Gadgetory

what's up guys Lew here back with another video and today I'm gonna be giving you a little bit of insight into what I carry with me or what's in my bag now obviously this varies depending on where I'm going or what I'm doing but what I have in front of me will be coming with me on my next trip which is actually happening tomorrow so this is sort of a basic set up for myself going to an airport going on an airplane staying in a hotel etc and if you guys have been watching my videos lately you know I built a contraption a battery contraption exactly for this purpose so that's in the setup as well if you haven't seen that video you should go back and check it out now obviously this setup will change depending on what my mission is and what I'm going to do so if it's a more elaborate production I'll have more camera gear like the camera that I'm speaking into right now or the overhead camera but since this is a more general trip I don't have such a need for that kind of an elaborate setup and this is more of an everyday kind of carry not every single day but every day that I'm traveling that makes any sense so let's get started with the bag before we talk about all these different gadgets that I've set up meticulously this is a relatively new bag it's from encase and you may have seen it before I'm not sure it's been I think it's been around for a little while but there's two different versions there's a larger version and then there's this version and it's a sling pack which you can access from your chest which I like so if you're coming through an airport and you need to very quickly access some documents or your sunglasses or a battery charger or another device etc your headphones it's right here you can just sling this around to the front and access it immediately without the need to sit down or put any of your gear down now this is important because generally when you're going through an airport you have another luggage that you're taking with you one of those things on wheels so without the need to really stop what you're doing you can get inside here and get what you need very quickly it has some compartments for DSLR type gear so there are some dividers in there once again if you're taking more elaborate stuff with you cameras etc you can go ahead and place those in there for me it's gonna be used for this gear you see in front of me and there's a zipper pocket for cables etc though I don't like to carry too many cables I find that they make a big mess a padded strap here which you can clip off so there's a little clip there and that's good for when you actually get onto the airplane you don't have very much space sometimes so rather than swing this thing over your back like a backpack you just remove the clip and sort of take it off discreetly the main thing I like about this too is since it's not huge it means that I'm forced to pare down what I take with me which believe it or not is kind of hard to do when you have so many different options for gadgets that's really been my mission with this little setup right here is to only take the things I need and nothing extra because it's those extras that make things confusing and make it harder to get to the things that you actually mean so a pretty small bag oh and it also has a little slot for an 11 inch MacBook Air I wish that maybe this slot was a little bigger if you had a larger laptop but I have an 11 inch MacBook Air so that's perfect there you have it the in case sling pack I believe it's the DSLR sling pack one thing I want to mention right now guys is since I've accumulated this stuff over a long period of time I might not necessarily remember every single name for every single item so definitely check out the description down below for links to all of this stuff where at least whatever it is that I can find which I believe should be all of it and I've made videos on some of it so you can check those out too if you want more information on any of these things so we'll get started over here on the right-hand side this is my 11 inch MacBook Air fully SPECT out I've been using this for the last few months specifically for travel obviously I've got the Mac Pro for video editing but I've been surprised that what this thing can handle I've even edited 4k dual camera 4k from two gh4 so when you're talking about small spaces on airplanes little tray tables you really can't beat the 11 inch MacBook Air in the middle here are some new headphones I'm testing out these have one of Sony's beautiful product names MDR 10 are et these are wireless now you guys know I'm a bit of a stickler for audio so Wireless is a tough sell and since these are new this will be my first trip taking them with me and actually testing them out in a number of different listening conditions on an airplane etc but so far I'm liking what I'm hearing from these and they have an enormous battery life I believe 17 hours on a charge and they can of course work as a wired headphone if you need them to as well so the idea of travelling through the airport without wires and keeping wires out of my bag is something that's very appealing but this trip will decide if the sound quality is enough to convince me to stick with wireless they are also very lightweight which is something that I don't feel is talked about often enough when it comes to headphones lightweight headphones are amazing for extended listening sessions very very comfortable and something to take into consideration when you're looking at headphones especially expensive ones they tend to get heavy my ray-ban p sunglasses you can see they have the polarized lens it's the little engraving over there on the right hand side next up we've got this my money clip from Gerber which also has a built-in blade if you haven't seen this video you should go check it out for more details I did make a video on this obviously this blade won't be travelling with me through airport security so I'll leave that part at home but you can put your cards put cash in here and it's very durable very sturdy I'm a big fan of that money clip slash blade moving over we have the LG G watch which I'll be taking with me on this trip you can see I'm also wearing a G Shock right now but I'm gonna test out the G watch in a more extended fashion on this trip and of course the charging dock which is magnetic is underneath and that is plugged in right now to that contraption I made a couple videos ago that charging contraption for my iPhone 5s and Nexus 5 I actually made a little modification to it I trimmed down the case portion I cut it in half actually on the recommendation of a commenter and unfortunately I can't remember the name of the commenter right now so I can just slide the device out you see that well you can see that beautiful slide action right there so rather than have to peel the velcro off this is even a little bit smoother and I can just slide it in when I want to charge slide it out when I'm finished and want to use the device and the Nexus will likely be in my pocket most of the time when it's not charging so that's the reason it's not attached to my charge station thing anyways as you can tell it's capable of charging another device like I said in that video so right now it's actually charging this watch as we speak the watch was dead and all of a sudden now it's charging something you're gonna notice in between those two devices is this really short microUSB cable I have a couple of these huge fan of short little cables for travel generally when you're traveling the tangle of cables is more of an interference than anything else trying to get headphones little earbuds out of there or get USB cables etc and oftentimes you don't actually even need the extended length because you're right beside your device or right beside your charging station etcetera so I like to carry these little sort of stiff cables I will try to find them on Amazon and link them down in the description but I have a few of these and I've sort of converted my entire travel situation to short little manageable cables instead of those big huge ones that are destined to get tangled next up we have one of my newest cameras this is the WX 350 and it has a crazy zoom range for a camera with that form factor 20 times so that's one thing I kind of dislike about the rx100 is the fact that it doesn't have much reach now obviously you are giving up reach for all kinds of other benefits like better glass a bigger sensor so on and so forth but when I'm traveling sometimes especially if I'm shooting off-the-cuff and I want to do a really quick cut quick edit of my experience having that reach means that I can get images that I wouldn't otherwise approach because it would mean getting in somebody's face or walking right up to a sign etc so 20 times optical zoom gives you a little bit more flexibility and in this case in an even smaller form factor this thing goes in your pocket incredibly easily you can tell my hand just Dwarfs it there and you're still getting that amazing Sony image stabilization for both pictures and video I might try out a little vlogging on it to see how it works for that and overall just really excited I've had great experiences with all kinds of sony camera in fact my first point-and-shoot from Sony probably not my first but in recent memory was the hx9 V which was one of the first have this new image stabilisation system which is just hands-down the best in my opinion so if you're trying to shoot yourself or shoot video on the go with a small camera image stabilization is number one as far as I'm concerned and Sony just kills it up on the top here we have something called the bolt and this is a little tiny battery backup from flux mob with built in prongs so you don't need a separate cable you can sense a trend here I'm kind of anti cable wherever I can be and this is really cool because it's it's about the size of your average power brick for a phone or any other kind of device that needs to be charged up except in this case it also has a built in battery 3000 milliamp hours so something kind of cool here is I can take my battery backup solution for the phones this 5200 milliamp hour product from tilt that I modified a couple of videos ago and actually plug that directly into the bowl charge it from the wall and then essentially have 8000 + milliamp hours of backup battery life in both of the two devices does that make sense this power brick into this power brick which then goes into the wall pretty cool setup the tilt goes into the bolt and then the tilt goes into the iPhone 5s the Nexus 5 and even the Sony camera which charges over microUSB so a very cool way of limiting the number of things that you need to take to get a bunch of different devices charged next up we've got this little tripod here from Joe V this is brand new I haven't used this at all yet but I've always wanted to have one because generally when you're traveling with a small kit like this and a small point in shoot you'll just leave the tripod at home but in this case I'm getting some stability at least if I can place it on a tabletop or something like that if I need to speak into the lens I can do all that and the form factor is amazing I mean this this is just right in the palm of my hand really easy to operate and better than nothing obviously not as functional as a full-size tripod but a full-size tripod is bigger than all of this stuff put together so it's a question of form and function here in this particular setup so obviously you know the 5s you know the Nexus 5 I think the only thing left to talk about is this little guy right here from SanDisk this is a little mobile drive that has Wireless built in and it also has a battery built in it is called the SanDisk connect once again I'll link it down in the description it does some really cool stuff it's got 64 gigabytes of storage for all your media files pictures video etc and then you can take those files and share them amongst all of your different devices that'll work with Mac PC it'll work with Android iOS and you essentially have this little hub this little portable Nazz that comes with you wherever it is that you go and it has another killer feature as well which is an SD card slot unfortunately the 11 inch MacBook Air does not have an SD card slot but think of this as a wireless SD card slot so if I want to I could take the SD out of my Sony camera put it in here and then access those files from any of my devices straight up to Instagram on the iOS app which I like a lot better than the Android one you guys have heard me say that before or straight onto my computer many many options and I'm gonna load this thing up with movies before I head out on this trip it recharges over microUSB so once again it plugs into my crazy little system over here it could take the place of this watch and all of a sudden have even more battery life in it then you're already amazing eight hours and load load this up with movies and watch them on whatever device I want anyway guys that wraps up this video if you enjoyed this content please remember to leave a thumbs up down below if you're not a subscriber yet now is a great time to become one to watch more content just like this if you've got a question leave it in the comment section down below thanks as always for watching guys and I will catch you on the next episode hopefully very shortly alright later guys you