- I got to use the new Sony A7SIII.
To give you a context of how I used this camera,
it wasn't an official like,
"Hey Chris, we're from Sony,
we want you to test out the camera."
I didn't get this like official email.
I literally like hijacked Matti Haapoja's shoot
and he got the chance to use it through his video.
So Matti got the chance to use that camera,
he actually used me wakesurfing as an example of showcasing
the slow motion and a couple other things
like high dynamic range, and while being on shoot with him,
I got to shoot video of him.
So that's my experience of using this camera
just so we're clear, it's limited but that camera is great.
I've owned the original Sony A7S, the A7II,
so I'm very excited about the A7III, A9,
Sony A7RIII, and the Sony A7III,
and I also own a ton of G Master Classes,
specifically 90 mil, 12 to 24, 100 to 400, 70 to 200,
50 mil, 24 mil, 35 millimeter, the Sony A7III,
I also own the 85 five millimeter
which I believe Lizzie has somewhere jammed in a bag.
I own the RX100 Mark V.
I own a lot of Sony equipment.
I bought all of this myself, none of this is sponsored,
I don't have any affiliation with Sony,
I buy their gear because they make very useful tools.
So that's my experience with shooting with Sony.
I'm gonna actually go home and do some errands,
and tell you a little bit about my experience,
and also, the office is jam packed today,
and they gave me 10 minutes to shoot this segment.
(laughs)
I forgot to mention something (laughs) like stormed out
like I'm done, I'm not done yet.
I do want to mention that my only experience
with this camera was with shooting,
so I didn't actually get to play with the footage,
see what was like and post.
So this is gonna be like the first initial impressions
of what it's like to shoot with this camera,
hold this camera, no footage.
If you guys do wanna go check out the footage that I shot,
you can click Matti's video here
or in the links below and see the dynamic range
and all the other things that I'm sure
he's gonna be talking about.
(upbeat music)
This is my Scottish Fold kitten Luna.
Now you know what's really funny about her?
She's very talkative, this is like a very normal trait
for Scottish Fold kittens.
She makes trill sounds.
I'm always trying to see if I can actually get
a trill sound recorded on camera.
Do you wanna tell everybody what's up?
Trill to them, do it, trill, please.
I promise I'll get to cameras in just a second.
Trill for me.
Okay, wait sometimes if I put her down she makes it.
Okay Sony A7SIII, let's talk about the camera body.
So when I first picked up this camera
when we were on the boat, first thing I noticed
is it felt really really good in your hands.
Now, if anybody's used like Sony products in the past,
the one thing that Sony never really nailed,
was like the ergonomics of a camera.
I remember the original Sony A7S felt like a toy,
the grip just felt weird.
Like I was like, "Do I have to be a child
"to hold this camera to use it?"
As somebody who uses this camera every single day
to make YouTube videos, commercial shoots,
I want something that feels like an extension of my hand,
my eye, that feels good while I'm working rather than like,
"Oh, this could slip out of my hand
"while I'm trying to get a shot."
So Sony actually nailed the marks
in terms of the ergonomics of this camera.
Now moving to one of the most crucial updates
to this camera, the record button is now right on top
just below like the shutter button,
so you can actually press the shutter button,
and if you wanna get a video clip,
you can press the video record button right behind it.
Now, we finally got it.
The flip out screen, it's really really good,
it's a touchscreen flip out screen which is really nice.
So for vloggers out there you got the full rotation
to be able to vlog with yourself,
key parts, especially for storytelling in 2020.
The other part is if you wanna get low angles,
you can flip it up.
And the other benefit and this is something
I used to experience all the time with my old Sony cameras
is that I used to have to put screen protectors
on the screen all the time because it always get damaged
in my camera bag, I like to put a lot of things in there
while I'm traveling, and sometimes I'd scratch the screen
which is like a super expensive repair.
Now with the new flip out screen, you can flip it in
and protect your screen when you're not using your camera.
A last little part that I'd like to note
which is more part of like the software elements side to it,
but it's very crucial is that actually
when you press the record button,
it puts a RED box on the outer part of the frame,
so like when you press record, literally imagine
the frame right now, there'd be like a RED box right here.
So you actually know you're recording
versus just the little spot in the corner
that would go from like green on standby
to like record, now you're actually recording.
And if you missed it, which I've done in the past,
I shot a wedding like a few years ago,
and I actually missed the shot
of the bride walking down the aisle with her dad,
and she was furious.
Now with this little like red box
on the outer part of R frame, there's like a lower chance
that we'll miss the shot or miss the record button,
things like this happen all the time,
but I think it's just another signifier,
so that hopefully we're doing our jobs properly.
Last little hardware part before we jump
into more like the menu system, Sony's actually introduced
like a new microphone or I think they introduced it
like a few months ago.
I don't know the exact model name, I'll put it right here.
But what it is is an electronic microphone
that connects through like the hot shoe mount at the top.
And why I love this is there's no longer cables
running to like the mic jack.
So I have a Sony A7R3,
I brought it to Switzerland earlier this year,
I was trying to get like on location audio,
and wouldn't you guess, I got a little bit of water on it,
and it damaged the microphone jack.
So my current camera that I shoot YouTube videos with,
does not have a working mic jack, so this camera,
the Sony A7SIII, and I think the Sony A7RIV,
correct me if I'm wrong in the comments,
now use this new microphone, there's no cables,
it's a smaller footprint than the actual rode microphones,
so this is like a great investment
if you're into vlogging
and wanting to capture on location sound.
This camera just feels like the perfect size
with like all the attachments even on it.
Luna.
(cat trilling)
she made the sound.
(laughs)
(upbeat music)
All right, let's talk about the focusing system,
that was the thing that I noticed first.
I currently shoot with a Sony A7RIII,
my experience between that camera and the new Sony A7SIII,
especially when it came to video
is like a much better focusing system.
So as I mentioned the screen that flips out
is actually touchscreen, and there's a touch focusing system
built into it, which is way more responsive
than I've seen in the past and other Sony systems.
So literally I had Matti, he was wakesurfing,
what I did was like,
"All right, well let's just track Matti."
So I tapped Matti on the screen,
a little box came around him,
and it tracked him while he was surfing.
So on the wave let's imagine this is the frame,
Matti is surfing here and the whole box
is actually tracking him as he goes along.
Then Matti fell off the way, so he started going back,
and the box just kept following him
until his little head popped down in the water.
This subject tracking is like way better, way more advanced.
That's a huge thing for me,
because I always found that focusing
can get so awkward sometimes,
especially when you're shooting video,
the fact that we can now just like tap the subject,
follow the subject, this is like game changing
especially if you're like a running gun situation
or for our instance like we're YouTubers,
and we're trying our best to do everything under the radar
and quickly, this is just like a better focusing system
for like the modern day videographer.
Okay, frame rates, this is another thing
that we've all been asking for, and Sony delivered on.
So we have 4K 120 frames a second, no crop,
and it looks gorgeous.
And one thing that we've been doing on this channel
in less than a while, has been shooting all our videos in 4K
because that's the modern workflow
that we're trying to adapt to.
So now having access to higher frame rates
like 60 frames per second, 120 frames per second,
and even 240 frames per second in full HD.
So I'm super stoked on these new frame rates,
but most importantly four two two color and 10 bit,
which means that when you get into post-production,
we have a lot more flexibility.
Now I mentioned at the beginning part of this video,
I haven't had the chance to play
with any of this footage yet.
So hopefully down the line when I actually get my hands
on this camera, I'll be able to see like how far
we can push this stuff in post-production.
But based on those specs and talking with other people
in the color grading space, this should be a huge step up
in terms of post-production when working with Sony systems.
A biggest beef that I've always had in the past
is like S-LOG2 and S-LOG3 have always been
in kinda like really annoying to color grade, and work with
and try to get like really nice, decent high dynamic range.
Bey, all right, so a big question
that I'm sure a lot of you guys are asking is like,
"Does this camera shoot RAW?"
Yes and no, it does not shoot internal RAW,
and I don't want you to dismiss this camera
because it doesn't shoot internal RAW.
Now what the camera does have,
is full sensor 16 bit RAW output, so you match this
with probably most likely an Atomos recorder,
confirmed we will be seeing 4K Pro res raw on the Ninja V,
to get the pro res RAW file so that you actually
can work with this in the RAW format in post-production.
Now a big thing that I was really excited about to hear
is that it has 15 stops of dynamic range
in S-LOG2 and S-LOG3, a little light caveat
that I want to mention while I was shooting with Matti,
I noticed like the highlights like look really, really good
especially with like the S-LOG assist,
the new monitoring, let at least that I saw on this camera,
looked really good, it looked more even,
and didn't look like a fake monitoring.
So that's like an added bonus is that,
the monitoring light and the assistant light
that you turn on, looks really really good
while you're shooting, and take a quick break
cause the highlights just popped in.
I do wanna mention like a small note,
so 15 stops of dynamic range
to make that like comparable
to what we know in the industry,
that's what like RED cameras shot
like two or three years ago.
We saw that RED image look,
it's because it had such high dynamic range.
Now with like S-LOG2 nad S-LOG3,
they're claiming that it's 15 stops of dynamic range.
Again, I have not seen it, but that's what they're stating,
and if the specs are true, 15 stops of dynamic range
should be like a comparable image
to like a professional level camera like a RED camera.
Okay, I'm gonna just like end off on like
a little bit of how I've been thinking
in the last little while, so obviously,
exciting times for cameras right now, Canon RV,
Sony S7III, and the other camera companies,
so Canon RV 8K rolls like, whoa, where did that come from?
Basically they delivered a camera
that like blew everybody out of the water.
And I was like, "Okay well is this,
am I gonna switch again?"
Because I used to shoot with like a 7D a couple years ago,
then I switched to Sony because I love Sony,
and the A7S was like the reason why I got sold on Sony,
and started investing in this like whole camera system.
And I'm like, do I have to switch back again?
Or do I have all these lenses?
I liked being this Sony guy.
So RV gets dropped, and then I finally found out
all the specs about the Sony AS7III, and I was,
to be honest at first, when we had like the conference call,
remember like texting, like Donna did, and I was like,
"I'm a little underwhelmed," then I actually got to use it.
So hear about all the stats and like,
"Oh, that sounds really good."
And for like most people, it's not the most like impressive,
like, "8K roll!"
When you actually look at the specs of this camera,
they finally delivered on all the things
that people were actually asking for.
"I really want like good focusing,
"I want really good codecs,"
four two two color was like a big part of it, 10 bit,
like these are the things that videographers want
to have a camera that is gonna meet all my video needs
and not fail on that, is like so crucial,
because you never wanna be in a situation
based on what I've heard about the overheating,
your camera just like not working, you're like trying
to get the shot and you can't use it
because it needs to cool down.
I'm not trying to like put flak on any camera companies,
I'm just saying that as a user,
as someone who's self-invested in all these camera companies
without being paid for any endorsement,
I just want tools that work, that allow me to create,
and for me, the Sony A7S especially
as someone who's invested in a lot this,
has met the mark, I loved using it,
Matti Thank you for letting me play with this camera,
I think I'm in love, again I wanna like buy it,
I think I'm gonna go buy it after this
because the announcement should have been yesterday
based on the release of this video.
I've loved the Sony system for a long time,
and I think they've hit the mark with this camera
from my first initial impression.
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Oh my God, she doesn't even like me.
Hey, bye.
Bye everybody, love you.
Her eyes keep changing colors.
It's crazy, some days Our eyes are like super blue,
right now they're like really green.
Does anybody know things about cats,
and like eye color, does it say anything
about like their mood or personality,
you know, like mood rings where you wear,
and it's red, and like, "I'm angry."
Her eyes don't get red, that often,
it's only when she's possessed.