 Welcome to St. Lightning and today we'll be talking about how our best practices you could observe in extending some of your gear's life. So I'll start from the smallest things, as simple as a tripod, so this one. Sometimes on commercials and jobs, I'm probably not setting up the camera, I'm probably doing something else. Most of the time it's camera assistants, first they see second aces as the one who usually handles the camera and this is a C700. You do a good job of putting them together, probably in this configuration or whatever configuration you desire. Then when you get the camera and you're supposed to pray, exhume it as a tripod, this happens. So a lot of us are used to the notion of balancing run-ins and balancing gimbals you get. But for your head, the fluidity and the longevity of your head determines how well you assign the load of your tripod. Like the way this is being balanced, if you tell that it's back, it happens a lot. And most of the time, you usually crank up the torque on the tilt to 7, which will slow down the drag or increase the drag. So it's still there but it's not that obvious. And if this is done over time, you end up killing the fluidity of your head, which will end up damaging the entire tripod unit. Most types of tripods are built like a tank but it pays to know the right thing to do. And more so, if you have a tripod that cannot support its payload, every inch of where you put the load counts will determine whether you have a very smooth tilt, a smooth pan or a little bit jagged and a little bit jilted, especially in those longer focal ends. As simple as it is, please balance the tripod. And the first thing you could do about that is on losing the tilt head, like I've done here, which I can now see, I'll unlock the tripod plate and because I see it's falling back forward, simple. You know what we'll do, right? We'll push it forward. So we'll push it forward till we can get it to like, I don't know, stay and stop tilting, which is here. In this place, as simple as one hand, tilting without any effort. Coming down without any effort. As opposed to when it was backwards, you'll be the one who'll be using your own hands and your own strength actually tilted, which will lead to loss in fluid motion. And yeah, please, whenever you get your tripod cameras, try and balance out your rig, even if the lens is small. It goes a long way in getting great footage or getting the performance you desire. So if you have anything you want to know about this camera or something else you want me to talk about before my next video whereby I'll break down lights and scenes, let me know. We could run tests, we could run stuff. We could go through this camera if you're interested in this camera. We can talk about that. Whatever it is you want me to talk about. So until next time, balance your tripod where please don't break your lens, please don't break your gear head and get the job done.