Must Have Gear for Filmmakers & Photographers | 2018 Edition

Whatever camera you're using, if it's not this one, it's probably not that good, there are only four lights you need to know about to record videos, oh YouTube, we recommend you watch this video from the runner's team, just admit that you need to subscribe to some de Those of you watching this video may want to make movies and videos yourself, but when you look at what people wear in the professional league, it can seem very intimidating. They know what they don't need. Our equipment is specifically designed to allow us to get the best. possible image but with a group that is small agile and allows us to film in an affordable way anyway I don't know if you are interested in these things or not, but we are going to tell you well, the first thing we should talk about is about the camera , there are a lot of different cameras and honestly at this point they are all good, the red camera, this is where it all starts, why are they the two best things, really quick.

I can screw it up on set. I can lose my exposure, I can almost fly there, do everything wrong except focus, let's change all that after the fact, this is usually called raw format, red has a raw format that is compressed, small and very versatile, Secondly, it is a bit high. depth means that when we apply filters to this footage it doesn't destroy it, it doesn't destroy it and it looks disgusting and blocky, we use this because when we color grade our footage we want it to look good, I'm just saying there is a reason why I'm not saying the a7 is better it's because it's not, we are working our way out of your camera, the lenses are the next most important thing and we

have

been using the sigma art series lenses for a few months, almost a year, they are the best Basically, if I had to describe them, I would describe them as high resolution because they are just so sharp and clear that they allow you to maximize the resolution of whatever camera you are shooting with.

The lenses are great, they are the best lenses I

have

ever used. I plan to use them in the future. These little things are fine. The third most important thing when it comes to your camera. We have filters here that are pretty good. We have been using Tiffin filters. for a long time really really good quality really high quality high enough to not make my sigmas look bad. Sam is the audio guy here, in fact he was the audio guy before we had a YouTube channel and you were using this microphone. Should I plug it in?

Come in so we can hear it. No, you can hear it in every hallway video on our channel. I love Sennheiser microphones, but we have a reliable standby. It's Audio Technica at897. Anyway, it's an excellent microphone. Highly recommended. I love Sennheiser equipment. We had a Sennheiser microphone. That things are going badly for us, how sad, what is that? But their headphones are great. We've actually been using the pxc 550 noise canceling wireless bluetooth headphones. They are super cool. They are super comfortable. They are great for airplanes. They are great for sets. and they are also really good at working in an office environment, which helps me get my work done when others try to stop me.

I listen to half my capacity through these headphones and the noise cancellation is so good it scares me. The world is so quiet that you can hear your own brain. Promising but flawed camera makers will realize it's 2019 and they can put a damn Bluetooth chip in their cameras so I can monitor the audio without a damn cable getting between me and my camera multiple bluetooth outputs would be great so everyone can hear it guys, that's how I feel on set the sennheiser g3 audio wireless system has been great a little package here for the back of our boom microphone this wireless system that we've been using since day one, there's just limits to technology, like, for example, it's a radio, it's the year

2018

and we're using radios.

The radio transmission sometimes the signal gets a little weak, it's a little choppy, well they fixed it on the g4 which is the upgraded version. about this we should probably update it, as you can see by the scratches, the more scratches you see on the equipment, it means that this table is good, guys, okay, speaking of camera and wireless technology stuff, let's talk about monitoring this, here's a little HD monitor on. a noodle of a platform ignores the platform the small hd makes excellent monitors. The really cool thing about them is that you can apply filters to your footage in the modder itself so you can see what it looks like when it's in its final color state and this. it is paired with the nereus hd wireless bridge this allows us to have a wireless signal from the camera to the small hd but you know you don't need it anymore nowadays because the small hd now has it built into their monitors if you go to their site you can see why use cables, well cables are super reliable, just imagine you are filming something with more than one person, imagine a world where you are filming something and someone else has to watch what is being filmed at the same time.

What about professional cameras? You are a professional but you are on the move. GoPro cameras are super designed these days. I hate to say it, one in two breaks, except in sessions. The sessions are the promise. of what the gopro thought the shoot might be like gets our heartfelt endorsement as the best action camera 100 100 1 hundreds hey, how are you going to film your scene if it's too dark? There are only four lights you need to know about to record videos. only four and we will tell you which ones are right now number one light a light panel this is the best light panel on the market these are the astra light panels it becomes very bright allows you to change colors between tungsten and daylight also the The ballast is connected to the light, so it's all in one package, convenient and horrible.

Number two, the 120 series from the aperture, so these aperture LED lights are really nice and they do something that the Astra doesn't do, which is focus the light. They have these Fresnel lenses attached to them. to them, they are amazing, these things are precise, they give you nice clean shadows, they are in every set, now there are other things that we need outside of the lights, although one thing is color, and these are some really fun little lights, these It's the fancy cello lights and these. The things run on tiny Sony batteries, but what's amazing is that they can span the entire color spectrum in the moth video we just posted.

I use this light and it is a little cousin version for almost every shoot, there is one last light you need. To note, I legitimately don't know what light Sam is going to point to. The fourth and final light fits in the palm of my hand. Oh, cool, these guys, these are the aperture m9s, they have a little bit bigger brother, but these things. I love this stuff, every shot you see on this YouTube channel has one of these m9s right next to the lens, yeah let's talk about batteries with really big batteries, male batteries like this, so we have anton bauer batteries, too we have other batteries.

Because these are basically giant power banks that can power anything from a light to your camera to your monitor to anything else and have it last for several hours, you can even charge your phone because they have USB ports, modern technology, wow What good is it all? this equipment, if you don't have a way to hold it properly, we don't just put our cameras on the ground, do we go back to this rubbermaid limited lifetime rubber, uh, table, room, digital point store, they all make a good tripod for the team, this is it? a Sackler tripod I don't need problems I don't need it I just need an easy efficient system that can work with just one person once again just look at the wear and tear on this thing that means it's a good product I'm not I'll show you how it works or I'll show it in use, but zun iu cranes don't use gimbals too often anymore, but when we do, zhiyun cranes are actually very nice, there are a lot of really nasty handheld gimbals on the market, but the Zhiyun cranes don't They are one of them, you put the camera there, you turn it on and it works, so the new ronin-s haven't used it too much.

It looks great, maybe we'll update it. We have other gimbals. They stay. in the closet, we're going old school here and this is too big to install so we left it in the closet, but this is where Chromical cuts the b-roll of us using this. We found that sliders are for suckers, the Liebeck jib arm and tracking. By far the best you can get if you want smooth, versatile camera movement or cinematic movements This is better than any gimbal This is better than any tripod alone This is better than any slider It makes all these things obsolete It's solid like a rock it is a super basic technology and will never let you waste your time on the computer, let's talk about electronics, okay, so there are computers, there are good computers and bad computers, generally the computers you build yourself fall between the good computers and What's even better than the DIY computers are the ones we have from Puget Systems, they're our most powerful computers in the studio, they're the workhorses that do a lot of our editing and rendering and all the cool processing.

The thing is, those guys are really good at equipping them and they're really good at helping us with little customer service issues when there are problems, which is very rare, they're really good, tell me about the origin. I know there's a reason we're working with Puget now instead of the

2018

home runners. Here's the video I'd be remiss not to. take the camera and turn it these guys, oh hello, they film more than us here, you should use this so the microphone doesn't break and you don't know that a video microphone set up really cool. Really small ghost powered by a DSLR camera.

Acceptable sound quality, cheap, 70 dollars, this tripod, but Benro, I don't remember the actual model, but it's a travel one. The bad part about this type of tripod is that you can't level the head which you always like. adjust the leg to achieve this. The best thing about Benro is that they have solved that problem for each model. There is a type of micro bowl head on the top to adjust it right there. Right now it's ready for the lawn. Now it's ready to I swear, your living room or kitchen equipment is this little fish that Sam printed for me to hold all the memory cards, guys, guys, guys, guys, I forgot to mention that this 3D print is quite useful and you want to get into 3D printing. guys to go to if you want to get one ultimaker 3 brought me into the 3D printing game when before I thought I didn't have time to learn how to do it so unique oh that sigma lens oh this whole thing What you're holding too yeah we filmed everything in these are the added Canon 80ds 1080p 60 frames per second, now we are shooting 60 frames but we edit and publish in 30 frames per second, it doesn't matter if you have the best camera, it is important that you know what camera you are using, you can also use that camera for longer if you have a battery extender which is great it's a camera oh it's a canon don't wait the canons are 300 this is a 70 one from Amazon yeah this feels so small now from 10 to 20 because wide lenses are awesome and we want fancy shots, we use this 18 to 35 1.8 sigma or just grab a macro lens from the hallway case with little lights like you saw above. some kind of crazy equipment that changes each couple, the one on that camera is much better, you can see it now, those are incredible ads, that is the best camera ever, for what, yeah, type Michael, what's your favorite question?

The capture and lens kit which may not make sense what I just said is a great choice, it's called, technically it's just a lens case, peak designs, capture and then the lens kit, they are two separate products , but they can be used together, let's take actually, let's make a complete. turn, we will turn, give me the most expensive lens, we don't have belts, I'm going to tighten this. thousand dollar lens on this, I'm going to put it on my belt, you're crazy, this little button allows me to take it off another way. it would be there now lock it securely by turning it it's a hot swap it's a hot swap normally I'd have to use this tape I'm not going to use the table ready for the next shot boss I've never felt like this I want to keep swapping lenses more boom, I like it too the Red Bull pretty awesome you can have more than one well yeah we do so I just want to save this camera to see if it can work come on this is only if you do it. to a wedding and you look at any of the

photographers

, this is what a photographer looks like, yeah, a little more defeated, yeah that's it, I hope you enjoyed our little review of

gear

with attitude, we'll have some links here in the description below it's about the same thing, it's about finding equipment that allows you to do what you want in less time, less headaches and I just want to film a scene, well let's film that scene, come on, stop letting that YouTube recommends your videos and starts subscribing to them and making decisions for yourself.There are links to all of this

gear

in the description below, so check it out if you want some of this for yourself.

We also included a couple of links to things we didn't do. I have time to talk about it in this video, but it's still worth watching, like the Ktek boom pole, it's wonderful, it's long enough to touch the top of Sam's head, sorry, I touch the front of Sam's body, 22 or three feet.