This is a steady cam i built back, i don't know, oh, it has a date on it. 5 1309 don't bother way too hard. Don't bother buy one of the store ones, store, bought ones, they're, probably like 99 and they're perfect, with servos and and auto stabilizers and everything uh. This is an obsolete camera.

This is obsolete. I'm just maybe i'm just bragging about this thing because i love it. So much this camera, it's from. I don't know it's from 2008 2010..

I use these old ones to simulate uh, vhs or old, looking footage because they just look right and they do the lighting all bad and the resolution's all wonky and they're fun to use and easy to use and they shoot on cards. And i just think this thing is so beautiful: it's made in japan, it's all either aluminum or stainless or titanium, but the problem is with the lcd screen folded out. It doesn't stay up by itself, so i made this little foot and it was hard to make it's a quarter inch screw, but i had to chisel out so that the screw head would fit in and then i had to get the the threads exactly the right Height, so i cut the threads to exactly the right height with a dremel so that when you screw it all the way home it lands like that nice and snug. It lands like this nice and snug, and now you know it stays open, but i don't know.

I think i'm just bragging and it's totally useless and you're - never gon na buy this camera okay. So this charging station is a new project that evolved from a desk and - and i don't know i'll i'll figure out - there is a brand name on this desk. They're sought after they're weirdly sought after and they're weirdly expensive, but i love them and i have uh with sheet metal screws attached this um sheet of plywood to the to the desk surface, and it's i built this desk, which is attached to the wall. I built it to the same height as as this it's got wheels on it.

These are casters that i bought from home depot. I like. No, no i'm sorry. I think i got these from mcmaster, but maybe home depot.

I tapped the legs so that they threaded in because the casters that come with this are terrible. I replaced the hardware with stainless steel and then i originally just had this belkin. I love these belkin rectangle surge suppressors. I originally just had it as a just to plug stuff into computers and chargers and so forth.

And now it's involved into our charging station and i added a shelf for the 1dx charger and the t2i charger. And then you know the insta 360 charger and then insta360 sent a whole bunch of cameras over and we had go and my brother gave me the gopro and so uh. I had mr slays here who's behind the camera that you're watching me on build this perfectly built. He said a perfect job bottom shelf, we're waiting on the next belkin charger to go here and i think, with this sort of thing, you keep it sort of disorganized.

So that there's lots of room so that you can go fast and you can just take for granted that your batteries are charged and that's like a discipline thing. I have like little post-its that say, format card and after i've finished the project and the projects backed up. Then we format the the card. Um, there's also little stickers that say uh, you know charge battery or charged, but they basically the cameras, live on the chargers.

I don't know if that's bad for them. I don't really understand i've, never understood like lithium ion and chargeable batteries. Oh you want to run them all the way down. No, you never want to run them all the way down.

Oh, they come half charged, but always well. I don't i don't get it. I just plug them in and use them until they don't work anymore and then buy knock-off ones on amazon and there's also a third charger up here with the dock, from my old laptop that has like the usb c, i think, is what these are called ports To most everything is these chargers. Now, oh destroyer, lamp.

We did a whole video on how to build the destroyer lamp for dad. This is my personal destroyer lamp and it's a super handy thing. I've already used it twice this week in videos, and you know it's great on the ground to like light. You know light if you're sitting at a desk, it's great for lighting your you know.

I don't know what the all the lighting is called. There's, like key lighting, fill lighting. I don't know what any of that's called, but this is a terrific thing, because it's heavy and it moves around mine has. This is a gunsmithing.

This is a gunsmithing hammer that you use. I just use them for nailing in push pins. I got this hook in japan. I love them even though like when you try to put the thing on they like.

Sometimes they don't, it doesn't catch. I put thread lock in there, so it's a little stiffer, but it's so you don't like scratch your head, if you bump into it, i don't know, i love them. Okay. This brings us to these.

Are my shades for blackening the studio, and this is the crappiest homemade filmmaking gear in the studio? It's just black seamless paper which, as you probably know, tears very easily and i've put this two inch packing tape in the corners and everywhere i put a push, pin and then they just hold. I just hold them up with a clothes pin. So when i need to black in the studio, it's just i roll them down. I take the push pin these go in easily because i pushed i've done it so many times it's almost like cork and i blacken - and i have one here and i have one here and these skylights i have to do as well, but that's the project.

The next video is going to be these skylights okay. So that's a few homemade filmmaking gear things that you can probably make put in the comments. If you want me to go into depth for if i get enough comments that say, oh go into depth on how you made blah blah blah blah blah um, maybe i'll make another video, that's an in-depth thing! All right! All right! You ready to go to home depot. Okay,.

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