Sony ZV-1 Vlog Camera

Sony ZV-1 Vlog Camera

Designed for creators to love
No experience is necessary to capture great-looking videos. The ZV-1 is designed to capture amazing videos of you and your world, without any tricky setup.

Beautiful and natural skin tones for everyone
The ZV-1 makes all skin colours look vibrant, natural and healthy. There’s also an optional Soft Skin Effect mode for a smoother look.

Background bokeh for a professional touch
The large 1.0-type CMOS sensor and wide-aperture lens deliver images with professional background bokeh, as well as clear detail even in challenging low-light conditions.

Let the camera catch your eye
With AI technology, you can rely on the auto focus sticking firmly to your face and eyes without wandering to other subjects. When you want to focus on another subject, just touch it on the screen and let the camera do the focusing.

Fast and precise focus transitions
The ZV-1’s Fast Hybrid AF system lets you simply and quickly switch focus from a face to the background, for more stylistic and watchable videos.

Pro-quality bokeh control with one touch
Just by pushing the Bokeh switch, you can switch background bokeh on and off—no need for complex manual adjustments. Now it’s easy to simply select a professional-looking defocused background or keep the entire scene in focus with just one press of a button.

Product Showcase Setting, ideal for product review videos
The Product Showcase Setting allows you to switch with just one push of a button to settings that are perfect for product reviews. It widens the angle of view and switches the focus to the object instantly, so you don’t need to wait for the focus to shift, or place your hand behind the product to shift the focus to it.

Shoot great video, wherever you go
The ZV-1 is built to get great shots while you’re moving. With amazing image stabilisation, you can shoot smooth video when walking and, as the light goes from shadow to sun or outdoors to in, the automatic exposure (AE) tracks faces and makes sure they always appear well-lit.

Designed for even better audio
You can capture clear vocals even when shooting in a crowd. The camera’s unique directional three-capsule mic gathers clear sound from in front of the camera, ideal for movie shooting.

Wind screen for outdoor shooting
The supplied wind screen reduces wind noise for worry-free outdoor shooting. As well as achieving premium sound quality, this also means that you’ll spend less time reshooting and editing footage affected by wind noise.

Use your favourite mic for the sound you want
With a microphone jack and MI shoe, you can pick from your choice of mics to get exactly the sound you want.

Recreate the world in your image
The ZV-1 is designed to bring together simplicity and power, opening up creative opportunities as wide as your imagination.

Dynamic video through slow motion
Make every movement more cinematic with Super Slow Motion video, capturing the most fleeting of moments for playback at up to 40 times slower than real time.

Time-lapse for that cinematic effect
Interval shooting mode automatically captures sequences of images from 1–60 seconds apart, from which cinematic time lapse videos can be created on a PC, where clouds flow past like water and whole days pass in seconds.

Take amazing pictures as well as video
The ZV-1 has everything you need to capture images that really shine in your timeline and video thumbnails. The pin-sharp ZEISS® 24-70 mm lens focuses light to a large 1.0-type Exmor RS™ CMOS image sensor, which all comes together in the powerful BIONZ X™ image processor.

Express yourself with creative effects
Picture Effects and Creative Styles allow for near-limitless visual possibilities, from simple monochrome and partial colour effects right through to complex miniature effects.

Shoot then share easily
There’s no longer any need to compromise your images with your smartphone camera just to share content quickly. The ZV-1 delivers both stunning images and seamless connectivity, for better and easier posting.

Instantly transfer movies to your smartphone
The free Imaging EdgeTM Mobile app for iOS and Android7 lets you simply transfer, edit and upload images shot on the ZV-1 instantly to social media platforms, from wherever you are.

A perfect fit for any platform
Use the Movie Edit add-on to apply enhanced stabilisation for especially shaky shots, or reframe and crop video to suit popular social media aspect ratios.

Easily shoot vertical-position movies for mobile
With automatic tagging of vertically orientated videos, you can upload content custom-made for smartphone screens.

Built to vlog
The ZV-1 design makes creating outstanding selfie and vlog content easy. Right down to the last detail, the ZV-1 is all about empowering you to make inspirational content.

See yourself at your best
The vari-angle LCD touch screen flips out horizontally, making it perfect for selfies and vlogging. Clear of ports, microphones and mounting shoes, it allows for precise framing and fluid operation even while in front of the camera.

Know whether you’re recording at a glance
It’s easy to know when you’re recording with a clear recording lamp on the front of the camera, and it’s easy to switch off if you prefer. You’ll never accidentally forget to hit the record button again.

Optimised grip for selfies
The deeper, shaped grip is more comfortable for conventional shooting, and offers a stable handhold to reduce fatigue for vlogging or selfie shots.

Works with wireless control grips
The ZV-1 is compatible with the Sony Bluetooth® wireless shooting grip GP-VPT2BT, which offers cable-free control of zoom, recording and more, and expands into a mini-tripod for stable hands-free shots.

Shoot like a pro
Carry professional quality video along in your pocket, with stunning 4K HDR detail and powerful exposure tools for content guaranteed to impress.

Professional 4K HDR movie functions
The ZV-1 records immensely detailed 4K HDR video through 1.7x pixel resampling, so you can capture reality without any compromise.

S-Log gamma for professional workflows
S-Log2 and S-Log3 gamma controls are available for camera matching and flexibility in colour grading, along with a range of picture profile settings to create your perfect aesthetic.

Built-in ND filter
A Neutral Density (ND) filter opens creative possibilities via video exposure control, enhancing depth-of-field and enabling magical slow-shutter portrayal of water, light and motion.

Imaging Edge Desktop™
Elevate your photography with Imaging Edge Desktop applications. Use ‘Remote’ to control and monitor shooting live on your PC screen; ‘Viewer’ to quickly preview, rate and select photos from large image libraries and ‘Edit’ to develop RAW data into high quality photos for delivery. Get the best from Sony RAW files, and manage your productions more efficiently.

Capture One for Sony
Capture One Express (for Sony) is free, award-winning, editing software that provides RAW development, easy management and powerful editing tools. Capture One Pro (for Sony) is available for even more editing tools and tethered shooting capability.

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