This setup right here, it looks awesome!
And, it's under a thousand bucks.
This thing looks also fantastic, 500 bucks.
But I want to know what you can do for under a hundred.
So, I did some googling, I found a couple different cameras.
Some point and shoots, some from Sony, some from Canon.
I'm a Canon fanatic, but it's a little bit too expensive.
So, I made my way over to eBay.
Boom, under a hundred bucks, ordered, expressed delivered.
And, boom, 94 bucks, here we go.
Is this gonna look okay?
Or is it gonna look terrible?
I have no idea, let's find out.
I wasn't afraid to do that
because it's under a hundred bucks.
I'm just gonna say, this is really small.
My G7X fits in my pocket just fine,
but it still has a little bit
of thickness to it, this is like
probably the size of my wallet.
Actually my wallet's still smaller.
It's empty, don't judge me, I get paid on Tuesday.
Let's check this out.
I'm gonna record for a second.
I haven't seen the footage yet,
so I have no idea if it looks decent.
This could be my new vlogging camera, guys.
Let's see what we got, how's this footage look?
Please don't look terrible.
This is how the footage looks from a $94 camera.
Oh my god, it's so shaky!
A small camera mixed with no image stabilization,
oo, gonna be a little bit tough.
Colors don't look terrible especially
considering the price point of this thing.
Let's try this again with less good lighting.
Okay, I got that light off.
Now this probably looks like some old school nasty camera.
I'm trying to hold it as stable as I can,
but I drank too much coffee and I think I have ADHD.
It doesn't look as bad as like a flip phone camera,
but it looks kinda like the second gen iPhone
or something like that.
The windows give it this like really ugly streak.
Before anything we gotta fix this stabilization issue.
But wait a second, if you're spending
a hundred dollars on the camera
you're probably not gonna have a $400 gimbal.
I think we're going to have to value meal this thing.
Let's head over to the 99 Cent store,
probably the only place I can go and buy
anything with this wallet.
We are headed to the 99 Cent store,
hopefully we can find some salvation
for this camera here.
Alright, now I'm gonna try to get
some awesome footage of Steve with this camera.
I got this little tripod thing attached
to it which should make it a little bit bigger and heavier.
So hopefully. it's gonna look a little bit
more stable than it did before.
So, here we go.
Look really cool. - Ah.
- So, that should have helped a bit,
just having that extra size,
but this is where the pot comes to play.
99 cent pot.
This was like 12 cents,
this was like 20-something cents.
When you don't have image stabilization,
a little tiny camera is very hard to hold stable
because it's so easy to just like shake things around.
Bigger cameras you don't really need as much image
stabilization cause it's so big and heavy.
This pot was the biggest, heaviest
thing I was able to find at the 99 Cent store.
Plus, it already has this handy little hole in it.
It's a 1/4"-20 screw
so that fits very nicely on the bottom of these cameras.
In order for this camera to be shaky now,
not only does it have to shake the camera
but it has to shake all this pot.
I'm probably gonna be demonetized on YouTube for saying
the word pot so many times in a video.
Still a little bit shaky.
We're going to make this even heavier
by putting a brick into this pot
while we hold this.
This is going to be the best handheld rig on the planet.
Some bricks in here now, 30 cents per brick.
Sometimes you gotta spend the money
to get good stuff.
So now this is much heavier.
Now, and.
I'm gonna try to stabilize this in Adobe Premier
and see how smooth we can make this look.
The issue with this is that the camera
is not at the center of gravity.
We might have to reconsider this for version two.
In case the pot wasn't heavy enough,
this bumper should do the trick.
It's a camera car now.
- What's this all about?
When did that happen?
- Oh shoot, somebody hit my car.
Good thing Steve the mechanic is here to fix this.
Handheld rig, version two.
Do you see all the flies flying around in there?
Nice sturdy, has a bunch of holes in it,
so we can mount it already.
See how the lens fits right in the middle
of the center of gravity, perfect!
It's also possible to have too much light,
so to combat that we use these ND filters.
This one's the Polar Pro Quartz Line,
it's a top of the line one.
Oo, looks nice and crisp.
This is worth two times more than this setup here.
So, remember those sunglasses we got?
Let's customize them real quick.
(motorcycle revs)
So now we have these sunglasses, very stylish.
This was literally the only pair
of sunglasses at the 99 Cent store,
but it has a little bit of gradient meaning
it's darker up here and it becomes lighter down here.
Not exactly what I was expecting,
but hey, maybe we can even make this work.
Some people use filters like this on purpose.
So, there's our lens, ND filter.
- I think it would be great if you just showed up
to like someone's graduation, everyone else like fancy
like the DSLR's and you show up with this.
- Lighting is really harsh right now,
it's coming from right above but hopefully,
this ND filter will help a little bit with that.
We're going to switch over to this camera
and film this training video.
You going down, fool.
Welcome to day one of training with the potato.
Jumping jacks, ready.
One, two.
Now, that is what I call a workout.
When you're about to get in a fight with a big,
beefy mannequin like Bobby here, you always want
to try to avoid the fight.
So, we're gonna do a little practice
on how to deter an attacker.
Hey, what's going on, man?
Yeah, I've got a YouTube channel, you want to see it?
This is a 12 minute video
about camera settings, you want to check it.
Where you going?
That works 90% of the time,
but when it doesn't, then it gets time for combat.
You disliked my last video?
You're a cat person?
You think Matti Haapoja's a better YouTuber than me?
You like Sony camera better than Canon, what?
That is what I call a great training session.
Now, for that sequence we added bars to the top and bottom,
I also color graded some of the footage using my LUTs.
And by the way, thanks to the awesome people
over at Skillshare for sponsoring this episode.
We're gonna give away this camera,
when we're done with it, so stay tuned.
Skillshare is an online community
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What kind of courses, you ask?
They have a plethora of courses
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kung fu. - No!
There's no kung fu,
this is your first sponsorship,
are you trying to make them upset?
- No.
- Then stick to the script. Ugh.
- Okay, okay, no kung fu.
If you sign up an annual plan that's less than $10 a month
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Psh, your boy took a class and now I spit fire.
Head over to Skillshare and get a handle
on making candles and sandals.
She didn't like that.
Sorry, I'll stop trying to be cool.
But seriously, there's like classes on everything.
Sandal, candle, all that.
First 500 people to use my link in the description,
you get the first two months free.
And there's no commitment so you can go
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It's like YouTube's more intelligent,
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Go check em out, link in description.
Alright, back to the video.
So we got this sweet skateboard
at the 99 Cent store, it wasn't 99 cents
but it was an amazing deal of 4.99.
So, I think we can splurge this time.
Alright, let's test this bad boy out.
This is the worst skateboard I've ever seen my whole life.
- It's weird, it feels like it gets stuck.
- I was pretty determined to only use accessories under $5,
but, man, after that, you know,
I think I'm just going to use my skateboard.
So this is what a board should do,
and this is what a $5 board does.
Kari's going to do a little bit
more practice of riding this motorcycle here.
We're gonna take everything we've learned
so far and basically try to apply it,
try to get the best footage of Kari riding
this motorcycle around this random parking lot.
This thing is tough,
but I think we got some shots that are pretty cool.
Let's check it out.
Now we're just collecting a couple
clean sound effects, so we're in a quiet environment.
(motorcycle revving)
I'm only using this for sound right now,
I'm not using this footage,
I'm just getting sound out of it.
(motorcycle revving)
Awesome, so we got our sound effects,
we're gonna drop those into a little
bit of sound design, drop in some music,
do some color correction, stabilize it,
do some digital slow-motion.
Every trick in the book to try
to make a cool little sequence.
So, here it is.
I don't know, what do you guys think?
Did you think it looked cinematic?
I think it looked alright considering
that it was a hundred dollar camera,
but it was definitely a lot of work to try
to make this look somewhat decent.
There were definitely times where I was like,
ah man this shot just looks too grainy
or just doesn't look that good.
And I would point this camera at the same shot,
and it would look much, much better.
Not only that, but it's also only
720P and a really weak form of 720P.
Like every single shot I was like,
man, that shot could be a whole lot sharper.
One of the biggest issues I had
was that there's no manual controls on this thing.
Literally the only thing you can control
while shooting video is the white balance, that's it!
And it never even tells you what the camera is doing,
it never tells you the shutter speed,
the ISO, anything like that so
It's just kinda like guesstimating
what the camera's doing mechanically
and hoping that it comes out good.
Oh, and as I mentioned we're doing
a giveaway with this thing,
but this might be the least exciting
giveaway ever considering that
this camera just does not look that good.
Ooh, how about this?
There!
Now it is a one of a kind collector's
edition vintage camera, ha ha!
So, yeah, if you want it just
comment below and tell me what you want to shoot with it.
Oh, and also do you guys remember
a while ago I did that Removu K1 Gimbal
camera review and giveaway?
One of the winners of that camera, I tried messaging him,
I even called his school to try to get
a hold of him, no answer.
So, if the Removu K1 is something you're interested in,
go down and comment below what you want
to do with the Removu.
You can win this camera from anywhere in the world,
but the Removu one is a US only giveaway.
I'm out of things to talk about, see you guys later.
So many bugs in there.