VIDEO RECORDING/EDITING EQUIPMENT I USE FOR MY OUTDOOR YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Hey guys, how you doing? Joe here. Welcome to the channel. Today's video is going to be a little bit different. We're not out camping today. It's raining, but today we're going to take a look at the video gear I do use for camping. For filming my outdoor trips, for editing it when I'm home, for editing it in the field. Everything from batteries up to microphones, cameras, computers, tripods, everything in between. LG reached out and they wanted to sponsor a video, so thank you very much LG. Today we're going to be taking a little bit of a look at the Gram. is what I've been using to edit my photos out in the field while I've been at the fort fishing just kind of hanging around this little tiny laptop is very lightweight hence the name the Gram and it makes it very easy to slide into my backpack and edit photos and video on the go so what I like about the LG Gram it has a 17 inch big screen another really good feature for me because I'm using it out in the woods is has a 19 and a half hour of battery time super lightweight it's got an 8th generation Intel Core i7 processor comes with Windows 10 Home 16 gigs of RAM 512 gigabyte solid-state drive and I like the fact that the borders are very small the screens almost the full size what I mainly have been using this for the past few times is for editing my thumbnail photo out in the woods I use Adobe Lightroom I'll take a few snaps of a certain spot that I think would make them for a good thumbnail and then I'll mess around with it right out there in the field make sure it works and then I have the thumbnail ready for when I'm ready to post after the hours and hours of editing it takes me so got my LG Gram covered thank you LG for sponsoring the video appreciate it let's move on to the cameras I use so right now I'm using my brand new Nikon Z6 Z6 I got corrected one of the two it's a mirrorless it's new from Nikon it's a pretty decent I've had a couple issues with it the main thing that I don't like about it is the fact that it doesn't have a flip out screen it has like a flip up screen screen and I know why they do what they do it for durability right so it's supposed to be more rugged that way so doesn't have the chance for things to get into it or for it to break off whatever but for me and personally and from the cameras I've used in the past I really appreciate a flip out articulating screen I'm alone in the woods you know what I mean I'm filming by myself and obviously you can do it without it takes a lot of setting up double-checking and making sure and then sometimes my head getting cut off off the screen this is my old Nikon this is a Nikon D5500 I've made most of my youtube videos with this camera there's an entry-level Nikon it has a flip out screen as well articulating pretty decent camera crappy crappy crappy autofocus garbage autofocus complete trash that's why all my old stuff is all manual focus which isn't a bad thing it just takes a lot longer. This AD, this is a Canon AD, has good autofocus. It's bulky, it's heavy, it's a DSLR, whereas opposed to that being a mirrorless, probably double the size, double the weight. A decent camera, good autofocus. I learned a lot more on this Canon, but I've come back to Nikon, as you can tell. I have a kit lens for my Canon. I'll bring this when I do, this is my backup camera. I'll bring this sometimes for two camera option. I'll sometimes bring this one. This one's much lighter weight, but for my Canon 80D, I have a kit lens of 18 to 135 here, which works fine, but I've been using my 15 to 85. It's a little bit nicer of a lens for the Canon. For the Nikon Z6, because it's a mirrorless, because it's a brand new camera, Nikon did something and they came up with a Z series lens, which is nice. It's what's on right now it's what I'm recording on now it's got an f4 as the bottom f-stop and then it goes up from there which is okay but what they had to do is make an adapter so you can use they didn't have to but they did so you can use old lenses on it this is a prime AF-S Nikkor 85 mil so it's a Nikon mil or sorry Nikon lens but that comes off and this is the adapter that goes on the on the lens of the Nikon and you can use older lenses with it, which is a help. The only problem is this is a pretty noisy lens. So I have to shoot on manual or I have to go over the, the, the, the motor noise with music or whatever. I can use it. I use it a lot for thumbnails. Again, taking thumbnails with this LG gram. I use it because it's very crisp. I can get it down to F 1.8. The back is blurred out complete bokeh but again it's a touch noisy I do tend to bring this and I also tend to bring my Nikon kit lens this is an old kit lens this is the lens that I came came with this one I used to use this for all my stuff and this this actually got dumped no this one got dumped in the Great Slave Lake the the Canon 80D with the kit lens that's part of the reason I switched out to the other lens because it started acting all funky but this is 18 or sorry 18 to 140 very similar to the Canon kit lens, I prefer Nikon's glass, I prefer the warm warm feel the color, the texture of Nikon glass way more than Canon, I do agree that Canon has a or had a superior auto focus, but for me Nikon is where it's at, I'm just a fan fanboy of Nikon, uh like to stay true to it, um my old Nikon D5500, sometimes I'll bring my 35 mil lens with it, this is another prime you can get down to 1.8 and it's a crisp lens, this is good for b-roll or again for thumbnails because the autofocus is trash but it's very crisp, so those are my cameras, my main cameras, I'm pretty happy with the Nikon other than the fact that it doesn't have the flip out screen which I can negate by using my monitor but I'll only use this monitor in places that I'm bringing, like the LG Gram, like the Ford somewhere around here I'm not going to take it on a canoe trip, I'm going to either use a different camera or risk it with just the non flip out there, the good thing about it on my canoe trips I normally have extra time where I have someone with me to kind of help go along with it I can either check back on it or have them look at it if I'm in frame or not, so this just plugs right into this shoe and I can see myself completely fine in the monitor is the LV monitor, I got it off Amazon, it's not the greatest if I'm being honest I don't tend to use it too much tripods right now, I have a Cameron tripod a small one and that's what I'm using and it doesn't have like, it has a ball head, it doesn't have a handle, you just move the camera by itself on the ball head I use that tripod because it's small and it's lightweight when that's tripod is too big I use this one this is a piece of garbage tripod from like Best Buy or something along those lines it's all plastic NextTech is the brand it's just trash and I broke probably five of them but it's probably half the weight and size of that one so when I'm on canoe trips or backpacking trips when weight is an issue I'll bring this especially backpacking trips this can actually go in the top of my bag boom right like this I don't have to mess around if I bring a backpacking backpack I can probably slide it down in the side but the problem with this is there's no ball head it is the handle and in order to adjust for more uneven ground because when you're outside the ground is uneven I can't just correct the ball head I have to either bring one of these legs up you know I mean that's what I have to do bring one of the legs up or bring a leg down if it's if it's all set up so garbage and I've broken a bunch And I don't want to rely on them, but when weight is an issue. This is what I go with try sorry Microphones microphones are a huge deal. I I get the most Criticism I get is that my volume is is trash It's all over my audio is all over the place, and I always get asked the question Joe Why don't you use an external mic Joe? Why don't you use a lav mic? I'll tell you I do use an external mic. I use it. I have one two three three these are all Rode not cheap not garbage not trash and then I have a fourth one on the camera itself the problem is with a lav mic I'm moving around lav mic you wear it's a wireless lav mic pretty expensive but I'm moving around all the time and all you hear is it against my shirt when chopping wood doing anything all you would hear just against my shirt it would not be good so that's out of the question again also you have to wear a a battery pack with or with wear them with a battery pack and run a line up it's just i move around too much okay if i was doing something like this stationary sure it's not the case not for old joe so what i have had for the longest time is the Rode VideoMic Pro and this is supposed to be the top of the line it's like 250 bucks and it works fine but i can never get the settings right it has settings on the back and it runs on its own batteries so that could be a good thing and a bad thing running on its own batteries is good because you don't have to eat into the battery of the camera but it's also not good because if you don't have an extra 9-volt or runs out or whatever if you don't notice you're running with no volume and that's not good so on it is a dead cat this is for wind wind protection comes like that this is the only one of these I've had I use it for a while I always get this like echoey noise in the background I cannot figure out why I don't like it them that much to be honest with you I i don't like things i have to mess around with too much so i don't really use this this mic anymore it's a 250 dollar mic like i said i don't even use it um what i do use the most is the video mic go what the problem with these are i've broken four of these the screw comes out of the middle where it holds on i've super glued it i've taped it everything in the cold they just shatter this this um this housing just shatters also where it comes in and out i've had issues with i know Sean has had issues with that as well again This is my fourth one other than the fact that it breaks a lot. I really do enjoy the way it works I like it it runs off of the battery of the camera, and I've never had I like the sound of it I get a good sound. It's just it breaks so many times. This is literally my fourth one. That's on the camera now Video mic go this is my video micro MICRO video micro very small this also works good, and I'll show you a little trick here use this forever without knowing this and watch a little video on youtube the other day and figured it all out so look at that bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun it's not good right bouncing all over the place you just take the cord and you tuck it in one of these little grooves in the mic hot shoe and it's way it's still bouncing but it's not smashing off the camera so that's on that's off, you can see the difference works on works off, anyways this is a good microphone I just prefer the sound over the mic, go much better so again this runs on the battery of the camera too, excuse me I do use a lot of GoPro and GoPro accessories propane and propane paraphernalia so this is my GoPro Hero four or five, one of the two I think it's a five, this is a pretty good camera I like to put it on linear so that it's not fish-eyed and I like to use it on 60 frames. It looks pretty nice. I got it. I get it on this clamp and then I can put it anywhere I want. Like the screw's not in there right now. It's in my headlamp one, but I can put it anywhere I want on a tree branch, on my canoe. I can hold it, use it like this. These little beads work well. Again, the screw wasn't in the GoPro. These little beads work well. Perfect for canoe tripping or if you don't like, uh, if you don't want to bring a small tripod, I have a small Joby pod with that I can use for this as well but this that's really only one use you can only really put the Joby pod on the ground they don't really wrap that well around limbs unless the limbs are fat enough this you can stick it on little tiny branch you can set this on the ground prop it under a log put it on your backpack put on your canoe whatever I really like this this is just a no-name brand from Amazon again another decent one for getting vistas and group shots with the the good old selfie stick you know can't go wrong with the selfie stick nice and lightweight packs down nothing works well so batter oh it also one I also use a lot would be the chest mount and the head mount from GoPro do a lot of POV action works well for that I have to carry a ton of batteries and chargers and memory cards all that jazz let me show you all of my kit my little Hidden Woodsman bag, and I have a ton of accessories inside of it, cords, everything. So, I do bring a little USB charger. It's in here in this bag, and I can charge my GoPro with it, with my GoPro cords, right? I cannot charge my DSLR. I would have to get a Goal Zero with an adapter to charge my DSLR batteries. So, instead of that, I just bring a ton. I've got my old Nikon I've got five here this is for this one five batteries and those batteries almost a hundred bucks a pop right well charger for them in there these are my Canon batteries I've got my Nikon my new Nikon battery is charging right now I've got four of those I've got base plates for tripods you can never have enough what if you bring your tripod you didn't have your base plate on your camera then the whole trip is ruined because you can't use your stupid tripod. I've got sticky stuff for GoPros, extra little tiny tripods for GoPros for doing time lapses. Again, all the cords. I can't have enough cords. My light is a little light that sticks on the top of the camera. Very small, lightweight. Not very bright, but it does a good job, especially when I do have a fire going. Again, just extra cords. This is a hot shoe mount so I can put my light and my microphone on the camera at the same time this one slides in I got a little cage here that sometimes you can put a camera in here and microphone up here you kind of just stabilize it get good shots that way good old bag of memory cards you can never have enough memory cards man remember when I did that 10-day trip I ran out I had so many memory cards and I ran out I had to go back and delete more photos and videos off of it which I didn't want to do so extra extra extra memory cards I always buy 64 gigs there's no point in buying a small memory card anymore tons of 64 gig in my Nikon I'll show you I have a humongous SD card it's not even called an SD card I'll show it to you it's 15 times the size of these other ones I don't like it I don't like it because I only have one and there's only one spot a spot for one on the camera and sometimes it messes up sometimes it says it can't read it which is not good it's 120 gigs this is Sony I'll show you show you in a minute here I also got some filters I have a neutral density filter and I have a polarized filter polarized filter is good for a blue sky neutral neutral densities look good for like warm warm feeling yeah that might be it guys so we went through my editing stuff the LG Gram I bring out and edit there went through my main cameras, backup cameras, GoPros accessories, batteries, microphones, chargers, cords I actually have to use this for my, oops, no, not that one this for my camera, my Nikon, to plug into my, but my LG gram because there's no adapter for the SD card thing that I have in the, in the, in the Nikon I don't know what it's called. Anyways, I have to plug the camera right into the computer, which I'm not a huge fan of, but it has completely to do with there not being an adapter for that type of memory card. I haven't been able to find one for anything, but that's okay. I'll just bring this, and then, yeah, it works fine. This just goes in my cord case as well. okay well I think that covers it all, you guys have seen me shoot video in the outdoors for over 10 years, my stuff is constantly evolving I started with a little flip camcorder that, and I didn't know how to edit I would just do one takes and I didn't have a tripod I would stick it up on a piece of wood and do a do a video in one take five minutes in one take, that's why all my first videos we're all music over crazy action but as I've come along and learn and then not perfected but grown with my craft I've learned what I like, what I don't like what I like to do what I don't like to do and yeah this is the culmination of all of that right now so I use not, maybe not necessarily all of this at the same time but throughout different types of videos and throughout the year I use all this in the field, again the LG gram was new to me I've only had it for about two weeks but I've been able to go and use it and been happy with it so if there's any questions on any editing gear oh for video editing I use a CyberLink Power Director, I need to get on the Adobe the light are sort of the the one that everyone uses but it's hard for me because I'm constantly getting videos constantly putting you out so I don't really have time to learn a new editing software but yeah anyways onward and upward if anyone has any ideas or questions or comments about any of the video editing camera video or photography editing stuff or cameras stuff I've talked about ideas that I could possibly use in the future maybe a different idea for a monitor please let me know in the comments so have a good day we'll be back soon with the camping video I'll see you soon