People ask about our camera setup more than almost anything else. Every week we film a travel day, a campground, or whatever project we've gotten ourselves into, and turn it into an episode for our Nomads Amor YouTube channel. All of that gets shot, edited, and uploaded from inside a fifth wheel, often parked somewhere with no cable internet for miles.
We are Nathan and Fabiola, and we live full-time in a Brinkley Model Z 3515 with our cat. Nathan also works remotely, so staying online is not optional for us. Over time we've settled on a small kit that covers everything: the cameras we vlog with, the drone that gets the aerial shots, the editing setup at the dinette, and the dish on the ground outside that keeps it all connected.
This is the whole list, with honest notes on how we actually use each piece.
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The cameras we vlog with
DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Creator Combo
Most of what you see on our channel comes out of this little camera. The Pocket 3 is a tiny gimbal camera that fits in a pocket, and the built-in stabilization means we can walk and talk without the footage looking like an earthquake. Face tracking keeps whichever one of us is talking in frame, which matters a lot when you're filming yourself with no camera operator.
We went with the Creator Combo because it includes the wireless mic, and clean audio is half of what makes a vlog watchable. Wind on a travel day will ruin sound from a built-in mic every time. If you've watched our CAT scale weigh-in episode, that whole day was shot on this camera, from the truck cab to the scale.
You can find the Creator Combo on Amazon.
DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Battery Handle
The one weak spot on the Pocket 3 is battery life on long filming days. The battery handle screws onto the bottom and roughly doubles our shooting time, so we're not hunting for a charger in the middle of a hike or a hitch-up. It lives in the camera bag and goes on any day we expect to film more than an hour or two. It's on Amazon here.
DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro
The Pocket 3 does not love water, dust, or being strapped to things. For anything rough we switch to the Action 5 Pro. It's waterproof, it takes a beating, and the footage cuts together with the Pocket 3 without a lot of color fighting in the edit since they're both DJI. This is the camera we mount on the rig or the truck when we want a fixed angle of the drive. You can grab the Action 5 Pro on Amazon.
The drone
DJI Avata 2 Fly More Combo
The drone footage in our videos comes from the Avata 2. It's an FPV drone, so you fly it with goggles on, and it can get moving shots that a normal drone hovering in place just doesn't. Flying over a campground or tracking the rig down a road makes an episode feel bigger than a handheld camera ever could.
We bought the Fly More Combo for the three batteries. One battery is a short flight, and packing up mid-shoot to charge is a good way to lose the light. Fair warning: there's a learning curve, and you should know your local drone rules before you launch. The Fly More Combo is on Amazon.
Mounts and tripods
UURIG BH07 magnetic camera mount
This is a magnetic base with a ball head, and it turned the entire rig and truck into a tripod. We stick it to the bedside of the truck for hitching shots, or to the frame for a low angle of the tires rolling out. The ball head lets us aim it anywhere, and the magnet is strong enough that we've never had a camera hit the pavement. For the price of a mount it earns its spot in the bag many times over. Find it on Amazon.
ULANZI MT-44 auto-open phone tripod
For static two-person shots, phone clips, or a second angle, we use this extendable tripod. The legs spring open on their own, which sounds like a gimmick until you're setting up a shot one-handed while the other hand holds a sewer hose. It extends to about five feet, holds a phone or a small camera, and folds down small enough to live in a drawer. It's on Amazon here.
Editing from the dinette
InnoView 18.5 inch portable monitor
Editing a timeline on a single laptop screen is miserable. This portable monitor gives us a second display that runs off one USB-C cable, sets up in seconds, and stores flat when we travel. At 18.5 inches it's big enough to keep the preview window on one screen and the timeline on the other. You can find it on Amazon.
Seagate Backup Plus 5TB external drive
4K footage eats storage fast. Every card gets dumped to this 5TB drive after a shoot, so the laptop stays lean and we always have a copy of the raw footage. It's small, it doesn't need its own power supply, and 5TB holds months of episodes. Here it is on Amazon.
UGREEN USB-C to Micro B cable
The cable that ships with a lot of external drives is short and slow. This UGREEN cable runs the Seagate at full speed from a USB-C port, which matters when you're offloading a full day of 4K before bed. Cheap fix, real difference. It's on Amazon.
SIQIWO multi USB-C charging cables
Between two phones, two cameras, a drone, goggles, and a mic, charging in an RV gets out of hand. These splitter cables charge four things off one port, so one outlet by the dinette handles the whole camera bag overnight. Not glamorous, but we'd notice immediately if they disappeared. Grab a pair on Amazon.
How we stay online: Starlink
SpaceX Starlink Gen 3 Standard Kit
Starlink is the reason this lifestyle works for us. Nathan works online, we upload videos every week, and campground Wi-Fi is a coin flip at best. We set our dish up on day one with the Brinkley, and it has been our main internet ever since.
The honest test came on our travel day to Louisville, when the Walmart we planned to overnight at never answered the phone and we were scrambling from the road to find anywhere that would take a 40-foot fifth wheel. Having real internet in the middle of nowhere turned a stressful afternoon into a solvable problem. Setup is genuinely simple: put the dish somewhere with open sky, plug it in, and the app does the rest. The Gen 3 Standard Kit is on Amazon.
The whole kit in one place
Everything above lives in our Recording and Editing Equipment idea list, and the rest of our gear is on our Amazon storefront.
If you're building out the rest of your rig, start with the RV gear we actually use full-time, see how we power all these chargers in our solar and battery setup, or read about our boondocking setup, which is where Starlink really earns its keep.
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