- So I'm always on the search for the best camera
that fits inside of my pocket.
Kinda like this and with camera phones
getting better and better every single year,
I'm not sure how much longer this point and shoot category
is going to live cause honestly a lot of times I find myself
shooting with my phone if I'm looking for convenience,
or shooting with something much bigger,
like this if I want the substantially better image quality.
But as of right now we are
Whoa!
Did you guys see that catch?
Oh!
I'm just gonna just put that right there
for now while I talk.
Now I've used the Canon G7X Mark II for the longest time,
love that camera and I recently got the G7X Mark III.
My experience with that camera
(mumbles)
Me personally if I were to go and buy Canon point and shoot
right now I would actually go and go get the Mark II
not the Mark III.
I've been trying to check out what Sony has to offer,
and on paper this thing is a beast.
It does come in at almost twelve hundred bucks.
And I did pay full price for this with
the intention of using this as my primary pocket camera.
And overall after using it for the last few weeks,
it's an awesome camera.
It's very, very powerful.
There are a few spots where I think it can use
a little bit of improvement,
but we'll get into that a little bit later.
First of all, 4k at up to 30 frames per second
at 100 megabits per second, which is definitely great.
And it also does offer 24 frames per second,
which should be kinda like
uh oh obviously it does for a camera like this,
but uh you know now it's gotten to the point where
some cameras don't include it.
So I think 4k at 24 or 30 frames per second is what a
majority of us are going to be filming in
and it looks good.
The one thing I did notice is the image stabilization when
you're just kinda hand holding it like this isn't as great
as some of the other image stabilizations I've seen.
So you're definitely gonna want to be mindful
of holding it steady.
You can't just kinda go like
(laughs)
point it around "yo what's up!"
You definitely want to hold it as stable as you can
and then it'll look pretty good.
You can drop it down to full HD
and turn on intelligent active steadyshot,
which I feel like noticeably better
at keeping your shot stable.
So honestly me personally I would
probably leave this camera on full HD
because that stability is a little bit more important
than that 4k, atleast for me.
But if you got some super stable hands
or using it on a tripod
or throwing it on a gimbal then definitely utilize
that 4k cause it looks great.
Why don't I throw this on a little gimbal
and see what kinda footage we can get with that.
(upbeat music)
And I also love that you can also do super slow motion
all the way up to 960 frames per second
or 1000 frames per second in pal.
And this modes are gonna be in burst modes
so you can't just hit record and let it roll forever.
Its just short little bursts
and you can just slow that way down.
Every time you step up the resolution
you definitely notice a decrease in quality.
The 240 frames per second is probably
my limit of something that I might actually use.
At 480 frames per second,
it definitely gets a whole lot softer
and at 960 frames per second it looks pretty bad,
but still its super fun.
I love having slow mo.
I don't care if it looks terrible,
I'll use it cause is it's fun.
Let's talk about the color that come out of this by default
on the standard color profile.
I'm just not a fan,
some people love the way Sony cameras look.
I just do not really like the colors,
the highlight roll off,
but you do have access to a lot of the Sony picture profiles
like S log and HLG.
So I switched over this camera to the HLG-2
and I did actually make a lut pack
to color grade HLG for the A6400.
And those same luts work well on this camera
so that's what I've been using.
And yes I am plugging the hell out of my lut pack
so link in description.
(clearing throat)
And of course audio quality super important
and the sound quality out of these microphones
that are built into this camera
it's pretty similar to pretty much
all other point and shoot.
It sounds good if you're in a quiet place
without too much wind.
With too much wind it sounds a little bit like this.
What you think?
- Its incredible man
- It was beautiful
- This is one of the best places you can probably
have your first helicopter flight.
- Yeah
(mumbles)
- And when your kinda in a loud place
the microphone isn't very directional,
so even if you're trying to talk to the
camera it's going to pick up
all the sound from everybody else talking
so it'll sound more like this
(people talking indistictly in the background)
Now to fix the wind issue in the past
I did get these little furry stickers
that you can stick onto the microphone
and it helps kill some of that wind noise.
But this camera looks like it has two microphones
one here and one there
so I think I am going to have to get a little bit creative
about how I am going to cover those up
without blocking the view finder and the flash.
The flash itself I'll probably never use,
so I don't care if I cover that up.
But this viewfinder I probably won't even use that either
so I just want good sound quality out of this thing,
but if you want to go all out we do have
a mic jack right there,
so we could plug this in
and try to figure out a place to mount this microphone.
I love how the microphone is so much
bigger than the camera itself.
But here's a quick sample of how the audio sounds
from just the onboard camera
but if I plug in the microphone.
Here's what it sounds like
with the external microphone plugged in,
sound way better right.
You can probably hear all the breathing with the dogs.
(dogs heavily breathing)
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See I just realize I just lost everybody I think I was
walking too slow while vlogging.
Ahhh Kari, Sam?
I don't know which way to go
there's a whole lot of shopping carts that way
and then there's like a dark tunnel.
Well I was gonna tell you guys about the give away,
but Sam's got it.
It's the Canon T7 with a kit lens
so leave a comment down below
and we'll choose a winner
within 3 days of posting this video so good luck.
I couldn't find them so now we're back at the car
and hopefully they'll meet me here in a little bit.
It's definitely Kari that was like 'hey lets just keep
walking forget about Gene'
Sam's loyal like that he would've waited.
There you guys are!
I was asking them who do you think is idea was it to take
off without me,
I was like it was definitely Kari.
(laughing)
- Okay I will say like oh you did say should we go back,
at one point didn't you?
And then I was like
- I knew, did I not tell you guys, told you guys.
Girls ain't loyal.
Well here's the camera
I was trying to show you guys earlier,
this is the Canon T7.
So there you go.
Now when it comes to the lens on this thing
it opens up to an F/2.8 when it's zoomed all the way out
and when you zoom it all the way in it's a F/4.5
so not as fast as the F/1.8 to 2.8 that Canon offers.
Now F/2.8 to 4.5 isn't terrible
but I still kinda wish I had that F/1.8
to get better low light performance
but luckily this sensor is decent in low light.
There is gonna be some noise,
it doesn't look perfect
but you can always crank that ISO
and still make things visible
but this does zoom from a 24 millimeter equivalent
all the way to a 200 so that impressive.
Basically it's wide enough that you can film yourself
and even if you're sitting really far away from something
you can still get a decent shot of it
so that's awesome to have.
The autofocus while recording video on this thing
is really, really good.
From what I've seen it's fast,
it stays locked on
so definitely good job with the autofocus on this guy.
Now the biggest thing I'm gonna miss from the Canon G7X
is the built in ND filter
so on there you can just push a button
and then the ND filter pops in.
This RX100 does not have that unfortunately
and that can be a problem because the lens
closes down only to F/11.
So I just ordered something called a mag filter
which seems really cool.
Basically stick a little magnetic plate to
this part of your lens right here
and you can have a filter that you can just slap on here
so that is what I'm doing.
It is an extra step but it is something
that I feel like will help the footage a lot.
If you don't care about the shutter speed
then you can forget about that.
But overall a really solid and powerful camera
that you can grow with.
If you're looking for a camera that you just wanna
turn on and shoot
and just get decent footage right out of the gate
I would say either shoot with your phone
or the G7X Mark II is still one that I really recommend
and that's like 649 bucks I think right now
'cause Canon I love just how it looks
just right out of camera.
You just turn it on, hit record,
oh it looks nice.
This I would say if you're willing
to put in a little bit of that extra work you can
achieve a lot with it so I think this is going to be my
go to pocket camera for now.
I think the ability to shoot in 4k in HLG
and also that 200 millimeter lens,
I think those are the things that
sell this camera for me personally.
Anyways let's read some comments from my last video
which was about taking the 600 dollar Canon M50
and attaching a whole bunch of accessories
and cinema lenses and shooting with it
to see how the footage comes out.
Is it gonna be a noticeable difference
or is there too much limitations with the camera body?
Top comment was from Kinda Mike
"now edit the footage with Windows Movie Maker"
I wonder how that is now.
I remember back then when I was using it,
it was so, so bad.
I bet it's pretty decent now though, huh?
I hear people are editing on iPads now.
I'd be curious to see how that works.
"I'm so happy I bought the Canon M50 $62,000 to go"
"This is like the shot on iPhone ads.
'additional equipment or accessories used'"
(laughs)
That's pretty accurate there, I'd be curious to see
how they do some of those ads
'cause they come out looking really good.
"Is that Sports Illustrated model single?
Asking for a friend."
(phone ringing)
- Hello?
- I'm doing the comments reading section right now
and they're asking if you're single.
(laughs)
- Yes.
- I like how you're in the other room like,
you're like 20 feet away from me
but I'm still calling you anyways.
Would you like to come in here and say hi to everybody?
- Sure.
- All right Sam, I'm gonna give you 5 seconds
of screen time to find the love of your life.
Go!
- Hey there ladies.
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