Hi this is Cyrus Sutton and I'm here for Adorama Learning Center.
Today I'm going to talk about my kit. My everyday carry in terms of camera equipment
You know for commercial jobs, and stuff like that, I'll rent larger cinema
cameras but when I'm traveling or just on the road every day
I always carry with me a Sony A7S ii and a variety of accessories to support that camera.
Ok, it's mirrorless, so it's compact.
It's pretty light, which is great for me when running and gunning,
I'm on the road a lot.
It's got a full frame sensor which allows me to get a great depth of field.
It has an amazing low-light capability. It's got an image stabilizer in the
sensor which allows me to use older lenses.
So for lenses I have a pretty wide array. I like to use mostly prime lenses.
Prime lenses tend to be faster and a little sharper than zoom lenses
but I also have a zoom lens which is a cannon image stabilizer 28 - 300, which I shoot
surfing or wildlife stuff. That image stabilization and there's the bulkiness
and heaviness of that lens really allows me to get handheld shots,
that I really can't get with my primes.
Accessorize it. Put it on a shoulder rig which gives me
three points of contact to help stabilize the image. I have a tripod,
a mono-pod, also a car mount is a really awesome way to get kind of tracking
shots, where they're going faster really slow and offer some unique angles and
then a gimbal. Gimbals are a really cool tool.
They're sort of like a motorized steadicam. A lot of people have gotten
used to over the years and allows you to get some pretty unique tracking
following shots of subjects and then just nature scapes when you're moving
through the scene really fluidly
They're not perfect and they have a lot of glitches sometimes they don't load
correctly or sometimes they don't boot correctly and find the satellites but
when they work they're really awesome.
Audio is something that is any filmmaker will tell you is equal to the picture
and capturing really good interviews or natural sounds
is super important to any production,
so yeah one of my favorites is is using a Lavalier for interviews.
I use a wireless Sennheiser and that really allows me to capture both
sit-down interviews like I'm wearing now and in this kind of setting or Varitek
where somebody's walking around and maybe conversing with somebody else
or moving through the frame doing something that they would normally do in their
daily lives and then I also love to have a shotgun. Shotguns are great for a
B camera or a back up, getting nature sounds. Getting people kind of in the context
when you want to have other sounds in the background you know
shotgun mics are pretty great. They don't isolate the sound of a
speaker as much as the Lavalier mics do but they are unidirectional so you
really do focus on what's in front of them which is cool.
Finally the tool that a lot of filmmakers and photographers are really
getting excited about is a drone and it just opens up the playing field, I mean,
in film school everybody learns that the establishing shot really sets the scene
it allows the viewer to get a spatial awareness of where you're at and what
you're doing. There's nothing like getting above a landscape or getting
above a certain location and being able to see everything and the movement that
they offer with the stabilized gimbals, that operate on satellites,
it is just incredible.
I personally use for the everyday carry kind of stuff;
the 3D R Solo drone. It is really user friendly drone it has a lot of, kind of
preset features that allow to to be operated independently, pretty easily.
Another thing you know I've had a long history with GoPro and they're just
incredible cameras. Their new Hero Session is so small you can put it
in underneath places and get interesting angles that cut well with DSLR
or any kind of footage you want.
So yeah, that is kind of my gear that I use on a day-to-day basis, if you want to
learn more about any kind of film-making or photography tips you can check out
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