New Sony ZV-1 Camera Joins the Team

I have been using my Sony RX100 Mark4 camera now for almost a decade (9 years to be exact) as my main studio camera and it has served me well all of this time. My real main gripe with that camera was how it liked to hunt around a lot to find focus. It has been frustrating at times when I was trying to showcase a product on screen but my Sony RX100 Mark4 just couldn't seem to find it. It also was not really able to record in 4k video or at least for long enough for the types of videos I make which are usually around 10 minutes or so. After about 5 minutes it would overheat and shut down in 4k record mode, and over time as it got a bit older that time shortened down to only a couple of minutes.

So it was time to do some research and figure out what my next camera was going to be. I was pretty sure it would be another Sony, and I liked the size format so I knew it was probably going to be another 1 inch sensor more compact camera. After much YouTube Video watching I settled on the Sony ZV-1 Blogger Camera. Yes there is a newer version 2 of this same camera available, but it was significantly more money and since there where some really good deals on the older version I purchased and I was still able to buy it new rather than second hand. The big upgrades with the newer second generation, where a wider angle lens which is always good and much easier access to the battery compartment when mounted. Those where at least the two main upgrades the new version of the Sony ZV-1 had that I felt where beneficial to me. That said I was able to find work arounds to these two features that I was easily able to add to my first generation Sony ZV-1.

In this quick video I test out the Sony ZV-1 and show my work aroudns that I added to make this already really great camera even better. I have a lot of figuring out to do with this camera to really get the most out of it but that is all part of the fun for me...