when you make travel videos there are a
few essential items you need to capture
the best travel video footage the following
are my 11 essential equipment items you
need to raise your travel videos to the
highest level possible the camera the
best camera you have is very important but I
would argue not the most important piece
of travel equipment that you have however I
wanted the best possible footage so
there were a few crucial features I
needed in a camera body
I wanted my camera to be able to film 4k
footage at 60 frames per second that way
I can slow down my footage and have it
look amazing and not look jumpy and
maintaining that high quality of 4k the
next thing I wanted in my camera body
was the ability to maintain focus on the
subject I am filming that way when the
subject moves my subject doesn't go all
blurry this is why I got the Canon 1dx
mark 2 yes it's a pretty expensive
camera body and it is a little bit heavy
but my main concern is excellent footage
so that way I was able to film something
4K 60 frames per second and with this
camera it follows the subject in focus
and if you aren't concerned about those
things then you can just go for a
light travel camera I used to use the Canon
5d Mark 3 and that is what I used solely
for my Ireland travel video like I said
it wasn't the most important piece of
equipment but if you are going for the
best it has a few qualities that can
take your footage and make it the best
the camera lenses more important than
your camera is the lenses that you use
to connect to that camera getting great
bouquet or background blur will make a
shot look more impressive than the
camera can itself in my videos 90% of
what I use is the 35 millimeter Sigma
lens with an f-stop of 1.4 first off
you need the f stop at one
four so you can get a ton of background
blur that always makes it the footage
look amazing
also the 35 millimeter is relatively a
lightweight lens and its field of vision
is close to our own field of vision so
it looks natural to us so it can get a
beautiful landscape yeah it also can get
close-up in an intimate shot the
downside is there's no zoom on this lens
so I also have a Tamron 70 to 200
millimeter lens with that 2.8 s ah for
all my close-up shots from a distance
but this Sigma lens is very important if
you want a naturally beautiful looking
shot DSLR camera gimbal here is footage
of me without the gimble and after is
footage with the gimbal no effects to
stabilize either or destabilize either
of this footage the newest ultimate
gimbal is the Ronin s to stabilize your
footage it makes everything so smooth
and has a relatively low learning curve
I learned in the first day how to use
this and this is unlike most other
stabilisation modes the battery on the
Ronin s lasts a long time and does tons
of tricks like gives you smooth panning
also to this point I have had trouble
getting low footage low camera footage
makes everything look big tall and
impressive which is very important for
travel videos because it gives it that
wow first time you've ever experienced
this feeling and this gimbal makes low
footage simple and smooth and makes all
my footage smooth it's a little heavy
but like I said I only go for the best
GoPro there is nothing better than
getting action shots then using a GoPro
as long as you have a GoPro Hero 5 and
up you will get great video
stabilization that they all offer to get
that good action shot footage now it's
also great is they offer that great
stabilization at high frame rates so you
can slow it down without losing any
quality without getting any of that
video jumping as
and increased stabilization obviously
newer GoPros have more bells and
whistles but at least the hero 5 for
your GoPro drone there are two great
drones on the market the phantom or the
Mavic having one of these is more
important than which one of these any
great travel video needs aerial footage
to capture the landscape and to set the
scene you can't go wrong with either the
Mavic or the Phantom at the time when I
purchased my drone the Phantom 4 was the
best but I'm not so sure about that
anymore the Phantom 4 is big and bulky
both the Phantom and the Mavic have a
following mode and both are great image
quality and both have a feature where it
rotates around a subject those are the
most important features so why not get
the one that is more compact slow-mo
isn't that important for drones because
you rarely slow your footage down in
fact if anything I speed up my drone
footage because it naturally just looks
a little too slow so in my opinion just
make sure you get the Phantom or the
Mavic I would not do one of the older
Mavericks though do one of the newer
ones or get one of the Phantom's either
way a drone shot is essential and I
recommend my phantom 4 or the new navi
pros backpack the backpack you get
should always be based around the drone
you have I have this backpack which is
the Manfrotto because it fits my drones
extra batteries a laptop and will even
hold my big Canon 1dx if I fit it in
right it also will hold my Sigma lens
and most everything that I use to shoot
with if you have a Mavic drone or no
drone at all I will link to another
backpack that I recommend for Mavic
users but a good backpack is important
for all the weight that you hold it
needs to have the straps to relieve the
stress off your back for those long
hikes and other things you'll be doing
and yet still fit all your equipment for
taking the great footage
the lowepro flipside 400 is a great
backpack as well and I will link to
everything that I talked about below
when searching for a tripod I look at
three main things how tall they are how
small they fold and what they use to
latch their legs with some people want
light weight or other things and that's
up to you
but I wanted my tripod to extend really
tall when filming yourself higher up the
camera angle from higher looks better
and you never know when you'll want
those extra inches to four that's that
ultimate shot some tripods come with
twist tightening latches and these suck
because you can't tell when the legs are
latched tight and if you make that
mistake once where you don't latch them
tight enough you break your camera your
lens I like the clip latches because I
can tell when they're closed now apart
from a tripod you're also gonna want a
monopod just get a cheap one I attached
my camera to it for hikes because it
will steady the camera when and I can
get a tiny slow pan from it as well
phone cameras phone cameras have a lot
of great qualities one thing I found is
they have great stabilization on the new
ones I have a galaxy marine and it's one
of my favorites for certain shots like I
was on a boat ride one time watching the
lava spill over and I was trying to get
it on one of my DSLR cameras my 1dx and
I just couldn't get it that smooth and
luckily I brought my iPhone camera along
and I was able to get some really
stabilized smooth lava footage and
everything looked beautiful and smooth
as you can see storage I bring my
computer and all my storage devices on
all my trips to back everything up each
night you never know when you're gonna
lose a card or a camera and so it's just
best to have it all backed up and you
will be super frustrated if you lose all
your footage from even just a day on
your trip also I like to really go for
amazing shots and sometimes I risk
losing my camera especially my drone I
always risk my drone for a great shot
and maybe that's because I seek
we want the Mavic but I also want all
that footage always backed up on storage
and that way I feel less conflicted when
I'm risking my drone for that great shot
so also on top of that I get a one
terabyte card for my camera that way I
don't have to always switch cards when I
run out of memory on the card I always
know where the card is going to be that
way
it's either gonna be in my camera or in
my card reader so I don't lose it plus
you will love the one terabyte with the
Canon 1dx at 4k and 60 frames per second
because it will eat up data actually
pretty fast because that footage is
high-quality and takes up a lot of
memory extra batteries there's nothing
worse than running out of batteries
while you're on a shoot with the one DX
I have three batteries and that's pretty
good other cameras I used I would go
through like four or five batteries a
day on my vacation always have extra
batteries for every device that you have
your drone your GoPro your camera
everything and that's important because
it seems that that money shot always
comes right when you run out of
batteries I also have chargers galore if
if you see my hotels and Airbnb s at
night you would just laugh we are moving
beds unplugging lights and alarm clocks
to occupy almost every outlet so we are
charging everything every night and then
I'm also backing up all my cars and so
it looks funny our hotel rooms maybe I'm
just paranoid
I get enough chargers so that I can plug
all my batteries in and I just fall
asleep and that way I don't have to
worry about changing them throughout the
night now as part of that you need
enough adapters for outlets if you're
going to be traveling to other countries
because you never know what kind of
outlets they're going to have so make
sure you have the chargers and the right
outlets for all of your batteries to
charge in one sitting in one night so
your GoPro mounting kit there are tons
of cheap kits that will give you
everything you need but the kit I bought
for my GoPro holders has chest straps
head straps a window connection
connections for other random things and
is important for when you need to use
both hands when you're climbing
something or when you're swimming or
when you're on an elephant if you have
the right mountings for your GoPro you
don't have to worry about getting
footage just turn it on and go the one I
will link to is pretty cheap now most of
my underwater footage is on my GoPro as
well now I have goggles that have a
GoPro mount and I also have a snorkel
and I like the snorkel a little bit
better because I can see what I'm
filming but if that's annoying for you
then you can just use the goggle mount
as well now sometimes I use my 1dx
underwater and I also bought a DSLR
waterproof bag and so if you use this I
haven't used it on a trip yet because
I'm gonna use it on my next trip but the
1dx will even fit in this water case
waterproof case and it's pretty big and
it will give you crazy
underwater footage for your Ease i
linked to everything i used for my
travel equipment below in the
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use for getting good vlogging volume and
quality that's pretty inexpensive you're
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some of this equipment that I use go
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