ok today we're gonna check out sony's
new camera this Zed v1 which for those
of you who have used the rx100 this camera might seem familiar or close to
it but it's actually designed mainly for people on YouTube and people who like to
vlog so let's see what Sony's changed to accommodate for that use case ah boxes
in boxes I love that so this is their
vlogging kit which is an accessory package which we'll look at in a second
but this does not come with a camera and here is the box Oh a little dead cat
mount for your microphone is on the top of the camera we'll get into that in a
second a battery a little micro USB
cable that's a little disappointing like I feel like all cameras should be moving
to type see if they possibly can but this guy seems like it still uses micro
USB so let's take a look at the camera wow it's actually it feels lighter to my
memory than the rx100 but it is a very
similar size it is the same sensor as
the newest rx100 mark 7 the 2 main
physical emissions is that there's no physical ring on the front of the lens
that you can turn cuz on the rx100 you can assign that ring to change your
settings and you can assign it to many settings a lot of people assign it to just aperture cuz it's convenient this
does not have that if you look up on the top here it doesn't have the EVF
personally when I've used the rx100 in the past I never really used that cuz
I just found it to be like a little bit too small but for those of you who like
that feature well it's not on this camera but that's ok because there's a
lot of other features designed for vloggers like a flip out screen this
flips out to the side has full articulation which is the best every
camera that has a design for a flip out screen should use this design I was
really excited when the XT 4 had this and I'm excited to see it here Sony's
cameras in the past like the a7s2 and the Cirie's have that like tilting screen
that goes up and not quite all the way so you can you can look at it from here
you can't easily I mean if you're vlogging within a nine you're probably
not doing it super often anyway but it's nice that you can just hold the camera
like this and you can just look at yourself and if you want to also use it
this way you can hold it like this look at that look how nice that is
and if for whatever reason you're like looking from the side you have you can
you have options this is the best design anyone who doesn't do this I've said it
a million times you should do this the camera is currently off and the screen
is folded in but when you open it it
just automatically turns on that is such
a great way to make sure that you never miss a moment so there's also a couple
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
is not the same as the rx100 mark 7
which is the newest one this is a 24 to 70 1.8 to 2.8 newest rx100 mark 7 is a
2.8 lens from 24 to 200 millimeters and
4.5 on the long end so that means you lose a lot more light on the long end of
that lens it's a shorter range on here but I think I'd choose a slightly
shorter range and a faster stop then having to go all the way to 4.5 on the
long end of something like the rx100 but that's up to you it's a personal choice
most people are going to use it like this about 24 millimetres talking
directly to the camera and when they're speaking directly to the camera Sony's
also integrated this new mic which allows pickup from audio coming directly
to the front of the camera and tries to cut all the background noise around it
so everything behind your camera it's optimized for vlogging just like this
they've also included this little dead cat that just slots in
and you have a very easy to setup even when it's windy audio solution and
because the mic is larger than Sony's other compact cameras it would be a lot
harder to screw up your audio by like putting your finger over your mic so
here's the vlogger kit which Sony offers as an optional accessory and let's see
what comes inside oh another box in the
box situation sunny are you good you have this SD card which is nice
64 gig SD card to come with your camera it's guaranteed to have no write issues
that's always nice so now I've never used one of these like smart grip
they've done stuff like this in the past and it always just kind of seemed like a
weird addition that might have also been a little bit on the expensive side but I
actually see potential for this people might genuinely use this so the battery
our camera is almost dead so why don't we use that opportunity to us if the
micro USB allows you to charge it while the camera is in use it does that's
great so you can charge your camera and still shoot and so if you're in a
situation where your battery is low have your battery back plugged in you can
continue vlogging that is great so that's that like button
this is what this is this is how floggers do this right not to make fun
of loggers I'm just not one so for anyone who does vlog out there leave me
a comment on if you think you'd use this tripod thing it is nice that you can
have your record and if you want to take a photo and your zoom control all from
this little joystick here so the last thing in the box for the vlogging kit is
this little pouch to hold your little tripod thing and this battery so the
type of battery that this little grip uses is a CR 2032 which is like one of
these tiny watch sized batteries or like
maybe a wireless remote control kind of thing which I guess is what this is and
now I'm not the biggest fan of it using
this type of battery just because while these batteries are not very expensive
they're not super super common like you can't necessarily go into a grocery
store and buy one of these now that being said let's just pop it in and see
how easy this is to set up
okay very my remote is powered it's
blinking red here so preparing on this
little row you have to hold photo and the zoom rocker up to enter pairing mode
ah here we go allow connection for device and connected all right that was
pretty seamless now does it work let me put an SD card in I'm gonna do
she'll see no okay
connecting paired all right we have a
paired confirmation so the remote should no work even after you've paired the
remote in order to actually use it you have to go through a setting that says
Bluetooth remote control and you have to
toggle that to on and now the remote
should work whoa so now we're rolling on
the Zed v1 and I'm testing the zoom
rocker which is slower as it whoa you
know what I can actually see if you were vlogging and you wanted to just adjust
something like your focal length really really quickly that's a really nice way
to do it like I'm sure most people who've logged on one of those Joby
tripods the flexible ones but if you wanted an alternative this grip seems
like a good option and the Zed V one has a little tally light so you know when
you're recording from the front which honestly would be really useful if you
vlog and you've ever hit record or thought you hit record did an entire
video because it was a static tripod thing and then you go back to look at
your camera and it wasn't recording that would suck if you don't want a red dot
looking at you when you're vlogging you can actually also turn it off but personally I'd use it all the time and
it's a nice inclusion so another interesting feature that this camera has
is a depth of field button so there's a
button on the corner here if you press it automatically allows it to have a
shallower depth of field like it'll just it'll change the f-stop to have a
generally shallower depth of field for your shot or you could just turn it off
and then even when I put my head in front of it like this it doesn't go to a
shallow depth of field then when the button was on like a button
like that allows you to just focus on what you're making your video about versus like okay well what setting am i
at 2.8 at 1.8 it just allows a little bit more flexibility good for Sony for
including such a simple feature that will probably help a lot of people so
one of the biggest questions I asked myself is does it retain all the video
settings that something like the rx100 has because sony has always done a good
job of making all of their cameras
fairly feature-rich for example right now I'm shooting on
here in s log3 so if you're the type of person who wants to color grade your
images to look that much punch here that
much better and you just want a higher dynamic range look overall you have that
option so it's nice to see that that v1 also includes the standard X AVC 4k HD
and ABC HD that has become known on Sony cameras you have 4k up to 30 FPS and
then if you want to shoot in HD you also have the high frame rate options the
frame rates can go up to 240 480 and 960
FPS this is a vlogging camera with 960
FPS you might not use it that often and it's also not the highest quality 960
FPS but you have it it's a feature you can use it has image stabilization so
like this shot when your handheld like
this you you have that extra in body stabilization considering this isn't a
replacement for New York's 100 mark 7 I'm surprised how much this camera
retains in terms of features it's the type of thing that allows someone who is
a very basic beginner to grow into it and learn that you can get really really
solid looking images out of a camera that is not big and not difficult to use
at all so I just realized and I've complained about this in my xt4 video as
well by default out of the box you have to charge your camera through the camera
please stop doing this please include a
charger having to charge it through the camera is sort of annoying because now
we are sitting here with a dead camera because the battery does not charge
faster than it being used and he just informed me that the battery charger for
the Sony's is $48 us guys 48 dollars for
the privileged to charge your cameras batteries not within the camera it is
still nice that Sony allows you to charge your camera while being used thank you but I'm a little bit sad that
it can't charge quite fast the is
everyone also has Sony's hotshoe standard which is multi interface which
just means that it'll work with all the accessories that Sony has made generally
audio accessories so you could even put something like the XLR modules that you
can get for the a series cameras on here it is nice to have the option if you
were making more than one person and you wanted the highest quality audio with no
synching that is an option for you pretty great and then wrapping up on the
other side of the i/o there's the standard 3.5 millimeter audio jack that
for the longest time everyone wanted on the rx100 and they did introduce and it
is a very helpful addition to see here and then there's the dreaded micro HDMI
I'm not a huge fan of micro interesting line I know that's on a camera this size
it's hard to accommodate anything larger to Sony's credit they have three pieces
of i/o on the right side of the camera which is more than most cameras this
size and this form factor will have so let's just do a quick like autofocus
test and see how well this thing can keep up I'm just gonna put my hand in
front of and back to me front of back to
me wow that's snappy that is nearly instant and it's not it's doing a great
job Wow this has another feature that I was
surprised that they put in to this camera the rx100 has had for a while is
they have built an ND filter so you can do those like slow shutter speed shots
or just get a shallower depth of field in your video depending on your
situation and that's surprising because the kicker to this camera and what makes
it so appealing guys is it's $7.99 u.s.
so to put that into context the rx100 mark 7 the most recent rx 100 is twelve
hundred and ninety eight dollars u.s. all of that for five hundred dollars
less I am seriously impressed by the
price and on top of that on release Sony is offering this at 7:49
u.s. and they're also offering the vlogging kit which is usually two
hundred and ten dollars at a 49 so for anyone who's just getting
started on YouTube or wants to upgrade their vlogging setup but still maintain
a very compact form factor I think Sony has a winner with this
camera they've done an excellent job of taking everything that makes the rx100 a
popular and good vlogging camera and they've just made it better honestly
even though I don't walk I kind of want one of these good job sunny and thank
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