Going to the Manfrotto press event today
but I'm not going to be shooting with the iPhone again
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So I borrowed a D500 from my friend which is
recently Nikon the best DSLR
apart from the D5
14-24mm f/2.8!
Now I have to set it up -- haven't used it for a while
Testing, testing
Alright, all set!
And I'm bloody late, actually
Today, I've come to a Manfrotto press conference
Lighting sponsored by Manfrotto, obviously
A very tall model from Gitzo
And another very tall model with large stickers on her arm
This is the first conference I've attended post-DigitalRev
Although I met someone from DigitalRev
Elton!
Elton you won a whole tripod!
Holy, holy crap
Because, the thing is
because I was late, I didn't put my card in there
You should've just run up, "Oh I didn't have my card" and put it back
Yeah!
Full-feature light tripod
Our DigitalRev Chinese editor
This is the one that Elton won
I actually should review it his one then
This really small and light tripod got a really good fluid head for video
It got a quick leveling head
and yes, it is pretty good for the size of this
And as a light tripod, supposedly you can
You can make it to this small
Easily fits into most camera bags
So, for a light tripod like this, it's reasonably like eye-level
There's a hook at the bottom, you can hook your bag on it
and now it's really stable
And how low does it go?
That's pretty good, other than because it's obviously for smaller cameras
You don't mount a RED camera on it
but this is good for a lot of like even 5D
Elton's playing with this giant of a Lei... errr Leica? Tripod!
Giant of a Leica... what? Giant of a tripod!
Yeah you can walk through it!
I like keep doing this
Funny that this is supposed to be the most professional product of the day
but then I had the most fun with this product!
This is the first time I attend a Manfrotto media event
Will I just break something?
No, it's not about the tripod, it's just not locked properly
It works!
So back in when I was in DigitalRev, we had a Gitzo
and I liked that a lot
Obviously this is one of the carbon fibre legs, nice carbon fibre
So good to touch
Apparently, it is a carbon exact...exactly
Basically it's got a more dense carbon fibre thing, it's just stronger
I know a lot of people like those where you just flip a lever to unlock it
but I find those a lot of time I hurt my finger into the flip
When I don't look at it, I don't know which side should I flip it
I like this because you don't even have to look at it
You just twist it and then it unlocks
It's not anything slower than a usual flip lever
Twist it, lock it
It comes with 2 different legs, you can just swap it yourself
This is for like flat floor, that's for like grass and sand environment
Now, this I think -- this is the most good-looking phone mount
It's just like a pack of chewing gum
You can easily put it in pocket
Made in Italy
It's called TwistGrip because you twist it
And it's metal! I like that a lot
Now, you can put your phone
You unlock it at the dial at the back, pull it out
put your phone in, screw it back...that's it!
And there's a hotshoe mount on the top
LED light
And do Facebook Live, something like that
So this is those self-standing monopod thing
It's pretty good, pretty good isn't it?
This is a Manfrotto one, not those China brand copycats
If you use one of these, you know how good this is
It's really good for like, video panning
For a short while, you can just hands off - it won't fall
Even with a DSLR on the top
This one goes up to...
Now this is why I don't like this kind of switch
I was going to flip it this way
But anyway, at least this is a pretty good one
It's really chunky, like [switch noise]
It goes up to higher than a normal person!
And like this
This is the perfect height to...you just sit down like this and then keep shooting
There's a lock here
There's another lo(c)k! [laughs]
Unlock it, you can -- it's not really for you to do like Dutch angle
but for like quick levelling
So that's it for this Manfrotto press event thing!
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