Sony ZV-1F vlogging digital camera launched with a set ultrawide lens | Script Tech

(Pocket-lint) – Sony has launched one other vlogging-focused digital camera in its ZV vary, and this one is designed a bit in another way to the opposite two.

It is known as the ZV-1F and it encompasses a mounted extremely broad angle lens and is designed particularly for individuals who wish to movie themselves. The concept is that you could seize your self and get a variety of background on the similar time.

You’ll be able to digitally zoom in if you need and nonetheless get 4K decision whereas shifting between focal lengths utilizing a expertise Sony calls Clear Picture Zoom, which primarily snaps onto the 20.1-megapixel CMOS sensor.

It nonetheless options most of the instruments that made earlier ZV fashions splendid for content material creators. The background bokeh swap stays, permitting you to shortly activate a pure depth impact with the contact of a button.

You additionally get the product show setting that routinely and shortly focuses on an object should you maintain it in entrance of the digital camera, and returns to your face whenever you take away it from the scene.

For capturing on the transfer, there’s an energetic mode that electronically stabilizes footage to maintain it easy as you run or stroll, and like many different Sony cameras, you get eye autofocus that works on people and animals.

The digital camera additionally has a correct flip-out display, and Sony has reimagined the consumer interface to make it extra intuitive for folks used to capturing with their smartphones. Which means you possibly can faucet to zoom and management many settings with out touching any buttons.

It is designed with a extra reasonably priced worth in thoughts, to entice smartphone customers to modify to a ‘correct’ digital camera, and in doing so has misplaced a number of the options of dearer fashions.

Which means you get solely distinction autofocus, not part detection. You additionally solely get 4K photographs at as much as 30fps (no 60fps right here). Nevertheless, it does have as much as 5x gradual movement and 60x pace hyperlapse on S&Q settings.

Its physique is about the identical dimension because the ZV-1, nevertheless it weighs 40 grams much less and options an indicator gentle to point out whenever you’re recording, which joins a crimson body across the display whenever you press file.

When you’re carried out, you possibly can shortly switch the pictures to your cellphone to share on social media utilizing the Sony Imaging Edge Cellular Plus app. And the digital camera is aware of when it is in portrait or panorama orientation, and rotates the footage to match. And, if you need, you should use it as a webcam. Merely plug it into your laptop computer and use it as a higher-quality digital camera to your Zoom and Groups calls.

The Sony ZV-1F will probably be that can be purchased 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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Written by Cam Bunton.