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yeah i tried the red vlogging camera and it changed my life it has face detection
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the red comodo is radioactive unbelievable and it just weighs two pounds two pounds
never again do i have to vlog on this piece of it
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but all my vlogs ended up being like four or five hours so i pretty much exclusively vlogging
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just three payments of ten dollars cha-ching it's perfect for the baddest of [ __ ] just like me
michael knight okay you may have fallen for our absolutely amazing commercial but this
is not a vlogging camera there have been so many youtubers who tried vlogging on a red camera
before and with the exception possibly of you and olsen i think i hope everyone else was just joking
because red's diaz mc2 cameras are absolutely overkill for vlogging because it's just heavy and
cumbersome and there are much much better cameras out there for that purpose like the red komodo
6k i'm just kidding this is not a vlogging camera but what it is it's an incredibly powerful compact
cinema camera that it's much much easier to travel with right philip grossman radioactive documentary
filmmaker who loves hiking out to chernobyl and old soviet space ports thanks joey first
i love my red 8k dsm c2 camera i plugged that thing hundreds of thousands of miles around the
globe from fukushima to uzbekistan kazakhstan baikonur belarus it's enabled me to capture
amazing footage in a lot of off the beaten path locations however this komodo 6k as the kids say
is a game changer for me its small compact size is gonna allow me to travel to more locations
with less gear so yeah this is red's first cinema camera that is comparatively easy to
get around hike and travel with and honestly this was one of the major reasons why i got this camera
full stop so in this video we will explore the aspects that make the komodo actually a great
travel and documentary camera but also explore what the clear limitations are in this context and
also maybe chat about a couple of hacks on how you can overcome those shortcomings and in the second
part of this video we will go through a couple of accessories that i use to enhance the capabilities
of the komodo while keeping the footprint small so if you are interested in the komodo or if you
already own the komodo this video is absolutely dedicated to you also if you enjoyed our silly
commercial introduction give this video a thumbs up for all our cameos and so that i know that
we should do more of these fun random intros and please don't call that number no one will pick up
at least not in the u.s and there won't be a landscape for 30 bucks sorry
all right the first thing we need to address is the size and the weight clearly a massive
factor as you pack your backpack and decide what you're gonna take on your trip and i
have to confess between cameras and lenses and a drone and all sorts of knickknacks
i tend to over pack and i think i'm not going on a limb here when i say that i'm possibly not the
only one on top of this i'm self-diagnosed with a severe form of battery anxiety and tend to carry
way more juice than i ever need with me and i think this anxiety is rooted in a couple of deeply
traumatic experiences with my a7s2 batteries i guess i need to unpack this with my therapist
anyhow the komodo is this slick four by four by four inches block of aluminium alloy and if you
compare it to my eva one it is significantly smaller and that's true also if you compare it
to other cinema cameras like the c200 c300 or the latest sony fx9 i mean seriously it just fits so
easily into my travel backpack i could never do this with my ev1 and you can also impress your
friends with a shiny new block of metal now when it comes to weight the body itself weighs just
two pounds two pounds that's lighter than other cameras cinema cameras that you may be considering
like the canon c70 and it's the same weight as the blackmagic pocket cinema 6k with batteries monitor
and lenses it's definitely not light enough to hold out at an extended arm for a longer period of
time oh my god this is exhausting so i'm sorry pro vloggers is a little too heavy but as a package
it's much lighter than any of the previous red cameras and i had no muscular problems carrying it
around chicago for hours the power consumption of the komodo is also very solid i've been using the
canon bp 955s and two of these batteries should give you about three hours of runtime this is what
it used to take to shoot about three to four hours on the red 8k camera this is all it takes to shoot
three to four hours on the komodo for every eight pounds of savings i get in my pack i can add about
a gallon of water which may not sound like a lot but that enables me an extra day day and a
half of travel when you're traveling across the desert uzbekistan the extra day day and a half
is actually very important because we don't know where we're going and when we're gonna be back
so six batteries should get you through the day if you can get your hands on them apparently
they are sold out everywhere and that provides a couple of headaches to new commodore users
but there are alternatives i will soon get the brand new antenna bauer titan micro v-mount
batteries which allow me to power not only the camera but also accessories like a monitor
and it inherently reduces the number of types of batteries i carry with me to one so we will talk
about this in a future video a fully dedicated video about batteries how sexy is that now another
thing that can limit your record time is memory and yes if you want to record in the beautiful
and powerful red code raw codec get mentally and monetarily prepared for some heavy data files
now another first for red camera is that the commodore has a continuous face detection
autofocus which already came in very handy for me as a one-person operation especially on a gimbal
now it is not perfect yet and it's definitely not competing or anywhere close to canon's dual pixel
autofocus but i'm hopeful that it will improve over time and features like face tracking and our
eye tracking will be implemented in future with firmware updates this is my number one feature
request that would be so dope especially when i'm shooting myself on a gimbal or so hashtag vlogger
the outstanding feature that really differentiates the komodo from other cameras in the market also
comes in very very handy when go in handheld and that's the global shutter not having to deal with
any of the jello warping and wobbling effect of rolling shutter makes your image just so much more
pleasing and this also comes in very handy because this camera does not have any ibis no in-body
image stabilization i guess you cannot have everything right um there are certain limitations
but there's an easy workaround to just shoot in 6k crop in a little bit and use the image stabilizer
of your nle and thanks to the global shutter it just works like a charm you don't even notice it
i'm blown away every time i do it and lastly something that you certainly need to keep in
mind if you are considering using this camera as a travel or documentary camera and this is the 28
second boot up time there's no workaround for that except for just letting it run and that's what
i've been pretty much doing since every time i go out and shoot with it but let's talk about gear
i've seen many photos of komodo owners building out the camera in these very beautiful elaborate
big rigs and there's nothing wrong with it it just goes to show how versatile this camera a
camera that was initially designed as a crash cam actually is but i said it before for me really the
value of this camera is in its compact size so when i put in the order for the commodore i was
on a mission to find the auxiliary gear that keeps my build as small as possible and while it's still
working progress and ever evolving i feel now i'm in a good spot that i can share with you my setup
and hopefully you find some inspiration in it but also please let me know what
you are using and if you have any other ideas of what can be done to keep it to more make it more
powerful and still keep it compact let's go so let's start with one of the most essential pieces
that you need in order to get this camera going and that's a monitor when i get the commodore
the only sdi monitor i had was the shogun inferno by atomos and while it gives you a great image and
loads of function heck it can't even record it is freaking big i mean just look at this combination
it also eats batteries like crazy so i was in the market for a small sdi monitor and small hd kindly
sent me their focus pro lcd screen in the white stormtrooper edition for review and i've been
trying out this monitor for the past couple of weeks so let me share quickly my thoughts the good
and the not so good first of all the size the weight and the look of this monitor are hats on
perfect for my what i've been looking for that's an easy but big win for me the power consumption
is also significantly more efficient than the shogun inferno and this is likely to a great
deal because of its lower brightness with 800 nits it's almost only half of what the shogun inferno
can put out with its 1 500 nits and frankly that was one of my concerns going into this test but
honestly like i never had any issues shooting outside even in broad daylight and the best part
is i can see myself very big what was a little bit of a challenge at times was finding focus and this
is likely due to its size of five inch but also because of the resolution of 720p of this monitor
of course this monitor also has all kinds of scopes and features including focus peaking
which helps you in that context for sure and this leads me to a feature of this monitor that makes
it really stand out and that's camera control being able to control pretty much all camera
functions on this touch screen is plain and simple dope especially when flying the komodo on a gimbal
and having the ability to hit record and change the settings from a side mounted monitor is making
the experience much smoother and faster all you need for this is upgrade your small hd monitor to
komodo control get this control cable and off you go you can use your touch screen to control your
camera just realize that one of these sdi cables is squeaky all right time to check in with philip
to see what his favorite piece of gear is to keep the komodo compact and travel friendly so
he can take it out to you know chernobyl people ask what my favorite accessory is for the komodo
and i have to say it's the eight sin cage i've tried a couple different cages and this one is
probably one of the best built and best designed to date it enables me to throw nato rails on here
some re locating pins from my monitor enables me to rig up and rig down very very quickly which
is important to me because typically with what i'm doing capturing the images speed is of the
essence and i need to get in and get out as quick as possible but here's the cool thing about the
komodo and heck i already made a whole video about this you can check out but with the red control
app you can use your freaking phone to monitor and completely control this camera all wirelessly with
minimal latency so if you want to keep your setup and camera back as small and light as possible you
may get away on certain jobs with just using your phone or your tablet and using a little simple
mount like this one here i've been out shooting using exclusively the app and it is possible
occasionally you have dropouts especially in wi-fi dense areas and they may disappear when
you are out in nature i wouldn't be able to tell i've not left the city in over 10 months
when i'm not using the mini tripod from the rs2 i actually use the outrigger handle by red on my
right hand side and then use my left hand to focus and zoom the outrigger handle is certainly not the
cheapest option and you can find more affordable alternatives i really found this one though
versatile and easy to install because it goes right straight onto the camera and you don't need
any other cage for it and it also has a record button to rig up and rig down your camera from
like the handle or monitor i always carry a red tool with me whenever i go out and shoot totally
recommend getting one and on the left side you also see a timmy rib by gdu this is used to amount
additional accessories while keeping the low profile for example like a cold shoe that i just
screw in here and then i can attach for example a microphone here and on this note our next guest
on his favorite compact komodo accessory hey joey you uh asked me what my favorite accessory is for
a low profile compact setup for the komodo is and i think right now shamelessly it's
this new handle from gdu you can see it's got this little bend in it with the 15 millimeter
rod support so if you have somebody pulling focus for you and not using autofocus
uh by the way you guys get that this build that this commodore is using right now with
the rf support for autofocus this week but anyways if somebody else is pulling focus for you
um it's just great to have the little rod support in there
and yeah just gives you this perfect center of gravity for this i use the sigma lenses a lot and
you know with the batteries it's just a perfect perfect center of gravity so yeah
that's it that's my favorite little accessory i guess you're probably the first to see this handle
well and now you know too i actually recorded this entire video way before jared sent me his video
and i did not know that he would just nonchalant drop a new gdu product here i was actually looking
for a rod support system as i mostly shoot on cena lenses these days but most of them are bulky
require either a base plate or a top handle and so when i saw this i was like jared okay i'm gonna
put down my order for this rod handle but he was so kind enough to actually send me a pair of them
and that moment i right away put in an order for the tilt nucleus nano as well as a manual
follow focus so i can really build it out and use it for for my signal lenses and also
lastly before i finish here i actually edited this entire video here on a 2017 macbook pro
just goes to show that you can really go out in the field shoot edit export deliver all on the go
let's go back to regular programming so talking about audio the komodo only has one mic in
microphone jack here on the side and this may be a big especially in the dark world i've been using
the rode videomic plus pro as my go to on camera microphone which works quite nicely because it can
also boost the signal because the end you don't want to use the pre-amps in in the camera and you
can still as you can see from my setup here you can still access the lens and hold it like this
works no problem like a charm and when i need to laugh someone i've been using the sennheiser avx
me2 wireless microphone laugh mic system which is very popular and i've no problems with it i really
like it though it may have seen its last days on my workflow because i've been trying the trek
e audio recorder by tentacle sync it's this tiny compact and light audio recorder that records and
here's a game changer in 32-bit float meaning you don't have to worry about gain and audio levels
at all anymore and it super super easily synchronizes with a time code device like the
sinky that you can just like velcro here to your batteries and then plug into the external port
this is obviously just a tease i will do a proper review of the tentacle sink gear next month but
let me tell you that much i'm stoked in fact the audio that was recorded that i was recording
myself for the commercial intro was recorded on the track e so more to come on that let's kick
it over to scott the key to komodo is keeping it small and fast put a small little lens on there
a slim handle use the compact batteries keep it fast and nimble really light and quick just like
me well not so light and i'm not really as quick as i used to be at this point you may be wondering
hey joey what lenses are you using to keep your komodo compact on travel and
whatnot well shameless plug number 72 in my previous videos i've been always highlighting
in the left top corner what camera and lenses are being used so that should give you an idea
but rather than talking about it today i will be making more dedicated lens review videos in fact
there's already one out there on the tokina 11 to 20 check it out up here and while you're at it
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