Hey what’s going on everyone It’s Chris
Winter her with another DSLR tip.
Now today I’m gonna be showing you one of
my favorite accessories for DSLR video and
photography and if you haven’t used it I
100% recommend you go out and buy one.
Now what it is is this, it is a accessory
bar for your cold shoe or hot shoe on your
camera.
Now if you don’t know what that is, it is
essentially something that slots into your
cold shoe on top of your camera and then it
gives you this whole big track here to mount
other things to your camera which has just
come in so handy so many times for me so let’s
take a look at it.
Okay so this is the hot shoe extension bar
which I use all the time, it’s just a fantastic
accessory that you really should have.
So this is how you attach it just a general
cold shoe adapter and then up here you have
all this extra space for your accessories.
So let’s bring in my camera right here all
we have to do is simply slide it on and tighten
it up and then you have all this room for
your accessories.
So say you want to get good quality sound
for your videos I’ve got the rode video
mic pro here, you’d simply just slide this
on, tighten it up and there you go that’s
mounted to the side of your camera.
But what about if you want to increase the
battery life of your camera, so a few days
ago I did a review on this battery right here
which you can use to power your canon for
about 9 hours.
This is simply attached with a cheese plate
and a cold shoe adapter which you can get
really cheap, so simply add that then tighten
it up and as you can see you now have a external
battery and a microphone, and if you were
to move this over and move this over you would
have the space for one more accessory, a wireless
transmitter for your microphone.
So it’s really a quick tip and something
I do not go away without, because this little
bar right here has saved me on numerous occasions.
It just means you don’t have to have it
rigged for your camera and it’s just a really
good way of being portable but also having
a lot of things on your camera.
Now a little quick tip, you wouldn’t wanna
load this up too much because obviously you’re
gonna be putting a little bit of pressure
on you cold shoe adapter.
But this is a really good way of just adding
a bit more space to your camera, so that’s
that.
Just another thing this would also work for
steworks photography as well.
Say you wanna be using this external battery
a lot of people are asking me if I use this
battery how can I still use my flash, simple
you just use the battery on the left hand
side then you’ve got space for a big flash
on the right hand side which is a really good
way of just being smart I guess and also you
can get these external extension bars in different
sizes.
I think this one is probably about 15 centimetre
long but you can get them up to I think 30
centimetres long I think if you really need
to add a lot of accessories to your camera,
but like I said, you don’t want to load
it up too heavy because you might damage your
cold shoe, so that’s that.
So there you have it, this little accessory
bar goes with me everywhere and I would never
ever leave home without it because it just
means you can triple the amount of things
you can put on your camera which is a really
really cool thing.
And you got to be careful don’t overload
it too much but for me this has held up really
really well.
Now if you want to buy this bar you can click
the link right here this will take you to
Amazon and pick up one or two of these because
they’re absolutely awesome I use them all
the time.
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guys I will see you next time, bye.
