welcome to my unboxing and first look at
the Sony
fs700 camcorder which will be uh which
will be used for Tech tips purposes this is uh this is a oh it cost a lot of
money so yes this was something I legitimately purchased in order for us
to bring you all kinds of higher quality
production values and all kinds of good
sort of stuff let's see what Sony has to say for themselves on the outside of
this very very boring Brown packaging so
here's a bunch of hoo-ha about trademarks and registered trademarks and
whatnot here's a big warning right on the top of the box damage to this unit
verifiably verifiably caused by the use of non infolithium batteries will not be
covered by the warranty uh when using SD class 4 or faster as recommended all
right we've got a super 35 cosos X more
whatever that is probably the sensor in all likelihood it has a 4K sensor in it
that's something of note so you have to get a firmware upgrade later on down the
line to get 4k support they're estimating it'll cost $500 to $1,000
which still makes it a great value for 4K capture but I think is absolutely
ridiculous for um just charging for firmware that's not
my my IT industry Roots would uh would would disagree with that particular
approach so ABC HD is how it captures two cards however it also has the option
of capturing two HDMI just with uh using
an HDMI output and a capture card such
as the intensity Pro from Blackmagic which I also purchased so okay we have
one of those microphone doodads let's just go ahead and open it up so wind
blocker let's just okay forget it I'm not going to be able to open that you
know what open thank you there we go just a simple
foam one foam there fascinating
interchangeable lens digital HD V recorder okay operating guide very very
short limited warranty here so labor is
for 90 days and parts say one year onee
warranty on this thing good thing I bought it with my Visa which has an extended oneyear warranty content
management utility okay interchangeable lens digital hdv oh there's the real
manual on a disc hey way to go Sony and then here's apparently another one
here's an operating guide setting the headphone sound all that kind of good
stuff this is all no this is all English wow
okay all right what else we got in
here is that an eyepiece I don't know
I'm not much of a camera guy actually diesel is the one who's going to be showing me how to use all this stuff so
I'm just excited about the fact that we're going to have a okay
H magnify very cool I'm just excited about
the fact that we're going to have a uh a much better a much better camera overall
and that someone will be operating it and that we will be able to bring you
better better overall production values we'll be able to set like you know depth
of field and stuff like that so that you know it'll have like kind of that blurry
background and just generally look better this thing can capture it up to 960 frames per second which is also kind
of cool um although it doesn't really
capture any kind of decent quality at that frame rate and it can only capture
for I think a couple seconds but you can get some pretty reasonably long captures
at reasonably high quality at as high as 240 FPS which was is great for like slow
motion and that kind of stuff that uh we will obviously be playing with if we're
going to be investing this much into equipment you know you got to make sure
you're using it so it comes with a microphone
okay there's the microphone that matches that uh foam condom thing that goes on
top of it right there okay however we're going to be using a different mic so
we'll be using an ntg2 from
Road there you go that one comes with a
10e warranty see they understand how to stand behind an expensive product this
camera is like $8,500 and uh they give you a oneyear warranty
with it look at all these accessories and whatnot this is exciting so here's a
battery charger VCR / camera nice love it and then
charging there's a power adapter for it there's a DC output so this is oh okay
so you're either charging or you're outputting to the camera slash if you
have a VCR that runs off that connector then I guess you could do that I guess
they mean like video capture
recorder ooh okay this is the lens so
important to be careful with this I'm not going to not going to play around with this too much so it's a kit lens
but as far as kit lenses go uh my
understanding is this one's actually pretty decent so there's the little
cover for the end piece um looked into getting something
that was not a kit lens but did not end up wanting to go down that rout so here
we've got all of our manual manual controls for Focus as well as for
Zoom cool beans uses an e-mount so something to be aware of guys is you
need an adapter that costs a few hundred if you want to use anything but a Sony
native e-mount lens on this camera uh that was again the reason we went with
the kit was because to get anything decent that was not the kit lens was
going to cost um at least 1,000 bucks so
so we went that route here's a microphone holder oh
that's disappointing cuz I bought one oh well now we
know what else we got here hm Okay so so
there's your hand piece which you can use to uh Zoom as well as something to
do with focus and photos so you attach that to the camera it's a very modular
design much like the fs100 so there's a lot of of pieces and uh and gizmos that
you can attach to it in order to customize the experience comes with a
remote see continuing the proud tradition of cheese ball remotes with
expensive gear that I've seen time and time again in my years in the uh in the
IT industry as well as whatever other industry just seems to be sort of by law
everyone does that here's a USB adapter of some sort guessing that's for pulling
footage off the camera here's some strap hopefully there's instructions to go
along with all this and lots of cables so here's a component adapter component
video out here is just is this really just RCA
cables really I mean if I really fs700 I need
RCA okay maybe maybe I'm missing something here I'm sure I'm missing
something but that just seems brain dead okay here is
another oh this looks like the piece to actually run the camera off of so
there's your uh your filter as well as your wire and power adapter so in that
case I have no idea what the point of this is cuz that's not even that's not
even the same like anything that's not
even remotely related okay it's okay diesel will be able to figure all this
out it won't matter for me two power cables for those two pieces for the
battery charger as well as to run the camera another USB cable which I'm sure
there's a point to USB a to mini which is somehow different from this USB cable
which I can't identify what that is okay
ah infolithium battery so I'm going to need a bunch of these I suppose at some
point all right that goes there and now
we are left
with a battery
cover yeah we're not interested in that
oh no that's not a battery what is this I don't know it doesn't matter let's
open up the
camera wow it's big it's actually a
little bit bigger than I expected so bearing in mind I know
absolutely nothing I can already tell this is a lot more baller than the XA 10
that we're using to film this it does come with ND filters so you can use
those to adjust the something to do with the amount of light that comes through
or something like that that was one of the reasons we ended up going with the fs700 versus the fs100 you have to get
like little uh little ND filters to change the quality of the light and put
them over top with the fs100 whereas this one it's built in uh We've also got
manual controls for pretty much everything and its dog so that's a huge
advantage over something like the XA 10 that we've been using up till now where
everything's done via touchscreen interface that's extremely inconvenient
uh the ergonomics on the fs700 are also supposedly quite a bit better than the
fs100 although I've never seen either of them in person up till now so here do
you want to just come in and have a have a close look at the body here it's not that heavy uh once you throw a lens on
it I guess it's going to add quite a bit of weight but uh we've got a new tripod
as well that's going to help us with the additional the additional weight
requirements that uh that we have you know what let's throw the battery in and
see what happens here hey I mean that's what we do on this channel right we just
sort of randomly do things and then we hope that it sort of works so there's an
indicator arrow that yeah that didn't
work oh there we go all right what happens if we turn it on power
on and it doesn't come charged oh yes it does there we
go and we can set things like
the time zone okay forget that for now
so there we go face detection last scene Auto manual
mode oo lots of cool stuff that I totally don't understand there's the
battery release button as well there's your mounting for your tripod actually a
wide variety of different mounting mechanisms here as well as little rubber feet so it doesn't go anywhere if you
put it down which is important cuz it's expensive okay headphone monitor so you
can uh monitor well sound just like that we've also got HDMI out so this is what
I talked about before where we'll be using HDMI out to capture to a black
magic card and then ah this one that's
what we're going to need when uh when we're doing 4K out so that's your HD SDI
out which is uh more flexible cables um
lighter weight all these are good things however there's these fancy red mirr
cables now so this is what we'll be using for HDMI capture that you can use
28 AWG wires and still achieve a 50t
distance on them so we'll be running that out of here wrapping it around an
ARM to make sure it doesn't pull too hard on the connector and uh and going
that route so here's all of your audio controls right here you control which
input and how much and who and what as
well as all the wow look at all these dedicated controls for playing back I
guess they really mean for you to use this in the field it's got a beautiful display on it great viewing angle on
that can you tell from there or I is it just yeah you can't really tell okay
awesome viewing angle on there so they really mean for you to actually be reviewing your footage a little bit to
uh LCD hold oh okay you can make it uh
yeah yeah you can make the LCD hold in place or you can totally release it so
that it's there we go okay some more mounting pieces mounting points for all
kinds of various accessories and stuff like I said very modular so you can can
release this as well and then put different sort of adapters and whatnot
this is this is for that something we
had some here we go this is for this I
think no it's not I have no idea what that's for you know what we'll be so
yeah we figured it out there it's for like a flash memory recorder thing so we
put that spacer in there now also uh there's your inputs for uh for audio one
and two just right there uh you can change modes from video to
photo I really hope you're not taking photos with this thing though because that's really not what it's for and uh
that pretty much covers it so here's your shoe mounts for various accessories
and whatnot so we're going to build it and then uh show you guys once it's
assembled so I think we got it assembled now like I said before we don't really
know what we're doing but uh we have this camera now so uh yeah it's bigger
than I expected and you know we've got the microphone attached now so we ran
that to the to the input here oh yeah iPhone size comparison of course so
there that's the here I'll put that there iPhone can basically be like an
output for this thing or rather like a display for this thing so it's huge see
there there's the iPhone again there's the thickness and um yeah so we figured
out what this thing's for it is an eyepiece it's just a slight
magnification and darkening of the LCD so you can you can see in there if you
were if you were able to see in there uh this doesn't work the zoom zoom here cuz
C uh Sony doesn't have motorized lenses yet for the emount so I don't know what
they were planning to do with that maybe they'll have it available as a firmware upgrade for $500
$1,000 um so I think that pretty much covers it we have to unbox we have lots
more gear to unbox here I'll show you this got the kinof flow lights we've got
man fro uh tripod we've got uh right
black magic a microphone more kof flow
lights very exciting stuff so stay tuned more unboxings to come