- (mumbles) point and shoot cameras,
I honestly thought they were kind of dying out.
It just hasn't been that much exciting going on
in the point and shoot world.
And also phones are getting so freaking good,
but this is the Sony ZV-1.
And if this is as good as I think it is,
I'm never giving this back to Sony.
They let me borrow it so I can test it out.
But you know what?
I'll change my name, I'll get a passport.
You'll never see me again, mother (beep)
Should I keep going?
- [Sam] Yeah, now you're gone
they're never going to see you again (laughs).
- That joke better have been worth it.
I almost tripped running down that hill.
And so why am I so excited about this camera?
First, whoa yes, thank you.
We like flip out screen
so we can mount an external microphone on top
and the microphone doesn't cover this screen
and yes if we have a microphone,
we need a mic input.
So that is also in this camera.
Yes it does do 4k in 24 and 30 frames per second.
It has a one in sensor.
It has a lens that opens up to an F 1.8.
I mean, come on this is what I've been waiting for.
Did I also mention high frame rates,
240, 480, 960 frames per second.
These are all specs as of right now.
We have to run it through its tests.
I'm excited, Sam, are you excited?
- Am I?
You can't see, but I'm smiling.
(beep)
- Now enjoy the nice background while you can,
because we are getting the hell out of here.
There's so many bugs, let's go Sam.
Why the heck did we think this would be
a good idea to come out here?
- We keep pretending we're healthy and we're not.
- One of the things Sony was telling me about
is the new color science in this camera.
How's does that look,
that's something that they've been working on.
So first impressions the footage is looking pretty good.
I am holding it out at arm's length right now.
Now it's not as wide as my primary vlog camera right here,
which is a full frame 15 millimeter.
And you could see that there's a whole lot more room
in the vault camera.
Believe this is about a 24 millimeter equivalent.
So it's not as wide as I would love it to be,
but it's still totally acceptable.
Now let's talk about the other thing
that I immediately noticed.
Does my skin look extra nice and smooth right now?
Sam, are you wearing makeup?
- I'm kind of insecure about my face.
- By default it comes with this kind of
digital makeup filter attached.
It's like beauty mode.
I personally don't really like it.
It's really distracting.
It's called the soft skin effect
and you could have it low, medium or high.
And I'm just gonna completely just turn it off.
Now, the RX100 Mark VII
had a crazy zoom lens.
You could start really wide
and go all the way to a really tight closeup,
which was awesome.
Now this does not have that.
This is all the way wide and as we zoom in,
this is all the way tight.
So the zoom isn't anything significant here,
but I would honestly prefer this lens still
because it opens up to an F 1.8.
So we're losing the ability to get a really big zoom range.
But at the same time,
we have a nice fast lens,
which is gonna help us out when we get into low light.
There's definitely some nice touches to this thing.
For example, there's that little red light,
right next to the lens to let you know,
"Hey, we're recording."
And also when it's turned off,
all you gotta do is open the screen
and it automatically turns on.
So there's some simple little things going on here
that I'm really digging,
Alight, So one thing I've noticed
is that the auto focus on this camera
is spot on.
And there's a feature in this camera that
I didn't even know I wanted
but now that I see what it can do,
I want every single carrier to have it.
So if I'm talking to the camera and I'm like,
"Hey, look at this random thing I'm holding."
The auto focus is set to my face,
so if I try to show you something,
it's gonna be out of focus, right?
But I'm gonna turn on this mode called product showcasing.
Now, check this out.
It's still focused on me but as soon as I go
to show you something and look at my keys, wow, focus.
And I don't think this is a feature
that everybody necessarily wants,
but for people like me
that want it,
it is awesome.
And look at how good the auto focus is.
It's so quick, even if I bring it way up to here, wow.
And it's a simple feature,
but I love this quick look at this SD card.
Oh, I'm just here enjoying my coffee,
not sponsored by Starbucks and I'm always showing stuff.
So being able to be like,
"Hey, look at this drone."
It's awesome that I can just hold it
and it'll focus on it.
I usually have my cameras on face detect,
so if I want to show something,
I kind of have to use the product
to block my face before it focus on it.
But here I don't have to worry about it at all.
It just knows when I put something in front of me
and that is awesome.
And the auto focus is a beast too,
look at this boom,
sharp and sharp and sharp, look wow!
I'm really, really impressed.
Sony has been making huge leaps in auto focus, bam, focus.
And check out the macro on this too.
This is a little SD card and it's still focused.
That's not bad, time for an extreme close up.
It's simple and it's useful, Love it.
One of the things that has always amazed me
with these Sony point and shoot cameras
is the high frame rate capabilities.
You can get 120 frames per second, continuously in HD.
So that is always awesome to have,
but you also
can hop up to 240 frames per second,
480 frames per second
and 960 frames per second.
A 960 quality looks terrible,
but again, 960 frames per second.
We're talking about slowing things way down
to where you can see every single little detail.
So that is definitely super fun to have,
anything past 120 is going to be a burst mode.
So you can only buffer for a couple seconds.
First accessory I would get, is this microphone.
Second accessory I would get,
is this little guy right here.
Just having this little extra grip here
definitely helps stabilize your shot
because there's stabilization
inside of the camera, it's nice.
It's definitely a whole lot better than not having it,
but at the same time, it's not like an action camera
where you could go (screams) and it'd be all right.
(mumbles) look at this,
it's kind of a perfect little setup here,
I mean we've got our microphone up here,
our camera, our flip screen and a controller/grip.
So I could just hit that record button
and we're rolling and I can even zoom.
Oh, too close and the design of this grip
is actually pretty good.
It's just the button to rotate it
to the side or in front.
And there's a button on the side to adjust your angle.
And yes, it also opens up to be a little tiny tripod.
Hey Sam, would you get this setup?
- Oh yeah, I take it to Coachella every year
and every other music festival.
- Yeah, for film festivals and stuff like that
where you're not allowed to bring in
mirrorless cameras and all that--
- Music festivals.
- What did I say?
- Film festivals.
- Ah, film festivals.
But I think at a lot of places,
security guards are trained to look for cameras
where the lenses come off.
And then if they see that it retracts,
they're like, "Oh, okay, that's totally fine."
- I think this is perfect
with people that are just starting now
and for people that are camera shy,
because there's not a lot of attention going towards it.
- Definitely like a bigger vlog camera.
Everyone's like," Whoa, what's that dude doing?"
And then whenever Sam's following me around
with one of these bigger cameras
then everybody's like, "Aaah"
I kinda like the attention that it draws.
So this is kind of a good middle ground option.
It's not necessarily just for beginners.
Like I would totally use this.
I would probably use a bigger camera when I can,
but when it comes to stuff that can fit into your pocket,
this might be one of the highest end cameras
that you could possibly pack in there
that I would actually use.
The camera does have image stabilization.
You could choose between having it off
and then their standard and then there's active.
When you have it off,
it better be on a tripod or a gimbal
because it's going to shake a lot.
And then there's standard,
which is definitely going to improve a whole lot.
You're gonna see a night and day difference
in how jittery your footage is.
But I find that standard works best
if you're holding it pretty stable
and you're not moving around too much.
Once you start moving around and doing some walking,
that's when you probably want to bump it up to active,
active does crop into your frame a little bit.
But if you're moving around a whole lot,
then you'll definitely notice the difference.
I have shaky hands, so I'm gonna leave it on active.
- Or you can just stop drinking coffee.
- You can leave.
Keep in mind that even on active,
it's not like GoPro style stabilization
where you couldn't run around with it
and it's gonna come out looking super smooth.
The only way to get gimbal like shots on this camera
is to actually put it on a gimbal.
Like if you're shooting a lot of handheld stuff,
then definitely be mindful of holding it stable.
And as long as you're doing that,
the footage should come out pretty decent.
Another thing that's awesome is
built-in ND filters in the camera.
That's another reason why I would prefer
this camera over the more expensive RX100 Mark VII.
Lenses on both of the cameras
close down to an F 11.
So that means if it's really bright,
then you might not be able to get the settings you want.
So in really bright places ND filters are a must.
How about dark places?
We have so many (mumbles) in sensor in here,
same one out of the RX100 Mark VII,
which was pretty awesome in low light.
But now we have an F 1.8 aperture
when we're zoomed all the way out.
And it opens up to an F 2.8 when you zoom it in.
So when you combine that sensor and lens,
the low light, incredible.
Put it next to a phone,
I mean, it completely blows it out of the water.
There is no comparison.
This can get those shots.
So loving the lens and sensor combination.
And I don't know about you guys, but so far,
I'm really enjoying the images coming out of this camera.
All those shots so far have just been on no picture profile.
So if you pull it out of the box,
that's the type of image you could expect to get out of it.
I think Sony in general is just been making
some pretty big improvements across the board, right?
Like the picture profile
out of their new FX nine, it's solid.
If you still want to get kind of crazy with it,
there are still those picture profiles
that you typically see in a Sony camera.
Which is nice 'cause
if you're shooting on something like this,
you can kind of match the colors.
We typically shoot S-LOG three on this camera
and then grade it,
even though we can shoot S-LOG three on this camera too,
the Kodak isn't going to be as strong.
So I wouldn't really recommend it,
but there are definitely some nice
middle ground picture profiles in there,
like HLG two, at 4K 24 and 4K 30,
we are getting about a hundred megabits per second.
And by looking at a couple of these 4K shots,
you could definitely see that
there's quite a bit of detail in there
not enough information in the file to heavily grade,
but it's a good image.
One thing I did notice while filming
was that the overheating temperature gauge
did pop up a couple of times
and it wasn't that high.
So we'll have to see
if this is gonna be a consistent issue.
I'm gonna be vlogging all weekend with it.
So we'll circle back on that.
And another thing is
I wanna test out the different microphone options.
This is the road video micro up here,
but Sony does make a microphone
that just fits into the hot shoe.
And you don't have to actually go in and plug it in.
That would be cool because that gives us a nice microphone
and just streamlines the whole thing.
Another thing I thought was interesting.
Let's look at this little guy.
So the microphone is right up here,
but I can slide this and it covers up the microphone
for when there's wind.
That's pretty cool, and definitely useful,
if you're filming out in windy places.
You think we should name this guy?
- Mr. Fluffy Bottom.
- I think he's more of a Larry.
- What?
You don't give pets real names,
you give them cute names. - (laughs)
You named a squirrel Kevin,
how are you going to tell me not to name a thing,
now for my vlog channel
I think I'm gonna use this camera exclusively
for the next couple of days.
So start beating her up.
(beating sounds)
So now I'm just using the internal microphone,
that's built into the camera
and I have that little fuzzy attachment on there.
So hopefully that kills some of the wind.
You can probably hear the wind,
but hopefully it's bearable.
And if that's the case,
that means the little fuzzy thing up top is doing its job.
If I pull it off,
does it sound different? (wind blowing )
Does it sound less good? (Wind blowing)
Are you hearing the wind more? (wind blowing)
Alright, come on, this is some skill, right?
We're riding, getting our coffee and vlogging
all at same time.
Honestly, I've been using this as my primary vlog camera
for the last couple of days, and it's not bad.
The quality is there.
It's very convenient.
I think the main reason why I'm not switching to this
as my full time vlog camera
is the fact that I can't really get much wider than this.
Like right now, I'm kind of in a medium closeup.
It'd be nice to get into a full on medium shot,
like I can with my full frame.
But if they made a version just like this,
but had an ultra wide angle lens,
Oh man, I might be tempted.
I don't know.
But as a secondary compact camera,
this thing is awesome.
I'm all a hundred percent gonna be using it.
Now when I'm vlogging,
I don't really like to think about camera settings too much.
So I am in shutter priority mode,
so I can set my shutter speed.
I have it to 150th of a second right now.
If I go out into the sun,
everything else should adjust and keep me exposed.
There's gonna be a whole lot of moving around.
Then I might actually bump it up to a little bit higher,
maybe like 180th of a second for my shutter speed.
But yeah, it seems to adjust pretty well.
One downside about shooting in 4K though,
is that the monitor doesn't get as bright as it does
if you were shooting in full HD.
So I can still see the monitor.
I can see what I'm recording and what not,
but if I switch it into HD, I can make it into
sunny brightness mode, which makes it,
so I can clearly see the screen.
Right now, I can still see it,
but it's just not as clear as I wish it was.
Another thing that's unique is this button right here,
that is a defocus background.
It's basically a super quick way
of blurring out your background
and it works best when you're shooting on auto.
And not really a feature I would use that much
'cause I'm usually shooting in either manual
or shutter priority,
but there's definitely a lot of people
that's gonna appreciate that button right there.
They just wanna quickly go,
"Oh, I want it to look professional,
"blurry background, done."
And it's still powerful,
if you treat it like a proper camera
and put on a tripod or gimbals,
you're gonna get some pretty awesome stuff
with something as simple as this.
Now, one issue I did initially have was overheating.
I was seeing all kinds of overheating icons pop up
and the camera cuts after five minutes automatically
when you're recording in 4K.
But turns out you can actually disable
that five minute record time limit
by switching the auto power off temperature settings.
So basically that set the standard by default
but if you switch it to high,
essentially prioritizes your record time
over maintaining the temperature on the camera.
And after I switched that threshold to higher,
I was able to record straight for
an hour and 10 minutes before the battery died.
And I didn't see any sort of overheating icons
or anything like that.
And that was kind of at a warm room temperature
around 77, 78 degrees.
Threw it in the incubator,
put it to about a 103 degrees Fahrenheit,
which is about 40 degrees Celsius.
And both times it made it
to right around 20ish minutes in 4K.
Obviously we'd prefer for it to never overheat,
but from tests I've done in the past,
there's not that many cameras that can handle
that hot temperature for an extended period of time.
So really 20 minutes is actually not that bad.
Overall I would say, when it comes to cameras that
can actually fit in your pocket.
This might be my favorite.
If you go out with even like a small mirrorless camera,
you have a lot of attention dedicated to that camera.
You're either holding it, have to keep it in a bag
or a shoulder strap or something like that.
But here you just whoop, done.
"Oh, you know what?
"I do have a camera, yeah."
Now I asked some of my buddies
about what they want in a point and shoot camera.
They don't know about this yet,
but let's just see what they say.
Connor said he wants the latest Sony point and shoot,
except for, with an ND filter and an F 1.8 aperture.
It's exactly what this is, plus a flip screen
and a whole bunch of extra other features
Frank says "Internal memory like my phone's
apps support, Instagram and stuff."
Yeah, like the internal memory
is kind of an interesting one, huh?
Like our drone has a little bit of internal memory.
So if you forget your SD card,
you can still record.
That'd be handy.
Stephen in short said,
"Good low light performance
and solid internal mic quality plus stabilization."
I'm pretty sure they're gonna sell a lot of these cameras.
Because I honestly think this delivers
a lot of what a lot of people have been asking for.
Jonathan, I'm pretty sure he has one of the RX 100s
He says "It lacks a bit of depth of field
and lowlife because they switched from more F 1.8 to 2.8
for that 24 to 200 millimeter.
I personally prefer the F 1.8."
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking too.
He also said, "I think it'd be really cool if they had
an ultra wide because there aren't really any
ultra wide pocket cams besides the Go Pros and Insta 360."
Yeah, that is true.
I agree with that.
If there was like a little slip on thing
that you can attach at the end of it,
which would just give you a little bit of extra width,
even if it sacrifices the image quality a little bit,
if it just gives you that extra field of view,
that would be cool.
- I can't wait to use that thing to get like
really nice cinematic shots of my friends being drunk.
- This would be a perfect nightlife cam.
Yeah, for sure.
'Cause I don't really bring any of my mirror less cameras
to a bar or anything like that,
but this you could actually put in your pocket.
- And then real quickly just be like
(mimics camera sounds) and then just put it away before
the bouncer tells you anything.
- Adam and Ralph said
"It would be cool if there were water resistant."
That is one thing that I have noticed
about point and shoot cameras
is they can be a little bit sensitive to drops or impacts.
I haven't dropped (mumbles) this one yet.
So I can say how durable it is,
but that would be nice if it had
some sort of water resistance.
So you could go and do certain water activities
without having to worry about a little splash.
Clements says "A 500X zoom and native macro capability."
Yeah, I would love all these things too.
Phones are cool, they take a different approach by adding
a couple different sensors and lenses
opposed to having one lens that kind of does it all.
And I love the ultra wide angle lens on our phones,
but phones just still have that phone look.
But here, I swear if you were to look at
some of this footage and I say,
"Oh, we shot that a mirrorless camera."
You might look at it and be like,
"Yeah, that seems about right."
But overall killer camera I didn't think I'd be this excited
about a point and shoot again,
but this is the one,
this is the one guys.
Now I'm just trying to figure out a good way
to close this video.
Are you gonna close up, Sam?
- Mmh.
- That's it for today's video everybody.
I'm out of things to talk about so,
so long (murmurs) good bye.
You guys are the best,
don't forget to subscribe and stuff.
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