Hello in this video we're gonna look at several different types of camera and
decide which is the best for vlogging.... let's go.....
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More and more of you recently are thinking
about starting a vlog or you have started a vlog recently so I thought I'd
create this video just to give you a bit of an overview of the different types of
camera that you can use what I'm using and then hopefully you'll be able to
make that right decision to start creating vlogs for yourself with a gear
that's right for you. Before we start thinking about what type of camera we're
going to use for our vlog we first need to think about the production quality
that you want for your video obviously that comes within your budget as well to
get really high production quality it's gonna cost more and it's going to be
more difficult....Or are you just going in at a low level with something
straightforward simple and cheap and there's nothing wrong with that because
the most important thing with a vlog by far is the story what story are you
going to tell and also you form a vital part of that as well. Are you
good on camera have you got something to say all that sort of thing we need to be
providing value to our audience if you're not doing that and it's highly
unlikely that anyone is going to watch so you need to think about that first but then
we want to start thinking about the camera you are going to use. At the
moment there isn't really a perfect vlogging camera out there so it's about
trying to strike a balance between image quality other features focusing quality
and importantly weight because when you're carrying these things around all
day doing your vlog you don't want it to be too heavy. 4K as well is something
that a lot of people will look at and feel like a need but for me it's just
not required at the moment for the vast majority of people when you look at your
YouTube analytics a growing number of people are watching it on their mobile
phones and they're just not 4k screens so it's really not something that's
important at the moment 4k also creates massive problems with your computer's
power as well and storage requirement just get massive when you go into the 4k
environment so 1080p is the sweet spot at the moment. Once you've got all that nailed
we then want to be thinking about the actual camera we're going to use so
we'll start with what the vast majority of us have and that is a phone you can
vlog very successfully just with your phone and I have an iPhone 6s here and
you can just put it on a little tiny little tripod stand like this and then
hold it out in front of you and you can just vlog like that so this is the raw
footage straight into my iPhone it's gonna do the job quite well only slight
downside is that most front facing cameras on the phones at the moment are
720p so if you're gonna put it into a project that's 1080 you'll need to upscale its
or you're just gonna have to put your project out at 720 really there's
nothing too much wrong with that but a lot of the newer cameras on the phones
do have a 1080p front-facing camera but it's something small to think about.
Next on my list is
a compact camera now you can quite easily vlog with these I have this small
Sony one here that actually belongs to my daughter and you can still vlog quite
comfortably on something like this it's not perfect it's very cheap though so it
may be that you have something like this already it's got a movie mode and you
can just crack on straight away obviously there are downsides with this
one there's no flip out screen or anything like that and it's it is 720p
as well but again that might not bother you..... my
daughter is five and she's already vlogging with this so it's about what
camera we have and it can still tell a decent story. Other compact cameras
that people use that are very popular with vlogging are the Sony rx100 series
and the canon g7x series they're very very popular but they do have a very key
downside and that is that they don't have an external microphone input good
quality audio is much much more important in my opinion than good
quality footage so if you're going to use one of those cameras you're going to
need to capture the audio externally with an audio recorder and a separate
microphone next is something like a GoPro I have this very cheap Chinese
import GoPro thing here the upside of this by miles is
just how small how well-built it is and how..... I mean is bomb-proof isn't it when
it's in a case like this it also has a nice wide angle lens on there so it
doesn't feel like you right up in the viewers face when you use it the
downside of this though is that it's a fixed wide-angle focal length
so if you want to be capturing other types of footage for b-roll and things
like that this is far from ideal also just if you're gonna use a GoPro make
sure you don't use that sort of crazy super wide angle mode that they've got
because it really looks awful if you're looking at that especially with a person
in it for more than a few seconds so next we've now come to what I'm actually
using day-to-day for my vlogging and that's is this it's the Canon 800d but
any sort of entry-level DSLR will do a similar sort of job now the upside of
this is it has the flip out screen once you've switched it on you can actually
see what you're doing I find a flip-out screen very useful for
composing the shot seeing what's behind me but when
you're actually talking into the lens be careful not to keep looking at the
screen because it's distracting for the viewer when you're not actually looking
at them through the lens so other upsides of this is it has the external
microphone input..... I use this road filmmaker kit because it's wireless so I
can plug it straight into the camera and then it goes to another receiver that
has a lapel microphone which captures the audio but the good
thing with that is it goes straight into the camera and it will stop and start
when I press record on the camera. One of the great things about using an
entry-level DSLR like this is the interchangeable lenses because most of
the compact cameras have a sort of 24-70 lens with this one here
that I've got on now it's a 10-18mm lens at the moment I'm at 14mm
millimeters which is equivalent to 24 millimeters it just sometimes feels like
I'm a little bit close in your face I have it on this gorillapod as well
which puts me a little bit further away but as you can see as I just zoom out to
10 millimeters it just puts me further away and it just feels much more natural
and I'm not right up in your face and when you're vlogging it just
kind of feels a bit better and it's less intrusive when you're watching the video
so all the entry-level Canon cameras all now have the dual pixel autofocus which
is just second to none on these Canon cameras it locks onto your face with
face detection and then just never misses after that..... top-quality
800d this is.... they're light they're not that expensive relatively as well so
it's a really good choice and I think is near as perfect as you can get to a
vlogging camera at the moment I've got it on this gorilla pod here as well just
to extend and get the camera a bit further away from me again there are
limitations to this though as well the slow-motion footage that can capture
this camera captures is only 60 frames a second and for videos I've been
doing recently I've wanted more than that so I can slow it down even more and
that's why my last option is the Canon 5d Mark 4 this is actually the canon 5d
mark ii as you can see i'm filming the video Canon 5D Mark IV at the
moment but the up side of that is it's just such better quality footage
than even this one captures and it also has the 120 frames per second slow
motion as well that is at 720p but once you upscale it on youtube you can't
really tell the difference but the slow-mo the slow-mo on there does make a
difference and adds another level of quality to the videos the downside
though is it's just so heavy and it's just not realistic for me to be sort of
holding that up and carrying it around all day long it's also exceptionally
expensive if you don't have any other reason to buy that camera but it's
adding it another level of quality to my footage and that's why I've started to
use it at the moment I'm using the majority of these things to create my
vlogs in addition to the drone and it does add a level of complexity to the to
creating the video especially I'm trying to capture landscapes at the same time
but that's what I've decided to do to up the quality of my videos you might be
quite happy with just using one of these I used pretty much just this for a long
time and created some good videos with that so there are options to match all
budgets as well really so there really isn't an excuse if you're thinking about
creating a vlog start doing it straightaway just get
your first video created upload it, forget about it and then create another one and
repeat repeat repeat and you'll soon find that you getting much much better
so I hope you've enjoyed this just to get an overview of what I'm using and
why I'm using it and just hopefully give you an idea of what you might want to
use as well please do subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already
I'll see you on another video very very soon I'm Adam this is first man
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