Last Updated on July 4, 2020
Sony Electronics released Sony ZV-1, a pocket sized, compact digital camera designed for content creators and vloggers.
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Sony ZV-1 is a portable camera offering an array of easy-to-use features with superb imaging technology, making it the perfect content creator camera. The new Sony ZV-1 is the revamped ergonomics of RX100 VA, with a grip that makes it lighter and eawsier to hold for easier selfie shooting.
This content creator camera features a flip-out, tiltable LCD screen, allowing content creators, vloggers, and YouTubers ease of use irrespective of skill levels. Purpose-built for content and video creators, this camera showcases settings and modes that will allow content creators, vloggers, and YouTubers to create content like never before.
What’s new with Sony ZV-1
- Product Showcase Setting– allows content creators and vloggers to enjoy smooth transitions between faces and objects placed in front of the camera lens.
- Advanced Auto-focus (AF)– tracks subject with high accuracy and speed. It has Real-time Eye Auto-Focus and Real-time tracking Auto-focus that scans and picks up quick movements. These AF features allow focus on subjects in busy environments.
- Clear audio– online content requires clear and high quality audio which is guaranteed with Sony ZV-1’s directional 3 capsule mic. This feature allows clear audio capture while minimizing background noise while on selfie mode. ZV-1 also has a standard mic jack that can be connected to external microphones. Lastly, it has a detachable windshield to reduce wind interference.
- Face priority auto exposure function– this feature ensures that subject’s face is prioritized and detected at an ideal brightness whether out on a sunny day or under a shade. Sony ZV-1 camera also features optimized skin tones for both video and still modes.
- Image stabilization– this ensures steady video even when shooting and on the run. Optical and electronic stabilization methods added features to reduce shaking up to 11 times.
- Live streaming– Sony ZV-1 can be converted as a web camera by connecting it to a personal computer. This allows content creators, YouTubers, vloggers, and social media influencers to interact with their subscribers and followers in real time.
- Impressive Audio/Video features– ZV-1 records 4K videos with full pixel readout. It can shoot super slow motion recording at up to 960f; interval shooting, and time lapse videos.
- Accessible bokeh button– lets content creators quickly switch between different levels of bokeh backgrounds. Users can easily adjust between more and less background without losing focus on the subject or object.
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- Fast Hybrid Autofocus and Real Time Eye...
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To answer the demands of content creators and vloggers, Sony will be introducing a Vlogger kit that comes with 64GB Ultra High Speed Media Card and GP- VPT2BT shooting grip with wireless remote commander which is compatible with other Sony cameras.
Content creators, vloggers, and YouTubers also have the option to purchase a Sony Stereo microphone which is sold separately.
The new Sony ZV-1 is a light, compact camera that can work well in still and video modes. This will come in handy for vloggers and content creators who would like to produce high quality, clear, and crisp content.
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