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ok today we're gonna check out sony's

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new camera this Zed v1 which for those

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of you who have used the rx100 this camera might seem familiar or close to

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it but it's actually designed mainly for people on YouTube and people who like to

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vlog so let's see what Sony's changed to accommodate for that use case ah boxes

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in boxes I love that so this is their

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vlogging kit which is an accessory package which we'll look at in a second

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but this does not come with a camera and here is the box Oh a little dead cat

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mount for your microphone is on the top of the camera we'll get into that in a

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second a battery a little micro USB

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cable that's a little disappointing like I feel like all cameras should be moving

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to type see if they possibly can but this guy seems like it still uses micro

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USB so let's take a look at the camera wow it's actually it feels lighter to my

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memory than the rx100 but it is a very

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similar size it is the same sensor as

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the newest rx100 mark 7 the 2 main

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physical emissions is that there's no physical ring on the front of the lens

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that you can turn cuz on the rx100 you can assign that ring to change your

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settings and you can assign it to many settings a lot of people assign it to just aperture cuz it's convenient this

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does not have that if you look up on the top here it doesn't have the EVF

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personally when I've used the rx100 in the past I never really used that cuz

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I just found it to be like a little bit too small but for those of you who like

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that feature well it's not on this camera but that's ok because there's a

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lot of other features designed for vloggers like a flip out screen this

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flips out to the side has full articulation which is the best every

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camera that has a design for a flip out screen should use this design I was

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really excited when the XT 4 had this and I'm excited to see it here Sony's

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cameras in the past like the a7s2 and the Cirie's have that like tilting screen

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that goes up and not quite all the way so you can you can look at it from here

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you can't easily I mean if you're vlogging within a nine you're probably

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not doing it super often anyway but it's nice that you can just hold the camera

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like this and you can just look at yourself and if you want to also use it

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this way you can hold it like this look at that look how nice that is

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and if for whatever reason you're like looking from the side you have you can

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you have options this is the best design anyone who doesn't do this I've said it

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a million times you should do this the camera is currently off and the screen

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is folded in but when you open it it

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just automatically turns on that is such

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a great way to make sure that you never miss a moment so there's also a couple

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other physical things that Sonia's abs in this camera but before we finished

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days in the link in the video description so the lens on this camera

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is not the same as the rx100 mark 7

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which is the newest one this is a 24 to 70 1.8 to 2.8 newest rx100 mark 7 is a

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2.8 lens from 24 to 200 millimeters and

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4.5 on the long end so that means you lose a lot more light on the long end of

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that lens it's a shorter range on here but I think I'd choose a slightly

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shorter range and a faster stop then having to go all the way to 4.5 on the

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long end of something like the rx100 but that's up to you it's a personal choice

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most people are going to use it like this about 24 millimetres talking

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directly to the camera and when they're speaking directly to the camera Sony's

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also integrated this new mic which allows pickup from audio coming directly

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to the front of the camera and tries to cut all the background noise around it

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so everything behind your camera it's optimized for vlogging just like this

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they've also included this little dead cat that just slots in

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and you have a very easy to setup even when it's windy audio solution and

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because the mic is larger than Sony's other compact cameras it would be a lot

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harder to screw up your audio by like putting your finger over your mic so

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here's the vlogger kit which Sony offers as an optional accessory and let's see

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what comes inside oh another box in the

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box situation sunny are you good you have this SD card which is nice

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64 gig SD card to come with your camera it's guaranteed to have no write issues

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that's always nice so now I've never used one of these like smart grip

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they've done stuff like this in the past and it always just kind of seemed like a

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weird addition that might have also been a little bit on the expensive side but I

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actually see potential for this people might genuinely use this so the battery

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our camera is almost dead so why don't we use that opportunity to us if the

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micro USB allows you to charge it while the camera is in use it does that's

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great so you can charge your camera and still shoot and so if you're in a

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situation where your battery is low have your battery back plugged in you can

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continue vlogging that is great so that's that like button

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this is what this is this is how floggers do this right not to make fun

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of loggers I'm just not one so for anyone who does vlog out there leave me

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a comment on if you think you'd use this tripod thing it is nice that you can

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have your record and if you want to take a photo and your zoom control all from

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this little joystick here so the last thing in the box for the vlogging kit is

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this little pouch to hold your little tripod thing and this battery so the

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type of battery that this little grip uses is a CR 2032 which is like one of

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these tiny watch sized batteries or like

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maybe a wireless remote control kind of thing which I guess is what this is and

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now I'm not the biggest fan of it using

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this type of battery just because while these batteries are not very expensive

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they're not super super common like you can't necessarily go into a grocery

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store and buy one of these now that being said let's just pop it in and see

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how easy this is to set up

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okay very my remote is powered it's

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blinking red here so preparing on this

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little row you have to hold photo and the zoom rocker up to enter pairing mode

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ah here we go allow connection for device and connected all right that was

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pretty seamless now does it work let me put an SD card in I'm gonna do

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she'll see no okay

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connecting paired all right we have a

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paired confirmation so the remote should no work even after you've paired the

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remote in order to actually use it you have to go through a setting that says

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Bluetooth remote control and you have to

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toggle that to on and now the remote

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should work whoa so now we're rolling on

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the Zed v1 and I'm testing the zoom

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rocker which is slower as it whoa you

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know what I can actually see if you were vlogging and you wanted to just adjust

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something like your focal length really really quickly that's a really nice way

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to do it like I'm sure most people who've logged on one of those Joby

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tripods the flexible ones but if you wanted an alternative this grip seems

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like a good option and the Zed V one has a little tally light so you know when

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you're recording from the front which honestly would be really useful if you

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vlog and you've ever hit record or thought you hit record did an entire

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video because it was a static tripod thing and then you go back to look at

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your camera and it wasn't recording that would suck if you don't want a red dot

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looking at you when you're vlogging you can actually also turn it off but personally I'd use it all the time and

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it's a nice inclusion so another interesting feature that this camera has

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is a depth of field button so there's a

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button on the corner here if you press it automatically allows it to have a

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shallower depth of field like it'll just it'll change the f-stop to have a

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generally shallower depth of field for your shot or you could just turn it off

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and then even when I put my head in front of it like this it doesn't go to a

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shallow depth of field then when the button was on like a button

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like that allows you to just focus on what you're making your video about versus like okay well what setting am i

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at 2.8 at 1.8 it just allows a little bit more flexibility good for Sony for

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including such a simple feature that will probably help a lot of people so

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one of the biggest questions I asked myself is does it retain all the video

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settings that something like the rx100 has because sony has always done a good

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job of making all of their cameras

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fairly feature-rich for example right now I'm shooting on

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here in s log3 so if you're the type of person who wants to color grade your

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images to look that much punch here that

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much better and you just want a higher dynamic range look overall you have that

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option so it's nice to see that that v1 also includes the standard X AVC 4k HD

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and ABC HD that has become known on Sony cameras you have 4k up to 30 FPS and

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then if you want to shoot in HD you also have the high frame rate options the

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frame rates can go up to 240 480 and 960

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FPS this is a vlogging camera with 960

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FPS you might not use it that often and it's also not the highest quality 960

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FPS but you have it it's a feature you can use it has image stabilization so

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like this shot when your handheld like

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this you you have that extra in body stabilization considering this isn't a

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replacement for New York's 100 mark 7 I'm surprised how much this camera

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retains in terms of features it's the type of thing that allows someone who is

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a very basic beginner to grow into it and learn that you can get really really

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solid looking images out of a camera that is not big and not difficult to use

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at all so I just realized and I've complained about this in my xt4 video as

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well by default out of the box you have to charge your camera through the camera

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please stop doing this please include a

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charger having to charge it through the camera is sort of annoying because now

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we are sitting here with a dead camera because the battery does not charge

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faster than it being used and he just informed me that the battery charger for

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the Sony's is $48 us guys 48 dollars for

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the privileged to charge your cameras batteries not within the camera it is

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still nice that Sony allows you to charge your camera while being used thank you but I'm a little bit sad that

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it can't charge quite fast the is

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everyone also has Sony's hotshoe standard which is multi interface which

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just means that it'll work with all the accessories that Sony has made generally

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audio accessories so you could even put something like the XLR modules that you

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can get for the a series cameras on here it is nice to have the option if you

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were making more than one person and you wanted the highest quality audio with no

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synching that is an option for you pretty great and then wrapping up on the

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other side of the i/o there's the standard 3.5 millimeter audio jack that

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for the longest time everyone wanted on the rx100 and they did introduce and it

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is a very helpful addition to see here and then there's the dreaded micro HDMI

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I'm not a huge fan of micro interesting line I know that's on a camera this size

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it's hard to accommodate anything larger to Sony's credit they have three pieces

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of i/o on the right side of the camera which is more than most cameras this

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size and this form factor will have so let's just do a quick like autofocus

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test and see how well this thing can keep up I'm just gonna put my hand in

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front of and back to me front of back to

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me wow that's snappy that is nearly instant and it's not it's doing a great

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job Wow this has another feature that I was

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surprised that they put in to this camera the rx100 has had for a while is

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they have built an ND filter so you can do those like slow shutter speed shots

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or just get a shallower depth of field in your video depending on your

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situation and that's surprising because the kicker to this camera and what makes

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it so appealing guys is it's $7.99 u.s.

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so to put that into context the rx100 mark 7 the most recent rx 100 is twelve

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hundred and ninety eight dollars u.s. all of that for five hundred dollars

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less I am seriously impressed by the

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price and on top of that on release Sony is offering this at 7:49

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u.s. and they're also offering the vlogging kit which is usually two

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hundred and ten dollars at a 49 so for anyone who's just getting

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started on YouTube or wants to upgrade their vlogging setup but still maintain

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a very compact form factor I think Sony has a winner with this

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camera they've done an excellent job of taking everything that makes the rx100 a

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popular and good vlogging camera and they've just made it better honestly

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even though I don't walk I kind of want one of these good job sunny and thank

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