I know the idea of a selfie stick sounds
incredibly vain, narcissistic and like
you're a tourist in your own city. But
finding a good selfie stick can be the
perfect addition to your 360 camera kit
and allow you to create some of the best
photos you will ever take by getting that
extra elevation. I was once a selfie
stick skeptic now I insist you must have
a selfie stick with you if you really
want to take your 360 photo and video
seriously because getting extra
elevation means your camera gets a
better view of the world.
So when i first warmed the idea of using a selfie stick I
found a generic one at my local camera
shop and look it did the job it wasn't
that great but it gave me a feel for
what a selfie stick could do and
eventually I decided to upgrade to a
better selfie stick and now I think I've
found the perfect selfie stick for
shooting 360 and I'm going to share it
with you guys so the selfie stick is the
manfrotto two-in-one selfie pole
manfrotto is a very well-known tripod
brand I own lots of their tripods and
they're known for good quality, their
stuff doesn't break it's really solid it
doesn't even come loose. This selfie stick
is so solid you can't feel any movement
at all it's very very well built and the
best feature of this selfie stick is it
extends so damn far like twice the
distance as a normal selfie stick look
at that holy crap that is like the height
of me so if I put on the ground it comes
up to here that's huge like normally
they're about two feet look at this is
ginormous so when you're shooting 360 it
just helps having those extra few feet
because it means you can get even higher
and get even more of bird's eye view of
your landscape also when you pack it up
it's smaller than the average selfie
stick this is about 10 centimeters
smaller than what you would normally get
which is really handy because my other
selfie stick it fits in my backpack but
it's such a tight squeeze that it's
always pushing the fabric of the
backpack whereas this one I know is
going
to fit so snugly and easily inside my
backpack so it's highly transportable so
this is a really good option I love the
hand grip as well it's really solid it
just feels really good to touch and
it's just a very user friendly selfie
stick another huge selling feature is
the tripod thread an issue I had in the
past with my old selfie stick is that
the head of the selfie stick was too big
because it's so round it actually sticks
out beneath your 360 camera so it's
going to be seen in your photos also it
has this little screw which is also
present I've had to edit that out so
many damn times, it's gotten so frustrating
which is why this one is so perfect
because all it is is a standard male 1
quarter inch tripod thread and it's no
wider than maybe one and a half
centimeters so it's going to easily hide
underneath your 360 camera because with
all 360 cameras the blind spot is
directly underneath you need something
that's going to fit in that blind spot
and almost any 360 camera is going
to go snugly onto this and the stick
will be perfectly hidden I can tell this
selfie sticks going to last me a really
long time because it's just built so
nicely and it's just really good to use
it's so user-friendly and just feels
good it's so solid not going to loosen
it not going to break it I've already
broken one or two selfie sticks so I'm
really confident that this is going to
last me at least one to two years if not
more here are the accessories that the
selfie stick comes with however I urge
you to throw them out as soon as you buy
this selfie stick because they're
useless this is for a GoPro if you want
to use a GoPro that's fine but this one
is an adjustable head so firstly this is
bad because it has the little screw
sticking out which could potentially end
up in your shot but also when you're
shooting 360 on a selfie stick like I
said in my previous selfie stick video
you need to have your camera straight in
line with the selfie stick you can't
have it on an angle that's the number
one mistake I see with selfie sticks is
that people put their selfie sticks in
front of them and they angle the camera
up instead of in line so when the
cameras angled up it sees the selfie
stick and you don't want to have your
selfie stick in your shot so
get rid of this and get rid of that but
honestly this is just made perfectly
for 360, this is the selfie
stick of my dreams I never thought I'd
say those words because like I said I
hate the idea of walking around with a
selfie stick and I still do but the
selfie stick is just so good that I'm
willing to forgive the cold stares that
are imparted upon me when I walk around
with this thing in public. People just don't
understand 360 whenever you do it in
public they're like 'what the hell are you doing are
you part of the men in black are you
going to wipe my memory?' Argh.. no ma'am
just look into the lens and remember
you did not just see an alien spacecraft
so in conclusion I think this is the
perfect selfie stick for 360 shooting
yes it's not the cheapest selfie stick
out there but it's going to last and
it's going to do a damn good job at
concealing itself from your 360 photos
so if you're looking to get a selfie stick
this is the one for you the
manfrotto two-in-one selfie pole all
right i'll put a link in the description
to where you can find this awesome
selfie stick on amazon and until next
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