what's up guys i'm ben from authentech, and the sony RX0 mark ii was just
announced on monday march 25th no no I was not cool enough to get my hands on
one of those early review units like those other big fancy youtubers but I
have a lot of experience with my GoPro seven black and other cameras and I
thought it'd be really interesting to compare the main specs and features
between the two Sony and GoPro see how they stack up first up pricing of course
this one is important GoPro 7 normally at about $400 but
lately it's been on sales about 350 currently sitting at 377 Amazon Prime
all links will be down below the Sony on the other hand is at $700 almost double
the price of the GoPro to put that into perspective you could buy almost two of
these or one GoPro with a ton of extra accessories also keep in mind Sony is
seemingly very purposely not calling this camera an action camera it's more
geared towards vloggers and youtubers a camera yielding much more premium
professional looking photos and videos over a GoPro and for good reason which
we'll cover in a minute what will the new GoPro 8 look like well the 7 was
released end of September so we still have about six months or so maybe an
articulating screen or swappable lenses or higher-quality gp2 sensor I have my
wishlist items you guys let me know your thoughts down in the comments so
regarding those key specs GoPro is an ultra wide-angle right that's the
purpose of an action camera squeezing as much of landscape and action into camera
frame and also remember this wide-angle field of view is approximately 120
degrees horizontal making the shot feel very immersive the sony by comparison is
fixed focal length as well at about 24 millimetres or about 74 degrees wide
that's almost half the field of view of GoPro quite the difference I hear some
people saying it's just way too narrow when you're hand-holding and pointing it
back at yourself any vlogger would wish it was a bit wider now back to the
basics the new sony has a massively large
one inch stacked camera sensor and that's the same as what's in here the
rx100 series it's a big sensor and a small compact durable body very
impressive huge potential for cinematic video and
high quality photography the headlining feature is that flip up screen it tilts
up and down 180 degrees very sweet I read one guy's perspective which had
some merit in my book the GoPro has such a wide-angle lens that it's much easier
to just point it back at yourself and hopefully you'll get whatever you want
in camera frame you wouldn't need that flip up screen that necessarily however
that's not a hundred percent true because there's a big difference between
just squeezing my head somewhere in camera frame versus actually framing it
up exactly where you want or need it and sure GoPro has that wirelessly connect
to your phone for a remote viewing feature but I hate the hassle and never
use the app sometimes you just can't beat an articulating screen now if you
remember back in the old camcorder days this was basically the standard so of
course GoPro does not have that tilting screen yet however I think it's a major
mistake on the Sony that it's not touchscreen like the GoPro now sure
buttons are sometimes nicer have like for underwater control for example but
it should have still supported touchscreen as well in my opinion with
touch screen on our phones and on our smart fridges and basically everywhere I
feel like it was a pretty big missed feature and even though the menus look
pretty in-depth with nice customization and control it looks sort of difficult
to navigate on such a tiny screen I'm guessing that would have been better to
redesign that user interface now speaking of water yes the sony is super
rugged shockproof waterproof ultra compact and i think that's why it feels
natural to compare it to the gopro but the more i compare the differences grow
both cameras have image stabilization which is super important to have with
these small handheld shaky cameras unfortunately on this one I can't show
you guys a side-by-side comparison as I normally would but in my research so far
people are saying that the GoPro is still the winner the GoPro can record up
to 4k 60fps the Sony maxes out a 4k thirty and that's another bummer in my
opinion if our wimpy little phones can record 4k 60
I think the Sony should as well I understand with its larger sensor
overheating is a key issue but come on even GoPro can do that 4k 61 suite
feature that the Sony supports that GoPro does not is ultra slow motion up
to 1,000 frames per second now I really hope GoPro can include this in their
next-gen model both cameras can record time lapse and wirelessly transfer files
to your phone the Sony has audio input which is a huge feature for a recording
crisp clear better audio and I'm very happy it offers this great feature
I think GoPro can do the same but you need a purchase and extra microphone
adapter even the rx100 can't - audio input one last big difference is
autofocus now the GoPro is fixed focused to infinity so on the positive side you
don't have to worry if your subject is in or out of focus but instead you lose
that option for creative control of shallow depth of field the Sony of
course is on the opposite end it has much tighter depth of field more
cinematic and professional looking shots however I was pretty surprised when I
heard this and I hope I'm wrong or a firmware update can fix this but people
are saying the RX 0 does not support continuous autofocus while recording
which is sort of funny because if you go watch those other hands-on reviews from
other youtubers a ton of their footage is out of focus possibly because of this
exact reason it looks like you can still set manual focus or near or far focus
but does it seriously not have continuous autofocus while recording I
just don't get it there's going to be a lot of mad people
out there possibly when they go back to reviewing their footage and key sections
of their shots might be out of focus ok ok so I don't want to be dogging on Sony
for this one some of the footage and photos I've seen so far look crazy
impressive especially how compact and portable that little camera is if it's
right inside your pocket and I love that tilt up LCD screen but pricing is sort
of highest $700 ultimately I don't think it's a
GoPro action camera killer but well done to Sony for not even calling it one the
RX zero mark 2 is probably more in the arena of the rx100 series even this
camera doesn't have microphone input and this one is much more expensive however
this has the optical zoom and other differences so it's an interesting
comparison what do you guys think of the new sony RX 0 mark - and what do you
guys think we'll see and then next gen GoPro 8 consider subscribing and ring
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