as a traveling filmmaker and photographer you always have one existential question to answer
and that is what gear should i bring and let's be honest i'm pretty bad at making these choices
now one remedy is to acquire gear that is compact light and still fits the needs of
your shoot but finding your perfect travel kit can be a little bit of a try and error run
and i usually sell a lot of gear that i it doesn't fit my knees and i do this on
gearfocus.com today's sponsor but now let's talk about what's in this backpack here
okay so while we wait for the sun to set behind hanky first let's talk about gear
it was a fairly easy hike 40 minutes two and a half kilometers uphill but
i decided to bring most of my stuff with me so that we can talk about the gear in front
of an amazing backdrop because why not right quick side note rockfall is real look at this
path here which completely got obliterated by these rocks falling down so be aware of the signs
now any good what's in my backpack video starts with a backpack itself and this is
the lowepro pro tracker bp550 i got it earlier this year and i'm absolutely in love with it
i really like these two compartments these two separate bags that you can strap onto the top
when i want flights this top compartment i fill with my chargers hard drives snags anything i
need actually for the flight itself and then i put the rest of the backpack into the top compartment
but keep this one at my seat and you see i have a water bladder in here that i use especially
helpful for hiking you can like put a tent or jacket down here has a tripod holder
i'm using here the typical manfrotto b3 aluminium version it's not ideal
for the cameras i use but i also have a zachtla flowtech with me back in the car down the valley
but let's put this camera on the tripod for an overhead look and by the way this camera is the
canon r6 with the 24 105 that adorama loaned me for this trip uh so far so good it's a good
camera to just like film yourself and youtube videos if you're into that kind of stuff
all right i changed location a little bit and i realized also that i haven't done a
what's in my backpack video in quite a while so maybe a little bit weird but let's look inside
so the heart of my production and my a camera for almost a year by now is the red komodo 6k
gives you the awesome red code raw codec and red image quality in a small form factor
this is the stormtrooper edition anyone who has been a little bit longer subscribe to my channel
knows this camera by now but i'm rocking the sigma 18 to 35 1.8 one of my all-time favorite lenses
for super 35 cameras i use the canon rf2ef adapter with a breakthrough photography nd filters and
this is a new addition to my package this monitor by portkeys that's the bm5wr and they sent it to
me to try it out i tried it out before it came out here because you never want to go out with gear
that you don't trust but what i really like about this is that it's significantly brighter than my
previous monitor that i've been using and i think this is like over 2000 nits this is perfect when
you're shooting outdoors all the time i'm not even running this monitor at full brightness it's just
so insanely bright that it's super easy to use in the outdoors also it has commodore control so
i can control my camera through this touch screen with this wi-fi antenna here and dial in all the
settings here wirelessly really cool and then one of my other favorite lenses is the tokina 11 to 20
2.9 t 2.9 it's been a workhorse for me because i really dig it on the super 35 sensor especially
when you're out here in nature and get close to these waterfalls this lens here gives you just
a super super nice wide field of view which is amazing for nature shots landscapes so definitely
although it's a little heavy always with me especially when i'm out here hiking in nature
batteries i'm using the anton bauer titan micros my favorite size is the v90s
and just to close up the komodo xsen now sent me this new newly read approved
memory card which is a gigabyte that come also in 256 and i saw i think in one terabyte versions
it's red approved tried it now for a couple like a month or so shot a big project on it no issues
works perfectly has a nice little komodo on in front of it yeah another alternative for memory
card for your camera that's the c first 2.0 card obviously that's what the komodo is rocking again
now let's talk about drones so this is a controller for mavic 2 pro i'm actually going to
fly it soon so maybe we just keep it out also have a bunch of nd filters these are the polarized nd
filters from polar pro for the mavic 2 pro always helpful especially out in nature you also see a
gopro always good i use it either as a time lapse camera some action camera when i'm mounted to cars
or so or for something else which you see in a second now another addition to my whole package
here that i haven't had before but now luck around because i really dig it and it's so much fun
is the dji fpv i know it's not the best fpv drone out there but for someone who's not like using it
just for an fpv as an fb fly but as a cinematic tool to get shots that you usually don't get
i love this thing um here the door gets here into the top compartment and then i have the goggles
up here in the secondary compartment that you know you also need to carry around so when you've shoot
actually with an fpv drone and a komodo and a dji mavic 2 you carry a lot of stuff with you but
eventually you know it's worth it you've seen the videos yeah i'm carrying a bunch of batteries for
the drones for the komodo i'm with me but you can also throw in your laptop when i travel the
laptop goes up front here but that's basically what's in my backpack in 2021 is that what it is
now packing for this trip made me realize that i need to seriously trim down on the gear i own by
like quite a bit and i've started this journey to minimalism by selling gear on gear focus which is
a marketplace to buy and sell camera equipment not only is it a great place to snatch a good deal but
for me as a gear head it is a platform that allows me to give my used gear a second life in the hands
of a fellow enthusiast recently i sold some fairly niche gear specifically to my red commodore to a
filmmaker in oregon and he used the new make an offer feature where an interested buyer can you
guessed it make an offer below the price that is set by the seller gear focus was made by creators
for creators and has the lowest seller fees anywhere of only three and a half percent which is
less than half of the other marketplaces out there so either if you have gear to sell or if you want
to invest in equipment i recommend checking out gearfocus.com it would be great if you can use the
link in the description below so that they know that i sent you and while you're there feel free
to check out my store and see what i've listed right now but with that let's go back to iceland
okay now there's a few pieces of gear that i don't have with me
we're gonna talk about those right now
all right another crucial piece of gear that i specifically brought
for this location here is the 72 200 2.8 because i knew after the fourth time in iceland i had to see
these little fellas here the little puffins
and they exceed my expectations i think they're my new favorite bird now if that's a thing
let's talk about audio real quick i'm using the bird video mic pro plus on the r6 right now and
also have a tentacle sync track e and the lav mic with me because especially if you want to shoot
yourself from further away or in windy conditions the lav mic is indispensable you know how much i
love this thing if you watch one of my videos i made about it if you haven't check it out up here
and let's not forget the rear view camera that i also have with me which has an amazing dynamic
range and resolution especially to shoot sunsets as you can see here wonderful now at the end of
a shooting session i drop all the footage from all the cameras on a samsung ssd t5 on my 2017 macbook
and start generating proxies while i'm driving it helps me to edit faster all the proxies are
on one hard drive and the footage is on other hard drives so i can start reviewing faster and then
pardon the mess this is my gear storage slash charging bay this is where all the batteries
go in with these inverters here so while i'm driving or resting i can start charging
and recharging all the batteries from all the gear as you can imagine it's an endless cycle
okay one of the pieces of gear that i brought with me but have not used at all in the first 10
days is the dj rs2 and that gimbal which i can use for my komodo but i really didn't see you so far i
mean i get all my dynamic shots from the drones and run the komodo on sticks and handheld so
lesson learned don't need to bring this beast here on a trip that's all right
one of the bigger items worth bringing though is the zachla flowtech 75 with the ace fluid head
look how tall this thing goes like my camera is above my eye level so especially if you want to
film something like this from top down ish this thing is worth gold you can do super smooth
pants and tails definitely worth bringing and since it's carbon fiber it's also fairly light
certainly it's bulky and big so i had to put it diagonally in my suitcase but
obviously i wouldn't take it on a bigger hike as you've seen all right i will leave
the links to all these products in the description below now you know what i'm
lugging around here on the top of volcanoes but thanks so much for watching have a good
morning have a good night whenever and wherever you are around this beautiful planet bye bye
the sun is popping the sun is popping let's switch lenses and cameras