out MacBook Pro that I had previously to
this which was a fully SPECT 2016 15 inch macbook pro something that was
literally like $3500 very expensive and this guy it's about half the cost so if
you guys are looking for a best bang for your buck
video editing laptop especially if you're working in premiere definitely
check this guy out I'll do a full video talking about this year soon I know I've
said that but that will be coming but other than that I mean that's pretty
much all that is in this camera bag I mean I gotta say amazing bag I'm super
excited to start using it more it just got it from them so but as you guys can
tell I mean this thing looks clean I can tell you it is built nice it has YKK
zippers which is really great super super heavy-duty material I don't think
it's necessarily going to be waterproof but it's definitely going to be
water-resistant for the most part has some nice kind of recessed zippers of
course it's got the chest strap it does have a waist strap but actually kind of
tucked that away because I didn't want it has an
integrated rain cover that stuff down here in the bottom has these straps on
the bottom to stick a tripod in there if you want it so that's it so yeah that's
what I'm rocking in my bag for 2018 contrary to what some of you guys might
have thought I don't really carry a ton of gear I think there's sort of this
unrealistic expectation associated with filmmaking and photography nowadays that
you need like a shit ton of gear to like make it happen but in reality I don't
use a lot to create these videos no I mean obviously it's a little bit
different if it's something like a studio setup or if I'm doing commercial
work for a client but for the most part the kind of stuff that you guys see here
on my You Tube channel doesn't require a ton of gear so if you thought that you
needed all the best stuff and you need a ton of lenses you don't you can do a lot
with what you have you can do a lot with an iPhone to be honest so hopefully you
guys were able to take a little bit of value from this I think it's really
interesting to see these camera bag videos I mean I personally watch them
all the time I love seeing what different content creators are using and
for what reasons so but without being said I think I want to end the video
here thank you so much for got can't talk thank you so much for watching be
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