- Has Sony finally made the perfect vlogging camera?
Let's find out.
This is the Sony ZV-1.
It comes with a microphone wind screen,
micro USB cable, battery and the camera
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and a flip-out screen.
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I have been keeping a checklist for the things
that I have been looking for in a vlogging camera
and this camera right here
checks almost every single one of those boxes.
I could not be more excited to show this to you guys today.
Normally, these little point and shoot cameras
are geared towards photographers.
But this is one of the first Sony cameras
that I feel they were really thinking
about video first, photo second.
This screen will also flip the opposite way so you'll be
able to protect your screen when it's not in use.
It has a 3.5mm jack input for audio,
a micro USB port and HDMI out.
It uses the NP-BX1 battery.
This is used in a lot of the RX-100 series,
so if you have some of these batteries you're in luck.
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You guys are gonna witness my first vlog
that I'm gonna record and what I love already about this
is the record button is right here where it should be
where you normally would take a photo.
There's so many settings we're gonna go through
on this camera, but right now I have it on the steady mode
which gives me a nice field of view.
Another thing that I'm loving so far is it has this
little hot shoe mount that has a little--
I call them dead kittens.
It's kind-of a terrible thing.
That's to help reduce wind noise
and this also now has a directional microphone
facing forward so that'll help if you are vlogging
and filming yourself that the microphone
will be able to pick you up and not everything around you.
I can't wait to test out all of these features
so I guess let's get started.
Vlogging backwards, here I go.
Vlogging.
Steady Shot is off and now let's turn it on.
We're now on Steady Shot: Standard.
Is is smooth?
Is it steady?
Stable?
Just like me coming out of quarantine.
Here's our Active Steady Mode.
You can tell it's much more cropped in
than the previous two, but is it steadier?
I don't know.
You be the judge.
Well, I'm gonna be the judge
because I'm gonna be watching the video and assessing.
Feels steady.
Wow, Oh my gosh.
Product showcase for unboxing and showing products.
Watch how quickly it focuses.
Oh!
Oh, do you wanna see my phone?
Look at this.
Oh, focused.
Holy what!
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This is an optional vlogger kit that you can get
to go with your camera.
It comes with this Bluetooth tripod remote control
and an SD card.
This will allow you to wirelessly connect
to your camera and control it.
You can take photos, zoom and start and stop recording.
This connects to Bluetooth so there's no cables needed
and it connects very easily inside of the settings.
I also like this because it is a little, tiny tripod.
It will allow you to easily adjust your camera
to get the right shot.
One of these new settings that I'm really excited to show
you guys is called Background Defocus.
Now on most cameras, you would just adjust the aperture
so that you can get that nice blurred background.
But with this, it's a single button that will adjust
the aperture automatically to give you this:
a nice, blurred out Bokeh background
and when I press it again it turns it off.
And when I press it again, it turns it back on.
And once again, here's what it looks like off
and there's Background Defocus on.
I can't focus right now because it's so bright.
My eyes aren't opening.
I think it looks really good.
So far, I am incredibly impressed with this camera.
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One of the things that a classic iJustine video
cannot live without is slo-mo montages.
So this does also include slo-mo,
but it also has super slo-mo and the high frame rate option.
So you can shoot up to 960 frames a second.
So slo-mo montage, let's do it.
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♪ A storm is coming, but I'm prepared ♪
♪ I've been gone for a while, but don't be scared ♪
♪ Right now, I don't know if I'll ever arrive ♪
♪ Where the grass is green and we're still alive ♪
♪ I hope I'll see you on the other side ♪
- This camera also has a bunch of different color profiles
so you can go into the picture profile settings.
There's 10 that are currently programmed into here
so I'm gonna go through all of them
and show you guys what those look like and show you some
color grading options which you can do with that.
The first one to test is with no picture profiles on.
Of course, the ND filter is on
'cause it is a little bit bright so let's do it.
Oh, okay!
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♪ As time goes by ♪
♪ I'll wake up on a blue cloud ♪
♪ As time goes by ♪
And here they are all lined up next to each other.
This is every single option
that is built in into the camera.
This is no color grading and here is with color grading.
I went in individually and adjusted each one
to the way that I liked it.
This will allow you to have
so many more options when you're in post.
If you do love color grading,
then definitely do experiment with the picture profiles.
♪ As time goes by ♪
(footsteps echoing)
(door sliding)
Okay, the sun is still out.
I'm emerging from my quarantine cave of editing.
I was so blown away by PP10
because it's actually shooting at HLG-2020
so it was a different color profile
than all the previous ones which were REC 709.
So this is giving such a massive, dynamic range
that I thought originally,
"Oh no, the footage is all over-exposed."
But, no no no.
We have so much more range in these highlights
than any of the other previous clips.
I'm really excited to test out some of these color profiles.
As you guys saw, I did kind-of line up
each and every single one of those.
And each one I went and individually graded
until I thought it looked good.
I'm not the best at color grading.
What I do love about color grading is it is an art,
so not everyone has the same taste
when it comes to what looks good as far as coloring.
So to each their own, but this is cool.
I don't necessarily mess around with a lot of the
picture profile settings because when I'm shooting
on a little point-and-shoot camera like this
I normally just set everything to auto
so that I don't have to think about it
and my shot will just look good.
But with this, this gives us so many more options.
Uh, I'm so excited.
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These are Saramonic wireless microphones
and what's great about these is you can have the option
of getting two transmitters with one receiver.
So if my sister and I are outside filming and shooting,
we can only have this one little receiver
and both of us--
oh my gosh, that's so fast,
will have these transmitters on
so it'll be able to pick up both of our audio.
Let's go back outside and test this out.
Ready, Jen?
- [Jen] Yeah!
- Wow.
The focus, it's so amazing.
(objects clatter)
♪ Start it up ♪
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Hey, I'm posting a TicToc.
Do you know?
- I haven't posted in a couple months.
I've been really bad.
- Me too, because Animal Crossing
has basically taken over my life.
- Same.
- Right now, we're testing out
the Saramonic Blink Microphone System.
These are pretty cool.
- Kind-of is pretty cool.
Very convenient.
- So look, we're separating.
- Separating.
- So you can still hear us both equally.
- I'm not separating too far because the dog is an anchor.
- [Justine] What is he doing?
- [Jenna] Sittin'.
- Oh, I gotta put my mask on.
I'm not around any other people except Jenna, but mask up.
Let's go.
Making this video has really made me miss vlogging a lot.
- This camera is incredible.
- Honestly, it's just everything works.
What's your favorite feature?
- Well, obviously the screen
but also the multi-interface shoe.
- There's so many things.
I love the product showcase.
I love the defocus background.
- The batteries are the same as the RX-100 series
which is nice.
- Yeah.
- Same battery.
- We're also shooting this right now
on the Active Steady Shot so this one crops in a little more
but since I'm not actually holding the camera,
it doesn't make that much of a difference.
But if you are holding the camera,
I would say just use the Regular Steady Shot.
That way it won't be as cropped in on your face,
but it's so super steady.
How smooth is this?
Smooth.
Smooth!
Steady!
Stable!
- Is this a new feature?
- Yeah!
- Oh, pretty cool.
- Oh, smooth and steady.
- [Girls] Bored in the house and I'm in the house bored.
- No, we're not in the house.
Did you this also takes photos too?
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Oh, I guess you do need to take a ton now.
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- Oh, it's windy.
This is gonna be a nice test of this windshield.
Windshield, huh.
What do you know?
So we are working on our vlog for this camera.
Jenna's also filming hers.
So while we were riding bikes,
Jenna was testing out the stabilization modes on here
so I'm gonna steal a very small clip of that demo.
Thank you, Jenna.
- It was of you anyways, so I'm gonna be using it.
(laughing)
- It's really crazy, because you have
to wear a mask at the beach.
You can't actually be laying on the beach, but people
are still disobeying and laying on the beach anyway.
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This is a test of the skin smoothing feature.
It's also windy, so I'm gonna be very interested
to see how this works out.
So right now, the skin filter is off.
Completely off.
This is my natural self.
Now, let's fix it.
This is skin filter setting of low
and I took my mask off for this
because it's kind-of hard to test a skin smoothing feature
with a mask on.
This is the medium.
How does it look?
Do I look like I'm 12 years old now?
This is skin smoothing setting high.
I look like I just have been brought into the world.
I am so fresh faced and new.
It's like, "Hey, mom.
"I'm here."
Oh my God, wow.
Beauty gurus, take notice.
Mask up.
Let's continue the video.
There were a few things that I wish this camera had,
but I don't wanna be too greedy
because this checks off almost all of the boxes
for what I was looking for in a compact vlogging camera.
One of the things that I wish it did have
was an audio output so I'd be able to monitor the audio.
I also wish it would charge via USBC
and I also wish I could use a larger Sony hot shoe adapter
so that I could use XLR microphones on this.
I do understand why that doesn't work
because those XLR adapters are using the hot shoe
and it's powered by the camera.
If this did work with the XLR adapter,
I feel like that would kill the battery so quickly so it
definitely makes sense as why that doesn't work with this.
This camera is so perfect so if those are a few
of the minor complaints that I have,
I shouldn't even be complaining
because this camera is so incredible.
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Also while editing, I realized I didn't film
an end to this video so here it is:
the end to the video.
I am in love with this camera.
It is really, really amazing
and I can not wait to take it out,
test it out more on maybe an adventure,
maybe not an adventure,
maybe I'll just start using this camera
to shoot around the house for some of the tech videos
that I do.
My sister also made a video about this camera
and so did Farooq.
I will put their video links in the description
because I know for a fact that Farooq's video
is going to be incredible.
All of his camera reviews and phone review videos
are always just so far above and beyond
what almost anybody else ever tests out.
It's super impressive so I'll put both of their links
in the description box and with that
I'm going to go back into my editing cave
and finish editing this video.
Even though for you guys, it's over.
So I'll see you guys in the next video.
Bye!
(door squeaking)
Yeah, this isn't gonna work at all.
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