- Hey, everybody, it's Roberto.
I'm here on the Sony RX100 Mark V.
This is my new camera.
I wanted to show you guys how this handles 4K video.
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I know there are a lot of people who are concerned about the
4K video capabilities of this camera.
It's something I've been thinking about.
There is a lotta people who will talk about Sony cameras
doing 4K video but having a tendency to overheat.
My experience is that this camera did get rather warm
while filming in 4K.
I wouldn't say that it necessarily overheated,
but I also am staying within the recommended time limit
for filming 4K video, which is roughly five minutes.
You really can't do much more with it than five minutes
of 4K video at a time.
In fact, once you shoot about five minutes
of continuous 4K video,
you have to take a break before you can start filming again.
That's a little bit problematic
if you're somebody who's prioritizing 4K video.
This is not necessarily the perfect 4K video camera,
but at the same time, for what this camera does very well,
I don't necessarily think that that's a deal breaker.
4K video is a fantastic feature,
but this camera's primary uses in my opinion are
travel and vlogging.
As a camera that's geared toward travel and vlogging,
I don't necessarily think you'll be shooting in 4K
all the time or that you need to.
If you're doing travel,
then you can actually break up your shots
and so even if you wanted to do a 4K travel video,
and I know a lot of people who do that,
it isn't necessarily something that you won't be able to do.
However, what I think it does mean is that you have to use
the camera a bit more conservatively.
You have to decide what you want to shoot and when,
and you have to be very thoughtful about it
because you don't have the unlimited capacity
to just shoot whatever you want.
This could be more difficult if you wanted to do
4K time lapses, for example.
This will ride the line of that
just depending on how long you wanted to shoot
those gorgeous time lapses for.
I can see how that would be an issue for some people.
Overall, I would say that I'm satisfied with the 4K
image quality that this produces.
Again, it does have its limits.
It will also produce high quality 4K video
at 30 frames per second at 100 megabits,
but I think that
that is the most it can really do in terms of 4K.
You can't use all the other features that you might like to
with the 4K video,
and you also can't shoot at 60 frames per second
and for a lot of you, I know that that would be a bummer
considering that this is a $1,000 camera
and there are other cameras where
you might have those capabilities.
One of the things the camera does do very well
when it comes to 4K video is that it does
give you an indicator when the camera is overheating.
So you have the ability to go ahead and take a break,
stop recording, shut it down and let it cool off.
That's something that I think could be a very useful feature
so that you don't risk damaging the camera.
But again, I just wish that this would actually shoot
longer 4K video without these kind of restrictions.
For the money that you're spending on the RX100 series,
I think it's something that Sony could've figured out
at this point, and it's one of the things that
I'm a little disappointed with with the camera.
But overall, I can't complain too much.
4K video is still relatively new technology.
It's still developing and so far,
Sony's one of the companies that's been getting it right
more than wrong.
I think that maybe in the next edition of this camera,
they would've done a better job on the heating issues.
When shooting with their full frame cameras
such as the Sony a7R II,
I didn't experience the overheating issue
that a lotta people talk about,
but that's just me.
Some of my friends that shoot on other Sony cameras,
they've told me that they haven't had any overheating issues
so it might just come down to a little bit of luck.
But ultimately, I do know that a lot of people have said
that that could be problematic for them
when shooting in 4K,
but it's the only time I've actually experienced it.
Anyway, I'd love to know what you guys think about
the 4K footage here from the Sony RX100.
Do you think that the 4K quality is actually really good?
What do you guys think about the overheating issue?
Lemme know in the comments section.
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