 Hey, what is up? My name is Rebedium. Today, we are talking lenses, lens storage, cases, and how to make your own custom inserts for a Pelican or an SKB case. So almost everyone out there who has a camera has a hard case to store it in and that's great. They work really well. They do a great job at protecting your gear, keeping it watertight, keeping it from getting broken when it gets dropped, and generally just keeping a lid on things. Pun intended. The cases themselves run between two and three hundred dollars, but usually that doesn't include the inserts meaning the stuff that goes inside the case that stores what you want to store. A couple months ago we look at the really great SKB case made for the C200. That's my main camera case. That's where I take everywhere. My collection of lenses have multiplied to an extent now that I need to build a separate case just for my lenses. And when I looked around the inserts for these things are really expensive, you know, they can be as expensive as the case. With something like a lens that's very delicate and sensitive to vibration, you don't want to put a round peg in a square hole, so to speak, and have the sides of the enclosure being square so that every time you're rolling your case over a crack in the pavement or little stones that the lens is jostling around inside making things loose. Enter a company called Kaizen Foam. They make this ubiquitous gray stuff that you see on almost every high end product insert and it's layered and it comes in a kit for specific type of cases. This is the Pelican 510 kit. It comes with four different sections that fit in the case at different points that you yourself then customize to the exact size of what you want to put in there. It comes with a couple or you need a couple of accessories to do this. That comes with a long nose marker. It's a normal marker at this end. This one's gold so you can see it on the gray. And the other side is a really long stem with a marker at the end. And why this is good is it allows you to put your lens where you want it and then trace around the lens without getting marker around the outside of what you're tracing. You then take their cool set of knives and cut down through the foam to get the insert that you want. The awesome thing about the system is that the foam while being strong enough to protect your gear is actually quite light and you can cut through it incredibly easily, sort of like a knife through hot butter. Once you cut it, you just put below and pop out something that's going to be pretty much the same size as your lens. All you need to do now is to clean up the cut a little bit so that the sides are smooth. So if after the first layer, your lens or whatever you're cutting out still projects out of the foam, then you need to go and cut into the next layer. You do this by placing the first layer on top of the second, then holding your lens in place, lifting the first layer off and repeating the process of tracing the object so that now you're going to have the insert in the second layer. Again, with the knife all the way out, I can just cut straight down through with really minimal pressure. Now, if I put the first layer and then the second layer into my case now, I have a clear pathway for the lens to be inserted right down into the foam. And when I need it, I can just take it out. If in this case, the lens is sitting a little bit too deep and it's a little bit too hard to grab out, I can take the piece that I cut from the bottom layer and take a little bit off, say half off, put this back into where I cut it originally cut it from. Replace the top layer. And now my lens is going to sit that much higher and I'm going to be able to get access to it really easily. Once you're done with all your holes, you can go back and adhere all your all the layers together with liquid cement so that they form a solid block and they won't come apart as you taking lenses in and out. Foam kit, I think is like forty nine dollars. The knife and the the knives and the markers are like a couple of dollars each. So for, you know, well under sixty seventy bucks, you can have a customized case that looks really professional and it's going to protect your gear really well. Thank you very much for watching. That's the Kaizen Foam System. Leave your questions in the comments and I will see you next time.