This is the Sony ZV-1F. It’s a $500 point-and-shoot camera that, From the briefing I had on it, Sony suggested it’s basically
stepping up your game From your phone for content creators That wanna make YouTube videos,
product videos, TikToks, Other types of content, They can step up from the
phone to a real camera, But now at a really
affordable price of only $500. So what we’re gonna do today
is we’re gonna test this Against the popular, a couple
popular flagship phones. Patrick Tomasso here. Thanks for coming. – Hello. – He brought the iPhone 14 Pro, Pixel, Google just sent
over the Pixel 7 Pro And I’ve been using the Pixel 6 Pro. So we’re comparing those to
this to see if you have one of These latest flagships. Should you spend $500 on this camera Or should you spend
the $500 somewhere else And keep using your phone. I already did a full review of the ZV-1, Which is almost identical And I don’t wanna re-review it here. So please watch that video or
watch somebody else’s review On the ZV-1 if you wanna
know more about it. And I’m just gonna build off of that. This is $250 cheaper. So I suppose the question would be, Where is the $250 in savings coming from? And I’d say it’s probably three things. One, this does not have
a built-in ND filter, Which the ZV-1 did have. Two, it’s now on a fixed lens,
So the ZV-1 had a full-frame equivalent Of a 24 to 70 or something like that. This one is just a fixed like
20mm full frame prime lens. And the shoe on this is
not a multi-interface shoe, It’s literally just a cold shoe, you know, Glued onto the camera. So if you do put a mic in it, Like one of these little mics here, Or even if you use one
of Sony’s interface mics, You can’t use the electronics. You still have to connect a cord To the three and a half mil input, And all the rest of
the ports are the same, Except for now it’s USB-C
instead of USB micro B Or whatever they’re
using on the other one. – Which is a nice upgrade. – It’s a good upgrade, yeah. You can charge it that way. But as far as the rest of the ports, It’s micro HDMI, USB-C and
a 3.5 millimeter mic input. Other than that, it’s a ZV-1. – I would say, Cause the biggest
complaint with the ZV-1 was That focal length, it was
just a little bit too tight. – Cause it’s a vlog camera. – Yeah, but vlog camera shoot at 24 mil. I just remember everybody
that got it was like, ”Well I really like this camera”, But you’re like really
stretching the thing out. Whereas, you know, We’ve played with this
for a little bit now And you can have that bendy elbow. – [Gerald] You can vlog – [Patrick] With this now
and it’s a nice vlogging,
Focal length a lot closer
to what you typically, As you’ll see a lot closer,
typically what we get With a phone. – It was similar to the phones, yeah. It does have a zoom function, But it’s like a clear-image zoom. – Yeah. – So you’re gonna lose
like better autofocus And that kind of thing. But you can punch in a
little bit for a static shot. The thing to note though
is that the reason why the, It was so tight on the ZV-1 is That you have your 24 mill equivalent, But then the 4K applies a small crop And then the active stabilization, Which you’d probably want for vlogging, Applies another crop. So you’re now you’re at like 28, 32, – 28, 29. – That’s too tight for vlogging. This one still has those same crops. The 4K has a crop and the
active stabilization has a crop, But it’s still a reasonable field of view Once you have all those things applied. Regarding the stabilization, The difference is this lens does not have, There’s no stabilization in the lens Like optical stabilization,
which the ZV-1 had. So this one, when you turn on
the stabilization, it just, It’s either off or it’s active. There’s no standard stabilization, Which we’ve noticed did make a difference, We think in how the overall
sort of vlogging image appeared. We’ll show you some sample
footage and talk about that.
There’s also small little,
actually it’s not small. It was, I think I said on
the ZV-1 it was like one Of the reasons why I would
not buy the camera was That the quarter 20 mount on the bottom On the ZV-1 was located right
beside the battery door. So when you opened it, it
actually opened over top. Meaning that if you wanted
to change your battery Or your SD card, which are
both located under here, You’d have to take it off the tripod, Take it off the quick release
plate, whatever it is, Which made no sense. This is no longer a
problem, as you can see, It’s over here and you got full access. There still is a complaint
though, that it’s not center. – [Patrick] Yeah, it’s an off center. – It’s off center. – [Patrick] Yeah, it’s weird. – As far as battery life, I recorded for about an hour and a half, 4K for a rundown test. No overheating, just
when the battery died. That’s about fine, average performance For a camera like this. This one does have the
new menu system though, But it doesn’t have all of the new stuff. There’s no S-Cinetone, There’s still no 10-bit,
it’s 8-bit 4:2:0, It’s still kind of a
bare bone system here. – Even though this is
lacking a lot of features That we love in cameras, I think as someone who would
just pick this up at Best Buy, – Yeah – It might be the perfect
like turn on and just go. They’re not gonna dive
into a lot of that stuff.
– I would say when it comes
to like point-and-shoot For video, it might be like
the best point-and-shoot For video, for the dollar. – For the dollar. Yeah, exactly. – But is that what you’re looking for? And in the days of phones, I find it hard To recommend point-and-shoots
these days when- – [Patrick] Totally. No, I agree with you, I completely agree. – But anyway, let’s get
into an actual comparison Because I think the real question here is I have a phone, who like
everybody’s got a phone For the most part,
– Yeah. They’ve been good for a few years now. – Yeah. Should I get this too? I’m already noticing quite
a few things going on. – [Patrick] Quite a few things, yeah. – [Gerald] So first off
there’s this like jittery – [Patrick] Yeah. – [Gerald] Jelloy thing going on And I can’t tell the
stabilization is less, So I don’t know if it’s like A electronic wobble
from the stabilization. – [Patrick] Yeah. – And that we’re seeing worse Than we saw in the ZV-1. This is supposed to be the
same sensor from the ZV-1, – But to me it looks very different. – It looks different. – It looks very different. Like when we first looked at this footage, The first thing that caught in my mind was That wobble jello. – Yeah, I’m looking at it right now.
– [Patrick] Yeah, exactly. – [Gerald] It’s obvious.
– [Patrick] It’s really bad. – [Gerald] Yeah.
– [Patrick] It’s rough. – [Gerald] So it shouldn’t
that, you see that? – [Patrick] That to me
has to be rolling shutter. – That was rolling shutter. – That was rolling shutter for sure. – It is rolling shutter, But there’s also this
thing where it’s like, It’s almost like my hand shakes. – It feels like your hand-
Yeah, it comes up when – You’re doing corner
there, corner tremors. – [Patrick] It’s just like,
it’s like really, really jittery And to me that’s like super distracting. Pulls me out of what I’m watching. Even someone who doesn’t
understand cameras will see that And think that looks kind of weird. So let’s talk about that
dynamic range or lack thereof. – [Gerald] Yes. So look at
that sky and it’s important Cause when we switch to the phone, You’ll see the difference. Now obviously the phone phone uses Some crazy HDR compositing. – [Patrick] Yeah. – But this is shot in standard Which is just picture profile off. Which I think is important Because if the market for this is Somebody who’s, they know a phone. – Yep.
– Let’s get ’em A little bit into cameras.
– Yep. – They’re not gonna jump in
and start shooting S-Log2, – S-Log3, – Yeah.
– Not that you even, Whatever shoot S-Log3 through
with this, cause it’s only- – Yeah. They’re gonna shoot standard. – 100%. There is
literally point and shoot, Pick up, point and shoot. Yeah. – I mean we’re getting plenty of detail. – [Patrick] Yeah, no, it’s
crispy. The 4K looks nice. It’s definitely a sharp image. – [Gerald] It’s oversharp I would say. – [Patrick] Oh for sure. – [Gerald] But you can
turn the detail down If you do wanna do that. It’s not too hard to turn
the detail down in this. – [Patrick] Totally. – [Gerald] So now we’ve
got your iPhone 14 Pro. – [Patrick] 14 Pro. Front-facing camera. Again that’s another thing we
should mention with all these We thought that it was
the best sort of like Point of a comparison
with a camera like this is That you would wanna see
yourself while filming. Cause that’s one of the benefits Of having the flippy screen on this. – Yeah. – So if you’re gonna use
a camera like this for- – However you’re using this, – [Both] you’d have to use
the front facing camera. – [Gerald] You have to evaluate how HDR-y When it comes to the, These things are not
doing any kind of HDR, But the phones are. So how strong is it? – [Patrick] Yeah. – [Gerald] And with the
iPhone, something I’ve noticed That is quite good is that
I’m getting HDR benefits
Of keeping the sky and- – [Patrick] Keeping the shadow- – [Gerald] Keeping the
shadows nice but it’s not so – [Patrick] Extreme. – Plastic looking, you know. – The iPhone is okay to clip a window Or okay to clip the sky. – Yeah, like this looks natural. – [Patrick] It looks natural.
Where sometimes I find, And you’ll see when it get to the Pixel, Is that if everything
is completely exposed, – [Gerald] Yeah, that’s- – [Patrick] You get this
uncanny valley territory, right? – Here’s the only issue with phones. – Yeah. – Is that they are
constantly updating, like, – [Patrick] Settings and
algorithms and changes. – [Gerald] So now you get a
shot like this where you go, I don’t like this as much. – [Patrick] Totally.
– [Gerald] Now this kid Looks worse.
– [Patrick] Yeah, yeah. – You could argue that with
this it’s more constant. – It could be constantly bad
or could be constantly good. – Yeah, exactly. So maybe you have something
where you’re like, ”Well, the sky’s gone today. It’s gone.” – It’s gone. Yeah. – But I know that as I go
in and outta something, – It’s inconsistent. – And perhaps you would keep
immersion, I don’t know, Not because of the jello
and everything else, And this one, are you gonna, Are you gonna notice that and go, ”Oh the skin went weird all of a sudden.”
– Yeah – [Gerald] That looks great though. – [Patrick] It looks great.
Yeah, it’s crispy and again, That’s the front-facing camera. So it’s doing a great job. Stabilization is really good. – [Gerald] Stabilization. – [Patrick] No warping. – [Gerald] Yep. – [Patrick] No, I mean little
bit of weird lens flares Here and there, but
look like, think of that Look the sun right behind you And you can still fully see your face, But it doesn’t feel that unnatural. – [Patrick] Yeah, it looks great. – [Gerald] It looks really good. So now we got the Pixel 7 Pro. So what I’m noticing here, Cause I’m so focused on the stabilization And rolling shutter And all that stuff, that’s not a problem. It’s definitely smooth, We’re getting similar results in terms of We get to keep the sky,
we’re keeping the face And everything, but this okay. – [Patrick] This is
right here is what we’re- – [Gerald] This has been a problem. – [Patrick] Yeah. – There’s a softness going
on on the face it seems, Now I don’t know if it’s a like, a skin- – It kinda feels like a
skin smoothing feature, But I can’t figure out if it’s that Or if it’s just the
HDR kicking in too hard To try to keep everything.
– [Gerald] Yeah, it’s like boosting- – [Patrick] Yeah it’s
like boosting the shadows. – And the noise reduction.
– Exactly. – Mushes it. But we’ve gotten some mushy mushy face. – Yeah. – When we’re outside. – Like literally if
you look at this frame, Why does it feel like the
trees are perfectly sharp And crispy? – [Gerald] Yeah. – [Patrick] And you’re
almost like foreground blur. – Yeah, it’s like back lit means That the foreground is soft. It’s strange.
– It’s very strange. – It wasn’t like that as
much on the Pixel 6 Pro. – [Patrick] No.
– [Gerald] However, I will say that the coloring is nicer On the Pixel 7 Pro. – [Patrick] Oh, absolutely.
– [Gerald] Yeah. – [Patrick] This has got like A washed out sickly kind of look to it. – It does. The colors
are not as nice here. Now we did do some audio stuff. I don’t know how important
this is to some people. As we said, this one has sort Of a fancy internal mic capsule. – [Patrick] Sounds good. – And you’ve got a little, you know, Wind cover where the phones do more Of a computational wind reduction. – I think it’s worth mentioning That there’s no auto gain on this camera, Which I thought is kinda weird
– Not that I can find. – [Patrick] Yeah – It comes with like a default setting, But there I didn’t find a setting Where you could have it adjust – [Both] on the fly. – Exactly. – Which I think is a
little counterintuitive For a camera like this
cause you don’t know What sort of situations
you’re walking into. – True. It is cool that you have manual control. If you ever tried to like
really control your audio On a phone, it can be pain in the butt. – It’s a real pain, yeah. – So if you were using
different microphones And you have more control here, But if you don’t know
anything about audio, The phones are easier. – And I think the phones
all sounded really nice too. Like they all have their own
subjective EQ quality to them. – We’ve got a screen
brightness issue here, Which is if you shoot 4K on the ZV-1F, You can’t turn on sunny
weather mode on the LCD screen, You can only do that on HD. So it keeps my skin when
I get the highlights On my skin, it keeps it in play. Blue skies, nice color on
the leaves, looks good. But for me from the vlogging experience, These are the front-facing cameras. So I get to see the sky
behind me as I’m doing this. But when it comes to other mics, – It’s interesting, yeah. – So we did some stuff.
We’ve got Patrick’s got his lightning To three and a half mil
and over here we got USB-C To three and a half mill. So if you throw these in
then you can use a TRRS, So you got like a four pole, And you plug the four pole
into the phone side. Right? – [Patrick] Yep. – And then you got a
couple different options. So companies like RODE
and Deity make these Like passively powered, I don’t know if they just like
steal a tiny amount of juice From the- – Yeah. – From the phone or whatever. But you can use these
little mics and they’ll work Or you can get a bigger mic
like say this RODE Video Mic NTG And this one you charge
it and then you turn it on And this gives you way more gain. So you can like really jack these up. – And you will obviously get much like When we say add a
microphone to your camera, It is a noticeable increase in quality. – Yeah. – When you switch to one- – And directionality
and like, and you can- – But it’s nice that it’s
fairly simple and easy. All you need is, you know, Everyone got rid of headphones
jacks on their phones. So all you need is these
dongles, your TRRS to TRS cable And you’re pretty smooth on that point. – And then on this end you
could go female to male. – Yeah.
– So then you could Like come in if you wanted
you could boom the mic. – Totally.
– And have the phone
set the way you like it, Boom the mic in. Get one of these like
just outta frame here And you’d get really good audio quality. The only thing that I would
say gives a point to the camera Is that there’s a
microphone port on the side With a gain setting And you can’t monitor though. – No headphone jack. – There’s no headphone jack. – But monitoring with the
phone is also a nightmare Unless you get a cool
mic like this D4 mini, Which also has an output. – Yeah. – [Patrick] Headphones go, not
a lot of mic would do that. – [Gerald] Yeah. Especially with the Pixel. I found that- – It was a little more
cumbersome with the Pixel. – Yeah gotta connect the
mic and then you gotta wait And then there’s a prompt. – Yeah. – And we didn’t know that cause
on the iPhone it just kinda – [Both] switches on automatically. – Then you have to hit the prompt And then tell you wanna use external mic. – Yeah. – So for a minute there we weren’t sure What mic we were actually using. – And you’re sitting there
like blowing at it, tapping, Trying to figure out what- – And there’s no levels. You got no- – Then you gotta keep
unplugging the things, You have no headphones
to listen to it, yeah.
– Exactly. – It’s a bit of a pain. – Without having audio
meters is challenging too Cause you don’t know what
you’re actually doing. Where on the camera
there’s audio meters right On the screen so you can, Microphones are easier to use on a camera. – Absolutely. – So we did some inside stuff. Like this is like a standard, If you wanna do a talking
head for a YouTube video Or a reel or a TikTok and you had a light Or something like that or
you step by your window. – [Patrick] Yeah. – [Gerald] This would be like that Talking head setup with the phone. And this is the, I think
the ZV-1 looks pretty good. – [Patrick] It looks like a real- – [Gerald] It looks
like a real good camera. – [Patrick] Yeah. I think it looks good. – Quick interruption. We’ll get back to how the
phones compare to the Sony In that shot in a minute. But first I wanted to
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This is the iPhone 14
without cinematic mode on. – [Patrick] No cinematic mode. – Interestingly though,
in an inside environment, The iPhone 14 went from
being my clear winner, – Totally – to the loser for me. – Yeah. I mean I feel
like the iPhone just went For like a total washed out look. – Yeah. Like no shadows. – No shadows allowed at all. – Yeah. – Just faded grays and yeah.
It’s not a flattering looks. – And we’re getting that sort Of supreme HDR thing going on here. – [Patrick] Yeah. – [Gerald] And then this is
cinematic mode. Immediately- – [Patrick] Immediately
the contrast kick in. – [Gerald] Contrast is
better. Better skin tone. – [Patrick] Totally. – [Gerald] It’s still very warm. – [Patrick] It is very warm. – The iPhone seems to
love warming things up. – Yeah. – And we have some sort
of like color charts To kind of prove this. – Totally. – But much better than
just the previous shot. – Yeah. – [Gerald] You know, now
that feels like the same, – It’s the same. Yeah. And the cool thing with cinematic mode, You can change that to the field. My personal opinion, there’s a sweet spot Of like F6 to F8,
Where it starts to look
just natural enough. And you’ll see in Gerald’s
hair, if you wanna, – [Gerald] There’s the hair, yeah? – [Patrick] Like we are, right? – [Gerald] You can see some of the, And also my hair is
kind of wacky for this. – [Patrick] Totally. – [Gerald] You know, add on. – [Patrick] I have a video- Yeah. I’ve done videos on my channel Where I’ve completely shot the whole video In front facing cinematic mode And I’ve had people ask me
what my YouTube setup is. – [Gerald] Yeah. – [Patrick] And I’m like, ”Oh by the way, I just used my phone
for that entire thing.” Right? Cinematic mode on the
14 Pro now is all in 4K. So you’re not limited
to HD, you can do 4K 24. – That’s important. We can do 24 and 30 on this camera And we can do 24 and 30. – And 60. – And 60 yeah. – 60 not in cinematic mode, but
24 and 30 in cinematic mode. – In cinematic mode. And on the Pixel 6 you can only do 30, Now you can do 60 on the Pixel 7 Pro, But no cinematic mode on
the front-facing camera. The only way you can
get 24 frames per second On the Pixel is you have
to go in cinematic mode – And you have to use the rear camera. – Which is the rear camera
and it’s only in HD. – Which is bizarre.
Well, let’s take a look. – [Gerald] So watch this. This is, first of all, the
edge detection is terrible. It’s dancing all around my head. And then you have these moments Where it’s just completely, – [Patrick] It’s completely gone. – [Gerald] It’s completely gone. – [Patrick] You stop
rendering as a human being. – [Gerald] Yeah. It looks
like a video game pop-in. – [Patrick] Yeah. – [Gerald] Like when like the
draw distance wasn’t good. It’s like, ”Oh there we go.” – [Patrick] There you go.
– [Gerald] And then all That exposure stuff
changing is me tapping, Trying to figure out what’s going on. – Desperately trying to, Definitely trying to keep him in focus. Google has a lot of work to
do with like their algorithm For their cinematic mode. It is not, in my opinion usable at all. – [Gerald] So this is interesting. I think at first we had
different initial reactions. – [Patrick] Yep. – I have done a lot of
color work in this studio. This is the most accurate in this shot. The colors in the background are right. My skin tones are correct. The white balance is perfect. – So like you’re saying
like as an out of the box, If I just turned the
camera and you’re like, ”Whoa, that like nailed it”. – [Gerald] But it wasn’t as good outside. – It wasn’t as good outside.
– But in controlled
lighting, it’s like, yeah. Controlled lighting on the Pixel, It nails the white balance in the color. This is the iPhone. Really sharp image. Nice and clear, warm. – [Patrick] Yeah. – When you see it on its own, It’s hard for you to tell. But these grays are rosy
a little bit, you know, And if we jump over and look at the Pixel, This is actually perfectly neutral. – [Patrick] Yeah, exactly. – [Gerald] It’s hard to tell again Cause in comparison you
might think this looks cool. – [Patrick] Yeah.
– [Gerald] But what we can do Is we can look at the RGB values Of any kind of one of these spots here. And if I put it anywhere,
it’s almost bang, R, G and the B are all the same potency. – [Patrick] Yeah. – Which means the balance is perfect. Right?
– Yeah. – So again, good job Google
on this kind of shot. When you have a static, well lit shot, It just nails the color. – Yeah. – And then here we have the ZV-1F, Which also did a pretty good job. So, you know, not too much
in the way of complaints. If we look at the actual vectorscope To see sort of the color
accurate situation, This is what we got for the iPhone. Now for those that don’t
know anything about this, These little boxes around
here are your different hues.
So this one’s your red, this
one’s your yellow, your green. The ideas that you want
to have this chip sort of Like hit inside the box. So you can see, for instance, the cyan, It’s pretty close. – [Patrick] Yeah. – [Gerald] The blue is close, But a little bit oversaturated. Magenta’s pretty spot on. The red’s a little bit unsaturated. – [Patrick] Yeah. – [Gerald] Now if we compare
this to the Pixel seven Pro, We actually get a little bit
less of a saturated image, Which I think is true for iPhone, Likes to be a bit saturated – [Patrick] Yep.
– [Gerald] at times, right? And we’re getting really good green, Pretty darn good yellow. I would say that the way
Google’s processing is just more By the book.
– [Patrick] Totally. – And less with a flavor on it. And then here’s the Sony.
This is Sony in standard. Generally I’d recommend if
you pick up this camera, Standard’s okay, standard’s
punchy and it’s bold. – Yeah.
– But you can go on, You can switch to neutral
and you can get better color. – Yeah. – And it takes a bit of the edge off too. And then we also ran
through dynamic range tests For the Sony ZV-1F. We messed around, Patrick
took his iPhone too. – And I actually, I shot it in ProRes too, Just to try and get the
best quality we could Out of it, but,
– So this is what like
the Xyla21 looks like. It’s a bunch of increasingly darker chips, Lit so that you can see
how it handles shadows. So we shot with the iPhone
one of that. It was crazy. – [Patrick] It was crazy. Yeah. – [Gerald] You can’t control
it enough to know how to like, So it’s like, I’m gonna blow these out And do these and put noise there. – [Patrick] I probably could have got The furthest chip exposed if I wanted to. – Yes. Exactly. For the ZV-1F, we did the standard, We did S-Log2 and we did S-Log3. S-Log3 is probably ill advised, But I wanted to see what the
maximum that we could kind Of get out of this
camera would be basically The very top number
here in a slope-based DR That shows us how many
stops the camera can see. So it can detect 14 stops, Which normally that means
like the camera manufacturer, When they advertise something, They advertise that number max. – Yeah. – But there’s gonna be noise, And other things that corrupt The lower end of that image there. How usable are the shadows? So this medium one here is With a signal-to-noise ratio of two, Which generally means usable shadows. And you can see we’re getting
just almost exactly 10 stops. So a usable 10 stops from a total of 14. When we shot an S-Log2, We were able to bump that
up to 11 usable stops.
And then S-Log3 actually puts
you back at a disadvantage. Which is why you never should
really bother with S-Log3 On these cameras. You’re not
getting anything out of it. – No.
– Yeah, you can see Your 14 stops again, But now you’re only getting 10.7 And you gotta finesse them so much. They’re gonna be so noisy. – Yeah. – Your skin’s gonna be weird. It’s gonna be a disaster. So then regarding that noise, We did a couple tests
just over in the corner With less light to see how these cameras Just handled not getting
as much light to see What they looked like. So this is the Pixel and I
mean there’s a lot of noise. Interestingly, it’s not affecting the skin As much as it did outside. It doesn’t make any sense. – The algorithm that
Google’s doing with their HDR And what they decide to
be sharp and not sharp In terms of noise reduction
is very bizarre to me. – In this case, they’re
letting more noise through, Which means that you’re preserving details In the the face.
– [Patrick] Totally. – [Gerald] But you can really
see a dance in the grays In the background.
– [Patrick] Absolutely. – [Gerald] Now if you go to the iPhone, I think if you just watched
it on the phone itself, It might not look so bad,
but what Apple is doing- – [Patrick] Oh, did you see that? – [Gerald] I saw that. – [Patrick] The noise was like.
– [Gerald] So what Apple does
here is instead of trying To increase sharpness and
all this kind of stuff, What it’s doing is just cranking
the noise reduction to max. So the entire image becomes software. It almost feels like the
Pixel is isolating your face In a weird way to be sharp still. And then boosting all the
shadows up to be noisy, right? – [Patrick] What the iPhone
is not doing well here is When there’s movement in the frame. – [Gerald] Yeah, you see- – [Patrick] And that noise
reduction, it’s like it smears. – [Gerald] It just smears
all over the place. So what this can do is jack up the ISO. – [Patrick] Absolutely. – [Gerald] So I remember looking
at the back of this camera And it was up to like 3,200,
sometimes hitting 4,000. – [Patrick] Yes. – [Gerald] This is so much
better than the other. – [Patrick] Oh, absolutely. – [Gerald] So when it comes to, If you wanna shoot in your dark corner, – Yeah. – Then again, this means, And it’s funny in this kind
of like low dynamic range shot – Yeah. – But also low light,
most of the weaknesses Aren’t really relevant. – [Patrick] No, it’s
not really showing up. – [Gerald] It’s interesting. – Which is funny because then, you know, It kind of leads us into
maybe some final thoughts. But the thought being that, Do you want to spend the money on this Or do you just need a nice key
light for that iPhone? Right?
– Correct. If you’re
walking around outside, The iPhone 14 Pro looks great, – [Patrick] Look amazing. – That is a great sunny vlogger. – Sunny vlogging camera,
travel camera, whatever. – Travel camera, you can take photos, You got it all, right?
– Yeah. – Yeah. There’s some weirdness
with like certain things, But think of the budget. Think of what can you do for $500 now? Well, when you’re outside, Get one of those apps that you can- – Yeah. Buy an app that you
can change the exposure, You just clip on ND filters. – ND filters. Get some riggity
stuff for it to, you know, Optimize how you use
it when you’re inside. Get some lights, get a
tripod, get a bounce card, Get reflector, get a… – All the nine yards, yeah. – Keep using your apps, Keep your own stuff and all that stuff, I think is gonna cost
you less than 500 bucks. – Easily. – And that stuff then
if say this was your, Your gateway camera. – Yeah. – Yes. You don’t necessarily have, You might learn something
by using the apps That give you shutter speed. – For sure. – Yes. You’re not learning
the camera part of it, But then when you go and you
buy your full-frame camera, You might still have lights and a tripod. – You’ve got good fundamentals.
– You’ve got stuff you can still use. So it’s an interesting product. – [Patrick] Very interesting. – And it was fun to test, And I appreciate what
they’re trying to do. And if the use cases we did
describe are good for you, Then it’s a $500 4K camera. – Yeah. – So have at it. – Sony color science, great auto focus. – But if you’re trying to
do a one device covers you For your images, photo,
video of logging, whatever, I think you’re better off with your phone. – 100%. I think that’s it. (upbeat music)
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