 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosler. I want to make a video regarding the Canon XA4C professional camcorder and regarding accessorization of it. In other words, what kind of accessories you can throw onto it. So, first thing to say is that this info is going to apply equally to the XA4550 and 5055. The only difference is that the fives, in other words, 4555, they have SDI out. So, if I pop open the accessories area here, this is what the 40 has. You have your 3.5mm, in other words, an eighth in. You have an eighth out for monitoring. You have mini HDMI out, micro USB, and finally remote control, but you don't have SDI. But otherwise, and then the 50, you're going to get that nicer one inch sensor. This is only a 1 over 2.3 CMOS sensor on the 40. But otherwise, I think they're actually pretty much identical. You're going to pay more for that larger sensor, obviously, and for the SDI out. So, this is the cheapest of the four options. In terms of accessorization, I did a video about this previously. What I did say is that you want to go for a short or a compact shotgun. They do exist on the market. They're typically called short shotguns. Otherwise, I'm just going to put this up against my wall so you can just see it a bit easier. The microphone's a little bit too big, in my opinion, for the camcorder. But it does the job. This is a 28cm shotgun. It's not a short or compact shotgun. It's a regular one. And it's a 21 inch camera or 19 if you don't count the lens hood. So, yeah, this is what I have for the moment. It does get the job done. And finally, you have a little shotgun mount here. That's this thing right here. This screws onto the top handle unit for your professional audio. One trick of the trade I want to pass on is that I ran some insulation tape around the shotgun in order to increase its diameter. Otherwise, it wouldn't catch nicely in that shotgun mount. It doesn't... You can adjust the diameter by screwing in here, but this is at its fullest. And it wasn't actually tight enough to grip onto this particular shotgun, the Boya BYBM6060. Other accessory you're probably going to want to use or the common accessory would be lights, of course. So, another place, your other option is if you have the top handle, you have one cold shoe to work with here. And you also have... And if you don't use a pro audio top handle, in other words, there's a shoe here. So you've got... Either way, you're going to have an extra shoe to play around with. So what you can do is use... You can put a microphone here. For instance, another configuration here. I could use this little mini LED light. And this guy happens to have a cold shoe, and then I could stack another microphone. So that works for rigging as well. But probably the most, you know, most people using a pro camcorder are going to be wanting to use a shotgun. That's why, you know, that's kind of the classic pro camcorder look, is your shotgun microphone off to the left of the camcorder. Now, in terms of what size light you can get, this is one thing I was wondering. So this is a light I actually really like. It's a really cheap $20 little Yulanzi thing. And it doesn't throw out a ton of light. Before it's size, it actually is decent. And it's... But more importantly, it's really, really small. So this guy can slot in there super easily. And I'm actually tempted just to, like, leave all my accessories. I wish more camcorders had built-in lights and built-in shotgun microphones. So you always had something, but I guess it does give you more flexibility if they're not built-in. But in any event, if you use something small, like this little light, and you just leave the shotgun microphone attached, well, now you've got, for your running gun, you've got a unit that's barely any bigger than it was before I added these accessories, and you've got your light. It would be a little bit better if the light was operated from the other side, but the switch is here. There you go. Now I've got my light. Now I've got my microphone. And now I'm ready to shoot an interview, you know, with somebody at nighttime, let's say. How much space do you have? Final pedantic detail. As I have a little bit of a collection of lights going on, I'll show you a few options. This is the Ulanzi VL49. So it's a bit bigger, and therefore it produces a bit more light. But on the flip side, the more height you're going to add, naturally, the less portable it's going to be. And you're going to need a bigger camera bag if you want to keep everything assembled. But that's how that looks. I think it looks pretty decent. Let me show you what it looks like with the light actually in operation. And again, it's a little bit brighter, but we're still getting, and this one's actually an RGB light, so it can do a bunch of different colors. And that's only running at 15% of its potential brightness. So there's a lot brighter that can go. And final demonstration for you guys. This is a bigger camera light. Again, this is a big chunky thing. This is a Viltrox VL162T. Now I own a bunch of cheapish camera accessories because I'm spreading my budget thin and wide, you could say. And this is where we're starting to run into trouble with space. And naturally, this is going to be pretty heavy, but let's see if I can do it with one hand while I'm trying to hold the camcorder with the other one. It's going to be a stretch, but I'm pretty sure it can be done. There we go. And it'll actually lock off. And we have it. Now that's definitely starting to get really heavy. This is pretty, and it's big and chunky, but if you really did want to use, have a good on-camera light that could throw a lot of light, let me turn this guy on here. That's again only running at 20%, but this one has a nice little color temperature dial and a percentage dial on the back. Let me crank it all the way up to 100 and keep that color temperature. And now we have a really bright light there coming off that would really, really do a lot of work for you if you were doing interviews or whatever. Nighttime, because with your 1 over 2.3 sensor, the low light performance is going to be definitely worse than the 1 in sensor on the 50, but you can overcome that to a good extent by really lighting your stuff well. In terms of the stability, I just advise screwing these in really carefully, because now everything is resting on this handle, but it feels really sturdy because I've screwed it in really, really well. So yeah, depending on how big you want your finished rig to be, you can throw in a variety of on-camera lights and on-camera microphones, and then you can convert this camcorder into something that is pre-accessorized and truly ready to run and gun even if you're shooting in nighttime or low light conditions. Hope this video has been useful. My hand is giving out here, so I'm going to end this video. Thank you guys for watching. If you'd like to get more videos from me, please subscribe to this YouTube channel.