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hey it's Josh of agarra what's going on everybody and wanted to bring you guys a look at the LGV 30 and it's video recording capabilities now we did just do a vs long did of the V 30 versus the Galaxy Note 8 in terms of their camera performance and the camera capabilities so you can make sure to check that out too the links will be in the description below but I just wanted to give you sort of my experience using the LG v 30 as a main camera while I was in Berlin for Aoife and also in China about a week or so ago now standard caveat I do need to tell you guys real quick that the LG v 30 that we're using right now is a pre-production unit some things might change when we get our final production unit so hopefully within the next couple of weeks but as I said I just wanted to give you my experience and my thoughts as to why the LGV 30 is one of the most fun cameras that I've used in recent memory so a quick rundown of what kind of footage you might be seeing in this video I did use it for a couple of trips and I did use it mainly as a vlogging camera so if you're looking at the LGV 30 as a potential main vlogging rig well I do have a few tips that could probably get you started and to give you the best experience that you can get out of the v30 all right so this is the vlogging rig that you might see a lot of youtubers use however I'm not using a regular camera on the top here I got the Joby Pro clamp in order to securely fasten the LGV 30 to the top of this gorilla pod one of the reasons why I really love using this is because with the wide-angle camera you won't be able to capture log footage instead you'll be using the regular angle camera so I want to get some distance between me and the camera so that I can still get my framing just right and as long as you're keeping the camera basically in the right general area you will be in the frame properly and with that distance you'll be able to put yourself in the middle without cutting off the top or bottom of your subject also top tip if you are going to be vlogging or using the LGV 34 a lot of footage using the rear cameras because let's be honest the front-facing camera is just not all that up to par when it comes to quality and of course you can't do log footage with a front-facing camera go to manual video mode and the volume buttons become the button force for triggering and also stopping the recording kind of like this but of course if you do want to use the wide-angle camera it's still going to get some pretty good color accurate videos and with that wide angle you don't have to worry about not having your subject in the scene you can even just hold the phone hit record and then turn it right around and you'll pretty much get everything in the scene even if your hand is a part of it so let's talk about one of the features that will dive into more in our full review this is the cine video mode where you get a flat profile to begin with because that is the log format profile and then you have a bunch of different color filters that you can put onto the video so that you can record it using that color profile already this is a little bit different from the usual filters you might see in plenty of other cameras or other applications and they are very stylized so you can get a very particular look for your footage and it's pretty nice to have it but it's really that wide-angle first off that does a great job of just sort of making the footage that much more fun to watch you are able to turn the phone around and then just get a full-on perspective much like you would with a GoPro because the wide-angle view is a lot like an action camera but it's just on a phone and if you want another top tip you can record in 4k video and just have a big micro SD card inside of the phone so you don't run out of space and the reason why I say that is because you can record in 4k and if you render out in 1080p you will be able to crop into the 4k frame pretty easily if you didn't necessarily get the framing that you want now a couple thoughts on point soom there are a couple of shots here that I used four-point zoom but I found the effect to be a little bit cheesy it's kind of like those old kung fu movies where it seemed into the actors eyes like a little bit too tight in also but I get that it is a useful tool especially if you have the phone stationary on something like a gorilla pod like I'm using right now that way you're able to zoom in to a particular part of the frame without having to move the phone itself as you're zooming this camera is super fun to use and if you're going to be using this phone for social media for example then just have the phone uprights for different areas like snapchat or IG stories and it's going to import right in perfectly and you can use the wide-angle camera on the main camera before importing that footage into whatever social media platform you choose you might actually recognize some of these clips as they were on our Android authority IG story but it was during my trip to China that I decided to use log footage as much as possible you might be hearing this a lot over the next number of weeks and log footage is essentially a color profile or rather a type of video that is shot at a very flat profile you don't get a whole lot of saturation in it and also all of the different settings for sharpness contrast anything to that effect has been dialed down in order for you to put that in during post-production I use Premiere Pro for editing video so you would be using something like the loo metric colors in order to do general correction and then add some stylized colors or different levels of contrast maybe mess with the highlights and the shadows in order to get a very stylized look but for the most part I just tried to recreate the accurate portrayal of the scene when I do color correction I will say one thing log footage has a steep learning curve when it comes to getting it just right and what I will also say is that it's very important to get your settings just right if using the manual video mode when recording the log footage and the LGV 30 the LGP 30 is good at compensating for changing conditions but when you're trying to grade log footage you don't really want the exposure jumping in and out throughout the video and you obviously don't want to have the white balance changing because that will change your color altogether but overall I couldn't really get over just how detail the videos were there was a very low level of noise and I really enjoyed what kind of videos I was able to get out of it it's just amazing the kind of package you get in the cameras for the LGV 30 you're able to do log footage and then stylize the footage of yourself in post-processing with color correction or you can use one of the built-in color profiles to get that stylized look as you are recording and then of course you have the wide-angle camera which is just simply always fun and if you've never used a wide-angle camera before this might be the time to try it out on the LGP 30 it is just an incredible amount of fun so that's gonna go ahead and do it for this video I just wanted to bring you an example of the LGV 30 as we move into what could be our main review period when we get our final production units I had hundreds of clips from my trips to Berlin and China over the last few weeks so I just wanted to share some of that with you guys and give you an example of what the V 30 can do we're looking forward to getting our final review units and we're going to bring you that review and final thoughts on the camera when that happened so remember to stay tuned to android authority for that and even more drop us some likes on the video and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and from there stay tuned for more about the LG v 30 and more because we are your source for all things Android