Good Morning from Camera Camp!

Jen and I are currently in Monterrey, California, and we're excited to be here at Camera Camp, also known as Kando, which is an incredible event that Sony has invited a bunch of world-renowned photographers to. We're not the only YouTubers here, but rather a special group, as Jen focuses on photography while I'm more into video production.

We decided to hit breakfast together, and it's where we shine in our respective roles. The menu offers all our favorite things, including yogurt, which is essential for us. Jenna got four to-go cups of coffee, but I made a mistake thinking one was coffee when it was actually water. Now, I have a cup of hot water with creamer – not my ideal breakfast, but I'll make do.

As we sat down, we spotted something unexpected – a mountain lion in the area! We were so excited to see this creature up close, and now, Jenna is taking pictures while I'm capturing some video. With her photography skills on display, it's clear why she shines at breakfast.

After finishing our meal, we took a look around us. As vloggers, one of the main differences between us and the photographers here is that you can spot us from a mile away due to our large microphones atop our cameras. I decided to introduce Brett, who is also a photographer here. "Hey Brett," I said, "can you show me your camera quickly?" He replied with his Sony A6500, which is how we differentiate ourselves as vloggers from photographers.

Brett explained that it's the massive microphones and the louder sound that make us stand out. We chatted with him for a bit before deciding to head out to meet more of the attendees at Camera Camp. Brett had already introduced everyone in his channel, so I thought we could do it as well – but then we realized he had done it!

As we continued our exploration, we met Faruk from iPhonedo. He told us about his channel, where he combines elements of gaming and iPhone use to create content like "iPhonedo." When asked about a memorable moment on his channel, he mentioned the first video I saw of his – one that didn't do much for me due to a particular incident involving GoPro Karma drones. We shared our experiences with the drone.

We then met Jason, who creates tech videos and does a lot of filmmaking stuff on Sony Alpha cameras and lenses. People know him as Mondobytes because he teaches tips and tricks in film production. He expressed his excitement about being at Camera Camp, where he can learn from others. We also talked to Kraig Adams, an urban explorer photographer who often vlogs about that lifestyle.

Next, we had the chance to meet Steve Ronin, who shares a similar passion for filming and exploring. His channel showcases his adventures as an urban exploration photographer. "Hi, how are you?" he asked, which is something I'm getting used to after attending this event.

We then moved on to a fun activity – trying to fit in an old locker from the 90s. It was surprisingly easy! After laughing and joking around, we decided it would be best not to try anything similar at home. If anyone did attempt to close that locker again, they might experience some claustrophobia.

Our next stop was the aquarium, where Jen had done introductions for most of the attendees – except for me, of course! She noticed I was zoned out thinking about life and realized she hadn't talked to me yet. "I did!" she said with a smile.

As we were inside the aquarium, exploring the various exhibits, I introduced myself as Josh from Exploring With Josh. My channel focuses on abandoned places around the world, where I travel and make vlogs. It was lovely chatting with everyone here at Camera Camp.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(funky synth music)- Good morning from Camera Camp!Jen and I are in Monterrey,California right now.Monterrey is so beautiful.I was only here once before.This is my second time,and we're here forsomething very, very fun.Sony invited a bunch of, well,pretty much the mostincredible photographersaround the world here to whatwe're calling Camera Camp,but it's actually called Kando.They have a ton of activitiesplanned for everyone.There's a few other YouTubers here, too,so we're kind of like the odd people out,because, I mean, I'm an okay photographer,but really, what I focusmostly on is video.Jenna's already taking pictures.Are you taking picture or video?- Video. There's a mountain lion here.- Right now, we're heading to breakfast.This is where Jenna shines. Okay.On the menu are all ofour favorite things.- Oh my gosh, it'slike they made it for me.They have yogurt?- The most important partabout breakfast is coffee,and Jenna got four to-go cups.Are you coffee hoarding?- No I didn't!Well, I made a mistake,I thought the one wascoffee and it was water,so I have a cup of hot water and creamer.I don't wanna talk about it.- Squirrel! Squirrel!(electronic music)For scale.Do you know how many Sasquatcheswe could find with that?Morning.(gasps)Jenna! They have it here!I'm so excited! I'm so excited.I was like, I wonder if thestore will have a yerba mate,and guess what, they do,and they have kombucha!Oh my goodness.I'm so happy. Let's go.- Back on the bus.- We are on the vlogger bus,and the difference between the vloggersand the photographers here is (laughs)you can spot us a mileaway because we havehuge microphones on top of our cameras.For example, hey Brett.(men talking)See, look. You see? I can't see it.- Brett--- What's up?- Can you just showme your camera real quick?- Got the Sony a6500.- Oh!- That's how you can tella vlogger between a photographer.'Cause we've got thesemassive microphones.- Also, a lot louder.- Oh.Hi!- Hello!- Hi!- Well, now I wanted to go aroundand do introductionsof everybody's channel,but Brett already did it,so is that weird if we do it again?- My name is Faruk, and mychannel is called iPhonedo.It is like Nintendo withan iPhone: iPhonedo.- The first video that I saw of his,I don't wanna bring it up'cause it's kind of a sore subject,sorry GoPro, but it was his Karma video,and then I've been a huge fan ever since,'cause we both were notbig fans of the Karma.- It is true.It's the GoPro Karma.The worst drone I have ever flown.(heavy rock music)- Hey Jen!- Hi!I'm sure you probably haveseen me in some of your videos.Are you having fun? Do youwant me to handle this for you?- No, it's okay!- Okay.- Hi, hello!- Hi, I'm Jason.I make videos on Sony Alpha,specifically on alltheir cameras and lenses,and teach people tips and tricks, yeah.- People know me as Mondobytes.I do tech videos, I do alot of filmmaking stuff,how to color grade, pretty muchanything I'm just interested in filming,but mostly tech andanything relating to film.- Well, I mean, that would bewhy we're all here, you know?Hi, how are you?- Hey, Kraig Adams,ex-CaseyNeistat ripoff artist, no.(laughs)I just do travel stuff.- So my name's Steve Ronin,and basically I'm an urbanexploration photographer,and I kinda vlog that lifestyleon my YouTube channel,so go check it out.- We'll continueintroductions after donuts.To be honest, I justwanna look at the donuts,I don't actually-- well,maybe I do wanna eat one.(indistinct conversations)- It's like a bullygetting stuck in a locker.- This is such an easy fit!- Oh, that was easy.- Alright, let'sall get in a locker.(people laughing)- No, don't close it!- No, no, don't close it!- Okay, so I can fit.That was really dumb.I'm an adult. Don't try that at home.- If you would've closedit, what would've happened?- I don't know.- Oh, you're fine.- I would've gottenclaustrophobic after that.- Who wants to get locked?- Dude, hell no. That's scary.(group laughing)(gentle piano music)- We're inside the aquarium,and I did intros of everybody,you're the only one that Ihaven't introduced yet, hi.- Oh, I thought you were talking to him.- No, you!- I was so zoned out, thinkingabout life really quick.My name's Josh from Exploring With Josh.I do abandoned places around the world,and I just travel and make vlogs.- I actually checked out yourchannel before we got here.- You did?- Yeah.'Cause there was an email,I'm like \"who is here?\"No, and I thought it was really great,so I'm excited to meet you.- Thank you so much.- This is fun.- Yeah, we'll have todo some random stuff.- Yeah, where are you based out of?- Well, I'm based in Boston.- Oh, cool!- But I'm here for thewhole month, well, LA.- Oh, awesome! Well, I'm here too.- You live in LA?- Yes, I live in LA, yeah. This is great!- We were meant to do whatever we can do.- We're gonna do somecool stuff. Stay tuned.- Do you like to hike, or something crazy?- I love hiking.- Alright, we should do that.- Yes, let's do it!- Really. Yeah.(calm electronic music)- So sea bass is my favorite fish to eat,and now I don't think I'm evergonna be able to eat it againbecause now I've looked him inthe eye, and he looked back.(calm electronic music)- Jenna's been trying to touch it.- I gave it a nice little pet.- Did you?- Yeah, it was nice.- Touch it,Jen. Grab it. Go for it.Are you gonna touch it, or what's up?- Well, I can't put my arm in,or else I'll be taking a bath.I can't go! (laughs)- So right now it issea otter feeding time,so we're gonna see if we can see them.We're gonna try to go upstairs and see.- Now, ourthree sea otters are doingwhat we call \"positivereinforcement training\".That means we ask them to do something,and then when they dothat, we reinforce it,or thank them for doing the behaviorand hope they do it againby doing something positive.So, in this case, (laughs) that's food.- We are in the deep ocean now, so--What? Look how cool!(calm synth music)This is probably the coolestthing that I've ever seen.This entire little aquariumtank is full of jellyfish.I thought those jellyfish over therewere cool when there was two of them.There's probably like40, 50, I don't know.(energetic synth music)We've seen so many coolthings here at the aquarium,but now I'm at the storeand I wanna get Matty a toy,and I'm thinking that he probablywould really love this little otter.He loves his piggy puppet.This actually looks like him.Oh my goodness, I think this--there's beans in it, though.I wonder if he'd like this?This one's like a little finger puppet.\"Puppet Mini Baby Penguin\". Super cute.I think Matty'll like it.For those of you guys thatdon't know, Matty is my dog.This is Nicole. We had somuch fun at the aquarium.This was so awesome. Did you like it?- This was the coolest thing ever.The jellyfish, favoritething I've ever seen.- It was incredible.I mean, they were just so slow-moving,it was almost like it wasslo-mo, but it wasn't.It was real-mo.- It was remarkable. I like jellyfish.(energetic techno music)- Back here at the resort, and now,guess what, it's time for lunch.So basically, we ate,went to the aquarium,now we're gonna eat again.- Human feeding time.- Human feeding time.- Well wait, that didn't sound good.Hello, welcome to my meal.So we have an Uncrustable.It's on wheat bread now.Uncrustables look likethey did a little rebrand.Sunchips, I'm not done. Apple slices.- And the rest of theadults, we all have salads.- Well, you guys are weird.- I got a fish sandwich.- Oh okay,okay, yes, that's good.- I got a fish sandwich too.- Oh, there you go.That is a huge piece of fish.- The calories are so much though. 1,500.- Well, you can remove the bun.(group laughs)Okay, I'm testing out this lens now.I'm super excited about this one.This is a wide angle lens,and we're heading to a class right now.It's called Unlock Alpha.If you have any questionsabout your camera,you can ask them andthey will answer them.I'm preparing my questions mentally.But this lens is pretty cool.What's it look like? Is itwide angle? Nice wide angle?- Yeah, you're looking good.- Woo! What do you guys think?Do you like it? Do you not like it?This is the one I'mborrowing from the rental.Jenna's got the littleguy on there. Pancake.- I brought the big boys.- Pancake.(energetic synth music)We just left our first class,and now we're heading over.They have these photosetswhere you can take picturesof things and they also haveone that is puppies and kittiesso guess where we're going.Puppy and kitty photoset.- Camera shy.- It's okay.- Friends.- I didn't knowthere was like, real kittens.(kitten meows)- Mindy.- She's trying to give kisses.- She is. Bat is like, \"I'm outta here.\"- Hi. Aww.(electronic music)That may have been thehighlight of my day.Yes, there are incredible camerasand so many lenses andamazing people here,but Mindy was the sweetest little dogand, well, her adopted brother Ted--Please please please, if anybody wants Tedwho happens to live nearMonterrey, California,go get Ted, go get Mindy,and see what other dogsthey have available.I love it.- No one else had helmets.- Time to ride bikes.None of our other friends have helmets,but I think I'm gonna besafe and I'm gonna wear one,because you should always wear a helmet,and I don't trust myself.- They had a feeling that you guysweren't as good at riding bikes as we are.- Did you just decline the helmet?- Yeah. But (laughs) I thinkyou guys need them, so--- What are you saying?- What are you saying?- What are you saying?- I heard about your skateboard incident.- Oh. Wow, yeah.- Where are we?- Monterrey, California, baby!- Yo, watchthis, watch this, ready?- Off we go, bike squad.Rolling!Goodness gracious. Here we go.- Go on without me, guys.- We've made our first stop,it's only been four minutes,and I think I'm dying already.- Woo! I'm tired.- Wow.- Just a quick littlebreak we're all having.- We need it.- Every block, we're gonna stop.- Let me say thatvlogging and riding a bikeis not a thing I'm good at.- We're doing a good job.(upbeat electronic music)- Oh, hi cutie.- Come to the show.- We're all trying toget a bike squad pic.We've got the timer--10 seconds. 10 seconds.- Run, Steve!- So unfortunately, wehave to turn around,because we have a meeting at 3:00,but these guys are going, what, 17 miles?- 17 miles. It's gonnabe a great 17 miles.We're all energetic, we're all ready.- And what is at the end of 17 miles?- I don't know. (laughs)- So, I'm gonna steala clip from his video,and then you can go watch the rest of itto find where the 17 miles went.- I didn't vlog it today.- What?- Oh my God.- Yeah, I'm the only one, I know.I vlogged all yesterday, just not today.- So you can send them to mypage. Youtube.com/BrettConti.- So, I'll be stealing a clip from Brett,and then you can see the restof the video on his channel.- Still subscribe to Josh, though.- Exploring With Josh, it's okay.- His channel's pretty fun.Everybody's channels is fun.- I can't vlog and ride a bike, so.- My legs hurt already.- Well, we have to go uphill, little lady.I don't think bike riding is somethingthat I'm good at, or into.(electronic music)- We're on our way back down,except we forgot which way we turned.Hopefully, these guysremember, 'cause I don't.(electronic music)- Alright guys, here's the Ronin-S.I've been talking about itnonstop since I saw it at CES.- Horizontal.- So hold the trigger here?- Yeah, hold the trigger'til you're horizontal.Okay, now double tap.Alright, now just pan right there.- Wow.You guys are gonna seethis in so many vlogs,and you'll be like \"Can you please stop?\"(men laughing)It's gonna be nonstop.- It suits you.- Yeah, this is great. It's really nice.- And if you ever want tostart working with autofocus,I'm sure you do a littlebit, but as you're walking,you can just tap as you moveand change what's in focus,so it's really really free.- That's a really goodidea, 'cause I actually haveall the autofocus turnedoff on the touchscreen'cause I'm always accidentally hitting it,but this is a really good use case for it.What lens is this? Is this 24?Oh, 50. Okay, I gotta hold it out here.Is it stable? Is it steady?- I'm not stable.- My arms are hurting!Okay, this is me holding it with one arm.Hello.- Hello.- Oh, this is cool.Oh yeah, that's great.How are we ever gonna pack all this stuff?'Cause we have so much morestuff than we came with.- Justine's on fire duty today.Wait, you're not lighting the right thing.You have to light the end ofthe bag, the edges of the bag.- It's gonna light.- I guess it'll work.- This is gonna light.Look at the nice fire! I made that.- It's lit.- Can you believe it, Jenna?- This is crazy!I'm so happy!- So we're packing, andwe were just joking,\"oh, we're never gonna win anything,that's crazy, that's not gonna happen\".Jenna just won an A7R III.We heard it over the loudspeaker.And then all of ourvlog squad friends said\"Jenna just won an A7R III!\"I can't believe it! I'm so excited!So we're gonna run downand we're gonna get it.- I won a camera!- Vlog squad! Let's go, Jen!- I won at Camera Camp!- Wee!Man, if we had that Ronin-S,this would be so steady.There it is, Jen, goahead, the presentation!- Jenna, here is your camera.- Thank you! I've neverwon anything before.And this is the best possiblething that I will ever win.I'd like to thank Sony,I haven't prepared a speechbut I'm very thankful.- Can you believe it, Jen?- No! I can't believe wealso just ran into them, too.- That's pretty crazy.- 'Cause we were on our way down.- Well, congratulations.I'm so proud of you.- Thank you, thank you.Okay, we'll go back up now.- Okay, now we can go back and be warm.(electronic music)\n"