Woo! hey guys my name is joe allam and welcome to another video about my recent
purchases and I do have a little bit of a confession to make some of these are
actually purchased before I went travelling. However I never actually
shared them with you guys, but I still think they're great purchases that you guys
would want to know about. So since my last recent purchases video, which was
actually filmed in Tokyo Japan, there's actually been a whole other 10,000 of you join my
channels. So I wanna say hey to you guys and thanks for stopping by
so let's go straight into the purchases first up this is the Atomos Ninja Assassin
now I did actually buy this in december of last year before heading out
traveling but it's been such a great product for me for filming various videos
I'm actually using it right now to film this video so this is just the
case that comes in. But I'm gonna run you through what it is and what it does.
Now I should also point out that i'm actually planning to do a whole separate video on the Atomos
so I'm going to really skim over what this is and what I've bought
So this is a 7-inch field monitor recorder and essentially it's a screen that you
connect your camera so you can see a larger view of what you're actually
recording
however it's also a recorder which means that you can use it to store all of your
media so when i'm recording with my sony I can film in 4k straight to the SSD in
the Atomos and that way i can bypass the five minute limit the sony has and i can
record pretty much indefinitely without the camera overheating the main reason i
got it is because when I'm doing these types of sit-down videos I can't
actually see what I'm doing or what looked like because my camera doesn't
have a flip-out screen there's a bit of a compromise because obviously there are
cameras that do have flip out screen how the video quality is nowhere near as
good as the sony so I get a screen that I can attach to this and actually got it
right down in front of me i can then check my focus make sure things are
recording i can also recorded 4k which is four times the resolution of most
other SLRs now there's a few other accessories you need to get with the
screen to get it working
first of all you need an SSD now this would be a small 2.5 inch drive similar
to what you put in a laptop but you need to put within the Atomos enclosure i'm
using these SanDisk 480gb SSD now this is a high-performance
drive suitable for filmmaking because it's got that super fast read and write speed
you can get larger version
but they are extremely expensive so for the moment 480gb was a good balance
between cost and size now another accessory that you will need for your
Atomos Ninja Assassin is actually a battery now this is a standard battery that you find on many
Sony cameras and a lot of pro video cameras you can get them in various
sizes and I've got the 5200mAh, so that's a medium size compared
to the ones that are available and then of course second to the batteries you
will need a battery charger now I've gone for the dual Atomos charger
and that just enables two batteries to slot in here but you can also remove these trays
and you can put different trays in to fit different types of batteries so this is
a universal charger for all sorts of pro batteries within the filmmaking world so
once you're finished recording to your SSD you'll need to get your video files over
to your computer somehow so i use the Atomos USB 3.0 docking station you just
slot the drive in within it's little caddy works really well
super fast now the Atomos Ninja Assassin itself has a few different tripod threads on the top
and bottom so you could actually put it onto your camera through the hotshoe
once it's on your camera you'll then want to connect it via HDMI so i use just a
coiled hdmi to—I think this is a mini-hdmi—that goes into the Sony A7R II that
doesn't take up too much space and it works all right now if you're a youtuber
and you're looking to buy these screens in a similar fashion to i'm using it you
may be questioning why all these accessories come separately
that's because it's actually targeted towards a professional market chances
are they've already got tons of batteries and battery charges and cables
and everything so they don't actually include it because it's just added waste
really unfortunately for people like me who don't have that to start with
we've got to go and fork out all the extra bits of all the links to
everything will be in the description below by the way just because i know
there's quite a few things related to the Atomos Ninja Assassin that you need to make sure you get
all of them as an extension to the hot shoe on my camera also picked up this l
bracket handle this is just a little grip but you can attach your camera into
and you've got an extra hot shoot here another one here so I could put say the
Atomos Ninja Assassin on this part the microphone on this path and I've got a nice wide grip
to use with the camera when I'm out and about
it's not uses that
much recently but i'm intrigued to know whether it's gonna fit a project I've
got coming up
it was pretty inexpensive i want to say it was less than 10 pounds now the next
product is the Blackmagic UltraStudio mini recorder now this little guy
connects my camera to my mac so that i can actually stream videos direct from
my Sony A7R II not going to be using this for life video which I'm hoping to do over
the next few months I've not actually done this properly yet and i'm putting
in a lot of tests to make sure i can get it right but the aim is to do some
premium quality live streams for you guys so if you want to know when i'm
actually going to be releasing those live videos follow me on Twitter and
I'll be announcing the dates and times that you can catch me really excited to
get using this i really want to get into the live video space and I think this is
going to be a great way to bring the quality to a high level now another
product i picked up just before travelling and actually shipped it here
to melbourne australia is the LaCie 8tb USB 3.0 drive now this is a fairly
standard drive really not going to have any amazing read/write speeds with it
being USB but because it's 8 terabytes this is actually great to use a time
machine backup it's a huge size compared to my iMac which is a 3 terabyte drive
so it's enough on there to just kind of backup in the background i use other
drives for manual backup so this is really just like a second backup another
drive picked up a few months ago
this is the G-Drive 3 terabyte Thunderbolt hard drive from G-Technology i actually bought this
when I was in florida that was just a bit of an impulse purchase really
because the conversion rate to the dollar was actually really good for me
at the time they do also make a 4tb version which would have been
great had they have them available either way three terabytes is great and
it works over thunderbolt, so it's superfast now this next purchase is something that's
been extremely handy since traveling this is the PlugBug from Twelve South
this is a little attachment for your MagSafe charger for your mac you see it
separates just like it does with a regular plug it comes with various
international plugs as well as a USB output on here so with the one charger i
can charge both my mac and my phone at the same time really convenient and just
saves a lot of space really because you're not carrying multiple charges and
you can use it
anywhere in the world of course i'm using the Australian charger here but we've
also got a US one European one and it comes with the UK well next up is a
universal battery charger from 2-Power now this is a handy little device that
allows you to connect various batteries from various manufacturers as well as
AA batteries the way it works is you just move the pins to the various
polarities on your battery and you can then charge any form of battery pretty
much it's amazing it's also got a USB output so at the same time you could be
charging USB devices or other battery charges that run of us be another great
feature of this is it comes with a car charger so not only can i charge in the
home but i can also take it on the road with me and charged batteries
this is extremely handy and i just love the fact that it's a single charger for
pretty much any of the batteries continuing on the theme of the hard
drives this is a Inateck USB 3.0 Caddy and USB hub this allows me to just plug in a
USB Drive so for example the SanDisk 480gb SSD from the Atomos Ninja Assassin if I had that attached
from the caddy
I could use in this caddy or if I had other drives lying about what i needed
to mount and I can use it in this again this was fairly inexpensive around 10
pounds or something like that and it's got USB 3 outputs as well if you see my
camera bag video you'll know that i use a Blackrapid Yeti for my canon camera
with my Sony A7R II sometimes i use the peak design capture pro but other times if I
want to strap the Blackrapid Yeti was a little bit too big so i picked up the
Blackrapid Metro which is a much slimmer strap and suits most mirrorless cameras
and small form cameras similar to other Blackrapid Straps this is really well made
and you've got quick access to your camera using a nice little quick release
when doing these little sit-down videos you can something to be a bit of
a pain having to reach the camera to turn it on and turn it off
start start recording and everything so I picked up just a few camera remotes
this is a third party one for my sony camera from JJC again just pick this up
on amazon and then this
the standard cannon one which i'll be using with my Canon 7DmkII so when walking
around the camera stores in Melbourne i discovered this little Lowepro Deluxe Media Case 30
i think it's called and i use this to hold various different batteries
memory cards and all sorts of things and it's just nice to be able to slot like I
think I can hold maybe about 15 different batteries in here if ever i'm
transferring them between my roller case for my backpack I can just carry this
whole case and everything is just in it nice and tidy
I generally find the best way to pack things is modular with cases and mini
bags of mini bags so this suits my needs really well again this was on sale
i think it was about twenty dollars or something which is about 10 pounds
next up is the Anker USB data and power hub now this little device has seven
usb3 data hubs are connected to my mac and then three smart charge hubs that
connect to various other devices and it will change the different power whether
you're powering a smartphone or a tablet or any other device so i like to use the
USB hub rather than having everything plugged into the back of the back for a
few reasons first of all it's just a lot tidier because you don't have cable
coming out of everywhere and secondly because you've got so many different
hubs you're not constantly having to plug in and plug out different devices
if I do need something else plugged in that doesn't fit into here of course I
then got the spare ones on my mac but generally it's quite nice to just have
as many things plugged in to here that can work through a USB hub as possible
there are a few devices that work much better when they're plugged directly
into the mac for general things like charging devices or you know printers
stuff that doesn't really require too much data or power and USB hub is perfect
that is everything for my recent purchases over the last few months and
now i'm in Australia make sure to read the description you'll find links to all
of the products below also there is a blog post that has further thoughts and
write up on all of these products so go check that joeallam.co.uk and finally if
you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and share it with other people
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stay up to date with when I am going to be producing those live
videos so I'll be announcing various dates and times so just going to follow
me that's @joeallam and yeah that's everything for me i hope you enjoyed
this and i'll catch you again soon
see you later guys bye bye so the first item up go is actually a backpack now
this is the Incase EO Travel backpack and I've had an incase bag maybe eight or
nine years ago and i still use it today because it's super strong as one of the
best bags I've ever bought i just want to share something with you guys have been
filming the cutaways I wanted to get some sliding panning shots now I don't
actually have a slider or track or anything like that so I've made my own
using a Penny board and two Gorillapods with the camera hanging upside down
I think it looks pretty good now I did actually document this on my Instagram
story so if you wanna see things like that then go at me @joeallam and you
see behind the scenes on making these vlogs
check out this guy we've got a gorillapod focus Gorillapod SLR Zoom
the Atomos Ninja Assassin down here is the Sony A7R II and this is the Penny
board been doing dark magic like that and that's not bad that