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What's up there buddy Peter bikini here and welcome back to yet another video. And yes today we're talking we're chit-chatting about
monopods tiffin sponsored this video and they sent me both versions of their new monopod the
Steadicam air 15 and the Steadicam air
25 because I've been using monopods for so long
if you've done a video in the past of different camera techniques
You can accomplish on how to get nice steady shots using a monopod beyond that
It's got so many uses and this particular model makes a lot of those things way easier
To use and I want to show you that here today
Made for all professional camera uses up to 15 pounds
Hands-free foot pedal control with lens height they call it a gas-powered monopod
Great, hefty weight to this, you know when you get a product in hand
You take it out of the box and it feels like a little bit too light. You're like
Hmm. Hmm
This isn't bad at all not carbon fiber, so it's actually it mean it's hefty
It's very hefty, but it's light at the same time if that makes any sense at all. You've got several stages
you've got two stages here of
Deployment if you will so the first stage you're gonna twist and then that comes down, you know
It looks like your own two feet, which is great
So already this is like a pretty good height so that actually tilts down and up
But it sits in that little cradle when your packaging is so that sits nice and flush
Which I like if that gives you a really good range of keeping the base stable
But being able to use and move the monopod every which way you want. What's really cool is the locking
Mechanism down here at the bottom
Which they call their gas-powered monopod now when that's in place and you're using this monopod you don't actually have to bend down
Unscrew it. Pull it up screw it. Literally you just put your foot on this lever. You press it and
It actually deploys itself through
Magic it's magic
You want to bring it back down?
You're gonna push that lever again and you're gonna pull it back down now
It takes a little bit of force. You let go he locks back up and it's not going anywhere
That thing deploys on its own, which is great
So I think one of the features that's super cool about this is if you shoot video obviously
You can use that gas-powered lever as a camera move itself, and actually just hitting that lever
You're gonna get that nice smooth pan
Vertically throughout an event you're shooting photos or you're filming something and you just want to raise up a little bit
You only have to take your hands off. That's what's great about this
It's just super effortless very fast to use you want to stand up that's now been adjusted to your height
You want to go back down? You're gonna sit down its lock. You're good to go
So you can see how fast
Adjusting something like this is now until you're actually out in the field at some kind of event where this would be helpful
You're not really gonna grasp the full awesomeness of that feature. So where would a monopod or something like that be helpful?
Well, let's say you're shooting weddings if you're on the dance floor and people are dancing
they're moving around and you want to keep that camera as steady as you can or you want to keep that video as steady as
You can instead of it being shaky a monopod is the perfect tool for that
We're gonna set up an actual tripod and have three legs sat on the dance floor where everyone's moving like that's not gonna work
Another perfect example would be shooting something like a sporting event. You're on the sidelines
Do you want to run up and down you want to get around move?
But still keep that steady so you can track pan whip pan zoom all those types of things
You don't want a huge footprint and that's where monopod is come in handy
So what's kind of interesting about this is if you look at the two versions that they offer the 15 below and the 25 up
Top there's almost zero difference in size and footprint. They weigh almost exactly the same but the 25 can take 10 pounds heavier
If a camera package, which is great
so if you are shooting on a red or an airy or something like that the 25 pound option for you would probably be the
One you want to go with and it's still barely even heavy based on the fact that it's carbon fiber
Now that leads me to another point that I love about monopods and not just this monopod
But just mono pots in general and after doing this for so long
Your back starts to hurt
Like having so many Pelican cases filled with glass and metal and carrying cameras around and you've got a 1 DX or a pro body
Camera or any camera with a telephoto lens on it
You're holding it up in that like working position for a while. It starts to hurt
it starts to hurt your back and starts to hurt your shoulders a monopod gets rid of the weight entirely like all you have to
Do is hold one finger out to make sure it doesn't fall over
So having that weight removed
essentially just lets you shoot longer it lets it you're gonna last longer on a shoe and you're gonna feel better at the end of
It another fun fact about mono pods is they are easy to travel with doesn't call as much attention
It doesn't take as long to set up or break down. It's easier to throw in the overhead bin
It's just one you'd be surprised. It's just this
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Couple things I will note about this monopod that I am still trying to get used to that
I'm not the biggest fan of is is back with the lever and it's easy to press it by accident and it kind of extends
itself
When you don't want to come in with some sort of tripod head betta that you head or a photo head would be amazing
but that would obviously
Increase the price tenfold being that this is already full carbon fiber with that gas lift. We'll call it
It's already an expensive monopod, but it is probably the nicest monopod I've ever owned
Yeah
Actually, so guys that is basically it. I hope you learned something
Hope you enjoyed looking at the Steadicam err a monopod
If it's something that you're interested in, I will leave the links on the top line in the description
You can check those out see if that's something that's gonna work for you as a filmmaker or photographer
But it is something that I highly recommend. That's it folks
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Wrapped in plastic dexter style
Probably can't see it in the light because I suck and I'm holding it the wrong way now it's gonna be upside down
So let's just forget that
And now you can ought to get thumbnail
If you're shooting photos and you're at an event or you're shit myself in the face
That's terrible that's
Actually really bad, what did I do wrong
I've made our press a thousand times that seriously sucks
Yeah
So it's actually quite phenomenal. I just said it was bad because I knew it would be like a really
Anticlimactic, but yet still climactic and to the b-roll sequence to the question, which was probably why is this dude making arrow?
Press in the woods by himself. So the the spit out worked. It's it worked. You know, it worked
Stop looking at me
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