remember all of the following are just extra tools that you can use to either
make your life easier or improve the quality of your projects the biggest
tool is you that came out wrong what is up people Dunna here and today
we're talking about ten of my favorite accessories that I personally use for my
photography and videography but first I want to ask you what's your favorite
accessory leave a comment below and while you're on your way down hit that
like button last year I released a video of 5
accessories that I thought were really awesome but I'm always expanding my kit
and there's always more accessories out there so welcome to the 2019 version
with twice as many items because I have no chill however I promise I won't say
gaff tape gaff tape is awesome but everyone says it so I'm leaving it off
the list as always links to the gear that I'm going to talk about today as
well as all my other gear are in the description or you can go to kit.com/dunnadidit
and check out my kit using any of the links to purchase
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alright let's get to the list number one is a fairly new addition to my kit a
c-stand I put off getting a c-stand for a really long time because I just didn't
get it they're big they're bulky they're heavy they're pretty expensive but then
once I got one I fell in love with it if you don't know what a c-stand is it's
basically a light stand on steroids typically like I am right now I use my
c-stand to float my rim light above and behind me but you can also mount a
tripod head on it and get cool overhead shots they can handle a decent amount of
weight and I've never worried even having a light with too big batteries
floating way out on the end of the arm the one that I got is from a brand
called neewer on Amazon and I was a little worried at first that maybe the
quality wouldn't be up to snuff but I've been really happy with it
number two is the feel world master ma5 field monitor having an external monitor
can be really helpful for anyone but especially for people who don't have
flip screens like us Sony users this specific monitor is a budget-friendly
option compared to a lot of others but still packs in a lot of features it
ships with mounting options to attach to your camera
cables and a case which is really cool and inside the monitor itself it has
some really helpful features like focus peaking, histogram
false colors and the ability to horizontally flip or vertically flip the
picture so that you can film yourself now even if you're not filming yourself
having a bigger and brighter screen can be really helpful especially when you're
trying to film out in daylight like I said there are tons of other options for
field monitors out there but I do like this one as a bang for buck option
number three is the roland R-07 external audio recorder this little audio
recorder is so cool it's got stereo microphones on the top which are great
for either getting sound effects or ambiences and it's also got an input on
the top so that you can plug in a lav mic or the ever-popular
rode camera microphones the input on this unit will sound better than most
inputs on cameras and having an external recorder will actually give you more
flexibility with mounting options for where you can have your microphone one
of the ways that I really love to use this is when I'm recording with a lav
mic I plug it into the 3.5 millimeter jack on top I toss this in my pocket and
I can actually control it with an app on my phone so this never has to come out
of my pocket until I'm done recording speaking of audio number four is the
rode videomicro I don't know how but this thing is so
small and sounds so good and still isn't really that expensive not to mention you
don't ever have to deal with batteries I recently did some shoot outs with this
and some other microphones that I use and I was blown away with how this stood
up even to microphones that cost three times as much like the rode videomic pro
when I'm out and about shooting this microphone stays on my camera 99.9% of
the time number five are the Vallerret photography gloves I live in Canada and
in case you haven't heard it's really cold here a lot of the time I've tried
to go out and shoot during the winter before and even in what we would
consider fairly mild conditions I barely last ten minutes of taking my
gloves on and off to adjust settings on my camera
and feel like they're going to fall off and shatter on the ground but not
anymore first and foremost these gloves are just
fantastic gloves they do a great job of keeping my hands warm in fairly cold
conditions but also they have a really cool feature where the thumb and index
finger fold back and are held by a magnet so that you can access the
settings on your camera with your fingers this is basically a genius idea
I've had other gloves that have this kind of a feature before but none of
them were really good enough to stand up to the Canadian winter not only do these
gloves stand up to the cold winter but also they've got a bunch of different
models for different temperatures and different situations number six
clamps they're cheap they're strong they're small and they come in handy so
often they're good for holding up backdrops or light modifiers or if you
want to attach gear together they just come in handy all over the place one of
the places I really like to use them is to hold diffusion material to my lights
and I'm currently using four different clamps for something that we'll be
talking about a little bit later number seven is for the vloggers out
there and for everybody else too it's the Manfrotto pixi evo mini tripod this
has been my go-to vlogging tripod for the last little while I kind of got sick
of hauling around the big bulky Joby Gorillapod it's still really useful but
this is a lot more sleek and easy to carry around it's compact
it's versatile it's strong it can hold pretty heavy loads it has two different
settings for how wide the legs go as well as the legs extend to make the
tripod taller and I just really love how small it folds down so I can toss it in
my backpack you might not be able to wrap it around a pole but meh number 8
is the WANDRD PRVKE 31L camera backpack now in general I suggest
investing in a good camera backpack I was pretty hesitant to go with this one
at first because it's really not cheap but in the end I'm really glad that I
did what I really wanted from a camera bag was something that I could carry all
the camera gear I would need but also carry other things for just daily life
or travel - there are a lot of camera bags that
are mostly camera bags and don't have a lot of room for anything else in them
and I didn't want to run into that problem on my last vacation I was able
to take all the camera gear that I wanted my laptop and charger in the main
compartment and then in the roll-top I took seven days worth of clothes
toiletries snacks and anything else that I wanted when I'm not traveling I can
fit my gimbal or a light or even just my lunch for work in the top compartment
and if I'm not using the roll-top I just fold it down and it looks like a more
normal sized backpack number nine that stays in my backpack 98% of the time is
a cable organizer or packing cube this specific one is a bag smart cable
organizer and it holds my notebook in the front it holds my Chargers my cables
my hard drives pretty much anything that I'll need at any given time so when I
show up at wherever it is that I'm gonna do some work I just pull this thing out
and then rather than having to dig through my backpack for any little
things that I might need they're all right here and number ten are packing
blankets now I don't keep packing blankets because I move a lot I keep
them for three reasons one they can make a good backdrop if you need them to -
they can block light if you need them - and three my personal favorite and most
used one that I've been using since I was in high school for sound absorption
now they're not as good as actual proper sound absorption panels but they
definitely do the trick I live in a rented apartment so I can't do anything
really permanent for acoustic treatment also I record these videos in the main
living area in our apartment so I have to have something that I can set up and
tear down with ease so basically I've got a packing blanket here and a packing
blanket here clamped using those handy clamps to a backdrop stand on this side
and a microphone stand on this side and it helps with the reverberation in the
room so those are ten of my favorite accessories remember to hit the like
button and subscribe on your way down to leave a comment telling me what your
favorite accessory is and I'll see you next time
Top 10 Camera Accessories [2019 Edition!]