Sony FX30 | The $1,800 Super35 Cinema Camera That Has it All!?

so this right here looks just like the Sony fx3 but it is super 35 and you look very closely and you see it is the FX 30. quick thank you to Licht for sponsoring this episode because of them we get to use chart music in this video now I know all of us love full frame but aps-c or super 35 honestly if you pair it with the right sensor and the right lens you get some really cool stuff a lot of similar features is the fx3 like this optional top handle here which has two XLR inputs which are both Phantom powered I mean this is a video first mirrorless camera it's got all the Sony autofocus you would expect it has the Ibis it has all the codecs has the s-log it has the 10 bit color and what's really exciting is that you could get this fx30 along with this top handle for 2200 but if you don't need this top handle with the XLR inputs and you can get this body for eighteen hundred dollars I mean for the amount of things that this camera can do eighteen hundred dollars how much money is this right here like seven eight thousand dollars give or take yeah this is the fx30 I'm filming on right now and I'm contemplating making this my go-to Vlog camera I am recording with the DJI mics right now which is nice because I can record straight onto the camera and this is much more low profile than that big old microphone up top what are your thoughts on this so far for a sub two thousand dollar camera uh can you take pictures uh who gives a about pictures I give a crap about pictures almost all mirrorless cameras are photo first and this is one of the few times where we get a video first mirrorless camera yeah no it's nice it's nice but I mean can you take pictures all right Frank's no longer part of this video buying some batteries right now I think this is a good spot ready let's do it [Music] if I'm going to hit the spot s [Music] that just happened did that just happen are you down I'm down oh that just happened holy crap I can't believe we just did that dude I think I was recording it on the 360 go oh camera's still there what's this oh yeah is it tie we lost one oh propeller all right let's do a little replay my angle and then Frank Sangle dude what are the odds of that dude I can't believe it I just saw the Drone right in front of me like no way bruh dang that's not easy to do even if you try cause I'm like oh your lens is right here okay but yeah as of right now here are my settings that I've got on here now I have it in s-log 3 hevc because I want small data files active image stabilization because I'm just on this little Vlog handheld thing so I don't want to have it look too shaky and there's no stabilization in this 11 mil lens dude I almost crashed into you again oh really how are we looking at ISO 6400 I mean so far I'm pretty impressed with this image quality all right so 6400 Frank would you ever switch to Sony no no no no no no no never I've already invested too much glass and everything in Canon and I'm happy with Canon look how small this is can I take pictures there's no viewfinder there is a bit okay yeah there's no viewfinder but so far I'm getting everything I'm kind of expecting out of a smaller fx3 which is a really good thing now we're really in the dark let's see let's go 12 800. this is kind of like the limit of where I ever find myself really needing to go it's too old to be trespassing sir no I'm doing the opposite you're leaving a trespass Zone exactly so one of the things I want to test out now is how good is the 4K resolution because it is downscaled from 6K image so how's the close-up of your face in a 2.5 x all right now let's try a 4X cropping on these chips the closer you look at the shot the less good it's going to look so I want to test out this resolution while we tell you about our amazing sponsor lit now they have mainstream music that you can license for your videos and you won't get a copyright strike hottest music around how hot just as hot as this thing right here hotter even hotter why is 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to the other side it was back to normal that wasn't so bad but like my eyes are burning right now no isn't this still better than pepper spray though yeah because that one didn't have a sponsor it's like a sticking fire on my face I can't open my eyes okay I'm gonna follow you the powder must have somehow gone on to my forearm now if you're used to picking out your lenses based on full frame sensors then you're gonna have to re-adjust your focal lengths a little bit so this is the 35 mil on a full frame and this is a 35 mil on the fx30 which is a smaller sensor for vlogging on a full frame I could go with a 16 millimeter so lower the number The Wider the lens right but on an aps-c I want to be closer to like a 10. fascinating you must be so excited to learn about this stuff unwillingly okay so first of all let me go ahead and just hop into photo mode because yes you can take some photos on here so I've got it set to raw and jpeg at 26 megapixels the aspect ratio is three by two so this should give us an idea of how big the full sensor is now from here we're going to go ahead and switch into video mode and at 4K 24 it is going to crop into the sensor just slightly because you extract a 6K image and then we're going to down sample that to 4K so most of the cropping is from the top and bottom but we also do get a little bit of cropping in on the sides I believe it's 1.04 of a crop now if I take the image stabilization and put it on standard that's just Ibis so that doesn't include any sort of crop but if I go into active there is a little bit of digital stabilization that takes place so a little bit more of a crop in there now we can maintain this sensor area up to 4K 60 frames per second but now if we want to go past that to let's say 120 frames per second that's where we do have to just use a direct 4K pull off the sensor so that does mean a crop so that is one of the benefits of the fx3 and the A7 S3 is that the sensor as a whole is only 12 megapixels so when you want to do a high frame rate pull off the sensor you don't have to down sample anything and notice that I am just recording 4K 120 and I am still able to just record audio because I just changed the frame rate but we can also go into s and Q mode and set your parameters for that here and this is nice because it's going to automatically convert your 120 so it's already going to look slow-mo but it's not going to record audio and if we go down to HD we can actually get 240 frames per second in HD it is going to have a similar crop to the 120 frames per second by the way the lens I have on here right now is the Sigma 18 to 35 F 1.8 so this is a good example of lenses that are designed specifically for smaller sensors like aps-c or super 35 because it's an F18 continuous you're not going to find this kind of speed on a zoom lens on a large format and this one is the 50 to 100 also F18 all the way through I kind of want to see how the cropped in 120 and 240 frames per second looks along with these lenses so let's give it a shot [Music] [Music] I'm surprised because I didn't think Sony would do a super 35 like I thought they were all in on full frame so I'm like kind of excited about that that's cool my favorite lenses are like Arie Ultra is cook S4 is Master Prime super speeds like these classic super 35 lenses which are super 35 I love this camera the Venice because I can shoot in super 35 or full frame and I don't have to make a resolution hit I can still be above 4K but this is a big camera compared to this there's a price difference between the two so you can buy two of these and get one memory card for the Venice putting a PL mount adapter onto here and then all of a sudden you can throw these lenses I think we have one that's why I like coming to Eric's rental house because it's like anything you want it's here the lens is worth more than 10 times the camera oh not a terrible menu this is pretty cool so you have like all the basic things that you need right so I'm assuming we could change that to angle over shutter no so that's one thing that I still I'm like okay 40 and 50. there's no 48 yeah we can turn the light on or off which is really easy but I like that that's right here in the first menu if you go here you have your Lut so we can just be logged you can load in your own Luts yeah no that's super cool and it's right here so I feel like between page one and page two right here right you can generally see all the things that you need for the most part need to see you'll still need to dive into the menu yeah but you can do your favorites menu right yeah there's still a starred favorites which is cool in my menu settings so that's cool so you could go in and add your favorite things in there so of course you have the full size HDMI plug a monitor in though it shuts off this screen and goes to the monitor but you can go to the menu when you turn off this like obscure menu item yes that's the same in your camera yeah yeah so is it still obscure in here too yeah it's like HDMI info yes yes yes yes yes you turn that off and it's like oh now I can see in both I get calls Sunday I'm closed and my phone rings hey I plugged in the HDMI port now my monitor doesn't work how do we fix it oh it's in a menu hold on let me pull out my phone I have to find where the menu is so I know where it is it's in settings 12. HDMI info display that's what I hates translation right we're losing it you need to speak to your Homeland what do you mean like my Japanese peers yes exactly yeah yeah reach back out please change this the sub 2 000 category is getting really interesting I'll order two or three of these right away because this would replace pockets in a lot of ways do you think it's possible that we're gonna get a mirrorless sized cam that has built-in NDS or is that just a dream that will never come true if it was a little bit we'd have to get rid of it I wish I have to send it back to Sony I'll hide it no one's No One's Gonna know that we have it here the only thing that I'm noticing when it comes to vlogging is that the image stabilization just doesn't seem to be just as perfect now this camera does have Ibis in the active image stabilization is solid but I think the only thing I'm recognizing is that the optical image stabilization is not on this lens because I'm shooting on this Prime but this lens right here it's a 10 to 18 millimeter it is slower but it is designed for aps-c so I'm going to try this out whoa light leak in the middle of a lens change it's a lightly so I'm going to detach the lens here and I let a little bit of lighting from the side yeah that's kind of cool huh whoa Ellen's just back on all right so now this is the 10 to 18 millimeter with Optical image stabilization when it comes to vlogging I feel like the camera is so shaky it's basically like an action camera so I want all the stabilization I can get so stabilization of the lens and then I want the sensor the Ibis the five axis stabilization as well as a little bit of digital image stabilization which is what turns on when you turn it on active but check it out I'm about to bring out three prime lenses along with this camera this is the F1 415 but if I were to bring this many prime lenses on a full-frame camera that were fast this thing would feel like it's full of brakes hey check this out you know what camera this is six three right no check it out no 30. oh yeah it doesn't come out for another few days would you get an aps-c sensor I would there's still a lot of good lenses in there if I'm able to inner cut and it will be a really good B and possibly C camera for like the fx9 an fx6 too [Applause] that's not three good times good dynamic range good color but I just love the fact that this is like such a compact setup yeah absolutely because with smaller sensors you get smaller lenses yeah that's a lot of fun oh my god did you guys go through the tunnel no we saw you guys Jonathan got spanked like three times in there I I recorded it too generally I prefer larger sensors unless there's the right lens to go with a smaller sensor as long as the image quality is there super 35 takes you a long way but overall really excited to see that we are getting a lot of these Pro camera features trickle down into their cameras that is under two thousand dollars like Canon with their Canon R7 1500 also has 10 bits and I want to do a comparison between these two cameras but I will tell you from First Impressions that this fx30 does feel like it's more geared towards professionals and the R7 feels a little bit more on the consumer side but also very very capable gopro's new camera has 10 bit now and I actually honestly care more about 10 bit than how many pixels or resolution or 4K or eight like this camera even has time code now I have an A7 S3 the a74 I don't will have time code there Carrie's looking at me because she's like nope you're not buying anything basically all our money is being put aside it's renovating a bathroom right now if you want to see come on what look at this bathroom do you guys remember how terribly nasty our old bathroom was we were bathing in mold it should have been the first thing that we renovated yeah you bring up my ISO to 6400 that is one thing I have noticed is that we are seeing a little bit more grain in the higher isos which would make sense because this is a dual native ISO at 82 500 a post like the a7s which is like 800 and 12 800 but remember that you could usually get faster lenses for smaller sensors at less cost anyways I gotta help carry kill the spider so let's end this video here and thanks for watching and see you guys later you're gonna let him get away oh shoot it look it's coming down other things

Channel: Potato Jet

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Keywords: potato jet, potatojet, filmmaker, film maker, camera, cinematography, cinematographer, videography, videographer, gene nagata, sony fx30, fx30, sony, mirrorless camera, sony mirrorless, 4k video, slow motion

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Length: 15min 55sec (955 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 28 2022