Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Sony ZV-1 II vs. Canon V10: battle of the vlogging camera”.
Typically, a camera made for vlogging is lighter, smaller, cheaper and made to be held out in front of you. It should be quick to boot, easy to use and deliver high quality footage that you can’t get from a phone. These are the two latest vlogging cameras from Canon and Sony Sony’s brand new zv1 Mark II and Canon’s latest V10. Each of these cameras is attempting to cater to the Creator Community, but they both capture a story in a wildly different way. So who does it better? I’M Becca welcome back to full frame the first Sony. Zv1 is the company’s best-selling zv camera to date, which is why the Mark II is a big deal. It’S a rare current Sony camera that does not have interchangeable lenses. That’S fine for the set it and forget it folks who aren’t going to change the lens anyway, but it does mean that down the line when you start to get bored of this system, there’s no upgrading the Optics in this iteration of the zv1 Sony did change That lens, though, the Mark II has a wider 35 millimeter, equivalent 18 to 50 millimeter, F 1.8 to 4 lens. You can record at 4K up to 30 frames per second or 1080p at 120 frames per second.
If you have the 20.1 megapixel one inch type CMOS sensor, unlike Canon Sony, has trickle-down specs from its more expensive cameras into this one. You get the new touch, controls cinematic Vlog setting and human and animal real-time eye, autofocus that we saw in the zve E1 plus the dummy proof settings like the Boca switch for defocusing the background or the product showcase setting for focusing on an object being held out In front of your face, okay, but what if my face is also on the frame nice, not to mention the zv1 Mark II continues to have better autofocus than the rest of the competition at this price point, and it has a built-in three-stop ND filter. Damn that boots and gets rolling so fast, this camera comes in both black and white, but when I heard it was coming in all white, I knew I needed this model, especially when I heard that the windscreen was going to be white. I mean this is just the cutest little set of hair I’ve ever seen on a camera.
Now I was kind of concerned that the camera would get dirty, but in my three weeks of testing it’s really not showing all that much wear, not anything that I couldn’t you know just wipe off. I did have to brush the windscreen, though that got a little gnarly, although I primarily took video with this camera. The photos are crisp clear and when paired with the defocus button, that opens the shutter to F 1.8, they have a good amount of depth. Overall, the Sony zv1 Mark II feels like a modern, well-speced, point-and-shoot camera that is under a thousand dollars, and although there is very little to upgrade on this camera once you start to grow tired of the system which you might, it has a lot of the same Menu systems and settings of higher end Sony cameras, so if an upgrade does happen, you’re going to feel very comfortable moving up to the higher end systems.
I mean grabbing entry-level folks and hoping to move them up. The line of your camera systems is Basic Marketing, which is why this camera is so confusing to me. Oh in 2013, Canon launched the PowerShot N, and our headline was this: not only does the new Canon V10 resemble the PowerShot end, but that headline could be used for this camera and pretty much any vlogging camera today. The problem is this: camera is not bridging a gap.
Now before I held this camera in my hand, I completely wrote it off it. You know it looked like a Flip Ultra HD wannabe mixed with maybe a Game Boy and uh. Well, now that I have in my hand, there’s a little bit more to the story than that. Let’S go see some chickens.
The V10 has a 20.9 megapixel 1 inch type CMOS sensor, the confirm 4K at 30 frames per. Second, it has a fixed 19 millimeter lens that provides a 97.5 degree field of view. There’S a built-in ND filter and the iso ranges from 125 up to 6400 in video mode and all the way up to 12 800 in photo mode at just under half a pound or 211 grams. The V10 is incredibly fun to use. The problem is, the footage, is super hit or miss. There are times when the contrast levels are great and the Shadows are deep black and then other times when the camera simply would not focus.
Am I even in Focus hello or was way too jittery to use? Even with the digital image stabilization on enhanced the bigger problem, though, I could not keep this lens smudge free – oh my God, it’s so dirty back, and then there are more annoying problems like in order to get to the video settings menu. You have to be in the video mode or the fact that the screen has to be turned out in order to get the kickstand back in. All of these nuisances add up to solidify the fact that this is a first gen product that needs a lot of fine tuning. They also make using the V10. If you like, using a toy, I mean it’s like super plasticky. It’S got a small screen with huge bezels and it’s incredibly Limited in what it can do so hot take if the footage from the V10 was actually worse, or maybe it had like a vintage preset that added a time stamp and like a videotaped look.
I think that the feel of using this camera would then better match the footage it output and there might actually be an audience for that. But I don’t think that you could charge 430 dollars for it, and I really don’t think Canon should spend the time or money making a novelty camera. The one thing the V10 does have going for it in its current state. Is that in Perfect Light, it takes crisp clear, pretty good, looking photos? There is one thing that both of these cameras have in common, though a terrible, app experience with many users citing dropped connection or lack of being able to use the apps at all.
And, of course, a 2.2 and 2.3 star rating on the App Store, I feel like a broken record. But how is it possible that camera companies such as Canon and Sony and even Nikon and Fuji, cannot create a solid app that has even a decent UI? That can take photos from a camera and move them to a phone. I mean this is exactly the reason creators would much rather use their phone to create content they’re not going to take their images to a computer and they’re, certainly not going to post from a computer. I mean action cameras, they have been creating solid app experiences for years, and it is time that camera companies, especially if they’re, going to make vlogging cameras or cameras for creators like get with it, poof that felt good to get off my chest, but, like I’ve, said That, before in many videos, so uh, let’s go app. Experience aside, the zv1 Mark II and the V10 are a pretty perfect example of you get.
What you pay for both are certainly smaller, lighter, cheaper and absolutely made to be held out in front of you, but for double the price. The zv1 Mark II is more reliable, takes better video, more of the time and packs more features that beginners will love, though I do hope Canon keeps working this form factor and starts trickling down some specs from their higher end systems into something this size, because it’s Simply so fun to use a few years ago I laughed at the vlogging product category. It felt like a move for manufacturers to get amateur videographers to buy something.
But now, as a Creator myself, the zv1 Mark II is actually a very viable tool, especially when I need to be in front of the camera, and I don’t have a lot of turnaround time. So I just need something that can you know set all the settings for me, but Canon if you want to get in on this very viable Market, you’re gon na have to come up with something a lot better than this. Oh, but look at that view.
Oh, my God, oh protect this at all cause. Okay, come on! What are we doing? Look at this. What are we doing? Uh stunning, it’s stunning! Look at that Gorge! .