Hi everybody,
welcome to another episode of
Exploring Photography right here on AdoramaTV.
I'm Mark Wallace, and you're
probably asking yourself what the heck
is he doing all sweaty, and the bright
sunlight in the middle of the desert...
Good questions, I'm actually out here
with my good friend Matt Madrid, he's
behind the camera right now,
and we're shooting all day doing some
motorcycle shots, some slow-mo shot
stuff for AdoramaTV,
and we need to be able to
check our footage make some quick edits.
Make sure that we're getting everything,
because we only have one day to do all
this stuff, and we are shooting a full
day, and so the savior of the day is this.
This is my Tether Tools on-site power,
and my Tether Table.
We have basically set up a portable
workstation in the middle of nowhere.
The key to this is the power,
so this is on-site power, right?
Here, this is a gigantic battery that
powers this little guy right here.
This gives you AC power,
so you can plug in small electronic
devices like a laptop,
and you can charge your USB devices.
So I've got my Osmo Pocket charging.
I've got some GoPro batteries charging.
I'm keeping my iPhone charged.
All of that works off of one gigantic battery.
So let me take this battery off really
quickly to show you exactly what you're getting.
This is a tether tools on-site DTaP
V-mount battery, now V-mount
batteries like this have been an industry
standard for years, and so they're
incredibly popular because they pack a
lot of punch.
This battery is a hundred and fifty watt
hours, and it can also output to a USB
port, which is on the side here, for five
volts, which means really fast charging,
but the way you can use this, there's
really two ways, one is to mount this on
a Tether Table like I've mounted it,
or you can also use this.
This is a Tether Tools Versa V-Mount Mount,
and so this attaches securely to that,
and then what you can do -
this has a 5/8 inch plug here...
so you can put that to any kind of
standard 5/8 inch rod system,
you can hang this from a tripod,
you can put a super clamp on there...
on the other side of this, there's some
velcro strips so what you do is...
you take this little AC power port,
and you would put that on
that side, so the entire thing is just
hanging wherever you want that.
You can do that or...
you can mount it to the Tether Table,
which is what I've done and
so there's a V mount that you can attach
to the bottom, and then your AC port just
mounts to wherever you want that,
that comes on and off, and so you can put that
on the front, or on the back,
and then you can charge all of your
portable devices.
So you can plug in AC powered things
like laptops.
You can plug in USB powered
things...
so I've got an Osmo Pocket, my
iPhone, I'm charging my GoPro batteries
off of this, all at the same time.
You can't charge a television or
something that's going to draw a lot of
power, but all your laptops
and things like that can be
charged off of this for hours,
and that makes a huge difference when you're
shooting all day on location.
So let's take a closer look at exactly how this
is set up.
Now that I've securely
attached my battery to the V mount on
the bottom side of my Tether Table,
I can plug my D-Tap to AC power supply into
the D-Tap on the mount itself,
and that means that it's going to be
taking the power from the plugs on the
battery not the D-Tap on the side.
So I get maximum oomph from the battery.
The maximum wattage, the
maximum voltage.
So I can really charge
things up quickly, and then it can't be
any more simple than just plugging in
your power supply,
just like you would a wall outlet,
and on the side you have
your USB ports.
There's a switch to turn
this on and off to make sure you don't
drain the battery throughout for
extended periods of time.
That's it!
The other thing I might want to mention is,
that this comes with this little mount
here, which you can then just slide...
this AC power supply on to the front,
or the back of your Tether Table.
It's also velcroed on there,
so if you want to use that,
the other mount that I showed you
previously, you can just attach that
using the velcro strips.
So it's really really versatile,
and once you're done if
you're going to a different location,
you can top off the power to your battery
using a car adapter to make sure that
you always have juice on the go.
Well that's my on-site power supply
workstation solution for shooting all
day in the middle of nowhere.
I hope if you're doing a lot of remote
shoots you find this useful for yourself.
You can check all of this out in the links in
the description of this video.
If you want to know exactly what
each piece of gear is.
Make sure you check those out,
because I've listed all of those out
just for you.
Thanks so much for joining me.
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next time.