- All right.
Thank you for joining us on today's little adventure.
We are vlogging on the brand new Sony.
Why are you walking so slow, Dylan?
- I'm going ahead of you.
What are you talking about?
- Like, you're just like I, in the way,
I'm just trying to walk and you're walking all slow,
But anyways, A7IV, well,
actually Sony explicitly told me,
"Can you stop calling it A7IV? It's the Alpha 7IV."
So I'm going to try to get better about saying that,
but I'm so used to just saying A7SIII.
We'll see how this goes.
So let me start off with my favorite feature,
which is that we have 10 bit codec with S-LOG3 in here.
So yeah, tons of dynamic range.
So if I pop out in the sun and if hide back in the shadow,
there should be information to maintain those bright blue
skies, as well as me here in the shadows.
So love that.
We get that in the A7SIII,
but now we get it in a slightly less expensive camera.
I actually have no idea how much this camera is going to
cost, but if I find out before this video gets uploaded,
this is the price point .
Reasonable?
Hopefully.
And it also does have my basic necessities for vlogging.
It's got that flip screen. It's got great
auto focus and Sony's auto focus has been getting really,
really good as well as some cool features that we'll look
over in a few, but IBIS.
5.5 stops of stabilization.
So that is fantastic. And this is West Hollywood,
by the way, this is the area that Dylan lives in.
Are you going to give us a tour of the place?
- Yeah.
Okay. So there's a Rocky and Bullwinkle right there.
- Oh, there actually is that,
I thought you were just like saying something random.
- Kind of weird. I just noticed it too.
Like I've even been running here all the time and I just
never saw it.
(upbeat music)
- Dylan, have you noticed your neighborhood's super fancy?
Everyone drives really nice cars out here. Oh,
look another one. That's no big deal.
- It's hard out here, man.
It's too shiny cars. Just everybody's blinded all the time.
- Now inside of here,
we have a 33 megapixel full frame sensor.
And this 4k that you're looking at right now is down-scaled
from 7k.
Now let's go ahead and pull up some split-screen examples.
And I was told that since we're down scaling from 7k,
we might have a slight advantage in terms of sharpness.
And I think I see a little bit,
but definitely not enough for me to go crazy over,
but that 33 megapixel sensor it's really going to come into
play in the still photography mode. Now, for me,
I'm not much of a still photographer.
I'm almost always shooting video.
And sometimes I'll take a few photos for Instagram or
whatever.
But if you're truly a hybrid shooter where you're going to
be doing a whole lot of photography,
you're going to have a ton more flexibility.
Being able to scale into your shots and still have a lot of
detail in there. Now,
as much as I love how good this 4k looks,
being that is down-scaled from 7K,
it does add more processing to the camera.
So I did the oven test and I noticed it does overheat,
at least in this version.
Now this is a beta firmware camera.
So things could change later down the line,
but even in the high temperature shut-off mode,
it did still shut off on me.
So I wouldn't fully rely on this for really extreme
temperatures,
especially if you need long takes like an interview.
But the good news is if it's room temperature around 75
degrees, you can keep this thing rolling.
No problem.
I definitely want to see how this camera does in low light,
but in the meantime,
why don't I use this to shoot a sponsorship segment. Dylan,
quickly. I need your voice.
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And also how does this 4k look on this A7IV,
Alpha 7IV.
Are you able to do a nice closeup on my face? Hm huh.
Hm. Okay.
Back to the video. All right.
Now time to test out some low light.
Right now we're reporting at 3,200 ISO.
And I noticed that it's actually really clean at 3,200 ISO.
I'm pretty sure it's like a dual native ISO that they
don't officially claim, but here, check it out.
If I drop it down to 2,500,
see that it gets a little bit noisier,
especially down here in the shadows.
And I pop it back up to 3,200.
It might be a little bit difficult to see here,
but here's a few more examples at
2,500 and 3,200.
So 2,500 ,
3,200..
25 and you could see all the grain
and the sky and all that.
And it cleans up right at 3,200 that's 12,800 is as high as
I personally ever find myself needing to go.
But how does it look in the 12,800 ...
(faint talking)
Well, we've gotten kicked out from another location.
Wait for me.
By the way, all the footage so far has been in S-LOG3.
So everything looks really flat and then I would color grade
it. But if you don't want to color grade,
we do also get S-Cinetone.
Now we get less dynamic range in S-Cinetone.
So I typically avoid it,
but let me switch it over and see how it looks .
Tadaa ... How you doing?
- Sup.
(upbeat music)
- All right Dylan do you think
we should do the Upside Down House or
Museum of Illusion?
- Museum of illusion.
(upbeat music)
- That was very epic Dylan.
- I took one drama class.
- Now, if you like pulling focus manually,
you're going to love this focus map. So if I turn that on,
we can actually see what's in focus. And in this example,
Dylan is in focus and everything else is blue.
So now let me go ahead and pull the focus towards the
background. And we get that building back there in focus.
And now Dylan is closer to us than the focus point.
So now he is red.
So not only does this tell you what is in focus,
but also tells you the direction you need a rack.
As I slowly start bringing that in,
you'll notice that he starts turning into more of an orange,
yellow,
and now he is in focus and we're at F 2.8 right now.
So I'm going to go ahead and pop off these ND filters,
close down all the way to F 22.
You can see that generally a lot more can be in focus at
the same time.
So not only is this really helpful to get focus but also,
if you're trying to get multiple subjects in the frame in
focus,
this will give you a better idea and how you need to adjust
your aperture.
Now do keep in mind that this only works with compatible
lenses.
But this is something that I would love to see in every
future Sony camera.
Love it.
Now let's take a quick look at the body.
We have our mic jack up here, which is nicely placed.
So we can flip that screen still.
Now rest of the ports feel pretty familiar.
You have your full size HDMI,
a headphone jack for monitoring and a USB-C port,
which you can use to charge the camera or for data transfer.
You could also plug it into your computer directly and use
it as a really fancy webcam.
That's how you show people that you're the real deal
these days. Everyone shows up to their,
Zoom calls with their crappy webcam...
terrible lighting...
You show up full frame, F1 to depth of field.
But what is cool is while you're live streaming,
or doing a video chat,
you can still record with certain formats onto the camera.
That's going to be really cool.
If you're trying to do a long distance video and you want to
chat with somebody,
but then still record it so you can edit it together.
And one thing I did always think was kind of weird was with
the full-size HDMI, if you plug in an external monitor,
it'll actually shut off the display
on the back of your camera by default,
but there is a way to keep them both on you just have to
dive into the menu and turn off this one setting.
It's not an easy thing to find. You have to go into,
I think, external output and HDMI info display.
There it is. You have to turn that off.
And then once you do that,
you can still have the display on on the camera,
as well as feeding out to an external monitor,
which I'm doing right now with the A7SIII.
And we've got a monitor feed here.
And the screen on the back of this camera is also still on.
Now, if we flip it around, we have two card slots.
The bottom one is just an SD card.
The top one is an SD or a C fast express, type A card.
So whatever kind you prefer.
Let's go ahead and take a close-up look at this knob up
here, which actually likes that we have manual shutter,
power, the aperture,
and then your presets and all that good stuff.
But what I like is that it's two layers. So actually,
if you want to go into video mode or S&Q or photo mode,
it's that same dial. Now,
one of the features that I thought was super cool is
breathing comp. And now I want this in every camera.
Now focus breathing basically is when you shift focus and
you almost get a little bit of the zoom. Now,
some high end cinema lenses will compensate for that in the
lens,
but here we can do it digitally
by turning on breathing comp.
But basically it just does a digital scale in and out every
time there's a focus shift and it compensates for that.
So now every time there's a focus shift,
instead of it feeling like....
it's like a nice, smooth focus shift.
Another thing that's only compatible with certain lenses,
but I love this.
Alright let's go ahead and dissect some footage starting from
low light.
I thought the A7SIII was going to completely blow it out of the
water, but check this out.
Now let's go ahead and start off at ISO 2,500.
So both of these sensors are on that lower base.
And if I boost up the exposure,
it actually looks cleaner on the A7IV,
sorry Alpha 7IV,
I'm like, I'm never going to get this right.
Now let's jump into ISO 3,200 where the Alpha7IV jumps
up into that higher sensitivity. Now,
if we go ahead and add some exposure, the Alpha7IV,
it looks way cleaner as expected.
Now ISO 10,000 is the worst ISO for the A7SIII
because it's just one click away
from getting that higher base ISO.
So tons of noise in the A7SIII.
And finally we get to hit 12,800,
which gives the advantage back to the A7SIII.
But honestly under normal use that Alpha7IV,
still looks really good and totally usable.
Now I still wouldn't give up my A7SIII,
because I'm still a sucker for slow motion,
but that gave me 4k 120 .Here,
we're getting 4k 60,
but that 4k 60 comes with a Super35 crop.
So all those shots from the Monday.com was shot at 4k 60.
And it was all in Super35 mode, which is a bit unfortunate.
Now at least
we can still get 120 frames per second in full frame
in 1080 P.
(upbeat music)
- You never tell me when you're going to film.
- So what?
- I haven't waved my messy button and stuff.
- I love your bun. It's so much fun.
This camera's getting released in what like 10 hours or
something. So I got to wrap it up.
- Just no close-ups.
- But overall,
super impressed with this A7IV.
Now I think if your focus is professional video,
then you know the A7SIII and the FX3 both have their
upsides. You know,
you don't have to worry about it ever really overheating.
Ann also you have the faster frame rates.
120 frames per second in 4k and also 240 frames per second
in HDR. Are we turning around?
Okay, guess we're going back this way now.
- And there's security over there.
- I already got kicked out of like three
places for this video so..
- That's why I'm looking out for you.
I saw the Popo and I was like..
Nope.
- Now thinking about it,
If something happened to my A7SIII
and I had to get another camera,
I'd probably actually get this. I mean,
even though I do love that A7SIII,
that $3,500 price tag definitely
hurts, but now $2,500, that's still painful, but you know,
it's not like a broken bone or anything.
It's like a twisted ankle. You'll recover from it.
You know what I mean?
Exactly.
You can just take that extra thousand dollars and put it
into glass, you know.
- Or our kitchen.
Yes, we do definitely need a kitchen.
Also. We're going to do a giveaway,
not because I have too much stuff that I kind of need to
offload and get rid of because I have no place to store
stuff. I have so many drones and stuff,
so details down there in the description.
And I think that's about it. Is there anything else?
- Yes. Taco bell, please bring back the Mexican pizza.
- Oh my God.
Yes ,I can't believe they got rid of it!
The Mexican pizza was the best part of the Taco Bell.
But it just makes no sense. Like what,
why did they need to make room on the menu for the, what?
The crunch wrap supreme?