are you thinking about your next vacation and wondering what the best
travel camera gear is well in this video i'll show you what
camera gear i keep in my bag as well as i'll show you which camera i
would pick if i was only taking one on holidays
hey, everyone, it's ken here from Northern Viking Explorer and if you are new to
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miss out on any upcoming videos so in this video i'm gonna be sharing with you
what i think is the best travel camera gear and what i keep in my
bag we're not gonna be talking about the biggest and baddest cameras out there
because there's always something bigger and better we're going to be
talking about compact cameras that are easy to travel with
cameras that range from about 350 to 600 dollars we'll talk about some gear
different bags cases accessories that you might want to pick up for yourself
and all of this stuff you'll find links to below in the description if you want
to check them out for yourself so let's start out with the bags that i use then
we'll move into cameras accessories and cases and then i'll let
you know what the one camera is that i would bring if i was only
bringing one camera with when i travel now the bags that i use this is a
gregory backpack and the cool thing you'll notice about it
is there aren't any zippers on it so the zippers are all on the back side
there's one pocket here where you can slide stuff into but this one actually
works more like a suitcase where when you unzip it
it's kind of opens up like a suitcase and there's a pocket here and you can
put all your camera cases and different things in here i don't
actually use camera bags per se i use a regular backpack with
cases inside it that's how i travel so that would be my favorite
backpack that i use now i also have this second backpack and
this is what i use for day trips when i'm out and about so if
we go on an excursion something like that
i always have this second backpack and if i buy too much i can just
load it full of stuff and bring this one along with so it zips up
nice and small and it's just a thin nylon backpack and these are really
inexpensive on amazon and they unfold and they look just like that these are
the gonex nylon backpacks they're a great option to carry your
stuff in nice and light easy to bring with all right so it's
time to move into cameras that i bring when i travel and i bring
three cameras on my trips and the first one you probably bring the same camera
is your cell phone camera whether you have an iphone or an android
this is a samsung phone they're great for just having in your
pocket and pulling out when you want to take that quick picture or selfie so
don't forget your cell phone camera when you travel and you probably don't it's
probably glued to you but that would be the first camera that
you don't want to forget to bring all right so the second camera i always
bring on my trips is a small mirrorless camera now this is a canon m6
but there's other canon cameras or sony
cameras like the m50 is a great option and this camera or that one would be
kind of in that five to six hundred dollar range um you can get into the m6
mark ii which is over a thousand dollars or
you can get into some of the sony cameras the a5100 the a6000 you're going
to be right in that range of kind of 600 and
under and they're great options for travel
i've actually added on a zoom lens to this camera and that's great for
like last summer we went to alaska and we were filming the glaciers and
watching them them breaking off and this lens did a great job for that and here's
what that looked like and it was absolutely amazing to see
so you can see there's a huge difference from when we're zoomed in to where we
were actually standing this zoom lens is an 18 to 150
millimeter canon efm lens and the cool thing about these cameras
is the lens is removable so i can just pull that off
and put on a different lens so the lens that i'm actually filming on right now
is the canon kit lens it's a 15 to 45 millimeter lens
that typically comes with the camera and that's a great option for you as well
so you have both of these it's quite versatile so
i'll put that back on the other couple of things that we like
with these cameras is i like having these joby
gorillapods so i can wrap them around things that will hold my camera
these tripods these big ones are way too big to bring when you travel
so i like these andrea and i like to vlog so we'll just put this on a table
or desk and we can talk right to the camera it's
perfectly steady really easy to use the other thing this camera the
m6 or the m50 or the m6 mark ii have inputs for your microphone so if
you do a lot of talking to the camera you can add a
microphone to the camera on these cameras as well so that would
be the second camera that i always bring when i travel alright so
the third camera i always bring when i travel is my gopro this is a gopro
hero8 black and these are absolutely amazing they're
tiny it's already got the handle on it an extension handle that's the shorty
handle that actually turns into a tripod and
put that on the table we can vlog absolutely amazing it's fully waterproof
so i can take it underwater as it is which is super handy for travel
it's got a hyperlapse i'll show you that in a moment it takes great photos
it takes great video it's got excellent stabilization so if you're walking with
it it's not jumping around absolutely
amazing i'll show you those features right now this is what a hyper lapse
looks like with the hyperlapse on your gopro takes
pictures at a set interval creating this really cool effect you can
push a button and slow it down to real time
plus your gopro is waterproof so you can dunk it into the lake or into a fountain
just like this
the gopro also has great audio and video check out how smooth this is when i go
for a walk
all right so let's move into accessories and we'll start out with our phones and
the first one i want to talk about and this one might seem kind of weird to you
is a selfie stick and these are great if you want to capture that perfect photo
of you and your loved one and they work wonders and they're pretty
inexpensive on amazon as well the second accessory for your phone i do
want to talk about is a waterproof case for these
you can grab them on amazon they're about 750 to 10 dollars
and they'll keep your phone dry if you want to go swimming while you travel
so moving on to our mirrorless camera some of the accessories you might want
we already talked about a few of them a microphone that's a boya external mic
if you want to do some vlogging this has the screen on it you can do that very
easily a gorillapod these are super handy now
they come in different sizes this is the 1k
they have a 3k just depending on how much your camera weighs
and the third thing would be a zoom lens these are super handy
if you're doing trips like we did to alaska where you want to take photos of
glaciers different things make sure you grab a
zoom lens for your trip all right so accessories
for gopros they have so many cool accessories for gopros i'll show you a
couple today make sure you grab one of these shorty
six they're really great again if you want to do some vlogging
so easy to do batteries memory cards all that kind of stuff
but when you get into the cool stuff for gopro
you can get things like snorkels and masks that have gopro mounts on them
this is amazing if you're going to be traveling
to a warm climate and doing some snorkeling you attach your gopro right
there and you can go right under the water
because this is fully waterproof so that's an amazing one you can get
something similar to this on amazon they've got chest straps we use these
for go-karting on the norwegian joy we just connect the gopro there and you
can record while you're driving or a lot of
attractions don't allow you to hold a camera in your hand so
if it's attached to your body something like this works great they also have
ones that go on your head i prefer a chest strap
the other cool thing these are suction cup mounts for your window
and you can use this in a hotel or your car and record
out the window without having to hold your gopro so those are great as well
now you can pick up really cool kits on amazon this one's only 26 dollars
and it comes with chest straps head start ups wrist straps all
sorts of cool stuff tripod mounts and it's only 26 bucks by kneewear
i bought quite a bit of stuff from kneewear and they make a great product
so those would be some of the cool accessories to start
you out with using a gopro alright so let's talk camera
cases now i like to use camera cases inside of a regular backpack
rather than a camera backpack and these are the two i use this one i use for my
gopro it's kind of a hard case and when you open that up it's got kind
of two compartments there's the main compartment there and you can fold back
this lid and you can put cords and different
memory cards and stuff back there these are great and very inexpensive you
can pick those up and the other one i like to use is this
low pro case for my canon m6 i can fit the lens in there
the zoom lens as well as the camera with the regular kit lens on it my charger
everything fits right in there super handy and it's all protected
while it's inside my backpack alright so i promised you i'd tell you which camera
i would bring if i could only bring one camera when i travel so
i'm gonna put down my cell phone because i'm probably bringing
that anyway but if i had to knock one off the list it would be the camera
in my cell phone so now we're down to my canon mirrorless
or my gopro and the winner is drum roll please
it is the gopro it is such a versatile camera
i can use it under water i can use it for vlogging i can use it
on a chest strap i can use it on a snorkel it is an amazing camera with
great quality if you do want to add an
external mic gopro does sell a media mod that you can do that as well
it is a great camera for travel and it is so small and compact
it can fit easily in your pocket so hope you enjoyed this video on what i think
is the best travel camera gear and what i have in my
camera bag if you did make sure to give this video a thumbs up
also if you're interested in learning about how to use google maps offline
saving you data while you travel there's a link to that video below
in the description if you want to connect with me on social media you'll
find those links there as well thanks so much for watching and until
next time take care