- (mumbles) point and shoot cameras,
I honestly thought they
were kind of dying out.
It just hasn't been that
much exciting going on
in the point and shoot world.
And also phones are
getting so freaking good,
but this is the Sony ZV-1.
And if this is as good as I think it is,
I'm never giving this back to Sony.
They let me borrow it
so I can test it out.
But you know what?
I'll change my name, I'll get a passport.
You'll never see me again, mother (beep)
Should I keep going?
- [Sam] Yeah, now you're gone
they're never going to
see you again (laughs).
- That joke better have been worth it.
I almost tripped running down that hill.
And so why am I so
excited about this camera?
First, whoa yes, thank you.
We like flip out screen
so we can mount an
external microphone on top
and the microphone
doesn't cover this screen
and yes if we have a microphone,
we need a mic input.
So that is also in this camera.
Yes it does do 4k in 24
and 30 frames per second.
It has a one in sensor.
It has a lens that opens up to an F 1.8.
I mean, come on this is
what I've been waiting for.
Did I also mention high frame rates,
240, 480, 960 frames per second.
These are all specs as of right now.
We have to run it through its tests.
I'm excited, Sam, are you excited?
- Am I?
You can't see, but I'm smiling.
(beep)
- Now enjoy the nice
background while you can,
because we are getting
the hell out of here.
There's so many bugs, let's go Sam.
Why the heck did we think this would be
a good idea to come out here?
- We keep pretending we're
healthy and we're not.
- One of the things Sony
was telling me about
is the new color science in this camera.
How's does that look,
that's something that
they've been working on.
So first impressions the
footage is looking pretty good.
I am holding it out at
arm's length right now.
Now it's not as wide as my
primary vlog camera right here,
which is a full frame 15 millimeter.
And you could see that
there's a whole lot more room
in the vault camera.
Believe this is about a
24 millimeter equivalent.
So it's not as wide as
I would love it to be,
but it's still totally acceptable.
Now let's talk about the other thing
that I immediately noticed.
Does my skin look extra
nice and smooth right now?
Sam, are you wearing makeup?
- I'm kind of insecure about my face.
- By default it comes with this kind of
digital makeup filter attached.
It's like beauty mode.
I personally don't really like it.
It's really distracting.
It's called the soft skin effect
and you could have it low, medium or high.
And I'm just gonna
completely just turn it off.
Now, the RX100 Mark VII
had a crazy zoom lens.
You could start really wide
and go all the way to
a really tight closeup,
which was awesome.
Now this does not have that.
This is all the way
wide and as we zoom in,
this is all the way tight.
So the zoom isn't
anything significant here,
but I would honestly
prefer this lens still
because it opens up to an F 1.8.
So we're losing the ability to
get a really big zoom range.
But at the same time,
we have a nice fast lens,
which is gonna help us out
when we get into low light.
There's definitely some
nice touches to this thing.
For example, there's
that little red light,
right next to the lens to let you know,
"Hey, we're recording."
And also when it's turned off,
all you gotta do is open the screen
and it automatically turns on.
So there's some simple
little things going on here
that I'm really digging,
Alight, So one thing I've noticed
is that the auto focus on this camera
is spot on.
And there's a feature in this camera that
I didn't even know I wanted
but now that I see what it can do,
I want every single carrier to have it.
So if I'm talking to
the camera and I'm like,
"Hey, look at this random
thing I'm holding."
The auto focus is set to my face,
so if I try to show you something,
it's gonna be out of focus, right?
But I'm gonna turn on this
mode called product showcasing.
Now, check this out.
It's still focused on
me but as soon as I go
to show you something and
look at my keys, wow, focus.
And I don't think this is a feature
that everybody necessarily wants,
but for people like me
that want it,
it is awesome.
And look at how good the auto focus is.
It's so quick, even if I
bring it way up to here, wow.
And it's a simple feature,
but I love this quick
look at this SD card.
Oh, I'm just here enjoying my coffee,
not sponsored by Starbucks
and I'm always showing stuff.
So being able to be like,
"Hey, look at this drone."
It's awesome that I can just hold it
and it'll focus on it.
I usually have my cameras on face detect,
so if I want to show something,
I kind of have to use the product
to block my face before it focus on it.
But here I don't have to
worry about it at all.
It just knows when I put
something in front of me
and that is awesome.
And the auto focus is a beast too,
look at this boom,
sharp and sharp and sharp, look wow!
I'm really, really impressed.
Sony has been making huge leaps
in auto focus, bam, focus.
And check out the macro on this too.
This is a little SD card
and it's still focused.
That's not bad, time
for an extreme close up.
It's simple and it's useful, Love it.
One of the things that
has always amazed me
with these Sony point and shoot cameras
is the high frame rate capabilities.
You can get 120 frames per
second, continuously in HD.
So that is always awesome to have,
but you also
can hop up to 240 frames per second,
480 frames per second
and 960 frames per second.
A 960 quality looks terrible,
but again, 960 frames per second.
We're talking about
slowing things way down
to where you can see every
single little detail.
So that is definitely super fun to have,
anything past 120 is
going to be a burst mode.
So you can only buffer
for a couple seconds.
First accessory I would
get, is this microphone.
Second accessory I would get,
is this little guy right here.
Just having this little extra grip here
definitely helps stabilize your shot
because there's stabilization
inside of the camera, it's nice.
It's definitely a whole lot
better than not having it,
but at the same time, it's
not like an action camera
where you could go (screams)
and it'd be all right.
(mumbles) look at this,
it's kind of a perfect little setup here,
I mean we've got our microphone up here,
our camera, our flip screen
and a controller/grip.
So I could just hit that record button
and we're rolling and I can even zoom.
Oh, too close and the design of this grip
is actually pretty good.
It's just the button to rotate it
to the side or in front.
And there's a button on the
side to adjust your angle.
And yes, it also opens up
to be a little tiny tripod.
Hey Sam, would you get this setup?
- Oh yeah, I take it
to Coachella every year
and every other music festival.
- Yeah, for film festivals
and stuff like that
where you're not allowed to bring in
mirrorless cameras and all that--
- Music festivals.
- What did I say?
- Film festivals.
- Ah, film festivals.
But I think at a lot of places,
security guards are
trained to look for cameras
where the lenses come off.
And then if they see that it retracts,
they're like, "Oh, okay,
that's totally fine."
- I think this is perfect
with people that are just starting now
and for people that are camera shy,
because there's not a lot of
attention going towards it.
- Definitely like a bigger vlog camera.
Everyone's like," Whoa,
what's that dude doing?"
And then whenever Sam's
following me around
with one of these bigger cameras
then everybody's like, "Aaah"
I kinda like the attention that it draws.
So this is kind of a good
middle ground option.
It's not necessarily just for beginners.
Like I would totally use this.
I would probably use a
bigger camera when I can,
but when it comes to stuff
that can fit into your pocket,
this might be one of
the highest end cameras
that you could possibly pack in there
that I would actually use.
The camera does have image stabilization.
You could choose between having it off
and then their standard
and then there's active.
When you have it off,
it better be on a tripod or a gimbal
because it's going to shake a lot.
And then there's standard,
which is definitely going
to improve a whole lot.
You're gonna see a
night and day difference
in how jittery your footage is.
But I find that standard works best
if you're holding it pretty stable
and you're not moving around too much.
Once you start moving around
and doing some walking,
that's when you probably
want to bump it up to active,
active does crop into
your frame a little bit.
But if you're moving around a whole lot,
then you'll definitely
notice the difference.
I have shaky hands, so I'm
gonna leave it on active.
- Or you can just stop drinking coffee.
- You can leave.
Keep in mind that even on active,
it's not like GoPro style stabilization
where you couldn't run around with it
and it's gonna come out
looking super smooth.
The only way to get gimbal
like shots on this camera
is to actually put it on a gimbal.
Like if you're shooting
a lot of handheld stuff,
then definitely be mindful
of holding it stable.
And as long as you're doing that,
the footage should come out pretty decent.
Another thing that's awesome is
built-in ND filters in the camera.
That's another reason why I would prefer
this camera over the more
expensive RX100 Mark VII.
Lenses on both of the cameras
close down to an F 11.
So that means if it's really bright,
then you might not be able
to get the settings you want.
So in really bright places
ND filters are a must.
How about dark places?
We have so many (mumbles)
in sensor in here,
same one out of the RX100 Mark VII,
which was pretty awesome in low light.
But now we have an F 1.8 aperture
when we're zoomed all the way out.
And it opens up to an F
2.8 when you zoom it in.
So when you combine that sensor and lens,
the low light, incredible.
Put it next to a phone,
I mean, it completely
blows it out of the water.
There is no comparison.
This can get those shots.
So loving the lens and sensor combination.
And I don't know about
you guys, but so far,
I'm really enjoying the images
coming out of this camera.
All those shots so far have
just been on no picture profile.
So if you pull it out of the box,
that's the type of image you
could expect to get out of it.
I think Sony in general
is just been making
some pretty big improvements
across the board, right?
Like the picture profile
out of their new FX nine, it's solid.
If you still want to get
kind of crazy with it,
there are still those picture profiles
that you typically see in a Sony camera.
Which is nice 'cause
if you're shooting on something like this,
you can kind of match the colors.
We typically shoot S-LOG
three on this camera
and then grade it,
even though we can shoot S-LOG
three on this camera too,
the Kodak isn't going to be as strong.
So I wouldn't really recommend it,
but there are definitely some nice
middle ground picture profiles in there,
like HLG two, at 4K 24 and 4K 30,
we are getting about a
hundred megabits per second.
And by looking at a
couple of these 4K shots,
you could definitely see that
there's quite a bit of detail in there
not enough information in
the file to heavily grade,
but it's a good image.
One thing I did notice while filming
was that the overheating temperature gauge
did pop up a couple of times
and it wasn't that high.
So we'll have to see
if this is gonna be a consistent issue.
I'm gonna be vlogging all weekend with it.
So we'll circle back on that.
And another thing is
I wanna test out the
different microphone options.
This is the road video micro up here,
but Sony does make a microphone
that just fits into the hot shoe.
And you don't have to
actually go in and plug it in.
That would be cool because
that gives us a nice microphone
and just streamlines the whole thing.
Another thing I thought was interesting.
Let's look at this little guy.
So the microphone is right up here,
but I can slide this and
it covers up the microphone
for when there's wind.
That's pretty cool, and definitely useful,
if you're filming out in windy places.
You think we should name this guy?
- Mr. Fluffy Bottom.
- I think he's more of a Larry.
- What?
You don't give pets real names,
you give them cute names.
- (laughs)
You named a squirrel Kevin,
how are you going to tell
me not to name a thing,
now for my vlog channel
I think I'm gonna use
this camera exclusively
for the next couple of days.
So start beating her up.
(beating sounds)
So now I'm just using
the internal microphone,
that's built into the camera
and I have that little
fuzzy attachment on there.
So hopefully that kills some of the wind.
You can probably hear the wind,
but hopefully it's bearable.
And if that's the case,
that means the little fuzzy
thing up top is doing its job.
If I pull it off,
does it sound different?
(wind blowing )
Does it sound less good?
(Wind blowing)
Are you hearing the wind more?
(wind blowing)
Alright, come on, this
is some skill, right?
We're riding, getting
our coffee and vlogging
all at same time.
Honestly, I've been using
this as my primary vlog camera
for the last couple of
days, and it's not bad.
The quality is there.
It's very convenient.
I think the main reason why
I'm not switching to this
as my full time vlog camera
is the fact that I can't really
get much wider than this.
Like right now, I'm kind
of in a medium closeup.
It'd be nice to get into
a full on medium shot,
like I can with my full frame.
But if they made a version just like this,
but had an ultra wide angle lens,
Oh man, I might be tempted.
I don't know.
But as a secondary compact camera,
this thing is awesome.
I'm all a hundred percent
gonna be using it.
Now when I'm vlogging,
I don't really like to think
about camera settings too much.
So I am in shutter priority mode,
so I can set my shutter speed.
I have it to 150th of a second right now.
If I go out into the sun,
everything else should
adjust and keep me exposed.
There's gonna be a whole
lot of moving around.
Then I might actually bump
it up to a little bit higher,
maybe like 180th of a
second for my shutter speed.
But yeah, it seems to adjust pretty well.
One downside about shooting in 4K though,
is that the monitor doesn't
get as bright as it does
if you were shooting in full HD.
So I can still see the monitor.
I can see what I'm recording and what not,
but if I switch it into
HD, I can make it into
sunny brightness mode, which makes it,
so I can clearly see the screen.
Right now, I can still see it,
but it's just not as
clear as I wish it was.
Another thing that's unique
is this button right here,
that is a defocus background.
It's basically a super quick way
of blurring out your background
and it works best when
you're shooting on auto.
And not really a feature
I would use that much
'cause I'm usually
shooting in either manual
or shutter priority,
but there's definitely a lot of people
that's gonna appreciate
that button right there.
They just wanna quickly go,
"Oh, I want it to look professional,
"blurry background, done."
And it's still powerful,
if you treat it like a proper camera
and put on a tripod or gimbals,
you're gonna get some pretty awesome stuff
with something as simple as this.
Now, one issue I did initially
have was overheating.
I was seeing all kinds of
overheating icons pop up
and the camera cuts after
five minutes automatically
when you're recording in 4K.
But turns out you can actually disable
that five minute record time limit
by switching the auto power
off temperature settings.
So basically that set
the standard by default
but if you switch it to high,
essentially prioritizes your record time
over maintaining the
temperature on the camera.
And after I switched
that threshold to higher,
I was able to record straight for
an hour and 10 minutes
before the battery died.
And I didn't see any
sort of overheating icons
or anything like that.
And that was kind of at
a warm room temperature
around 77, 78 degrees.
Threw it in the incubator,
put it to about a 103 degrees Fahrenheit,
which is about 40 degrees Celsius.
And both times it made it
to right around 20ish minutes in 4K.
Obviously we'd prefer
for it to never overheat,
but from tests I've done in the past,
there's not that many
cameras that can handle
that hot temperature for
an extended period of time.
So really 20 minutes is
actually not that bad.
Overall I would say, when
it comes to cameras that
can actually fit in your pocket.
This might be my favorite.
If you go out with even like
a small mirrorless camera,
you have a lot of attention
dedicated to that camera.
You're either holding it,
have to keep it in a bag
or a shoulder strap or
something like that.
But here you just whoop, done.
"Oh, you know what?
"I do have a camera, yeah."
Now I asked some of my buddies
about what they want in
a point and shoot camera.
They don't know about this yet,
but let's just see what they say.
Connor said he wants the
latest Sony point and shoot,
except for, with an ND
filter and an F 1.8 aperture.
It's exactly what this
is, plus a flip screen
and a whole bunch of extra other features
Frank says "Internal
memory like my phone's
apps support, Instagram and stuff."
Yeah, like the internal memory
is kind of an interesting one, huh?
Like our drone has a little
bit of internal memory.
So if you forget your SD card,
you can still record.
That'd be handy.
Stephen in short said,
"Good low light performance
and solid internal mic
quality plus stabilization."
I'm pretty sure they're gonna
sell a lot of these cameras.
Because I honestly think this delivers
a lot of what a lot of
people have been asking for.
Jonathan, I'm pretty sure
he has one of the RX 100s
He says "It lacks a bit of depth of field
and lowlife because they
switched from more F 1.8 to 2.8
for that 24 to 200 millimeter.
I personally prefer the F 1.8."
Yeah, that's exactly
what I was thinking too.
He also said, "I think it'd
be really cool if they had
an ultra wide because
there aren't really any
ultra wide pocket cams besides
the Go Pros and Insta 360."
Yeah, that is true.
I agree with that.
If there was like a little slip on thing
that you can attach at the end of it,
which would just give you a
little bit of extra width,
even if it sacrifices the
image quality a little bit,
if it just gives you
that extra field of view,
that would be cool.
- I can't wait to use
that thing to get like
really nice cinematic shots
of my friends being drunk.
- This would be a perfect nightlife cam.
Yeah, for sure.
'Cause I don't really bring
any of my mirror less cameras
to a bar or anything like that,
but this you could actually
put in your pocket.
- And then real quickly just be like
(mimics camera sounds) and
then just put it away before
the bouncer tells you anything.
- Adam and Ralph said
"It would be cool if there
were water resistant."
That is one thing that I have noticed
about point and shoot cameras
is they can be a little bit
sensitive to drops or impacts.
I haven't dropped (mumbles) this one yet.
So I can say how durable it is,
but that would be nice if it had
some sort of water resistance.
So you could go and do
certain water activities
without having to worry
about a little splash.
Clements says "A 500X zoom
and native macro capability."
Yeah, I would love all these things too.
Phones are cool, they take a
different approach by adding
a couple different sensors and lenses
opposed to having one lens
that kind of does it all.
And I love the ultra wide
angle lens on our phones,
but phones just still
have that phone look.
But here, I swear if you were to look at
some of this footage and I say,
"Oh, we shot that a mirrorless camera."
You might look at it and be like,
"Yeah, that seems about right."
But overall killer camera I
didn't think I'd be this excited
about a point and shoot again,
but this is the one,
this is the one guys.
Now I'm just trying to
figure out a good way
to close this video.
Are you gonna close up, Sam?
- Mmh.
- That's it for today's video everybody.
I'm out of things to talk about so,
so long (murmurs) good bye.
You guys are the best,
don't forget to subscribe and stuff.
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