(Pocket-lint) – Sony has unveiled one other vlogging-focused digital camera in its ZV vary, and this one’s designed a bit of in another way to the opposite two.
It is known as the ZV-1F and includes a mounted, prime, ultrawide lens and is designed particularly for individuals who wish to movie themselves. The thought being that you would be able to seize your self and in addition get lots of background in on the identical time.
You’ll be able to zoom digitally if you wish to, and nonetheless get 4K decision when you transfer between focal lengths utilizing a know-how that Sony calls Clear Picture Zoom, which primarily crops into the 20.1-megapixel CMOS sensor.
It nonetheless options lots of the instruments that made the earlier ZV fashions excellent for content material creators. The background bokeh swap stays, permitting you to rapidly swap on a pure depth impact with the flick of a button.
You additionally get the product showcase setting which robotically and rapidly focuses on an object if you happen to maintain it as much as the digital camera, and switches again to your face whenever you take away it from the scene.
For taking pictures whereas shifting there’s an lively mode which electronically stabilises footage to maintain it clean whereas working/strolling and – identical to so many different Sony cameras – you get eye autofocusing that works on people and animals.
The digital camera has a correct flip-out display screen too, and Sony has reimagined the consumer interface to make it extra intuitive for individuals used to taking pictures with their smartphones. Which means you may contact to zoom and management lots of the settings with out touching any buttons.
It is designed with a extra accessible worth level in thoughts, to tempt smartphones customers to modify to a ‘correct’ digital camera, and – in so doing – has misplaced a couple of of the options of the dearer fashions.
Which means you get simply distinction autofocus, not section detection. You additionally solely get 4K taking pictures as much as 30 frames-per-second (no 60fps right here). It does have as much as 5x sluggish movement and 60x velocity hyperlapse within the S&Q settings although.
Its physique is just about the identical dimension because the ZV-1, but it surely weights 40 grams much less, and includes a tally gentle to point out whenever you’re recording, which is joined by a crimson body across the show whenever you press report.
When you’re achieved, you may rapidly switch the footage over to your cellphone for sharing on social media utilizing the Sony Imaging Edge Cell Plus app. And the digital camera is aware of when it is in vertical or horizontal orientation, and rotates the footage to match. And – if you wish to – you should utilize it as a webcam. Simply plug it into your laptop computer, and use it as a better high quality digital camera to your Zoom and Groups calls.
The Sony ZV-1F might be available for purchase this month and can value round €650 in Europe, making it the most affordable digital camera in Sony’s ZV lineup.
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Writing by Cam Bunton.
