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what's up everyone Jays two cents here we're gonna kick off 2017 2017 we went backwards Nick oh so we're kicking off 2018 here with our CES coverage my fifth year attending I think we finally got things under control in terms of what to bring and what's useless and what extras we need and stuff so for fifth year is the charm but we've obviously been trying to scale down and be a little bit more portable before we get into what's in our bag here huge shout out to EVGA who has sponsored our CES 2018 coverage so guys make sure you check them out at EVGA comm we will have some more direction on what to do and and what they're showcasing at 2018 and once the show actually begins but here's what we got right here as you can see we've got a theme of batteries obvious there's a lot of batteries let's talk about the camera though this is obviously what is going to be shot through this lens and processed and into the computer and up to the Internet for you guys to see we can hold this with one hand and maneuver this around this was kind of the theme with this we needed more portability because all the fs5 is nice this is much more friendly when it comes to portability so this is a sony a7s 2 and obviously we're not getting to the discussion of a 7r2 versus s to some great coverage on why one would choose one over the other but I digress this is the a7s2 with the tilt to cage on here which we have the optional handle installed you can actually adjust the angle of this handle too depending on how you want it is a little knob right here but that gives us something to attach all of our attachments to because shooting DSLR by itself it's kind of a pain when you're trying to do video so we have to have some attachments to get us to where we need to be now for glass I am using a Canon L Series this is a 24 to 105 image stabilized lens it is a full frame lens to go with our full-frame sensor body so that's why we have this but the image stabilization that's the most important part because that tradeshows is a lot of moving around a lot of elbowing people and stuff so we want to make it as it's non throw up inducing as we can but that's up to NIC if it's too shaky blame him that's why he's here but yeah that huge zoom range of 24 to 105 means we have one lens that can pretty much get everything need without having a switch lenses will probably bring a backup just in case that probably one of our Sigma lenses but yeah this is our primary lens right here and it's an f4 I wish it was lower that we would get that nice bokeh and depth of field and and whatnot but this is a trade show this ain't no didn't this ain't no glamor show so this will get the job done for audio though now it's being made it to the camera here with our meta bones smart adapter this is not a speed booster which would have been nice because of the f4 but this is how we're connecting obviously our Canon glass to our sony body now for audio we've got our sony XLR a 1m which is a dual XLR input it's got its preamps and stuff but it connects to the a7 via a hot shoe so it gets power and it communicates with the camera through the hot shoe mount which you can see right here so there's no extra batteries to worry about no interface to worry about it just the canon or the the camera automatically recognizes that it's a Sony product plugged in and then just works which is great so we've got our Sennheiser AVX wireless system here that goes with our wireless lav then we've got a Audio Technica 4053 be hyper-cardioid shotgun mic which is going to be used obviously for on-camera scratchy audio but yeah this is our setup right here now in terms of batteries and keeping this thing running of course it's got its tiny little battery and that's the problem with these that's this thing it'll last us very long this will last us like 35 minutes of shooting will be doing 1080p videos at CES just for the sake of upload - or and we stuck with hotel and cellular uploads so 1080p but even shooting 1080p that battery would go fast so here's we've got we've got an army of battery banks because guess what the sony the a7 s - as long as you have a battery in the camera you can actually power your camera off of external batteries so we've got like oh I don't know 55,000 milliamps worth of battery right here between these three they all have multiple outputs for charging which means we can charge our ABX system if we need to we can charge well I guess that's about it we can charge a camera - obviously and then of course we have an extra Sony battery for that as well we got our Sony chargers we have our light chargers as well as our batteries for our lights because we are going to be bringing this guy right here this is the this is I can light I don't even know the model number to be honest with you it's a o YB 2 4 0 whatever this is a bi LED light that puts out a ton of light that we're gonna be bringing because some of the Suites are extremely under lit this is versatile so that we can mount it on the camera if we need to we can mount it on a tripod we can stick it in the corner we can handhold it even has a little like handle and this is gonna be running off of these batteries right here so that's gonna be our light situation obviously we've got a plethora of USB cables we also have some micro HDMI cables for all our small HD field monitor here which is also going to be on the a7 giving Nick another thing to help him focus because the the built-in viewfinder on that is it speaking kind of sucks versus like an actual field monitor so that's why we're bringing that as a just another reference point for keeping focus we have also got this is the ABX wireless lab I'm obviously not talking on that right now I'm talking on the the standard one this will be doing our vocals with I've also got my handheld ABX in case I need it for like the trade show and stuff we're gonna use this in forever it's a little dirty we have to charge all this too obviously we who else we got here battery charger our battery case for my phone so I can stay nice and connected while I'm there for tweets and instagrams and loud squeaky bus breaks whatever that's not broken I swear if it is a whatever here are sticks so we've got the bin row this is the tid 37c this is carbon fiber it's nice and light it's got a hook on it so you can hook it on your backpack or whatever and it's it's not heavy at all so we can travel with that easily it's gonna work when we need sticks for the camera or we need a mount for the light obviously but this is we're gonna be using mostly for our our shots at CES and this what Nick will be using this is our monopod got this off Amazon actual I'll put a link to this down below it's a king joy and it's also got our Manfrotto 502 head on there which is what we'll be connecting the camera now because I'm tall we also needed a monopod that went nice and high now this is higher than we actually need it I think but the thing is that we actually have the ability to go nice and high in I level if Nick wanted to so this is how that's going to be but because we have the Tilton panhead Nick can still get some really smooth shots when we're on the showroom floor and stuff so this is what's gonna kind of look like when we're out there at the trade show or at least what Nick's gonna look like while we're doing this so yeah so this is Nick's camera bag right here this is where all this gear is gonna be kind of shoved it is this the one that I bought that I gave you oh I thought so I was like that looks familiar Nick's camera bag will be putting all the batteries and stuff in I'll have a can of the backpack Brian while the backpacks will have a lot of backs helping carry this up we're like team husky we're the big guys of YouTube and I don't mean by channel size I mean big look at me in terms of audio though Nick will be monitoring everything on his emu Purple Hearts these are nice wood closed back headphones but they're super lightweight that's why these were coming their clothes back sound oscillation but they're super light light is obviously the key word here I might notice there's no laptop or anything here it's like Jay how the heck you plan out editing these videos I'm glad you asked it's kind of ironic that I said that we wanted to pack light because I built a desktop to do all my editing and I have used powerful laptops and trust me there are some very powerful laptops out there but I have just decided that I want to go through the content as quickly as I can so that's why I built myself a micro ATX rig right here that's fairly temporary I don't know if this will stay together I've done this before I did this one other year you could find an old video in fact I'll link it you guys want to see an old retro J video where i built a mini ITX system that i took with me to do editing within the hotel this is an Intel 7900 X 10 cores 20 threads overclocked to 4.5 do does nobody do breaks around here I'm opening up a brake shop Nick we're gonna make a mint yeah 32 gigs of corsair dominator ddr4 32 hundred megahertz it's got a gtx 1080 Ti in there it's water-cooled with a Kraken X 52 it's sitting inside of a NZXT th400 it's got a EVGA X 299 micro motherboard on there it's got all SSD storage that are squibs pacific scratch drive just for editing Adobe loves speed and I don't mean drugs I mean it likes megahertz it likes core speed so that's why it made sense for me to go with Intel and attend courts one thread that's overclocked far because I actually get better results than going with a higher thread count Intel CPU and the same reason why it was two reasons I think Oh thread Ripper one then I have a micro ATX board available and I don't if they do I don't have it and then to the same reason all those cores would go to waste because I can only go about 4.0 gigahertz out of that and so going with the higher frequency made more sense then we'll be bringing a mouse and keyboard IPS panel set that up in the hotel and just churning out videos as fast as we can as keeping the quality up hopefully hopefully you guys will watch it anyway that's what's in our bag guys thanks for watching and we'll see you well by the time you guys watch this will already be at CES we hope you guys would check out our coverage we're gonna do the best we can to keep it interesting and like I said there will be some automotive high end automotive performance stuff I mean smart cars and electric cars those are cool but we care about tired burning gas guzzling fast cars and that's we're gonna be taking a look at while we're there as well anyway we're gonna go again huge tank an EVGA for sponsoring our trip we will see you guys at CES 2018