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welcome to my unboxing of my new camera and I call this my new camera because uh

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not because other people won't be allowed to use it but because they don't

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want to I'm the only one who works here who actually cares that we just got

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ourselves a Canon xa2 so the xa2 is the upgrade from the

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XA 10 the the old formerly only camera

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that we really had that was better than like a pocket point and shoot so it

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comes with a massive user manual which I think most people probably won't look at

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as well as a data import utility but quite frankly if you're using like

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canons included you know Zoom browser equivalent or whatever it is that they

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have these days you should probably just go find a new line of work um so let's

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just put all of that aside and have a look at all the goodies that are

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included in inside the box of the xa20 so in front of us we have the Fairly

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large accessory package that comes with the xa20 first is a full four pole

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adapter to composite video out as well as left and right audio next we've got

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an AC power cable that goes with the DC

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brick right there that we can use to power the camera for longer shoots in

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the studio for example this is an interesting inclusion so they now

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include an HDMI to Mini HDMI cable which

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is great because it has a mini HDMI output I really wish they would have

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upgraded that to full HDMI it includes one of their new even more intelligent

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batteries and I'm going to take a moment to kind of rant about this because um

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you can't use XA 10 compatible batteries with the xa2 Canon has basically

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implemented a system whereby if you install an older battery into the newer

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camera it'll say oh sorry it powers on right and shows you an image oh sorry

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this battery is not compatible with this camera and it just turns off Canon dick

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move you guys dick move uh because being able to reuse your older batteries and

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upgrade your equipment is a very good thing and it could have just said hey

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look the uh the the the level readings aren't going to be accurate with this

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older type of battery but instead you just had it turn off um So currently

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there aren't any cheap thirdparty alternatives to the Canon batteries

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which are like a 100 bucks for an extended battery so once again dick move

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Canon uh they've got one of those uh magnetic sort of or iron or whatever

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they are anyway the theory is they reduce interference on cables uh in

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practice I suspect your USB cable doesn't care if you install one of those

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they've also got a USB a to Mini cable

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for pulling data directly off the camera but that's not your only option more on

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that in a moment a lens Hood which is really cool because it's got this little

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flip out dudad right here that allows you to instead of installing a lens cap

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just have a flip of the switch protected or ready to rock sort

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of functionality which I think is fantastic they include a shotgun mic

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shock mount however it's really nothing special that's very hard rubber as well

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as a couple of screws to install it and finally a remote that allows you to well

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remotely control the camera but that's not your only option for that either so

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okay things you have more than one option for data transfer all of a sudden

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Boom the xa20 has Wi-Fi I'm going to start pulling the camera up Canon also

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almost got uh great points for environmentally friendly packaging but

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they did include a little bit of plastic so it has Wi-Fi now which supports data

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transfer even to an FTP which is

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incredibly cool so being able to just kind of go look here's my FTP login

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credal IAL automatically throw all my footage on there absolutely huge thumbs

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up you can also use Wi-Fi to control the camera using a smartphone which is very

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cool as well so you can adjust your focus or start and stop recording using

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a supported phone it just says supported phones on their apps but I'm going to go

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ahead and try a couple of different devices with it over the next little while here so that's in addition to the

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remote not only that but it has a lan C connector so you can also use that to

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control it using supported uh using supported accessories as well I haven't

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actually found it yet but you can see I pulled out the body of the camera as well as

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the handle so we're going to take a much closer look at them once I go ahead and

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show you guys so that just slides into the shoe Mount right there the two

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built-in screws at the back go here and I really don't recommend using the xa20

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without the handle because it includes not only a handle for holding on to the

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camera but also some pretty important functionality so right here it's got

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your control for your microphone so you can either have phantom power or not

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have phantom power you can switch the two different inputs on or off just like

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that and then you can also switch to recording using the built-in stereo

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microphones here and here but uh I mean

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they're okay they're not great but they're okay and then next you have

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analog controls for the levels on those two XLR inputs that are on the other

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side over here last but not least you get ah yes okay so you get a pass

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through for that shoe Mount as well as start and stop you can lock this off if

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you don't want to accidentally press as well as Zoom control so it really is a

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great little accessory it comes with the camera you should pretty much always have it on there so now we've got the

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camera geared up it's time to take a quick tour of it so first things first

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this is what this looks like installed on the camera it uh quite effectively

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blocks out the light completely from being uh transmitted it's kind of a one

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or the other with the hood and the lens cap because you can actually see right

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here even if I wanted to put the lens cap in I wouldn't be able to so I

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wouldn't imagine myself using the lens cap ever again again which means I'll probably lose it so here just guys

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remind me if I ever ask where it is I put it in the Box for the xa20 so that I

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wouldn't lose it all right so let's go ahead and have a look at controls to

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start with so the menu is much much

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better than last time around and the main reason for that is a couple small

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tweaks and layout for where you can uh where you can change settings and the

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biggest one is that it Now features a capacitive touchcreen instead of a

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pressure sensitive touch screen so that makes scrolling through menus much much

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easier compared to the previous gen product you don't feel like you're like

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mashing on the screen in order to select anything or change a setting um it's

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also just you know smoother to scroll through so that's that's more natural

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they've also moved around quite a few of the adjustments that you can make such

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as switching between autofocus and manual focus and part of the reason for

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this is that they've changed that the way the that the way you switch between

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manual mode and automatic mode so it used to be on the old camera the XA 10

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the power button when you when you turned it on you actually had to decide

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am I in auto mode or manual mode that's not the case anymore so now you've got

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off camera mode and Media mode which makes sense is like how every other

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camera in the world works the XA 10 had a button here for playback and review

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which is random I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before now

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there's just a switch for auto mode manual mode and Cinema mode so Cinema

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mode we're not going to spend too much time on cuz basically all it does is

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give you sort of some filters that you can put over top of your footage which

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um I mean might help a little bit in postprocessing so filter one right here

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is a cinema standard so it's just a bit of a flatter profile so you can play

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around with color a little bit more on post Vivid you can actually see previews

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of these over to the right here so we'll point out some stuff as you can see Vivid is much more Vivid uh dream just

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puts kind of a goofy looking vignette around things and then there's a bunch

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of other filters that you can you can set up um the next thing is layout of

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the buttons makes things a little bit easier easier for you as well so the buttons are now user configurable they

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have five programmable buttons two over here to the left of the LCD one on the

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inside right here that's button number five and then two more back here at the

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back of the camera so the fact that you can reconfigure those to whatever you

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want is a huge huge upside to this

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camera compared to the last gen product back are the dual SD card slots so these

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support SD XC A and B and they support a

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couple of cool modes actually a few cool modes so with the new dig 4 video

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processor that's inside here you can not only do what you could do on the

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previous product which was you could record simultaneously to both cards so

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that you have an automatic backup or you could record to one and then the other

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and you could actually swap them out in the middle so you could record continuously that's all supported now

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you can actually record in two different bit rates at the same time so you can

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have low bit rate working files or web ready files and then you can have full

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bit rate ones one on one card and one on the other card which is a very very cool

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feature it does have an infrared um mode

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just like the old camera did moving further around to the back we've got a

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little toggle switch here that actually allows you to change the functionality

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of your focus wheel between focus and zoom whatever you prefer so if we go

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around to the front of the camera that basically allows you to kind of go okay I want this to be Focus I want this to

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be zoom in the menu you can configure which way is which for both of them and

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then there's also aha this right here is a dedicated button for gain now you used

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to be able to control that with the LCD screen but you had to choose between

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gain and something else can't remember what it was anymore it's been a long time since I've used the XA 10

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extensively but now you have a dedicated wheel for that so if you kind of go okay

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my focus ring is focus and it's a it's an infinite Focus ring guys so you don't

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you're not going to have like that muscle memory ability to focus which is

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really unfortunate I wish they had just made it linear um anyway so you've got

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your focus ring for Focus you can adjust gain on the fly right here and then you

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can use the zoom rocker for Zoom which actually has a variety of different

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speeds that it can operate at you can either have it be linear and you can select up to 16 different speeds or you

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can press it harder for more and press it softer for Less uh whichever you

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prefer this gives you a much greater degree of flexibility while you're

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runand gun shooting compared to the previous camera so why did we go with

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this versus something like a DSLR or a Blackmagic pocket cinema camera or

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something along those lines there's a couple of reasons so that runand gun

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aspect of it it makes it ideal for things like um you know event coverage

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where you're not carrying around some bulky thing or external adapters you

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just get one file at the end of it which might not be as flexible as what you

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might get out of a DSLR it might not have that same cinematic look and

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shallow depth of field like a DSLR it might not have the same uh codec support

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as something like a black magic pocket Cinema but what it is is it's an

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all-in-one the footage is ready to do something with it whether it's upload

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directly to YouTube uh automatically wirelessly upload to your FTP or

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whatever else the case may be the sensor is slightly bigger than the older XA 10

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so it's a 1 over 2.84 in and it's a SEO

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sensor so the older one was a 1/3 in SEO sensor so it's slightly bigger and I

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think that that's pretty much all the justification I mean it's got other kind

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of cool stuff it has a pre-record buffer which is really neat which means that

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when you have it configured whenever you're rolling it's actually capturing

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the last 3 seconds of footage which means that if you're kind of like you

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know you're at Little Johnny's thing and oh holy H crap they started the race a

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little bit early boom you press that button and you're actually going to get that previous 3 seconds so you're not

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going to miss anything um continuous autofocus is really nice they've

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actually got a few different modes for it so number one is you can do like a

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facial detection uh continuous autofocus you can have medium speed autofocus

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which will look more natural or you can just have instant autofocus which is

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something that you would have to do manually on a DSLR although it's great

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to have that manual control but again it comes down to Different Strokes for

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different folks this lens right here has a 35 mm equivalent Zoom range that goes

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from 26.8 mm all the way up to 576 MIM and the optical image

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stabilization coupled with some of the fancy image stabilization that Canon's

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doing with the dig4 processor actually looks pretty amazing so check this out

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we're going to go ahead we're actually going to zoom in 20 times on my sweater

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over there so I'm holding this like way out from my body you can see a little

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bit of noise in the image just because that's very very low light but there's

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actually surprisingly not a ton of shake you can see what an awkward position I'm

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in right there and the fact that I can hold it that steady zoomed in that close

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is very very impressive there's a viewfinder electronic viewfinder right

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there that you pop out in order to enable it there's the start stop record

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button here so that's in addition to the one on the handle there's aha this is

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great so there's a little rocker here that gives you uh push button support as

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well as directionality that you can use to navigate the menu if you prefer that

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to a touch screen which people do as well as another button that's for

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navigating the menu over here over on the right they have dramatically

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improved things here so power in goes up here which I actually don't think is

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better than the old one which had power in at the bottom and then there's also

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your AV out but mostly you're not going to need that for anything and look at

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this this little this little thing nothing here the old camera had like the

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micro or the mini HDMI out down there so you actually couldn't handhold it and

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have HDMI out at the same time which was ridiculous so what am I going to be

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using it for I'm going to be using it for things like vlogging if you guys saw

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any of our GPU 14 coverage where it was basically just like me hand camming

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things running around that was all shot with the XA 10 the older camera it was a

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bit of a test case for it are people going to enjoy this content at all how

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how easy is it going to be for me to create when I have like a small uh

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compact camera how good is it going to look so that's one of the reasons we

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invested in one of these behind the scenes up until now I've shot all of my

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behind the scenes footage on my HTC1 and while people have commented that you

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know hey it looks not bad particularly the sound is really really terrible you

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know whenever it's windy or anything like that so having a camera that

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actually has you know a reasonable quality shotgun mic on it in a shock

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mount with a wind sock is going to dramatically improve the audio quality

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of behind the-scenes footage and because it's nice and compact it's the kind of

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thing that we can actually carry around and and like quickly shoot things with

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much like you would be able to do with a phone um it's for things like casual videos

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where the cinematography of it isn't really important so if we were doing

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like uh you know oh hey crap we just found this like cool setting in this

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Benchmark and we wanted to just do like a short little video about it we grab

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this throw it in full auto mode shoot a quick thing and upload it to the channel

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obviously the quality of the footage is not going to be as good is what we can

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get out of the fs700 which is what this is being shot on but I would like to at

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least give you guys a little demo of what you can expect out of it and that

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will run here at the end of the video so guys if you liked this video give it a

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like if you disliked it give it a dislike if you have feelings that are

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more complicated than that or you really don't understand why I you know wasted

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my money on this camera or you really think it was a great idea and you can't

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believe we ever bought anything else please do leave a comment under the video and if you want to discuss it

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further guys there's always a link to the lineus tech tips Forum below the

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video as well as a link for where you can buy one of these suck because if you

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wanted to do so and as always don't forget to subscribe