(fountain flowing)
Oh bloody hell! Burn my arse!
Anyway, I'm going to say let's...
Probably let's start with the bad things about the RX100VII,
which is maybe, it could be, the lens.
Because some people don't really like
the lens from the Mark VI.
They have the same 24-200mm f/2.8-4.5 lens,
but I mean if you don't like the lens from the Mark VI,
you won't...
It's the same on the Mark VII and you have to
either keep your Mark V or just get over it.
Now because RX100 is already like most people
already know what it is,
what it can do, what it can't do,
so I'm not going to spend time on image quality, low light,
that kind of things.
Let's focus on things that actually new on the Mark VII.
Let's go.
Now what's absolutely amazing on this camera,
on this new Mark VII is the new real-time tracking.
It's the same system,
same algorithm as the a6400 and the a9.
Last time I have test the a6400
in Japan on Japan bullet train,
I like it a lot and on that trip,
I actually use that camera for my travel photos.
I use the tracking,
I use AF-C all the time.
Even on steady subjects.
Because it's so good it's no need
to change from AF-S to AF-C back
and front all the time anymore.
Lemme show you why.
All right,
look at that setup.
(chuckling)
Too bad when I connect HDMI on it
I don't have the screen here.
I have to use the screen on...
On the Atomos.
So I am going to...
Shoot photos,
like this, a huge thing.
As you can see I'm already using AF-C already
and I'm shooting something still.
I have pressed.
It just...
Lock on to it.
Of course if you're a tourist
you want to take a photo of the tram.
With other camera you have to focus
on the ground first
and wait on that tram to go to that spot.
Now you don't have to anymore.
You just have press on the subject
and then just snap away
with 20 frames per second no back out burst (groaning).
On the old Marks VI,
it's good on picking up what to focus,
but it don't always track well.
(groovy music)
The new Mark VII though,
well no need to explain,
it's just sticks.
This is just amazing on a compact camera.
I can use it on almost every situation.
Especially it's just the same as using
a old single shot focus.
You just half press on the subject,
and re-frame.
But this time it works on both still or moving subjects.
Now the Mark VI is not bad.
It has 315 points of phrase detection AF points.
But this one, of course they have to add some more.
This one goes 357 points.
Phrase detection.
Over 400 points of contrast detection.
And they upgrade the world first,
world fastest .03 second AF speed on the Mark VI.
Now it has .02.
It probably doesn't really matter too much.
It probably doesn't mean too much.
What's amazing is the real-time tracking.
Okay let's try to get that pigeon.
No not for roasting.
Now it has a whatever call, single-burst mode.
I'm lock on on that pigeon.
I'm waiting for it to...
take off.
So this single burst is that when you press a button,
it takes seven shots in up to 90 frames per second.
Yes,
kid you not,
one single press of the shutter
instantly gives you seven shots.
Just 10 milliseconds between each shots.
But it could be quite hard to time your shutter press.
If you miss it,
you will get something like this...
But if you get the right moment,
such a high speed burst help with getting
the perfect shot.
Interesting, useful for somethings,
not useful for everyday,
but yeah,
useful for somethings.
What's more on the old Mark VI,
when you customise your function menu,
it's all text based,
whatever Upper 2,
Upper 5,
Lower 1...
In the new Mark VII,
not only it show the function menu
as how it will looks like,
also you can have different items for still
or video mode.
This is so much better
and I don't know why it takes Sony so long to do this,
but it's finally here.
Now RX100 series have been great for video
since Marks IV...
Since the Mark IV.
It can do 4K,
it has S-log,
and this Marks VI has been great for video as well.
it bring in HLG,
but now... this is even better because look at that.
Errr...
My a7SII is not focusing.
I bet this can do a better job.
Yeah. So...
RX100 even do a better job on focusing
because it got phase detection isn't it?
Anyway, back on the RX100VII.
Look.
I'm using it...
Oh, okay.
I'm using it with a Røde mic attached just at the side.
I have put it at the side.
I just clip it by itself
because it is so small.
Well you can mount it a little bit better
with a proper mount
or I would just use velcro.
Just stick it on the side.
But this is not my camera,
I mean...
Obviously I borrowed it,
so I can't put velcro on it.
You know I always wonder why there isn't a small
camera that is good at video with mic input.
Suddenly within this two months,
Canon and Sony released a compact
with mic jack and great for video.
And even Canon do 4K,
so its like wow.
Suddenly,
that's all of a sudden.
I mean,
good news though,
of course...
Now obviously this with a flip screen
with mic input it's really great for vlogging.
But one thing is so much better on this
is the steadyshot, in-body steadyshot,
now it has the active option to choose from.
Before, the old Mark VI,
only have standard steadyshot when you shoot 4K.
It means optical only and it was pretty shaky.
But now you can use active steady shot
when shooting 4k on the RX100VII.
It's not super steady but it's so much more useful.
Active steadyshot basically means
optical and digital stabilisation .
So it crop in a little bit.
And another great news is there's virtually
no 4k recording time limit.
The old one, you can only shoot for 5 minutes of 4k,
now if you switch the
auto power off temperature to high,
it will just keep on shooting until
its absolutely too hot.
Well, how hot is too hot?
Well I don't have a brand new battery
but I managed to shoot 4k for 47 minutes straight.
The camera shut off because the battery went flat.
There were no over heat warning.
You want to shoot Instagram story with this camera,
you can because now it shoots vertical video
and it will detect by itself.
It actually don't have a function to turn this
feature on and off.
So you have to be careful if you want to shoot
normal landscape video,
you might end up portrait.
Well you have to be careful of this though
because you can't turn this feature off.
I have a couple of clips accidentally shot in vertical
that I don't know.
And here when I do video editing I have
to rotate them back into landscape.
So RX100VI from yester year,
it was great.
It's just this is great but this is great but,
there's quite a lot of "but"s.
Especially shooting 4k
but it has a 5 minutes limit
but the steadyshot is not very good.
This year the Marks VII seems like
they have correct most of the problem.
They have been 4k,
virtually there is no limit, record limits
and the steadyshot have been improved.
It's not super steady yet
but it is so much more useful when shooting 4k.
And the mic input.
I mean its basically it just fits what I want
from a small, compact, second camera,
and I almost forgot the real-time tracking.
Its just great.
I mean shooting with it just feels like...
It feels like a full frame camera.
So this Mark VII is almost like the Mark VI
should have been...
And I'm now stuck with my Mark VI.
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