Gadgetory

hey what is up guys I'm pretty AC here and if you saw my reddit AMA a couple of days ago then you saw one of the questions was I'm trying to start my own YouTube channel I was wondering what equipment do you use and you recommend what you have and my answer 99% of the time is nope no like I don't recommend what I use on a daily basis to most people like you might see me prodding Austin Evans was going to does something similar to me on Twitter to switch to red or switch to the dark side or something like that but a red weapon or pretty much any cine camera is total overkill for not just YouTube but for most of all you could possibly get out of it on the web I use stuff like this because I love it I made a dope tech video all about the red weapon and why I use it what it's capable of and things like that but for most people it's not a good choice so before I use the weapon Helium and shot an 8k I use the red epic and shot in 6k and before that I shot with the red scarlet and before that I was actually using the Canon c100 back in my college apartment before that it was a canon 5d mark ii before that the canon 60d and before that the Canon t2i my first DSLR but before that it was the Sanyo zack d cg 10 the most important statistics really are that it does shoot in 720p HD at 30 frames a second and 60 frames a second VGA resolution and takes 10 megapixel photos so here it is guys that's for two last week I found one of these brand new unopened on Amazon so of course I picked one up first thing you notice out the box is it's way small not just smaller than other cameras I've used but even smaller than most smartphones now probably smaller on the phone you're watching this on it's hard to understand exactly what I mean until you get some scale but it's rockin a seven hundred million power rechargeable battery like as you an idea and a big selling point for this guy used to be that is super portable that's why it's the pistol grip design it would be great for vlogging because you could just turn it around and point it out yourself you could show to the pocket just keep it everywhere you go it fits in places that today's cameras don't obviously it's not the same quality of today's cameras but you get that point four specs it has a 12 megapixel sensor advertises 10 megapixels on the box but that's in sixteen by nine you can take it up to 12 megapixels and use that whole four by three sensor if you dig into menus and it has a six point eight 234 millimeter lens so about 5x optical zoom maybe a little less but it says 5x and that's from a maximum aperture of f3 point 5 2 X 3 point 7 so not the widest max aperture in the world but it can definitely blur backgrounds if you get the subject close to the camera and you use the old trick of zooming in as far as you can while being as closest to your subject as possible it does work for any lens you can create a blurred background even with the CG 10 and it advertised a 60 times digital zoom but we all know how I feel about digital zoom I've talked about it before it's about as fake as the leather on the side of this camera so no point in using it but optical zoom is real and it's useful that's a big point again a good selling point for this camera also I like the warning that hey this camera might heat up a little bit while you're recording but just ignore it that's supposed to happen but yeah this little 8 year old camera shoots 720p video right to SD cards as Mike's built-in has this built-in 3 inch display which is again about the same size as some other cameras out here today has autofocus even has a macro mode for close focus and if you get enough light it can actually take some footage that looks pretty decent certainly good enough for YouTube in 2017 now ok this is going to look a bit different to you because you just watched a bunch of red footage but for an eight-year old camera it does ok so moral of this tiny story is it's not all about the quality of the video it's more about what's in the video itself so people who are trying to get started don't have to go buy a great camera you can probably start shooting a video right now on the camera on the smartphone you're watching this video on the best advice that I can give to someone is trying to start making videos on YouTube is not about what equipment to buy it's just to start making videos with what you have now and then the rest will come so get out there and create ok back to your regularly scheduled programming thanks for watching plus you guys an excellent base