It's a bit blooming nippy today.
So the whole point in this video is basically to just quickly give you a rundown of
my vlogging setup. So I've had the Pocket 2 for nearly a year and within that time I've used it
loads and I've used different accessories with it. I've used different, yeah, different accessories
with it and I finally got to the point where I have got the setup that I like for quality in
video quality in the audio so I'm just going to run through what I use with the Pocket 2.
So the main thing is I, so I used to use this little
Manfrotto tripod which I just used to use with the phone holder. I've
got is the PGYTECH phone holder which is great because it's got a cold shoe mount on the top
but I soon came to find that when i wanted to use an external microphone the phone holder, having
the cold mount the cold shoe mount on the top wasn't actually great because you could see the,
you could see the microphone in the frame so I looked for a completely different tripod where I
could actually attach the microphone to the tripod and so I got the Ulanzi MT-33 which is great
because as well as it being, as well as it having that cold shoe mount on the side which
you can actually rotate so that the microphone can either be facing you or facing away from you,
if you were getting b-roll for example, it also acts like a GorillaPod almost, so you can kind of
wrap it around things and because it's quite big, I mean it's not massive but because it is bigger
it holds the whole setup without it falling over which is great, and so yeah I use that Ulanzi
tripod now instead of the little manfrotto one and as I said the PGYTECH phone holder,
and as my microphone of choice, so I've tried various different microphones
and because I already had the rode videomic pro plus that's the microphone that I use because
the sound quality is awesome it's just, it's just great, especially when it's really windy
and you use the furry windshield it just cuts out so much wind and ambient noise as well.
So that's the microphone that I use the other great thing about that microphone is the fact that
if you plug it into the camera whilst the camera is turned on then the microphone will turn on
automatically as well so you don't have to worry about attaching the microphone and then actually
not switching it on which I've done a few times with different microphones that require power.
But that microphone is quite pricey, I think it's over £200 so if you wanted to go for a microphone
which was say under $100, £100 then you could look at the Sennheiser MKE200 or the Rode VideoMicro,
both of which I've used and they also sound great as well. But yeah that's pretty much my setup,
I think it's awesome and it's what I've been using since I got my Pocket 2.
There was one other thing that I forgot to mention and that's the fact that
I use ND filters and I don't use the Pocket 2's wide-angle lens anymore because I want to use ND
filters at the same time and the only solution that there is for that is using the Freewell
pack of ND filters and lenses, so with that you get an anamorphic lens, a wide angle lens
and you can snap the ND filters to the back of those lenses which is awesome. So they're the
ND filters and lenses that I use. I also do have some Skyreat filters, ND filters. They're variable
ND filters so if i'm kind of, if I know that it's a day where it's really really sunny and I'm not
really bothered about having the wide angle lens then I'll chuck those ones on just because I can
dial in the exposure a lot quicker than having to switch out the nd filters, but for most of the
time I do use the Freewell ones and I have done a video about those so do check out that video.
So yeah I just wanted to do a quick video just to show you that just to show you
how I've got it all setup, and yes it definitely takes the Pocket 2 from being a very small setup
to something that's being a lot bigger but you could also kind of forgo the phone so you wouldn't
have to use the phone holder and you could just not use the phone, which I'm not even using at the
moment anyway because the Mimo app isn't working, so if you wanted to kind of strip it down and just
make it a bit smaller, you could just kind of not have the phone attached and then just attach the
Pocket 2 to the straight, to the tripod. But yeah that's it, hope you found it useful links are in
the description to all the things that i mentioned in the video, and see you on the next video.