Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Why I don’t always use the “best” gadgets”.
So here’s a question: do you want to know what I carry in my bag? I mean specifically when I’m going to a really stressful thing, which for me is a live blog or a hands on situation. I mean I’m a tech writer. I get to use pretty much whatever I want, I’m kinda lucky, and so what I have in here must be the best stuff right, Actually not so much.. So here’s all the stuff that I carry into a live blog and as I unpack my bag, I want to tell a really cheesy story.. So there’s this movie from the 90s called The Ghost in the Darkness and it’s racist.
It’S terrible! It’S colonialism. Anyway! In this movie, the Val Kimmer is trying to build a bridge and it turns out there’s a lion, that’s messing with the village, so he has to shoot the lion., And so there’s this moment where he has to shoot the lion and his gun doesn’t work. And Michael Douglas, the grizzled veteran rolls in and says what happens. Misfire and Michael Douglas looks at him and he says to Val Kimmer. You went into battle with an unproven rifle And I know it’s terrible, but I always think about it. When you’re going into a high stress event.
You actually need to know how to use your tools, they need to be tested and you need to be ready to go., And so all of this stuff right here that you’re looking at these are my proven rifles.. So I could talk about this stuff for hours, but I’ve already sort of posted a What’s In Your Bag. So I think it’d be more interesting for me to bring in Vjeran and he can talk about what he carries in his bag for doing hands ons, and we can just have a conversation about why all this stuff is interesting., So hey., (, laughs, ), Have a Seat. Hello. ( laughs, ) How’s it going Dieter Awesome.
How are you Alright? This might take a minute. Okay., Okay. (, soft music ). There’S one there’s two three. Alright.. Okay. I think that’s it.
Wow., Yeah., Okay. So, let’s start., Obviously you’re a video director. You’Ve got lots of lenses and the camera here. So why this thing instead of I don’t know, super dragon red or some little tiny thing or your phone or whatever So yeah kind of going off.
Your point that you know you need a proven rifle things that you trust and things that you know how to operate and are just easy to operate. Yeah., So C-100 shoots great video.. You don’t need 4K. You need some other sized files.
You want to get it up and quick. Same thing with lenses. We don’t have the super sharp best lenses.
This is a 17-55. What’s good about it is that it’s image stabilizer. Okay., Because we shoot on. Actually let me grab it on monopods and not tripods. Okay.. You got ta, keep them stable.
Same thing. Actually, here we don’t have the nicest fluid drag video head. This one is solid because it’s not too heavy and we walk around in these lens.
And then we have the wide angle, because if you watch our channel, we love our wide angles. And macro for any connectors head phone jacks. Although those are extinct., Right.
And so on., So for me you’ll see, I have an iPad here which I super, don’t live blog from an iPad, but I have it because if I need to it’s a back up, but also I have a cellular one. So when I go to an event, we usually have wifi, and then I have a cellular on this and I have projectfi on this, which can get me Sprint and then I also have a third, an iPhone which will be on Verizon, and so I have at Least three ways to get online in case the local wifi dies, which the local wifi always dies right, So you carry a wifi as well, So having redundancy is super important for me.. Also, I see you live the dongel life as well..
This is my case with all the dongels. – Oh my god, ( laughing ). It’S so well organized. Yeah.
So this is actually for the iPad.. You can use that one. Two thunderbolts two USBs HDMI.
I decided because I don’t know why. And ethernet USB3 USB3 Apple charger. Headphones 3.5 millimeter, male and female and micro USB. You know just in case.. For me, the process of getting to know a new piece of technology is like first thing you do is learn how to use it.
Like every time. I pick up this camera. I have to relearn how to set up bracketed shooting, and I have to ask you every time because I suck at it. But after a while, you get to a point where you feel like you’re good at it, and I actually think it’s really important.
Don’T stop once you feel like you’ve mastered it, you need to start playing around with it. At that point, you need to start experimenting, trying new stuff, seeing what works, seeing, what you suck at, seeing what’s crazy and weird and then, when you go and when you’re in the high stress environment, you don’t do all that experimental stuff. But it’s sort of subliminally in the back of your mind, so you do the thing that you’re good at, but when you run into a tough spot, you’ve run into tough spots before because you’re experimenting with stuff you weren’t able to do, and one of those things Might actually help you solve that problem., Alright, one more question: what’s this, It’s a Nintendo Switch., What That’s a Nintendo Switch.! When do you have time and an event to play? Nintendo? Well, if there’s a surprise concert by U2 or something like that. – Oh well, yeah you’re, not gon na wan na watch that fair enough., At least it doesn’t download U2 music onto it.
(, laughs, ), Okay, so my takeaway here is not that we’re trying to teach You how to do a live blog or do a hands on the point here. Is you don’t have to have the best stuff or even necessarily the right stuff? You just have to have stuff that you’re really comfortable with and that you’ve got a bunch of experience using so that when you go in you, don’t panic. True.. It kind of reminds me of the videos you see on YouTube when they give a little Barbie camera to a professional photographer, send him out in the field, and he comes back with glorious stuff..
You basically know how to use a camera. You have a structure for a job, you’re doing a hands on, and you just kind of follow the same format. So, whatever instrument you use, it doesn’t really matter. Way back in the day, I used to talk about how the difference between a coder and a non techy person is when a coder runs into a problem. They don’t be like. Ah, all technology sucks They just go and google and try to find out the answer, and literally everybody can do that and that sort of can do.
Attitude applies to really stressful situations, where you have to use technology, and the only way to be able to handle that and not be totally frozen by technology. Failing is to have spent a bunch of time using it getting better at it, and it’s not about being the best at it. It’S about having experimented with it and having experienced failures and dealt with it so that when you experience failures in a stressful situation, you’re fine you’re like oh well, I’ve solved problems before I can do it. Again. Yeah we’ve all been there.. I mean we all know what the lesson is here right, Uh huh., You gon na make me say it: Yeah.
Don’t go into battle with an unproven, rifle.., Raffle Raffle. Thanks so much for watching.. If you enjoyed this video, I’ve got another video that I think you’re gon na, like even more.. It’S about slime mold, which sounds weird. But it’s actually amazing because it was made by the folks over at Verge Science who have a whole new YouTube channel. And you should definitely click somewhere to watch it because you’ll love it .