Linus Tech Tips's Camera Gear & Studio Setup
Linus Tech Tips films with a Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro 12K, records audio on a Sennheiser MKH 50. Below is Linus Tech Tips's full camera, lens, microphone and lighting setup — each item cited to a public source video or interview, with a budget-friendly alternative for every pick.
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Style analysis
LTT's production kit is a multi-camera broadcast infrastructure, not a personal kit: cinema-grade bodies on fixed rigs, a PL-mount broadcast zoom costing more than most creator's entire setups, and professional boom microphones borrowed from film production. The aesthetic is deliberately 'high-resolution laboratory' — hard product lighting, static wide angles for context shots, close insert cameras on PL lenses — calibrated for 12K source material that can be down-sampled to YouTube's 4K ceiling. Aspiring tech reviewers should treat this page as a reference ceiling, not a shopping list: an entry-level creator replicates maybe 10% of this image quality with a $1,500 mirrorless and a single LED panel.
LTT's primary studio workhorse — they purchased multiple units. The 12K Super 35 sensor shoots Blackmagic RAW (BRAW), which their editors process on cluster-render workstations. This is the camera running on the main multi-angle rigs.
Source: Have we gone MAD?? - We bought a bunch of Blackmagic Ursa Mini Pro 12Ks — Linus Tech Tips (2020-12-10)
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Budget pick: Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 — Same Blackmagic RAW codec, same DaVinci Resolve workflow, a quarter of the price. The BMPCC 6K G2 is the closest budget on-ramp to LTT's post-production pipeline without buying a cinema body. View →
cameraSony FX30reported
Used as a secondary or insert camera in the LTT studio, visible at the 13:50 mark of Gerald Undone's studio walkthrough. The FX30 is a Super 35 Cinema Line body — a step down from the URSA 12K but compatible with Sony E-mount glass across the LMG fleet.
Source: Roasting Linus' $100 Million YouTube Studio — Gerald Undone (2023-07-31)
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Budget pick: Sony ZV-E10 II — Sony APS-C, same E-mount ecosystem, a fraction of the FX30's price. For a beginner who wants Sony colour science and Cinema Line image processing without the cinema body form-factor, the ZV-E10 II is the logical starting point. View →
A broadcast-grade PL-mount cabrio zoom on the top-down overhead camera rig, confirmed during the 2021 studio tour. This lens retails around $27,000 new — it's a broadcast television standard, not a YouTube purchase. LTT uses it fixed overhead for product close-up shots.
Source: This Epic Studio Tour Almost Killed Me!! — Linus Tech Tips (2021-04-13)
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Budget pick: Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art — A widely praised APS-C zoom with near-prime sharpness and a constant f/1.8 aperture — the closest budget option for 'a zoom that looks like a prime' on a fixed overhead rig. Less than $500 vs the Fujinon's five-figure price tag. View →
Seen on the WAN Show set at the 13:09 mark of Gerald Undone's studio tour. The 18-35mm f/1.8 is a classic APS-C fast zoom used on their podcast / WAN Show camera rig — gives shallow depth of field with the flexibility of a zoom.
Source: Roasting Linus' $100 Million YouTube Studio — Gerald Undone (2023-07-31)
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Budget pick: Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary — Fixed focal length, similar f/1.4 aperture, a third of the 18-35's price. For a beginner with a single-camera WAN-Show-style desk setup, one fast prime is more than enough. View →
Film-standard supercardioid condenser used on the main LTT set, confirmed by Linus at the 1:53 mark during Gerald Undone's walkthrough. The MKH 50 is a studio boom mic — it sits off-camera on a fixed boom arm, not on the camera itself.
Source: Roasting Linus' $100 Million YouTube Studio — Gerald Undone (2023-07-31)
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Budget pick: Rode VideoMic NTG — A prosumer on-camera shotgun at roughly 1/20th of the MKH 50's price. The VideoMic NTG won't match the MKH 50's studio isolation, but for a solo creator recording to camera it delivers professional-enough audio without a separate audio chain. View →
The broadcast dynamic microphone on the WAN Show set — confirmed by LTT community forum discussion where fans asked about the pop filter on the RE20s visible in WAN Show streams. Industry-standard talk-show mic; also used by popular podcasters and radio hosts.
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Budget pick: Shure SM7B — The RE20's closest rival — same broadcast-dynamic cardioid class, marginally cheaper, even more popular in the podcast and streaming community. Either mic works for the same desk-mounted boom-arm talking-head application. View →