Hello everyone, I am Circaboy. Recently, I have added a complete set of professional photography peripherals sets to my mobile phone and camera. Then I found that photography supported by professional equipment is really much better than mine before, so I wrote an article to give a brief introduction and photography comparison supported by professional peripherals.
This time I bought it is Smog photography set:
SmallRig Smog mobile rabbit cage, double handle, tripod, microphone, fill light set, price 1179
SmallRig Smog Fill Light Smart RGB photography light, price 399
SmallRig Smaller Carbon Fiber Tripod Central Shaft Version, priced at 699
for people who are not familiar with the photography field. Although the camera market is basically occupied by Japanese manufacturers at present, their energy is only focused on host production. The camera photography peripheral segment still depends on domestic manufacturers, and the manufacturer that is more recognized is SmallRig Smaller.
SmallRig is a manufacturer specializing in the design of photography auxiliary equipment. Their products cover various types of accessories in photography, including but not limited to camera accessories, stabilizer accessories, monitor accessories, mobile phone photography accessories, etc. The advantage of professionalism is that your needs will basically be met, especially when you are a novice, some places you can't think of will be considered for you.
This time I won’t say how good their stuff is. I will just start talking about my user experience and put two comparative photos by the way.
.SmallRig Small Mog mobile rabbit cage, double handle, tripod, microphone, fill light set, priced at 1179:
SmallRig Small Mog mobile rabbit cage set is an peripheral set I bought for my mobile photography. In fact, for professionals, a complete set of photography sets worth a thousand yuan is really cost-effective.
This complete set includes: expansion box + power bank fixture + microphone + handle + fill light + tripod. After matching with my mobile phone, it can basically meet most of the needs of a mobile phone photography enthusiast.
Although the continuous improvement in mobile phone photography and video shooting performance can make our shooting more convenient, such as tens of millions of pixels, distortion-free ultra-wide angle, large-magnification optical zoom ultra-telephoto, macro lens, and OIS anti-shake can completely match micro-single in some scenes, but for more scenarios that require rigorous creation, relying on mobile phones alone cannot meet us. We need more stable pictures, purer radio, better fill light environment, etc.
SmallRig Smallg Mobile Rabbit Cage Set is a product set that has emerged to solve such a need.
SmallRig Smallg mobile rabbit cage: As a necessary equipment for shooting extensions, it can provide us with rich interface holes for installation of accessories. The smallRig mobile rabbit cage uses all-aluminum alloy material and CNC technology. The lightness and function of the entire body are balanced, and the appearance and touch are equally solid and exquisite. The disassembly of the small Rig mobile rabbit cage accessories is very simple, and the disassembly and installation can be completed without the assistance of tools throughout the process.
The advantage of professional mobile phone rabbit cage is that the interface part is very abundant, the bayonet part provides four, 1/4 cold boot screw holes are also available on the left and right, supporting the installation of accessories such as handle + fill light + microphone + power bank, and the design of multiple screw holes can be adjusted according to needs.
SmallRig Smallg mobile rabbit cage handle: The handle is generally a necessary equipment for photography expansion, which can increase shooting stability.
SmallRig SmallRig mobile rabbit cage handle has small design details in addition to the material part, there are also interfaces and control buttons. It provides two bayonets and a wireless shutter on the handle. The charging interface uses a Type-C interface, which is very universal.
SmallRig Smallg mobile rabbit cage handle is wrapped in skin-like material on the appearance, which feels excellent and can also play an anti-slip role.
SmallRig Smallg mobile rabbit cage handle only needs to rotate the screws on the rabbit cage. The design of professional equipment in these small details is still very good.
SmallRig Mobile Rabbit Cage When installing a mobile phone, it is not the spring fixture design of cheap solutions, but the screw fastening design that is easier to operate and not easy to break.
The biggest problem with video shooting is the shaking caused during handheld shooting. We can tolerate the low resolution of the video, but we can definitely not tolerate the shaking of the video. Otherwise, it is easy to disgust the viewer, so the advantage of a two-hand handle is that it greatly reduces the instability of one-hand grip.
solves two solutions for handheld shaking, one cheap solution is to buy an tripod . Don’t buy a camera tripod, but a desktop tripod. The most recommended one is Smog’s desktop tripod, which is very flexible in use.
The second one is to be more advanced, which is to buy a mobile phone gimbal. The price of this solution is very expensive, so I will use a desktop triangle bracket first.
Smoger's mobile phone triangle bracket has great universality and adjustment capabilities, and the interface part is compatible with camera accessories.
For example, if I don’t want to hold the light on the hand, I can hang the light directly on the Smog mobile phone triangle bracket to form the lighting conditions.
Actually, I think the most suitable scenario is Vlog store exploration, especially when food bloggers are visiting stores, they need to match their mobile phones with various peripherals to improve stability and radio effects.
For a video, audio is far more important than video, everyone must remember this. Everyone will tolerate the inferior quality of videos, but they cannot tolerate the inferior quality of sound quality. The built-in microphone of the phone is often not effective, and at this time you need a microphone. It can be a wireless microphone like Bee or a pointing microphone.
Smoger's microphone provides two types of microphone covers, one is a wool cover windproof and the other is a sponge cover noise reduction. The interface part is a 3.5mm interface (and it provides two adapters with Android and Apple intimately), which is very suitable for outdoor use.
When I recorded videos in the past, I would just take the video directly on my phone. The ambient noise part is actually difficult to remove, but Smog's microphone supports directional recording, so the audio quality part of the video shot has been greatly improved, and I no longer have to talk with my wireless microphone.
In fact, what is more important is that this small fill light from Smog has abundant brightness and supports various installation methods. There are bayonets on the upper, lower, left and right. You can buy a few to form a light wall together.
Smourg's small fill light control uses knob brightness control logic, which is very intuitive.
I don’t know how to say anything about the effect of fill lights, just go to the animation.
Specifically, this fill light is very good in dark field conditions, especially when contrasting black and white. In the comparison picture above, the effect of the fill light when the fill light is turned off, and the effect of the fill light when the fill light is turned on.
It can be seen from the above case that when there is no fill light on the left, the color and brightness of the white accessories are very average, almost integrated with the background. When I was sure of the amount of light input, I didn’t know how to determine the amount of light input. However, under the same conditions, after adding the fill light of Smog, the texture of the entire fan becomes, with a trace of ice crystal effect.
This small fill light from Smog can also be clamped on my camera for filling light. In this way, in some macro situations, I don’t need to turn on very strong lights to fill light.
Continue to compare the effects of turning off and turning on the fill light. The top is the fill light off, and the bottom is the fill light on. The photos with the fill light turned on are quite good in the details and textures. The picture above
, on the left is after the fill light is turned on, and on the right is not the fill light is turned on. After the fill light is turned on, the color of the entire silicone cover is closer to the color in the real situation. I really like it very much.
In addition to taking pictures with your mobile phone, I actually bought a camera accessories: Smallgir carbon fiber rack hidden series tripod central shaft version, hidden 20, model AP-20. Priced at 699, a very cheap price level. I recall that the price of carbon fiber tripod was basically several thousand, but now the exquisitely designed and fully functional tripod only costs six or seven hundred.
Smog carbon fiber frame hidden series tripod central shaft version has a load bearing of 12kg, storage height 40cm, maximum height 158cm, number of tripod sections, attached tripod and gimbal, and a storage cloth bag is also given. It is worth mentioning that it supports inverted fixed viewing angles.
The central axis inverted fixed viewing angle greatly expands the angle during shooting. For some shooting scenes that require a special perspective, whether the central axis inverted shooting directly determines whether it will be purchased.
Inverted lens with the central axis part can achieve the effect of shooting on the ground. When taking portraits, the photographer does not need to lie on the ground and fix the camera with his hands.
When taking pictures, for example, when I took this photo of the surfacebook, the angle of the ordinary tripod must not be so low, so I can only use the method of inverting the central axis. When shooting close-ups of details, if you want to fix them at a certain angle, fixing the tripod must also be necessary. At this time, there is a small carbon fiber frame hidden series tripod center shaft version, which can adjust the height from 0cm to 158cm, which can help me take a photo with a suitable angle and composition to the greatest extent. When I put it on the desktop to shoot, I will definitely not be able to take such an angle with my handheld, unless I use a tripod to fix it to a fixed height.
In fact, relatively speaking, I have to add some things to this device, such as the full set of Smog rabbit cages and slides bought by the big guys around me. When I borrowed it, I felt what professionalism was. If possible in the future, I will also upgrade one.
Smoger Carbon Fiber Stand Hidden 20 Stand Central Shaft Structure The foot tube is made of all carbon fiber material, with a diameter of 25mm. Compared with aluminum alloy material, the foot tube made of carbon fiber can reduce weight by 30%. You should know that when you go out to take photos, it is really important that your portable equipment can lose more than 30% of its weight, which is also an important reason why I insist on choosing a carbon fiber tripod.
and Smog Carbon Fiber Stand Host 20 supports reverse storage, which can reduce its space occupancy.
bracket can be removed separately, making it become monopod , and the adaptability is also added.
horizontal 360° adjustment, vertical 90° adjustment, perfect adaptation for multi-angle shooting, and because it is the ball head, stepless adjustment only requires twisting a tightening wrench.
In summary, the Smallgir carbon fiber frame 20 mainly features lightweight carbon fiber tripod full carbon fiber foot pipe, with a maximum height of 158cm and a maximum load-bearing 12kg. The plate buckle is firmly locked and can be used as a monopod. It is weight-reduced by 30% compared to aluminum alloy material, light and portable, and has a sturdy and durable pipe diameter of 25mm. The height of the 20 is 44-158cm. It adopts a four-section stretch design, the plate buckle is locked, and it can be quickly adjusted to be on the ground and low shot. The multi-angle control gimbal supports 360 degrees horizontal and 90 degrees pitch adjustment, and it is easy to take off from multiple angle shooting. The foot tube is folded, easy to store and hide 1/4 threaded hole, easy to expand the central shaft inverted, unlocking the storage bag provided by the low-angle shooting, which feels great.
In addition to the fill light set that comes with the mobile rabbit cage, I also added the Smog RM75 fill light, a dedicated multi-mode adjustable fill light: supports Ra96, 4000mah battery, multi-light joint control, RGB full color control, 2500K-8500K color temperature control, and custom light effect mode. These are the absolute core requirements, and Smog RM75 supports four-sided magnetic absorption. This configuration can expand my usage scenarios.
Smog RM75's lamp body size is 10cm×6.5cm×2cm, 1/2 palm size, and the two-color temperature is adjustable. The RGB mode is mainly achieved by the ratio of multiple different color lamp beads, which theoretically achieves 3.6W colors. However, the actual use is nothing more than solid color or macarons. The colorful black is impossible.
Smog RM75 has a parameter nameplate on the side, and the 4000mah battery is well received, which is 50% higher than the same type of smart light on the market, and the information display is relatively comprehensive.
There is an indicator screen on the back of the Smog RM75 to indicate its operating status, such as color temperature, battery remaining power, current working mode, etc. It is a very good small design.
The switch operation part is to use physical buttons, and the fixed mode selection can be selected by the pulsator, paired with a Type-C charging interface, which supports 18W fast charging. It can be said that everything you should give is basically given. If you need more detailed adjustments, you need to download the mobile APP to control it.
Smog RM75 supports mobile APP control to set the lighting mode, and supports different color modes such as CCT/HSI/RGBW and other color modes . For photographers, different color modes can match their personal habits well to facilitate the adjustment of accurate lighting. At the software level of
, Smog RM75 has a very good control logic and function combination, which can achieve rapid switching and layout. At present, the software version is still being updated and upgraded continuously. It is said that there will be a major version upgrade in December, so I am looking forward to it.
soap box is basically one of the standard accessories for photography lights nowadays. The soap box included in the Smog RM75 can provide a very good soft light effect after being put on.
I don’t say much nonsense, just compare it with the macro shooting situation. The left side is the effect of no fill light, and the right side is the effect of a fill light. It can be clearly seen that with the effect of fill light, the details of the darkness of the entire object can be displayed well, while under ordinary lights, some details are hidden, such as the details of the screw mouth, the texture of the back knob, etc.
and I just put the Smog RM75 on the oblique side and turned on a light.
So the conclusion is that when you need a lot of macro shooting, high-performance fill lights like Smog RM75 are definitely the first choice, especially when natural light is not enough.
For example, when I took my surfacbook under dark conditions, such lighting actually has very high requirements for the light. You must accurately control the brightness and color temperature of your light. If you have a slight deviation, it is easy to destroy the photos.
Conclusion
Overall, the SmallRig SmallRig SmallRig Small Light Fill Light Smart RGB Photography Light is priced at 399 plus SmallRig SmallRig SmallFiber Tripod Central Shaft Version is priced at 699. The whole set is only more than 2,000 yuan, which is much cheaper than buying a camera, but it can increase the texture of my mobile phone photography and improve the texture of my camera photography. If you are a professional, I believe that SmallRig’s set is definitely a cost-effective option. If you are a fan, I also think SmallRig’s set is very suitable for you to use in advanced use.
