 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here bringing you this video from my home office in Jerusalem So I just went downstairs and saw a distinctive looking Chinese Envelope in the letterbox, which I knew meant straight away. It was one of the delightful things I've ordered from Ali express and I was in the US for a few weeks the summer and I picked up a few nice little bits And pieces for my camera and video setup from Amazon and I have to say Once you have Amazon and Amazon Prime next-aid livery It's kind of hard to go back to ordering stuff from Ali express But here in Israel where I'm based we don't really have there is Amazon, but it's kind of it's not as good as Amazon If you're in America, let's just leave it at that. It's a very very different experience So I found something on Ali express that was kind of quirky and I decided I must have one and here it is It's a little umbrella for your camcorder now before I go into this product and show how it works just want to say the more traditional option for Water protection for a camcorder. So this is my lovely Canon XA40 camcorder now I'm in a very good Facebook group for Canon XA series owners and I recommend if you own the Canon XA 40 55 50 55 it's really worth checking out this group And there's been a couple of threads there about what the best rain protection is now something people will say about rain And camcorders is that There's a little bit more water resistance Than you might expect there's a very big difference between waterproof and water resistance water resistance means you can put something out In the rain and it should be okay, and maybe light rain. Let's say so people said people have said that you know The audio controls here now one of the deficits of the XA40 on what this why I want to mention the umbrella To show you how much of the camera this covers one of the deficits in the design of the XA40 in my opinion Is that the audio pro controls are exposed and some of the Canon models? There's a little plastic Flipper thing that can flip on top of it, and I think that's a good idea folks who have a lot more experience in video than I Do have said X XLR audio ports which are the other things I'd be very worried about in rainy conditions are a little bit more Water resistant than you might think I'm just gonna leave it at that because I don't want to take I don't want to be responsible For anyone who brings their camcorder out into the rain and it stops working. They say hey you said it was water Resistance so I'm just saying that there's some level of baseline protection in it But if you're filming in any serious rain You're gonna want to pick up one of these things so this is a standard camera rain cover It's from Movo, and if I just take it out of its packaging. It's kind of a little Almost like a fleece thing for your camcorder with a little drawstring on the end So I've used this whenever it's rainy here Unfortunately, I can't do a real-life demonstration today because in Israel it just like doesn't rain between About March April and about October So there's there's not gonna be any rain here for a while But I have used this in rainy conditions and you just kind of pull your camera Into it pull back on the string and it just means that the lens can see out But the components are shielded so that's the normal way to You know help your camera survive a trip out in the rain, but then I saw this in Ali express So this is a miniature umbrella I paid about eight dollars for this and I did it more for Entertainment value than for actual utility, but I thought of you worth trying it out So I did actually Get a chance to put this on my camera today It's a little umbrella and it has a cold shoe at the bottom now the kind of place where the miniature umbrella Attaches doesn't look brilliantly strong, but it does work and you can see it just look it's just like a regular umbrella It's got a little flippy switch here And the cold shoe so putting this together if I take my X a 40 and I'm just gonna put this in now On to into my cold shoe and then just like anything that fits into a cold shoe all I need to do is kind of Secure it on the grip so you can just see there the umbrellas in and then I Just pop up my umbrella So I mean from a rain protection standpoint. I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually use a camera umbrella I'm pretty sure I've never seen this But if you look at kind of what's under the umbrella, it's covering the shotgun microphone It's covering this part, which is in my opinion the most vulnerable part of the camcorder to the elements But it's not really getting the back and the battery section covered. So I don't know what to make of this thing I mean, I think I would probably use it in light drizzle while appreciating that it looks utterly Ridiculous, but that is the joy of buying things from Ali express because who else but the Chinese are going to manufacture Crazy little products like umbrella Camera umbrellas. It's their kind of unique ingenuity. So that's it for nine dollars. I'm happy. I bought this. It does of course I'm just gonna take it out of my camcorder. It does Fold up and it's not a very big thing to pop in a camera bag if you're looking for a couple of ways to have rain Protection, I would definitely imagine It's probably gonna be more safe going with the traditional approach But if there was just a little bit of rain and I think the nice thing about this umbrella one advantage I'll end with this video because I'm this is really just a video about this little camera umbrella One advantage I can see of this is if it's kind of raining on off So you don't want to be taking the whole bag up and down every time you could just pop up and down the Umbrella whenever you felt there was a need for a little bit more in the way of rain protection Hope this video was useful Informative if you own a Canon XA40 or any camcorder DSLR mirrorless cinema camera for that matter And you're looking for something for rain protection. Do you consider one of these little camera umbrellas? They have a cold shoe at the bottom pop up and they will create a little bit of area underneath the umbrella Just like an umbrella for a person that's going to give you some Protection from the rain or other forms of precipitation Thank you guys for watching this video more than will be coming soon to this YouTube channel If you'd like to get more videos from me, please hit the subscribe button. Thank you for watching