- Welcome to Florida, we're in Melbourne
kind of a little bit outside of Orlando doing a shoot.
We got a little bit of free time here
and we happen to bring this along.
Aquarobotman, (laughs)
that's a great name, sounds like a superhero.
Whoa! - Super bright.
- Hey you have you been drinking?
- I have. (laughs)
This is like an underwater submarine drone thingy.
Apparently this is like a WiFi hub or something,
it comes with this long cable that hooks up to this.
Radio and WiFi signals do not really
go through water very far, just like bullets.
I watched an episode of Mythbusters about bullets in water.
If someone was coming after you with a machine gun,
how deep underwater would you have to go
before they can't kill you anymore?
- I'm gonna say ten feet.
- Assuming that they're shooting at you from like
a 45 degree angle, you could go like two or three feet
or something and then you're safe.
The mafia comes after you just be like,
oh yeah, well I got a swimming pool, sucks for you!
Just dive in, they can't kill you.
They'll be like, dang it, another one!
- They can shoot your snorkel though so hold your breath.
- Oh no it's sinking! - I think it's supposed
to sink until the motors on.
- Oh we got an image okay!
We got an image, so far its just sank
straight to the bottom. - I don't know why it's
just moving along the ground though.
- It's taking us a minute to figure out
how to operate this thing, I think we're gonna have to
play with it a little bit more
and we'll come back in a second.
So basically last night we spent about two hours
trying to figure out how to get the Nemo thing to work,
and it just kept sinking to the bottom.
Eventually I talked to Aquarobotman (laughs)
I swear that should be a comic book series.
- It should. - So I hit him up and was like
okay what's going on, and they said that it might be missing
a buoyancy foam thing that's supposed to be inside
to keep the backside afloat, cause I noticed the backend
of The Nemo drone was sinking a whole lot faster.
We can't really complain too much because
they sent it to us for free, but at the same time
that doesn't make me feel too good
about the quality control of this thing.
But anyways we had planned an extra day here in Florida
just to test it out so it's kind of a bummer that
they're not gonna be able to get this foam thing out to me
for another five days.
So we have some ideas, I was thinking a little balloon
but Steve here had a much better idea.
- I think we should use a condom,
because it has far more strength than a balloon generally,
and it shouldn't burst when put underneath the water.
- Alright so yeah, Steve and I are about to head into
Walmart and buy some condoms together.
- (Potato) Which one has the best buoyancy?
- And PSI. (laughs) - when you're inflating it,
its probably gonna taste like strawberry. (laughs)
Why don't we just send this in with it too? (laughs)
- What is that? - It's a little sonar device.
I don't think we need it to be that big,
we don't need that much buoyancy, that's gonna be too much,
this thing is gonna go bloompt straight to the top.
Where's the miniature one?
Steve go ask, I can't ask that would be too stereotypical.
Dude let's just get a flavored one.
Does it taste good?
I kind of feel like that's too much,
that's a lot of buoyancy.
If you bring it down it's too stretchy,
look how stretchy this thing is.
Probably can't come down now, it has the opposite issue.
We're gonna go for version two and
I think I'm gonna stick this one down here this time.
We should also make sure we clean this up
and don't leave the wrappers here
cause people are gonna find these wrappers here and be like,
what the heck was going on.
Probably about that much?
The balloon keeps trying to come up the side
and flipping the whole thing over sideways.
Even just this is so much better than it was yesterday.
That one must be strawberry, let me know how it tastes.
- You're not gonna do this one?
- Perfect!
The picture quality out of this thing
is actually pretty impressive.
I'm so happy this condom idea worked,
tomorrow we're gonna take it to a place that has
a lot of fish apparently, very clear water
so hopefully we can test it out there,
get some really awesome footage over there.
Til we get the actual buoyancy foam
I can't really tell you how it handles,
right now it handles actually pretty decently.
So tomorrow it's more of just a test of image quality
and can we use it to get some awesome stuff anyway.
Hopefully we see an alligator.
If we could see anything living with the camera
I'd be pretty stoked with that.
- Except a person. - Except for a person,
that'd be really lame. - A dead person would
be actually cooler. (laughs)
- Supposed to go a hundred meters underwater
which is actually pretty insane.
- Oh here we are! - Wekiva, Wekiva!
- This is like a Disney theme park almost.
I'm waiting for a hippopotamus to pop out of the water.
- Steve isn't this kind of nice?
- It's like being on a date. - Yeah, you brought those
condoms though right?
It comes with this bag which is actually pretty nice,
I got a little compartment for our reel,
also it has the WiFi station in here.
One thing I'm not a huge fan of is
that there's no on and off switch.
Like to turn it off you have to remove the battery,
and you can't turn it off while the battery is in there
so you have to store the battery separately.
So check it out, we got the live feed now,
so I guess it's time to just send it underwater.
Whoa the water is so blue and clear underwater.
I'm getting an awesome shot of a turtle right now.
Whoa there's like a turtle there, that has something
attached to it.
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I can see this yellow cable,
and I'm just tracing it back here to the boat.
So it's not like a drone where it can show you exactly where
you are on a map, but you can always find the cable
connected to it and you can just follow it back.
And it does feel a little bit rocky but I feel like
that's just because we're not using the proper foam,
oh there it is!
Here, this is actually really cool here switch off.
Obviously this is more of a niche product,
I believe this is over a thousand dollars,
it is actually fun though.
Like if you live near clear bodies of water
than you'll probably have a blast with this thing.
We actually have a job coming up where we actually
do need to film some stuff underwater
and I am scuba certified but it's still a lot of work
to get underwater footage, and its not super easy to.
An underwater housing for a camera like this alone
is like thousands of dollars already.
Scuba diving and filming is really really fun
but it's pretty difficult.
- It's going face to face!
It's right there! (laughs) - I've never seen
you that excited Steve. - It's going right for it now.
It just went right over it, it's right above. (gasp)
(laughs) - Whoa!
Oh my God what!
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- I don't know what's cooler, the fact that
we're getting an epic shot of a turtle right here
or Steve looking this excited,
I've never seen him so happy before.
One concern I kind of have is this line getting tangled,
cause it does tend to wrap around stuff,
but it hasn't gotten tangled yet.
You probably wanna be a little cautious of going
in between a bunch of tree roots and stuff
and then coming back the wrong way or else
it's just gonna get wrapped up in a big knot.
Also since it is hardwired it is kinda nice that
you don't have to worry so much about the range of this
thing, like as long as have a cable, you're still good to go
further and deeper and apparently up to a hundred meters.
Here it doesn't really get that deep so
we can't really test that today
but for sure this is pretty cool.
It's always just so funny every time it comes back up
to the surface you just see this little pink condom
strawberry flavored.
- I can stay out here all day doing this actually.
- The battery lasts pretty good, we been on this thing
for a while and it's still going strong.
That's so cool, there's like a whole school of fish
following it just checking it out, that's awesome.
We gotta get on our plane in like two hours so,
we should probably get back to shore.
Alright and we're back, home sweet home.
And I must admit I actually really enjoyed playing with this
and so did Steve obviously.
Just one of those things that you don't realize how much fun
they are until you're out somewhere just zipping around.
Now I'm still waiting for that buoyancy foam to come in
so I can get this properly operational,
but even with our own custom flotation device
it actually worked really well.
So I feel like I'm gonna continue using this
especially if I get out to some like cool locations,
maybe places with sharks or something, that would be cool.
And once you learn how to use this thing it's actually
very straightforward and easy to use.
Steve and I had a lot of issues trying to figure this out
but that was really just because it kept sinking to the
bottom and we thought we were doing something wrong,
turns out they just forgot to put a piece of foam in there.
They need to go check in on their factory and crack a whip.
Cause how do you put this thing together and close it up
and not realize, hey, giant box of foam missing?
Damn it hiccups!
It does have some pretty cool features like
this light that was built in, we didn't really get to use it
but again this thing goes all the way down
to like 100 meters that is deep.
That's gonna be dark so, I guess that's when
this light would really help out.
Now the app itself is pretty straightforward,
there's not much to it and you pretty much control
everything from your phone, again pretty easy
once you have it figured out but,
it's not one of those apps that you can pick up right away
and immediately know how to use.
I actually recommend reading the
instruction manual before use.
There's not that many options when it come to video formats,
I mean you get your resolutions of HD, 2.7K, 4K
and all at 30 frames per second.
It doesn't look like you can hop into 24,
you have HD at 120 frames per second as well.
Now I've just been using it on the phone but there's
also ways to control it from a gaming controller
or you could also put on a VR headset and look around and
apparently this Nemo will look around the same way you do
so, that could be kind of cool to test out one day.
I mentioned this earlier, but you can't just shut it off
you have to take out this battery pack to turn it off
or else eventually it'll just start beeping at you.
And there's also been a few times where this battery
basically got stuck in there,
we both needed to really crank on it to get it out.
Probably cause we put it on there then we put it
into cold water and bring it back out to hot weather,
and after a couple repetitions of that
it just kind of fused together.
Another thing is that this does not record
onto a memory card, it has internal storage
where it saves all its videos and photos.
Which is cool and all I'm assuming they did it so that
they don't have to have a bunch of card slots open
that could possibly get flooded,
but the downside is when you're downloading the media
off of here, you have to do it through either your phone
app or through your computer and it's just slow.
It took a pretty long time to download a couple clips
off of here, way way slower than downloading it
off a memory card and also this thing needs to be
submerged in cold water while it's being downloaded
or else it can possibly overheat.
So you gotta take this, dunk it in cold water
and then hook up your phone or your computer to it
and then just wait a while for it to download.
But each clip does come with a pair which is nice,
there's the full res, and there's like a smaller much more
compressed preview file, so I just downloaded
all the preview files and then picked out,
ooh I want this clip and this clip and then
you can download the full res of the clips you want.
Now it turns out the way you can move it in the water,
it can go straight forward, back, up, down,
it can also kind of tilt up and down and pivot like that.
The only thing it can't do is like a straight sideways shot,
and that would be really nice to have
because that probably is one of the most popular drone shots
out there but hey, for the most part
you're gonna be able to work with this.
Finally when it comes to pricing this thing out,
I have seen the prices of these things kind of bounce around
a little bit, but currently the basic package is about
1250 bucks and the advanced package which comes with
the bag and all this that I kind of showed you guys
is about 1600 1700.
And originally I was thinking, this must be a really
niche product because how many people could possibly live
right by water and would want to use this regularly?
But clearly a lot of people do because
this originally launched on Kickstarter,
they tried to raise $30000 and they raised over 80,
so they completely crushed their target, and here it is.
Anyways I had a blast playing with this thing
and you'll probably be seeing this more on my channel.
So read some comments from my last video which is all about
this Canon EOS RP which is about a $1300
full frame camera from Canon.
It's an awesome camera for some people,
terrible option for others but let's see, top comment was,
My Canon 1300D works perfectly fine thank you very much!
Crying inside. (laughs)
Actually that's a T6 here in the states,
but that's actually a pretty solid camera.
For the first few years of doing video professionally
I had the Canon T2I which was my primary camera,
very similar to that T6 that you have there, or 1300D.
And I actually did quite a few projects with that camera,
once you get comfortable with it, there's a lot you can do
with that camera and I actually shot a couple commercials,
some of them actually went on a JumboTron during a NBA game,
all with a very basic camera although
I did rent some audio gear and the audio gear ended up being
worth like five times more than my camera.
Cause you gotta get that clean crispy audio,
but you pair a good audio with your camera dude,
it's gonna look awesome.
Denney says, "only one video ago you were sponsored by Canon
and how you start this video is 'I wouldn't buy this camera'
(laughs)
Keep up the quality content!"
I love sponsorship, it kind of fuels
my addiction to buying gear,
they allow me to spend more time
making these YouTube videos,
but I will never sign a contract that says
I can't talk crap about their brand
because that's my favorite part dude.
"Looks like you have scissor hand gestures
when you're talking."
Wait what are you talking about?
Do I do a lot of weird stuff with my hands, I don't know.
(smack)
(thud)
"I love how you kiss your bike right where your butt sits."
Jan Hemstad says, "Gene while miking up his client,
this guy has no idea where this has been."
"Could you compare the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
with a Canon EOS R, I wanna buy one or the other
but I can't decide."
Hmm, maybe I will do that but for now I will tell you that
if you're gonna vlog or you want auto focus,
you're gonna film yourself at any point, EOS R.
And if you want like raw video capabilities and,
it has like an XLR with phantom power,
and a few of their video friendly features then,
maybe go with that but the best way to decide is just
look at the footage side by side and see which one
you like better so, I'll put that on the list.
Anyways I'm gonna go look for some sharks so,
I'll see you guys later.
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