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Sony NEX-VG20 Review!

2012-05-24
hey what's up guys I'm Kay PhD here I'm back and this is the Sony NEX V G 20 let's take a look if I have to describe this camera in just a few words it would be the one that breaks all the rules think of it as a high-end DSLR and a high-end camcorder put together in one basically it's a high-end DSLR sensor from Sony in a camcorders body but with a DSLR amount that has interchangeable DSLR like lenses that are adapted for camcorder like video it's a crazy combination and I totally love it this particular lens here is one of my favorites from Sony it's the 18 to 200 millimeter zoom lens that shoots at F 3.5 at its widest focal length and it has a focus ring and a zoom ring just like a regular DSLR lens so check it out it gets pretty massive at 200 millimeters but the autofocus here is present and it's incredible but we'll get to that in a second either way up top is a very impressive microphone usually the built-in camcorder microphones are just terrible but this one goes above and beyond anything you'll find on other camcorders it records in Dolby 5.1 channel surround sound and it does a great job at it too the rest of the hardware is pretty self-explanatory on the back you have your on/off switch and your record button and the battery and up top is it an alternative pinky record button and a photo button to take 16 megapixel stills yes 16 megapixel good looking still photos that I mean that's just due to the awesome DSLR sensor at work that's absolutely awesome for a camcorder battery life with the stock 2060 milliamp hour battery was decent I got around 2 hours of record time with it and just overall build quality was rock-solid and you'd expect that from a camera this price you have your headphone jack for monitoring audio here USB IO HDMI the whole works it's really nice and also the material that the outside shell is made of is pretty awesome too and you can't forget that flip-out 3-inch touch screen LCD screen it has a pretty basic menu system and a single SD card slot next to the manual controls would have liked to see two here or maybe a CF card but I guess one SD card slot is fine but when it comes down to it you buy a camera for the video quality and like I said at the beginning camera is ridiculous too boss it breaks all the rules it has sharp autofocus and DSLR depth of field it blew my mind it just doesn't make any sense now there are also adapters that let you use this with Canon and Nikon lenses and other sony alpha lenses but I'm just going to show you guys the footage I took with this stock 18 to 200 millimeter lens so this is the Canon t2i that I'm using to record this right now and it's a crop sensor body at an equivalent of 48 millimeters that's the focal length so that any further ado let's go ahead and switch to the V g20 indoors you don't really get a whole great sense of how capables camera is if I hold something up to the camera you can see the focus the main opponent focus is that it's pretty average but it's very very tack sharp so it's not fast but it's really really sharp but indoor footage like I said doesn't really take the most advantage of this camera so we're going to do is show you what it's capable of outdoors and just note as you're watching this footage that this is all auto focusing on its own that's the beauty of this camera has a large sensor from a DSLR combined with the focus of a regular camcorder and it's basically like having autofocus for video on a 5d Mark 3 it's absurd so without any further ado let's go ahead and take a look at that check this out guys this is beautifully sharp video outdoors everything in focus is really really sharp and it's not even sunny and even more beautiful is this super soft bokeh you get in the background you don't get that softness in the background from a regular camcorder you just don't get that now that is the DSLR sensor really working now I know what you're thinking wow mkbhd this is just general typical footage from a random object did you actually use this camera well yes if you were following me on Twitter at the link in the description right below the like button on this video you would know that I have footage from an entire weekend of shooting outdoors in Wisconsin enjoy ah you Hey Oh score is now to one student so overall I clearly love this camera and you can give a thumbs up on this video if you liked it too otherwise the microphone is really impressive the handles really convenient the eyepiece is really just above the LCD the touchscreen is awesome I really really like this camera and there hasn't been anything to stop me from buying one so yeah just note that I really really like it and you may to either way thanks for watching this video guys opal is enjoyable to you guys if you want to check out the audio that I use the links to that in there in the description and there's a link to check out the V g20 in the description I want to put this down and I'll go ahead and sign off now talk to you guys later 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