Good morning to you, how are you doing today?
Today's video is a little bit different, it's not a travel video.
I'm putting this video out, so I can put on my channel and direct people,
because people are, a lot of people are asking, what equipment do you use,
for your vlogging?
So today is, my basics. I will do one where I'm packing all the accessories and bits, extra bits,
but today is just, the basics.
So, first of all, camera,
this is a mirrorless,
Canon EOS M5.
Now,
the reason I like this, is it's so small, I mean it really is small.
I've got the one I'm filming this on, my
what I call my professional outfit, the one I've always used for years, is the Nikon D810 but it's big and huge.
For travelling, especially when you're vlogging and you know, you're trying to put yourself on the camera,
these little things are great.
The lens I'm using on it,
my, main go-to lens for vlogging,
is an eleven to twenty two, on a micro 4/3 so it's,
it's a nice wide angle,
and it's got a little bit of zoom on it, doesn't zoom up close, but it means I can close in on some scenes etc.
It's not a 4k camera, it only does 1080,
but it does shoot at 50 frames a second, so and in HD of course.
So that's my camera the strong points are,
that it's a, light and portable.
It's two weak points. You can't shoot in 4k
which, yeah, it leaves you a bit restricted in post if you want to do things.
But its biggest problem is its battery life because to go with the camera I need
lots of batteries, I have four batteries for this
they're all branded batteries the proper Canon batteries, not the copies which are cheaper,
but often don't last as long, but I need four of them
often to get me through a day's shooting which is a right pain because obviously with batteries
you then need the charger to go with it.
Now as far as I'm aware,
and I'm not going to invest in it for this system,
Canon don't do a multiple charger.
So if I shoot quite a lot during the day if I'm up early have a long travel
and I'm shooting everything I will often use
minimum of three or four batteries. Now that's okay because I've got spare batteries,
but I need them charged for the next day, so that means as soon as I get anywhere the first thing
I have to do is find a plug socket, plug the charger in and charge the batteries,
now the batteries take about 90 minutes to charge
and you can do the maths on three batteries.
That means, you know, I'm charging whenever possible, it is a bit of a pain, but there we go.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to upgrade and change my camera into a system that has that can do everything
I want is nice and compact
but has a better battery system because that is the weakness of these mirrorless cameras.
So camera, lens, batteries the second lens that I have with it is
an 18 to 150 also it's a native lens for the EOS system
that's a nice lens because you have got that telephoto zoom in it.
It's, I use it only on special occasions
and I tend not to handhold this
because with a wide-angle you can get away with a certain amount of shakiness in the video
now when you get to telephoto the
slightest shake in it looks like there's an earthquake happening,
so it is nice in that I can zoom in and get that effects sometimes of getting close to things that
that actually can't physically move close to
but I do try and set it up on a tripod if I'm using this 'cos hand holding
this or I sit the camera on a rock or something sturdy while I'm filming with the longer lens and
as far as my main camera outfit photographically goes two lenses, one body,
four batteries
and obviously the charger to go with it, the other accessory is a microphone now
the I would say the microphone on this
Canon is actually quite good for a lot of the time, but if there's any wind or any other background noise
so when I can I put on the microphone.
This is the Rode Videomic Go the battery this one, so it doesn't need any batteries.
It basically sits in your hot .. oops
sits in your hot shoe
and then you plug it into the
on the side one thing I will say you've got to be wary of
you've got to make sure that both are plugged in nicely because the slips out a little bit you lose your noise.
Plug in, plug in, and you're away
so
that's the outfit and of course the other thing you need lots of is SD cards, this takes the standard size SD. I
tend to favored because I can pick them up at a good price, and they're reliable the
SanDisk Extreme 64 gig
that being, a whole stack of them, so
that's my main shooting outfit, and that is what I would mostly vlog on and do all
my higher quality scene photographs on
with a charger, that's there.
The second camera I take with me is
good old GoPro. Nnow the one I have is a slightly older version now
we're still in a go, but it's still the good weather sir they
GoPro Hero 5 to 5 yes, that's two new ones out now.
The advantages of the GoPro is that also it's a bit smaller to take around
It's waterproof, which is really great built-in screen at the back now, which is really good the older GoPros
you got a stick a screen on the back extra this one has got
built-in screen
and I put it in this little holder, which is how can I mount on a tripod now the main reason
I use the GoPro for whether there's two things. I use it for one is what I call my motion lapses like
I'm going to ride in a motorbike or
I'm taking a ride somewhere where I want to do a long video that I then put in a time-lapse
I'll use this, I
can mount it on various mounts like a chest strap I can put on from going a motorbike you can then show you the journey?
I often try and use it or try and use it more for
time lapses for night to day
just set it up leave it and try to do somewhat interesting time lapses, so that's one thing I use it for. The
second thing obviously. It's great for is a rare in and around water. It's waterproof
It can go down to 30 meters so I can swim with it snorkel with it, dive with it, surf
with it and of course all the attachments mean I can stick it on the surfboard I can
melt it onto my wrist from diving
so it doesn't get lost. So it's good for that so it's an also extreme sport if I you know
doing something really rough and dirty where it's gonna get mucky. You can take the GoPro.
Also,
obviously to go with the GoPro
batteries
now the the newer GoPros is a GoPro 5 and I believe the six as well take the same battery these are much improved the
GoPro used to have like an hour battery on it now all these do about two hours, so they are quite good
but still if you're doing a day's shooting or you doing time lapses or doing three dives a day
or you're surfing from dawn till dusk
you need some air batteries so again three batteries no build pro
do have
thankfully a dual battery chargers you let take with me so when I get in I can put two of these in here two factories
at a time
like that,
plug it in and then it can go to a USB charger
which is also great because if I'm using my computer or thumbs on aeroplanes
which have a USB I can plug it in
otherwise I use an adapter that I'll get to in a second to plug in and charge two at a time
which I'll sleep with four batteries makes it a bit quicker.
So and there then obviously
they think microSD cards now because I like to film in from film in 2.7. K
and then put it down to 1080 to match my camera, but I can also form it fill for film in
4k on this camera so
with this camera only goes up to 1080 so I fill in 1080 and at the highest frames per second.
So I've got the most to work with
this I film at 2.7 K
which is not quite for it. We'll fill them in 4k, but then when I
put it into post I put it at 1080 50 frames a second to match the camera
so you don't get a change in the footage so
the SD cards I use I use the lexer 1800
to go in this because these will record up to 4k now if I'm lucky enough to upgrade my camera to a 4k camera
then the SD cards and I bill shoot every in 4k, which we great and again whole stack of
microSD cards for that
so
that's that so that's in terms of equipment my main go-to vlogging equipment my action and
dirty what I call dirty area water sand dust where it's gonna get really mucky that camera and
that is pretty much what I shoot everything on and
yeah, just there's two lenses, and I'll see the fixed lens on here other important accessories
Tripods now I have two tripods one. I take pretty much everywhere with me on every trip. Is this one the Joby Gorillapod
Now I put a ball swivel head on it, so I've got that flexibility
It's good
It's you can met
I have the camera on it and use it as a like a selfie stick and
It's quite light and portable for that you can use it as a tripod it strong enough to take
Both cameras on it quite easily and of course with this extra
Flexibility on the legs there's a lot you can do with these things
you know you don't just understand them on the ground you can go to a railing and
Wrapped around the railing so they get secured on all sorts of different things so there
That's a really good thing handy thing and they're quite light to carry around
Go
Not exactly small so depending on your camera bag you do have to work out how you fit it in
But it's quite nice and light the second month second tripod
I carry around with me whenever I can I do try and take this as well is a bigger basically full size tripod
But this is a Mon photo
special
Lightweight one if someone front of be free it's made of carbon fiber, but it does have a full
Extending legs you see oh
So you get a proper full tripod height on it, it's
obviously a little bit lighter so in some winds it can shake a little bit, which is not ideal but for
Usage it's brilliant, and if it weighs less than three pounds
Including the photo swivel head that I put on there
I
love this for you know those steady steady shots
I mean there is sometimes when you know that this little tripod,
it's just not tall enough when the right circumstances
or it's not strong enough in the wind
This was when I do my time lapses on the canon camera. I use this because it will sit nice and
Rigid it gives you the nice smooth footage so
Again to me for me an essential bit of equipment that gets used occasionally
The other thing is absolutely essential
Plug adapters
both plug adapters for different things obviously the cable for camera and
USB plug adapters now obviously when you're traveling what's our USB trap
do some research as to which countries you're traveling to and make sure you've got the right adapters and
A tip to remember that I learnt after my first trip was that don't just take one
Because obviously I take one adapter that fits into the local ones, and then you can put yours in
But then you can only charge one thing at a time
So you know at the end of the day?
I've got
Mckellen batteries to charge the GoPro batteries to charge so that's two things straight away, then I've got my phone
Where else do I have with me occasionally you have other random things, but you know already just with that
I've got three things. I want to charge, and if I've got one plug adapter that fits the local thing
I can only charge one thing at a time
So do bear in mind that if you're going to need you know if you're taking more than two things that need charging
You'll need more adapters now multi adapters are quite good
You get ones with different they take different and they receive different, but they're usually quite bulky
So I try and buy a couple of these smaller ones
Also, I find that I there's two things I break them
and I lose them I can forget them, so I tend to take some of the
multiple of the small multiple fitting ones
So yes, so they can charge my equipment at the end of the day before we get up the next day and start again
Now I think that sort of covers it
That's just keeping it to the basic just showing you the equipment so that I can post this video on my page as an extra
video for you guys, so you can see what equipment I use if you want some more information and details
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I will do a set of separate videos about how I feel other equipment
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Weekends for you rather than you know not mess with my normal travel
schedule
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