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Hi, this is JP Morgan today on the slanted lens
I'm gonna talk about the five things I do to get my equipment ready for the new year
You know the holidays are over the grandkids have gone home the tree finally came down
But now it's time to get back to work and time to get my quiver ready to do that work with me
Number one this is gonna sound odd to you, but it really makes sense to me. I'm not a clean freak or anything
I'm really truly not
But I can't stand taking my lenses out of my case and there's dirt and cruds and grass
I mean we call these cases everywhere so the first thing I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna take every single thing out of my case everything. I want everything out of the case
every single thing
It's all gonna come out
As soon as I get all this out then I'm going to vacuum the case out
And I know that's a weird thing
But there's always stuff in all the corners in the little crevices of the case and I want all that stuff cleaned up
Number two as soon as I've got everything out of my case and I'm back in my case out
I'm now going to look at all my equipment. I'm gonna take each item and make sure that it's in good repair
It's cleaned up now. I'm gonna put it back in the case if it needs to be repaired
I'm gonna send out to get repaired if I need sensors clean. I'll get my sensors clean for example
I can't stand that when things like this end up in my case
It's a Mon photo plate
But it doesn't have the rubber strips on it so your camera slides around a circle on it
You can never make this tight so either. I find another rubber piece to go on it
Which I hope to do
Or it can't be in my case because I don't want anything in this case that doesn't work perfectly also
I've got step-down rings, and I want to make sure that I have a step-down ring
that's going to step my
Auntie lens here up to 77 or 82 and there's a problem right there that ring is bent that won't go on anything
That's got to be taken out. I've got to get another step-down ring, so I'm gonna make a note
So I'm gonna make a note step-down ring
All right I
also like to make sure I have these three things in my case always I
Want inserts that go from quarter twenty to three eighths I want a whole pile of those
I just bought these they just came from B&H
Because I want to make sure I have plenty of these in my case
I also want to make sure that I have the camera mounting screw and
That's what it's called camera mounting screw. I have extra ones of these so if one's gets lost off from one of my plates
I've got extra screws or if I want to put two screws sometimes in one I've got extra mounting screws
I want to make sure you always have those and then got all my equipment
It's all gonna go back in the case
But I'm gonna make a decision about each thing do I want this in the case do I want to keep it?
Or do I want to sell it that's number? Three is their thing is their things here
I just want to get rid of like just free me rubber duck
Do I want to keep that in my case no rubber duck goes now?
I put my lenses back in this order so during the when I'm shooting I know first one is a 35 second was 45 third
One is 85
Last one is 90 so it just it's easy for me to work that way quick for me to get these things get to them
Get on my camera and get going so now I'm gonna make a pile of things
I want to sell and I'm gonna sell one of my mark threes. Yes, I am
That's gonna. Go up on the side there because we're gonna sell on mark three and
Everything else gonna go back in my case so number three
figure out the things you want to sell and sell them it's gonna be important because of what's coming up next
number four
Label everything I know this is a crazy thought, but I'm on set all the time
She's using lenses with other people other camera people are on set or I'm just I lend a lens out or I rent a lens
occasionally, and I just want everything labeled, so here's how I label I
Have this little label machine p-touch. I print out a little JP Morgan and my phone number, and I'll stick it on my lenses
And now my lenses are all labeled I had these made forever ago, these are just simple little stickers
To say JP Morgan pictures my email and my phone number, and I will take these things off
I'll wrap these things around a cable at the end just like that I
Don't care that you can't see it all in one but if you look at it's all the informations there
So I'll wrap those around cables. I'll stick those on the cases
I'll put those on all you're doing bar parts and pieces here. It's interesting
It's really important to label your batteries
You know these are almost too big for your batteries being certainly for your small name with one of these label machines on your battery
Cuz it's interesting every time I get brand new batteries, and I'm on set with someone who has old batteries
I seem to end up with old batteries, and they seem to have newer batteries when we're done
I'm not sure how that happens, but somehow it does the last thing I do to label
I label all my stands everything I own has yellow tape on it and or and one of these stickers
so now I got yellow tape so if I get 10 C stands on set and we're on a
Stage somewhere, I get yellow tape on mine. I can immediately pull mine out, and I know which ones they are choose
What color works for you? I didn't use red because Sammy's has red on theirs. I didn't use
Blue because one of the rental houses we use a lot has blue
I chose a color that just was different than kind of everyone who I work with in the area
Nothing secret about yellow is just what was best for the area that I work in
so I'm still in the labeling things cuz I'm a label idiot I
Love this. This is my list of cases. I have one through
78 cases and I'm gonna review this entire list
Every case every case. I want to know what's in the case. I want to know that everything is taken care of that
It's all still there, and I'm gonna get rid of some cases you want to add some cases
I just got a new drone for Christmas yeah phantom 4 Pro
it's been a lot of fun to fly so I want to make sure I add that to my case list so if
Ever I'm gonna go out on location. I can just take this piece of paper
I quickly look on here and say I need case three six nine and twelve put those in the truck
And we're ready to go number five. It's time to update your equipment list so you can update your insurance. There's nothing worse than paying
Insurance to cover a mark three that you just sold on January 15th. That's ridiculous
Why would you pay insurance to cover this camera for the entire year when you already sold it or?
You just got a new camera
and it's not insured and something happens and
Didn't get on the insurance if you don't have insurance check it out for your homeowners
Or your renters insurance or you can go to Tom Tom Pickett?
Or there's several online gonna do a thing on insurance coming up in the year?
This is not just for a guy who has 78 cases or 150 cases or 1200 cases if you only have one case
Do this simple process to make sure it's all cleaned prepped and ready to go
And then get out there and shoot so remember when you're having to replace things and things you need
go to one of our affiliate programs through B&H or through Amazon you can pick up all those things you need to replace in the
coming year
They'll get you back on the road so get through this process get yourself organized and then get out there and shoot when the equipment
Is ready and the foundation is laid, it's a lot easier to be creative because you got everything at your fingertips
So keep those cameras rolling and keep on clicking
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Don't think I'm gonna sell this anyway
This either I'll sell this grid
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