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The best way to protect your camera and filming gear when travelling

Sep 20, 2022 by Alex Baker Leave a Comment

Anyone who’s flown recently will know that things are still a bit of a mess. Flights are being cancelled left and right and luggage is ending up in all the wrong places. Personally, I’ve had luggage left out on the tarmac for 3 days, I’ve watched a fragile musical instrument be knocked over by a luggage cart, and I’ve seen cases of equipment fall from the top of the luggage belt while being loaded onto an aeroplane.

Obviously, it’s always going to be safer to have your most valuable and delicate gear in your hand luggage, however, due to ever more stringent rules that isn’t always possible. So what you really need then is a really heavy-duty case to protect your equipment. DIYP spoke to Herman Vaszlovszky about Nanuk’s hard cases.

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Members Mark has a $19 Hard case for your camera

Jan 2, 2017 by Udi Tirosh 3 Comments

If you live in the US, and have a Sam’s club nearby, you are going to be very happy about this. Sam’s Club are selling a Member’s Mark hard case with foam for $19 in store (or $31 online, if you don’t have a store nearby).

True, it’s not the more branded Pelican 1450, then again, it’s about fifth of the cost.

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This is how you build a portable charger case to answer all your power needs

Jul 24, 2016 by Udi Tirosh 3 Comments

If you are shooting on location (and even if not) you must have a ton of batteries to power your production war-horse. The camera takes batteries, the lights take batteries, remotes, phones, monitors. Actually, most devices take more than one battery. And every battery set want their own charger. And every charger want it’s out power outlet. It’s a nightmare. If you wanted to take it all on location you’d end up with a messy table full of cable spaghetti. There has to be a better way!

There is! Videographer Yair Shiloach‎ came up with this charging station, which both keeps everything in order and makes setting up and tearing down a breeze.

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How To Make A Hard Case For Your Gear for $10

Oct 28, 2015 by Udi Tirosh 3 Comments

Some gear needs extra protection especially when going on an outdoor production. Here is how to quickly make a hard case to protect your gear. I am actually going to use part of the packaging that the gear was sent with. While this is not a solution for every piece of gear, it is often a quick and solid way to protect your gear.

I recently started using the Feiyu Tech 3 Axis Gimbal. Being a small piece with some electronics inside, I wanted to protect it when going on productions, but the hard case was not yet in stock. I still needed the gimbal, so I went ahead and got it, figuring that I will figure the hard case later.

As many camera gear pieces, the gimbal came in a cardboard box. Luckily, that cardboard box was fitted with hard foam insert, and the different pieces of the gimbal (charger, batteries, cables) are nicely tucked inside that protective foam.

BOOM! I knew what to do.

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