Sara Dietschy
YouTube creator making tech reviews, docu-series, and vlogs.
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Cameras14
- Sony A7S III
$3,699.99cited in 9 videosspeaks highly of it

“I love my A7 S3 but that's because I've had it since the get right”
- iPhone
cited in 9 videospositive about it

“Okay, so now I've put the iPhone 17 Pro into Apple ProRes RAW opengate 4K, the Apple log 2.”
- Sony FX6
$7,298.00cited in 8 videosspeaks highly of it

“And yeah, I've enjoyed the FX6 for years now. Um, they've been like my default studio cameras, so a lot of the time they just like live in whatever studio I'm in.”
- Sony FX3
$4,049.95cited in 8 videosspeaks highly of it

“So, I kind of just like went all in. Purchased two FX3s. And this right over here was my setup for a while.”
- Leica Q26 videos
- Sony RX100 VII2 videos
- Sony A7C2 videos
- Sony FX52 videos
- Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro1 video
- Canon AE-11 video
- Sony a7R VI1 video
- Sony cameras1 video
- Sony ZV-1 II1 video
- Sony A7 IV1 video
Lenses18
- Sony FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G Lens
$1,298.00cited in 4 videosmixed views on it

“And so when the Sony 16 and 25 came out f2.8 I was like this is the one. It is absolutely perfect for running and gun stuff or vlogging.”
- Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
$2,449.99cited in 3 videosfirst cited August 2024speaks highly of it

“And then the new 24 to 70 f2.8 came out. Um just a much smaller lens than the Mark1. And it just looks so good.”
- Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
$1,398.00cited in 3 videosfirst cited April 2025speaks highly of it

“So, I actually have two of these lenses, two 24 to 105s, because once I started doing interview stuff and I needed three cam setups or a Bcam setups, it's always handy to just have two of the same lenses.”
- Tiffen 67mm Variable ND Filter
$69.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

“And just like that, I'm using my variable ND that I use on my normal lenses all of the time, but using it on my iPhone.”
- Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM Prime Lens1 video
- 16-28mm f2.8 lens1 video
- 24mm lens1 video
- Canon RF 20-50mm f/4 L IS USM PZ1 video
- Sony Distagon T* FE 35mm f/1.4 ZA1 video
- Sony E 16-50mm kit lens1 video
- Sony FE 24-50mm F2.8 G1 video
- 35mm film lens (unnamed junk lens)1 video
- Sony GM Lens1 video
- Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 lens1 video
- Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III RXD for Sony E1 video
- Sony 24-70mm f/2.81 video
- Sony 50mm f/1.21 video
- Zeiss 16-35mm f/41 video
Camera equipment26
- K&F Concept 58-67mm Step-Up Ring
$9.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2025

“And then I have a step up ring on my 67 mm filter.”
- Anker 622 Magnetic Power Bank
$47.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

“And then the final Mags Safe accessory that I honestly don't leave the house with has got to be just a simple MagSafe battery to to charge the phone.”
- Beastgrip Pro Universal Cage
$139.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

“At the center of this setup is the Beast Grip Pro.”
- MOFT MagSafe Phone Tripod Stand
$33.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

“But I love this Moth Mags Safe stand.”
- Accsoon Toprig S60 Motorized Camera Slider2 videos
- Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Extreme2 videos
- Blackmagic Camera ProDock2 videos
- 67mm Filter Adaptor for PolarPro Light Chaser1 video
- PolarPro 67mm Filter Adaptor for LightChaser1 video
- Beastcage 58mm Filter Adapter1 video
- Beastcage RT Mount NATO Rail Handle1 video
- Beastcage Side Handle1 video
- Beastcage SSD Mount1 video
- Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro1 video
- Apple boxes1 video
- Sony camera batteries1 video
- RØDE Streamer X Audio Interface and Capture Card1 video
- Polar Pro Stuff Excursion Pack1 video
- Timba camera bag1 video
- PolarPro LightChaser iPhone 17 Pro Case1 video
- DC Power Extension Cable for ProDock1 video
- SmallRig NP-F Battery Adapter Mount Plate1 video
- Manfrotto MVH502AH Fluid Head1 video
- Manfrotto MVH500AH Fluid Head1 video
- Teleprompter (live stream setup)1 video
- ND filter for iPhone1 video
Sound
Microphones4
- Rode Lavalier Go
$89.00first cited April 2025

“Audio Microphone”
View sourcefrom April 2025 - Rode Wireless GO
$165.90first cited April 2025

“Audio Recorder”
View sourcefrom April 2025 - DJI Mic 2
$199.00first cited October 2025

“Lav mics I use”
View sourcefrom October 2025 - Rode PodMic
$86.00first cited July 2025speaks highly of it
“We are rocking the road pod mic and it's just a great overall setup for recording, podcasting, uh you know, all of those types of things.”
View source at 12:49from July 2025
Light
Lighting7
- Aputure 300D II
$470.00cited in 3 videosfirst cited October 2024

“…got a 120d over there a 300D man all right goodbye space I loved”
- Aputure 120d Video Light
$545.00cited in 2 videosfirst cited August 2024positive about it

“…so I basically switch to a 120d I think the circle is better than the rectangle shape”
- Amaran Go MagSafe Mini Phone Light
$24.00first cited October 2025speaks highly of it

“Another MagSafe accessory that I just adore is this light from Amaran.”
View source at 4:09from October 2025 - Aputure Amaran 200d
$239.00first cited April 2025

“Hair light”
View sourcefrom April 2025
- Aputure Light Dome II1 video
- Aputure Amaran AL-MC RGB LED Video Light1 video
- Amaran P60c1 video
Editing and post
Editing software9
- DaVinci Resolve Studio
cited in 9 videos

“Davinci Resolve has changed A LOT. I love it.”
- Adobe Photoshop
cited in 4 videos

“So, I still have to bring things into Photoshop, combine certain images together, uh, to really get something that is exactly what I envision and exactly what I want and then I can hand it over to a carpenter, a painter, etc.”
“…at this point I probably clocked in over 10,000 hours in either Adobe Premiere or daeni resolve so you know I will be the judge of of this”
View source at 1:18from March 2024“I wasn't hanging out with people I was going home and like playing guitar and like learning logic and Pro Tools and then that evolved into Final Cut and Premiere”
View source at 18:02from August 2024
- Pro Tools1 video
- Blender1 video
- FilmConvert1 video
- LUT Generator1 video
- Adobe Lightroom1 video
Recording software9
- QuickTime
cited in 2 videosfirst cited March 2025

“I'm using Quick Time to record this.”
- CleanShot X
cited in 2 videosfirst cited April 2025speaks highly of it

“Okay. Clean Shot X. Oh my gosh, this is the best screenshot app that has ever existed.”
- Blackmagic Camera App for iPhone
cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

“Um, use the Blackmagic Cam app obviously all the time with the new iPhone 17 Pro.”
- Blackmagic Cam app
first cited October 2024

“13:00 How to properly expose Apple LOG in the Blackmagic Cam App — Zebras, False Color & Histogram”
View sourcefrom October 2024
- Blackmagic Camera App1 video
- Logic (Logic Pro)1 video
- OBS1 video
- Open Cam1 video
- Screen Studio1 video
Coding software6
- Claude Code
cited in 4 videosfirst cited August 2025speaks highly of it

“But as this is like my second or third project, man, it was just so much faster cuz I already understood how different things connected together and you know I just fired up Claude Code and I was like hey let's do this.”
- Cursor
cited in 3 videosfirst cited August 2025positive about it

“But again, as someone who is actively learning how all of this stuff works at the same time, I like to poke around and so I am using Claude code within cursor via just the terminal and cursor.”
- GitHub
cited in 2 videosfirst cited August 2025positive about it

“Even if I go back to Vzero and start using a Vzero again, I'm still going to link my GitHub there.”
- Algolia
first cited August 2025positive about it

“Add search functionality. I'm using a service called Al Golia Alolia. I don't know how to say it.”
View source at 38:02from August 2025
AI software11
- ChatGPT
cited in 8 videosmixed views on it
“And so every night on my walk in December, I literally would sit there and just talk to Chat GBT for 5 or 10 minutes.”
- ElevenLabs
cited in 3 videosfirst cited January 2025speaks highly of it

“…okay so I use a service called 11 labs this is what most people are using for voice cleans so I'll make sure to link everything in the description below um yeah I need to get affiliate links for this because I'm such a big fan I can't I can't Hawk this for free you know”
- Notion AI
cited in 2 videosmixed views on it

“…so I was already doing this I would go into notion AI I would come up with a description for my stay peachy hat and it wasn't really great”
- Gemini
cited in 2 videosfirst cited February 2026speaks highly of it

“So, just a couple weeks ago, our bedroom actually looked worse than this. We didn't have a headboard. We didn't have those side tables um that we actually grabbed from our storage unit that's like actually our furniture. Yeah. So, this was in Gemini.”
- Claude Cowork1 video
- HeyGen1 video
- Nano Banana Pro1 video
- OpenClaw1 video
- v01 video
- Figma Make1 video
- Claude Max subscription ($100/month tier)1 video
Productivity software17
- Notion
cited in 5 videosspeaks highly of it

“Again, my custom AI agent that I have in Notion is like trained on the document on how I speak and what I like to talk about.”
- Apple Notes
cited in 3 videosspeaks highly of it

“I have completely simplified down to Apple notes for literally everything that's a benefit of now being 100% Mac when I used to be you know half Windows PC and it's really helped my brain and it's simplified things”
- Things App
cited in 2 videosspeaks highly of it

“I've used things actually for a while but its usefulness has just been magnified now that I've switched to the Apple ecosystem this app is so Snappy it's so quick it's a one-time payment so you're not paying monthly for it”
- Setapp
cited in 2 videosfirst cited April 2025positive about it

“Now this is another app a part of the set app ecosystem.”
- Microsoft OneNote2 videos
- Acuity Scheduling1 video
- Google Calendar1 video
- Paste1 video
- Google Sheets1 video
- Google Docs1 video
- Google Chrome1 video
- Gamma1 video
- Zapier1 video
- Readwise1 video
- Synology Photos1 video
- Slack1 video
- HiddenBar1 video
Creator tools8
- Sony Creators App
first cited May 2026speaks highly of it

“But I actually played around with their Sony Creator app for monitoring and camera control.”
View source at 18:22from May 2026 - RSS.app
first cited December 2025speaks highly of it

“But then I discovered RSS.app, a very simple solution for honestly what I need. So you can take a Twitter list and turn this into an RSS feed.”
View source at 7:13from December 2025 - Figma
first cited April 2026speaks highly of it

“I've used Figma for years, designing my personal website, collaborating with designers, mapping out ideas before they're actually real.”
View source at 0:21from April 2026 - Bento3D (bento box)
mixed views on it

“Okay next if you use bento box it's really easy to use however a lot of the files will just be broken when you download them”
View source at 30:35from June 2024
- Thingiverse1 video
- MailBrew1 video
- Gridfinity Generator Plugin for Fusion 3601 video
- Free online STL repair tool1 video
Platforms
Hosting platforms4
- Squarespace
cited in 21 videosspeaks highly of it

“Y'all know that I've used Squarespace for my personal website for over eight years now, sadichi.com. I display my work, attract sponsors. It's been so great for me and easy to evolve the design as my taste change and also I just made a huge project studios setup.com with Squarespace on my Squarespace website.”
- Simplecast
first cited December 2025
“Downloaded that audio, stitched it together in Resolve and then went to Simplecast to upload the podcast to my RSS feed.”
View source at 19:26from December 2025 - Vimeo
speaks highly of it

“I actually use uh Vimeo to send notes when I'm using an editor and the biggest reason why I use them over other apps is because their mobile app is really good and you can speed up the video on the mobile app and also add notes”
View source at 11:22from March 2024 - Supabase
first cited August 2025positive about it

“So, I'm going to use a service called Supabase for the database that's going to allow me to not just store my photos on there, but more importantly, like basically their main service, and that is their database, their tables that stores all of the information about the photo like the tags, the title, the YouTube link.”
View source at 14:34from August 2025
Ecommerce platforms1
- Printful
first cited August 2024speaks highly of it

“I sell merch via their printful integration it makes merch super easy”
View source at 12:09from August 2024
Desk
Computers8
- MacBook Pro M1
$549.00cited in 3 videosmixed views on it

“…at the center we have my m one MacBook Pro uh Pro so it's the pro chip not the mac and I've had this for years and the fact that it still chugs along is a testament to how actually amazing Apple silicon is”
- MacBook Pro (M4 Pro)
$2,699.00cited in 3 videosfirst cited December 2024speaks highly of it

“…okay I've been living with my M4 Pro MacBook Pro for a little over a week now I've actually been doing a ton of editing and I have to say thumbs up”
- MacBook (4TB)
first cited September 2026

“And this is just actively backing up my 4 TBTE MacBook with all of my active projects on it.”
View source at 6:01from September 2026 - MacBook Pro (4TB SSD)
first cited March 2025
“I have a 4 TB SSD on my MacBook Pro that I edit all of my current projects off of.”
View source at 16:31from March 2025
- Lenovo Yoga Slim 7X1 video
- M5 MacBook Air1 video
- HP OmniBook Ultra1 video
- Mac1 video
Monitors2
- Atomos Shinobi II 5.2" HDMI Camera Monitor
$375.00cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

“I love having the new Shinobi 2 at top because it's super thin and you can power it via USBC.”
- Apple Studio Display
$1,599.00speaks highly of it

“…you can probably tell this is the Apple Studio display I actually really love this display so much that I used it with my Windows setup”
View source at 3:48from May 2024
Peripherals5
- SABRENT Thunderbolt 3 to 10G Ethernet Adapter (TH-S3EA)
$159.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited February 2025

“10gig Ethernet Adapter”
“I find myself using the trackpad more than my Logitech mxm 3 which is surprising”
View source at 3:32from May 2024- Kodak small photo printer
first cited February 2025mixed views on it

“…this is funny a rogue photo I actually printed this out with one of those small Kodak printers um it actually turned out pretty good other photos not so much”
View source at 7:10from February 2025 - Lab22 Phone Stand
positive about it
“…we got the trusty lab 22 uh phone stand over here I can plug it into my USBC power if I want power”
View source at 4:24from May 2024
Storage11
- Synology DX517 5-bay Expansion Unit
$499.99cited in 4 videosfirst cited February 2025

“So, I have eight drives in between the one six bay Naz and the 4 bay expansion unit, but I only have two drives in that expansion unit.”
- Lexar SL500 Portable SSD
$219.99cited in 3 videosfirst cited October 2024speaks highly of it

“…this is where something like the Lexar SL500 portable SSD comes in handy I mean this thing is just so light and durable it still works”
- Pelican Cases
first cited July 2025
“I can fit a lot of camera gear in there, but I just have a lot of big lights um, and different like Pelican cases and things.”
View source at 8:13from July 2025 - Lexar CFexpress cards
first cited October 2024speaks highly of it
“I have been a huge fan of Lexar for a long time I've used their v90 SD cards their CF Express cards for my A7 S3 for my fx6”
View source at 9:33from October 2024
Office furniture9
- Husky tool chest
cited in 2 videos
“…okay day two I got distracted yesterday rearranging my Husky tool chest when the goal was the closet”
- Utility shelves
cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2025speaks highly of it
“So, I was tired of spending money and I was thinking of going with these plastic shelves, but then the utility shelves always win. I think they're worth it.”
- Wayfair storage cabinet
first cited July 2025positive about it
“And also a special shout out to this Wayfair storage solution. There were a lot of things online, but they were getting close to like $1,000. And I just I'm I'm not doing that.”
View source at 12:22from July 2025 - Fully Standing Desk
first cited April 2025speaks highly of it
“My fave standing desks (Fully)”
View sourcefrom April 2025
Everything else
Other20
- Fusion 360
cited in 2 videosmixed views on it
“I basically had to learn Fusion 360 and the grid Affinity system to actually understand what's happening here”
- AC Infinity MULTIFAN S3 120mm USB Fan
$14.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026positive about it

“I got this mesh off of Amazon as well as these two fans. I'm pretty sure they're like PC fans. So, they basically suck out the hot air from inside the cabinet and fan it on out of these holes here.”
- Google Pixel 11 Pro XL
$1,299.00cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026speaks highly of it

“I had a really fun time using the Pixel 11 Pro on our trip to South Carolina.”
- Bambu Lab X1 Carbon
$399.00cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

“If you didn't watch the first 3D printing video and you're curious, I'm using the Bamboo Lab X1 Carbon. It is on the pricier end of 3D printers, but as someone who doesn't want to spend a lot of time troubleshooting, I just want to print.”
- Apple AirTag2 videos
- CyberPower CP1000AVRLCD Intelligent LCD UPS Battery Backup2 videos
- CVS Photo prints1 video
- Artifact Uprising1 video
- Synology DSM1 video
- Aevdor 2 Pack 4x6 Photo Albums1 video
- Shutterfly1 video
- Moleskine Cahier Journal1 video
- Synology QuickConnect1 video
- Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses1 video
- RØDE X Streamer X1 video
- Iconic 4x6 photo album1 video
- TP-Link 10 gig switch1 video
- Grovemade Notepad1 video
- Nik Bentel 16" Untitled Folder Purse1 video
- Lofree Mechanical Calculator1 video
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