 Hi everyone, this is Chih-Chih. Welcome to my channel. I consider this video to be a quick little unexpected update, sort of interrupting the little discussion we're having on economics and investing in jobs and the economy and the markets and whatnot, right? While I was making the videos on the economics stuff, personal finance stuff, my camera died on me. So I wasn't really prepared for it. I should have been, I guess, prepared for it. I should have done some research and had a camera in the queue for me to get, just in case my camera died, but it's something I wasn't expecting. And what I ended up doing was what I noticed that it was dying. I shot a little quick little update video just mentioning that my camera is dying, so there might be a little delay in putting out more videos, because as you know or you might know, I've moved to a smaller little town, so my access to places where I can get cameras, camcorders, was limited. So I would have probably had to get it online, but I was lucky enough to find one place, I went to four different places. I found a place where it had the camera that I, as soon as my camera died, I did some research and decided on the camera that I wanted to get, sort of upgrading the system a little bit, right? And I was able to find the camera in one store and it was an open box and was missing the power adapter and one other unit. So I ended up getting an amazing deal on the camera that we're shooting right now. And I was okay with missing the power adapter because I looked into it and the power adapter that I have for the camera that died fits the camera that I just got, right? It's the same brand, I'm sort of sticking with the same brand because I'm happy with it. I know how to use it, I'm familiar with the software. The menu system for the camcorder is a little different, a lot more options in this new upgraded version. But it ended up working out well. I was expecting to be delayed for a week or so, at least a week or so because I was expecting to have to order it online and wait for it to be delivered and play around with it. But in the last three days or so, a couple days or so, I was able to get this camera, I played around with it a little bit. There will be a little bit of experimentation with this thing because I don't know all the little knickknacks with this camera. One thing that I've noticed already, the view, what it captures is a lot bigger, so I'll have to adjust my thinking and stuff like this. So this is the quick little update. We got a new camera. And for those of you who've been around for a long time, if you want to know the camera that I shot with, because what I did back in I guess 2011, 2012, when we started Series 4 of the Language of Mathematics, where we're talking about units and ratios, and we're going to get into functions and graphs, and we talked a little bit about zero and infinity, and we're going to talk a lot more about zero and infinity. That's sort of the topics of discussion I've decided to cover with Series 4 of the Language of Mathematics. And as you can guess, we have a fair bit more to go in that. But in the intro video of the Series 4 of the Language of Mathematics, what I did, I mentioned that I had just upgraded my camera, right? And I showed you the previous camera that I had, and the new sound setup. I showed you what I'm doing with the new sound setup and stuff like this. So I figured I'd show you the camera that we just, you know, that died on me, and I looked on my channel, and it ends up that we ended up shooting, or I ended up uploading 240 plus videos with this camera. And, you know, I'm not promoting anything. I don't, you know, I'm not brand loyal, really to a certain degree, but I do want to give credit where credit is due. And just in case you're curious, and I've had a few people ask me what it is that I'm shooting with and the sound that I'm recording with and stuff like this. And just if you're curious, the sound that I'm recording with, a very low budget with the things I do. I'm pretty frugal when it comes to certain aspects of my life. Basically what I end up doing in general is doing research before I buy something. And when I buy something, I try to make the most out of it, right? I sort of push it to the max. So as far as the sound goes, all I'm recording with is a little lapel mic. Okay, and this thing costs me, you know, people have asked me, you know, what am I recording with and stuff. This thing costs me with shipping because I buy it online. The first version I bought, I bought it in the store, a little lapel mic, and then after that, I couldn't find it anywhere. So I found a substitute lapel mic. So I buy these ones online, okay, from eBay. And I buy them for including shipping anywhere between $15 to $20, right? And it's a little recorder, a little handheld recorder that I plug it into. That's what I'm recording with the sound. When I'm during the editing process, I run a couple of minor filters just to, I do a little dehumming and I do EQ filter. I'm not 100% sure where it does. I found this, I did a little research and looked at some videos of how to do this. And it sort of takes out the edge on the sound, I guess. So I run a couple of little small filters, but that's the sound that I'm recording with. And if you want to know the camera I've been recording with, the last 240 plus videos that we've uploaded in the last six years, they were recorded with Canon Vixia HF-M30. Okay, this little guy. And this is what I've, this was my sort of partner. Here, let me turn it on for you. And as you can tell here, I'll show you the screen. I don't know if you can see it. What does that say? Oh yeah, no memory card. I took the memory cards and put them in this one. So I'm recording on SD memory cards. I don't really record on the camera's memory card, sort of save that I guess. But this is what's going on with the screen. Okay, you can see little lines there. And when this happened, I was sort of in panic mode, I guess. Not panic mode, but I was worried that I wasn't going to be able to continue. You know, this was going to be a long delay. So what I ended up doing was shooting a video with this exact, almost exactly what I'm telling you right now regarding the update with the lines on it. I think I'll upload it here. So you can see it more and more closely, but basically with the lines appearing. And I sort of did an update just mentioning, oh, cameras dying. There's going to be a delay in the discussion and whatnot, right? So this thing served me well or served us well. We got a fair bit of use out of it and I walked around town a lot. It's done outside shooting, indoor shooting, low light shooting. Very sunny shooting outdoors and stuff like this. So that's 240 videos, 240 plus videos we got out of that. Hopefully we get a little bit more out of this one. And what I've done, the video previous to this one, the one that just died, I was shooting, again it was a Canon, but I was shooting a little mini DV team, right? So every time that I'm having to get new material, I'm sort of upgrading, learning more, and I'm going to be playing around with this camera fair bit, I guess, with the different settings and whatnot. And just to give you, let you know the camera that I ended up buying. It's a Canon, again, it's a Canon Vixia HF G20. Okay, it's a discontinued camera, so that's one reason it was discounted as well. So Canon Vixia HF G20, that's the camera that you're seeing right now, that you're, that we're shooting on right now. I'm not a videographer, I don't know all the settings, definitely not. I did, I read some articles, watched some videos, read some of the manual to get this thing going and I did a little quick transfer and hopefully everything should work out fine, transferring this and uploading this. But if you, if there's anybody, you guys know this camera well, from what I've read with all the reviews, it's supposed to be pretty good. But if you know any little tricks and little settings that I should do, let me know and I'll play around with it more. Right now shooting in auto mode, I changed a couple of settings in the manual and there's three different settings on it. Changed a couple of settings on it just to where it's recording and recording to the SD, not to the internal memory and stuff like this. But if you know any little tricks with this camera, let me know. I'll play around with it a little bit more. Other than that, that's our, my quick little update. Sorry about the delay, you know, technical difficulties. And, you know, what we're going to do is as soon as, you know, I try this out a little bit, upload this, edit it and, you know, get my mind around this thing shooting wider so I can set up the scenes and set up the space properly. We're going to continue with our discussion regarding personal finance. We're going to talk about economics. And what I'm going to do is as soon as we get about two, three more videos done on the personal finance stuff, I'm going to try to set this camera up and start doing some of the comic book readings that I promised you guys that I was going to do and I'm itching to do. There's a fair, you know, few we got, we got to do. There's 30 more we got to do or we want to do or I want to do share with you guys. So expect the comic book readings to come up in about three or four videos. Okay. And we're overlay that comic book stuff with a lot of mathematics and most likely almost everything we do is going to be sort of with a ASMR slap to it. Okay. Thanks for sticking around. Thanks for watching. Again, apologies about the delay. And if you do like this work, you know, hopefully this camera, this new camera is going to get us to instead of 240 plus videos, hopefully up to 500 plus videos. But if you do like this work that's being produced and if you want to see this progress a little bit faster, because there are a few things that I like to get going that require my full-time attention and additional funds, right? Because this thing, you know, it does cost a little bit of money to do this. Unexpected expenses coming up and a lot of time and energy being put into this. But if you do have the means, if you do like this work and look forward to the additional material coming up as soon as possible, you know, best way you can support me definitely by watching, definitely by sharing, liking and all that jazz. And if you do have the means funds-wise, my Patreon page is the best place to support this work, if you do have the means to support it with funds, okay? And guaranteed all funds will be put to good use, okay? That's it for now. I'll see you guys in the next video.