- All right, so today
we're checking out a brand new cinema camera
called the MAVO Edge 6K.
It is made by a company called Kinefinity.
You may or may not have heard of them before,
but I have made one video about them,
and if you happen to be one of those that viewed that video
when that came out, that was over two years ago.
Isn't that crazy?
Over two years, that's a long time.
Now in that video, I was generally impressed
with the image quality, the performance,
the capabilities it had, but it still felt like
it still needed quite a bit of refinement.
So I wanna go into all the things that they changed,
what's been improved,
is there still problems with it?
They actually gave me this camera, literally.
They're just like, here you go.
And I was like, what?
You think you could bribe me
by giving me a camera?
As I was like, packing it up.
That sweater, do you have that in a large?
Give me.
But I'm allowed to say whatever I want
and I don't have to like promote their logo.
- It is pretty crazy,
but I feel like they must have a lot of confidence in it
to give it to you.
- This is going up on eBay tonight.
We're getting our bathroom remodeled fine,
I'm just kidding.
I'm also trying out this lens that was sent to me from
(mumbles), I don't know, but it's a heavy lens,
I should really be using a lens support for it,
but let's just say I'm stress testing the lens mount.
So let me go ahead and hit record real quick
and just kind of see what kind of footage I get.
So lemme go ahead and shoot back at the Sony here.
Now of course, being a YouTuber,
I need a camera that I can vlog with.
So this is what it would look like
if I just started vlogging on this camera,
like, hey, Kari, how you doing?
Are you having and walking the dogs?
- This seems very practical.
- Yeah, does it look really nice?
I think it actually looks pretty nice.
(lo-fi music begins)
Before we get into it,
let's try to figure out what this camera is
and who is it for?
Well, first of all, it has a full frame, 6K sensor.
There is a three by two open gate setting,
and it records anything between ProRes proxy,
all the way to ProRes 4444 XQ.
Now, one of my big complaints with the previous one
was I hated the EF mount on there,
but this one feels so good,
and it has that positive lock to really secure it in.
One of my favorite features is the built-in variable ND
and it is a electronic ND.
Now I love electronic ND's
because you can adjust these at 0.03 stop increments,
and most variable ND's use Polarizers, which is great,
it's convenient, it's easy
and doesn't require electronics,
but it can screw with your image a bit
if you're filming screens or certain parts of the sky.
So basically how it works is I activate it
and you'll see it slide in
and at the base it's at 0.6 ND,
so that's basically two stops,
but then I can slowly roll it up
and make it denser up to 2.4,
so that is a total of eight stops.
Now, if you wanna switch from the EF mount to a PL mount,
it is completely toolless.
So that makes it a lot easier.
There is also an LPL mount and also a E mount.
Now the EF mount does have those contacts
so you can adjust the aperture electronically
on a lot of EF lenses, but the E mount does not.
So it will only work
on the lenses that don't require electronics to power.
It's gonna be more for the manual lenses
or anamorphic lenses that are starting
to come out for E mount,
so that could be really cool.
De-squeeze settings are right here in the camera.
Now this is still beta firmware.
So there are still more upgrades to come
from what I'm testing right now, like uncompressed raw,
but in the ProRes setting,
you can also shoot at lower resolutions like 4K
and it'll scale the image in the camera,
so you're not dealing with any sort of crop
even at lower resolutions, at least in ProRes.
Now, if you wanna shoot with some Super 35 lenses
or you have some APS-C lenses,
then you can go into the Super 35 mode
and still maintain 4K.
I mean, you could even go Super 16 at 2K
or Micro Four Thirds at 3K.
So between all the different image formats
and different mounts,
you've got a huge list of lenses that you can throw on here.
This is a V Mount plate,
but you can also power the entire camera with one of these.
I think it's really cool
that they give us so much flexibility,
I mean, there's dual card slots here
and this is their KinaMAG.
It's a one terabyte right there
but you can also get something like this.
You can literally open this up
and stick your own two terabyte SSD in here.
You also don't need a card reader
'cause you can just pull this out.
And there's a USB-C port right there
which just connects to your computer, loads up as a drive.
Now the last Kinefinity I tested out
was probably the worst user interface I've ever seen,
but this is so much better.
So this is your quick specs right here.
So at a glance you can see what's going on.
The touch screen just makes sense now, which is great.
There is your white balance and base ISO is at 800
and the high ISO ,'cause it's dual native, is 5120.
I like seeing this PTAP right here
to power like a wireless video feed
or follow focus and two SDI ports.
Very important to have two
because these can get blown out sometimes.
And if you're gonna take away one thing from this video
it should be to always use shielded SDI cables.
Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about
and you will thank me later.
Now this five inch display is full HD and has 2000 nits
which is very important,
if you're trying to see it in the bright daylight
and you can see the monitor is plugged
into this port right here,
and there's an identical one down here,
which the view finder is currently connected to.
They also just recently came out with a seven inch version
of this display and I'm honestly kind of tempted to get it,
it could be a pretty sweet setup.
All that sounds awesome, right?
But before I can officially give
my thumbs up or thumbs down on this camera,
I really have to see the final version of the firmware.
And until I get to test that version of the firmware,
I really don't know how solid this camera is,
because if it's still gonna be glitching
after the final firmware,
like I'm not interested using this
in a professional setting,
but they really clean this thing up,
it can really change a lot of things.
So make sure you check down there in the comments
especially if you're watching this
further up ahead in the future.
Well, anyways let's go ahead and cut to some footage
from Christmas.
- Here it is.
- Feels nicer.
- Yes, and now we've integrated the Kenny back
into the camera body itself.
So you'll notice the XLR ports are on it.
- Oh, this is interesting.
I don't know where this is going, but I'm interested.
- It's a camera base plate
- For hot swap.
Is that right? -Right.
- It's for hot swap.
There's gonna be a little green light indicator on the side.
- Oh, okay.
- And so if it's green, then you're good to hot swap.
- Oh, so you guys made your own.
- Yes.
- Do these charge faster than the 7 ones by chance?
- They do actually.
- So you're telling me you were able to fit ND filters
in that tiny little slot right there?
- Under here, it is a variable ND system.
- Is it electronic? - - Yes
Oh yes, I think that my favorite thing
about the previous camera
was that it had the mount with the ND.
- Inside the Mount, Yeah.
So now we don't do that anymore.
We have it built into the camera.
So you don't need to put ND in the mount anymore.
- I see many improvements from the menu.
- It's a lot more streamlined.
You can also use the touch screen.
Other little nifty exposure trick that we wanna show you,
if you shoot an ISO mode all the time
you probably shoot an AI mode as well
which you can toggle between AI mode and ISO mode,
but if you're in ISO mode,
we have a thing that's super handy.
My window is pretty blown out.
We are at our base native ISO of 800,
and if you notice this number right there, it says 4.3.
That's referring to how many stops are in your highlights.
You can actually prioritize more highlight stops.
So you can kind of shift your dynamic range a little bit
and watch what that did, you have more detail
in your highlight
- But it still maintains
the ISO 800. - Yes.
My brain's hurting on how you guys do that.
So do you offset the ISO and then gain it?
- Like we all try really hard to understand
like what it's really working behind what we are seeing.
- It's a tight secret.
They won't
- If you're gonna get more highlights
then you gotta pull from the shadows right?
- Shadow detail is going to get a little muddier,
if you go up to a higher point,
but at six pilot stops, you should be fine.
- What's default?
- ISO 800 is Six.
- And then total dynamic range -14.
14.
These are channel one and channel two.
It also records a channel three and four
which can be assigned to the stereo 3.5 mm input.
But there's also an internal microphone
that you can use for reference.
So this can also be assigned as channel three and four.
Then when you download the files,
the ProRes files will have four audio channels tied to it,
but there's also four separate wave channels that are mono.
So right now I'm viewing a LUT,
but I can always switch it over to view LOG,
but this only records in LOG
which some people might be like,
oh man I wanted to have a lock* baked in,
but really I think it's actually a good thing.
'cause last thing I want do is accidentally shoot
with a lock* baked in.
What do you think about this camera, Dylan?
- Seems pretty epic.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Are you just saying that 'cause it looks big?
- Well, yeah
Like three people have come up to us
and been like, wow, you must be doing some serious,
nah, I'm just filming on the YouTube videos.
Yeah, battery life on these aren't that great,
but ,you know, V-Mounts will last you a whole lot longer.
I do love that I can hot swap.
I'm getting kind of spoiled with that.
Dylan. What's a hot box?
- Hot swap you mean? - Yeah.
Hot box is a different topic.
- You'll notice that there's number one and number two
on the view finder as well as monitor.
So the way I remember is one is for exposure,
So you want to do that first, so one
and then you hit your focus with number two.
So if you short press one
you're gonna get that histogram to pop up.
And if you long press it, you actually get false color
which is my personal favorite way to expose.
But you just kind of have to get used to it.
So whatever you want.
And actually if you press this button up here,
you get wave forms right here on the bottom right.
So you got the three main tools for exposure.
So definitely a requirement to call something
a cinema camera.
After you got your exposure in,
number two is for focus.
So it does that zoom in.
And as of right now, I only scroll left and right,
but that's because again, it's early firmware
but we're supposed to be able to slide up and down too.
You long press it and then the options for peeking
come on and off.
Like I wanna see what it would look like
if I just made this into like an ultra lightweight setup.
This is like contact Zeiss lens
Like if I don't want this view finder here,
hey Dylan can you hold this for a second?
Let's see how Dylan's camera operation skills are.
I could take the monitor off of here.
It's pretty modular, so I can throw it over there
and swing it this way,
which is nice.
I'll make this set up tiny.
Let's do it.
This is one of my earliest lens purchases.
I have this thing since I was a little Winky.
Does that make the wrong word huh?
- Yeah. I don't know what's Winky.
- I don't know, please cut that part out.
I get this base plate off.
I'm just using like the one that came with my sock.
But you see, you could attach tripple**
It also fits in a dovetail.
I like seeing things that I've never seen before.
That's what I really give credit to Kinefinity for
you know, putting in batteries into a bass plate
so you could hot swap,
that's not bad.
Just trying to shoot a movie
and you don't want to get kicked out of all your locations
because you're too poor for a permit,
cause you're not a major studio
and was like just pay for a $4,000 film permit, you idiot.
So you could film here,
like, I'm just this damn student.
We're about to lose the sun, let's go, okay.
All right Dyl, it's time for you to look cool now.
- Okay.
(lo-fi music playing)
- Is so cute, tiny new camera.
(lo-fi music playing)
We got our finalized technical spec in,
so let's take a look.
3.6 pound body, zero to 40 degree Celsius.
So that's pretty standard frame rate.
So at 6K, we're dealing with about 58.
If we're going by that 16:9 HD aspect ratio.
The more we trim off the top and bottom
we upped to 75 in 6K.
The more exciting stuff definitely comes in
when we go into that Super 35 mode.
So there's less of the sensor to read.
Yeah, 112 frames per second,
if we do that 4K in DCI mode, so slightly wider.
So it's not as simple as like a 4K 120, 1080p 240.
It's really depends on how much of the sensor
how much you need a process.
If you wanna get that intense slow mode
you're gonna go deeper into your crop.
So Micro Four Third, you could hit 195.
Top speed is 290 frames per second,
but at Super 16 2K HD and wide.
So very limited frame there.
And we got our codex, our looks,
oh one thing I forgot to mention is in the front
there is a lens port,
so if you wanna plug in your Follow Focus motor.
Now it is a six pin limo,
so it would be convenient
if you had this Movcam Follow Focus unit
which apparently uses a six pin five.
I tend to use the tilted nucleus.
I don't know if there's gonna be a way to convert that
with a cable or whatever,
but for now I will be powering it off the DTAP.
I also did some split screenshots
with this and A7S III
which actually looks surprisingly close
considering that this A7 IV is $2,500,
and the A7S III is $3,500.
I think a lot of people are just gonna go,
you know what gimme the A7S
but the difference is really in the type of sharpness,
the way I see it, there's a difference between
something being sharp and then there's something being sharp
because it's been sharpened.
The A7S a lot of times
does look really sharp and crisp, and I love it,
but I would say the MAVO Edge looks very natural.
It's really doing a good job of capturing
what's actually there opposed to processing it
in a way where it just looks like it's a little bit punchy.
If we scale in 500%,
you could really see the amount of details
in the cores which is definitely a sign of sharpening there.
Now, sharpening stuff really helps make things
look really crisp, but you can really start to see
some of the side effects of doing so.
Sometimes it can accentuate things
that are not actually there opposed to
something with a ton of horsepower,
which will only really collect the inform
that's in front of that lens.
Sharpness is great, but not usually on skin.
And they did give me a big heads up that,
hey, the firmware is still being worked on.
So expect quirks and I'm gonna list everything I see
down there in a pin comment down below
which is why I say check the comments
because as I get the updated firmware and all that
I'm gonna update that down there,
'cause YouTube doesn't let me
update these videos unfortunately.
So just go down there
check what the latest is
and yeah, that is all intact time.
Thank you so much for watching.
And I am just gonna sit here
and just be sad that it's raining
when we're supposed to be out flying drones.