the question I get asked all the time basically every single time I fly is how
I travel with all this camera gear all these electronics.
so in this episode I'm
going to kind of walk you through how I pack for air travel camera gear for air
travel and like how it works at the airport as well so we're traveling or
air traveling today so I'm gonna pack up I'm going to show you how it works and
then I'm gonna show you how it works at the airport as well this is my camera
gift this is everything I travel with in terms of my camera gear aside from the
camera that's filming this my camera bag right here this is the Burton f-stop bag
I believe it's called I can fit all my camera gear in it camera goes in 100 to
400 goes in the drone goes in as well thirty five-millimeter F one point for
our F broken on two point eight fourteen millimeter fifty millimeter
drone controller like that now something really important I need to mention is
batteries lots of people put their drone batteries in their suitcase but you
actually aren't supposed to do that drone batteries and basically any
lithium batteries are supposed to come with you into the cabin so I have two
spare batteries for my Mavic pro I stick them in the side pouch of this bag and
then I've also got the battery for the Ronin-s which is down here and it slides
off once it's unlocked it slides off like that so that also has to go into my
bag I usually stick it also into the other side pouch of my bag and then it's
ready to go I have my laptop which is I'm working on so I'm going to pretend
the laptops there that goes in like this and then I flip that upside down up talk
with my headphones which I'm not gonna put them in there but they're there and
this is what flies with me on the airplane this comes with me on the plane
it weighs a lot when they checked it in it was 15 kilos so to get around the
painting the Fiji either have to be sneaky you have to beg them and say it's
Oh camera gear I can't check it where you have to pay a fine one of the
reasons I avoid Emirates Airlines is it because they are bad they're incredible
but they charge really really expensive overage fees on luggage so I don't go
with them in case I get caught whereas here in the Philippines going over on
like Cebu Pacific or AirAsia it only costs like five or six dollars extra for
a little bit more weight so it's no big deal
no I could also check the tripod this isn't my tripod this is Jodie's tripod
because mine is right there but I could if I want stick this onto my benig
there's no rule saying that you can't carry on a tripod you absolutely can
carry on a tripod I don't think I've ever heard of somebody being told you
can't take that on the plane so you can but I don't and yeah sometimes I do take
the Ronin if I want like cinematic footage as well I'll carry that on as
well and I'll just literally stick it under my foot I kind of feel like it's a
purse you know it's a personal item just like a woman that has a handbag or a man
that has a man bag it sticks it under the seat in the front I can do that with
the Ronin so I do do that sometimes but two keys when I buy a suitcase one of
the big things for me is the height of it because this is Jody's tripod that's
shorter but my tripod is a little bit tall and I need a tripod this on a
suitcase that fits all the way like that and then I literally just put my tripod
in like that tripods are tough but the one little trick I do I can find my shoe
it's a trick to protect the head because the bald head of the cameras / of the
tripod it's pretty vulnerable I'll flip this down like this and I'll literally
just stick my shoe on it something like that and that's going to protect the
tripod head if things get bounced around a little bit so then I get laid
like that everything's fine with the rodent I think everybody's a little bit
over concerned about stuff getting smashed in suitcases you find a suitcase
that has kind of a hard edge which this one does then you can just take your
ronan or something like this wrap it in a jacket make sure it's like really
covered up really tight nothing's gonna happen to that that's gonna be totally
fine same with the mic take my other jacket wrap it up
the mic stuff that's gonna be fine everything's cool and just goes in like
that I even put my filters in I just don't
want them taking up space in the top of my bag that I could put my headphones or
passport or stuff like that so I'll take another jacket or a sweater wrap my my
filters up and I lay them in there like that all of my little camera accessories
also go on the bottom of this bag and then I fill it all up with clothing just
to protect things a little bit better I've got this section for clothing as
well and that's essentially how I pack my camera gear for air travel we're now
have to go to the airport obviously things are gonna go down at the airport
so let's go
we just checked in and they didn't weigh my cabin baggage so we're good home for
security now when you go through security with camera gear you don't
usually have to take all the stuff out usually your laptop has to come out but
the cameras and lenses they usually stay in sometimes in Europe they do like a
more thorough check when there's camera gear in but you don't have to take every
piece out just the laptop so let's go through security
these border sign this thing that I've never ever beeped through security and I
still haven't one of the big tricks that you can do and I didn't do it today with
a good trip so you don't read I used to wear a jacket when you're going through
security you wear a jacket you just take everything out of your pockets and then
stuff your pockets because rolling your money their keys everything that way you
just take your coat off and throw it in the luggage you throw it in the security
bin and then you go through it's really quick and fast now the other thing the
other tip for traveling with camera gear is I'm just going to stop in the back
here is that I think it's important to get priority boarding because especially
in Europe and North America there's not a lot of luggage space in the top and
they'll try to check baggage but if you get priority bag boarding you can get on
the flight first you get on the plate first and you definitely can get your
camera gear up top if the luggage bins at the top are totally full
and you have to check your bag it's not a good thing so we always pay for that
priority boarding where we can
if you want to pay for that like priority seeing another trick is to get
seed to the back of the airplane because the back of the airplane always boards
first so you'll still get your luggage on board that way
okay we are in our rental car and I'm gonna end this video
traveling with camera gear it honestly it's not as scary as some people make it
out to be yes every now and then you get dinged by it costs but usually it's
pretty yeah it's pretty easygoing we're here on Cebu Island now we've got
a couple days of exploration I've got a couple videos from here coming up and it
should be fun I'll see you guys on the next episode peace
you