A Guide To (Inexpensive) Essential Filmmaking Gear

If you are getting into making videos or actual productions there are quite a few pieces of gear that you will need with you at all times. The following two videos bring you a list of different types of dirt cheap accessories that you would not want to find yourself without.

The first video (above), by Hugh Sullivan (videographer for the Herald-Review), includes quite a few good tips for items that he uses and recommends – here is the list:

Hot Shoe Three Axis Triple Bubble Spirit Level – $11 on Amazon.
Carson Stuff-It Microfiber Lens Cloth, Black – $5. on Amazon.
Utili-Key 6-in-1 Tool – $8 on Amazon.
Graph Gripper Pattern Holder – $6 on Amazon.
Headphone belt clip: – $9 on Amazon.
Single earbud headphone: $17 on Amazon.
Sennheiser HD-280 PRO Headphones: $90 on Amazon.
Gaffers tape: $20 on Amazon.
Stanley Fat Max toolbox: $100 on Amazon.

The second video by Caleb Pike from DSLR Video Shooter:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl2JtVARrtg[/youtube]

You can find the entire list of gear on Pike’s website.

More guides on photographic gear can be found on our photography gear guides – here on LensVid.

Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.