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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
