hi-yah. Now with a new year a lot of the time it means a new outlook on life and
wanting to improve just like Mike your fitness or yourself but a new year
doesn't always have to mean improving an aspect of you it could well be down to
improving your photography.
There are loads of lifestyle and fitness vloggers
out there and if you are looking for a camera that will allow you to create
content easily quickly and on the go the Fujifilm X-A7 vloggers kit will do
just that in this kit you get the Fujifilm X-A7 camera and the 15- 45mm
lens which is an absolutely great everyday zoom lens. So headline specs for
this camera 24 megapixels up to 6 frames per second 4k video recording at 30 and
if you want to find out any more about the techy spec then check out in the
description below a link to the first look video me and Ian filmed last year
So in the blogger kit you also get the Joby 1k gorilla pod gorilla pods are
great for being flexible but also quite hard wearing and sturdy
It's got removable ball head too and it is guaranteed to be able to take the
weight of your camera and also the other accessories you get in the vloggers kit
because it can hold up to a kilogram camera lens itself only 455 grams so one
of the major benefits of this gorilla pod from Joby is the fact that it's got
flexible rubberized legs so if you're struggling for height just from the fact
that the legs don't extend in the normal way you would assume them to do on a
tripod you can wrap them round and attach them to any kind of surface so
that could well be a bench like I'm doing here just I've got a slightly
higher shot than the floor it could be a tree I'd probably do it on a tree or if
I could reach one of the branches or anything at all so I'm going to do is
take the opportunity with Mike running is to just get a selection of shots of
him just running up and down doing some exercise techniques I may join in I
probably won't join in and then I will edit them together into a little
sequence so you can see what I've got ok Mike do you wanna a go
straight line lovely thank you I'm a cheerleader
this kit also comes with the rode Videomic Go microphone one of the great
things about this not only is its size so it's small it's super lightweight as well
perfect for the small camera that you've got we've also got an integrated
suspension cradle on here too which is this red bit the nice thing about that
is it will stop any of those annoying knocking or tapping noises that might be
recorded without it so how did you connect it to your camera well in the
box you also get this cable that will plug into the mic jack on the camera
itself once you plug that in it's great and you are ready to point shoot record
go get all your sound there's no battery so it will just draw power from the
camera and if you're like me and you have trouble remembering if you've turned
everything on or off there's no on/off switch either so as soon as you hit
record on the camera this is going to be up and ready and working one of the
other great things about having this rode videomic go that comes in the box
of this vloggers kit is the fact that not only is it a lightweight microphone
but actually it will enhance your audio massively when it comes to your vlogging
or video recording so I think it would actually do a little bit of a test for
you rather than just me talking about it and you having to take my word for it
I'm going to do a little clip of me talking with the inbuilt microphone and
then I will flip back to me using the top mic which I have currently got on
there right now before we show you that remember to like
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content back to you Lizzie for the purpose of this little audio test I have
come to you a slightly I guess noisier well closer to a road anyway so
currently I'm using the top mounted microphone so the Rode Videomic Go and
I'm hoping that when you are listening to this and when I watch this back I'm
sounding nice and crisp and clear even though there's some ambient noise going
on in the background why you do now is just switch to the inbuilt mic to give
you an idea of what it sound like without this one
so this now is me using the inbuilt microphone on the pitch film X a7 I may
be slightly drowned out from the noise of the traffic behind me in front of me
the bell dinging right on cue as well
the bus coming behind me with the
shotgun microphone I'm not talking any louder than I would normally talk and I
should talk while the bus drives past me this now means I need to wait until
another bus drives behind me to unplug the microphone and use the inbuilt one
Its been two days I'm still waiting for another bus to come past for the
comparison good thing I've got a 16 gig card in here can record for days as if by
magic I haven't waited a long time but here is another bus now coming behind me
and I am using the inbuilt microphone on the Fujifilm X-A7 and if you can hear me I would be amazed
I wait all day for one and just as you hit stop
three buses huh oh Bath
The memory card
you get in this kit is the Fujifilm 16 gigabyte high-speed SDHC card this has
got a transfer rate of up to 95 megabytes per second absolutely perfect
if you are recording your 4k video or you want to be shooting bursts so the
memory card you get in this vloggers kit is amazing lots of space lots of speed
but if I did want to quickly transfer my image across because I just can't wait
to upload it to social send it in an email send it to a friend then I can do
that using the Fujifilm a camera remote app which I have got on my smartphone so
there are a couple of photos and that I do want to capture today while I can and
I probably will instantly transfer and upload to Instagram just to get my
little social fix of the day
This is a pretty cool I guess
two-way alley street where I'm going to try and capture a nice moody picture so
for this my I guess preferred a shooting style is black-and-white or monochrome
if you want to call it and one of the great features about all of the fuji
phone cameras aren't their film simulation modes so I'm gonna put this
one into a black and white film simulation mode just so that I can
capture kind of I guess a bit more of the street as the sky is slightly blah
at the moment there are no clouds there's no definition it's kind of just
a bit of a a cold sky so I'm going to switch to monochrome
and take a shot so here what I've got lined up is a nice lamppost
not this one one just here the light is on as well so if I hopefully
exposed correctly I can get a nice kind of sheen on the street from the
black-and-white as well as the buildings and then have it all drawn into the centre
point just at the end there as well
okay so one of the nice things about this and the fact that I've got such a
large wide screen on here to - I do love shooting widescreen
actually going to line my shot up first once I've got my shot lined up I can tap
on the touch screen and I can select the film simulation mode that I'm after so
if you go for the film canister shaped icon it will take you through all of
them so you've got all the Fuji's so classic chrome you've got Velvia which
is one of my absolute favorites for pops of color I'm gonna go with standard
Monochrome just black and white and on here we have also got I guess a preview
screen you might call it I cannot remember what the technical name for it
is but it allows you to have a split screen so you can see your image half
the film simulation that you want to select and half what you've currently
got is set to so it will just allow you I guess to decide on which mode you really
want this one's going to look best for the scene that's done that it's just a
case of taking a photo
Quite like that one its come out quite nicely one of the great things about the Fujifilm X-A7
as well is that I do have Wi-Fi transferring to their apps I've got the
app on my phone what I'm going to do now is transfer this photo across and upload
it to my Instagram account
and as simple as that so if you would like to get your hands on the Fujifilm
X-A7 vloggers kit or find out any more information head on over to Jessops.com
now or pop into one of your nearest stores where one of our experts will be
more than happy to help if you're going to get into vlogging this year then I
would love to know what it is so please pop that in the comments below
and thanks for watching I'll see you in the next one