Thinking about stepping up your video game and getting a
dedicated camera for all your video content.
The Sony ZV E10 might just be the answer, but it has
a few setbacks.
That and more in this review of the Sony ZV E10 .
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Sony has released an interchangeable lens camera for
content creators for video shooters.
This is a video-first camera.
However, it's very similar to the A6100, the A6100 and these
ZV E10 share the same sensor and a lot of the
same features.
However, they differ in that desire.
V10 doesn't have an electronic viewfinder or EVF.
However, it has a fully articulating screen.
It can capture Slog
2 and Slong 3.
It has the same three my capsule from the ZV-E1,
which allows you to be in front or behind the camera, and it
picked you up just as well.
And it has two new features that is product showcase and
soft skin mode that we're going to talk about in just
a second.
Music- Pros and cons, Pros and cons It's pros and cons time.
Pros and cons Time I'm going to look at my sheet here,
so don't miss anything.
So let's start off with our first thing that we like.
It's the product showcase and skin filter.
Now what this is is a skin filter is very similar to the
like blemish removal that you're going to use on
Instagram on Snapchat.
Very cool.
First in a camera.
Definitely helpful for those that are going to be doing this
in post-production, so you can just do it as you shoot.
Second is product showcase, and what this is is that it
will allow you if you are, you know, holding something in
front of your face to for it to focus on it.
We definitely were able to fool it and it didn't work all
the time, but it's definitely a nice feature to have.
If you are always showcasing or talking and showing something,
the next thing up is that it has a headphone and mic jack.
This is really great.
At this price point, it's absolutely necessary to be
able to monitor your audio as you record it.
That way, you are going to be fooled by just having your
meters move and it's the wind blowing.
We really like it's fully articulating screen.
This is great, definitely necessary
for doing vlogs.
And lastly, it's not new for Sony cameras, but it's
important for video in general is that it has no record
limit time now.
It's the things we didn't like about it.
What are the kinds of this camera?
Well, we didn't like its image stabilization.
It's it's not that great.
And really, you're dealing with the optical image stabilization
you have in your lens or steady shot, which if you have
just a normal mode, it doesn't drop any.
But we didn't see huge improvement with having it on.
However, when you have active steady shot on,
it works better.
But there's a significant crop.
This is a bigger crop than you're getting, even from the
smaller sensor very necessary if you're going to be doing
vlogs or anything like that that this crop could really
cause an issue.
The next thing that we don't really like is that there's
still no touch function in the menu, even though it's
a touch screen.
This is frustrating, especially if you're
shooting vlog, if you're looking at the camera and
you're not accessing the back of the camera.
This is going to make you flip the camera around and change
your shot if you just needed to change a menu function or
something like that.
Lastly, it's wind noise reduction is not great.
Sounds like a minute tin can, when you're using it,
definitely doesn't sound as good as when it's off.
Let's listen to some examples.
OK, so this is with the wind resistance off.
There's obviously no wind here in that in the building,
but just to hear the difference between it being on and off.
So this is off, we'll have on here in a second.
So this is with wind reduction on.
I don't know if the timber of my voice sounds
very different.
Maybe it does.
Maybe it doesn't.
I'm about a foot and a half or so away from my face.
The image quality from this camera is as good as you can
expect for its price.
It's pretty much the same as A6100, except for,
you know, of course, its camera design for VIDEO.
So there's those other creature comforts that we
might require.
Its bit rate is up to 100 megabits per second.
That's great.
It could be better, but this price point, it's probably not
going to get anything more than that.
It's eight bit also expected at this price point.
It is for two 000 internally and to externally.
We expect this camera to be a upgrade for someone shooting on
a phone for all their content creation.
The camera has a great tether, so you're able to send files if
you need to.
In fact, you can even send files when the camera's off can
also be a USB webcam and you just connected via its
USB-C port, which also you can charge off of.
So you can have a longer battery life if you so need to
say you're doing a longer record time.
So what's the performance you can expect from this camera?
We're going to talk about dynamic range, low light and
battery life starting off dynamic range testing with our
DSC Labs Zyla 21 chart, we saw 12 stops of dynamic range,
maybe 13, but there's not a lot of information in that
13 stops.
That's nothing to scoff at.
12 stops is pretty great for a camera at this price point.
Now we got that dynamic range shooting at Slog3
cine gamnutt 3 .
Although that'll get you the most dynamic range, your skin
tones will probably suffer because it's an eight.
That camera for low light, we would say, stick between ISO
800 and twelve thousand eight hundred.
That's a huge, huge range.
Their noise starts at 800, but is greatly usable all the
way up past, you know, 64 and all the way up to twelve
thousand eight hundred.
We use it at twelve thousand eight hundred without
much issue, but we wouldn't go beyond that.
If you want professional results and for its
battery life, you know, you can expect an hour, hour and 20,
maybe per battery life.
However, we did see overheating.
Now you can turn off auto power off temperature.
It was on standard and you could put it on high.
However, we although we don't know really for certain how
long term damage that creates doing that like always.
But we can't expect it's good for the camera to
always do that.
So we'd recommend you turn it on when you need to have
those long
shoot times, but have it off otherwise because you might not
always need it.
So should you buy this camera or not?
Well, make sure you budget for it.
This is an interchangeable lens camera.
You need to make sure you have budget for lenses,
for batteries, for media.
And of course, there's all the other things you might forget.
So we have a list of nine essential tools that
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blow your money just on the camera body.
Getting down to the actual camera, though if you're
making your content on a phone, this is a
huge upgrade.
You're going to be able to be delivered with your
depth of field.
With your field of view, the image quality is going to
be better with the larger sensor like this.
It gives you all of those controls that you need really
to be deliberate about the way your shot looks and if you want
to upgrade the video quality in your content.
This is a really surefire way to do it.
So if you have a camcorder or maybe an hour x one hundred or
extend one of the mark, whatever number they're on
by now, you might be an upgrade to get just
the interchangeable camera.
This camera's definitely for content creators, so it's got
all those workflow benefits there.
But if you're not coming from a smartphone or a fixed lens
camera in general, it might not be an upgrade for you.
So make sure that the features it offers are beneficial to
what you're trying to do.
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