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there are a few things that stand out to me when i go back and look at the first

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video that we ever made about the primary Linus media group camera our

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sony fs700 first i'm amazed at how many

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of the comments on that video are about how stupid it was to buy and how

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overkill the camera is for the type of content we produce

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second i'm amazed by how right those comments were i mean i knew absolutely

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nothing about this device and how to unlock its capabilities all i really had

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was these hopes for how we could use it

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to evolve our content and grow this brand new company that i was starting as

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long as we could find and keep the right talent around who did know how to use it

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and then third i'm amazed at in spite of me not really understanding this

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stuff very well when i made the call to spend eight thousand dollars on this

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based on the promise of affordable 4k recording in the future i mean it's

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still the most expensive piece of equipment that we've ever purchased as a

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company how well it has kept up with us as our

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needs have changed and how it continues to adapt with us a mere few days ago it

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actually finally got the easy flexible

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4k capability oh by the way if you think 4k is for chumps and are more interested

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in triple surround curved 34-inch

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monitor gaming rigs that video is coming soon make sure you're subscribed anyway

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the 4k capability that i always wanted from it so i figured now would be a

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great time to show you guys how it got there and some of the other ways that

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it's changed over the last two years

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the cooler master neptune 240m features an exclusive pump design and their new

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celencio fans to provide impressive near silent performance click now to learn

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more our early camera wig was very basic we

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had decent audio from day one with a sennheiser ew 100 g3 and the kit

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lavalier mic but mounted to our pretty simple tripod and head we just had the

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camera body the wussy battery that comes with it the

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hand grip that comes with it the built-in screen which is in the least

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ergonomic position possible by the way sony the bundled zoom lens that can't

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even maintain a constant aperture when zooming and the built-in sd card

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recording slot that's responsible for many of the cameras early limitations

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there wasn't an upgrade for that at the time though so we kind of had to live

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with that but the first thing that we did change was to upgrade the battery to

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some cheap third-party high-capacity ones for all-day operation at trade

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shows and edsel and brandon i guess also got so frustrated with the kit lens that

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they started bringing their own lenses in for us to use at work something that

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we actually didn't address by buying our own company lenses until less than a

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year ago lol the next upgrade was one that caused

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some pretty heated conversations internally especially between me and

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brandon because it represented not just a 400 plus

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dollar investment into this listtech teleprompter but a significant stylistic

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change in our content i mean a move away

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from the off the cuff product impressions with a dynamically moving

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camera that made Linus tech tips Linus tech tips to this premeditated scripted

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content with a static camera placement and then b-roll i caved eventually

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and honestly it and the redrock mount

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something we originally bought to fashion a ghetto shoulder rig for show coverage and a galaxy tab 10.1 tablet

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have turned into a symbol for what i think was a huge

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turning point for us as content creators i mean youtube has changed and by

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adapting to this more professional style

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when we did we put ourselves on the leading edge of web tech review

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production quality rather than allowing ourselves to fall behind even if it

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means i'm reaching for my little remote at my hip here all the time i know quite

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a few of you are wondering what the heck is he doing down there next up was another upgrade that brandon

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pushed really hard for but that i didn't want to get you can probably see a

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pattern developing here and we picked up a small hd ac7 external HDMI video

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monitor i figured well there's a screen

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on the camera why do we need another one but once again brandon was right because

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not only did it help keep images in focus it's and a flexible ARM mount were

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a huge ergonomic improvement especially

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when shoulder mounting the camera so you can put the screen right in front of you

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or shooting from awkward angles now glam b-roll adds production values

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to your video but it also adds a lot of time especially when you're manually

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screwing and unscrewing mounting plates every time you move the camera from

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tripod to slider or shoulder mount or whatever else so brandon asked for

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another tripod and a few sets of quick releases from kessler for fast camera

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relocation and i kind of went yeah no problem you know i looked at the tripod

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it's cheap no big deal but what these freaking plate and release combo

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units are almost a hundred and fifty dollars a pop i mean what did they make

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them out of he was right about the time savings though and they've probably paid for

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themselves and saved pocket change that we would normally have had to use to

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swap out camera plates but uh man

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i don't even know what to say about those they were too expensive but i also

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wouldn't return them because men are they ever handy it was around this time that sony

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released their firmware update for the fs700 finally that would give it 4k

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recording too bad that it unexpectedly cost hundreds of dollars and required

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you to send your camera into a sony service center in order to have them

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perform the upgrade fortunately they have a location about 15 minutes from

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our office so aside from the inconvenience and cost the only really

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annoying thing about the whole experience was that they refused to service our broken hand grip record

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button claiming that it was normal wear and tear on the button and i was over a

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month out of warranty i mean it turns out that they diagnosed it wrong anyway

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so i found some other eighth inch cable

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with a jack on the end soldered it onto it and it works like a charm now in fact

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i think it even gives our camera a bit more you know character but it was still

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a little frustrating the next one was a big upgrade the

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second most expensive item for us yet including all the accessories so we

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picked up some eneloop pro xx batteries for our wireless mic so we wouldn't have

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to change out the batteries as much that was no big deal but then we got the

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recording unit that we needed to finally record in 4k

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or so we thought it cost five thousand

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dollars for our convergent design odyssey 7q recorder an anson bauer

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battery charger and mounting plate two 512 gig ssds with proprietary firmware

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to work with it and a couple cables and it was only when our pre-order arrived

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that i realized i hadn't really read the fine print and 4k recording wasn't even

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enabled yet i mean we did get higher bitrate 1080p recording a slightly

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bigger and noticeably better OLED external display with more onboard

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diagnostics and stuff and the firmware update to record 4k raw including

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continuous 240fps raw recording did come

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pretty quickly and that did come in handy but i'd have probably held off if

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i'd known that the 4k prores firmware was going to take a year after that time

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because the 4k raw workflow is terrible

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it's so much data it takes up so much space it's really hard to work with

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it was at this stage that i finally bought some lenses so that brandon and

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edsel wouldn't have to bring their own to work there wasn't a real quality

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upgrade to the content or anything at this time though because we've replaced

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brandon's tampon 24 to 70 with our own

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tampon 24 sorry did i say tampon just a

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bug brandon because i meant tamron and then we

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picked up tamron's 90 millimeter macro lens for close-ups as well

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the next round of upgrades has some pretty cool stuff in it our sennheiser

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kit lav cable started fraying for the

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second time so we preemptively picked up a countryman b6 lavalier

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pretty sweet it sounds better than our old one it is so small that i can just

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tape it to anything with tuck tape on the inside of my shirt or hide it in a

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buttonhole and it's actually waterproof something we took advantage of when i

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did the ice bucket challenge and it was also around this time that we finally

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upgraded our old tripod head to the manfrotto 509 hd and man

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i'm not a camera dork but

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even i can tell the difference it makes smooth tilts and pans so easy that i'm

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not convinced we even need brandon around anymore and unlike our old one

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which in its defense did serve us well and has seen so much overburdened action

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that the rubber on one of the knobs like came right off the lock is much more

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conveniently placed on the left side of the tripod so a right-handed shooter

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doesn't always have to be reaching around the tripod which is pretty nice

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which i guess brings us to wrap-up time and the reason for us to do this video

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now out of the box two years ago the fs700 could record 1080p at up to 60

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frames per second continuously with audio and up to 240 FPS slow-mo with an

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8-second burst and up to 960 FPS in a

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2-second burst if you were willing to sacrifice three quarters of your

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resolution the issue was that for both continuously

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recorded and slow-mo burst footage

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the sd card media was simply not fast

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enough for high bitrate video files that are suitable for color correction and

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while physically the camera has been rock solid other than that time we got it wet

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and it wouldn't turn on until i disassembled the housing and dried it out for the weekend some significant

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upgrades were needed for it to stay competitive now and moving into 2015 but

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they pulled it off and i've got to hand it to sony i don't always like their way

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they run their business but through their partnership with convergent design

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they really delivered and we love this camera it was a great investment which

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leads us to the last upgrade one we actually didn't have to pay any extra

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for now while you may have noticed that we've done some 4k uploads in the last

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little while we were actually using an older firmware that

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took 4k raw footage and then down sampled it to 1080p prores

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i mean we did discover that it looked really good even when you re-up

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converted it to 4k so that's why some of our videos have been in 4k but it's

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actually been kind of feco4k two days ago though the proper 4k prores

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firmware dropped and now we are ready to go full 4k whenever we shoot with our

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fs700 because we've also got our brand new secondary camera a panasonic gh4

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that does internal 4k recording to high-speed sd cards and we've got our

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upgraded workstations from the whole room water cooling project so

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bring on the 4k baby we are ready

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