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cameras are amazing and I love being invited to unbox them on ShortCircuit

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because I get to be made aware of cameras that aren't normally in my

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wheelhouse like the zv1 Mark II this

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little vlogging monster from Sony is quite the impressive little machine I'm

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excited to get to this but let's see what else is in this box to be fair to

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Sony this is not a retail box so although the items are the same it won't

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look quite like this we get a little bx1 battery a type c to a cable our little

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charging block little windscreen I am very grateful

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that they sent us the wrong color because more than ever it now looks like

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this camera has a haircut actually when I was using this camera on the weekend I

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got a lot of comments like oh that's the cutest camera I've ever seen and I can't

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I can't deny that it is the cutest camera I've ever seen I'm not a big fan

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of including you know Walmart and a USB cable to charge your camera I much

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prefer having an external charger because then you can charge a battery while you're using your camera but this

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is how they save pennies and make this camera an affordable price

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let's explore the body of this camera starting with its General feel and

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weight Sony says that this camera with the battery and the SD card in is nine

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ounces which is 255 grams

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that's 300 grams it's not even close okay cool I'm

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guessing they chose uh ounces as it's a much less precise unit of measurement

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and they can you know round up a little bit the bottom has a pretty premium feel

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it's that plastic finish it feels pretty hefty for its size although not too bad

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it's a little small in my hand I'm having a hard time utilizing the rounded

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edge of the grip I just kind of end up pinching right beside the lens it's fine

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and everybody this small kind of has the same issue overall not a bad feeling

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body can't really complain for this category of camera on the top we have

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our hot shoe Mount which is our primary audio interface and you can use other

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accessories although it is still currently locked to Sony audio

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accessories which is a bit of a bummer if you want to use the internal mic

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there's a three capsule mic and you can actually change the setting so that it's

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you know an omnidirectional or forward backwards facing depending on the stuff

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you're shooting we have our power button we have our mode switch button we can

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switch between photo video and slow motion or other interval shooting modes

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we have our video record button we have our shutter button and we have our

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background bokeh button which is an essential piece to how Sony wants you to

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utilize this camera we also have our Zoom switch I think the buttons feel a

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little mushy the shutter button is the only one that has any real click the

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Zoom rocker has a decent amount of resistance that feels okay on the back

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we have our very angle LCD which is my current favorite implementation of an

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articulating screen it means you can you

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know shoot in all kinds of different angles the most important especially

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with this kind of camera is facing yourself so you're able to kind of hold

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the camera at an ARM's length and kind of see what you're shooting

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big fan of that on the back we have our function button which is also sent to

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smartphone button we have our menu we have our control wheel which has

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different settings on each axis as well as a select button we have our playback

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button or just like look at what's on your card button and our trash or if

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you're in shooting modes our product showcase button another quick menu thing

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to help you access the camera's full feature set as easily as possible on the

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bottom we have our quarter 20 Mount and our battery and SD card compartment on

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this kind of camera size you're only going to get one camera slot I'm not a

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big fan of this battery type the bx1 is just a little too dinky for me on this

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camera the bx1 will get to about 260 photos whereas a bigger battery like the

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one on the zve E10 gets you 640. that's

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a huge difference in 260 photos goes

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pretty darn fast and so you'll need to carry a bunch of these batteries if

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you're planning on doing a full day the nice thing as we come to the side is

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that there's a USB port which is how you charge it but you can also use battery

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banks for that bad boy one of the features that's really nice about having

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a type c is you can actually use this camera as a webcam and an upgrade over

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previous models is that you don't need to use Sony software as an intermediary

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to do that you'll need a computer a phone that is UVC or UAC compatible the

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downside is that it's limited to 720P

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30. that's fine if you're a twitch streamer you know your little small

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window in your screen and even at almost full screen that would be fine but it's

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a little disappointing when you have a 4k camera that can only output 720p

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through USB that said it can output 4K through its HDMI

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um but this is little HDMI ports are the worst I hate

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them so much and I want them to die I'm serious man I'm serious you have a

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microphone Jack um which is nice you can use external

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mics that utilize that connector one thing that's still missing on this is

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there's no headphone jack for you to monitor your audio from for Solo shoots

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that's not super unexpected but that's definitely something I'd like to see on

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future revisions and especially as this

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camera really has one main update and

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it's the lens on the previous model zv1 it had a 24 to 70 equivalent lens that

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was 1.8 to 2.8 in terms of f-stop this

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one smartly in my opinion this is an 18 to 50 equivalent lens F 1.82 F4 that

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might not seem like a huge difference but when you're holding it at just like

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just over a meter away from your face 18 and 24 is a huge difference especially

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if you're using stabilization in the camera that will introduce additional

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crop I think it's a really smart upgrade in terms of a camera that's designed to

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just be your run and gun camera and kind of fit all purposes

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but what I found is that the 50 mil long

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end is just a little too short there is

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digital Zoom to compensate 1.5 times zoom in 4k mode or two times in 1080P

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but that doesn't really mean anything you can just crop and post and have

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basically the same result and while it's nice to have F 1.8 at the wide end F4 is

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a little bit closed especially when you compare the previous models 2.8 at the

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long end one thing that's really cool about this lens is it has a great macro

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distance so at the wide end at 18 mil you can actually Focus five centimeters

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away and at 50 15 centimeters away that's quite good in terms of focusing

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distance and so you could actually get some very close up of some small things

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although you would definitely not be able to get close-ups of far away things

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you'll notice when you turn on the camera is that the UI is heavily touch

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based Sony says that they're aiming to make it similar to using a touch phone

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really intuitive really simple and in my experience it's mostly been like that so

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right away you can switch between your different shooting modes first off we

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have intelligent Auto which is our full AI mode every processing trick every

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compensation that the processing can do

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it does uh we have our different priority modes uh we have full manual

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and we have different modes that you can kind of customize if I'm shooting professionally with this thing I would

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probably switch to manual but I actually had pretty good experience using the

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intelligent Auto I much prefer keeping my shutter speed the same and letting

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the camera compensate using ISO and even the aperture next we have our drive mode

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you can do single shooting burst shooting timers and different brackets

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so that in post you can combine the photos kind of get this really intense HDR look we have our Focus modes uh the

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default was Zone but you can set a point and kind of have it track through your

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image you have your beauty filter on and off which is going to stay off next we

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have our record and stop record buttons

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we have our soft skin effect which is

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gonna be off although I found the low setting to be fine uh some of the

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footage from this camera can be a little grainy and some of the processing can

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soften some skin I didn't find it too bad there's also a zoom preset button so

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you can go right to one time or two times Zoom we also have our waveform

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bottom a lot of these settings can be accessed through the buttons on the top and the side but it is nice especially

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if you're a new shooter to be able to just look at something touch it and

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manipulate it I'm a big fan of touchscreen interfaces that are really

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simple to use and I think they've done a pretty good job another thing I think

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Sony has done really well is they've made the menu a lot more like an alpha

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camera a lot of the layout is the same and I found as someone who's used to an

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alpha camera it was really easy to navigate we have our different image

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quality settings are media settings our file format and structure we have our

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shooting modes Drive modes our shutter settings a lot of these again are

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available through the touch screen right away we have our exposure settings we

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have our Focus settings our playback settings our network settings which is

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cool like previous zv cameras you can connect to a smartphone or the my

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creator app on a PC and unlock kind of extra features and then our general

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camera settings one of the strengths of Sony cameras for a long time has been

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its autofocus and this camera is no different Sony says that using autofocus

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this camera can get focus in .03 seconds and that's because it's using 315 phase

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and 425 contrast detection autofocus

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points on 65 percent of the sensor that's not the most comprehensive I've

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seen But for a camera this small that's very impressive in my use over the

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weekend I found that it was quite excellent at tracking subjects at many different distances switching between

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catching faces and those autofocus points are supplemented by AI face

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detection multiple face detection World actually stop down the aperture to give

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you a wider depth of field and so it can keep multiple faces in focus it also has

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object detection so you know you can like dog or car and it's done a really

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good job in my experience of tracking those subjects through video through

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photo and that's definitely one of the big strengths of this camera

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speaking of sensor this camera has the same sensor as the Mark 1 which has the

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same sensor as the RX100 Mark VII it's a

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little bit disappointing although sensor technology advancements have kind of

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slowed not a huge deal it's a one inch type 20.1 megapixel sensor it does ISO

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125 up to 12 800 and even 25 600 in

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certain modes all in all a pretty great sensor especially when you consider the

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target audience for this camera and that's for people that may not know how to fully utilize all the fine controls

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of a higher end camera and to that end like I mentioned before Sony has two

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modes easily accessible by button one is a background bokeh setting which will

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open up the aperture as wide and compensate using other settings so that

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you can have your subject in focus in a background bokeh

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I don't know how to say it I read it more than I say it you also have your

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product showcase button which does a similar thing opens up the aperture but

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it changes the autofocus speeds that's a little smoother of a transition like

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recent zv cameras this has the cineblog setting you turn it on you get an

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anamorphic crop and you switch to 24 frames a second you can also change the

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color very easily I don't think I would be using this but

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I can definitely see the use for someone who's just running and gunning and needs

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to know to shoot a skid and add a little texture and color to their to their work

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another strength of an all-in-one camera like this is that its image

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stabilization is built to utilize every part of the camera to its maximum

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potential that being said there's no inline stabilization there's no in body

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stabilization there is just electronic

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stabilization um your options are off

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or on when you turn it on your crop is

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about 1.5 times so what was 18 mil becomes about 24 mil

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uh that's fine uh and that's better than you know starting at 24 and becoming

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like 33 but in my short experience using this camera the stabilization doesn't

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look super good and that's pretty common of electronic stabilization there's just

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like a little bit of blur on everything and sure the the points of the camera

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are staying mostly stable but the things inside it kind of have that unnatural

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look to it I'm not a huge fan of electronic stabilization and the stuff

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in this camera is definitely not the best but if you are running around you

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know doing a travel Vlog it would be a fine the nice thing about image

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stabilization is that it works with both photos and video and speaking of video

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options which is definitely the focus of

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this camera it does 4K 30 or 24 or 1080p

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up to 120 and you can even do higher frame rates at these kind of like

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interlaced modes up to 960 which is

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pretty high but it looks real bad the highest bit rate it can do is 100

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megabits at 420 not the best but for a

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camera this size and for the target audience that's fine although it doesn't

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have any 10-bit modes it does have s-log 3 S gamma 3 and hybrid log gamma and so

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this is pretty full featured for a camera the size and I was pleasantly

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surprised by that and if you want to shoot the 100 megabits but also shoot

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proxies that is available to you the camera does have picture profiles which

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is nice it's not as fully featured to some of the higher end ones but uh it's

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there and that's nice if you turn off the picture profiles you get access to the creative look which can be nice you

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can find people that have you know ideal settings to match a certain look and

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customize it that way and there's also the pre-built ones that are okay this

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camera obviously has a rolling shutter it was fine I didn't really like the

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look of motion when I was shooting and I generally found all the video I was

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shooting with it had that digital look of like a 2011 camera

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it wasn't bad it was sharp and the photos I took were pretty decent uh

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especially for a camera this size with a built-in lens man we have come so far

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with little point and shoots it is insane that being said this camera costs

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900 and that is a very saturated price point

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there is a lot of competition even from Sony themselves at less than 900 that I

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think I would probably consider before this this is a good camera and if you

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already have a higher end camera that you shoot primarily on and you want

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something you can just keep in your backpack and pull it out when you need to this thing is more than sufficient

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and will definitely do the job especially if you're someone that's

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shooting selfie Vlogs having that extra wide angle lens is a huge Boon and there

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is no other point-and-shoot that has that wide of an angle equivalent at any

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price point for 150 cheaper you can get

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the previous model one that is essentially as good minus that extra a

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wide lens if you don't need that extra wide angle lens I would suggest getting

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the mark one in terms of direct competitor in this category there's the

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gx7 Mark III which is pretty good and

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has a longer throw up to 120 mil with a wider aperture there's also the

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Panasonic g100 which I've seen for around 550 online which is pretty good

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of those three this is probably the one

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I would pick if I was doing selfies but I would pick the mark one for General

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use that being said for less money than

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this thing you can get which is kind of

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inarguably the step up in the same model

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line the zve E10 right now from b h you

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can get a zve E10 with a kit lens for a hundred dollars cheaper than this thing

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it has a bigger sensor it does better video that kit lens isn't the best lens

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in the whole world you know 3.5 to 5 6 aperture is

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not ideal and it's a 16 to 50 so when

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you add the crop it's wide as is less wide than this but then you have a

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camera you can upgrade into the future you can buy more lens you can buy a

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wider lens and in my opinion if having

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the built-in lens isn't the killer feature I would definitely recommend the

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zve E10 over the zv1 Mark II any day and

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if you want to check out more camera content I recently unboxed a zve E1 and

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that was quite the camera