The cheap factor is probably a big part of what made me pick one up recently. They’re cheap, fun to use, often have great features and take either good photos or photos that have a little bit of character about them. I recently wrote about how this interest had recently manifested itself in the use of “vintage” compact digitals. I must admit, as I get older and more grumpy about photography, and as film gets closer to £20 a roll for the sort of colour stock I like to shoot, I find myself increasingly enthralled by compact digital cameras for my snapshot photography. 2.8 Out of focus halos and over sharp images.2.3 Sony ZV-1 – for my individual use case.Not for video, I should add – though I did take a few slow-mo clips that I’ll never likely do anything with – but for snaps. In short, I decided to take it on holiday. Of course, before I could give it to the team, I felt I needed to try it first. We also bought it because unlike our bigger cameras which top out at 100fps for 1/4 speed slow motion, the Sony ZV-1 does 1000fps for when we want to capture something much more fast moving etc. It’s small size makes for a camera that isn’t as threatening to people we point it at, meaning we can get little snippets and sound bites out of more nervous people as well as capturing people who have less time etc. The Sony ZV-1 was specifically bought to capture little off the cuff mini-interviews at events. A couple of new lenses, a drone and this ZV-1 have increased our capabilities. As a creative agency producing a lot of video content our team has greatly expanded in the last year. In fact, shooting video is what I bought it for, though not for me, but for work, and not for pointing at myself. The Sony ZV-1 is punted by the brand as a “vloggers camera” – as such, it is supposedly designed more for video blogging, or in simple terms selfie-video. The ones I did use were a Hasselblad SWC and a Pentax 110 auto film cameras, and the subject of this article, a Sony ZV-1 compact digital. ![]() ![]() 3 more than I actually used – which is unusual for me. Me being me, I wanted to take a lot of photos. ![]() Me and my family recently spent a week driving around North Wales in my wife’s van.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |