 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal. So I just wanted to make another video about the Canon Vixia HFR-800 camcorder and I wanted to just show you guys what this accessory I've picked up is for attaching a cold shoe. I've actually picked up two accessories during my recent trip to the US. The first is this Yulanzi claw grip. It's a quick release mechanism, which is extremely useful if you're frequently going between, let's say, a gimbal and an L bracket. And I did find a gimbal that works with the Vixia HFR-800. That is the DJI Ronin SC, but that still doesn't get us over the cold shoe problem. I've talked about this before, the fact that this is a decent, albeit budget camcorder does have an external mic input, but it does not have any accessory shoes. And for those who don't know, I mean, if you're watching this you probably do know what they are. It's this little standardised attachment. You have cold shoes and hot shoes and a cold shoe doesn't have electronics. It's just a physical bracket that takes anything with the shoe fitting and that can be, you know, microphones or light stands or less frequently camera monitors, but it's kind of essential if you're rigging up a lot of gear to your system. Now, I bought two. I'm just gonna put this down for a moment. It's a bit hard to get the camera level with this claw grip on it. I picked up two when I was in the US. I would say they're a little bit of a scam in terms of how much they cost. This was the U-U-Rig one and this was a $10 item from, I picked this up on Amazon. It's just literally a piece of plastic molded in the shape of a cold shoe and it's got some 3M tape on the back. And I mean, the installation is pretty straightforward. You can see U-U-Rig, you just need to peel off the backing and attach it. I didn't do a tremendous job here. I did this in a bit of a rush. This is the impact one, so I still have another one. I might just redo it where I'm thinking about fitting another one on the side of it. So this guy has these kind of, you know, tapered sections on the wings and I thought that could actually give me a better connection because if you look at the top of the Vixie HFR 800, where you'd probably the most logical place to put one of these adhesive mounts on is going to be over the top, but there is kind of a curve to it. So I've seen a YouTube video where a guy uses a metal file and actually sharpens down a cold shoe. That to me seems optimal. I do think it's kind of ridiculous how much these things cost. I think this little two-pack was $14. So you don't have a ton to work with and I do think they're kind of overpriced for tiny bits of plastic with a bit of backing tape. That's really all these things are, but they will get you over the hump. So this is where I put mine. This is the front of the camera. Here is the back. I went for the most forward place I could find that wouldn't obstruct access of the zoom switcher and whatever this thing is here. I don't know what it is, this little slit. So I just went a bit ahead of that and this is how it looks from the front. Close enough to the top that I can put in a shotgun microphone here. This surface is not a good place to do it because you've got the monitor sliding back and forth. I actually thought about doing it on the battery and then I realized what if you change battery? The other place that you might want to consider adding these, there is actually a flat part of the surface. The only flat part of the body on the Canon Vixia HF-800 is this little square just to the left of the lens switcher and to the right of the DC input for charging. So you've got a little one, two, maybe three inches and what I might do is stick a second one on somewhere like here so that I could have two different cultures. But it looks a bit ugly. I'm also worried about if you put it in a camera bag that these things are just going to snap off because they don't look tremendously sturdy. Now I did try putting on a heavy fixture onto this. I went from this coach you to a triple bracket and I had a beefy on camera light and a microphone and it struggled with it so I don't think this is something you could rely upon to hold a lot of weight. I do suspect it might tear off. So what I am using it for is just my most lightweight shotgun microphone and it just does allow me to get that in. So this is what these are basically you know you can there's impact make one, UU rake make one. I found these for sale on Amazon, B&H photo video and an Adorama they all had these. Unfortunately I couldn't find one at the chip internationally so I perhaps should have bought more but it is what it is and if you don't have a cold shoe but you want a cold shoe at least it'll get you over that hurdle. Thank you for watching.