okay so today what we're talking about is a physical comparison with some of
the basic features between the AX 700 by Sony on the right and the good old AX
100 on the left here which is a camera that I've been using for many years the
AX 700 of course looking at these profiles it's a little bigger bulkier
they're kind of built off of the same central core and if we're looking at
these top multi interface shoes notice on the left the AX100 had a really tight
entry there and here on the AX 700 yet more room to slide that microphone in
there and we use the external Sony add-on mics and they're pretty nice so
looking at the front we're looking at this zeiss lens which is an F 2.8 when
they're wide open both cameras have identical lenses and identical
capabilities as you zoom in you're going to lose some of that wide-open 2.8
because it's going to shut down to the threes and fours depending on how far
zoomed out you are but that is an excellent sized lens
you cannot interchange these lenses on either of these cameras now we're
looking at the right side of both again the AX100 on the left and the AX700 on
the right notice that remote control the remote control is identical for both of
them and another difference of course is on the AX 700 they have that nice big
rubber eyepiece so that you can look through the viewfinder without light
straing in and another thing you notice is on the handle here on the sony AX 700
on the right what's missing is that USB connection that used to stick in there
on the old AX100 again close above this remote it's the RMT 835 identical
unchanged I'm not super excited about it because it is a line of sight remote I
would prefer a radiofrequency remote the other thing is both of the view finders
tip up I think physically the core that these are built off of are pretty much
the same and now we'll go over some of the connections and functions of the
external buttons here on the back of this ax 700 on the right you see that
HDMI input that used to be on the left with the AX100 so that's an improvement
DC in at the bottom which is also where you charge it or where you run your AC
adapter from we have the record start and stop button here and you have this
new toggle here on the right and I'll go over what that's for in a few minutes
here we're looking at the battery connection
on the left on the right side here you have that multi connector that is now a
micro USB plug in and of course a microphone jack here so this
is the AX 700 I like that that USB comes off the side instead of through the
handle as it was with the x100 this is looking back at the x100 there's a
full-size USB connection that you used to use to connect to your computer
here's the handle on the AX 700 which I plan to remove so that we can install
this on the Ronin I don't use this handle and I don't hold the camera
that way when I'm shooting here's a remote interface Jack - so you just flip that
off and little receivers there here's the left-hand side of the Sony AX100 and
here's the side of the a AX700 they've added the menu button there on the left
otherwise the iris ISO and shutter speed are all the same than the 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack which is on the left side also the upfront portions here the zoom
the focus auto manual so if you have it on focus where this one is use the ring
on the front to focus manually you can move it up to the zoom manual or auto
and you can of course control the zoom with the ring as well and here again is
a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the AX 700 and if we look back to the AX100
it was right next to that HDMI micro connection which I will not miss I like
the full size HDMI type-A connection which now the AX 700 has and now we're
looking at the control panels open on the left side here and this again is
looking back to the ax 100 and the AX700 has more controls it also has more slots
for your SD cards here's back the AX100 you had one card one slot and if
something happened or you ran out of time you were simply stuck the a/b card
slots here for the SD cards on the ax 700 allow you to actually hot swap the
cards so while one card is writing you would see an indicator light on here you
can pull one card and put in another and not miss a beat I recommend really fast
class 10 cards or better 64 gig 300 megabytes
per second on the listening for this camera they offered a card with it that
card really is not suitable or fast enough for a full 4k now we're looking
at the fold-out screens of both cameras the ax 700 does have a much higher
resolution screen and it also does not function as a touch menu navigator the
way the old AX100 does and we're looking close here at the AX 100 notice
the banding that you see vertically because that's a screen resolution is a
little lower here and you're really going to notice a difference when we
switch over to the AX700 but you did all your setup functions here on the open
screen you touched it you went through the menu the menu is very basic and
simple and easily accessible and then you got out of it but there is an
advantage now to this new AX700 which you have a much higher resolution screen
notice there's no banding here and you don't have to touch it for everything
what you can do is control it with that little toggle on the back there and
what's the advantage to that well by going through your menu with this little
stick here pushing it is a select and of course moving up or down the menu
left/right through the menu is how you control it but you can actually close
that side panel which you could not do with the AX 100 and still navigate the
menu by looking through the eyepiece the electronic viewfinder in this camera is
also a really nice high resolution I was very impressed with it so the ability to
close it up and only be looking through the eyepiece to navigate the menu if
you're in a dark space somewhere you're not going to be distracting other people
and you don't need to touch the screen to navigate the DC-in again at the bottom
HDMI opening port here coming out the back makes it perfect for my Ronin the
old HDMI connection on the left side of the AX100 made it difficult to run a
screen off of the Ronin if you don't know what a ronin is that's a system
that stabilizes your camera so that you can run in gun with it will also
fold flat both the same against the side of the body so you can view from the
side while you're videoing something and of course the touch screen on the left
is an advantage here you have to actually control it with again that
little joystick on the back on the AX 700 so you're not going to be navigating
menus here by pushing you're also not going to start and stop
recording by touching the screen which you could do on the A X 100
physically this is what they look like this is a lot of power and a
lot of capability in a compact design so even with the AX 700 and all of its
amendments here it's a little bigger a little bulkier but it is still a super
tight super small camera and in my opinion an excellent camera even if you
want to do some commercial work with it I think these are fantastic ax 700
excellent camera get one if you have the money if you already have the AX100 I
don't know if I would jump ship to the AX 700 but there are some benefits too if
you look at the specs thanks for watching!