today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the Sony bloggy so the model
this is is the MHS pm5k I don't know what color it is yet
but the basic specs that you see right on the front are that it records in full
HD 1080 okay then we move around to the back and you can see all the different
things it has support for so you can upload an email directly from the bloggy
to Shutterfly Picassa YouTube as well as Facebook so you can easily share with
your friends and family you plug it into your PC using a built-in USB Port so
it's kind of like the uh the Flip minoh HD in that respect you don't actually
have to fuss around with any cables or anything like that you just plug right in and it also includes a 360 video lens
so that means that you can take video in 360° around the camera and there's no
way that I could go without testing that it works on Mac it works on PC it
supports SDHC which is great I'm glad Sony's finally supporting these standard
memory cards rather than only memory stick but it also does support memory
stick okay so the first thing we find in the Box you know what I'm going to go
ahead and put this on the cameraman's hood he's probably cringing while I do
that but the first thing we find is a driver dis then we have a quick little
instruction paper that shows you how to take out the USB port then we have for
us customers receive 15% off your next purchase of something uh limited
warranty card consumer oneyear warranty
terms then you've got um an important
notice well if it is important and then surely we'll have to have a look uh
don't disassemble your battery pack don't drop it in water all that kind of
important stuff thank you for drawing our attention to that mobile HD snap
camera instruction manual here is the manual and then for if your product is
not working properly do not return it to the store okay all right so let's see
what we find inside first of all this is probably the most exciting accessory in
the Box this is the 360° lens so this
allows I almost dropped it this this allows us to take video in
360° around the bloggy so yeah obviously
we will have to try that all right that goes there for now then we have a
composite video as well as audio output so we can output directly from the blogy
then we have a USB extension cable oh
okay in case there's oh I see what this is for so you can plug that into your
computer in case there's not enough space like if your ports are crowded and
then you can plug the bloggy into this end then we have oh they include a
memory stick wow they include a 4 gig memory stick Pro Duo that's nice I mean
I remember the last time I bought a camera it came with I think it was like
an 8 Meg uh SD card or something stupid
like that okay then we've got o we have a little like shammy case for it so you
can either use that to wipe off your screen or you can potentially store it
in it although it doesn't really look big enough for that yeah it's not big
enough for that okay I don't get the point of this but it's there and then we
have a wrist strap down there and last but not least we have a battery so let's
get the battery out let's put the battery in so I guess the first thing
we're going to learn today is how to put the battery into this thing uh rotate to
power on okay I powered it
on uh can't quite figure out the battery
yet but I'll get there don't worry
there's the USB as well as the audio and video out so that's where we find all of
our our inputs and out so you just slide this little switch right here to get the
USB port out you've also you've got a little tripod mount so just in case you
wanted to take a little video on your little tripod you could do that so this
is how you turn it on you just rotate this right here so the screen can come
out this way or it can come out the top or it can come out that way so if you
actually if you're mounting your 360° lens it actually goes on just like this
something like that yeah there we go so it just Clips on like that and then
that's how you can uh take video all the way around the bloggy so here's either a
speaker or a microphone one of the two and then this says lithium ah there's my
battery nice so the battery goes in here
just like that secured in by a little blue tab and then I'm going to throw my
memory stick in here as well since they were kind enough to include one for me
hopefully I'm putting that in the right way and why don't we try and turn this baby on so here let's take off our 360°
lens and then uh see what happens if we
turn it on so is it on is this thing on
cool okay so uh we can actually see right now we can take video of the
cameraman's uh new car which we're actually going to use the bloggy to do
like a a video tour of very shortly here
so we can either take pictures just by pressing that button oh there's a bit of
a shutter delay there see I press the button oh no I press the button there
and it takes a photo there so you can kind of live with that it's designed to
be a video device and then we are taking video at
720p uh 30 frames per second right now
so uh I'm not actually going to show you this video I'll do another one shortly
anyway that is my quick unboxing of the Sony bloggy um if you want to see any
quick menu things actually why don't we do that really quickly so here let's
have a look at our video options so we can go up to 1080p 30 frames per second
we can go all the way down to VGA 30 frames per second if we want to
although 720 720p 60 frames per second
that's going to be probably your sweet spot where you're going to get nice smooth video and uh good HD quality and
then for photos you can either go uh all the way down to VGA terrible terrible
quality photos or you can go all the way up to 5 megapixels you can turn face
detection on and off and that's pretty much it there's not a whole lot of options here oh here's all the options
flicker reduction LED backlight uh language settings can you read this
cameraman okay good uh initialize that
format copy Okay cool so that's pretty cool we're going to do a quick tour of
the cameraman's car and then thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Sony
bloggy