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my coverage of CES 2015 is made possible by fractal design and WD to learn more about their products and to say thank you for supporting pauls hardware go ahead and click on the sponsor links in this video's description hey everyone and welcome to my first video of CES 2015 this is the video where I'm actually not in Las Vegas yet but I think you'll still be interested because this video is all about what I'm bringing with me that's right what's in my bag actually most of the stuff isn't in my bag right now let me go ahead and fix that so here's everything that I'm planning to bring I'm sorry if it doesn't look very organized trust me it is I actually have two bags that I'm gonna be filling up right now my camera bag over there as well as my laptop bag right over here and apologies if the audio quality has just gone to be kind of crappy because my zoom h1 that I usually use to record audio is one of the things I'm bringing so I'm just using any camera audio on the canon 5d mark ii right now which incidentally I'm not bringing on the trip this is my swiss gear backpack this is my laptop backpack I've taken this on quite a few trips already and I think it's absolutely fantastic because it got the space for the laptop back there and if you got Scott ton tons more pouches and everything to fit all the other stuff I'm sorry I don't know specifically which model that is but they don't really list it on the bag very much themselves either so that's their loss I guess second bag here is my actual Canon camera bag this one's fairly inexpensive I think it's only like 40 or 50 bucks from Canon this one actually has all the separators inside if you have a DSLR or something like that so you can see it's pretty empty right now so this is the bag which is a bit smaller so I'll be taking this onto the show floor and out and about with me whereas the laptop bag is gonna probably stay back the hotel room with the laptop and the stuff that I don't want to carry around all day you also might notice that I removed two can low go from this bag which was right there cos that's kind of like a steal me sign moving out to equipment though I'm going to start out with my audio recorder here a couple things to bear in mind as I'm showing you this stuff one is that I am completely on my own this year I do not have anyone going with me I'm shooting everything myself I'm talking to the camera myself and I'm also going to be doing all the editing myself while they're at the show now I'm not doing a ton of videos so I should be okay but these are my two primary recording devices so we've got two zoom h1 on the Left which is for audio I have a little windscreen that goes with it and I like this little mic because it's so portable it's got built-in storage so you just pop in the card right there and then you have tons and tons of storage protip tape over these switches because they're easy to switch and accidentally move yourself from mp3 to wave mode or that sort of thing it's got a separate line in so I can and actually do a separate mic input into this and use it just as a recorder if I want USB can be used to set it up as a microphone for a laptop or like it's a standard computer or you can use it to transfer straight from here if you don't want to pop out the memory card and then also you've got a line out so you can actually monitor the audio - it's a really nice little compact recorder and actually I'm just going to be using the included built-in microphones on here for most of what I do because they actually do a really good job that's what you usually hear from me although I do try to keep this position pretty close to my face as I'm talking now the other thing about this is that since I'm recording audio on this I need to synchronize it with the video that I record using my camera and the camera if you guys didn't watch my last video is the Panasonic Lumix Alex one hundred this is a ultra compact to some degree it is pretty substantial for a compact camera so it's not quite as small as like on rx100 or one of those but it does shoot in 4k it has a really nice lens the other thing is that as far as audio goes that's one of the drawbacks from this camera doesn't record very good audio that's why I'm doing separate audio from the zoom h1 but that is why the next thing I'm going to show you is some of my workarounds for how I'm going to be recording separate separate audio with the zoom h1 recording stuff with the camera being able to record myself at the same time and also making it look somewhat reasonably good for you guys ok there's one other thing I need to show you here with the LX 100 because it's going to affect how I record things and it's also pretty cool so if you go into the menu here this actually has built-in Wi-Fi so I'm gonna hit that and then what I've done is I've taken my older cellphone the lg optimus G here and I have basically set it up to use it as a monitor for this camera once it recognizes the Wi-Fi network these are both going to sync up and basically it lets me use the phone to control the camera which is cool for a number of reasons primarily being oh the lens cap is on yes so primarily like if I turn the camera around I can as you can see my camera updates with what it's seeing so I can get a live view of what's on the screen so yeah one of the cool applications of this is that I can point it up myself and still be able to see myself as I'm recording myself this is really weird by the way because I'm recording a video of myself recording a video of myself recording a video of myself that's pretty meta okay but anyway as you can see it's fairly awkward to hold both of these so I did come up with a solution there are a couple solutions to hopefully work around that so for the what's in the bag over here on the camera side the camera bag side let's start off with my assortment of tripods or at least sort of tripods I also need to say big thank you to mano price in this video because although they are not a direct sponsor of my trip this year they did send me over some cool stuff to try out so we have the monoprice Robo pod here which is kind of a beefy a little mini grabber tripod which you can angle to attach to certain things I'm going to bring this but I'm not probably gonna be using that primarily because I found this little flexible guide to work pretty well this little mini tripod is one that came with my zoom h1 accessory kits it's just small and portable and useful for if you need to set up a quick camera on a table or something like that or a audio recording so I'm gonna bring that along as well this one right here however is the mono price flexible tripod and as you can maybe tell I have modified it because what I want to be able to do is walk around with my camera and be able to position that zoom h1 to point towards me at any given time so I have totally get a rigged basically the shock mount from my rode videomic in order to hold the zoom h1 that's what those that's what those rubber bands are and then I've totally like ghetto zip tied it to the edge of this to one leg of this little flexible tripod now trust me this is actually a fairly effective solution as I will show you in just a moment when I actually set it up and do a demo I want to move through the rest of what's in my bag first up before I show you how I'm going to be filming stuff so stay tuned for that the end of the video or if you're impatient just go ahead and skip this does have a little quick release plate at the top so you can pop the camera off which i think is very nice and a little mini ball head also and then of course it's a tripod so you can make the legs flexible and they're kind of squishy - which I like so you can set it up wherever you want to wrap it around things I've also got these magic arms over here J actually introduced me to these magic arms I'm going to bring them all the don't think I'm actually gonna be using them at least the configuration I have setup right now I don't need them I just have them as a just-in-case or maybe if I do a bunch of selfie stuff I've got a smaller one and a bigger one and then I've also got a little clamp that you can use to clamp to something and then it's got like little quarter inch threaded holes in there so you can attach other camera gear to it but moving right along here we've got some screen screen wipes from Canon those are very nice to have this is also some lens cleaner which I've never actually used before q-tips of course a little lens pen these are fantastic it's got little brushes on one side so you can easily clean off stuff or if you've got something more gunky on this side it's Kabul polisher so you can use that to keep your lenses clean of course bring both of these cellphones I've got the new Nexus 6 still working on the review for that but then I have also got my lg optimus G which I'm using as a monitor for the lx100 when necessary of course we're gonna need power so I've got my charger for the lx100 I've got one battery already in there and then I went ahead and added when it and hadn't picked up another another real actual battery battery life on these is really great and I think with two of these I should be able to film all day without issue I also got a separate little camera bag here this is a what is it a low pro camera bag because I needed something a little bit bigger for the lx100 this is a nice soft interior it's got some space in there for some memory cards this little guy fits in there just nicely and then I'll be able to hang around I'll look I'll probably kind of do you see looks like a hip bag but it's functional and that's really all I care about that's pretty much the what's in the camera bag stuff as far as a camera gear for recording although I do have an extra camera and this one right here this is the mono price action camera and it's kinda like a GoPro it's made for like outdoor use and stuff like that it's really easy to use but it records 1080 it's a quite quite a bit less expensive than a GoPro and I'm mainly going to be using this to get like shots when I'm like driving in the car or or things that I may be a little bit too nervous to use the lx100 for now for the action camera I also got this from monoprice this is basically like a selfie stick compact camera extender is what it's called that you can extend that out and then down on this end it has a standard little quarter-inch camera mouse and you can sort of angle that around moving right along though we have some battery backups of course I've got one from monoprice here that's an 8000 oh and our one that one right there that actually belongs to my wife I have a feeling she's going to steal it that's ok cuz I've also got a rose bulb one right here this one is a thirteen thousand milliamp hour so that should be just fine for recharging my phones if need be for additional power because I need a double-a battery for my zoom h1 so I got a bunch of those I've got some nine volts of course I have this card the EZ card in case I need to take the subway in Taiwan I don't know why that's there that was an accident okay also we of course are gonna need digital storage for recording things so for that I've got a 64 gig samsung SDHC I've got a 32 gig samsung SDHC got another 64 gig look how tiny that is how small it is that 64 gigs right thing so I can use that with the adapter honestly I'm hoping that just with the standard 64 gig right here I should be fine for all of my footage since I'm not recording in 4k but I'll have backups and then of course I need micro as micro cards for the zoom h1 usually I have a 2 gig which recording with mp3 version works just fine but I've also got this g.skill 16 gig that I can pop in there if I actually do start to get low on space also got flash drives these are USB 3 and they're really fast HyperX one is a little bit faster than the Voyager GT but I like on both 64 gigs each and that's just if we need to transfer data around between me and other people who I'm gonna be filming with they're rooming with or whatever take syndicate route perhaps I can copy straight to my laptop via that card reader but I have this one which is USB 3.0 if I needed to go a little bit faster this is like a 12 or 13 dollar purchase from Amazon though and it doesn't every once in a while it drops it's not as consistent as I would like it to be so I might just use the built-in of course we can't edit well we can't edit on a laptop but we can't with just the trackpad so we've got the Razer DeathAdder right here which is kind of my standard traveling Mouse we've got additional storage here in a couple SSDs so I've got a 500 SSD that's in the laptop these are both 250 or 240 or 250 gig SSDs with this little adapter here which is USB 3 which makes them great as working drives and they're still really really fast and I've edited in this manner before I've got to swim in it back I have a backup and just in case space runs low I can switch back and forth between those and in case you're wondering this little USB 3.0 adaptor actually came with the WD black squared drive but I've been using it for this purpose and it's fantastic my laptop is the Asus g550 JK which has been doing a great job at least it has since I updated this upgraded the storage because it shifts with the mechanical Drive but I've got a 500 gig SSD in there instead these are some v-moda headphones which are overpriced in my opinion however they do go over the ear and do some good noise blocking so they're decent for that I like taking these on the road because they have this nice little traveling case I've also got some Rosewill earbuds in there which are also pretty good for noise blocking and travel and if you need to listen to something and block out outside noise so be able to use either of those for some more storage on top of those SSDs and the internal storage it's on here I've got a WD in My Passport err this is a one terabyte drive and this is the one that's made for Mac's I'm actually gonna have a good time reformatting this for for PC here's some cables of course USB micro cables I've got a USB on-the-go cable here in case I want to transfer stuff straight from my phone to like one of those flash drives over there I don't have any fractal stuff per se now the fractal is a sponsor I really didn't have much use for most of their products on this trip since it's like power supplies in cases and coolers and that sort of thing however this is some fractal swag that they gave last year at CES as you can see it's got the fractal design logo on it although it's made by iShare I might use this depending on the situation if we have a wired Ethernet connection at the hotel you can plug that in right here and this can become a hotspot so you don't have to use the crowded hotel Wi-Fi which is kind of nice it's also got a built-in battery charger I think it's only like three or four thousand milliamp hour but nice to have it's got a card reader so my card reader totally fails I'll have the backup there I'm not getting the feeling that this video isn't gonna be longer that I originally planned but I'm gonna plow through because this is all important stuff that I'm gonna get find use for powerstrips this is my rode videomic and as you can see I've completely removed the mount because I reuse that for the shock mount that I built on my little tripod flexi tripod over there I'm still going to bring this as a backup and that's why I also have nine volt batteries in case you're wondering have some miscellaneous stuff that I'm also gonna be bringing though because this just good it's just good to have screwdrivers there's all those little cool screwdrivers it has philips and then you can pull it out and it's got flat head in the other side I also got a microstrip your screwdriver kit that I got in my stocking for Christmas I have playing cards because we're gonna be in Las Vegas I have a water bottle not the WD is my sponsor or anything now this is was actually sent over very very graciously by WD as part of a little Christmas swag box that they sent which is super awesome but I'm gonna be bringing that using it because it's an ice water bottle you should always have a water bottle I got some meds going on here if you can't tell I'm actually suffering from a little bit of a sore throat and a head cold but that's okay if you're going to see us try to get sick the week before but be better by the time you go to CES that way you'll have really high blood cell count that's that's my strategy this is just a first aid kit it's got some bandages and stuff in there we've got a friend in case the nose is stuffed up we have this oh my gosh my wife got me this stuff Vegas is so so dry at this time of year cold and dry so we have some enriched hand cream that's gonna be fantastic vitamin C for increasing the immune system's ability to immune system and some daily facial moisturizer again my wife got me that some Advil of course for if you've had a long night maybe and then lastly we have some snacks I'm excited about these though apple pear strudel Clif bars I've got some jerky of course that's important I randomly grab these these are from last year and they have little LEDs there Rose will scent I have just put these in here I don't know they're just attention grabbers maybe I'll find it I'm gonna make a place to use them let's I got some gloves just because I how cold is gonna be and these have little things so you can still use a touch pad on your phone that's kind of nice a note pad impendence that's always useful don't forget your CES badge okay that's important this is actually last year's I'm going to be picking mine up on the show floor we have a bottle opener for opening fine bottles of wine or other vintages or probably more likely beer bottles and then I'm bringing all these cable ties as well as some of these velcro straps because this is my wife put these in my stocking this year which is why she's awesome but I have a feeling I'm gonna make use of them so I'm bringing some of those long as well and this is that monoprice action cam this is gonna be camera B again this is just made to be really simple to use so it's got a wide angle lens on the front you can use this button to take pictures you can just slide the switch forward and back to start and stop recording its mate so you can use it like with heavy gloves and stuff like that and on the back there's a little lock on this panel which pops off and then you can access the internal such as a HDMI out a little card reader which is where I'm going to put my memory card and card slot switch between HD and Full HD presets and then of course a little USB out so pop that in there and I can start using it so your setup number two and this is probably gonna be my main setup when I'm wandering the floor and whatever I'm using the flexible tripod from monopod monoprice and there's my ghetto rigged zoom h1 there on the corner now there's other ways I definitely could have done this if I had there's actually a little quarter inch adaptor that I know I have and I search my entire house for and I couldn't find but I don't know they're just gone so this is why I went with the solution with the zip ties right here holding that little piece on and then this has an actual shock mount so the rubber bands are keeping it from making contact with the rest of the little setup here what this means I can do is when I'm recording I can kind of angle this back towards myself although I need to I should always go clockwise so I can twist this around so point it back towards myself to capture my audio a little bit better or I can twist this around forward so that if I'm recording something and I need to capture what's what's being said or somebody's talking or anything like that I can do that and or I can go for something in between and then I can angle this leg since it's slowly flexible to point it wherever I want and then the last thing that I really like about this setup is if I'm somewhere where I have say a table to sit at and interview someone or something along those lines I can still use this as a monopod and lastly here's my kind of also somewhat get a rigged solution to doing a selfie cam if if that becomes necessary so I've got one of my little magic arms used back here just connected to the camera the other end of it is going over to that clip that is holding my Optimus G and then I'm using the Wi-Fi feature with the camera so that I could theoretically be pointing this up myself and recording myself I know there's a ton of glare down here on the screen but this is what the camera is seeing right there so if you're filming yourself you could make sure that you still had everything in focus and that everything was still framed up nicely and looking good but I suppose there's still one last thing to do even though this video has gone on much longer than I originally anticipated and that's just to see if all this stuff will actually fit in my bags well looks like I'm all packed so I see you Nate