so sony has always been known for checking off
an amazing amount of boxes when it comes to the specs on their cameras
and the camera we have today is no exception
today we have the sony fx9
the layout's quite nice okay so what do we have in here let's see we have
the grip which has been known
on the fs7 and the fs7 mark ii
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
extension feature here which is a little bit more robust than
the previous one yeah so they gave us a single charger ando dual charger for
the single battery that they gave us this is sony's standard bpu90 battery
which is the battery that they use across the fs5 the fs7 and the fx9
so it's you know common place to use these you probably if you own an fs7 or
nfs5 and you're thinking about having an fx9 as an upgrade or maybe
a new a cam and then making your fs7 a b cam
it's nice because it uses the same battery so you don't have to buy a bunch of these because these
are not cheap we have in ac adapter here
and then here is the monitor and the evf
loop and this monitor is touch screen now i haven't used the fs7
extensively in my career but as far as i remember it's
not touch screen on that camera if i'm wrong about that correct me in the
comments now i remember using a similar evf loop with the fs700 back
in the day when we still had that camera comparing it to that in my head they
seem to have improved this quite a bit but i will get a chance to test it on my
shoulder in a second here's the standard monitor that comes
with the fx9 it's on the tiny side but that is honestly fairly commonplace for a
camera that is both a medium size to medium to large size
but also compact enough to still take on a
like a long trip so this is sony's 28 to 135
millimeter f4 lens which is a very good complement to something
like the fx9 or the fs7 because it's got such a long range f4 is
pretty standard for a lens this in this range and still
good enough for like especially if you're shooting primarily outdoors
and the nice thing about this is it has a built-in servo so that you can control
the lenses zoom from this
rocker right here and not have to have like that standard eng
motor setup where you'd have the zoom rocker here on the lens which is pretty
cool and then there's this push-pull very satisfying push-pull for focus
for this will be af and manual adjustment and then this is a full
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
an all-around lens if you're especially if you're shooting like sports or something
oh look at that they did send more batteries this
is the fx9 itself it's about 4.41 pounds
based on what the specs on sony's website say feels
really good in the hand like it doesn't feel too heavy it feels like it might be like fairly
well balanced because it would sit on your shoulders designed to sit on your shoulder kind of
on the front end it's not the best balance because ideally
you want the balance point to be level and you want
equal amounts distribu distribution of weight from the front to the back and
that way you're not fighting the camera in any one direction let's take a look look at
that now it is unfortunate that it's a 6k sensor that you can't use at 6k
but it's also a full frame sensor so i'm not that surprised that you can't use it
at 6k and sony's using the fact that it is 6k to allow you to down sample
your footage down to 4k and make it that much
more detailed and sharper and have more color
information when you downsample that's their approach for now
i don't know that there is going to be an ability to shoot
6k either externally or internally um on
sony's end but to be fair to sony this camera is not
meant to be the highest end thing that they
make on sony's end i sort of understand why
they justified not making it so that you could record 610
internally it probably was on an engineering level a difficult
thing to do and but they also have the venice and the venice
is their highest end flagship that will shoot 6k internally
and is made for movies so that is the camera and that is the answer if you
really need that resolution on this side we have two audio inputs
which have phantom power that's awesome you have on the back the
standard sdi time code gen lock all that kind of stuff
uh on the bottom there's a like very thin
silicone adjustable shoulder pad battery
compartment and then we have our dual media card slots
that came out too easily these are sony's xqd carts this is the media that
they've chosen to use with the fx9 and the fs7 any fs7 owners will probably
have plenty of these they're not that cheap but i mean no media is really
that cheap because you want to buy media that's reliable it's just kind of
unfortunate to this day to still see sony going with their
own proprietary media from the majority of their like higher end cameras
this records 10 bit 422 internally
and that's at 6k like with the full frame sensors that honestly
is pretty good this seems to be
about the same as sony's eng
style slash very similar to the fs7
so anyone who's used those cameras is going to be very at home here
so i have used email plenty but this is just
strange you have to undo the lock so that these align
and then you just line up the lens with the pin
hold it there while you
turn the lock i didn't find that to be
super intuitive because it feels weird to need to hold the lens there
to make sure that it doesn't fall off until you've locked it i mean
the nice thing is when you unlock it there's this little catch here so that
you can't just like unlock it and then your lens will fall off but once you hit the release
and you unlock it the lens just comes off
don't like that this has gotten significantly heavier
let's see how it feels on the shoulder the cable tip for the handle
is micro usb what
the nice thing is the grip is the way it always has been it has this nice like
adjustable little trigger here wow honestly
you know focus hand here i definitely feel like
even even with the extension and the right angle
you could very easily have this ARM that holds the grip get
quite tired throughout the day but it is well placed and the design is
pretty good but again yeah if you once you feel
all of the weight is on the furthest part forward
and you're not quite balanced so you'd want to be able to find the solution
that allows you get the camera a little bit further back on your shoulder
and you'll have a happier time for long shoots so now that we have it built up
one of the features that i want to talk about really quickly is and probably one of the biggest
features on this camera besides the fact that it has a full frame 35 millimeter
sensor is its variable nd and it's not just the
variable nd that they put in the fs5 it has another feature it has
an auto feature so that allows you to go
from inside to outside without needing to
change your aperture or your iso so not compromising on either of those things
but then still getting very seamless exposure
from very large differences from inside to outside which again for people who
shoot documentary or anything running gun that
and like the stuff that we would do we have to sometimes go from outside to
inside that would be a very very useful feature
and the other nice thing that they've added is the s cinetone which is the same color
profile that is derived from the venice so you'll get similar
venice colors out of this camera
which for the price point this camera is 11
000 u.s okay now that's over with let's show you guys some footage
so overall sony has a winner
here they took everything that was good about the fs7
and just made it into a full-frame camera at a relatively affordable price
not cheap but considering the performance and the image that you can get out of this thing
and how easy it is to use the dual native iso the auto nd the fact
that it has audio the ergonomics of it good job sony i
would if i shot documentaries buy one of these
unfortunately i don't but for all the people who do
let me know in the comments if this is the type of camera that you want to use
thanks for watching