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- Hey guys.
Welcome to Travel Feels.
Today is finally that day,
we are traveling again.
It's been a long time since I traveled,
and a lot of that has to do with the fact
that we had a baby and all that stuff,
and I didn't want to miss the birth.
Then I didn't wanna miss
the first few weeks of his life,
and so I haven't been traveling,
but now we are traveling.
I am heading to Norway
with my friend Samuel.
He lives there.
Super cool guy.
He's an Instagramer.
You've probably actually seen him in a bunch
of my video clips already,
but you guys are gonna meet him.
So I'm really excited to be traveling again,
but there's one thing that I hate about traveling
as a filmmaker
and that's gear.
There's just so much gear,
and I hate traveling with a lot of stuff,
and it just gives me a headache and stresses me out.
Literally the biggest thing
that stresses me out about traveling
is whether or not I'm gonna get my bags through check in.
That's what stresses me out about traveling.
Nothing else.
That's what stresses me out.
So really when I'm traveling,
I'm trying to keep things light.
I'm trying to cut out all the extra stuff
and just have what I really need.
Of course still thinking about backups
and stuff like that,
but still trying to keep it to a minimal amount.
So for example,
I don't usually travel around with my 7200.
I just don't use it that often,
and it's a massive lens,
takes up a ton of space, it's really heavy.
It's not really good for hikes and all that stuff.
So there's little things like that
that I'm taking into consideration.
And so let's start off this video
just looking at what gear I'm bringing to Norway.
This is a little bit messed up.
Alright so first off I'm shoot on the Canon 1DX Mark II.
Canon Canada gave me this camera on loan
so I'm testing it out.
I wanna see how good it is.
There's a lot of really talented people
using this camera,
and I've seen a lot of really cool footage
come out of this camera,
especially the slow motion.
So I thought I'd give it a test,
see what it's like,
and then I can do a little review for you guys too,
and tell you what it's like and who it's best for.
So right now Canon 1DX Mark II,
and then a 16 to 35,
I'll show you guys.
So here you go.
Canon !DX Mark II.
Canon 16 and 35 lens F2.8
and Rode video microphone.
And of course the bendy tripod Gorilla pod
works perfect.
I don't know how Peter vlogs with this camera.
It's super heavy.
It's big.
But it's pretty high quality,
so I'm really curious to see is it worth it.
Alright so what else do I have with me?
Here is my camera bag,
and there's actually not much in it.
Basically what's on the camera
is what I'm taking with me.
I am taking an extra lens,
the Sigma 35 mil, 1.4.
This is a really nice lens.
One of my favorite lenses.
Really nice on a full frame sensor.
I really like it.
And I do have this interesting little
secret lens.
It's this old school little lens
that I just bought.
It has really interesting bokeh.
I'm planning on trying to use it a little bit in Norway,
so stay tuned for the result.
You actually have to use this little adaptor
to get it on a Canon 'cause it's
I don't even know what mount.
But yeah I'm gonna be trying that out a little bit.
But that's basically it.
I mean I know that Samuel's gonna have
some other Canon lenses,
so I'm not too worried.
Usually I take a little bit more stuff,
and usually I take a backup camera.
But this time in not shooting for a client.
I'm just going by myself.
So I don't really care.
I'm not gonna take a backup camera this time.
We'll see if that's a bad idea or good idea.
And of course we have ND filters,
super important.
You cannot film a travel film without ND filters.
You need it for the nice cinematic shutter speed.
Make sure you have ND filters.
And then we just got filter rings.
You don't need to buy a whole bunch of ND filters,
you just use filter rings.
Put em on whatever lens you need.
Passport, halls 'cause I'm still sick,
mints, snacks,
you always gotta have snacks.
Make sure you have snacks when you're traveling.
So that's pretty much it for the camera bag
other than batteries and memory cards
and that kind of stuff.
For stabilizer,
I was thinking a long time about this.
Should I take a gimbal?
I have a MoVI M10.
Should I take one of those smaller handheld gimbals?
And none of the gimbals really fit what I want to do,
so I'm just bringing a good old fashioned glide cam.
It always works, never fails on you.
It won't break.
It's really easy,
nice and simple to pack away.
You don't have to worry about it.
You can just throw it in.
The baby's crying.
I should probably check up on him.
Alright he's good now.
Next for audio I have the Rode VideoMic Pro,
which is on top of the camera.
Perfect little microphone for vlogging
and getting that extra little bit of audio.
Baby's still crying.
And then I have a Zoom H4N
and a Rode NTG3 Mic.
I'm planning on doing a little interview with Samuel
for this epic travel film, profile film.
So I'm bringing this along.
I'm not gonna be using this on my camera,
I'm just gonna be recording the audio separately.
Then we're taking a drone.
Of course you have to have a drone on a travel film.
We are taking the Phantom 4 Pro.
I actually really like this drone.
I think it's by far the best DGI drone in this size.
Obviously the Inspires are better quality,
but this is really high quality actually.
All the other DGI drones are like okay video quality,
but this one's really good.
And I really like,
I really like that the controller comes with a screen.
This is a life saver.
I really like it.
I was always forgetting the iPhone cord,
and I just hate hooking up my iPhone to the controller.
I think this is worth the money.
To go along with the drone,
of course you need filters.
ND filters.
Any camera you're using, including your drone,
you need ND filters when it's really bright outside
so you can keep the right shutter speed.
And especially for drones.
If your shutter speed is way too high,
you get a whole bunch of this micro jitter grossness.
So you really need an ND filter to cut that out
so the shutter speed isn't so high,
and you have it at a more reasonable amount.
Now with drone filming,
I'm not so caught up that it's exactly
double the frame rate,
but just a little bit closer at least
so it's not crazy high.
And I have some cool new filters that were sent to me,
these ones by Sandmarc,
some ND filters.
Testing these out.
Then we have some other ones by Polar Pro.
Actually just saw these guys on the Shark Tank show.
Pretty interesting.
So yeah there's a whole bunch of ND filters there.
Really curious to try these out,
and they also sent me a lens cover.
Interesting.
Maybe I should put that on actually.
So that's the drone stuff.
Make sure you have your filters.
I like the Phantom 4 Pro plus version
I think that is.
And then we have editing and data and all that stuff.
Make sure you're always carrying an extra hard drive.
Probably two just to back up your footage.
I like to keep one in my camera bag,
and then one in my check bag or somewhere else
so they're just in different places.
So if one bag gets lost,
I'm not losing all of my footage.
And I just got the MacBook Pro 15 inch,
the new one.
I think I showed this to you guys before.
So I've been trying to figure out
what kind of dongles I should bring
'cause this thing doesn't have any ports
except for these USBC ports.
So there's a few different options that I've gotten.
I actually got this dock case sent to me.
I think they're actually doing a Kickstarter right now.
It's really handy.
It's like a sleeve for your laptop,
so you stick it in there,
but then when you're not using it as a sleeve,
you take out your laptop, put it on top,
and then you have all these ports on the side.
It just hooks in.
So you have HDMI and USBC and USB
and microSD and normal SD card slots.
Just everything you need.
So this is really handy,
but I don't really wanna use this for traveling.
This is more when I'm at home in the city,
traveling around over here.
But I found that this little guy,
I don't even know who makes it,
Siteshi?
This little guy's pretty handy.
You just plug it in,
and then you have the little SD card slots
and microSD and USB slots.
All that stuff.
So this is what I'm traveling with.
Again, keeping in mind,
the less is more, save some space.
But this is really handy in the city
because it's a two in one.
It's the sleeve and all the ports all in one.
So I really like it.
You can check this out,
link in the description.
So that's pretty much it for what I'm taking on this trip.
I think.
Yeah other than my iPhone and case
and new app coming out real soon.
I've been teasing it a little bit on Instagram.
It's pretty cool.
It's coming out soon.
So yeah I'm really excited for this trip.
I haven't traveled for a little while now,
and Norway is just one of the most amazing places.
I've been there two years in a row actually now,
and I really like it.
It's probably one of my favorite countries in the world.
If you don't want kind of one
of those beach vacation things,
then Norway is a really, really good option.
Really cool scenery.
If you like hiking and really epic scenery,
Norway is the way to go.
I'm hoping I'll get to share some of that stuff
with you guys in these next few videos.
Alright so I got to pack this stuff up
and head to the airport pretty soon.
Let's do this.
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Bye bye little baby.
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Alright so the worst part about traveling is over.
I have made it through with all my gear,
and we are off to Norway.
Not a Booster Juice ad,
but I like Booster Juice.
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Alright so now it's just time to wait.
Everything is good.
I like to come to the airport nice and early.
I'm not one of those guys who comes in like last minute
like Casey Neistat.
I don't know how he does that.
That's so stressful.
I like to come nice and early,
take it easy, and not have to stress with anything.
But yeah I don't know why gear
stresses me out when I'm traveling.
It just seems like so much stuff.
Is it gonna through or is it not?
Are they gonna let me take all these bags or not?
I usually try to push a little bit
on the carryon side,
so maybe that's what stresses me out a little bit.
But really when you're traveling,
you want to think about what you absolutely need,
and then you also want some backup stuff just in case.
Like for example,
if you're doing an actual project,
you have a client,
you wanna bring a backup camera just in case
'cause you never know what's gonna happen.
Something could happen to your camera,
and then you're screwed if you don't have another camera.
In this case I don't have a client or anything,
so I'm not too worried.
It's all good.
But think about what you really need
and don't take everything.
'Cause a lot of times I find
I bring all this stuff,
and then I don't even use most of it.
I really only end up using one lens,
and I just don't use most of the stuff that I bring.
I really only need a stabilizer, a camera,
microphone, and a good lens that I really like.
And I like to stay on the wide end so.
But man this thing gets heavy.
I don't know how Peter does this.
How do you do this Peter?
This is really heavy, this camera.
I wish you guys would see how big this thing is,
and I wish you guys could feel
what my bicep is feeling right now.
It might be getting a little bit shaky as time goes on.
Maybe I should rest it on here.
Does that look funny?
Maybe.
But yeah this is gonna be a really fun trip.
I think,
we don't really have anything planned out.
Me and Samuel are just gonna go to Norway,
grab a car, and just road trip around.
There's just so many cool places in Norway
which you guys will see.
So it's a really good place to just road trip
and just explore from place to place to place.
Aw man my throat is still killing me.
I hope my voice gets back to normal real soon.
Alright so next time I see you guys,
I'm either gonna be in Iceland,
'cause we have a little stop there,
or I'll be in Norway.
So see you later.
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