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Say yellow to yolo with the Yolo S7

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camera. It is a very unique webcam in

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the sense that it is a webcam designed for streaming and content creation that

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has a removable lens. That's so exciting. What do we get in the box? We

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get that sleeve so you can bring that camera around. We get quite a beefy type

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A to type C which is our data cable and it's quite long. That looks to be about

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10 ft. That's pretty nice. You could bring this camera as far as 10 ft from

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your computer. That's incredible. Oh yeah, that's a little facicious. It is

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meant to be a webcam. So 10 ft is actually plenty long. In this box, we

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have a C to C power cable. Looks to be about the same beiness and length, maybe

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a little bit shorter. Uh but both of these connectors actually have a little

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screwing bit so that it locks so that even when you move the camera, you're not in super large danger of just

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yinking out a cable in the middle of a live stream. Uh which would be catastrophic. We have our quick start

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guide and our product manual. And that's it. YOLO also sent us a power adapter.

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Um although you could presumably use a different USB PD one. What am I looking

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at? Oh,

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that's a really long brick. If it's on a

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surge protector that's on the ground, not a big deal. But if you're plugging it into a wall, that is a lot of weight

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on something that uh has very little resistance. This little doohickey is

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good for up to 45 watts at 20 volts, but that wouldn't be necessary. The camera

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itself uses 12 watts of power. Uh, and so this should be plenty. But you also

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have a lot of versatility in the kind of power bricks you could be using. Inside

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this one, we have oh, nice. A little L bracket uh, with quarter20 slots as well

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as a slot that we could put another quarter20 to mount our camera in its

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vertical orientation. This is predominantly for short form content

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creation presumably, although that makes

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less sense to me than it being a streaming camera. I have a lot of

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questions about this thing that I hope I will be able to answer. Last thing

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inside this box is our 1/420 tripod little screw. The L bracket itself is

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actually a pretty good quality. This is pretty on par with something I would

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expect from like a small rig or something. And the fact that you have

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the three mounting holes on the back is actually a pretty nice quality of life thing. Uh thankfully we got some pretty

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good versatility. We have a microphone jack, we have an HDMI out, and then we

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have two type-C's. One is for power and one is for data. And that's because you

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can actually stream using the HDMI out and the type-C. The type-C will be

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limited to 1080p, but if you're Twitch streaming, that's more than enough,

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especially when you go non- full screen. So, I don't think that's a huge huge

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factor. And if I was using this at home, I actually probably would do that to avoid having another uh HDMI box or card

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in order to read that. On the top, we have our cold shoe mount so that you

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could put accessories. Presumably, you could put your mic that you'd plug into

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the back. sides very plain bottom quarter 20. On the front we have our

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sensors and laser for the time of flight autofocus which is a pretty cool feature

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for a camera like this. It uses basically a laser and the time it takes

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for that laser to come back to the camera in order to measure the depth

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which would allow for really fast autofocus. YOLO claims 008 seconds of

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autofocus. Although uh my guess is that measurement isn't including the whole

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process of it and it also will depend on the lens. Yes. Because when you're using

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a camera with good autofocus, having the right lenses on that camera can make a

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huge difference. In fact, YOLO recommends just two lenses. They're 25

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and 15 mil lenses, which should give you a lot of the room without having too

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much fisheying on the lenses, especially as it is a micro four/ thirds camera, so

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there's a crop factor. So, the 25 is about a 50 mm, which is good for

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portraits. Uh, and that would be great for a facecam. Um, but actually would

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kind of get a little tight when you really think about it. I'm thinking about it just like I'm thinking about

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how time offlight autofocus has the advantage of being really fast and

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really accurate. Uh but it also has a limit in the distance it can measure.

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That's not a big deal for a camera like this that's not really designed to get big wide shots or moving subjects that

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are really really far away. And so I think that's a pretty reasonable compromise and a smart design choice for

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its use case which is have a damn good looking webcam baby. And sensor size is

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a huge factor when it comes to having good image. Not only does it mean that

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each pixel will be larger, which allows for more light and better lowlight

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performance, it also gives you access to a whole suite of lenses that are

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designed to have a more cinematic look with depth of field, as well as just

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like versatility and how you can use it. And so, I actually think this is a

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really, really cool use case for people that are predominantly tied to a computer and streaming all the time. One

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thing you'll notice that I haven't talked about is a screen. uh as opposed

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to most more versatile cameras, this doesn't have a screen cuz it's expecting

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you to be tied to a computer, which uh

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is predominantly a cono. That seems like a really impractical way

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of doing it. Like, why not have this be self- sustaining? Although, the

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trade-off could be the money they save on that computing internally uh could be

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put towards making a better image quality for the price, but that remains

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to be seen. Just like it remains to be seen if this thing actually can stream

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forever like YOLO claims. They say because of the design and all aluminum

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body, it'll dissipate heat fast enough that you could presumably stream

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indefinitely, which is fantastic. I haven't had too much issues streaming

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from mirrorless or DSLR in terms of overheating. But I have had overheating

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issues mostly when I'm doing internal recording on Sony cameras a few

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generations ago. Um, and it's very very frustrating when you're in the middle of

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an interview and you're like, "Can you uh wait 20 minutes while I uh just wait

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here for my equipment to cool off." Thankfully, that won't be a problem with

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this. You just press the button, take the lens cap off. Look at that giant

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freaking sensor. Okay, it's not giant compared to like full-frame cameras, but

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compared to webcams, bro, this thing's like four times bigger. It's crazy. This

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sensor is a Sony IMX sensor. There's not a ton of technical details. What we do

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know is that it's good for 4K 60 across the whole sensor and has dual native

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ISO. Um, although we don't know specifically which ISOs they're talking

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about, but can range from 100 ISO to 9600 ISO. So, that's a pretty dang good

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range. Although, I'm curious to see how grainy it gets at 9600. You know what

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[screaming] We've got our YOLO S7 set up on a seastand. That's probably not what

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you're going to want to do. You're going to want to get some kind of mount for behind your monitor or to an arm.

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Thankfully, the quarter20 means that it's going to be fairly easy. The other thing to note is that as a safety

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feature, the sensor is not supposed to activate without a lens. And that's a good thing because if you have your lens

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off and the sensor on, the electrostatic can actually draw dust to it and damage

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the sensor. So, that's a nice little nifty little safety feature. You know

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what I'm saying? I do have to say this looks pretty good. Uh, it has the

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benefit of that proper not quite cine lens. Um, so you get that cool depth of

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field effect like you can see Glenn in the back is out of focus. Um, it's doing

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a pretty good job tracking me. This isn't the recommended lens. Um, but in

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terms of if I was streaming, that's really not bad. So, let's see what we

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got for controls. And I will say that even though the camera is really shaking

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on the tripod, you can see in this camera, the actual video feed is not too

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bad. Like it's obviously a little bit jittery, but that's not that bad.

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There's got to be some kind of stabilization. Or maybe I'm just losing my mind. In our camera adjustment

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panels, we got our video settings. We can go from landscape to portrait. If I

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was using this at home, I would be using it in landscape. Gosh, wow. I can say if

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I'm only comparing to webcams, this is the best looking webcam I've ever seen.

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if we're comparing two cameras that are the same price as it, that remains to be

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seen. And then we have our HDMI resolution. We're actually limited to

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1080p through the USBC. That's plenty for our purposes today. Uh but it's nice

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to know that you could do 4K through the camera, especially if you're making

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YouTube videos. Uh for streaming, I don't think that 4K is as important.

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Next, we have our imaging settings. That's a really subtle change in our

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white balance. I prefer the cool colors, although I think they got their naming

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schemes backward cuz this cool colors actually adjust tending warmer to adjust

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for colder lights. Uh, so I think I look better at that. You can adjust your

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sharpness uh to really cook those pores.

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Uh, or really soft, which almost looks a

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little bit out of focus, but not too bad. We have contrast. We can cook it or

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uncook it. We can adjust our saturation. It's I can say [music] something sad.

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People ask how you're doing and you have to say you're fine, but you're not

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really fine. Deep down inside, you're hurting. Wow. That felt really real. We

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have our distortion correction, which will adjust for fisheye. Uh although we

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don't need that cuz we're using a 25 mm lens. Uh so you can see I'm actually

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fairly far away like is now me a

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centimeter away from touching. This works if you can get the camera behind the monitor. It's a little bit close for

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what I'd be doing in our purposes today. Uh then we got vignetting correction,

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which is not as much of a problem I found on microf. It's usually when

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you're using zoom lenses on bigger sensors, but it's possible that there's

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lenses that would uh vignette. So, it'll just basically adjust the edges of the

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frame to not get darker. Next up, we have our focus. So, first we can adjust

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our channel, uh, which should reduce the signal interference between cameras. I

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don't do a ton of multi-cam auto focus stuff, so I've never experienced that

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before, but you can change it so there won't be any interference. Then you have

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your continuous autofocus, your single autofocus, or your face. So face seems

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to have some kind of just like face tracking. I imagine for most people

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they'll want that. And we can change the focus speed because although technically

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you want the fastest tracking, sometimes it looks unnatural to have like a robot

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autofocus when it's too fast. And there's something like a cinematic

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quality that people actually enjoy more when there's a little bit of a slow

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rack. And so I'm actually going to go standard on my focus speed. Next we got

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our zoom. I wonder what that does. No,

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we have our hot keys. So, we can set different levels of zoom to different keys. Um, but seeing as that we're

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already at the maximum zoom, I'd want to be uh we are not going to need that.

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Next, we have our AI parameter.

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Why are they calling this an AI feature? This is just controlling a basic feature

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of the camera. That's stupid. Don't call it AI, man. It's just controlling your

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aperture. We can set the amount of AI blurring they do. uh as well as like the

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aperture settings in that menu. So, it wants me to say still. Select your

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preferred image brightness. This one's a little bit different.

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Why did it do this weird color thing? This looks terrible. It looks so much

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worse than it did before. Your AI gets a big thumbs down on top of the regular AI

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thumbs down from me. We are going to reset.

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So much better. [laughter] Also, I want to have manual control over

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all my stuff. you might want to go to the audio and it's actually seems like it's done a pretty good job getting my

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skin tones about where I would want them, but I much prefer having my

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controls all manual. They have two different settings here that do the same

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thing but with a different name. So, if you don't know, the wider you have your

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aperture in a lens, the more blurred things are going to look when they're

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out of focus. If you have a small little aperture, there's more depth of your

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scene that will be out of focus. If you close your aperture by going to the

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higher numbers, you will not only get a darker image because less light is going

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through the smaller hole, but more of your scene will be in focus. Seeing as

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we're having a good time at f1.8, that's great. Or you can use their drop down

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for blur, low, medium, high, which uh

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basically closes your aperture and makes things dark. I feel like that's fine,

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but that should be in the auto side of the settings, not the manual side. Uh so

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we're just going to leave that there. Uh next, we have our ISO settings. I

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imagine that it's 400 or 800. So, we'll we'll go to 400. Either of them looks

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pretty good. Like, not particularly grainy. Uh the image quality, it looks

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like I've got a pretty good dynamic range, so I think 400 is plenty. Next, we have our shutter speed. And I

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actually think that they're not right about this shutter speed because this is

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60 FPS. And generally, when you're doing camera stuff, you have your shutter

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speed at one over twice your frame rate, so that the shutter is open half of the

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frame. That's the most cinematic look. But it wouldn't look quite right if

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you're shooting 1/60th with a 60fps

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frame rate. It would look a little bit soft and I don't think that's quite right. So I actually think they're lying

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to me. But this does have sort of have that 30 FPS look even though it's

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presumably actually at 60 FPS. So that's fine. And if I'm doing Twitch streaming,

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I'm going to be at 60 FPS anyway. Next, we have our white balance, which is

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great. The the auto stuff did a pretty darn good job. We got our our Greenland

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look and we have our Mexico look. And then we have a blue and red offset or we

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can pick a specific color. I actually thought the auto white balance did a pretty good job. So, I'm just going to

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leave it that on auto. Although, if I was setting up for a long-term stream, I

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probably would find the right setting so that I don't have to worry about it mid-stream kind of shifting. Uh, if I

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have weird color things that happen, we actually have access to more color

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correcting. So, you can take a capture image and then color correct that and kind of set that as a preset. We don't

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need to do that. This looks good as it is. And then a live scene button, it put

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everything back on auto, which actually is a good uh thing for me to point out.

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In the exposure setting on auto, you can actually have an anti- flicker setting.

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So for 50 or 60 Hz [music] depending where you are in the world, and then you

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can kind of have a lot of the same settings. Like you can set your aperture here. Uh but then you can also set sort

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of your amount of expected light to compensate for. Again, I'm going to just

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go back to manual. That looks really good. And like, not only does it not

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have a face light to help light my face, it's actually working against all this

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purple bounce, and I have to say it's doing a pretty admirable job at making

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my skin not look totally wacky. Like, when I'm looking at it, it looks a

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little bit off, but if I was streaming with this, I don't think anyone would comment. It would look totally

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acceptable, super sharp. The autofocus

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is pretty good. It really wants to do my hand. You can kind of see it in jumps.

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You can see when I do this, it goes like

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D. But I got to say that autofocus is

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working pretty good at tracking me. It takes a little bit to make sure that

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it's got me. But usually when you're streaming, you're not running around your room too much. And if you are, I

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would just crank the brightness in your room and then close your aperture a

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little bit and you're probably going to be covered anyway. I'm not going to record the camera directly into OBS so

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that we can get a better idea of what it'll look like in your recording

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software. There is a little bit more jitteriness on my monitor. I had to

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close the app in order to get the feed cuz [music] like most video uh devices

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can only be outputting to one of them at a time which is really an annoying

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distinction. I don't know if that's a Windows or OBS thing but freaking figure it out. Uh but you can imagine if I'm

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just a tiny little person in the window

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that's about as nice as I've seen for a streaming camera. Uh and people use much

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more expensive cameras than this for streaming. But here's the flip side.

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This thing is only [music] a webcam. And that could be great. You might be

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someone that's like, "I just want the best video quality when I'm streaming on

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my computer. I don't want to worry about it. I'm never taking my camera away."

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But at the price of $800, which is its

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sale price, but it's one of those sales that goes on forever. So, that's really

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just the real price. They just want to pretend like you're saving 100 bucks, you can get a you can get a pretty damn

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good camera. The Sony has a ZV10. The Mark 1, if you buy used, you can get

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like 400, 500 bucks, 800 bucks new. The

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Mark II is even better for video, but it's a little bit more. If you don't

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like Sony, Canon has the R50, Nikon has the Z30 that are kind of similar price

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brackets uh and I think are much more versatile.

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However, I don't think that their video out is

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substantially nicer than this. And so, if you are going to just use that as a

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webcam, this isn't a bad alternative. And it is really good. It was really

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easy. If you're someone that knows nothing about cameras, the auto settings

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did a pretty good job. Not the AI settings, those suck. But $800 without a

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lens is a lot of money for a webcam. [music] And if you're starting out in

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content creation, here's a little bit of a tip. Video quality matters up to a

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certain point. And when you kind of get past that point, there's a huge drop off

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of diminishing returns. For way less than half the price of this thing,

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especially if you're adding a lens, you can get a pretty damn good webcam that

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captures you. And that's what matters when you're streaming is you, not the

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camera, not the gear. Are you fun? Are you engaging? Are you confident? Are you

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exciting? That's so much more important. So, if I were you, instead of spending

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800 bucks on this, if you're getting started out, I'd buy like something pretty good at 200 bucks and then treat

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yourself to like a massage for 600 bucks and just like enjoy yourself, come back

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to your stream super recharged, super energized, and like that's a way better

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stream. IMO just like this outro is better than the one I did yesterday cuz

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I didn't do one yesterday. This is the first ShortCircuit I've done this week. And if you're still interested in a

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camera in this price range for streaming, uh we actually unboxed the

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ZV10 when that came out a couple years ago and so you should watch that one. I

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have a lot of thoughts back then and I don't think they've changed that much

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since