In today's video you're going to learn six camera hacks that
every videographer must know. Number one is for quickly removing the neck
strap. The neck strap is great for carrying a camera around, but often times it
gets in the way when you want to shoot video especially, if you want to put your
camera on a gimbal. So what I've done is bought some clips that I can quickly
attach to the camera when I want, like this. These clips are very strong durable
your camera is not going to fall out. When I want to take off the neck strap
to shoot video, I just simply I'm clip them on like this. Camera hack number two. Once
you have the neck strap removed you'll notice that these little metal pieces
make a jingling noise that can interfere with your video and the audio
that you're recording. So a simple solution to stop this noise is to buy
some little o-rings. These are little rubber o-rings that you
can buy at your local hardware store for less than 25 cents, but by simply
attaching two of these o-rings to each of these eye sockets on your camera, you'll stop the
noise. Now with the o-rings attached you can see that if I shake the camera,
there's no metallic rattling noise. Camera hack number three is for reducing wind sound.
Oftentimes when you're recording video with your camera, you'll have a professional video mic
such as a shotgun mic on the top, but if you're recording audio through the
internal mics, you'll probably come across a wind sound. So you can imagine
that if there was wind blowing on these mics you'd get a lot of interference. To
prevent that you can add these fuzzy little balls here over the top of the
internal mics. And you can buy them online for very cheap. These ones come
from China, I don't know what it says on the package because it's in Chinese, but I'll
link to it in the description below. But by simply applying these little fuzzy
microphone things to your camera over the top, you'll reduce your wind noise.
They act as a windscreen. Camera hack number four is about your batteries. So when you're
shooting video especially on the smaller Sony a6500, you're gonna drain through
your batteries pretty quickly, so I always like to have several backup
batteries, now if you don't label your batteries you might lose track them, so a
simple hack is to label each of your batteries with a number, and always start
with number one. So after this battery drains out I just
reached for my fully charged number two battery and then after this one runs out
I reached for my fully charged number three battery and so on. This way if you
keep in order you'll always know which batteries have juice and which ones
don't. Hack number five is for keeping dust off your camera sensor. So anytime you
don't have your lens attached, you should attach the camera body cap, and what I've done
with my body cap is attached double-sided scotch tape. So what you can
do is take this lens cap with double-sided tape, attach it to the body
face the body down and shake the camera. What's gonna happen is all the dust that's on
the sensor and in the internal cavity of the camera is gonna fall onto that tape
and it's gonna stay there instead of going on to your sensor. You can buy this
tape online on Amazon it's just scotch tape double-sided. Cut it up and attach
it to the cap of the body. Before I go into the next camera hack, I just like to say if
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I respond to every single question. The sixth and final hack for cameras is
to apply a quick-release plates, you can get these extremely cheap on Amazon and
what this allows you to do is move your camera from a gorilla pod a tripod to a
gimbal in just a few seconds. So let's say you're on set and you want to attach
your camera to a gorilla pod, you would just quickly use this quick-release
plate, and apply it here, and then let's say I want to move on to
a gimbal. I would just remove it off this quick release plate on to the quick release plate
that I have on my gimbal. Just like that. So this saves you a ton of
time and effort, you don't have to unscrew a base play off the gimbal, off
the gorilla pod, if you just have the quick-release plate it's as simple as
flicking it off and flicking it back on.