Gone is the pop-up flash and the small electronic viewfinder found on the RX100 cameras. So along comes the ZV-1 with a microphone socket, a hot-shoe on the top, and a screen which flips out to the side. As well as this the RX100 has limited space on its top plate due to a built-in flash and a pop-up electronic viewfinder. Part of the reason for not having a hot-shoe is that the RX100 series cameras have a flip-up front facing screen, which would be blocked by any mounted microphone. Whilst the RX100 VII introduced a microphone socket for the first time in the RX100 series, it lacks a hot-shoe mount to actually mount a microphone. The attraction of the RX100 for videography is its compact size, 4K video shooting, fast autofocus, 1-inch sensor and ability to shoot the same video Picture Profiles as its A7-series bigger brothers. However, with just a few key areas of difference, Sony has switched the technology so that the ZV-1 has a clear focus on video, with still photography very much in the backseat.

Both cameras share the same 20-million-pixel 1-inch size BSI sensor, Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T8 24-70mm f/1.8-2.8 equivalent lens and NP-BX1 battery, so as you can imagine, many of the specifications are identical. Sony has finally listened to those requests, but instead of adding them to the RX100 a brand new camera has been created, and presumably an entirely new camera range with the Sony ZV-1, which Sony are describing as a ‘Vlog’ camera ‘designed for creators’.Ī glance at the features of the ZV-1 shows that it shares much of its DNA with the Sony RX100 VA. For years a significant number of Sony RX100 users have requested certain extra features that would increase its capabilities for video use.

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