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so what'd you think you know I'll be honest I'm uh kind of impressed by its proportions I know right all right let me show you something here I kind of like the thin ones but this one is about form-factor yeah but mine can fit in tight spaces with girth you can open tight spaces it's like a master key whether you like thick or thin the ITX lineup from fractal design is sure to have something that tickles your fancy remember it's not the size that matters it's all about how you use it not it's definitely the girth don't finis Garrett Dean no contest no there's contents obscured so I asked you guys on Twitter recently if you were interested in learning more about the equipment that I use on a regular basis to bring you content and I thought it might be fun to show you guys kind of the progression because there was an overwhelming response to that tweet saying that you guys really wanted to see this video and I haven't done one of these in a couple of years so I figured why not we'll go and show you the equipment that I use now to bring you content where I started where I am today some of the reasons why I have upgraded the way that I did and I want to emphasize if you're trying to start a channel or you're on a limited budget you don't need the stuff that I'm showing you today it's one of those things where there's a progression that kind of happens as your channel grows your equipment kind of grows with you you don't need to run out and spend thousands of dollars on equipment because you're not gonna see a return on that investment when you don't have the viewership yet so just start off simple use what you have available to heck you can even use a webcam with like a Yeti my core a blue snowball or something on your computer and get the job done here's what I want you guys to do before you continue with this video I'm gonna put a link right here to my very first video I want you guys to see where I've started versus where I am today that we can understand what it was I said about the equipment growing and progressing with your channel all right so now that you've done that or hopefully you've actually watched at least the first 30 second let's say 30 seconds of your time watching that terrible video that was shot on this guy right here a Canon t2i that I own I think it's a 550d for the European counterpart I own this already because I bought it to do family photos when Little J was born it does it's a still camera is first and foremost always a still camera even the Martin the the 5d mark 4 is still a still camera so when you shoot video in DSLR there are compromises to be had no in this guy right here you only did 1080 30 you guys gave me a hard time about why am i was shooting 1080 30 and i'm like 30 is fine for talking head 60 is for a bit for games and I still agree with that but it doesn't have an articulating screen I couldn't see myself I couldn't get focused as you guys saw in that video it was very very difficult as a one-man operation the other thing is it overheats like a boss when it comes to shooting 1080 on this guy I could get about five to eight minutes of recording time before I'd start getting a little flashing temp sensor on here telling me hey the thing is overheating and that was indoors if I was outside in the Sun it was even worse so the other thing that really sucked about shooting with this guy here was the audio you have to get audio in here somehow and it only has a 3.5 millimeter jack on there so what do you do well I bought at h4n from Guitar Center which was neat because I had X has XLR inputs on there so I could use my sennheiser it was like $100 handheld mic that I'd like a vocal might be you would sing and to not talk into at a distance and I had that literally I wish I still had pictures of this I literally had it duct-taped to a tripod to use off-camera not a bad setup the execution was poor I didn't know what the hell I was doing anyway fast forward it had I had a magic lantern on this helped it overcame some issues that I had but eventually with all the overheating in this thing it finally died the power supply in this is dead there's no point in fixing this it would cost more to fix than the camera is worth so fast forward to this guy yeah what the hell is this thing it's monstrosity of a camera this is what happens when you decide you still want to shoot on DSLR and you have to overcome the obstacles of shooting on a DSLR so what you see here is a Canon 70d that I bought two years ago with an h5 on top again the same reason this h5 is on here as the t2 I you've got to get the audio somehow from mic to the camera this is the solution h5 it's also got a defocused follow focus on here that way I could get focused pulling a lot easier I like to do a lot of documentary style cinema style videos on my own that you guys have never even seen I just like to shoot video and this was what I came up with it's got a quick release plate on here most of this is like eBay stuff total knockoff and we're not talking like Redrock micro or anything super expensive on there the problem was shooting on a rig like this one it's really heavy oh and then lens on here too I bought at the same time as the camera it's a Canon 17 to 55 millimeter EFS it's a crop sensor lens it's a crop Center camera so it's fine and it's got a F 2.8 so you guys have seen that nice depth of field what you're seeing right now in this video is actually f 2.2 if you were curious but that's kind of a sides a point so the problem is this is heavy and you get very tiring and I do have a shoulder part that goes to this if you guys remember I put that together if you see es a couple years ago the problem is it's does the limitations of very bad battery life on this thing so to carry like an army of batteries with you external batteries for Canon DSLRs are not very plentiful the only option would have been to also put on a battery grip that can hold two batteries make an even bigger bulkier and heavier but at least I had an articulating screen but this is exactly the step I've been shooting with now for nearly two years and I decided it's time for an upgrade because again the sensor is good but low light is terrible it's very noisy and low light because it's a small sensor and it's a mirror sensor so this the sensor is actually far away from the glass it's being bounced off a mirror one other piece of forgot to show you though was that I also have this eye cup right here actually very nice eye cup that magnetically attaches and not the magnetic ring it actually has this magnetic piece right there that slides into a slot ladies and so when you're running and gunning at least you can get three points of contact if you didn't want to use the shoulder piece but anyway I want to do more vlogs and things and you guys know that this is not easy to carry around maybe you don't know I just told you so I should about this guy right here this is my Sony Handycam it's a 4k camera it's the ax 33 FDR ax 33 I believe and it does 4k it does 60fps 10 1080 it also does I believe 120 720 I don't shoot 720 for anything but this is what I use now when you guys see and I doing vlogs out and about like coconut monkey now we'll go to my croissant or whatever this is what we shoot on look how small this is I mean this looks a little bit less ridiculous and then of course on here we have a Sennheiser MKE 440 stereo shotgun mic it's got amazing audio quality on this thing and what I like about it is it's got various functions on here like low-pass filter it's got three it's got audio gain on here three levels of audio gain and the batteries this is the same batteries that shipped to me with over a month ago and I've used the hell out of this thing and it's still going and it outputs directly into three-and-a-half millimeter jack so you could use it on a camera like this you can put this on the DSLR when you're out and about and it's perfect so yeah the only problem is there's no XLR or anything on this obviously so if I want to use a boom mic like I'm using right now above me it's right that's right here no yeah yeah so we're capturing audio like that I'll show you that in a second this would go on the DSLR to move the h5 when I'm out and about lens wise though I do have a few lenses I showed you the 17 to 55 millimeter I also have this Rokinon 24 millimeter cine lens so it's completely manual it's got a manual iris control and got manual focus control but it's an F 1.5 it is it gives you super milky bokeh milky bokeh that massive depth of field we get a nice blurred background and really crisp detail because it's a prime lens it means it doesn't have a bunch of elements in there like a zoom lens that are moving in and out that can sometimes cause a little bit of fuzziness but I also have the kit lens which came with the 70d and I put that on the t2i until the t2 I you know completely it worked for a little while after it went bad I was gonna use it as like a B cam yeah it died I also have of course my nifty 50 no Canon owner without a nifty 50 everyone's gonna have it it's a hundred bucks it gets the job done 50 millimeter F one point eight it's very cheap its plastic II drop it it will break but so what am i using now I just showed you all of this so what the heck am i recording on I can't wait to show you so this is my new pride and joy here on the channel this is my sony FS 5 very expensive camera body please do not start with using this camera body it's got its got uses I'm gonna use it for in the future and I can't wait to actually show you some of those videos in fact there's a video I can show you that I already shot and it went up on the second channel will show you that in a minute for a lens this is my my 18 to 35 it is an F 1.8 lens is not image stabilized so it's perfect for tripod shots like this it's extremely crisp what I like about it is when I move the focus is super smooth and when i zoom it in and zoom it out the camera lens length does not change the element does not push out at the end but as you can see out here it's got articulating arm and that is a shot that you guys just saw obviously there's the chair and stuff it's got a sennheiser emmy 66 it is a phantom power acceptable or a single double a battery acceptable in there I love everything about this camera that I can't wait to start doing more stuff with this 4k you guys might have noticed this video is in 4k but it also does 1080p 240 FPS slow-mo so if you look at the video I'm gonna put up in a minute you guys can see some of the features of that guy but what's cool that this camera as it breaks down the handle comes off the grip over here which I use to control a lot of the features comes off the monitor can come off the mic can come off and it can break down to just the body here with the viewfinder right here which is cool about this viewfinder is it is it is a full-color OLED display that is insane so when you don't even need the LCD on there to shoot and if I was to put something like the nifty 50 on there then it's going to be you know a super small light run-and-gun camera I do have a meta bones adapter on there though because this is a sony e-mount camera and I'm using my Canon glass I want to keep my lenses so I am using a meta bones adapter I do also have a speed booster on there but I'm gonna be returning the speed booster the problem is I'm using crop lenses here so the speed booster adds a black ring around it and it actually adds a little bit of fuzziness to it so I'm just gonna remove turn the speed booster and just keep the standard adapter something else that I kind of take serious or more serious than I used to now is lighting you see I've got these soft boxes these soft boxes are junk I got these off of Amazon they always want to fall over they're always their flimsy as hell the head constantly wants to like noon just kind of sag down because the joint in there really really sucks but they get the job done for now I do want to update these two variable color LED lighting but that's very expensive and LED lighting could also could add Flickr it depends on the quality that you get and this is my audio technica 4053 be shotgun mic you can see by the size of my hand just how small it is hey stop that but it's a hyper-cardioid mic not a super cardioid so it's got a tighter pickup pattern which helps me block off a lot of like the computer sounds the air conditioner running stuff like that so when I'm doing my talking videos it's perfect and it's actually attached to a boom arm that I use it's actually intended for like a hair light like this is intended to hold another light up above your head to get a nice hair light but I use it as a boom arm for my mic and in my tripod here it's just an e image it's a fluid head it's not as good as a Manfrotto so I'm probably gonna update that in the future but this is what I use when I do my my pans and stuff like that and then over here I do also have a slider as you can see it's got a really cheap ball hit or a video tripod mount on there it moves pretty smooth I'm not a huge fan of sliders that aren't motorized because a human can't move this as smoothly as a motor can obviously so I actually don't use it a whole lot but yeah at least I have that in the arsenal so one tip I want to show you real quick here is as I was shooting obviously with this guy in 4k which is one of the reasons why I got it if I'm shooting something and I want to talk to the camera if I had the mic turned forward I'll just sound like the echo bouncing off the room so I turn it backwards and then I turned down the gain on it so just a little bit of a tip there is that way when I'm talking to it the mic is pointing at me ah genius right you'd be surprised how many times I did it the other way so if you want to see the FS 5 super slow-mo in action then head on over to this channel right here it's my second channel cars and vlogs with J's 2 cents where I do like car stuff and just regular vlogs I talk about weight loss all kinds of crazy stuff up there it's just another channel where I put things that I don't think fit on the main channel as much so I put it over there so you can click this video watch that and you'll see what the super-slow-mo is like it's like a super dramatic sexy car washing of Nick's car moving on there's one last piece of equipment I want to show you guys that I haven't actually used yet on the main channel I use it a little bit in the vlog Channel and that is the fact that I do have a DJI Osmo that I want to try finding some uses for I I thought it would fit in somewhere so I it and we'll actually do something with that in the future but guys that's the equipment that I'm using right now to bring you my content I think the contents gonna get better especially with the fs5 because I'm not having to overcome challenges with equipment the fs5 is freaking amazing I want to do amazing things for this channel that's one of the reasons why as time has gone on with the equipment I want better equipment so I can return the investment to you guys that you guys invest in me with your views to give you the best possible content that's worth watching so that's why the progression of equipment anyway guys time to go thanks for watching you guys requested it I did it I know it's not a whole lot of like real camera work or anything happening with this video but the information is there thanks for watching guys and as always I'll see you in the next video