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so sony has always been known for checking off

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an amazing amount of boxes when it comes to the specs on their cameras

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and the camera we have today is no exception

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today we have the sony fx9

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the layout's quite nice okay so what do we have in here let's see we have

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the grip which has been known

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on the fs7 and the fs7 mark ii

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so it just goes on the side of the camera we'll see the camera in a second but they've also added the additional

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extension feature here which is a little bit more robust than

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the previous one yeah so they gave us a single charger ando dual charger for

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the single battery that they gave us this is sony's standard bpu90 battery

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which is the battery that they use across the fs5 the fs7 and the fx9

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so it's you know common place to use these you probably if you own an fs7 or

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nfs5 and you're thinking about having an fx9 as an upgrade or maybe

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a new a cam and then making your fs7 a b cam

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it's nice because it uses the same battery so you don't have to buy a bunch of these because these

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are not cheap we have in ac adapter here

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and then here is the monitor and the evf

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loop and this monitor is touch screen now i haven't used the fs7

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extensively in my career but as far as i remember it's

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not touch screen on that camera if i'm wrong about that correct me in the

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comments now i remember using a similar evf loop with the fs700 back

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in the day when we still had that camera comparing it to that in my head they

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seem to have improved this quite a bit but i will get a chance to test it on my

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shoulder in a second here's the standard monitor that comes

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with the fx9 it's on the tiny side but that is honestly fairly commonplace for a

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camera that is both a medium size to medium to large size

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but also compact enough to still take on a

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like a long trip so this is sony's 28 to 135

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millimeter f4 lens which is a very good complement to something

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like the fx9 or the fs7 because it's got such a long range f4 is

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pretty standard for a lens this in this range and still

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good enough for like especially if you're shooting primarily outdoors

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and the nice thing about this is it has a built-in servo so that you can control

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the lenses zoom from this

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rocker right here and not have to have like that standard eng

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motor setup where you'd have the zoom rocker here on the lens which is pretty

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cool and then there's this push-pull very satisfying push-pull for focus

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for this will be af and manual adjustment and then this is a full

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manual adjustment which feels quite a bit smoother and i like it pia is the easy

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description this also has image stabilization which is again why it's a great compliment for

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an all-around lens if you're especially if you're shooting like sports or something

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oh look at that they did send more batteries this

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is the fx9 itself it's about 4.41 pounds

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based on what the specs on sony's website say feels

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really good in the hand like it doesn't feel too heavy it feels like it might be like fairly

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well balanced because it would sit on your shoulders designed to sit on your shoulder kind of

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on the front end it's not the best balance because ideally

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you want the balance point to be level and you want

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equal amounts distribu distribution of weight from the front to the back and

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that way you're not fighting the camera in any one direction let's take a look look at

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that now it is unfortunate that it's a 6k sensor that you can't use at 6k

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but it's also a full frame sensor so i'm not that surprised that you can't use it

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at 6k and sony's using the fact that it is 6k to allow you to down sample

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your footage down to 4k and make it that much

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more detailed and sharper and have more color

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information when you downsample that's their approach for now

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i don't know that there is going to be an ability to shoot

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6k either externally or internally um on

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sony's end but to be fair to sony this camera is not

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meant to be the highest end thing that they

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make on sony's end i sort of understand why

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they justified not making it so that you could record 610

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internally it probably was on an engineering level a difficult

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thing to do and but they also have the venice and the venice

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is their highest end flagship that will shoot 6k internally

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and is made for movies so that is the camera and that is the answer if you

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really need that resolution on this side we have two audio inputs

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which have phantom power that's awesome you have on the back the

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standard sdi time code gen lock all that kind of stuff

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uh on the bottom there's a like very thin

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silicone adjustable shoulder pad battery

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compartment and then we have our dual media card slots

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that came out too easily these are sony's xqd carts this is the media that

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they've chosen to use with the fx9 and the fs7 any fs7 owners will probably

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have plenty of these they're not that cheap but i mean no media is really

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that cheap because you want to buy media that's reliable it's just kind of

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unfortunate to this day to still see sony going with their

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own proprietary media from the majority of their like higher end cameras

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this records 10 bit 422 internally

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and that's at 6k like with the full frame sensors that honestly

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is pretty good this seems to be

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about the same as sony's eng

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style slash very similar to the fs7

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so anyone who's used those cameras is going to be very at home here

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so i have used email plenty but this is just

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strange you have to undo the lock so that these align

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and then you just line up the lens with the pin

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hold it there while you

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turn the lock i didn't find that to be

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super intuitive because it feels weird to need to hold the lens there

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to make sure that it doesn't fall off until you've locked it i mean

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the nice thing is when you unlock it there's this little catch here so that

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you can't just like unlock it and then your lens will fall off but once you hit the release

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and you unlock it the lens just comes off

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don't like that this has gotten significantly heavier

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let's see how it feels on the shoulder the cable tip for the handle

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is micro usb what

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the nice thing is the grip is the way it always has been it has this nice like

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adjustable little trigger here wow honestly

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you know focus hand here i definitely feel like

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even even with the extension and the right angle

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you could very easily have this ARM that holds the grip get

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quite tired throughout the day but it is well placed and the design is

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pretty good but again yeah if you once you feel

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all of the weight is on the furthest part forward

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and you're not quite balanced so you'd want to be able to find the solution

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that allows you get the camera a little bit further back on your shoulder

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and you'll have a happier time for long shoots so now that we have it built up

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one of the features that i want to talk about really quickly is and probably one of the biggest

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features on this camera besides the fact that it has a full frame 35 millimeter

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sensor is its variable nd and it's not just the

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variable nd that they put in the fs5 it has another feature it has

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an auto feature so that allows you to go

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from inside to outside without needing to

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change your aperture or your iso so not compromising on either of those things

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but then still getting very seamless exposure

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from very large differences from inside to outside which again for people who

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shoot documentary or anything running gun that

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and like the stuff that we would do we have to sometimes go from outside to

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inside that would be a very very useful feature

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and the other nice thing that they've added is the s cinetone which is the same color

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profile that is derived from the venice so you'll get similar

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venice colors out of this camera

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which for the price point this camera is 11

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000 u.s okay now that's over with let's show you guys some footage

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so overall sony has a winner

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here they took everything that was good about the fs7

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and just made it into a full-frame camera at a relatively affordable price

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not cheap but considering the performance and the image that you can get out of this thing

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and how easy it is to use the dual native iso the auto nd the fact

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that it has audio the ergonomics of it good job sony i

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would if i shot documentaries buy one of these

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unfortunately i don't but for all the people who do

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let me know in the comments if this is the type of camera that you want to use

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thanks for watching