Gadgetory

welcome to my unboxing and first look at the sony fs700 camcorder which will be which will be used for tech tips purposes this is this is a hole it cost a lot of money so yes this was something I legitimately purchased in order for us to bring you all kinds of higher quality production values and all kinds of good sort of stuff let's see what Sony has to say for themselves on the outside of this very very boring brown packaging so here's a bunch of hoo-ha about trademarks and registered trademarks and whatnot here's a big warning right on the top of the box damage to this unit verifiably verifiably caused by the use of non info lithium batteries will not be covered by the warranty when using SD Class 4 or faster as recommended all right we've got a super 35 see those X more whatever that is probably the sensor in all likelihood it has a 4k sensor in it that's something of note so you have to get a firmware upgrade later on down the line to get 4k support they're estimating it will cost five hundred to a thousand dollars which still makes it a great value for 4k capture but I think is absolutely ridiculous for just charging for firmware that's not my IT industry roots would would disagree with that particular approach so AVC HD is how it captures two cards however it also has the option of capturing to HDMI just with using an HDMI output and a capture card such as the intensity Pro from black magic which I also purchased so okay we have one of those microphone doodads let's just go ahead and hook it up so wind blocker let's just okay forget it I'm not going to be able to open that you know what open thank you there we go just a simple phone one phone they're fascinating interchangeable lens digital HD vehicle recorder okay operating guide there you can very short limited warranty here so labor is for 90 days and parts is 1 year 1 year warranty on this thing good thing I bought it with my visa which has an extended one-year warranty content management utility ok interchangeable lens digital HD vo there's the real manual on a disc hey way to go Sony and then here's apparently another one here's an operating guide sitting the headphone sound all that kind of good stuff this is all know this is all English Wow ok alright what else figure out in here that night piece I don't know I'm not much of a camera guy actually diesel is the one who's going to be showing me how to use all this stuff so I'm just excited about the fact that we're going to have a ok mmm magnify very cool I'm just excited about the fact that we're going to have a much better a much better camera overall and that someone will be operating it and that we will be able to bring you better better overall production values we'll be able to set like you know depth of field and stuff like that so that you know it'll have like kind of that blurry background and just generally look better this thing can capture it up to 960 frames per second which is also kind of cool although it doesn't really capture any kind of decent quality at that frame rate and it can only capture for I think a couple seconds but you can get some pretty reasonably long captures at reasonably high quality at as high as 240 FPS which is great for like slow-motion and the kind of stuff that we will obviously be playing with if we're going to be investing this much into equipment you know you got to make sure you're using it so it comes with a microphone okay there's the microphone that matches that foam condom thing that goes on top of it right there okay however we're going to be using a different mic so we'll be using an ntg-2 and Rohde there you go that one comes with a 10 year warranty see they understand how to stand behind an expensive product with cameras like eighty five hundred dollars and they give you a one-year warranty with it look at all these accessories and whatnot this is exciting so here's a battery charger VCR / camera nice love it and then charging there's a power adapter for it there's a DC output so this is all okay so you're either charging or you're outputting to the camera / if you have a VCR that runs off that connector that I guess you can do that I guess they mean like video capture recorder okay this is the lens so important to be careful with this I'm not gonna not gonna play around this too much so it's a kit lens but as far as kit lenses go my understanding is this one's actually pretty decent so there's the little cover for the end piece looked into getting something that was not a kit lens but did not end up wanting to go down that route so here we've got all of our manual manual controls for focus as well as for zoom cool beans uses an email so something to be aware of guys is you need an adapter that cost a few hundred dollars if you want to use anything but a sony native email lens on this camera that was again the reason we went with the kit was because to get anything decent that was not the kit lens was gonna cost at least a thousand bucks so so we went that route here's a microphone holder oh that's disappointing because I bought one oh well now we know what else we got here hmm okay so there's your handpiece which you can use to zoom as well as something to do with focus and photo so you attach that to the camera it's a very modular design much like the fs100 so there's a lot of pieces and and gizmos that you can attach to it in order to customize the experience comes with a remote say continuing the proud tradition of cheeseball remotes with expensive gear that I've seen time and time again in my years in the in the IT industry as well as whatever other industry it just seems to be sort of by law everyone does that here's a USB adapter of some sort guessing that's for pulling footage off the camera here's strap hopefully there's instructions to go along with all this and lots of cables so here's a component adapter component video out here is just is this really just RCA cables really I mean if I got really fs700 I need RCA can look okay maybe maybe I'm missing something here sir missing something better that just seems brain-dead okay here is another well this looks like the piece to actually run the camera off of so there's your your filter as well as your wire and power adapter so in that case I have no idea what the point of this is because that's not even that's not even the same like anything that's not even remotely related okay it's okay diesel we'll be able to figure all this out it won't matter for me to power cables for those two pieces for the battery charger as well to run the camera another USB cable which I'm sure there's a point to USB a to mini B which is somehow different from this USB cable which I can't identify what that is okay ah info lithium battery so I'm going to need a bunch of these I suppose at some point all right that goes there and now we are left with a battery cover yeah we're not interested in that I don't know that's not a better cut what is this I don't know it doesn't matter let's open up the camera Wow big actually a little bit bigger than I expected so bearing in mind I know absolutely nothing I can already tell this is a lot more baller than the x8n that we're using to film this it does come with ND filter so you can use those to adjust the something to do with the amount of light that comes through or something like that that was one of the reasons we ended up going with the fs700 versus the fs100 you have to get like little little ND filters to change the quality of the light and put them over top with the fs100 where's this one it's built in we've also got manual controls for pretty much everything and it's dog that's a huge advantage over something like the x8n that we've been using up till now where everything's done via touchscreen interface that's extremely inconvenient the ergonomics on the fs700 are also supposedly quite a bit better than the fs100 although I've never seen either of them in person up till now so here you want to just commit it have a have a close look at the body here so I'm not heavy once you throw a lens on it I guess what's going to add quite a bit of weight but we've got a new tripod as well that's going to help us with the additional the additional weight requirements that that we have you know what throw the battery in and see what happens here right and that's what we do on this channel right we just sort of randomly do things and then we hope that it sort of works so there's an indicator arrow that yeah that didn't work oh there we go alright happens if we turn it on Chiron and it doesn't come charged oh yes it does there we go and we can set things like the time zone okay forget that for now so there we go face detection last seen in Auto manual mode mmm lots of cool stuff that I totally don't understand there's the battery release button as well there's your mounting for your tripod actually a wide variety of different mounting mechanisms here as well as little rubber feet so it doesn't go anywhere if you put it down which is important because it's expensive okay headphone monitor so you can monitor well sound just like that I've also got HDMI out so this is what I talked about before where we'll be using HDMI out to capture to a black magic card and then this one that's what we're going to need when when we're doing 4k out so that's your HD SDI out which is more flexible cables lighter weight all these are good things however there's these fancy red mirror cables now so this is what we'll be using for HDMI capture that you can use 28 AWG wires and still achieve a 50 foot distance on them so we'll be running that out of here wrapping it around an arm to make sure it doesn't pull too hard on the connector and going that route so here's all of your audio controls right here you control which input and how much and who and what as well as all wow look at all these dedicated controls for playing back I guess they really mean for you to use this in the field it's got a beautiful display on it great viewing angle on that can you tell from there and is it just yeah you can't really tell okay awesome viewing angle on their so they really mean for you to actually be reviewing your footage a little bit too LCD hold okay you can make it yeah yeah you can make the LCD hold in place where you can totally release it so that it's there we go okay some more mounting pieces mounting points for all kinds of various accessories and stuff like I said very modular so you can release this as well and then put different sort of adapters and whatnot this is this is for about something we had it so here we go this is for this I think no it's not I had no idea what that's for you know it'll be so yeah we figured it out there it's it's for like a flash memory reporter thing so we put that spacer in there now also there's your inputs for for audio one and two just right there you can change modes from video to photo I really hope you're not taking photos with this thing no because that's really not what it's for and that pretty much covers it so there's your shoe mounts for various accessories and whatnot so we're going to build it and then show you guys once it's assembled so I think we've got it assembled now like I said before we don't really know what we're doing but you have this camera now so uh yeah it's bigger than I expected and yeah we've got the microphone attached now so we ran that to the to the input yeah yeah iPhone size comparison of course so there that's the here I'll put that there iPhone can basically be like an output for this thing or rather of like a display for this thing so it's huge see there there's the iPhone again there's the thickness and yeah so we figured out what this thing's for it is an eyepiece it's just a slight magnification and darkening of the LCD so you can can see in there if you were you were able to see in there this doesn't work the zoom zoom here cuz Sony doesn't have motorized lenses yet for the email so I don't know what they were planning to do with that maybe they'll have it available as a firmware upgrade for five hundred a thousand dollars so I think that pretty much covers it you have to unblock we have lots more gear down box here else Kino Flo lights we've got Manfrotto tripod you've got right Blackmagic microphone more Kino Flo lights very exciting stuff so stay tuned more on boxes to come