Sony FS700 Professional Video Camera Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at
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the Sony
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fs700 camcorder which will be uh which
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will be used for Tech tips purposes this is uh this is a oh it cost a lot of
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money so yes this was something I legitimately purchased in order for us
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to bring you all kinds of higher quality
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production values and all kinds of good
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sort of stuff let's see what Sony has to say for themselves on the outside of
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this very very boring Brown packaging so
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here's a bunch of hoo-ha about trademarks and registered trademarks and
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whatnot here's a big warning right on the top of the box damage to this unit
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verifiably verifiably caused by the use of non infolithium batteries will not be
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covered by the warranty uh when using SD class 4 or faster as recommended all
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right we've got a super 35 cosos X more
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whatever that is probably the sensor in all likelihood it has a 4K sensor in it
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that's something of note so you have to get a firmware upgrade later on down the
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line to get 4k support they're estimating it'll cost $500 to $1,000
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which still makes it a great value for 4K capture but I think is absolutely
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ridiculous for um just charging for firmware that's not
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my my IT industry Roots would uh would would disagree with that particular
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approach so ABC HD is how it captures two cards however it also has the option
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of capturing two HDMI just with uh using
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an HDMI output and a capture card such
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as the intensity Pro from Blackmagic which I also purchased so okay we have
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one of those microphone doodads let's just go ahead and open it up so wind
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blocker let's just okay forget it I'm not going to be able to open that you
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know what open thank you there we go just a simple
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foam one foam there fascinating
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interchangeable lens digital HD V recorder okay operating guide very very
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short limited warranty here so labor is
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for 90 days and parts say one year onee
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warranty on this thing good thing I bought it with my Visa which has an extended oneyear warranty content
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management utility okay interchangeable lens digital hdv oh there's the real
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manual on a disc hey way to go Sony and then here's apparently another one
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here's an operating guide setting the headphone sound all that kind of good
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stuff this is all no this is all English wow
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okay all right what else we got in
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here is that an eyepiece I don't know
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I'm not much of a camera guy actually diesel is the one who's going to be showing me how to use all this stuff so
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I'm just excited about the fact that we're going to have a okay
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H magnify very cool I'm just excited about
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the fact that we're going to have a uh a much better a much better camera overall
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and that someone will be operating it and that we will be able to bring you
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better better overall production values we'll be able to set like you know depth
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of field and stuff like that so that you know it'll have like kind of that blurry
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background and just generally look better this thing can capture it up to 960 frames per second which is also kind
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of cool um although it doesn't really
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capture any kind of decent quality at that frame rate and it can only capture
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for I think a couple seconds but you can get some pretty reasonably long captures
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at reasonably high quality at as high as 240 FPS which was is great for like slow
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motion and that kind of stuff that uh we will obviously be playing with if we're
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going to be investing this much into equipment you know you got to make sure
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you're using it so it comes with a microphone
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okay there's the microphone that matches that uh foam condom thing that goes on
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top of it right there okay however we're going to be using a different mic so
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we'll be using an ntg2 from
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Road there you go that one comes with a
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10e warranty see they understand how to stand behind an expensive product this
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camera is like $8,500 and uh they give you a oneyear warranty
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with it look at all these accessories and whatnot this is exciting so here's a
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battery charger VCR / camera nice love it and then
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charging there's a power adapter for it there's a DC output so this is oh okay
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so you're either charging or you're outputting to the camera slash if you
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have a VCR that runs off that connector then I guess you could do that I guess
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they mean like video capture
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recorder ooh okay this is the lens so
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important to be careful with this I'm not going to not going to play around with this too much so it's a kit lens
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but as far as kit lenses go uh my
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understanding is this one's actually pretty decent so there's the little
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cover for the end piece um looked into getting something
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that was not a kit lens but did not end up wanting to go down that rout so here
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we've got all of our manual manual controls for Focus as well as for
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Zoom cool beans uses an e-mount so something to be aware of guys is you
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need an adapter that costs a few hundred if you want to use anything but a Sony
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native e-mount lens on this camera uh that was again the reason we went with
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the kit was because to get anything decent that was not the kit lens was
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going to cost um at least 1,000 bucks so
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so we went that route here's a microphone holder oh
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that's disappointing cuz I bought one oh well now we
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know what else we got here hm Okay so so
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there's your hand piece which you can use to uh Zoom as well as something to
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do with focus and photos so you attach that to the camera it's a very modular
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design much like the fs100 so there's a lot of of pieces and uh and gizmos that
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you can attach to it in order to customize the experience comes with a
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remote see continuing the proud tradition of cheese ball remotes with
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expensive gear that I've seen time and time again in my years in the uh in the
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IT industry as well as whatever other industry just seems to be sort of by law
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everyone does that here's a USB adapter of some sort guessing that's for pulling
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footage off the camera here's some strap hopefully there's instructions to go
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along with all this and lots of cables so here's a component adapter component
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video out here is just is this really just RCA
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cables really I mean if I really fs700 I need
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RCA okay maybe maybe I'm missing something here I'm sure I'm missing
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something but that just seems brain dead okay here is
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another oh this looks like the piece to actually run the camera off of so
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there's your uh your filter as well as your wire and power adapter so in that
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case I have no idea what the point of this is cuz that's not even that's not
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even the same like anything that's not
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even remotely related okay it's okay diesel will be able to figure all this
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out it won't matter for me two power cables for those two pieces for the
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battery charger as well as to run the camera another USB cable which I'm sure
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there's a point to USB a to mini which is somehow different from this USB cable
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which I can't identify what that is okay
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ah infolithium battery so I'm going to need a bunch of these I suppose at some
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point all right that goes there and now
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we are left
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with a battery
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cover yeah we're not interested in that
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oh no that's not a battery what is this I don't know it doesn't matter let's
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open up the
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camera wow it's big it's actually a
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little bit bigger than I expected so bearing in mind I know
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absolutely nothing I can already tell this is a lot more baller than the XA 10
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that we're using to film this it does come with ND filters so you can use
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those to adjust the something to do with the amount of light that comes through
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or something like that that was one of the reasons we ended up going with the fs700 versus the fs100 you have to get
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like little uh little ND filters to change the quality of the light and put
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them over top with the fs100 whereas this one it's built in uh We've also got
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manual controls for pretty much everything and its dog so that's a huge
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advantage over something like the XA 10 that we've been using up till now where
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everything's done via touchscreen interface that's extremely inconvenient
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uh the ergonomics on the fs700 are also supposedly quite a bit better than the
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fs100 although I've never seen either of them in person up till now so here do
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you want to just come in and have a have a close look at the body here it's not that heavy uh once you throw a lens on
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it I guess it's going to add quite a bit of weight but uh we've got a new tripod
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as well that's going to help us with the additional the additional weight
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requirements that uh that we have you know what let's throw the battery in and
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see what happens here hey I mean that's what we do on this channel right we just
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sort of randomly do things and then we hope that it sort of works so there's an
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indicator arrow that yeah that didn't
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work oh there we go all right what happens if we turn it on power
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on and it doesn't come charged oh yes it does there we
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go and we can set things like
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the time zone okay forget that for now
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so there we go face detection last scene Auto manual
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mode oo lots of cool stuff that I totally don't understand there's the
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battery release button as well there's your mounting for your tripod actually a
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wide variety of different mounting mechanisms here as well as little rubber feet so it doesn't go anywhere if you
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put it down which is important cuz it's expensive okay headphone monitor so you
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can uh monitor well sound just like that we've also got HDMI out so this is what
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I talked about before where we'll be using HDMI out to capture to a black
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magic card and then ah this one that's
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what we're going to need when uh when we're doing 4K out so that's your HD SDI
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out which is uh more flexible cables um
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lighter weight all these are good things however there's these fancy red mirr
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cables now so this is what we'll be using for HDMI capture that you can use
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28 AWG wires and still achieve a 50t
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distance on them so we'll be running that out of here wrapping it around an
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ARM to make sure it doesn't pull too hard on the connector and uh and going
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that route so here's all of your audio controls right here you control which
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input and how much and who and what as
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well as all the wow look at all these dedicated controls for playing back I
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guess they really mean for you to use this in the field it's got a beautiful display on it great viewing angle on
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that can you tell from there or I is it just yeah you can't really tell okay
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awesome viewing angle on there so they really mean for you to actually be reviewing your footage a little bit to
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uh LCD hold oh okay you can make it uh
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yeah yeah you can make the LCD hold in place or you can totally release it so
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that it's there we go okay some more mounting pieces mounting points for all
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kinds of various accessories and stuff like I said very modular so you can can
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release this as well and then put different sort of adapters and whatnot
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this is this is for that something we
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had some here we go this is for this I
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think no it's not I have no idea what that's for you know what we'll be so
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yeah we figured it out there it's for like a flash memory recorder thing so we
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put that spacer in there now also uh there's your inputs for uh for audio one
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and two just right there uh you can change modes from video to
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photo I really hope you're not taking photos with this thing though because that's really not what it's for and uh
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that pretty much covers it so here's your shoe mounts for various accessories
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and whatnot so we're going to build it and then uh show you guys once it's
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assembled so I think we got it assembled now like I said before we don't really
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know what we're doing but uh we have this camera now so uh yeah it's bigger
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than I expected and you know we've got the microphone attached now so we ran
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that to the to the input here oh yeah iPhone size comparison of course so
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there that's the here I'll put that there iPhone can basically be like an
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output for this thing or rather like a display for this thing so it's huge see
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there there's the iPhone again there's the thickness and um yeah so we figured
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out what this thing's for it is an eyepiece it's just a slight
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magnification and darkening of the LCD so you can you can see in there if you
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were if you were able to see in there uh this doesn't work the zoom zoom here cuz
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C uh Sony doesn't have motorized lenses yet for the emount so I don't know what
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they were planning to do with that maybe they'll have it available as a firmware upgrade for $500
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$1,000 um so I think that pretty much covers it we have to unbox we have lots
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more gear to unbox here I'll show you this got the kinof flow lights we've got
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man fro uh tripod we've got uh right
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black magic a microphone more kof flow
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lights very exciting stuff so stay tuned more unboxings to come