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This video features a hands-on scuba demonstration of the OrcaTorch D710 video lights and tray, rigorously tested during a deep dive with an GoPro (well Insta360 Ace Pro 2!). The video lights and action cam tray were used on the SV Charlwood wreck (60 metres deep) near Plymouth to provide a vigorous test with great results!
The setup consists of two Orcatorch D710 Video Lights, the mini ZJ17 tray and two ZJ12 handles making for a wonderfully high quality and compact system that is ideal for the travelling diver.
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*Highlights*
00:00 Introduction
02:48 In depth look
05:37 What's in the box?
07:16 Assembly
07:56 Final thoughts
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my policy is only to produce video
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reviews for diving equipment that I've
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had the opportunity to thoroughly and
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rigorously test in the most demanding
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conditions and I'm really pleased to say
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that this is what you can see me doing
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here with a pair of Orca D710 video
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lights and the matching tray that goes
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with it the dive is on the wreck of the
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Charwood which is 60 odd meters out of
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Plymouth but I've also used it on
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several other dives as well and I have
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to say it's a really really nice top
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quality setup that I love to bits that's
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not really surprising all the Orca torch
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kit that I've seen and that I personally
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use has been really really good quality
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so the bottom line really is if you're
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looking for a small compact high quality
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set of video lights and tray then I
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would strongly recommend you to have a
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look at the Orcator D710 V and tray it's
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It's a really really nice bit of kit
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that inspires confidence in terms of
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specs they're 2,000 lumens they're rated
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to 150 meters and at the lower power
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setting you've got 400 minutes of burn
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time which is uh which is plenty for
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everyone you've also already seen that
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it does different color modes as well so
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you've got blue and red for those of you
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who uh who want to do uh funky stuff uh
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for night diving as you can see here
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I've got it paired up with Insta 360 Ace
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Pro 2 and uh that's an absolutely uh
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winning combination and you can see how
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well uh the lights are illuminating this
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wreck obviously stuff close in that
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that's a bit of a given but even further
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away stuff and this is despite the fact
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this dive is is really dark but you can
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see it's these lights are performing
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really really nicely and given how
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compact they are I think that's uh
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that's that's really quite impressive
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often video lights can be much bigger so
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I think that makes these really good for
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anybody who's looking for something to
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take away uh with them on on their
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travels for instance and you can also
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see that the tray itself is actually
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quite compact and once again it it means
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that it's not a huge item of kit that
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you've got you've got to carry around
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with you so all these things together
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just mean that ergonomically I really uh
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really like this uh this setup that I've
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got here and you can see obviously I'm
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videoing with my parallel lens that's
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that's mounted to the side of my uh
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that's mounted on a helmet but you can
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see how well the video lights are
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illuminating that and the footage that I
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got on the uh Insta was awesome as well
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but let's have a look at it in a bit
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more detail and see what you get
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beautiful piece of engineering is Orca
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Torch's very own mounting tray for an
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action cam comes complete as you can see
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in this setup with two D710V video
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lights and taken together this is just a
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fantastic setup you've seen me using it
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underwater and you know it's it's a
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lovely lovely thing so this is what you
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get in the box with the uh with the tray
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first of all you get a couple of these
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handles and they're impressively uh they
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feel substantial which is uh which is
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really nice you get this which is the uh
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the video tray and you see those those
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little knobs there they're going to uh
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they keep the handle in place and stop
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them from rotating which is nice touch
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you've got this which you mount your
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GoPro on and once again there's a few
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nice touches with that so that it's got
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some stuff on the bottom that stops it
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removing and butterfly clips uh I've
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used loads and loads of cheap butterfly
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clips over the uh over the years these
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aren't cheap they just feel uh really
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substantial like everything frankly
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that's part of this kit so it's uh it's
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pretty simple to put together you line
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up the uh the arm with the with that
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kind of little lump on the bottom and
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then uh as you can see here you just
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screw those uh screw those nurled nuts
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in do those nice and tight and you can
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see yeah I'm just pointing out there
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that you've got to make sure that you
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get that that knob in the right place
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and that just stops them from spinning
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around you can see I've done it finger
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tight doesn't need to be much more than
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that goes together really uh really
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nicely and this is me doing the other
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one on the other side it's always a bit
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difficult trying to video these things
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um and as you can see I'm I'm currently
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making a slight hash of it but it is uh
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fairly straightforward to do to do as
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you can see there and that's it your
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tray will come in in uh you know in the
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individual components but once it's
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together you can see there it feels
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feels lovely and it's actually a really
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nice size and that's one of the things I
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particularly like about this so this is
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me putting the GoPro mount on and once
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again it's a it's a you know I've said
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this a load of times now but it's it
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bears mentioning it's a really nice
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thing and one of the nice touches about
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this is you you can actually adjust
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where the the GoPro is looking so the
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bit on the top uh will will move around
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it will move forward and backwards up
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and down and everything so you can
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adjust the video to exactly where you
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want it i'm just pausing for a moment to
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admire how nice it is but obviously the
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other thing that I'm going to need to
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put on is the butterflies and once again
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I've already highlighted that these are
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really nice bits of kit so you can see
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there that's the first butterfly going
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on you probably don't need to see me
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doing the second one so time for me to
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show you the video lights and it's the
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uh the standard orca torch box which is
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lovely really uh really nice zips going
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the other way round on this one and then
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inside what have we got well we've got
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uh this which is obviously going to
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mount the torch onto the tray we've got
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all the other bits and pieces there's a
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lanyard there if you're kind of
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concerned about it falling down there is
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some more uh O-rings so always worth
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replacing those and then there's the
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usual kind of bits of uh there's some
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blurb there about other Orcorch products
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and they do have a good range 12 months
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of warranty yep happy with that and
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there is some instructions which has got
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all the burn times and uh all those
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other bits and pieces on there but onto
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the main stuff yep there's a USBA to
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USBC charging cable and clearly that is
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going to be used with the the battery
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it's a uh standard 21700
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5,000 milliamp hours and putting it into
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the torch is relatively straightforward
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as you seen there just unscrew and uh
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screw it back up again and it's as easy
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as as that so um one of the nice things
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is there's loads of threads so that
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means it's less likely to leak and there
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we are we have an Orcchor D710V
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ready to go and those of you seen some
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of my other videos will know it's a very
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similar form factor to the other ones
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buttons on the top uh there's the LEDs
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at the front you probably saw the red
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and the blue ones in there as well and
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there you go just turning on and you see
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120° beam angle uh I'm not going to
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shine it at the camera there's the uh
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the red and uh the blue there obviously
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difficult to see cuz it's quite bright
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but it all those functions are there for
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those of you who want them so really
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nice bit of kit and to fit it onto the
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the ball onto the butterfly is really
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easy you just sort of put it in there as
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you've seen make sure the orange kind of
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O-ring inside is is located and then
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just tighten it up with that nut and
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obviously you can position it so the
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switch is wherever you want but there
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you go that is now ready to go and it's
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nice and secure and lastly to fit it to
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the tray well here's a tray that I
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prepared earlier you can see there just
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undo the butterfly and we're going to
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slot the uh the video light in there
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tighten the butterfly up and obviously
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you can adjust the butterfly underwater
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to wherever you want or you can fold it
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in or all those kind of things but you
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can see uh that is that is trivially
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easy to do and once you've done that
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you're ready to go and take it and get
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it wet and uh here's some more video
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footage of me doing exactly that now
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often when I get stuff from Orc torch to
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review I offer it in a competition as a
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giveaway i'm not going to do that this
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time cuz I love this so much that I'm
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keeping it for myself and I'm going to
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use it to make more videos so sorry
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about that anybody who was who's
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thinking that might be coming but if you
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want to buy one I've put the Amazon link
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in the uh in the comments so you can
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find it there right well I hope you've
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enjoyed that review hope it was useful
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as part of your buying decisions and I
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will see you all on the next one thank
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you