I have a seven C for about a year now, and let's give you all of my thoughts on it today when it comes to the
good, the bad and the ugly.
But I want to shuffle these into the bad, the good and the ugly.
So it's a bit of a sandwich.
The good stuff is in the middle, the bad for us on both sides.
Let's get into it.
Starting off with the bad.
The first thing that drew me to this camera was the compact size.
But the first thing that annoyed me about this camera in real world use whilst the compact size and holding
this camera without this small rig cage meant that I had 1 to 2 fingers poking out of the
bottom, which was never comfortable.
I didn't feel like something I could use for long within, like an hour or so at the time.
Peter, the small rib cage and it is essentially never left the camera since I bought it.
I take it off occasionally, just to sort of remember how small the camera is.
For the most part, this stays on here with a peak design anchor, probably one of
the most hated on parts of this camera is the E V f.
And people are not lying like the E v f Israel lacklustre even when you compare
it to something like the A 63 100 it's the same sort of DVF screen you get in there.
But at least on the 300 it comes with an eye cup, which led to the shields you for more of the external
light.
But with this, you really ask your eye all the way up to it to make it usable.
That can also be said kind of for the screen.
Now I do love the screen.
I'll get into this layer because the flip screen factor.
But this is the same a 73 style screen which, whenever I use that in the A
73, I really didn't enjoy it.
But it was something that just took some getting used to for me personally, and that's all leads me on to
the next bad part about this camera.
It uses the old Sony menu system.
Once I actually owned it, I dislike to even more, and it was just
convoluted, lack of like touch between menu features was just frustrating
again, given like a few days of actually using it full time.
I soon knew where everything that I regularly needed was, And you can also have the option of
creating my menu to make things a little bit easier.
I think this wouldn't have actually been that annoying if he had come out around the time of the A 73.
But because it landed pretty much in tandem with the A
seven s three, the A seven s three had this new improved menu system that was
fantastic.
The A seven s three also had this new autofocus adjustment
settings, which this shares.
So it was a little bit strange to see them saying, Okay, the A seven c is going to have the new
autofocus, but it's not going to get that new menu on that note.
Let's get into the good before we get into the good side of things, I'd like to remind you to go like this video.
So other Sony Scheuer's can find out a little bit more about the A seven C and if it's worth it
after a year into the good, one more thing on the compact size the A seven
C.
It's awesome that they're able to cram in a full frame sensor into this camera.
And with that, some embody stabilisation.
The body itself is smaller than my road video, my pro, and for that I do genuinely love
it.
It's very easy to decide to bring this camera long into the image of this camera and
what it can do.
10 80 p.
It can do up to 100 frame second or 120 frame.
Second, if you're in the US and then in four K, it will do up to 30
frames a second.
I am typically shooting four K 25 p nonstop on this
camera.
Occasionally I will go into 10 e 50 10 e
100 for a little bit of slow mo and then post that in with my four
K.
But for the majority of the time, I am shooting four K on this camera.
This camera also has the ability to crop in by 1.6 times into an a PSC
mode, which means that out of, say, my 40 millimetre lens, I can crop in and
get closer to something like 60 which is just a very, very nice ability to
have, because you can also use that on any lens when it comes to actually using the flip
screen and then putting in a microphone.
Sony were very, very smart and the microphone door just to be right here,
which means that when you're popping your microphone that has an L shaped jack, it does not get in the way of the
screen.
If you are filming yourself like I am right now, it's honestly super smart, super
handy and has just made this time right, an absolute dream, especially when it comes to shooting YouTube
videos.
In my experience, this runs on average for about two hours of 44 K non stop
recording on one battery, about one hour is just under 50%.
So I would say safely two hours nonstop on one battery,
which is insane, and I've used that a lot of time in interviews and also the
fact that this doesn't have a 30 minute recording them, it just makes it such an easy choice.
When you go to shoe pretty much anything.
One last thing before we get into the ugly side of the a seven c.
This camera does have the ability to record its gyro data and to use that
in Catalyst.
Browse.
I have been a video on this before, and I'm not gonna lie.
I thought I was going to use Catalyst.
Browse a lot more than I actually have.
Occasionally, if I've been shooting a little bit of handheld and I thought in my head
Oh, I could actually catch this.
Browse this later.
I'll be short.
I think about that while I'm shooting.
But you know, it's very rare.
That actually happens.
And usually if I'm shooting handheld, it's just gonna look handheld.
Then, if I want to shoot something with perfect stabilization, I just put it on my gimbal.
And with that, let's get into the ugly side of things When it comes to the A 70 while we get into the ugly
part of the A seven C, you'll have to forgive me if you're going a little bit off pieced in this segment, even though the
quality of this camera matches the A 73 and it looks the
part mostly is the only camera that I brought along on corporate video shoots and
agency shoots where the client will see the camera, and Joe, is that it?
And it leads to them thinking that you're somehow under delivering on quality because of the actual size of this
camera.
Now all their worries are put to bed.
When they see the finished products and they go, Oh, wow, that actually looks incredible.
They don't really mind, but it's one of those things where you have to really say to people, No,
trust me is a good camera.
It's just tiny people think, you know, it's the size of an iPhone Pro
Max or something, and for that reason it can't be very professional.
And now it's not a dedicated video camera in any way.
It's not an FX six on FX nine.
It's not a C 300.
When they see it, they're going to go.
Oh, that's like a photography camera.
And regardless of the fact that it's better than a lot of dedicated video cameras from just a few years ago,
people still can't see past.
You know the first impression of this camera being kind of dinky.
The A seven C is probably my favourite camera for YouTube because it's super small
flip screen, good mic input, good order, focus.
Better colour science.
Sort of easier to work with an image straight out of camera compared to 70 from a few years ago.
It's the go to for me and YouTube.
I'm never shooting a shot like this in higher 25 p, and I don't need to shoot a 20 minute
video of me in my room in 10 bit and a lot of people who are looking at
so many cameras and then they need 10 bit for shooting YouTube.
It's like you just don't you just don't.
I've invested in the A seven s, mark three, but not thought YouTube work as much.
This is probably the second YouTube video I've actually shot on it, but for the majority of the time, it's going to be used
on client gigs where I need more flexibility.
And having a higher quality of image just serves as a better return on investment for my
clients.
As good as the A seven C has been for me, I really hope that's only going to follow it up with an A
seven c mark to in some way that will then top it
whether that means getting 10 bit in some lower frame rates or if that means getting four K at
50 or 60 p.
I really am curious to see what they decide to do with this lineup, and I hope it
doesn't end with just on generation.
That's gonna be it for me today.
Guys.
I hope you've enjoyed this video.
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