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When it comes to Summer in the City three things really stick in my mind. First of them,
shoes and footwear and that Converse still seems to be successfully ruling the U.K. YouTube
crowd where I think there must be more Converse wearers than all other brands of footwear
put together. Secondly cameras. Lots of people using their mobile phones for video use. Nobody
now using the cheaper to midrange compact cameras any more though some of them do have
quite good video capabilities, they seem to have been totally zapped by the improving
performance of your mobile phone which is what I'm using to make this on at the moment.
Moving up from them lots and lots of these bridge cameras. These devices that look like
baby digital SLRs except they don't have removable lenses but just one zoom attached permanently.
An awful lot of them, no one particular model seem to stand out. Small ones, big ones, different
coloured ones, all in very active use. Moving up to the digital SLR side of things as expected
from past experience, totally Canon dominated. What 95% of all digital SLRs I saw there Canons.
Just one or two Nikons floating around. I did have the chance to talk to one Nikon owner
who said something to me which just got me thinking a little bit, as he was wondering
how many of these Canon owners had bought their cameras because they'd actually done
their research, looked into the different models and then decided what to get. Or how
many had just been out and about seeing lots of other people using Canons so therefore
I will use them as well. Now I thought at first perhaps a little bit sour grapes going
on here 'cause these Canon cameras are really good cameras. But I thought about it a bit
more and you've got to appreciate of course that YouTube is very much a video orientated
community, but I was not seeing any of the Panasonic GH families. No GH1s 2s or 3s there
at all. Yet these are cameras which have an awesome reputation for their video. When this
lad mentioned this idea of I wonder how many are actually just following the crowd and
almost becoming a self-perpetuating thing. It just got me thinking a little bit. Still
saw lots of videoing being done by the more conventional small camcorders. I must admit
none of them looked particularly new, as if all the new or as if when being replaced I
suspect they're now being replaced with your digital SLR device but you still got a huge
number of these legacy camcorders still in very very active use. On the microphone side,
for those plugged into their digital SLRs totally Rode dominated. I only saw one non
Rode microphone and that was a errr sort of cheap and cheerful thing which the guy who
was using is was basically swearing and cursing at it and did not like it at all. From the
digital recording to independent separate device then for post-production editing, Zooms.
Quite a few Zoom H1s Zoom H4s floating around. And finally the third thing that stuck out
in my mind was that it was good to see and talk to a whole mass of younger up and coming
video creators. Some really good potential here however even the brightest cloud can
have a rather dark centre to it and I did notice just one or two of this crowd, and
it really just was one or two of many were what shall we say I hate to use the phrase
stuck up their own backsides, but I think they've got a little bit to learn in life
and just having say a couple of thousand subscribers does not yet make you God's gift from Heaven
to the YouTube community. But I'm sure over time they will learn and produce some absolutely
brilliant videos for us to watch. Right, goodbye. A huge number of these cameras as [background
sounds] well. And I'm not sure what's going on but some loudspeaker has just burst into
life. These camcorders. [Children screaming] Moving up from them lots and lots and far
more than I expected of these bridge cameras, these screaming kids in the background. These.
Moving up.