Van Neistat's Camera Rituals
Published September 30, 2022 · 6:42 · 185,878 views
About This Video
Two new cameras arrive and Van realizes he has a ritual. Immediately out of the box: set to 24 frames per second progressive. Add a lanyard. Name them after film cameras: the GoPro 8 is the Arriflex, the GoPro 10 is the Panavision, the new GoPro 11 is the Bolex. The old Olympus became a Leica.
The fourth ritual: build a foot so the camera can stand on its own. Van has made custom feet for every camera he owns: the iPhone, the Canon TX1, the Fujiroid (with a quarter-inch tripod insert embedded in VHB tape). The Sony ZV-1 foot needed a GoPro mount cannibalized from a spare Hero 8 for tilt. His car-mounted system required a heavy base, so he smelted fishing weights into a crucible from Revival Cycles, poured the molten lead into a mold made from an old camp stove heat shield. Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable.
Transcript
[Music] I got two new cameras this week and in setting them up I realized that I have a new camera ritual immediately out of the box I set them to 24 frames per second
Progressive they used to call it 24p I don't know if they still call it that another part of my ritual is I put a
lanyard on the camera if it has a spot if it has a little hole for the
lanyard this is the new GoPro 11 thank you Casey neistat thank you
GoPro this is my fourth GoPro and I Nam them after film cameras I wish I was
using my GoPro 8 is my orlex GoPro 10 is my Panavision and the
new one the GoPro 11 is uh my blex I also have an old Olympus that I
made into a Leica Lea Leica they call them the fourth part of my ritual is I
put some kind of a foot on my cameras so that they can
stand up on their own I made one for my iPhone the first one I ever made was for
the Canon tx1 which is the most beautiful pocket camera the foot I made for my Fuji roid has a/4 inch Tina implanted into it so
that I can mount the Fuji roid on a tripod and the foot is mounted to the camera
itself with VHB adhesive tape and 3M VHB stands for
very high bond this foot I originally made for my Canon T2i which I call Baby Jesus but now I use it for my for my
GoPros I love love GoPro mounts I think they're ingenious I find tripods annoying especially the little ones and the GoPro mounts allow me to
tilt the camera on the little base this is the second camera I got
this week Sony zv1 my brother Casey suggested it to me and it's the first camera camera I've
bought for myself since I think 2009 4K big sensor good
lens I made a little foot for it so that it doesn't tip over when the lens is fully
extended but the foot I made doesn't tilt so I cannibalized the GoPro Mount off of a spare GoPro 8 and mounted it to the Little Foot I made and now I can use the Sony zv1 with
my GoPro foot and my other GoPro mounts [Music] but I love shooting these little monologues in the car while I'm driving and the system is too
topheavy for the car it knocks over when I accelerate or go around corners so I
needed a new system with a heavy base a low center of gravity so that when I
take corners and accelerate the camera doesn't fall over and it needs to tilt and the camera needs to tilt so made
this thing my buddy Allan at Revival Cycles gave me this little Crucible I used it to smelt fishing weights then poured the molten lead into a mold I made out of an
old aluminum heat shield that came with my camp stove
[Music] [Music] lead kind of freaks me out so I epoxied it into the base so that the lead won't ever touch my skin lead I'm let is poison and uh makes us
even [Music] dumber heavy heavy is good heavy is reliable if it doesn't work you can always hit him over the head with
it my newest gadgets born of ritual [Music] this week on the patreon archival videos with director's commentary on my patreon right there the link is right there
Products & Tools Mentioned
- GoPro 11 uses — newest camera, nicknamed 'blex' (Bolex)
- GoPro 8 uses — nicknamed 'orlex' (Arriflex)
- GoPro 10 uses — nicknamed 'Panavision'
- Olympus uses — made into a 'Leica'
- Canon TX1 recommends — 'most beautiful pocket camera'
- Canon T2i uses — called 'Baby Jesus'
- Sony ZV-1 uses — first camera bought for himself since 2009, suggested by Casey
- Fujiroid uses — instant camera with custom tripod foot
- 3M VHB tape essential — Very High Bond adhesive for camera feet
- GoPro mounts recommends — called 'ingenious'
- iPhone uses — has custom foot
People Referenced
Casey Neistat, Alan (Revival Cycles)
Films & Media Referenced
- Boris the Blade quote referenced ('heavy is good, heavy is reliable')