"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is brought to you by Squarespace from websites and online stores to marketing tools and analytics Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business I've been using Sony's eb1 for exactly a week now and when I did my initial video I was kind of surprised that there were so many people in the comments I had a lot of comments asking if I could talk about the stills capability on this camera this is kind of an interesting little camera that came out because Sony build this as a vlog camera it's clearly based on the rx100 lineup which are cameras that I'm very familiar with I have owned every one of them since the mark 3 so bad the three the fourth of five the six and actually I didn't buy the seventh but I had one on loan for a short period of time I really am a big fan of the rx100 lineup and I think because it's so compact I mean you could argue that it doesn't really fit in a pocket it's a little big but it's still a small camera to carry around you could at least put it in a bag or if you have a jacket pocket you could put it in the image quality on these is fantastic and so I thought it was interesting that so many people had asked about that so in this video I'm gonna talk about the zv1 just from a stills perspective of how this camera operates I'm gonna go out on a little bit of a limb here now the RX 107 is an incredible camera it's also a $1200 point-and-shoot compact camera it's not cheap it's pretty expensive the zv1 is a $750 camera that brings in all of the technology at least that you're gonna find in the Rx 107 but it does it in a slightly different body configuration that's clearly thought out for video and there are a couple features missing I'll actually argue you gain a couple features back so if you can kind of live with some of those things you can get this at a considerably cheaper price point than you can the RX 107 just saying the zv1 features the sony exmor RS sensor the S means it's the stacked version and if you don't understand what a stack sensor is essentially you have a memory layer on top of the sensor that is going to assist in all the live data that you're getting from your sensor readout it allows you to do more with it and so this can like when you're shooting video that you get less banding and less of the jello effect that's one big benefit of that it also means on the still side of things that we get a lot more speed and we are able to do a lot with burst shootings so this is a little $750 point-and-shoot that will do burst speed shooting up to 24 frames a second that is seriously fast it also will adjust autofocus and auto exposure 60 times a second so this has beneficial in two areas number one if you're shooting sports or you're shooting a soccer game or a basketball game or something like that and you want to keep up with the action you can shoot super fast speeds it also means and I think this is the benefit that a lot of people don't consider even if you're just doing single mode shooting you're not doing bursts it pretty much ensures that you're going to be in focus and your exposure is going to be more on most of the time so that is two huge benefits of having a stack sensor and they both come in this camera just like what is found on the arts 107 and we also have both human and animal eye AF which is pretty amazing and then the most important feature to me is it does have Sony's current autofocus system that does include object tracking now if you haven't seen this we've seen it on some of the more high-end models we've also seen it in the aps-c line because the a 6600 has this as well but it allows you to actually go into the menu and when you set up your autofocus area you can use the object tracking and so if you enable touch you can just touch the screen to tell it where to go on this and it'll kick in and what it does is when it picks that point of autofocus that it's going to cling on to what it does is it analyzes at the whole time it's adjusting the autofocus so for instance if it is a human or you have animal iaf setup and you're shooting your dog or your cat it will focus in and if it can see the eye that is where it puts the focus point if it's having trouble with the eyes it goes for just a face detection there's kind of a hierarchy if it can't get face detection then it's just going to go into object tracking and then it has the ability to go between these modes as it's tracking so it's an intelligent autofocus system I think it is the best on any camera system that you're gonna find anywhere right now and it comes in the point-and-shoot as well as the vlogging camera now I want to talk about image quality in this versus the rx100 cameras and I also want to talk about some features that you don't have and in one case you do have that could be a deal-breaker depending on what kind of a photographer you are but real quick I want to give a shout out to our sponsors today who are the awesome folks over at squarespace.com present your photography using squarespace's modern professional portfolios the layouts are completely customizable and you can use squarespace's drag-and-drop based back-end system which is really easy to use to present your work the way that you want it seen Squarespace is an all-in-one platform for building beautiful websites easily claiming your domain or URL and creating a custom site that brings your ideas to life Squarespace is host to a number of other tools including ecommerce appointment scheduling and analytics so that you can grow your brand and your following so head over to Squarespace calm for a free trial and when you're ready to launch you can go to Squarespace com / AOP to save an additional 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain once again that is Squarespace com / AOP and I want to thank the folks at Squarespace for sponsoring another episode of the art of photography so let's begin with the lens difference between the cb1 and what we are currently using in the arts 100 line up so the zv1 features essentially a 24 to 70 ish millimeter focal range so it's a nice zoom lens the rx100 lineup actually features a 24 millimeter to 200 millimeter focal length so it's a much longer focal length and essentially when the arts 105 came along it was the first one to use phase detection it was also the first one to start getting really fast in terms of using that stack CMOS sensor and being able to shoot at 24 frames a second so what Sony did next for the arcs 106 is they added a much longer lens assuming that people would want to shoot sports with the increased speed that they had on this camera now it's a good lens but it comes at a cost and the cost is a stop of light and because of the arrangement of the elements they also got rid of the neutral density filter and so that's something that's kind of essential for shooting video it can also be something that's very helpful with still photos but I think they argued that on this camera because it was not as shallow a depth of field all of a sudden intra maximum aperture that they would just do away with it and it wouldn't be a big deal so it just depends on what you're doing if you want a longer lens you're not going to have it on the zv1 for still photography but you do gain the new we'll density filter and this is the biggest difference between these two cameras in terms of their lenses I actually prefer the 24 to 70 on a point-and-shoot but that's just my style and the way I like to shoot some people might want the longer range another thing that might be the biggest deal breaker for some photographers is the rx100 series ever since mark 3 have featured the pop up electronic viewfinder and so it is a tiny little viewfinder personally I don't find myself using it that much I do use it sometimes but it's certainly not something I have to have on the camera however everybody's different there gonna be some photographers who feel that that is an essential feature another feature that is changed is on the rx100 series you do have a function ring around the lens and you can set this up to do things like control the aperture you can do exposure compensation with that there are various things that you can tie to that function and we do not have that at all this is the biggest deal for me with the ZB one in terms of using it as a stills camera everything has to be done from this circular dial on the back which is a little tiny it can be done you can probably get used to it but just for stills photography I think that that's something that added a lot of function that I'm actually missing on the zv1 now in fairness sony designed this to be a vlogging camera so I'm sure it was part of the design compromise to not have to include that because it wasn't necessary another big difference between the two is going to be on the rx100 series you get a pop-up flash that you can actually pull back and use as a bounce flash this is actually a really cool feature because you don't have to carry an extra flash around and you can bounce with it it's a little bit limiting but it's just built into the camera now with the zv1 we don't have a flash at all since the intent of this camera was priority in video but we do have a hot shoe so you can actually I would argue yet more out of this in terms of flash you could use a bigger flash which obviously looks absurd on this camera you could use a smaller one but even cooler is you could put a remote trigger on here and use this in a little small compact kind of studio type setup so there are some options I think in the area of the zv1 that give you a little more variety from the rx100 but again depends on what you're doing with it now the sleeper difference I think between these two models is going to be the price now whenever the rx100 models are announced everybody always complains that they're really offensive and you know what they are it is a major financial commitment for a point-and-shoot camera however the image quality is outstanding the performance is exceptional you get what you pay for it's just a lot of money but now we have a camera that is considerably less expensive than the rx100 series and if you can deal without having things like the electronic viewfinder that pops up or having a function ring around the lens you know those are kind of big deals to some people I totally understand that but the fact that you are getting a hot shoe which we haven't seen since the arts 100 mark - which i think is actually a huge benefit and we've gone back to the older lens so it's not as long a lens but you do gain a stop of light I think that this is an incredible value for the money even though it's designed to be a vlogging camera but alas I do have one gripe and this goes for both models and that is the battery that Sony is still using for these these use the MP bx1 and since the ex battery which as you can see is not very big 1240 milliamp hours this is just not a lot of juice now to Sony's credit the difference between the Sony rx100 6 and the 7 is that there were some software modifications internally to make the camera more efficient and I felt like the 7 got better performance I think that that carries over to the cb1 as well I will say this when I made my first video on this I shot for a couple hours and I still had you know maybe 30% 40% battery left when I was done it was less than half but that is way better than what I used to get out of the arts 105 I've done vlogging with that where you have to carry a whole ton of batteries out with you because between the overheating and then the just mass battery usage it was just not very good and not very efficient the 7 cleaned that up I think this one's just as good however I will also add this note that depends on what you're doing if you're doing a lot of burst shooting that is going to have a bigger drain on the battery so you're definitely gonna want to have a battery backup at some point now I realized that when cameras are designed you kind of future-proof them in the sense that models and this is where Sony does with the mark version so you have the mark 1 the mark 2 so and so forth is you try to use the same body design because you've got to make the molding and you've got to find a way to mass-produce those and so they cut down on the cost they would be more expensive each one of them had this lavishly redesigned body I've let it go for a number of years now I think it is time to upgrade these and upgrade the battery just like we did when we went from the W batteries to the Z batteries and the aps-c in full-frame lineups and so that's the one gripe that I have about these but I think this is a very capable camera and I think that if you're into stills photography and you just need something that's a point-and-shoot it's not going to replace a high-end full frame or even aps-c model but for something that's extraordinarily compact it does the job love to hear from you drop me a comment below I'll see you guys in the next video until then laterthis video is brought to you by Squarespace from websites and online stores to marketing tools and analytics Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business I've been using Sony's eb1 for exactly a week now and when I did my initial video I was kind of surprised that there were so many people in the comments I had a lot of comments asking if I could talk about the stills capability on this camera this is kind of an interesting little camera that came out because Sony build this as a vlog camera it's clearly based on the rx100 lineup which are cameras that I'm very familiar with I have owned every one of them since the mark 3 so bad the three the fourth of five the six and actually I didn't buy the seventh but I had one on loan for a short period of time I really am a big fan of the rx100 lineup and I think because it's so compact I mean you could argue that it doesn't really fit in a pocket it's a little big but it's still a small camera to carry around you could at least put it in a bag or if you have a jacket pocket you could put it in the image quality on these is fantastic and so I thought it was interesting that so many people had asked about that so in this video I'm gonna talk about the zv1 just from a stills perspective of how this camera operates I'm gonna go out on a little bit of a limb here now the RX 107 is an incredible camera it's also a $1200 point-and-shoot compact camera it's not cheap it's pretty expensive the zv1 is a $750 camera that brings in all of the technology at least that you're gonna find in the Rx 107 but it does it in a slightly different body configuration that's clearly thought out for video and there are a couple features missing I'll actually argue you gain a couple features back so if you can kind of live with some of those things you can get this at a considerably cheaper price point than you can the RX 107 just saying the zv1 features the sony exmor RS sensor the S means it's the stacked version and if you don't understand what a stack sensor is essentially you have a memory layer on top of the sensor that is going to assist in all the live data that you're getting from your sensor readout it allows you to do more with it and so this can like when you're shooting video that you get less banding and less of the jello effect that's one big benefit of that it also means on the still side of things that we get a lot more speed and we are able to do a lot with burst shootings so this is a little $750 point-and-shoot that will do burst speed shooting up to 24 frames a second that is seriously fast it also will adjust autofocus and auto exposure 60 times a second so this has beneficial in two areas number one if you're shooting sports or you're shooting a soccer game or a basketball game or something like that and you want to keep up with the action you can shoot super fast speeds it also means and I think this is the benefit that a lot of people don't consider even if you're just doing single mode shooting you're not doing bursts it pretty much ensures that you're going to be in focus and your exposure is going to be more on most of the time so that is two huge benefits of having a stack sensor and they both come in this camera just like what is found on the arts 107 and we also have both human and animal eye AF which is pretty amazing and then the most important feature to me is it does have Sony's current autofocus system that does include object tracking now if you haven't seen this we've seen it on some of the more high-end models we've also seen it in the aps-c line because the a 6600 has this as well but it allows you to actually go into the menu and when you set up your autofocus area you can use the object tracking and so if you enable touch you can just touch the screen to tell it where to go on this and it'll kick in and what it does is when it picks that point of autofocus that it's going to cling on to what it does is it analyzes at the whole time it's adjusting the autofocus so for instance if it is a human or you have animal iaf setup and you're shooting your dog or your cat it will focus in and if it can see the eye that is where it puts the focus point if it's having trouble with the eyes it goes for just a face detection there's kind of a hierarchy if it can't get face detection then it's just going to go into object tracking and then it has the ability to go between these modes as it's tracking so it's an intelligent autofocus system I think it is the best on any camera system that you're gonna find anywhere right now and it comes in the point-and-shoot as well as the vlogging camera now I want to talk about image quality in this versus the rx100 cameras and I also want to talk about some features that you don't have and in one case you do have that could be a deal-breaker depending on what kind of a photographer you are but real quick I want to give a shout out to our sponsors today who are the awesome folks over at squarespace.com present your photography using squarespace's modern professional portfolios the layouts are completely customizable and you can use squarespace's drag-and-drop based back-end system which is really easy to use to present your work the way that you want it seen Squarespace is an all-in-one platform for building beautiful websites easily claiming your domain or URL and creating a custom site that brings your ideas to life Squarespace is host to a number of other tools including ecommerce appointment scheduling and analytics so that you can grow your brand and your following so head over to Squarespace calm for a free trial and when you're ready to launch you can go to Squarespace com / AOP to save an additional 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain once again that is Squarespace com / AOP and I want to thank the folks at Squarespace for sponsoring another episode of the art of photography so let's begin with the lens difference between the cb1 and what we are currently using in the arts 100 line up so the zv1 features essentially a 24 to 70 ish millimeter focal range so it's a nice zoom lens the rx100 lineup actually features a 24 millimeter to 200 millimeter focal length so it's a much longer focal length and essentially when the arts 105 came along it was the first one to use phase detection it was also the first one to start getting really fast in terms of using that stack CMOS sensor and being able to shoot at 24 frames a second so what Sony did next for the arcs 106 is they added a much longer lens assuming that people would want to shoot sports with the increased speed that they had on this camera now it's a good lens but it comes at a cost and the cost is a stop of light and because of the arrangement of the elements they also got rid of the neutral density filter and so that's something that's kind of essential for shooting video it can also be something that's very helpful with still photos but I think they argued that on this camera because it was not as shallow a depth of field all of a sudden intra maximum aperture that they would just do away with it and it wouldn't be a big deal so it just depends on what you're doing if you want a longer lens you're not going to have it on the zv1 for still photography but you do gain the new we'll density filter and this is the biggest difference between these two cameras in terms of their lenses I actually prefer the 24 to 70 on a point-and-shoot but that's just my style and the way I like to shoot some people might want the longer range another thing that might be the biggest deal breaker for some photographers is the rx100 series ever since mark 3 have featured the pop up electronic viewfinder and so it is a tiny little viewfinder personally I don't find myself using it that much I do use it sometimes but it's certainly not something I have to have on the camera however everybody's different there gonna be some photographers who feel that that is an essential feature another feature that is changed is on the rx100 series you do have a function ring around the lens and you can set this up to do things like control the aperture you can do exposure compensation with that there are various things that you can tie to that function and we do not have that at all this is the biggest deal for me with the ZB one in terms of using it as a stills camera everything has to be done from this circular dial on the back which is a little tiny it can be done you can probably get used to it but just for stills photography I think that that's something that added a lot of function that I'm actually missing on the zv1 now in fairness sony designed this to be a vlogging camera so I'm sure it was part of the design compromise to not have to include that because it wasn't necessary another big difference between the two is going to be on the rx100 series you get a pop-up flash that you can actually pull back and use as a bounce flash this is actually a really cool feature because you don't have to carry an extra flash around and you can bounce with it it's a little bit limiting but it's just built into the camera now with the zv1 we don't have a flash at all since the intent of this camera was priority in video but we do have a hot shoe so you can actually I would argue yet more out of this in terms of flash you could use a bigger flash which obviously looks absurd on this camera you could use a smaller one but even cooler is you could put a remote trigger on here and use this in a little small compact kind of studio type setup so there are some options I think in the area of the zv1 that give you a little more variety from the rx100 but again depends on what you're doing with it now the sleeper difference I think between these two models is going to be the price now whenever the rx100 models are announced everybody always complains that they're really offensive and you know what they are it is a major financial commitment for a point-and-shoot camera however the image quality is outstanding the performance is exceptional you get what you pay for it's just a lot of money but now we have a camera that is considerably less expensive than the rx100 series and if you can deal without having things like the electronic viewfinder that pops up or having a function ring around the lens you know those are kind of big deals to some people I totally understand that but the fact that you are getting a hot shoe which we haven't seen since the arts 100 mark - which i think is actually a huge benefit and we've gone back to the older lens so it's not as long a lens but you do gain a stop of light I think that this is an incredible value for the money even though it's designed to be a vlogging camera but alas I do have one gripe and this goes for both models and that is the battery that Sony is still using for these these use the MP bx1 and since the ex battery which as you can see is not very big 1240 milliamp hours this is just not a lot of juice now to Sony's credit the difference between the Sony rx100 6 and the 7 is that there were some software modifications internally to make the camera more efficient and I felt like the 7 got better performance I think that that carries over to the cb1 as well I will say this when I made my first video on this I shot for a couple hours and I still had you know maybe 30% 40% battery left when I was done it was less than half but that is way better than what I used to get out of the arts 105 I've done vlogging with that where you have to carry a whole ton of batteries out with you because between the overheating and then the just mass battery usage it was just not very good and not very efficient the 7 cleaned that up I think this one's just as good however I will also add this note that depends on what you're doing if you're doing a lot of burst shooting that is going to have a bigger drain on the battery so you're definitely gonna want to have a battery backup at some point now I realized that when cameras are designed you kind of future-proof them in the sense that models and this is where Sony does with the mark version so you have the mark 1 the mark 2 so and so forth is you try to use the same body design because you've got to make the molding and you've got to find a way to mass-produce those and so they cut down on the cost they would be more expensive each one of them had this lavishly redesigned body I've let it go for a number of years now I think it is time to upgrade these and upgrade the battery just like we did when we went from the W batteries to the Z batteries and the aps-c in full-frame lineups and so that's the one gripe that I have about these but I think this is a very capable camera and I think that if you're into stills photography and you just need something that's a point-and-shoot it's not going to replace a high-end full frame or even aps-c model but for something that's extraordinarily compact it does the job love to hear from you drop me a comment below I'll see you guys in the next video until then later\n"