Sony Z200 Camcorder: Hands-On Review in Chicago

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  • Опубликовано: 6 дек 2024

Комментарии • 37

  • @remektekmedia6641
    @remektekmedia6641 День назад +2

    Loved your video and the footage. I've had my Z200 for about 2 weeks and love it. I also bought Doug Jensen's tutorial, which I can recommend to everyone. The noise reduction seems to use AI, and I have no complaints with it crancked up to +4. I wouldn't do that with any other camera! The zoom and the variable ND are winners for me. The CFexpress Type A card was painful as was the A100 battery, but now I am all set and no need to buy anything else. Trivial things that I love on the Z200, which my out going Canon XF605 doesn't have include simultaneously active Zoom Ring AND Power Zoom Rocker (Hurrah!) and being able to view the LCD from the side. For mirrorless, I shoot Fuji X-H2S, by the way. Oh, and you got a new Subscriber!

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  15 часов назад

      Thank you for watching and subscribing to the channel! Glad you got one too! I'm really going to have to dive in to Doug’s tutorial soon. Agreed on the noise reduction: I don't think I've used that internally on a cam before, but it was definitely on when filming in Chicago for all of this. It was nice not to have to add it in editing. Agreed with zoom and NDs-those are 2 big things my mirrorless cams don’t have. I've always liked the colors coming from Fuji cameras, but haven't personally tried them.

  • @AJVIBEZ1
    @AJVIBEZ1 2 дня назад +4

    Great job amazing video

  • @josephjourdan5383
    @josephjourdan5383 2 дня назад +1

    Great Video! I bet you grow pretty fast on RUclips with high quality content like this right out the gate. Keep up the great work!

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  День назад

      This comment means so much, thank you! 🙏🏼 ❤

  • @seanmarkbaxter
    @seanmarkbaxter День назад +2

    Hell yeah! This is awesome. I miss camcorder days. While we don't NEED a bigger sensor, by golly would it be nice to have one.

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  День назад

      Thank you man! I kind of missed out on filming with them when I was younger so that's why I got so hyped at the skate park-just so much fun! I'm with ya. If it did, this would have potential to be my main cam. But it's definitely worthy of coming out on set for client projects.

  • @rapbisnar
    @rapbisnar 2 дня назад +1

    such an underrated camera

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  День назад +1

      Agreed! 🙏🏼

    • @rapbisnar
      @rapbisnar День назад +1

      @@thefilmconnectoraye don’t get it twisted though, it’s also the person behind the camera 💪🏼

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  День назад +1

      @ I appreciate that!! 🙏🏼

  • @ChandoRibeTrack
    @ChandoRibeTrack 3 дня назад +2

    Nice shots!!

  • @NYCIndieFilmmakerSujewa
    @NYCIndieFilmmakerSujewa День назад +1

    Looks great. I've been using 1" sensor camcorders (Canon XA50 recently) to shoot indie fiction features and they work well for that purpose. Looking forward to trying this cam out.

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  День назад +1

      Thank you! Love to hear that you’re using them for features! I see you have a ton of vids on your channel-going to check some out. 🙏🏼

    • @NYCIndieFilmmakerSujewa
      @NYCIndieFilmmakerSujewa День назад

      @@thefilmconnector great. I shot Cosmic Disco Detective Rene on an XA50 - it played theatrically in Chicago, NYC. I shot Slow Romance on a Sony MC88 - played in NYC theatrically. Then back in the day - 2017 or so, shot Werewolf Ninja Philosopher on a Canon XA-15, not even a 1" sensor on that one :) - smaller - and that played theatrically in NYC and Chicago. Shooting 53 Spaceships now on the XA50 or maybe on the Z200. But, Z200 will be the next cam I think - for future movies. Several of my features are on RUclips, or better versions on Vimeo VOD.

  • @topseed156
    @topseed156 2 дня назад +1

    nice work my man

  • @aamacguy
    @aamacguy 19 часов назад +1

    What a great video from a videographer just north of me (fond du lac). I primarily record live events and have been eyeing the z200. I currently use three canon XA 55 that are showing their age. I might have to rent a couple z200s. What did you think of the variable ND? Did you try the auto framing?

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  15 часов назад +1

      Appreciate that! That’s sweet you’re in Fondy! One of my upcoming vids will be a big BTS video from filming a commercial all over Fond du Lac. 🙏🏼 Renting is always a good idea to test something out. The ND was awesome. You could even switch the increments which was a bonus. It really does save time having them. No, but I will test that out soon! I'd expect that to be a sweet feature for corporate live events.

  • @MGriffin2501
    @MGriffin2501 2 дня назад +1

    Excellent footage! Hard to believe you got that out of a camcorder. I use the Sony HDR-CX405 HandyCam on occasion and I’m always impressed by the 1080p image quality, stabilization and zoom range. Sony is the Camcorder GOAT!

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  День назад +1

      @@MGriffin2501 That means a lot, thank you for watching! That's sweet, and the size of those makes it so fun to shoot with I bet. Sony really is! 👏🏼

  • @realCAMERALERO
    @realCAMERALERO 2 дня назад +1

    I've seen lots of review videos for this camera and this is probably in the top 2 or 3 as far as image quality. This will probably be my next camera purchase, both to freelance with as well as being a b-camera for my day job.

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  2 дня назад +1

      That means a lot, thank you! Happy to hear that, and can't wait to see some of your footage. 🙏🏼

    • @realCAMERALERO
      @realCAMERALERO 2 дня назад +1

      @@thefilmconnector if you really want to learn to wring it out, I'd suggest getting Doug Jensen's master class videos. The introduction alone is an exhaustive overview of just what this little rig is capable of doing.

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  День назад

      @@realCAMERALERO Appreciate the push on that. I saw his video pop up earlier this week-I'll definitely check them out, thanks!

  • @chelseakurczek7145
    @chelseakurczek7145 2 дня назад

    Love these shots, edits and color grade. Great review very insightful.

  • @BONLEV
    @BONLEV 3 дня назад +1

    nice footage and a great review! You shot some lower light video but you didn't talk about that later in your video. I have the FX6 and A7iV. So this one will fits nice between them (will sell my sony z280 for this one probably)

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  2 дня назад +2

      Thank you so much! The low light was better than I thought it would be at 1600 ISO, but still a little bit of noise. I've seen cleaner results in other RUclips examples when it's shot in custom mode at 250 ISO. I wanted everything in S-Log for this video though so I didn't switch. A comparison video of those two settings in the future would be cool. That's awesome you have the FX6! That has to be a ton of fun to shoot with.

  • @pdcorlis
    @pdcorlis 2 дня назад +2

    So a one inch sensor camcorder may be all you really need unless you’re headed to the big screen? Great looking footage - how’s the audio?

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  День назад

      It is impressive how crisp it is for a 1" sensor! I haven't tested the audio too much, but I imagine it's killer with having the 2 xlr inputs on the side. The first day I turned it on and recorded random shots in studio, I was surprised how decent the internal mic sounded with my audio of just talking. I should run it through some real tests, though.

    • @NYCIndieFilmmakerSujewa
      @NYCIndieFilmmakerSujewa День назад

      1" sensor footage can look fine on a movie theater screen. Specially if shot at 4K, w/ a large file for screenings. I've been making and showing 1080p and 4K fiction features shot on 1"sensor camcorders for a while now. works.

  • @davido9450
    @davido9450 19 часов назад +1

    They should've put at least an aps-c sensor but that would cannibalize the fx30

    • @thefilmconnector
      @thefilmconnector  15 часов назад

      I hear ya! I wonder if they will for the next one? 🤔

  • @austingrahl6570
    @austingrahl6570 3 дня назад +1

    👏🏼👏🏼Amazing.