Simple, Cost-Effective Camera Gear To Level Up Your Backpacking Videography 

What's your setup for recording your adventures?!

Interesting setup and well executed video. I have very similar thoughts on camera gear--I've been using the A7C now for the last 2.5 years and it's worked great. I've stuck with the 35mm 1.8 lens mostly because its lighter than a zoom, but I hear good things about the Tamron zoom for the weight and also the price. Cool to have come up upon your channel, I also keep my backpacking gear as UL as possible to carry all the camera stuff and document my hikes. Currently using the Zpacks multipack to carry my setup but I can see the camera pod from Hyperlite would be handy with extra lenses.

Kraig Adams shot some of his adventures just using the iPhone 14 Pro. You can definitely choose situations where the dedicated full frame camera will excel but for vlogging on RU-vid, modern phones can do a great job. Nobody should feel they “need” anything else. As they say, the BEST camera is the one that’s with you. Not meaning to sound anti-DSLR or mirrorless at all. It’s a big commitment from both a cost and weight perspective, though. I’d recommend people make a few videos with their phone before going out and investing. I used to teach photography and I really like the craft. But every time I’m backpacking and I try to shoot a video… well let’s just say it’s a ton or work and not for everyone. I still take 100s of photos but creating videos is a huge distraction to my outdoors experience. I guess I just don’t have the muscle memory for it. I’m in awe of those folks, such as yourself, that excel and seem to really enjoy making videos in nature. I really appreciate your efforts and thank you for sharing your work.

Nice setup, Tim! Love how you put this together. Great insights 👌🌲

Top notch content, delivery, production. Keep the videos coming.

Dude this is very helpful. I have many people on trail ask about my setup. I don’t normally do videos but now I know where to send people to watch about my this topic. I run with an A9ii or the Fuji x100v. Great vid man🤙

I dont use camera gear myself, but I did really enjoy this! Your shots and editing are really good 👍👍👍

Very interesting, just what I was looking for in terms of camera gear for hikes. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent video....thanks! I'm in the process of upgrading my camera gear from using my iPhone while hiking to the Sony A7IV with a wide angle lens and storing it in a large Hyperlite camera pod. Looking forward to using it all in 2024!

Hey thanks for the video, I appreciate all the details. I would definitely love to see how you set up your camera with all those preset you talked about the one for slow-mo the one for oh shit something's happening. I would definitely love to see that.

I am looking to get the camera pod for my a7c as well. Do you think it would fit in the "regular" sized pod with the Tamron glass? It should fit a compact prime but I can't tell if it would hold the zoom lens 🤔