- So here it is. Sony's brand-new ZV-E10.
And what's so cool about this tiny little mirrorless camera
with an APC size sensor is that it starts at $700
for the body or with the kit lens it's around $800.
Well, technically it's 699.99 or 799.99,
they make it one cent cheaper.
But my point is for some $1,000 camera,
you get a lot of features out of here.
You get a nice solid 4K that's down-sampled from 6K.
You get some great slow-mo capabilities,
120 frames per second.
Of course you have your interval shooting
which can be used for time-lapses
and just like any other Sony mirrorless camera,
you have a ton of manual control.
If we take a look inside,
we have a APC size sensor in there.
It's actually the same sensor and image processor,
as you would get out of the Sony A6600
which is two times the cost of this E-10.
So, pretty good bang for the buck you're getting here.
Let's go ahead and fire this thing up
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My very first impression with this is that it's tiny,
especially with this little kit lens,
it's a 16 to 35 and extends out
and you can actually use the zoom rocker
to zoom in and out, but also as super lightweight.
Of course, us YouTubers are all about that flip screen.
In terms of brightness on this display,
you can switch it over to the sunny setting,
which is great because even if it's bright outside,
you can still see the screen,
but it is pretty misleading when it comes to exposure.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm blown out here. Huh?
How's this look to you, blown out?
- Oh yeah, look at my face.
- Yeah, so you know what's weird about that
is the footage actually doesn't look terribly blown out,
but on this LCD, it looks really, really blown out.
So that's the one thing that I will say about Sony cameras
is that their LCD just isn't as reliable.
- Yeah, it was like we were in an African safari
because all we saw was zebras.
- (laughs) Now taking a look at the body,
it looks pretty familiar.
You have your on/off, record button right here, zoom rocker.
And this is the background de-focused button.
So check it out, we have Sam in front of the camera
and if we want the background to be nice and blurry,
I'm just going to tap that defocus button.
And oh, look at that.
And it's going to do that by just adjusting the settings,
it's going to open up the aperture wide open
and adjust the ISO and shutter speed accordingly.
It's cool, but it's not a feature
that I personally use very often
because I'm usually using manual mode.
So if I want that blurry background,
I'm just manually doing it.
This only really works if you're using auto exposure.
The other cool button that I'm happy to see on here
that the ZV-1 had is product showcase, so check this out.
So this is actually pretty cool.
So Sam, can you showcase a product to us?
- Oh, most def, this right here.
- What is that?
- Yeah, there you go, it's a pen bro,
but it's in the shape of a little pill
and it just collapses like that.
It's adorable, look at it.
- You would carry that around with you.
- Like imagine if somebody asks you,
"Hey, do you have a pen?"
I'm like, "yeah, for sure, bro, here you go."
And they're going to be like "what?
I said for a pen."
"Yes, this is a pen, idiot."
And then you like open it up and you're like,
(exhales) pen.
- Oh, okay, I guess that's cool.
But you notice how it was out of focus, right?
Now, I'm going to turn product showcase on.
And can you show us that pen again?
- Oh yeah, sure.
- So check this out. Oh, wow.
- Pretty sick, right?
- What is that?
Is that also a pen?
- Yeah, dude, check that out, look.
- How many pens do you have there
in the shape of some scary device?
- Seven.
- Seven?
Basically the product showcase feature
assumes that you're going to show something to the camera.
And as soon as you bring it into the foreground,
it's going to rack focus on that,
opposed to something like face detect,
which is always going to prioritize faces.
So pretty handy little feature, I think.
Now by default, this camera actually comes with
a little bit of this digital beautification turned on.
So right now it actually is on a bit.
You can kind of see it, maybe, here.
I'm going to turn it off, so let's see what that looks like.
Oh, my god!
I'm just kidding, it doesn't really look that different,
but this is with nothing.
But if we turn it up to high,
I don't know if I see anything.
Is it applied in post maybe?
Oh, you see it when you look back on the clip.
Oh my gosh. Okay.
- Do not put it on high, I learned that the hard way.
- What are you talking about though?
You look beautiful.
- No, my skin is beautiful as it is, all caramel.
I moisturize three times a day.
- This is what beauty mode low looks like.
Have you ever actually used
the beautification mode in camera?
- No, but I have a couple of aunts that would love this.
- All right, and we're finally starting
to settle in to the new place.
I mean, we've still got lots of work to do,
but let's talk about slow motion real quick.
This can do full HD at up to 120 frames per second.
It does maintain that auto-focus
during that slow motion, which is nice and useful.
easy switch into that mode because that S&Q button
is just right there.
So you tap it, you're in 120.
Any of the higher end cameras
are starting to go up to 240 in full HD.
But honestly, for the most part,
120 P is enough to satisfy my super slow-mo needs.
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I will admit though, I did jump the gun a little bit
When it came to demolishing that kitchen,
I had all the numbers in my head,
but I never actually took all the renovations
we were going to do and put it on a spreadsheet,
is what I should have done.
I would've seen that gigantic number at the bottom,
and I probably would have pumped the brakes
before I completely destroyed the kitchen.
But you know, this is how it's going to be
for a little bit, but hey, it still works.
I mean, the fridge is still plugged in.
This still works.
We don't have counters,
but we got this little folding table that,
it works for now.
Maybe the next couple months, maybe a year.
We'll see how long it takes to get a new kitchen in there.
Now, one of the great things about this
is that there is no record time limit.
There's a lot of cameras out there that cut
right around the 30-minute mark.
So if you're recording long interviews or events,
you're just going to plant the camera,
let it roll for an hour or so, this can handle it.
And right now it's at room temperature
and it's been rolling at 4K 24 straight
for about an hour and 20 minutes.
I do see a little overheating icon pop up,
but it seems like it's going to get through
this entire battery without actually overheating
and shutting itself down.
Of course, I took it, threw it in this incubator,
set at 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
So simulating a pretty hot day,
and it overheated in about 18 and a half minutes.
But here's the thing that's kind of weird
about this camera and the overheating.
This room right here is set to 75 degrees.
So I basically hit record and then I tossed it in there
and then it heats up from room temperature.
And that's where I got about 18 and a half minutes.
And then I restarted the test after the camera's
been kind of cooking in there for a little bit,
and you would think that it wouldn't last as long,
but just like the A6600 used to do,
it lasted 34 and a half minutes.
So it actually lasts longer if it starts already warm.
Now I would usually never use the internal microphone,
but what's cool about this is it comes
with the little fuzzy microphone protector for the wind,
which just slips into your hot shoe and protects the wind.
So that actually might make this internal microphone usable.
Because last thing you want is,
I'm going to go ahead and take it off,
just hear this all day.
(air whooshes)
Worst sound ever, right?
I hate that.
- Some people fall asleep to that.
- (laughs)
So there's your microphone right there.
And then this little fuzzy thing
just slips into that hot shoe right there.
And this is also the multi-interface shoe.
So if you have a Sony microphone,
you can just plug that straight in.
You also have your mic port up here
and you also get a headphone jack right here on the bottom.
So it's good that you have options,
but the audio quality out of this internal microphone
does seem a little bit light
and a little bit hollow to me,
but I'll let you guys decide for yourself
what you think of the audio quality
between the internal mic on here and the RODE VideoMic Pro+.
I think it just sounds fuller
and also much more directional.
Six feet away, this is how the RODE VideoMic Pro+ sounds,
and here's how the Sony EV-10's internal microphone sounds.
And one of the things that's nice about Sony cameras,
as opposed to something like Canon,
is they give you a ton of control,
anything from normal to HLG2 to even S-log3.
Although I wouldn't use S-log3 on here,
because we're stuck at eight bit.
It's still pretty good, eight bit,
a hundred megabits per second,
but I would stick to HLG2.
If you're trying to get that dynamic range,
or just turn it off completely
if you just want to use the image straight out of camera.
They've been working on their menu
to try to make it less complicated,
but I still think there's way too much stuff on here.
I mean, like I studied this menu for hours
and I still don't know what half the stuff is.
Like this, yeah, What is that?
I, yeah, I'm just trying to shoot a TicTok.
Dude, don't get me wrong.
I do love how many options that they give you,
you know, you can live stream with it
and stuff like that, all gravy.
But I just wish that I didn't have to like
dig through a massive pile of a hoarder of a menu
just to change my frame rate.
I definitely recommend taking your favorite items
and just tossing them all in here,
so you never have to go ah arg ahhh. (laughs)
Or maybe what they should do
is like take all the advanced items on the menu
and just put it in one bin.
Like 80% of the menu should go in this advanced menu
and everything else would just be
so much nicer and cleaner and would that be nice?
Like you think the dude who designed the menu
is a hoarder at home?
Like do his friends come over and it's like,
"why do you have like nine toasters?"
"Because if one breaks I have eight more!"
- Now, here's how the internal microphone sounds
when we're out and blogging.
And this is what a girl's voice sounds like.
- Hi girl, voice here.
- (laughs) I think this is probably the settings
I would be using,
I'm using the 10 to 18 miller (laughs) Miller.
Got an ND filter up front and I'm shooting 4K 24.
Now if you like shooting 30 P, at 4K 30 there is a crop
and there's also a crop at 120P,
but the active image stabilization
definitely adds a whole lot.
So if I wanted to get even wider than this, I could.
Here, let me turn off image stabilization real quick.
And there, so much wider, but I just don't think
it's going to be stabilized enough.
So I would probably keep it on and deal with that cop.
It's a pretty big crop, by the way.
Today we're funding the seventh video,
it's all part of the Potato Farm Project.
If you missed it a little while back,
basically, if you have a really cool idea
and you just need funding to get it going,
whether it's an Instagram video
or YouTube channel or whatever,
just let me know your idea in the Google doc below.
And every once in a while, we'll be funding them.
This one comes to us from Jackson Blair, Salt Lake City.
His idea is a YouTube channel called I'm [Bleep] At,
I go through all the things in my life I'm not good at,
and there's a lot, explain the steps I took to get better,
as well as the impact it's had,
things that didn't work, et cetera.
I think that's a really cool concept
because it's motivation to try new things,
learn new things and just improve.
I mean, that's what it's about, right?
We're constantly getting better as people,
learning more things, love it.
First half of the payment already sent over
and maybe in the next video,
your concept will be the one that's funded.
So like down in the description.
Anyways, camera, that's right.
Now I think my favorite thing about this camera
is the combination of the size, the weight,
and the amount of power you get out of it for its price.
Of course it's a mirrorless camera, and with E-mounts
you can really grow and improve with this camera.
If I start doing more multi-cam shoots,
I definitely see myself picking up a few of these
and planting them all around the room, so I can intercut.
Now my least favorite thing is probably the stabilization.
I mean, yeah, it has the active image stabilization,
but it crops so much into the frame.
I just don't feel like I'm getting a stable enough image.
I mean, this is my A7S and it has IBIS,
which stands for in-body image stabilization
and check it out, if I drank a gallon of coffee
and I'm jittering, you could actually see the sensor
kind of shifting around in there
independently from the body.
So I'm kind of spoiled with the IBIS.
Of course, if you have a lens
with really good stabilization or a gimbal or tripod,
you have nothing to really worry about.
Oh, but it is compatible with Catalyst Browse.
So if you shoot completely unstabilized,
and you can run it through their software,
it's free and it super stabilizes the footage.
So I actually got a Cina Lifter,
which is like a big FPV drone
that carries cameras like this,
and I was thinking, do I really want to put
my A7S III on there?
No, I'm going to put this thing on there.
I'm going to shut off all the stabilization
off in here and just use Catalyst Browse,
which uses the gyro data of the camera,
so it's actually pretty good,
it's just an extra step to do so.
Plus you have to make sure that you're shooting
at a pretty high shutter speed.
So it's something that you kind of have to plan ahead for.
Who is this camera not for?
I would actually say if you're just looking for a camera
to just grab and just start filming,
you don't know what ISO is or shutter speed
and you don't care to learn, avoid it,
because this is a camera that takes a little bit of work
to make it look good, as opposed to something like an iPhone
or a lot of Canon cameras.
You know, you just turn it on, hit record,
and everything looks okay, and everything sounds okay.
For example, one of the things that I think
a beginner camera should have is auto audio level control.
So, you know, when you're in a loud place,
it should automatically lower the sensitivity
of that microphone, so everything's not blown out.
And also when you're in a really quiet place,
it should boost that sensitivity, right.
But this camera, I don't think has it, I mean,
maybe it's somewhere deep down in the menu,
but as far as I know, you have to manually control it.
That doesn't really bother me,
because I always manually control my audio levels anyways,
but sometimes people just want to pull a camera
out of the box and have it look pretty good.
I tried vlogging with it a bit with the out of box settings,
and I can't say I liked the results.
It's just the shutter speed was running crazy.
I didn't really have trust in the stabilization.
I would see the rolling shutter, and all that.
I think the whole world of consumer cameras
are completely shifting because phones
look so fricking good now.
Honestly, at this point, I think
if you're shooting everything auto,
you're probably going to get better results
out of your phone.
But if you're willing to spend the time and effort
to learn all the shutter speed and the picture profiles
and how to color grade, and what kind of filters
to put upfront, and lenses, and all that stuff,
you could really get some professional looking stuff
that you cannot get out of a phone.
So depending on what you're looking for
and what you're hoping to get out of the camera,
this could either be a camera that you're like,
"what the (bleep) my phone looks better",
or you might be able to put some good lenses on it,
and this can look really, really good.
Just because it can look good,
doesn't mean it will look good, again,
it's all about, you know, your idea, your vision,
and learning the tools and how to use it properly.
But the potential of this thing, really high,
at least that's my take on it.
Thanks for watching
all the way until the very end of the video.
Oh my gosh, you guys are awesome.
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