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welcome to Travel Feels.
Today we're gonna talk
about phone versus DSLR filmmaking.
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If you've looked at cameras at all
we all know that filmmaking gear
is really expensive
and I've been doing this for a long time now.
So I've kind of gotten used
to the prices so when
I'm reviewing things
or talking about different products
and I say it's cheap,
it might be cheap to me
but not necessarily cheap to you guys.
So many people comment
saying that's way too expensive or the prices
for that are way to high.
And well, to those people
I say you don't need it.
If you say it's way too expensive,
then you're not actually ready to have it.
Once you start working on projects
with actual budgets
and you're getting paid.
Then you're investing in gear
if you don't have the gear you can at least rent it.
The budgets will cover those.
You can rent the gear.
You can always get something that's decent.
You may not be shooting on the top of the line
cameras but you're gonna get something that's
gonna do the job and do it well.
If you're not getting paid at all,
well then you don't need an 8,000 dollar
camera or a 3,000 dollar camera even for that matter.
If you are getting paid then it's just an investment
in your company.
And rumor has it
there's a big give away going on.
I'm not doing it, but there's a big give away
going on that I'll talk about
at the end of the video.
So the moral of the story
is there's a camera for everyone.
If you're in Hollywood,
or you're shooting really high end commercials,
you're gonna be shooting on something like a Red
or an Alexa
and those cameras can cost all the way
up to 100,000 dollars.
Maybe even more.
If you're a filmmaker and that's your career
but you're not doing the high, high end
commercials then maybe you have something
like a C100 or a C300 like I have.
Or maybe you're just starting
out and you're shooting your first wedding
and you have something like
a GH5 or a Cannon 5D.
But most likely
if your saying it's way too expensive
then you just have something like
a phone to use for your filmmaking purposes.
And you're probably a hobbyist.
There's nothing wrong with that but I started to think
a lot about mobile phone filmmaking
versus DSLR filmmaking 'cause that's
what most of us are using.
Ether a phone or a DSLR.
Most people aren't using the really high,
high end cameras.
And the cameras on the phones
these days are crazy.
I think most of us take for granted that they can shoot
shoot 4K crazy slow motion.
Even the fact that they can shoot 24 frames per second.
That's a fairly new thing
that smaller format cameras
can do 24 frames per second.
I don't know why they couldn't do that before.
But they just didn't do that when
we filmed skate videos
way back in the day,
Cameras that we used were small digital cameras and they
didn't shoot 24 frames per second.
But the question is,
can a phone be a viable filmmaking tool and for who?
So I wanted to deck out an iphone
and really push the limits
and see what kind of quality I could get
out of just a phone.
And first off,
you need some better glass.
So Moment makes some really amazing lenses
and I would say they're probably the most
high quality lenses for mobile phone
photography or videography.
These guys
make a really good product and you can tell
right away when you pick
this thing up it's not some cheaply
built lens, it's really high quality
and I especially like this wide angle 18 mil lens.
It's really nice.
And they're super easy to use.
You just use their case and then you just
basically snap in the lens.
Just like that and boom,
you're ready to go you
have a really high quality lens
on your phone.
And one of the big things
if you're doing filmmaking on a phone
is that it's just so light
and flimsy and it's all shaky.
And footage, it isn't that nice.
So you need a stabilizer.
And I was actually lucky enough
to test out one of the new prototypes for the Mobie.
This is a new gimbal that just came out
yesterday I think form Freefly
and it's for mobile phones.
So if you don't know,
Freefly is kind of like the OG company for gimbals.
They were the first ones to make
really high quality gimbals for filmmaking
and if you go to any Hollywood
or high end commercial set,
you're gonna see Freefly's gimbals in action.
They are top of the line,
the best of the best.
And even though this is the prototype
it's not a final version so it looks different.
I was super excited to test this out and one of the big
reasons for that is not only the fact that
Freefly makes the best gimbals there are,
but this is a little bit different of a form factor
from what all the other guys are doing.
Everybody else is kind of doing the similar style thing.
But this is totally different.
So I went to out with my friend Isaak
and tested out this decked out iphone rig
and I was really surprised at the results I could get.
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First off the lens is from Moment
super high quality.
I really like the look.
That comes out of these.
I really like this wide angle lens
and when you pair it up with the gimbal.
You just get really cool shots.
And I was actually pretty surprised at what you could get.
With just this.
The gimbal is a different form factor
from all the other guys so I was really
curious t test it out.
And I was a little bit skeptical at first.
But actually I really liked this.
I feel that it's a lot more stable.
And I also like the fact that
you can put it down on the ground.
You can set it up like this
it makes it really easy.
Give yourself a break.
If you're tired just put it on the ground.
And it also,
as you do some other cool things like
you can put it down
and set up point A and B
and make a camera move form those two points.
And you can do time lapse with that same thing.
So you can actually do a cool
moving time lapse with this
thing and then it also has a hyper lapse feature which is
actually pretty cool.
I tested it out and I could see
some use for this.
Especially if you're making some cool
hyper lapses for your travel films
or anything like that.
It's a really thing.
And one of the big things I think with this gimbal
is the soft door, the app that it comes with.
It works really well.
There's a ton of different options.
There are different modes.
And different settings for each of the modes
so you can really
dial it down.
And that's where a lot of the other gimbal companies
fall apart, they're software just isn't
very good and it's not user friendly.
And if something goes wrong, it's really hard to fix.
Here you have tons of settings and options
but it's laid out nice and easy so it's easy to use
even though I was using it for the very first time.
I like how small this ends up being too.
I try to do some shots
that you couldn't do with another gimbal
especially with a bigger camera on it.
Especially something that only this guy can do.
There's definitely a place
for this and this set up
is only going to cost you
about 400 dollars
because you already have a phone most likely.
so this set up with lens and this gimbal,
only 400 dollars so that's not too bad.
I know that still costs something.
That's not too bad for this kind of set up.
Now the question is who is this for ?
Now it's obviously not for the professionals,
if you're shooting
big high end commercials,
you're not gonna be using this set up.
But this is a really good set up
for the hobbiest people.
Especially if you're doing some traveling
and you don't really want
to really bring more gear or or more stuff with you.
You basically just need
your phone, this little lens and the gimbal.
And you're good to go.
You barely need any extra gear.
So this is really for those hobbiests
that want to do some different videos.
Whether it's of vacations or just life in general.
But you want to step
it up a little bit.
You actually want some good quality footage that you
can watch later on and remember
those moments and not having
all that crazy shake and just
not looking that good.
Now will I be switching over
to this and making
all my videos on this set up?
No, it's not gonna happen.
Maybe some day but right
now DSLR's have so many advantages
over mobile filmmaking,
but for so many people,
this is the perfect kind of set up.
Especially, if you're just a hobbiest.
This is the kind of set up you want.
So definitely check out
the new Mobie form Freefly and the Moment lenses.
It's just crazy what you can do these days and
the best part is they're doing a huge
give away right now.
They're giving
away an iphone X
They're giving away a Mobie
They're giving away Moment lenses.
They're even giving away one of the Ryno roads
which I was just testing out
in Iceland with Peter.
They're just giving away a whole bunch of stuff.
If you're into mobile phone filmmaking,
so you can go and check the give away.
The links are down below.
May the odds be forever in your favor.
And remember as you get better
your gear is also gonna get better and more expensive
so you need to focus on your skills
and then along with that invest in gear.
But don't worry about getting
the best cameras right away.
Expensive gear will not make you an amazing filmmaker.
So focus on really mastering the craft
and then no matter what you're using,
even if it's a phone like this,
you're gonna be able to make some amazing content.
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