[To Dougal] Right, how are we going to start? Shall we try with a good old-fashioned 'Hello'?
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Hello! Dougal and I are in our beloved Outer Hebrides
it's a shame I've got to shut the view out but
the sun... oh I don't know the sun's quite strong so I hope I hope you can see some
of the beach there I hope that's not affecting the light too much.
This is a long awaited vlog of a small series I'm going to do about how I vlog and this
one is gonna be about the equipment I use. The next one in this series - I don't
know if it will be next week or maybe in a couple of weeks time - it will be how I
use this equipment, and then hopefully a third one about the process about how I
put vlogs together. So without further ado we will crack on with this one. Obviously
I'm gonna need to change equipment halfway through because I can't show you
all my equipment and film it at the same time so we're gonna have to change cameras.
The way I'm going to do this I'm gonna start with the things that I find
the most useful, the best value, so that if you are thinking about starting a
vlog or a YouTube channel or really just for your own enjoyment, I'll start with
the things that I found to be the best value for money. We will work through and
start working up to the more luxury items (and of course the more money you
pay on something the less value it might be) and then we're gonna finish off with
three things, maybe a couple more, that I feel have been a waste of money. A couple
of them you may be quite surprised because a lot of vloggers swear by them -
I swear AT them! And finally there's a couple of items on my wish list, things I
want to invest in to take my vlogs further.
So if you're thinking of starting a vlog we're gonna start with the the basic
equipment and the stuff that I find most useful believe it or not. Number one,
no surprises, is the smartphone. I use an iPhone 7 plus and this has so many
advantages these are so good these days. I'm sure that the Android versions... I
know a lot of people swear by the Samsung Galaxy... but the iPhone 7 plus and
along with I think the 8+ and the 10 is awesome as a camera. Obviously
there are the usual advantages, you know, you've always got it with you, which is
the most essential thing really. And I I'm often using this in my vlogs because
quite often it's the only thing I've got with me. The image quality is amazing but
what I like most about this is the fact that it has awesome image stability, so
if you're walking along it really does reduce the shaking, the bouncing up and
down, so I am massively impressed with the stability of this. There are also
some other things that are about the smart phone especially about the iPhone+
that I find massively useful even when you're using other cameras. Now, two
things I really like about this are... one is the slow motion setting and what that
does is it sets the camera to a high frame rate and that means that often
you'll see some slow motion pictures of Dougal either running on the beach or
jumping in the snow and that is usually done on the iPhone in slow motion. It
increases the frame rates which means you can slow it down with no loss of
quality and the other really lovely feature about the iPhone is the
time-lapse setting, so when you've seen vlogs with the clouds going along or any
kind of time-lapse like that, that is done with the iPhone even though I've
got some far more expensive cameras. It's just very simple, very easy to do it with
the iPhone. Now, one app you might want to consider downloading for your iPhone is
Pro Movie or something similar to that. With Pro Movie you can actually
start changing the settings in the video camera and you may find that very useful.
So it's really really powerful tool your smartphone if you've got one. Another
great feature of the smartphone is the fact you can plug a microphone in.
Obviously with these awkward iPhones you need to have an adapter, but you could
plug in a microphone and that leads me on to the final quality that a
smartphone brings you, and that is you can use this as a sound recorder, so you
don't need to invest in any sound recorders if you buy a camera for your
vlogs or videos; you can then use your iPhone as a backup camera, a second view,
or you can use it as a sound recorder which we'll come on to next. So all in all
it is awesome! Are there any downsides? There are one or two downsides. First of
all is the the fixed focal length on the lens. Now if you're doing caravans, you're
filming caravans motorhomes tiny houses... any kind of interior, even interior of
your house, if you want to try and capture everything because the the lens
isn't very wide, you end up with a real seasick kind of a motion because...[rushed speech] 'oh gosh
you know I want to show you the cupboards and I want to show you the floor and I wanted
the cooker and I wanna show...' and people watching the video will be 'Oh gosh, you know,
that's a bit nauseus!' One way around that, if you are just going to do one or
two interiors, is just to take a still image of the inside and use that on your
video to demonstrate any points you want on a wide shot. So that's one
disadvantage. You can get these add-on lenses but that just adds to faff, and
the second thing that isn't so great about them sometimes - the focus does
search quite a lot so it... the focus sometimes it is not great. Especially if
you're using this say in the windscreen of your car, which we'll come on to, then I
found using an iPhone as a dashcam isn't always great. It's better than nothing
and it works very well, but sometimes the focus gets a bit lost when you're using
it as a dashcam or something like that. So there are limitations but very few so
this is by far the best value for money item and
with a smartphone you can start vlogging straight away as many of you know.
So the next item on the list is the good old selfie stick, and if you're going to buy
a selfie stick, which I would suggest you do if you've only got a smartphone, is
buy one with the detachable phone mount and the little tripod screw on the
selfie stick itself, so you can attach it like that. The reason I say this is
because then you can detach this and you can use it on other pieces of equipment
to hold your smartphone and you can also use this if you want to, say, get a camera
and use it to hold your camera steady... like that. As I mentioned before the
smartphone doesn't have a very wide lens on it, so the selfie stick... if you're
going to do a little bit to camera, you're walking along, then obviously
that's quite handy to keep the camera at a nice distance. I would say the big....[changes thread]
I mean this was one pound at the Pound Shop, that's how much I paid for this.
I will be putting links to all of the equipment in the description below, they
will be Amazon affiliate links. I will be earning a little commission on anything
you buy if you click on those links, so that's full disclosure, but as I say you
don't have to use those links. I got this in the Pound Shop and I would actually
recommend that you did because I'm after you saving some money here. But if you do
want to buy it through Amazon there will be a link in the description below and I
might get 10p. Hey, happy days! So the one downside with these cheap selfie sticks
is the fact they can be a bit wobbly and if you're using them like here, right now
it's quite windy you might get some vibration and especially when you've got
a really heavy smartphone on on it, it can be quite... well....
See! It can do that, basically. So they're not ideal, they're not great,
but you know for a pound, you can't go wrong really, can you? And it's
certainly better than not having a selfie stick.
The next thing I would suggest to invest in is a little tripod. Now I love this tripod it's quite new to
me it's made by a company called Neewer.
Don't ask!
You'll see a lot of people use Gorillapods; we will be coming back to
Gorillapods later in this vlog. I really like this.
It's got fixed legs, it can take any weight of camera so it's future proof if
you go up to an SLR, you can use it on a table or if you're out caravanning I
quite often use this on a camping stool... on the little camping stool table that
I've got. So it just saves having to set up a big clumsy tripod. And then of
course when you do invest in a camera or even before you do you can put your
iPhone mount on there and you can then use it to hold your phone steady and
that's really good. It's much more steady than the selfie stick. And obviously
if you do something like a time-lapse with your iPhone again tripod is just
essential absolutely essential. So I do like this little tripod, and that would
be I would suggest your next investment. I use it all the time. The next thing I
use all the time, as you may know, is this little sucker mount, and there's a tripod
attachment here for your iPhone or for your camera. This lives most the time on
the windscreen of the car as some of you may realise. I cover how I use all my
equipment in the the next vlog but you know, it's quite straightforward really.
That goes in the car, it's really strong, and I put the camera under there. You can
also use it in lots of other ways: you can attach it to windows in your home, or
because the Airstream has glass windows I sometimes
put it on the glass windows with the Airstream. I tend not to put it on bodywork
of cars or caravans because I'm always frightened it's gonna mark. Now once
you've got these mounts - I mean we're talking 20, 30 quid's worth of mounts -
not a huge amount of money - and you've got three mounts there - I would say the
next thing you would like to be looking to be investing in before you go for camera
is this. It's known as a lapel mic or quite often it's called a lavalier...
a la...a la... a la la la...
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a lavalier mic - I think - and as you can see I've just got
it clipped in here. Normally I've got it a little bit more concealed, but because
this is about vlogging I've left it on show today. This can plug into the iPhone
so you can while you're filming. You can use it to record your voice, record the
sound...the improvement in sound quality that this tiny cheap little sub 20
pounds (that's all it was it was under 20 pounds!)... the improvement that this tiny
little mic can make to you the quality of your vlogs is out standing.
It's probably the most stunning improvement you could make for the lowest amount of
money so I cannot recommend this enough, it is absolutely brilliant. And then of
course, once you move on to using your phone as a sound recorder, you can
obviously then use it with that. I've also used it for interviews and just
sort of hidden it on the table; and again even if it's sort of on the table behind
a bunch of flowers or a bowl of fruit or something, it will still give you a
massively improved audio than if you just use the audio on the phone or on
the camera. So finally for this sort of part one before I switch cameras, the
other essential piece of kit and that is of course a camera. So if you've started
vlogging with this equipment and you want to go on to the next level then you
might want to start thinking about a camera. Now this is a Canon G7X, I'm
guessing it's a mark one because it doesn't say mark two on it and i've had
it for a couple of years now. I am over the moon with this camera but it's
starting just starting to show its age and show its limitations. If you're
wondering what this little thing is on the top, it's called a dead mouse. It comes
off and that's the microphone there, and with the little dead mouse, if I am doing
stuff to camera (you don't need a selfie stick with this you can hold it like
that) it will just help the audio quality. It'll stop that wind noise so that's a
really good investment. I'll put a link to a dead mouse next to the
camera in the description below. That's a really worthwhile investment if you are
buying yourself a small camera like this. Lots of advantages to using this over an
iPhone; number one is the lens. Basically it's nice and wide so if you're doing
shots inside the caravan or the motor home or in your home, it's a nice wide
shot - you don't have to move the camera so much to get things in it and you get...
people are less nauseous watching the footage. Also it's got a great zoom
on it so you can zoom right in and get some nice detail. And it's got quite good
stabilisation but you would obviously want to be using something like the the
tripod to hold it if you are looking to use this sort of handheld like that.
Another great thing about it is the low light sensitivity so this is my go-to
camera for concerts. If I'm going to a Skerryvore concert or something
it's got great low-light potential. So it's really really good in low-light
situations. It's also less of a faff to set up than Pro movie on the iPhone - you
just switch it on, it's there. I usually leave it on shutter setting at a shutter
speed of 1 over 100, it just gives me the best results. I find the autofocus on
this is pretty good, it's better than the iPhone, but another great thing about it
is manual focus. Some of you may remember when I took my bucket list
flight to and from Barra when I took off from Barra I left this on
autofocus, and right at the crucial moment it focused on the rain on the
window not on the view outside. So when I came back and landed at Barra I
switched it to manual focus, focused on the outside, so when we landed even if
there was rain on the window it wouldn't affect the focus. So the manual focus on
this is useful at times. You can obviously buy extra batteries for this
so you can carry extra batteries around with you; you don't have to worry about
draining your phone battery. And then finally, better than a big camera, it's
just nice and portable. You can slip it in your pocket and take it to a concert.
It's obviously bigger than a smartphone but it's still really like... really portable.
So for me this has been great. Obviously a few downsides as well.
It's expensive, or it was expensive it was over 500 pounds - that's a lot of money to
invest. But I have used it an awful lot. As I said sometimes the autofocus could
be a bit better; sometimes you can press on the screen and it will focus on where
you've pressed it but I've had a few clips where it's not focused on me it's
focused on the kettle in the background or focus something that I didn't want it
to focus on and I didn't notice because I wasn't wearing my glasses. There's no
high frame rate setting on this camera the most you could set it on is I
believe 50 frames a second. I still need the iPhone if I'm going to be filming
something that I know is going to be in slow motion or I think I might want in
slow motion so it's not awfully great for slow-motion shots.
And also there's no 4k on it so it's not really future proof. I still don't use 4k;
the drone shoots in 4k that we'll be coming to, but generally because my stuff
is going on YouTube and I'm using mobile data because I'm in the caravan I don't
use 4k so it's not a problem for me yet. But I think it might soon be a problem.
So I know the Sony... I believe it's rx100... is a superior camera. I believe it's also
a lot more expensive! But for me the Canon G7X has been terrific.
So speaking of the G7X we've now switched to the G7X and you're looking at it now.
Don't worry too much about the image quality at the moment; I've had to switch off the
little light because we're going to talk about that in just a second.
Some people say of the Canon G7X: 'oh it doesn't have a microphone socket!' No it
doesn't, but as I mentioned before you can use your smartphone as a sound
recorder so that is not really an issue for me. Also we'll talk about this camera
in a minute, this does have a microphone socket and I never use it I always use a
sound recorder... either the phone or the sound recorder... so that to me is not an
issue. Cracking on then with our list and the next thing I would say best value if
you're starting out once you've got your camera is this. It's a little LED light.
I've run it off rechargeable batteries and this will really improve the quality
of your videos no end, especially if you're shooting indoors but they're also
useful on in bright conditions to light the... lift up the shadows.
So sometimes if you say you've got your back to the Sun it might still be good
to help illuminate your face a little bit, so that is a very good little investment.
The next thing you will need after that
which is great value is a big tripod. Now, like my friend James,
I hate tripods, but they are a necessary evil. You need one especially if you're
going to be doing stuff to camera. You set the camera up on the tripod; it's nice
and high because obviously with the little tripod that the G7X is now on,
even if you put on a camping stall it's still down there somewhere.
A tripod is really useful. It's heavy, clumsy, can be expensive...it's just the
heavy and clumsy I don't like... and it's like it's a faff to set up. The more
things are a faff to set up, the less I like them. So let's get this out the way,
that's the next thing on the list as I say, and the light. Now I'm going to put
the light on to re-set this shot up again, talk about the more luxurious stuff.
But that sort of finishes part one of the vlog which is really what I would
consider to be the essential kit for really really good vlogs and videos.
The rest of the stuff we're going to talk about now is to take your vlogs or your
videos up to the next level and some of this stuff I really only use now in
commercial work I bought it with a view for using it in vlogs and has not been
user-friendly enough for me to use in vlogs, so we'll go on to that section now once I've set up the light.
OK, so I've now set the light up and got the light
going it's a bit bright in my eyes but hopefully you can now see the difference
in the image quality; a less blown out background, hopefully my bald head isn't
merging with the background as it did before or it might might have done
before, it also helps with the camera's focus. Also this is a good time to
compare what it sounds like with the microphone I'm recording on to the sound
recorder and what it sounds like without the microphone. So you know what it
sounds like with the microphone... now this is what it sounds like if I'm just
recording in camera, and you can probably hear it's nowhere
near as nice as if I'm using the sound recorder that difference in quality is
pretty astounding. Not bad for a microphone that cost under 20 pounds and
you could easily use your smart phone instead of the sound recorder. Moving on
to the more luxurious equipment stuff, that is quite expensive but it will
raise your game if you have the money and the means and the resources. First of
all is this. I love this, this is a Sony FDR x3000, this is my action cam. I do not
use GoPro, I use this Sony action cam. It is not cheap, it is about... it was about
500 pounds and what really annoys me in the UK market is that we are also forced
to buy the little screen that comes with it that adds about 100 pounds of the
cost that some of our American and European cousins don't have to foot.
So you may want to buy this as a grey import. I'm never going to condone buying
stuff on a grey import in case it goes wrong, I did buy this from a UK dealer -
bought it from Amazon actually - and yes I was forced to buy the screen as well
which you don't need because it has a brilliant app on your smartphone, and the
app on the smartphone does everything the screen can do if anything a bit
better. It's just some people do like to wear the screen, it's like a viewfinder.
You can wear it on your wrist or have it as a separate thing, it saves... it frees up
your smartphone because when this is switched on and connected to the
smartphone it uses Wi-Fi, so obviously it takes the phone off of whatever other
Wi-Fi you might be using. What I love about this camera are its efficiency;
technically it works very well, it's very reliable, so the reliability.
The stability - the image stability when you're driving along is fantastic.
The colours are lovely, it comes with a waterproof case so you can use it as a
proper action cam, and it's got a tripod mount so you can put it on one of those
little mounts, you don't need any special adaptors it will go straight onto a
tripod or that windscreen sucker, anything like that.
You can record upside down so you can have it hanging in the windscreen as I
often do; I absolutely love it! Downsides are the price - it's about £500.
Being a Sony the menu is complicated.
Sony menus are always complicated! And also because of the price even though it
has the waterproof casing you can use, I don't take this out on the water with me
because it's just so expensive - I don't want to lose it, I don't want to break it.
I did take it snowboarding so it's good for the snowboarding footage.
A lot of that snowboarding footage was just held in my hand while I was
snowboarding, that was really good. Some people may not like the shotgun
shape of it as well - you may prefer the more flat profile of a GoPro. Bit I
haven't actually found that to be a problem; in fact if anything I quite like
it because if I'm walking along like when I was boarding the plane at Barra,
I sort of hold it in my hands like that so I don't even need a mount and I just
find it very comfortable to hold in your hand at the side of your body, walk along,
and get that nice sort of reportage feel to your vlogs. I really really love this
camera. So with everything we've covered so far, except this tripod, it's what I
consider to be my absolute essential kit; and if I'm going somewhere where I want
to take the bare minimum of kit but really good kit, this is what I would take.
I wouldn't take anything beyond here because you can record the sound on
your smartphone, you've got two cameras to get to your angles, got the tripod, got the
selfie stick... so that's my sort of essential kit.
Now we're moving up to the expensive less value for money sort of stuff; a bit more
play-worthy and quite often stuff I use for commercial work. So the big one is
this is the camera, the Sony A7Sii. If you're into your cameras then there
are a gazillion reviews on this on youtube. I ended up going for Sony -I used
to have a Canon 5d Mark 2 which just started getting a bit long in the tooth -
there are lots of things I love about this camera but it's so expensive and it's
heavy and it hasn't got great image stability so the G7X is always my go-to.
This is my sort of more tripod mounted professional camera. So what this brings
me - it brings quality obviously, great quality of image, you can... interchangeable
lenses. I've got a wide lens as well as this regular lens - this zoom lens, so you
have nice wide shots.I used that for the Northern Lights when we went to Finland.
You can it's got a great manual focus. When you're using the manual focusing
ring you get a large display so without my glasses I could see that. If I want
one thing in focus like if I'm videoing this Airstream and there's a nice badge
on the side, I can pick out the badge. I love being able to do things like that
and it's got a good high frame rate as well, so you can rack up the frame rate
and do some really lovely cinematographic... cinematographic cinema...
graphic...
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slow-motion shots like that and we'll talk about the gimbal in a minute. So
that is my big camera. I don't know how much they are now... probably 2 grand or
something like that. Again, I'll link in the description below.
l love it. A few downsides; as I mentioned number one it's heavy, bulky; again being
a Sony the menus are massively complicated.
I mean it's... I've had this camera a year and it took me a good six months to
learn how to use it properly, and even now I don't know everything about it. One
thing a lot of vloggers don't like is this screen. It doesn't flip fully it
sort of comes out but can't sort of use it as a as a selfie screen which doesn't
really worry me too much because for sort of more vloggy stuff I'll use the
G7X, for the more sort of on the go stuff. That doesn't worry me too much. What does
worry me though, I have never managed to get the microphone plugged into this and
the sound levels adjusted to something that I'm happy with. Every single setting
I seem to use on this camera it says: 'Oh you can't
change the microphone settings' or it just doesn't record sound. On the high
frame rate stuff it doesn't even record sound, so that I find a little bit
frustrating. Another reason to use the sound recorder! But as a camera I am
happy with it, I'm very happy with it, would I have it if I didn't do
commercial work? Probably not because I love the G7X, I don't think I would
invest in that if I did not do videography and photography for
companies; but I love it still. So next up - we've talked about it a lot and that is
the sound recorder. This is a Zoom h4n Pro. Now this is a bit like having a
sledgehammer to break a walnut, this is a really professional sound recorder and
then I've plugged in the £20 microphone in the back of it! But it's
future proof I do want to improve the audio on my vlogs that's my next goal;
we'll talk about that at the end of this vlog. You can use your smartphone but
if you are serious about going into this in a bit more of a professional way,
think about getting a proper sound recorder like the Zoom. There are smaller
models than this that are more than adequate, or just use the app on your
smartphone, but I love this Zoom sound recorder. I've also got a a wind muffle
that goes over the top so I can go out... I haven't got to this stage yet but I'm
hoping to... I can go out and record sounds like the sound of the sea crashing or
the sound of the wind and the waves or anything like that, so that is a good
investment. The bit you've all been waiting for, the real fun is the drone.
This is a DJI Mavic Pro this is one of the original DJI Mavic Pros. As a lot of
you will know drone footage adds another dimension to your videos. I love it,
it's expensive (I think that was £1,200) it's now been superseded by the
next-level Mavic Pro. I do like the DJI products they're a very high quality
product. I've got friends who have got things like the the DJI Spark. That's got
less sort of camera equipment on it and less range. I've got a couple of friends
who've got the Mavic Air and both of them love their
drones. But I think the problem with the Air is the lack of range;
they can't go very far away. Now to satisfy the Drone Code in the UK you
must keep your drone within sight at all times so that might not be an issue for
many people. But I do like the fact that this has a very long range on it (can't
remember off the top of my head but check out the DJI website) so I love my
drone. Is it good value for money? Absolutely not!
The problem with a drone in the UK is that most (or any other country I'm sure)
is that most places that you want to fly it because they're interesting you're
not allowed to so! For example, I'm from Kent down in Southeast. When I bought
this I wanted to go fly it somewhere interesting. The only interesting place I
could think of down and Kent? I know, Dover Docks! Oh no you can't fly it anywhere
near Dover docks understandably. You've also got radar towers and all this kind
of thing going on that's a complete no-fly zone. Folkestone harbour? Same again.
I know what about Dungeness, the UK's only desert? Oh yeah Dungeness; you've
got a nuclear power station, you've got an RSPB Reserve, you've got a military
training zone, and you've got Lydd Airport that is a no-fly zone times four. So I do
find it really frustrating that a lot of the places you want to use a drone you
can't. You can't use it over a caravan site because you're going to be invading
people's privacy all this kind of thing. So you may notice that a lot of my drone
footage the majority of my drone footage is up here in the Outer Hebrides
where I can fly I can fly it legally, safely and without invading anyone's
privacy and there are nice things to look at. So I love it.
It's a great piece of kit but if you are thinking of investing in a drone think
of it more as a bit of fun it's a ... If you've got the money and you want
that bit of fun, you want to take pictures of your house from from above
and all this kind of thing, go for it! Have fun! Life is too short. If you think
you want it as a serious investment into vlogging into your YouTube videos...
yeah I find it hard to justify the price, I really do
for the amount of times you can use it. But for me is it worth it?
I think so because I've used it quite a lot. I'm lucky enough to come to the
Outer Hebrides a lot and all in all it's been... it adds that little extra to my
vlogs but I won't pretend it's anything more than a lot of fun. So I do like it
but I can't justify the money really, but I do like it! And finally the last piece
of equipment I use is this. It's the gimbal this is a Feiyutech a2000.
I got this for the Sony camera that I use. It's one of those things if you
don't know what a gimbal is, it sort of holds the camera steady using
electronics. You put the camera sort of here on there like that, and as you move
along it will hold the camera steady and it will take away a lot of the shake
which is very useful when there's very little image stabilization in these Sony
A7Siis. So this was about £300, again I'll put the amazon
link in the description below - if not to this one to the nearest modern alternative.
I had visions of using this a lot for Caravan tours and all that
kind of thing and very quickly I realised it was no good for things like
Caravan tours anything like that because the time you've got this heavy camera
and then you've got this very heavy gimbal this is full of batteries here,
this is a counterweight for the camera so weighs almost as much as the
camera again... the time you've got that it gets very heavy very quickly. And I'll
cover this in a little bit more detail in the vlogging techniques video but I
just found it was not successful when I try to film the interiors of caravans or
anything with it. All I really use it for now is if I'm doing commercial work. So
you may remember when I did that SsangYong video in the desert. Coupled with
the high frame rate on the Sony camera you put this on the HFR whatever it is...
and you put it in that, then we have to do this
sweep it past the car and then you slow that right down to get that really
smooth cinematographic effect. So it can produce a nice effect but I think the
main disadvantage with this piece of kit is you need to set it up.
It's the calibration that is a faff so most the time it stays in the box
because I really cannot be bothered. I'll end up grabbing the Canon G7X with one
hand and nine times out of ten that is fine,
that is absolutely fine. This takes a lot of setting up and it gets very very very
heavy. I've also found a bit of a problem with this and that is if you don't
calibrate it correctly to the millimetre it starts shaking sometimes, it
vibrates, and that can be quite annoying as well. So it's a good piece of kit if
you are going to do lots of really smooth cinematographic kind of stuff
combined with a high frame rate but again most the time I will use the
iPhone because you've got the stability there, you've got the slow motion video
there, and that is nine times out of ten that's good enough or the G7X.
That is just to really give it that little edge if you just want to go that
little bit better. Is it worth paying £3000 for?
Not really, not for a YouTube vlog, but it probably is if you are doing
commercial work. So that is my equipment, now let's talk about three things that
I've bought that I find I really didn't get on with and as we're talking about
the gimbal we'll start there I did buy a gimbal for my iPhone because I thought
that would be great and also it was a third of the price of this. I found I
never ever used it. If you are using the iPhone generally,
your smartphone, it's generally because you're using it on the hoof you've seen
something you think 'Oh that looks awesome!'
you know if the dogs playing or something like that. You whip the phone
out of your pocket, hit record, and off you go. The gimbal for the iPhone will stabilize
it, but again it needs setting up. It takes away all the spontaneity. Now if
I'm setting up a shot... if I'm setting up something that wants to look really good,
I'll used the G7X with the tripod or next level I will use the Sony camera
the A7 with with this gimbal. I will not use a gimbal with the small
smartphone, it just it doesn't work. To me, smartphone is all about spontaneity.
Gimbal is all about spending a long time setting it up. So I have ended up getting
rid of that. The next thing I find was massively overrated, and some of you
may remember I did used to use it, was a GoPro action camera. Now I only got as
far as the GoPro Hero3 and I was looking at buying another GoPro when I bought
the Sony over a year ago, and I noticed a lot of the reviews for whatever the new
one was at the time they said it crashed a lot.
Well my GoPro Hero3 crashed all the time, the GoPro I had before that, I believe it
was a 1 or a 2, that crashed all the time. And every time I wanted to get some kind
of footage the stupid camera would crash. They kept on crashing for years after.
With every renewal and I thought this is crazy.
The other thing I didn't like about the GoPro is that the color capture wasn't
great because they're designed in California and it seems that they're not
meant for a driech Scottish day. So sorry to pan the GoPro. I don't know what the 7
is like, maybe they fixed it now, but I never got on with GoPro so I don't use
it anymore. And then finally this might surprise everyone. This is something else
I really don't rate and that is the Gorilla Pod. Every other vlogger
I know swears by them. I swear at it, useless thing! People say 'oh you can wrap
the legs around a tree!' No you can't! You try and you try and
wrap these legs around anything and they just it just falls off! And then every
time you try to set it up it falls over, and as I say these legs fall out. This is
only a year or two old. When they're new they're much stiffer but if you use them
quite a bit they get really weak and floppy and useless. I do not like things
that you can't use after a year or so, I do like things that will last a long
time. So I'm afraid I do not rate the Gorillapod. I never ever found that I
needed to wrap it around a tree or wrap it around my arm or wrap it around...
I never needed to do that. So I just find that the fixed tripod, the small little
fixed tripod I got, is more than adequate for my needs. There are the three things
I don't use. One thing is on my shopping list, one thing I would really like to
buy and I still am so confused I don't know where to go, I need a decent
microphone. I would like to use the microphone for voiceovers so for voicing
over video. I would also like to use the microphone for interviews so if I'm
interviewing someone we can do that. I can't seem to find a microphone that
will do both, and the problem is is that we're now talking well in excess of £100
and I don't know what to get. So I don't know yet about what microphone to
get. I would like something because I'm short of space and I like efficient
things I will want something that does both that does both interviews and
voiceovers. But at the moment I cannot find exactly what I'm looking for so if
anyone's got any ideas I would really really appreciate them. I'm looking at
paying probably over a £100 but no more than £150-£200 if it's
something that's going to do both jobs really well. Because I've got the
attachments in the Zoom voice recorder here so I can plug
it into that that's not a problem, and then you have to buy secondary things to
put them through to power them also...it's quite complicated so I haven't quite got
the hang of microphones yet. That's about the only thing I've now got on my wish
list. Obviously DJI has got a new Mavic Pro out now with a much better
camera - I am quite disappointed with the fairly flat images I get from the
Mavic Pro - but I can't justify spending another £1200
on a drone I really can't. But... maybe, one day. So there you go that is my
vlogging equipment from the most useful through to the least useful. I hope you
found it useful. As ever as I said there will be links to all these products or
near enough their modern equivalents in the description below. They will be
Amazon links. If you do buy those or anything else while you click through on
those links I will earn a commission for which I thank you very much. The next
video I'm going to do in this series is the long-awaited
'How I use this equipment.' I've touched on it now but it's things like how I use
the drone which I know a lot of people are interested in, and why I didn't get
on so well with the gimbal doing van tours and all that kind of thing.
But in the meantime I really hope you found it useful. Please talk to each other in
the comments below, see if things work for you. By all means ask questions but
bear in mind I'm not an expert, I just know what I know. I know the equipment
I've got, I'm not a photographic or video graphic equipment expert. If you want
expert advice I would suggest you check out some of the other great creators on
YouTube who make their channels out of reviewing tech because I don't. I hope
you enjoyed that and you'll join us for the next video but in the meantime from
the gorgeous Outer Hebrides it just leaves me to say from Dougal and from me
Thanks for tuning in!
There were you excited about that video Dougal, hmm??? You like it when I
photograph you don't you? You do! You do! you....
Yes? Yes?
He never smiles.
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