Sony ZV1 for Street photography in Vancouver | Is it still a good camera 2024? Camera Review

[@lim2001burger]

Just found your channel because I was looking at the ZV-1 for street - great shots! Best of luck with your art!

[@chantalmyfawny]

Thank you! Subscribe for more street and photography content

[@KOrnhOliO1]

The reasons I love my Sony ZV1 so much is the superb auto focus!! It simply doesn't hunt and fish for correct focus. It's fast and accurate! I see so many KZbin videos where the camera is constantly trying to get good focus...Back and forth it hunts. Not this ZV1. Many say Sony has the very best auto focus on the market right now. I also love the articulating screen. I'm 67 years old and been taking photos since I was 13. I used to think I had to have an electronic viewfinder because I had viewfinders on camera growing up. Years ago, I laughed when camera makers left off the viewfinder and just had a screen on the back. But!... This screen of so damn clear and bright, especially if you adjust the brightness control in the menu... It has a sunny day setting that makes it VERY BRIGHT! With the way I can adjust this screen to ANY angle I want, it makes shooting from lower perspectives easier, more stealth, and opens up new thinking. I can angle it straight at my eyes no matter where I have the camera! Imagine doing street and having the camera by your side walking down the street. Leave it on 24mm f1.8 and set shooting mode to continuous. Walk down the street looking at the viewfinder by your side, very stealthy, and shoot multiple images rapid fire and you'll end up being much more successful because you'll have so many more photos to choose from. Getting you that awesome shot! With digital, we never have to worry about how much film we are using, so shoot away, and choose the best from many... And not just "hope" you got one single image to come out like you wanted. Odds are much more in your favor if you have many photos to choose from of the same scene or person. Get extra batteries to carry with you and a big sd card to hold them all! I also really like all of the many, many options this camera has. You can literally set it to any way you can possibly imagine! Biggest benefit of having all these features is the complete programability to place your favorite features onto whatever key you want on the cameras body, but also wherever you want in the Fn (function) menu, accessible from the Fn button on the back. You can really load up those features because those menus have all sorts of button to place them on. Awesome! There are all sorts of great features on this camera... Too many to list here, but that's what makes it so incredible to use! Once you learn it, you'll find it has most of the features of many pro cameras bodies costing over $2000 bucks! Sure, not every single one, but all you'll ever need! Next great thing is simple: Pocketable. It's so small, but mighty, it allows for real creativity, but you can take it everywhere you go! I literally have it with me whenever I leave the house... Right in my pocket! Sure, cellphones have nice snap shot camera now a days. But the lenses are very limited, the low light capabilities suck, the sensor is tiny, and they're more a toy than a serious camera. Not a serious photographers camera, that's for sure. So this ZV1 gives you the pocketable feature of a cellphone, with the great capabilities and gorgeous sharpeness, even at f1.8, of a very serious pro camera! It's kinda unique. 💯😎🤘

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@KOrnhOliO1 it’s really unique!! I’ve been experimenting with many DSLR’s this year and switched to shooting a few fujis. I sold my x100s this year because it just wasn’t as small as the ZV1 but also had a fixed 28mm which I didn’t like I couldn’t zoom in or out or change the lens. With the ZV1 you can also purchase add ons to add filters and different macro lenses to make it even more versatile!

[@lawconic]

I have Fuji and Sony cameras, but I pick up my ZV1 the most by far. It’s a great blend of quality and convenience.

[@chantalmyfawny]

Absolutely. I love my Fuji x100s for slow and creative shoots, but my zv1 is my street and daily carry for sure

[@elmunizada]

Fantastic photos! Great video!

[@chantalmyfawny]

Thank you!!! 🙏

[@cerenkebapc6029]

Wow, I am also surprised how this camera turned out so great as a photography camera. Your pictures are outstanding, good luck!

[@chantalmyfawny]

It’s really not the gear you use - but the artist wielding the tools

[@KOrnhOliO1]

Ya, it's a way to get a Sony RX100 V or whatever for way less, but with the same features! The buttons are set up ergonomically for video, but surprisingly all of the RX100's features are actually there! Instead of a mode dial, they have a mode button and the viewfinder shows the mode options just like a dial. Saves space and allows for a button to record video to be front and center. Other features are there and can be programmed to where ever you want them to be! Using pretty much ANY key or function menu you want. I looked on eBay for a used RX100 V and they were all around $800 - 900 or more. Too much for my budget. Then, I found out how similar, actually pretty much identical the ZV1 is to the RX100 V is, with simply a different layout, and started looking at the ZV1. Most were at around $600, but some sellers didn't know the huge difference between the ZV1 & the ZV1F. So, there are several people, as of July 2024, selling their ZV1 for the price used ZV1F's are going for! S C O R E ! I have my cherry ZV1 sitting in my lap as I write this. It arrived about 10 days ago and I only paid $352 shipped! Priced as a ZV1F, but if you look closely at the pictures of the camera you're actually buying in the listing, you can clearly see the correct model number right on the camera you're thinking of buying! Plain as day! 👍 Well, for $352 instead of around $800 for a RX100 V, that makes me one very happy camper - For Sure! 💯😎🤘

[@randommemories19]

Nice video and good advice! Good luck on your journey and with your travels!

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@randommemories19 thank you so much for taking the time to comment!

[@LivingFreeTv123]

Hello from Salt Spring. I love my ZV1 💜

[@chantalmyfawny]

Hello! I’d love to visit salt spring island sometime. Any favourite recommendations of cool places there?

[@krisannette84]

Hi girl! Came over from Elise’s channel! Loved this! Excited to launch my KZbin channel soon too! Thanks for the camera tips! I used to have a photographer business and got burned out but would love to do it for fun again. My favorite has always been street photography!

[@chantalmyfawny]

Amazing! So lovely to meet you! We need more women street photographers. Would love to see your stuff! :)

[@krisannette84]

Oh and I’m from Az, USA love traveling and going to Greece in May, I think I’m going to take my vintage Polaroid camera and get creative!

[@Cjbrown2x]

@@chantalmyfawny can you throw a pro mist or any kind of filter on this

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@Cjbrown2x hi there is a way to do this, I will post a video of how soon 💗

[@vd8189]

Great photos! I just bought ZV1, can't wait to try it out

[@vd8189]

I am from Yakutsk in the north-eastern Russia, going to travel to Kazakhstan soon, I hope I will take cool photos there

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@vd8189 did you get the mark i or mark ii?

[@martijn260571]

Hi, I’m from a little town called Leiden in the Netherlands ✋🏻👍🏻 I like interested in landscape photography. Have been for a while but never got to it. So this sony camera could be my next purchase 🙂

[@chantalmyfawny]

It’s a great little camera and it’s very versatile

[@LeninRajendraSingh]

chantal, your vibe is dope ! would really appreciate if you could tell us more about taking product photography with that little monster, cheers and wish you truckloads & containers of success👊

[@chantalmyfawny]

Hello! I haven’t dabbled in product photography yet but I will be doing this soon as I am launching my art business website later this year and will be taking photos for my website. More to come. Subscribe so you don’t miss a future video 🙏

[@vancouverpoy]

6:45 really good photo there :) !! I got the ZV1 this year, happy with it too.

[@chantalmyfawny]

Yeah 6:45 is one of my favs too! Totally candid with the sunshine behind them 🌞

[@BuzzAdven]

Made it to the end of the video! Im from the Okanagan Valley, would love travel to a large city like NYC for street photography. I shoot with a Fuji X-E3, but was kind of curious in getting this for street since the have the brains of the RX100VII but have the lens and sensor of the RX100VA. Thanks for sharing this video and your art; super helpful! Hope your journey is going well!

[@chantalmyfawny]

I’ve got a new street photography video coming out this week featuring an old Nikon DSLR, it’s not about the camera you use, but the artist behind the lens!!! I love my Fuji cameras - but my Sony zv1 was my first vlog camera and I used it for street for about a year before I was able to afford my Fuji cameras. Never tried the x-e4, but I used the XA3 for some portraits - those videos with the XA3 are available on my channel as well :)

[@chantalmyfawny]

All this was shot in Vancouver BC! It’s like the New York of Canada haha 🇨🇦

[@babyboy1971]

I just got this camera and I love it. Do you shoot in raw? May I ask, how do you get such vivid colors?

[@chantalmyfawny]

Yes Donavan, I shoot in RAW - most of my post production editing is done in light room but these images are barely touched up from RAW - I just deepened the yellow/orange tones and increased the blue for the thumbnail photo.

[@Yazmin_Gonzalezz]

I have a zv1 and i haven’t put it to use 🫠 Can you make a video on what settings you used for this video?! Also the part with the older man so wholesome 🥹

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@Yazmin_Gonzalezz Hi Yazmin, I’d recommend lots of other videos on settings. My settings will vary depending on what I’m shooting and what the lighting conditions are :) I hope that helps

[@gigabloke]

Thanks for sharing your street photos. I enjoyed seeing them. To answer your questions at the end. I am a Brit living in rural California. I've done some street in San Francisco, San Leandro and elsewhere. Would like to visit Japan, Nepal...

[@chantalmyfawny]

That’s awesome!! There are so many places I’d love to go! I’ve heard really great things about the lifestyle in Cali. I would love to go anywhere warm and sunny, as Vancouver is quite rainy like Britain. ✨

[@OneluchoSalazar]

Nice video. I did enjoy it. Thanks.

[@chantalmyfawny]

You're most welcome💗

[@michaelbell75]

Nice! These look pretty good. Has a slight filmic look. Are these straight off the camera or edited? Thanks

[@chantalmyfawny]

Very slight colour correction edits but very minimal

[@pipeperrea]

Hi from Bogotá!! Love your video, I just pick up the zv1 for video but now I wanna shot streets too. I would love to shot pictures in the moon! 🍊

[@chantalmyfawny]

It’s a great versatile camera! I have the mark I (first edition) I’ve heard the stabilization is worse in the mark ii - I would recommend the original camera

[@KOrnhOliO1]

Search KZbin for "How to set up the Sony ZV1". Many videos will pop up, some for video settings and some for photo settings. Since you have a screen for both in the Fn menu accessible from the back button. Choose all you like the best and lock them in for quick and easy access. Set up favorite photo features and favorite video features and put on their menu Sony has for each. There's even a 3rd screen for other favorites. You'll love how easy this makes your favorite features to get to. 💯😎🤘

[@LaloRacer1]

The karen story was hilarious!

[@chantalmyfawny]

Everyone loves a Karen hahah 🤣

[@KOrnhOliO1]

​@@chantalmyfawnyReally... Not so much! Lol Everyone loves a story of someone else's KAREN video. But, meeting them yourself is always such a chore to deal with their attitude. 😢

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@KOrnhOliO1 I lived to tell the tale hahaha

[@annenl7tz]

I found you on Elise Buch channel and love your content

[@chantalmyfawny]

Thank you! Please subscribe and join my community, I am just beginning my KZbin journey and would love to have you join for along the ride

[@j.b.3076]

Living in Taiwan - have ZV1

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@j.b.3076 the ZV1 is a great versatile camera!

[@HeyDien]

Did you post edit your photos shown in this video? Great video btw

[@chantalmyfawny]

Hi Dien, I did very minor editing in Lightroom. I kept the editing to a minimum to show the quality of the photos that can come from this powerful point and shoot 📸

[@mishakmusic]

amazing! what settings?

[@mishakmusic]

follow up: how close are you getting out of camera to whats in the video? close? or is it mostly post processing. they look amazing btw

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@mishakmusic these were taken in automatic and manual mode depending on the lighting situation outside. Also I am standing about 3-5-8 feet from the folks when shooting depending on the shot. The images are hardly edited just a bit of colour correction

[@diamondolsson6384]

Your room is super cute

[@chantalmyfawny]

Why my whole house is one room 💗 thanks love

[@100playonplaya]

great photos!

[@chantalmyfawny]

Thank you! Glad you like them. Please subscribe for more street photo vlogs

[@robwallenberg8533]

I’d love to go to Japan too. Also Morocco and Hong Kong

[@chantalmyfawny]

Amazing! I would love to see Morocco as well

[@azolaun]

The Karen story was hilarious haha they really got nothing to do but be a buzz kill and having power over people haha

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@azolaun totally!!! Wasn’t even taking a picture of her at all

[@stebina.s3209]

does this pictures edited.? but anyways nice photos

[@chantalmyfawny]

The pictures are very minimally edited

[@dinoc]

You can do very good street photography even with an iPhone Pro, with Sony camera it should be spectacular!

[@chantalmyfawny]

These shots were taken on a Sony ZV1, I enjoy them better than my iPhone pics for sure

[@spaghe7]

lol I've never had Karen encounters doing street yet but I guess it's always bound to happen. How is it using the ZV1 6 months after? do you use it alot for videos cause I heard it has a pretty bad rolling shutter.

[@chantalmyfawny]

Not my camera, never had rolling shutter issues. Been using it for year and it’s still my go to street camera. I have a backlog of photos to show and new videos are coming soon

[@tux4205]

Never use the public space "excuse". It's true but it doesn't work with many people. Flatter them, that works. Talk to them if they look aggressive, make them vain. My2cents

[@chantalmyfawny]

Thing is, I never took a photo of HER! And I told her that, she was concerned about me taking photos of other people

[@innfield8836]

Colors at the beginning when you were in the car are dull and flat ... almost as if you were using another camera altogether. The rest is fine.

[@chantalmyfawny]

The colours of the video were at dusk after sunset - this was shot in autumn. I also didn’t colour correct the video in the cae

[@stringsnare]

only in vancouver

[@chantalmyfawny]

How so?

[@stringsnare]

@@chantalmyfawny Karens complaining about someone with a camera, lol

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@stringsnare yes, it was sooo funny ahaha

[@MrGarrych]

It starts with our language”taking my picture” this is so inaccurate and why some people get upset. No one owns the photons from the sun either before or after they reflect off an object (person) and that once I capture them in my device they are my photons not yours. I am not taking the photons you are failing to retain them and thats on you not me.

[@bijosn]

What is the max shutter speed for photography? There is mechanical shutter so does that mean the shutter speed is limited by scan rate?

[@chantalmyfawny]

My settings for this day was iso 200-300 (varied) nd filter on, and 1/250

[@bijosn]

@@chantalmyfawny thanks. so you have not experienced any rolling shutter issues in photogrpahy? are you okay with the lack of evf?

[@chantalmyfawny]

@@bijosn This camera is a great point and shoot and no, but based on how I shoot I am not often zooming in or out I usually shoot between 28-42 typically 38 focal length