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Hi. I guess a higher bitrate would be nice. It might improve the picture, but for me, it does what it needs to fairly well. It’s not the sharpest but a great tool to learn video basics and allow you to just concentrate on video making without fussing over too many settings. Slow the shutter down and it really starts to look more ‘film’ like and actually, because it lacks that razor sharpness of DSLR’s, it can be really nice to watch on large screens. You don’t get distracted by the often ‘brittle’ quality of DSLR footage. More often than not, I’m softening footage from my mirrorless cameras up!

@@iancraig Thanks Ian! I like these "keep it simple" or minimalist concepts and the idea of focusing on what we are looking at. You make good points :) It may sound silly but I feel like it would make me very happy to record day to day stuff with this little camera haha. I may end up buying it, I was also thinking about the Panasonic “HC-WXF991K”.

It’s not so much the camera, but the shape and direction of your video that is important. What I like about these camcorders is the speed and ease that they allow you to capture footage. But for really good video, really, it’s the assembly of the clips that count for more. I’ve just spent three weeks in Florida with just the Action 4. I came home with 4 full sd cards of footage. I made 20 detailed videos of our time there and then cut the best of each video into one film of 25 minutes. That is the one that my family watch. Three weeks of footage with 4 full cards to make a 25 minute video! No one cares what the camera was, but as long as you use the best footage and shape your video to tell a story, people are hooked!

@@iancraig Excellent and totally true, at the end of the day the only thing people remember is what they felt, if you connected with your audience they will never forget if you touched something in them.... If you're a bit of a nerd about these things you get obsessed with the technical details and in the end nobody cares about that hahahah. There are so many things that can distract you, it's important to get back to the basics, to combine shots to make sense, to make meaning. I want to get back to what's important and stop messing around. Thank you for taking the time to answer, you have made me think, I appreciate it very much. Greetings from Argentina, you are great! 😊 PS: Sorry if my English is indecipherable, I'm using a translator haha.

Good quality video

The Sony has both optical and digital zoom. Not GoPro.

You’re very kind. Thank you.

@@iancraighave you tried it with DJI Osmo Action 4? That’s what I have. 😂

Yes, I have. It fits and I find the footage nicer to look at than using the internal stabilisation when you slow the shutter down. Use the method that I show to fit the camera on and it’s easier though, because the Action is slightly thicker than a GoPro.

@@iancraigawesome. I will put this on my Xmas wishlist 😂

Hi Jon. I did this video using a very low contrast picture profile. Not Cinetone, but even less contrast so that I could get a picture in really dark areas and boost the contrast in post just to an amount that didn’t black out dark areas. I was trying to make it look more like a film, rather than a vlog. I was using F1.4 a lot of the time so depth of field was narrow. It’s called Filmkit flat wide. You can load the same profile onto the m50. It’s closer to log footage than Cinetone. Really flat and low sharpness. I also used 30fps and a very slow shutter …. 1/40th, so the image softened up. Lots happening on the Action cam front. Action 5, Ace Pro 2 and Hero 13. Spoilt for choice. I’m going to bide my time I think. I like the Action 4 a lot although I sometimes find its footage a bit too sharp and in yer face, but then, that’s action cams for you I guess.

Hi Sonny. Yes, it’s up the road from where I live. I only show a fraction of what’s there in this video. What I found strange is how different it looks on video compared to being there. It looks so Victorian on screen to me. He was a busy fella. His water colours are now worth a fortune. He collected butterflies. Wrote books and won an award, let alone being Prime Minister during the war. I saw his funeral train when I was a kid. His body was transported by train to London. Just back from Florida. Beautiful place and lovely people. Had a ball. I can’t believe how the manatee numbers have grown since I was last there. Loads of cardinals around us as well. Loved Key West. What a place, with butterfly house and Harry Truman’s holiday White House. Fox News was a scream …. Trump all over the place. We had Tropical Storm Debby and never seen rain like it. Want to go back now.

We were there for three weeks, in Tavernier. Rented a beautiful apartment looking out to sea. The storm was originally coming straight for us but I think Cuba diverted it so it skirted around us and we just got the edge of it. Never seen rain like it though…. We saw the flooding on the news next morning. After seeing how bad the edge of it was, the centre must have been awful.

Oh yes …. It all went off in the night, Jon. It was like a bath had been tipped over. You know, in movies, they go on about hosepipes being used to create rain storms? This was exactly like that with a tap on burst!! It was almost like the drops were being shot downwards and they hit with a massive impact. Great for cleaning the path.

I have no idea what we ordered Kevin!

Long time ago now. It’s gone….

Yes, it will. It’s not as directional as a mono mic, but enough to pick up relatively more from the front than the back and sides.

Thanks Mark. That cold wind was really spooky. We were baking hot and it suddenly felt like a cemetery and I wasn’t kidding …. The hairs on my arms stood up. It’s the weirdest feeling. The full blast of wind hadn’t arrived; just the rain. We were concerned about the sea coming up because we were staying right on it. Luckily, the storm skirted around us but the flooding that we saw on Fox was terrible. Then we felt lucky!

@@iancraig Yup! 😀 That's exactly how it is. There was one Summer our a/c went out and it didn't rain for days. It was SO HOT! But I'll never forget one day when a storm came in and we got one of those cold winds. Best feeling ever! Haha. Glad to hear the storm missed you. We got TONS of rain here, but at least I live in the foothills and the rain drains faster in to the creeks. But, it all flows to the coast. And, those at the coast usually get a LOT of flooding. Even if we don't get a direct hit. I love Fall in North Carolina, but the tropical storms that come through can cause some havoc.

Haha…. Hi Jon. SLO mo donut. We had no idea what we’d ordered in the end!

Us foreigners don’t know what we’re supposed to do and she certainly wasn’t helping us!

It was awful trying to understand her. In the end, we had absolutely no idea of what we were going to get!

Yes, you can only adjust one thing and the other compensates in auto. So if you adjust for shallow depth of field by opening the aperture, the shutter adjusts itself to a higher speed. Put on an ND and then the shutter adjusts to a lower speed. The aperture and shutter work in conjunction with each other in an automatic way. The screen does show exactly what’s happening so focus is easily seen there. It seems awkward at first but actually, you would have to do the same manually in other cameras. By ‘sharp images’ I hope you don’t mean still images? It is better in video to watch the moving image since really, these are movie cameras rather than photo cameras and a slight lack of razor edges can help a lot with the appearance of movement. A very sharp edge can look awful in video. As far as cards go, these cameras don’t use a really high bit rate. So they are less fussy about card speed. Try using the shutter nice and low and allow the aperture to do whatever. You will see nice motion blur and have footage that looks more like ‘film’ rather than sharp, contrasty ‘still like’ images that you can get from DSLRs.

Thank you.

Hi. That sounds like a faulty camera. If the grain is large enough to see on the screen, I think something is wrong. If it’s new, I think I’d try to get it changed.

@@iancraig not really large enough it’s just not as clear as most screens nowadays. could it be due to cx405 being an old model? thanks for replying by the way

I don’t think that I get ticking in this one, but my cx450 does. Normally, external noise is enough to get rid of it. For anything you want to do with good sound, an external recorder would help, or even that DJI wireless that records 32 bit float onto the mic itself.

@@iancraig thanks! I think I’ll just keep it since I got it for a good deal :) will just adjust in editing stage. Otherwise great.

That’s very strange. Is the plug a slightly different size on the Sony?

@@iancraig thanks for the quick response. No difference visibly. The capsule should provide plugin power to the lavalier i suppose. In the amazon reviews a guy speaks about directly using it with h5. Will update here if I come up with a solution.

Hi Mark. Last time I was there was 2000 as well! The Bayside area is really lovely. Worst thing these days is parking. Didn’t have those problems in 2000. This time we did that park ‘n ride which worked out really well. The ferris wheel is cheap and really worth going on. Gives you a nice cool off as well. For some reason, I always find it hot in Miami and end up looking for anywhere to cool off!!

Thanks Jon. Miami is a big place and once you’ve been there, you never forget that heat and the 6 lanes of road on each side. It’s like Whacky Races. That sweet shop was massive. Some of the storms can be ferocious. I captured a tropical storm later in the holiday because we had a hurricane skirt around us. The three weeks we spent in Florida shot by and the Action 4 worked really well.

I think that there are two versions. One without battery and one with. The version with the battery will work but it’s a rather cumbersome setup. It might be better to look at more traditional ‘on camera’ mics. They give good sound, have a good shockmount system and aren’t so big.

@@iancraigGood to know! What mic would you recommend?

There are quite a few to choose from … Rode NTG, Rode Videomic Pro, Deity D4 or D3 Joby Wavo Quite a few shown on my channel and tbh, they are all pretty close. ruclips.net/video/ZptROGBM_QY/видео.htmlsi=vJM9t4kQSzQw_5OD

Yes, it works really well. You can put an extension onto the lead to make it longer and separate the two mics by making a ‘T’ shape. Then the mics are about 6 feet or so apart. I think one of the best uses for it.

We had a brilliant time Andre. The heat knocked us for six at first. We’re just not used to it. Actually, I got some funny shots of us in the car, using it as a cooling area and the three of us look cooked. We went down to Key West to Truman’s Little White House and I said to the guy running a tour that I can’t imagine how people could live there given the suits that they wore and the heat. (Let alone the cowboys in the 19th century. He said, they normally kept one working set of clothes and in Truman’s case, they hung the clothes in an open closet so air could move through and stop mildew forming and they were just left to dry! Yuk. I honestly don’t know how they did it. I met a guy from Texas who said it was hotter there, but not as humid, much dryer. How on earth did cowboys wear leather gear and work outdoors in it there? I also saw photos of Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp, plus others in really heavy clothes. Madness!!!

Thanks Jon. Yes, the tarpon were everywhere. Probably, they can read because there was a sign saying no fishing on the bank!

I don’t think it’s any different to other sounds except I think I might use a dynamic mic since the sounds being recorded would be so loud if you include jet engines. General airport sounds would be best in stereo or surround and the internal mics would capture it ok.

@@iancraig sorry, i used wrong preposition. Should have used 'in'. I was thinking of recording the announcement and interactions of people (walking/talking/wheel noises from suitcases) from multiple angles. Sort of 'spatial audio'. Would 4ch be the best option?

Oh ok. 4 channel would be great, only if you play back on a 4 channel system. Stereo is way more common, so if you record spatial sound and mix down to stereo, that will give you a nice wide sound. I tend to stick with pure stereo.

I think it is. I still have mine and in fact used it only yesterday for a holiday video VO.

@@iancraig Thanks my friend. I send you a hug from Argentina. Here everything is very expensive and this information that you provide on your channel has helped me on several occasions.

Thank you. Unfortunately, Sony lock it to 50 or 60 hz, depending on which country you bought it in. Daft really. I have an AX53 and that was locked into 50 Hz but I managed to find a programme that allows me to switch it between 50 and 60. The PAL/NTSC is a relic now that should be left to history!

@@iancraig Thank you for you kind response! So buying a NTSC model would give me 24/60 instead of 25/50? If so, an adapter would be needed I guess for charging since the voltage is different. Would 50i give any problems later with programs since it is a outdated format?

Charging is no problem on my ax53 in ntsc. You can only get a 24/60 camcorders from an ntsc country. I would use 50i. Switch it to 50P.

Thank you so much. On some videos, I compose and play it myself on a keyboard and on others, I use Epidemic Sounds.

@@iancraig Ohh. Thanks for your reply. 😄

One mode stops it tilting left/right. Another mode stops up/down and another fixes on a position and stays there. They all stabilise but some movements can be restricted which can be really useful.

@@iancraig Yea I understand that however I don't see it happening. Thanks though!

@@mjay7238 Yes. You pair the mic to the camera via the camera menu and the pairing button on the transmitter/mic. You go into ‘wireless mic’ and press ‘TX’ so that the camera starts searching and also the ‘pairing button’ on the mic. After a short while, they link and you press ‘Confirm’. That’s it. Once paired, it should work automatically after that.

I really don’t know. The wiring must run up inside the loop. Unless you can open the capsule part and just unsolder and then solder in another capsule?

That’s a real bargain.

Yes, I think the h6 is more refined, but this little thing gets you out of having to play around with levels, which is the one feature I really like about it. Just press record.

I’m not familiar with that particular interface but it might be useful to test each separately. Make sure you are getting audio from the output of the interface and plug a mic directly into the Zoom to make sure that it is accepting audio. If they both work individually, maybe check phantom power switches on both. Turn off on the Zoom but on, on the interface. I’m guessing that you want to use more than two mics? If not, I would go directly into the camera myself. That will take two on left and right channels. The preamp on the Zoom is quite nice.

It was quite an old camcorders when I made this too. Great pity that camcorders became less popular because I would have liked them to develop into full blown cameras because they are so quick and easy to use.

I’m out in the Florida Keys with it at the moment, and it’s been absolutely brilliant.

@UCxAfTEbzQ717MArx%F0%9F%91%8D%F0%9F%91%8DUQWCu1Q Are you going fishing Ian? Wouldn't want to miss out on using one of their 24ft middle console boats over there

I’m thinking about it, but the size of some of the things out there is terrifying. Went to a place in Islamorada today, feeding tarpon by hand. Five to six feet long and jumping out of the water to take the fish that I held and half my arm with it! I’ve got three weeks here to think about it, but some of the really big things, I’m not keen on getting stuck with on the end of a rod. A man was attacked by a bull shark today in Key West. Nearly took his leg off!