Always love these outdoor videos when the person walks towards the camera. Knowing that you had to walk forwards, set up the camera and then walk back and act like it's the first time (does it ever feel stupid? - it does add a lot to the filmography, tho)
Hmmm good question. Doesn't feel stupid to me but I think that's because I'm coming from a professional filmmaker background and I don't see these videos as vlogs, they are more crafted stories and part of that is being really deliberate with shots, editing etc. I'm often ticking off a mental shot list. For me it's about capturing the environment, giving a sense of scale and place and that's impossible to do fully without third person set up shots. Some times it get's annoying that I have to go back for the camera, but I really like planning, framing and setting up those shots. There's also a lot of extra footage and story I don't use. The first version of this video was 50mintues long before I cut it down to 25
Back in the day of limited battery and memory, I used to just not bother with it and work around the problem of continuity and narrative using ... cleverness and humour. Also, I was just very lazy, and yes I did feel stupid. Trades I do recognize in this strapping, gingery young lad!
@@spijkerpoes Just record one long shot of yourself approaching the camera, then copy it and intersperse it throughout the video. I'm sure nobody will notice.
Great video again and the camera was great, for a action camera. And the sound in the wind work well, love the tent bigger than the other one you got, that makes you feel sick for days. All in all great stuff again and again Stephen. Take care of yourself and yours Alan.⛺💯👍👍
What a nice video, made me smile throughout and I was well entertained. Videography was beautiful and the review of the camera very unintrusive. I hope you enjoyed making this video as much as I enjoyed watching it.
Thanks 🙂 Did my best to try and not get too technical with the camera details or talk about it for too long, didn’t want to take away from the adventure
@@StephenJReid I think you achieved that. The way you integrated the various features of the camera into the video never felt forced. Of course some of the shots were obviously done to use those features, but it never felt out of place, more like you sharing your experience in videography. This was a fun video to watch and as a bonus i learned something about a cool camera, it never took away from the adventure. Looking forward to the next video 🙂
You're doing my favourite walk I do with my dad every few months. The waterfall at the top of that valley is so under known and the path should be mad much more accessible for non walkers to enjoy it. Amazing in the summer and snow
Yes one of the best yet ably aided by lots of the white stuff making an already pleasant land into something very magical. Top work with all the essentials dropped in to make it compulsive viewing.
Hello Steven . First you’re a Madman. Second .. your TH-cam channel is one of the very few that I look forward to. Most importantly I wish we could meet for a few hours in a pub. ( first rounds on me ). The camera seems amazing especially for the price. Your editing is superb. Thank you.
What a great video! I always liked you and your very special way if storytelling. But this video is playing in another league! Beautifully photographed and edited. Wow, Stephan, just wow!
Another great video thanks Stephen. And I reckon the camera footage is awesome. I'd happily watch all your videos filmed on it - great quality incl the audio 😊
I love these tiny tent videos. I've been meaning to do some more tiny tent camping myself , and just bought a new "tent" to use: The alton walkabout swag 2.0 , would love to see you do a video comparing all your tents and biviis in the near future
beautiful video, Stephen, it's always such a joy to watch your content! there were so many beautiful shots!! I liked these shots here 16:44 so so much, it's sooo magical! also 13:22 is beautiful! and the camera did so well!!
It looked like Narnia out there. Stunning. I camp out in snow in a bivi but not the hooped variety because of the condensation problem you encountered. I use a military bivi under a tarp. The latter is much further away from my body than your bivi was, so any condensation on the tarp has no effect on my sleep system. I sleep with my head outside the bivi bag (wearing a beanie and balaclava), so no condensation gets inside my bivi or on my sleeping bag.
Great advice. I also use bivvy bags all year. I tried my MacPac event fabric side entry bivvy on a cold camp -5% and struggled with freezing and throwing condensation. Face out, tarp or basha up, you'll be reyt' 👍
Great video and well shot, seems like the Insta360 is a great little bit of kit for filming outdoors even in low light conditions. Never camped in a bivy but camped in snow using a Nordisk Lofoten 1 ULW and there was ice on the inside of it in the morning. Went down to about -10 that night but it was fine enough. Great skit with David Attenborough-eske narration, loved it. Should be done in more of your videos, not overdone but just done.
That wee camera is mighty impressive. Lots of nice features to help capture what you want to record for TH-cam or the likes of me for own use. I bought a Gopro Max to film some of my Kayaking trips, not done much in the way of filming, what I do, I tend to bin as I have cocked up a setting here or a setting being left on there. I did look at a Bivvy as an alternative to my tent, with a tarp for back up on inclement days and nights. as they would take up less room in my kayak, or more importantly weight as I take up the vast majority of said payload.
thanks for watching Simon 🙂 I think the biggest downside with a bivi is that these days you can get a full tent for similar weight once you include a tarp. But I like a bivi occasionally for sleuth, speed, star watching and just a bit of a different experience.
tricky question. If I could only have one camera under £500. it would be the Ace Pro 2. But I tend to use action cameras in combination with other cameras to make my videos. And the Action 5 shoots 10 bit D-log, which makes it easier to colour match. Especially if Im also using DJI drones and maybe the Pocket 3 too. Also it works really well with the DJI mic system. But those are reasons that most people won't care about.
Thanks so much Stephen for all the effort you put in.... although, given you had a spade, why didn't you make an igloo, snow cave, fresh bread and a roaring fire... sounds exhausting. It's a close call, but reckon you have Luke beat on the humor front.
Haha, Luke has the benefit of much deeper snow, I'd love to do a snow cave or igloo sometime but we rarely have the right conditions for long enough. Definitely want to bake bread on a camp and eat honey butter though.
WOW! This video was amazing. I loved the beautyfull images and snow. And the whole idea of camping in the snow. For me this one of the coolest videos i have seen. Would be cool if you had the chance to do a hot tent video in the snow someday. As for the camera. holy moly that thing makes good images. This definitly was one of the best ways to show of the camera. So much better as my early GoPro hero. Thanks for this great video, truly enjoyed it!
Yet another awesome video Stephen. The "David Attenborough" sketch had me in stitches. Just a quick question.... did those heat logs kick out enough heat to take off the chill?
Heat logs worked a treat, especially on a calm night. Broken into 3 pieces, each piece provided heat for about 20-30mins. I didn't have to add any extra wood
Wow can’t believe how much snow you have! 🙌🏼❄️ Tent looked cosy and I’m impressed with the camera! 📷 (Also bonus point for including my favourite LOTR quote 😂🥩)
That looks fantastic, and the camera is pretty good too, maybe a few more videos to test the quality of it. Have a great photo of Odin's Watch in the snow but unable to post it here, we're heading up that way soon.
This was beautiful ~ we enjoyed the snowfall here too, but alas I live above the tree line so it's just grim fields of windswept snow that blows into lanes and roads. I will admit that as much as I like a compact tent , my claustrophobia does not like that tent at all.
I was just thinking that you would have to get back out of the tent to grab the camera and then you managed to stretch and grab it. Phew! Memories of my Polish pick up truck with a fibre glass camper. Icy condensation and damp
Looks like a good bivy at a reasonable price. The one I own doesnt fit my warm mat, so I've never tried it in the snow. Instead I use my 4 season tent (wilderness equipment space 2) in the winter. Bivys do give you a special feeling of being surrounded by nature though..
Stephen only you could make sleeping in a Hefty Bag on a snowy mountain entertaining! 🥶Although I do admit that a nice evening around a campfire in the snow can be very enjoyable. But ice on the inside of your tent ... not so much! I thought the quality of the action camera was pretty good. The pixelated artifacts on some of the vista scenes were the telltale sign of the smaller sensor but all in all I thought the picture quality was very good. And the "enhanced" low light was very good. Two 👍🏼👍🏼for the Insta360 Ace Pro 2!
you need a mini chimney top attachment thingy , so you can leave the zip 2 '' or 3'' open gap and let your warm breath escape and a small cup size attachment can clip into the open gap in the zip , i'll be able to design something it'll be like the weight of a freddo and cost a quid..
I had the zip open at least 3-4" all night and there's a vent. but I think because it was so cold my breath was instantly condensing on the cold surface. Maybe if I'd opened it right up. in Hindsight, I could have as it was clear all night.
🤣 That's the crazy thing about TH-cam, you can have the biggest channel in a niche and still people won't have heard of you. glad to have you here Angie 😁
Yeah it does. The night photos I shot using a long exposure set manually. Video has similar options. I kept it mostly in auto for this as wanted to show what the average person could do with it
I liked the look of the camera, Stephen. I am getting tired of the go pro, especially swapping overcto the mediamod to use an external microphone. That's a right pain, especially in the field. I will have to look at that on the insta. Was all your sound recorded straight from the camera? As regards the bivi condensation, I had none in the Skjul in similar conditions, except that trapped at my feet by the none breathable Jerven bag. But, I did have the bivi zips open in two places to allow some lovely cool through breeze, worked well, and would have kept any light rain off. Cheers, old bean, beautiful video.
Yeah all audio straight from camera. Only downside for vlogging is that the camera doesn’t have close focus so if close to face you’re slightly out of focus. No one seems to have noticed so not sure how important that is, plus all action cameras have the same issue to different degrees. Interesting you had no condensation in sub zero temps. I kept the zip partly open too, about 15-20cm.
@StephenJReid I just think you had much more humid conditions and snow! For instance, you had loads of frost on the outside, and I had none. Did you have the frame on your camera S, so with a cold shoe I noticed? Still does not look perfect with an external camera on my early research, taking the door off and adapter fitting. It's still better than daft go pro, though! Thanks for replying Stephen. I hope you liked my video of the Skjul, it's not a patch on one if your extravaganzas, but I was quite proud of it!
This tree which you pass in that snowfield around 13 minutes. With the next christmas it would be nice to decorate it with battery powered lights and then make a nice picture
I done this in Wexford during the snow myself. I used a bivvy too but I was up on a mountain ridge. I got some great photos of the evening sky. The night was still and stary. But around 4am my feet were freezing in two pairs of wool socks so I couldn't fall asleep again. I needed to pi** so I got up. I knew that that would bring my core temperature up. I pi**ed into my empty water bottle and used it as a hot water bottle for my feet. 2 birds 1 stone. It took a really bad turn in the morning. A freezing wind blew over and the visibility was atrocious. I had to leave my bivvy, mattress and sleeping bag there becuase of the weather conditions. I still have yet to return for them. Never underestimate the weather or the wild. What should have been an easy hike turned into a survival situation. Great experience though.
that sounds rough! My first wild camp ever was in a bivvi on a freezing night, was in an army surplus sleeping bag and still shivered most of the night.
as long as you as sleeping sideways yes, if you lie on your back with toes pointed up, they will just about be touching the top. But I had toasty feet all night. Although I was also wearing down socks
The drone creative has done a great comparison: th-cam.com/video/IvILnOtDqnM/w-d-xo.html It's more comprehensive than any I'd have time to make. Now he doesn't compare to the Pocket 3 but it's a different class of camera. it's brilliant, has the best video quality of the lot. But it's a gimbal camera, not waterproof, not shockproof etc.
Another top quality video 👌🏻 Still making the videos look amazing even when you’re not using your normal set up! Any chance of another appearance at the expo this year?
It was killing me to not do any colour grading and force myself to rely on just finding nice shots and making the video flow well. The National Outdoors expo? I might be there this year, haven’t decided yet. Maybe just one of the days.
The bivi on its own is tiny, less than 1kg. This was huge because it had an uncompressed down sleeping bag in it. I had the SC1 and this is about half the pack size
@ ah, I see. Hadn’t appreciated the fact the sleeping bag was decompressed and adding to the size so I was just comparing all items as a whole thinking that was the actual pack size of everything.
I actually had 3 jackets. The black jacket is the paramo insulating jacket and you wear it over the normal jacket. Then because I was sweating a bit I brought a cheaper synthetic insulated jacket to sleep in.
@@StephenJReid cheers for the quick reply - so your saying you are wearing the black jacket over the technical anorak (the red and blue jacket)? i didnt realise this was the system for Paramo - i have the standard anorak/smock but never knew there was a insulating jacket they recommended to layer over the top for insulation. Does the system work well?
If you hadn't told it, I wouldn't have expected this whole video been shot on an action-camcera. Looks pretty darn decent to me; sound isn't bad either. Although that 2X zoom looks handy (and it is here and there), it also enlarges camera shake/movement that you notice less when the wide field of view is used.
I think the 2x goes a long way to avoiding the action cam look. We expect action cameras to only do really wide angle footage. I was impressed with what I was able to do with it.
Antrim glen did you say, well ty it's so good to see a place my ancestors lived, my great grand father hailed from county antrim I have just discovered recently, grand mother from donegal, I think I should apply for an Irish passport 😊😊😊. Love your content 🙃
I've made at least a couple of videos in the Sperrins th-cam.com/video/3hmi53v26o0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8RIp-w34q29e85Zr th-cam.com/video/HOv3AaO1Eoo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UKWj5zlklxmNfLjW although ive never camped there
The camera gave a very good performance, as to did you! (But leave panto for now to those trained...maybe) I had a Paramo coat, I bought it to do Kilimanjaro as well as Pen y Fan and helvellyn in the winter, it was such a good jacket...I had it for 14 years, it was still working as good as the day I bought it, but it was in my car when my car was stolen....gone! Great video.
Now that’s a tricky question. I think maybe the Action 5 will be better for a professional who knows how to get the most from colour grading. It’s also handy it works with the DJI mics. And it does have a wider FOV. But for most people who don’t care about those things, I think the Ace Pro is a brilliant option, as you can see. If I could only have one camera under £500 for making outdoors videos, it would be the Ace Pro 2. The 2x clarity zoom is a big part of that. It’s the only action camera that gives you an option for a focal length that doesn’t look like a action cam
🤣 I worked in a petrol station as a teenager and used to build a fort out of toilet roll when I was supposed to be tiding the store room. Achillies well on the mend, still achy but not getting worse
I hope insta360 paid you a bloody fortune for this…….better than anything their “promo” team could have came up with. And great to see the glens looking so well in thaun snow hi!
Good morning! Depending on where you live in NI you might see zero snow. Along the North coast it didn't snow at all, but inland and higher up we got quite a bit in places. Lasted a week and then the temperature went up to 9C overnight and it all disappeared within 24hours. There can be zero snow at my house and a 25min drive later and it looks like this.
Trotsan is not a hill I recommend. Its usually just peat bogs all the way. Awful walking. It looks class in the snow which is probably the only time to do it so the ground hard enough
Truly bloody brilliant, Stephen! My dad just passed away on NYD, and not only did he love snow, he also loved looking at the stars, often teaching us which stars and constellations were what using a green laser pointer to help guide our view. This video has been one of your finest, and it made me extremely happy to watch and dream of happier days. I may even go get a bivi now! Happy new year! x
Really sorry to hear that Tom, we lost a close family member too just before New Year. I'm so glad you have those memories, and delighted this video brought you to better days. Happy New Year 🙂
Hi, I like your videos but this one was probably my favourite, new camera certainly looks good, but that’s another £400-500 on kit ! I would need to spend,So I will carry on filming my videos on the I phone, which to be honest are acceptable, On the bivy no a small tent ( guy lines to me makes it a small tent) it does look really good for sure, but the army hooped bivy is probably better as stronger and cheaper, and far more breathable, and the MLD soul event bivy may be almost as big and only 439gr in x/l, and so far breathable, Any way any bivy beats a tent so wahey great camp, Cheers from the bivy
Thanks to Insta360 for making this video possible and if you're interesting in finding out more about the Ace Pro 2: geni.us/bN8P5ju
Always love these outdoor videos when the person walks towards the camera. Knowing that you had to walk forwards, set up the camera and then walk back and act like it's the first time (does it ever feel stupid? - it does add a lot to the filmography, tho)
Hmmm good question. Doesn't feel stupid to me but I think that's because I'm coming from a professional filmmaker background and I don't see these videos as vlogs, they are more crafted stories and part of that is being really deliberate with shots, editing etc. I'm often ticking off a mental shot list. For me it's about capturing the environment, giving a sense of scale and place and that's impossible to do fully without third person set up shots.
Some times it get's annoying that I have to go back for the camera, but I really like planning, framing and setting up those shots. There's also a lot of extra footage and story I don't use. The first version of this video was 50mintues long before I cut it down to 25
Back in the day of limited battery and memory, I used to just not bother with it and work around the problem of continuity and narrative using ... cleverness and humour.
Also, I was just very lazy, and yes I did feel stupid.
Trades I do recognize in this strapping, gingery young lad!
@@StephenJReid I'd prefer the 50 mins 😁😉
Class video as usual Stephen, footage from the insta was very good and sound was grand also, will you be leaving the big camera at home more often? ⛄️
@@spijkerpoes Just record one long shot of yourself approaching the camera, then copy it and intersperse it throughout the video. I'm sure nobody will notice.
So glad I found this channel. Really love your storytelling and editing! Great stuff!!
Thanks Kevin 🙂
Great video again and the camera was great, for a action camera. And the sound in the wind work well, love the tent bigger than the other one you got, that makes you feel sick for days. All in all great stuff again and again Stephen. Take care of yourself and yours Alan.⛺💯👍👍
Your videos makes me smile so much. Love the humor thrown in with some very constructive outdoor and camera gear info!
Beautiful... I love getting out into the same places in different weather. It can be such a different experience.
What a nice video, made me smile throughout and I was well entertained. Videography was beautiful and the review of the camera very unintrusive. I hope you enjoyed making this video as much as I enjoyed watching it.
Thanks 🙂 Did my best to try and not get too technical with the camera details or talk about it for too long, didn’t want to take away from the adventure
@@StephenJReid I think you achieved that. The way you integrated the various features of the camera into the video never felt forced. Of course some of the shots were obviously done to use those features, but it never felt out of place, more like you sharing your experience in videography.
This was a fun video to watch and as a bonus i learned something about a cool camera, it never took away from the adventure. Looking forward to the next video 🙂
Stephen, I think you are slightly cracked 😂😂😂
Really enjoyed watching the video, just what I needed.
Slightly?
Brilliant video Stephen. Glens look beautiful in snow.You had quite an adventure in that winter wonderland ⛄
Abel & Victoria (NZ) using the same camera
You're doing my favourite walk I do with my dad every few months. The waterfall at the top of that valley is so under known and the path should be mad much more accessible for non walkers to enjoy it. Amazing in the summer and snow
Yes one of the best yet ably aided by lots of the white stuff making an already pleasant land into something very magical.
Top work with all the essentials dropped in to make it compulsive viewing.
Thanks Dave 🙂
Just adorable 😊
Another great video and great editing too !
thanks 🙂
LOL! The portable pun-gee pit joke was hilarious, I love your humor. never change. Great video!
Absolutely beautiful video Stephen.
thanks Paul
Hello Steven . First you’re a Madman. Second .. your TH-cam channel is one of the very few that I look forward to. Most importantly I wish we could meet for a few hours in a pub. ( first rounds on me ). The camera seems amazing especially for the price. Your editing is superb. Thank you.
Thanks Pete 🙂
What a great video! I always liked you and your very special way if storytelling. But this video is playing in another league! Beautifully photographed and edited. Wow, Stephan, just wow!
Thanks Susanne. 🙂 Put a ton of work into this one and a lot of walking, was exhausted the next day 😴 Glad you enjoyed it
Highly entertaining as usual, please, please keep them coming ❤
Thanks 🙂 keeping at it
Great video Stephen. Love watching ❤❤
Thanks Alan 🙂
Another great video thanks Stephen. And I reckon the camera footage is awesome. I'd happily watch all your videos filmed on it - great quality incl the audio 😊
I love these tiny tent videos. I've been meaning to do some more tiny tent camping myself , and just bought a new "tent" to use: The alton walkabout swag 2.0 , would love to see you do a video comparing all your tents and biviis in the near future
beautiful video, Stephen, it's always such a joy to watch your content! there were so many beautiful shots!! I liked these shots here 16:44 so so much, it's sooo magical! also 13:22 is beautiful! and the camera did so well!!
That shot at 13:33 I think was my favourite shot from this trip. When I saw the lonesome tree I just knew it would look great
yes, more teeny tiny tent. thank you😊
Hopefully totally not terrible too 😁
Well, at least, when you die in that thing it can double as a body bag when someone finds your corpse.
that's why it has loops on the bottom, to attach a rope for dragging away frozen campers who used the wrong sleeping bag. 🥶
Thanks ❤it looks a beautiful area ,nice mix of sensible and silly 😊
Thanks 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it
David Attenborough narration was hilarious
It looked like Narnia out there. Stunning.
I camp out in snow in a bivi but not the hooped variety because of the condensation problem you encountered.
I use a military bivi under a tarp. The latter is much further away from my body than your bivi was, so any condensation on the tarp has no effect on my sleep system.
I sleep with my head outside the bivi bag (wearing a beanie and balaclava), so no condensation gets inside my bivi or on my sleeping bag.
Great advice. I also use bivvy bags all year. I tried my MacPac event fabric side entry bivvy on a cold camp -5% and struggled with freezing and throwing condensation.
Face out, tarp or basha up, you'll be reyt' 👍
My very first winter camp was in a normal bivi and tarp. I’m currently putting together a 300gram bivi & tarp option for better weather
great video and great editing , keep it up 👍
Thanks! Would you camp in snow?
Wow! what a great video Stephan! Did make me laugh. Did I hear James Galway playing in the background when you were sitting next to the fire???
I’ll take that as a compliment 😂 Had a penny whistle with me, I’m pretty terrible
Great video and well shot, seems like the Insta360 is a great little bit of kit for filming outdoors even in low light conditions.
Never camped in a bivy but camped in snow using a Nordisk Lofoten 1 ULW and there was ice on the inside of it in the morning. Went down to about -10 that night but it was fine enough.
Great skit with David Attenborough-eske narration, loved it. Should be done in more of your videos, not overdone but just done.
David may reappear in future 😂
Thanks, love the channel
Wow thanks so much for the support Alan, that’s really generous 😮 🌲 ⛺️ ⛄️ 🎥 ✨ 🙂
That wee camera is mighty impressive. Lots of nice features to help capture what you want to record for TH-cam or the likes of me for own use. I bought a Gopro Max to film some of my Kayaking trips, not done much in the way of filming, what I do, I tend to bin as I have cocked up a setting here or a setting being left on there.
I did look at a Bivvy as an alternative to my tent, with a tarp for back up on inclement days and nights. as they would take up less room in my kayak, or more importantly weight as I take up the vast majority of said payload.
thanks for watching Simon 🙂 I think the biggest downside with a bivi is that these days you can get a full tent for similar weight once you include a tarp. But I like a bivi occasionally for sleuth, speed, star watching and just a bit of a different experience.
Stunning shots. Camera looks good - would you take this over an Action 4/5?
tricky question.
If I could only have one camera under £500. it would be the Ace Pro 2.
But I tend to use action cameras in combination with other cameras to make my videos. And the Action 5 shoots 10 bit D-log, which makes it easier to colour match. Especially if Im also using DJI drones and maybe the Pocket 3 too. Also it works really well with the DJI mic system.
But those are reasons that most people won't care about.
The Gland of Anum in Northern Ireland?!
Seriously! 😂
The automatic transcription is so fun I often watch you muted.
Thanks so much Stephen for all the effort you put in.... although, given you had a spade, why didn't you make an igloo, snow cave, fresh bread and a roaring fire... sounds exhausting. It's a close call, but reckon you have Luke beat on the humor front.
Haha, Luke has the benefit of much deeper snow, I'd love to do a snow cave or igloo sometime but we rarely have the right conditions for long enough. Definitely want to bake bread on a camp and eat honey butter though.
Good solid effort getting out there and coffining it!
WOW! This video was amazing. I loved the beautyfull images and snow. And the whole idea of camping in the snow. For me this one of the coolest videos i have seen. Would be cool if you had the chance to do a hot tent video in the snow someday.
As for the camera. holy moly that thing makes good images. This definitly was one of the best ways to show of the camera. So much better as my early GoPro hero.
Thanks for this great video, truly enjoyed it!
I do now have a hot tent setup! But I don't know if the snow is going to come back
Great video, once again 👍
Thanks for watching 🙂
This is my favourite video of yours
Yet another awesome video Stephen.
The "David Attenborough" sketch had me in stitches.
Just a quick question.... did those heat logs kick out enough heat to take off the chill?
Heat logs worked a treat, especially on a calm night. Broken into 3 pieces, each piece provided heat for about 20-30mins. I didn't have to add any extra wood
Wow can’t believe how much snow you have! 🙌🏼❄️ Tent looked cosy and I’m impressed with the camera! 📷 (Also bonus point for including my favourite LOTR quote 😂🥩)
Would you believe all that snow was completely gone 3 days later?
@ Crazy 🤯 Then comes the slush 👎🏼
😂 the bit at 11 mins got me u do know how to make ir video interesting with a laugh 😂
Cost me a fortune hiring David to do that bit 🤣
That looks fantastic, and the camera is pretty good too, maybe a few more videos to test the quality of it. Have a great photo of Odin's Watch in the snow but unable to post it here, we're heading up that way soon.
Definitely a versatile camera.
Love a snow camp, nice one👍❄️🏕👌
thanks for watching Colin 🙂
This was beautiful ~ we enjoyed the snowfall here too, but alas I live above the tree line so it's just grim fields of windswept snow that blows into lanes and roads. I will admit that as much as I like a compact tent , my claustrophobia does not like that tent at all.
"This is the rare wild camper...." so good.
😁
Great video Steve you always make me laugh.
Love Outdoor Boys too; find those wild camping videos therapeutic to watch.
Yeah very relaxing, total escape
I was just thinking that you would have to get back out of the tent to grab the camera and then you managed to stretch and grab it. Phew!
Memories of my Polish pick up truck with a fibre glass camper. Icy condensation and damp
Glad I put it within reach!
Great video Stephen
Looks like a good bivy at a reasonable price. The one I own doesnt fit my warm mat, so I've never tried it in the snow. Instead I use my 4 season tent (wilderness equipment space 2) in the winter. Bivys do give you a special feeling of being surrounded by nature though..
Yeah I was surprised at the price, it’s very reasonable for what you are getting.
You'd have fun in Canada if you like snow!!! Consider coming over to visit and experience our winter!!!!!
Yeah I'd love to come make videos in Canada sometime. I have actually been talking about with a friend there. So might happen!
Excellent video. Good review of a superb hooped bivvy and great craic 👌
thanks for watching Ian
It's a good job you mentioned that was Lemsip otherwise we might have thought you had boiled some yellow snow. 😅
🤣 hadn't thought of that. I often have a lemsip in the morning after a cold camp as I get congested
Stephen only you could make sleeping in a Hefty Bag on a snowy mountain entertaining! 🥶Although I do admit that a nice evening around a campfire in the snow can be very enjoyable. But ice on the inside of your tent ... not so much!
I thought the quality of the action camera was pretty good. The pixelated artifacts on some of the vista scenes were the telltale sign of the smaller sensor but all in all I thought the picture quality was very good. And the "enhanced" low light was very good. Two 👍🏼👍🏼for the Insta360 Ace Pro 2!
Good demonstration of both bivy and camera! What about the audio, did you use the internal mic on the Insta all the time?
Yup all the audio was straight from camera, no other mics used at all.
@ That’s very impressive!
oooo looks like a chilly one ahah
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I wish I'd made it up there looked fantastic!!!
everyone rushes to the Mournes when it snows, but the Glens are quite special and often get more snow
@StephenJReid I'll have to remember that for next time
you need a mini chimney top attachment thingy , so you can leave the zip 2 '' or 3'' open gap and let your warm breath escape and a small cup size attachment can clip into the open gap in the zip , i'll be able to design something it'll be like the weight of a freddo and cost a quid..
I had the zip open at least 3-4" all night and there's a vent. but I think because it was so cold my breath was instantly condensing on the cold surface. Maybe if I'd opened it right up. in Hindsight, I could have as it was clear all night.
They might have ten million subscribers, but here I am, not ever having heard of the bastards before this evening You're my #1
🤣 That's the crazy thing about TH-cam, you can have the biggest channel in a niche and still people won't have heard of you. glad to have you here Angie 😁
Great video Stephen! Thanks for taking us along! Quick question - does the camera have a manual mode? Thanks in advance, cheers, Dave. 👍🏻😎
Yeah it does. The night photos I shot using a long exposure set manually. Video has similar options. I kept it mostly in auto for this as wanted to show what the average person could do with it
@@StephenJReid Brilliant! - thanks for the response! D.
beautiful.
Thanks Ken 🙂
My new favourite hiker using my favourite camera that i've been saving up for about a week now which Ill never get
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@@StephenJReid Prices make me cry sometimes
I liked the look of the camera, Stephen. I am getting tired of the go pro, especially swapping overcto the mediamod to use an external microphone. That's a right pain, especially in the field. I will have to look at that on the insta. Was all your sound recorded straight from the camera?
As regards the bivi condensation, I had none in the Skjul in similar conditions, except that trapped at my feet by the none breathable Jerven bag. But, I did have the bivi zips open in two places to allow some lovely cool through breeze, worked well, and would have kept any light rain off. Cheers, old bean, beautiful video.
Yeah all audio straight from camera. Only downside for vlogging is that the camera doesn’t have close focus so if close to face you’re slightly out of focus. No one seems to have noticed so not sure how important that is, plus all action cameras have the same issue to different degrees.
Interesting you had no condensation in sub zero temps. I kept the zip partly open too, about 15-20cm.
@StephenJReid I just think you had much more humid conditions and snow! For instance, you had loads of frost on the outside, and I had none.
Did you have the frame on your camera S, so with a cold shoe I noticed? Still does not look perfect with an external camera on my early research, taking the door off and adapter fitting. It's still better than daft go pro, though! Thanks for replying Stephen. I hope you liked my video of the Skjul, it's not a patch on one if your extravaganzas, but I was quite proud of it!
yeah had a Frame on camera which let me mount a light. Oh I've just noticed I haven't watched your latest video, I saw the first one.
Very nice and so funny❤
🙂 Thanks
This tree which you pass in that snowfield around 13 minutes. With the next christmas it would be nice to decorate it with battery powered lights and then make a nice picture
That’s a great idea!
I done this in Wexford during the snow myself. I used a bivvy too but I was up on a mountain ridge. I got some great photos of the evening sky. The night was still and stary. But around 4am my feet were freezing in two pairs of wool socks so I couldn't fall asleep again. I needed to pi** so I got up. I knew that that would bring my core temperature up. I pi**ed into my empty water bottle and used it as a hot water bottle for my feet. 2 birds 1 stone. It took a really bad turn in the morning. A freezing wind blew over and the visibility was atrocious. I had to leave my bivvy, mattress and sleeping bag there becuase of the weather conditions. I still have yet to return for them.
Never underestimate the weather or the wild. What should have been an easy hike turned into a survival situation. Great experience though.
that sounds rough! My first wild camp ever was in a bivvi on a freezing night, was in an army surplus sleeping bag and still shivered most of the night.
Great video Stephen! How's the foot room in the Skjul? Enough vertical space to not compress the footbox of your sleeping bag? Cheers!
as long as you as sleeping sideways yes, if you lie on your back with toes pointed up, they will just about be touching the top. But I had toasty feet all night. Although I was also wearing down socks
@StephenJReid thanks!
Was that you playing John Denver's Annie's song on a pan flute?!
Penny Whistle 😁
What chair were you using fella?
Helinox Chair zero: geni.us/CLAN Expensive, glad it was a Christmas present one year
@18:45 you must have edited that recorder and the wolf in right?
that was a tin whistle I was playing badly. The werewolf was definitely real...😜
@@StephenJReid i rather liked the tin whistle, just the shot was very funny and dry.
Impressive looking camera, but what are the make/model of the insulated booties?
Exped Bivvi boots, designed for over the top of down socks or slippers
Cheers seems like an excellent camera, or was it the way you use it?😊
Bit of both hopefully! 🙂
My god you’re entertaining. Live your videos. I can’t say a bivy would be for me … I like space … and getting in and out just looks so awkward
Loved it. Didn't recognise the black paramo jacket, is it new? Got the boots with the promo, very nice.
Hi can you compare against Dji Osmo Action 4 or pocket 3? Video maybe if you still have those?
The drone creative has done a great comparison: th-cam.com/video/IvILnOtDqnM/w-d-xo.html It's more comprehensive than any I'd have time to make.
Now he doesn't compare to the Pocket 3 but it's a different class of camera. it's brilliant, has the best video quality of the lot. But it's a gimbal camera, not waterproof, not shockproof etc.
Another top quality video 👌🏻
Still making the videos look amazing even when you’re not using your normal set up!
Any chance of another appearance at the expo this year?
It was killing me to not do any colour grading and force myself to rely on just finding nice shots and making the video flow well.
The National Outdoors expo? I might be there this year, haven’t decided yet. Maybe just one of the days.
Mission accomplished mate. That camera footage looks great without any faffing around. Should make editing a lot quicker for you 😂
your head worming its way out of the tent is SO funny
Makes me laugh every time I watch it back, I look ridiculous
@@StephenJReid it's perfect!! 😂
6:54 I feel like my tent (TN SC1), mat, sleeping bag, and pillow take up less space in the bag than that bivi!
The bivi on its own is tiny, less than 1kg. This was huge because it had an uncompressed down sleeping bag in it. I had the SC1 and this is about half the pack size
@ ah, I see. Hadn’t appreciated the fact the sleeping bag was decompressed and adding to the size so I was just comparing all items as a whole thinking that was the actual pack size of everything.
@@SteRumbelow it started smaller but I didn't use enough shock cord so it was twice the size by the time I was packing it 🙈
@@StephenJReid haha! Grab a couple of compression straps. 😁
Thanks!
It looked like you brought two jackets (paramo) is there a reason why you didnt use the same one for the whole camp?
I actually had 3 jackets. The black jacket is the paramo insulating jacket and you wear it over the normal jacket. Then because I was sweating a bit I brought a cheaper synthetic insulated jacket to sleep in.
@@StephenJReid cheers for the quick reply - so your saying you are wearing the black jacket over the technical anorak (the red and blue jacket)? i didnt realise this was the system for Paramo - i have the standard anorak/smock but never knew there was a insulating jacket they recommended to layer over the top for insulation. Does the system work well?
If you hadn't told it, I wouldn't have expected this whole video been shot on an action-camcera. Looks pretty darn decent to me; sound isn't bad either. Although that 2X zoom looks handy (and it is here and there), it also enlarges camera shake/movement that you notice less when the wide field of view is used.
I think the 2x goes a long way to avoiding the action cam look. We expect action cameras to only do really wide angle footage. I was impressed with what I was able to do with it.
Antrim glen did you say, well ty it's so good to see a place my ancestors lived, my great grand father hailed from county antrim I have just discovered recently, grand mother from donegal, I think I should apply for an Irish passport 😊😊😊. Love your content 🙃
That's cool, the Glens of Antrim have a lot of similarities to Donegal
Can you visit the Sperrin mountains.
I've made at least a couple of videos in the Sperrins th-cam.com/video/3hmi53v26o0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8RIp-w34q29e85Zr th-cam.com/video/HOv3AaO1Eoo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UKWj5zlklxmNfLjW although ive never camped there
silly but fun. love it. no rims onthat tent you safe for 10 hours
The camera gave a very good performance, as to did you! (But leave panto for now to those trained...maybe) I had a Paramo coat, I bought it to do Kilimanjaro as well as Pen y Fan and helvellyn in the winter, it was such a good jacket...I had it for 14 years, it was still working as good as the day I bought it, but it was in my car when my car was stolen....gone! Great video.
I think you should do a video where you get an EVEN tinier tent to camp in. I'm sure that would completly blow up
That's just a bivi bag at that point. Or ill get a pet tent and just put my head in it
@@StephenJReid 😆 I think if you could possibly get something like that to work, well worth the challange and the response would be great! 🤣👍
looking into it
Nearly Fargo there
No wood chipper thankfully
Or Nor Cleo . The condensation 🧜 😂 . the Wee camera looks the job , you reckon is it much better than the action 5 ?
Now that’s a tricky question. I think maybe the Action 5 will be better for a professional who knows how to get the most from colour grading. It’s also handy it works with the DJI mics. And it does have a wider FOV.
But for most people who don’t care about those things, I think the Ace Pro is a brilliant option, as you can see.
If I could only have one camera under £500 for making outdoors videos, it would be the Ace Pro 2. The 2x clarity zoom is a big part of that. It’s the only action camera that gives you an option for a focal length that doesn’t look like a action cam
@@StephenJReid Footage looks great 👍.
Hello, an other top notch video, I been looking for something like that magnetic clip you had with the camera, can you send me link to it pls?
this is it: store.insta360.com/product/magnetic-selfie-stick-holster?c=2853&from=search-results
The footage is awesome from the insta definitely puts up a good case to move away from GoPro
GoPro haven't really innovated in a long time. Insta360 and DJI are leaving them behind
@ my hero 8 is as reliable as a teenager on a Saturday morning job, never works and is temperamental. Hope the Achilles is getting better
🤣 I worked in a petrol station as a teenager and used to build a fort out of toilet roll when I was supposed to be tiding the store room. Achillies well on the mend, still achy but not getting worse
I hope insta360 paid you a bloody fortune for this…….better than anything their “promo” team could have came up with. And great to see the glens looking so well in thaun snow hi!
Thanks 🙂 They paid a fair price, I've enjoyed working with them. Really let me do what I wanted.
Is there ventilation? Do you maybe know what are the CO2 levels that one can reach in such tiny tent?
Yeah there's a vent and the material is breathable.
Lovely 😎👌😍
Watching at 0330hrs in Sydney NSWs. I have family in NI they didn't say they had that much snow.
Good morning! Depending on where you live in NI you might see zero snow. Along the North coast it didn't snow at all, but inland and higher up we got quite a bit in places. Lasted a week and then the temperature went up to 9C overnight and it all disappeared within 24hours. There can be zero snow at my house and a 25min drive later and it looks like this.
Gear Links not working?
Great vid by the way 👏
Ugh, problem with my link service. trying to fix
I really want to see if Bivvy's can do well in windy areas
Trotsan is not a hill I recommend. Its usually just peat bogs all the way. Awful walking. It looks class in the snow which is probably the only time to do it so the ground hard enough
Truly bloody brilliant, Stephen! My dad just passed away on NYD, and not only did he love snow, he also loved looking at the stars, often teaching us which stars and constellations were what using a green laser pointer to help guide our view. This video has been one of your finest, and it made me extremely happy to watch and dream of happier days. I may even go get a bivi now! Happy new year! x
Condolences to you but what fine memories to hold on to. Peace rest and hope to you in the days ahead.
Really sorry to hear that Tom, we lost a close family member too just before New Year. I'm so glad you have those memories, and delighted this video brought you to better days. Happy New Year 🙂
hey the camera url is brokennn
oh whoops, don't tell Insta360! fixed it now
Hi, I like your videos but this one was probably my favourite, new camera certainly looks good, but that’s another £400-500 on kit ! I would need to spend,So I will carry on filming my videos on the I phone, which to be honest are acceptable,
On the bivy no a small tent ( guy lines to me makes it a small tent) it does look really good for sure, but the army hooped bivy is probably better as stronger and cheaper, and far more breathable, and the MLD soul event bivy may be almost as big and only 439gr in x/l, and so far breathable,
Any way any bivy beats a tent so wahey great camp,
Cheers from the bivy
The iPhone is a great filmmaking tool, I used mine a lot for my west highland way series.