This is the first setup that I had it for the hands-on videos at the camera
shop. The focus here was something as small as possible. I didn't know what I
was getting into. Trying something new out, and I wanted to go really small and
mobile. So I have X100F camera here for the main video. I went full manual focus
so, I was doing a lot of focusing with the peeking feature. It worked relatively
well, but you can see... Especially the A9 video, I couldn't get close enough to the
stuff based on how large their glass display cases (are) where you put stuff to
look at. They weren't super long, so in that case this didn't work great. So the
X100F for video and then this LED light this is a Promaster LED light,
LED120SS, $90. Actually, traded some stuff in and then picked this up on a whim. It's
very cool, very nice. Probably do a video on that in the future. You can see it has
a hot shoe mount.. cold shoe. So you've got an on/off button and then power level. It's
USB charging. Very nice. So I had that mostly on X100 for the first videos.
I'll turn it on so you can see how powerful it is. So that's the lowest
brightness. And crank it up all the way. It's pretty bright, right? The main setup,
and then I have something to put over.. They have glass display cases, like I
said, where you put the gear to look at. They have little seats that you can
sit in. This case it's Contact Brand. You use it inside drawers and such to line
it. It's kind of a stippled design. Pretty thick. It does compress a little bit. Has
some padding, so that's nice. The main goal is to: One, protect the gear
while you're looking at it. Two, to give you a black
bottom. Not a, in my case, they have those glass.. clear glass, so I wanted something
dark. This works pretty well. I've seen a lot of different designs that they have.
Ten dollars or so for this roll and I cut it to a perfect, or relatively perfect
square. It fit really well on their display cases. I also use
this 4k Ultra HD action camera. I think it was a Mamba ME-10, something like that.
I don't think they're sold anymore. it's nice little action camera. This was
$30, so I can't complaint about price and the quality seems decent enough. I've done
quite a few videos using footage from this. So it's the first setup that I did.
Like I said, the A9 video didn't turn out amazingly well. But for a first run
it was okay. So I'm going to switch to the new setup, and then I'll show you
some footage from the new setup. Here's the new setup. Nikon D750 20mm f1.8g
lens. Really interesting tripod. Same video light. Same
action camera. And then the same place-mat stuff. I did get some
Velcro to further.. when I rolled up. Then of course you want to use some type of
cloth to clean up the gear, before and after. Again you know extra batteries and
things like that. So the interesting thing here is this tripod. I don't
think they're made anymore. It's made by Bescor. Model TH-36. Like I said, really
cool tripod. You can adjust the angle. You can also adjust the distance. So it goes
back and forward quite a bit. Another thing you can do is put these legs back,
lock it down, and it goes flat. So you can get some nice close-up shots of smaller
gear. Especially with this wide-angle that's very close focus..
lens. This was super helpful. I think the video quality in these videos moving
forward will be quite a bit better with this setup. So I'll show you some footage of
that. Also, one of the videos I filmed the viewfinder with my cell phone. So
that's an extra little thing there too. So it's pretty much it for the new setup.
I'll show you some footage, like I said. You can see the improvements and all
that. So moving, forward hopefully higher quality stuff.