this $400 Sony camcorder BANGS in 2024

[@ZachMayfield]

While my next big project is in the cooker, what older cameras should I try out next??

[@danieltilley]

Sorry if I missed a video you already did on it, but Panasonic g7? May very well be the cheapest 4k mirrorless camera you can buy new or used these days.

[@sinhau8]

8:15 Kon-tiki was shot with the Arri Alexa Plus, and had a budget at aprox 16 million USD. The Sony Fs100 was most likely only used as a crash-cam in a action sequense or for some plate-photography.

[@M1R00TJ3]

dvx100b pls

[@JacobdelaRosa]

@@danieltilley I used that one heavily for professional work when I first started shooting video. It punches WAY above it's weight. Great camera

[@CamtasticRide]

Sony A7. Started the whole full frame mirrorless thing in Dec. 2013 The apps in camera were quirky but some were useful. Still miss that version of their timelapse. The apps were all discontinued in the fall of '23.

[@CamtasticRide]

I used a pair of these professionally for some big name clients for years when they first came out. Loved them. The touch screen works great in the menus too. We phased them out when we finally jumped to 4k with the A7Rii when it had just come out but kept our FS-100's for a few more years. Now, Ive got several modern cameras but wanted a simple 1080 cam for podcasting. Something I could leave set up in a studio and that doesn't have a record limit. I picked one of these FS-100's up last summer (2023) for $300! It works great and honestly, I like the retro cinema camera look and the image quality, its not perfect but it has character. Would also consider using for live events with the right lens. When shooting interviews, I would stack them with a 50mm on one, and an 85mm on the other. Wide and tight with correct eyeline, even with a teleprompter. A neat workaround in the 1080 days before 4k changed the need for that. Id say if you can get one cheap, try it, if its not for you, sell it.

[@Sandor_Clegane_9]

I had this camera for years. And my advice DON'T EVEN TRY TO BUY IT in 2024. It's terrible by today's standart. Colors are awful, it's impossible to tweak it right. Codec is terrible, huge blochiness in going on the moving objects, posterising, not enough color info. Bad dynamic range, messy shadows, no highlight roll-off. And there is very weird banding on a contrasty vertical lines. The only good thing in it is a preamps.

[@padelboys7628]

Thx for the info. what camera would you recomen around the 400usd price point?

[@AmaraARW]

Don't tell me what to do!!

[@PatrickLipp]

I'd disagree as I spent a long time with it and created a picture profile that now hundreds of people use across the world. amazing colors, great dynamic range, highlights are ehh, but if used properly more than acceptable. setup properly its still an amazing camera.

[@Sandor_Clegane_9]

@@AmaraARW Can you read? I said this is an advice.

[@Sandor_Clegane_9]

@@padelboys7628 can't say. I would reccoment raise your budget at least to 700.

[@BrendanMiranda]

Dang. Memory lane right here. Shot on these in high school. This was the year our high school got a huge money grant for the first time in like 20 years and our film teacher bought 2 FS100’s, an FS700, Zeiss CP.2’s, a RED Scarlett, and a RED Epic Mysterium-X. Loved these things and shot on them all the time, I remember the color being kind of washed out but we didn’t really have any concept of color grading back then. We shot some weddings, motocross, off road racing with these things, I remember them having some weird banding in low light.

[@Moriarty2007]

I still use my FS-700R with Atomos for 4K RAW, Prores, Prores RAW and it's up to 240fps. It's like RED or ARRI, but for 1500$. Took it 3 years ago for that price. It's AWESOME!

[@PaulHarwood856]

4K 240 fps?

[@Moriarty2007]

@@PaulHarwood856 4K up to 60FPS, 2K up to 240FPS both in 12 Bit RAW.

[@PaulHarwood856]

Wow great to know! Thanks for the quick reply!@@Moriarty2007

[@david_hambridge]

@@Moriarty2007 you can do 4K 120fps ProRes at least with the Odyssey7Q, and 2K 240fps ProRes or yeah balls to the wall both at 12-bit CinemaDNG.

[@Moriarty2007]

@david_hambridge Odyssey needs an expensive extra license for RAW. Anyway, I use this camera at 25 fps, Prores mostly with Atomos.

[@ItsDrewsif]

The green screen smack at 8:53 was an absolute chefs kiss moment.

[@TomAndreen]

It's funny seeing the Kon-Tiki trailer after Death to Prom and Church of Fears. I can't speak for the budget of the other two films, but Kon-Tiki was one of the most expensive Norwegian feature films ever made at the time. It's about the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his expedition in 1947. There's a museum in Oslo named after him 😊

[@freespeechmatters583]

I still use my FS100 as a wide camera as conferences. So nice to use, great button layout, cheap batteries. A bit soft, but still a solid camera.

[@REDsquareproductionsoriginal]

A friend of mine had one of these, and we filmed a documentary with it in 2015, and it was not the right tool for the job! Still a cool camera, though.

[@GabrielHastings]

We had one of these in our inventory when I was in school. It. Was. AWESOME. (in 2014) It was the first modern video camera I ever used and it convinced me that shooting on a DSLR is just worse than an actual video camera.

[@PatrickLipp]

might I recommend using my picture profile. there's a slew of people across the world now using it. and while biased, I believe it's the best profile ever made for the camera... Version 2 - Better color reproduction. Reds toned down. Better overall DR. Black Level - -2 Gamma - Standard Black Gamma - Middle/+7 Knee - Manual/75%/-1 Color Mode - CINEMATONE1/8 Color Level - -4 Color Phase - 0 Color Depth - R+3/G+5/B+2/C+3/M+1/Y+6 WB Shift - LB-CC/0/0/0/0 Detail - -7/Off/0/Type3/7/0/0 (As little in camera sharpening as possible)

[@raredreamfootage]

I preordered this in May of 2011. Thanks for the memories.

[@Rafazaas]

I've been a photographer since 2016 and started doing some video stuff for clients in 2020. Then my business turned full into video instead of photos, the thing is, I just bought my first camera for video (XH2S because I love Fujifilm), and all this time I did videos with my Fuji X-T20 which only have 4k, 30 fps, 8 bit, no log, no raw, nothing. And believe me, I'm super picky with the final quality but I tried always to get 100% from my gear. The thing is we usually think we need the best camera out there, 4k 120 fps, raw, or 6.2k open gate blah blah blah, and the truth is with today's softwares (specially Davinci) we can have the full potential from our gear. This is what I got from this video; yes lenses are important, cameras, all your gear but we need to realize that we can get the full potential of things and could be better than what we imagine.

[@Rafazaas]

Great I just got scammed and received a rock instead of the xh2s

[@rekthoughts6401]

Did you know that Phillip Bloom was brought in to help design this camera? The inspiration for the design for based on the DSLR boom at the time. Videographers main input was they wanted a camera that had the advantages of a DSLR type body, but sorta blend it with a cinema camera with all the controls on the body. And BTW I still have my FS100, although it is finally giving up the ghost so I did have to retire it to my collector shelf.

[@cbenfey]

I shot a feature “Things I Do for Money” and dozens of short films and music videos on the FS700 recording raw to the Odyssey 7Q. Incredible set up and still is. You could do raw 4K up to 120fps and 2K 240fps. And even do 480 and 960 fps internal but it looked pretty trash. But it was still 480 and 960 fps! I ended up upgrading to a decade-old Red Epic Dragon 6K. I have a thing for older cameras that just work so well.

[@Skapo]

Love this series! Quick note, FS100 was released in 2011. FS700 came in 2012 and maybe the version you were mixing up is the FS100U which did some small incremental upgrades. I know because I bought my FS700 on release in 2012 and the FS100 was already out.

[@tvFuttotal]

With the 4k raw output ❤

[@tobiaslofi]

This was my dream camera in 2012 but I couldn't afford it and went with the Sony NEX VG20.

[@Jawmsie]

Got my start with a used FS100 back in 2015! It's not the best camera in the world, but I love what it does at around the 1600-2500ISO mark with my tweaked version of G-log. These days, I just rent 4K-capable systems for shoots where I'm hired as a DoP, but the FS100 is an integral part of my live-streaming setup. Super versatile little machine. Shame it got to be pretty outdated real quick.

[@frannyfranman]

This was my first major camera purchase! Loved that thing, learned a lot with it. Made a total of $0 and put myself into major debt to buy it but… uh… something about the friends we made along the way 🤷‍♂️

[@auroraflash]

11:35 pulls Journey Across Japan theme as background music ^^

[@cameriqueTV]

I'm seeing a LOT of dropped frames. What card speed is supported?

[@PhilipLemoine]

You're such a good KZbinr.

[@CariveProductions]

Awesome! I remember when this came out. A couple of wedding filmers I know used them. Fun to watch all these high end cameras in the future!

[@stanfill.photofilm]

The ad segment was Genius, I watched all of it.

[@robertluxamafreethinker]

Really great video!! This camera was nearly a legend when it came out. It would be great to see a video like aboul the Sony FS700R, his big brother runing the city in 2024.

[@BMXPete]

I still use this camera for about 50% of my KZbin work. I is it in with 4k footage and it looks great.

[@ifhtfilms]

FS700 slowest mo in the biz 😤

[@sambrandner]

Still looks great! For being over a decade old, absolutely usable!

[@MasterOfBasses]

I wanted one of these so bad back in the day. I wanted to upgrade from a DSLR and show up on set with a "real" camera like this.

[@tmbasera]

We still use this camera, it still is capable of clean videos when configured correctly and with good lenses like 50mm Just curious to know where you bought it for $400

[@d2suarez]

Fun camera review. I checked B&H for it. They don't have it listed for sale but they still have a lot of really pricey accessories for it. All special order though

[@robjamesvideo]

One thing missing from this video is the inclusion of the massively long clip-on 'toilet roll' eyepiece loupe aka 'The Poop Loupe'.

[@alimcri]

хммм, странно видеть обьективы гелиос на современной камере. хотя для 11 мегапикселей наверное его резкости достаточно. но зачем если есть современные сигмы???

[@Apartment12A]

prety good camera. great low light capability for the time. We shot a feature called 11Blocks with the fs100.... at night.

[@Rob_eight10media]

I'd like to see you do a review on the FS100s big brother the FS700

[@OSTChuo]

Your about to make it to 100k, nice work.

[@DanielMcCullum]

It seems like, for a very similar price, the C100 mk1 is a way superior option (if you’re ok with being limited to under 30p) Sharper, way way way better color that still very much holds up in 2024, and much better ergonomics

[@EposVox]

This is neat

[@xqueenxkingx2637]

Came across a KZbin video today where someone was calling a 2011 camera "ancient." Funny thing is, I was born in 2004. According to their math, I guess I'm practically a relic, huh? Museum exhibit incoming!

[@GrazerMadhill]

Kon-Tiki was a Norwegian blockbuster about a group of explorers/scientists? traveling to Polynesia on a raft like the Polynesian were hypothesized to do quite long ago. It's based on a real story, and the movie is just ait.

[@loommovies]

Hi Zach, Love your segment about older cinema cameras, please don‘t stop.🙃 Just wanted to say that „Kon Tiki“ was not shot on the fs100. It was shot mainly on the Alexa Plus and the Red One MX, only some plates and 2nd unit shots were done on the fs100 and also you missed out mentioning that the camera you used is not the complete design. It‘s missing the side and top handle, which makes it pretts ergonomic. Keep creative mate.👋🏻

[@D_R_Martin]

Kon Tiki is based on the journeys of Thor Heyerdahl who tested a theory about taking a wooden raft from South America to Polynesia. True story. The movie was okay, but stereotypically not quite as good as they made it sound in the book.

[@kylelowe]

I remember when the FS100 and 700 came out! I still got a 5Dmk3 and it served me very well!

[@ZDepth_VFX]

Just got an oldie to play with... JVC LS300

[@footycheck]

I was on ebay for this camera, I had student telling me they need FX6 but i was going to get this for them

[@raredreamfootage]

No don't, an FX30 has better quality and more features for the same price brand new too!. For one the FS100 has no flat log profile.

[@CMeyer-v9s]

Warning: Don’t get this! The fs700 does not cost much more and is muuuuuch better. Also the Sony f3 if you don’t need 4K.

[@denver_video]

LOVE this stuff - the gear is so good now the only camera I wouldn't use is my old DVX-100 :-)

[@DJ-Sellout]

11:42 Somebody at Sony must have seen your video. It's listed as discontinued now...

[@stephen_hughes]

Still using the FS700 and 7Q now.

[@ColtKirwan]

Good YouTubing Zach!

[@SCHAUDENLUCAS]

honestly, its a better body design than mosten current cameras

[@MoralRichMedia]

Ha! That's my main cam.... guess it's time for an upgrade...lol

[@caffeinatedcameras]

You smacking yourself off of frame was hilarious.

[@GamingGioPlays]

I gave this camera away long ago to a family member might ask to use it again one last time 😂❤

[@表哥玩野]

bit size 28?!

[@mrkat547]

Di you by another old camera Zach?!?

[@ConnorMcCaskill2]

Wow, some of that B-Roll looks particularly nice 😉

[@ostettivictor]

You do need to get the JVC GY-LS300

[@lanolinlight]

The people who insist that you can't get anything spectacular out of this camera are the same kind of gearheads who dismissed the stunning evidence of Kendy Ty's early short films, made with a primeval Canon T2i and one lens. It's not the camera, it's the cameraman. Finding the sweet spot of a given camera, lens or sensor takes patience, time and careful exploration. Throw your charts away. There are sub-$200 mirrorless cameras that can produce cinematic beauty beyond even what's in this video when paired with vintage lenses, ND's, careful exposure and patience. And that's without even hacking them to shoot RAW. BE BRAVE, mffkrs!!!

[@gerthenriksen8818]

Thanks, great. But all plastic?

[@danieltilley]

Almost at 100k scrubscribers! Keep up the good work

[@ZachMayfield]

Thank ya!!!

[@AnotherLotte]

7:10 no man, that's L from Death Note

[@jakefelzien]

The KING has returned. 😚😘

[@v_stands_for_value124]

If a 2012 camera goes already into retro YT video what the fac am I being born in 1999? A skeleton?

[@BrandonDull]

I used to have this camera. was so fire

[@Cyba_IT]

If the Kontiki movie was shot with it then yeah, It's legit. It's a good movie too btw.

[@Miniaminism]

Those colors.... arrrrrg reminds me that .... that my carreer is now 10 years old........

[@DaddisHouse]

I got one a few years ago and love it

[@notoriousjtizzle]

The giant vape mod of cameras

[@thomasfransson]

There are just great!

[@dukecha]

Subscribed to your channel so I can waste money on older cameras that I'll never use. Love the content.

[@OrganicGreens]

your talking about 2011 like its 1980 lol

[@boahandarrowsproductions4326]

This was my favorite camera, till it called it quits last year.

[@ericgrant2670]

With only a lwens mounted, it looks like a big vape lol

[@rainbowgaming8441]

they said there was only one more they where going to make and now another one

[@Itsjustvalentin]

Why did I just add 2 F100 to my ebay cart.. ZACH I DO NOT NEED MORE CAMERAS! STOP MAKING GOOD VIDEOS!😅

[@JonathanCabot]

fingerless glove sponsor when

[@MATVOFFICIAL_Allah_is_the_best]

i was in the market for this camera its a great camera

[@RobertoLopezFlores]

Buenísimo !!!!

[@evanshaw8311]

Does this mean I'm old?

[@JackBoergerMedia]

"milleRmeter" 2:17

[@Juventinos]

ya video from 2012 is pretty sick to still be great but photos fml... the photos bodies are as good as most of the cameras out now.

[@sixofsix]

no rocker arm no thanks lmao

[@JanSur]

I know Kon-Tiki, it is great movie!

[@CircuitBoardcokr]

I still remember old sony FS700 camera with raw upgrade. bulky, not good for rigging, can't use on a consumer gimbal like RS3 pro, but at least it has build-in nd, and 4k raw with odyssey7q+ has incredible image quality at that time. It thrilled me.... but, don't buy it in 2024.

[@danielbroden9769]

Sony FS100 came out in 2011...

[@pwolkowicki]

28mbit rate isn't bad for super35 sensor. I have a much worse video from 50mbit 1/5,8" sensor than from APS-C 13mbit.

[@patrickhiggins8854]

the nakeyjakey of the camera world :)

[@Runstv]

pretty sure this thing outputs 4k raw as well so by technicality its future proof.

[@frammenzio]

no, no, nooooo! This camera is ass. Been using it for years. Colors are washed out, dynamic range is nonexistent, the 1080p image looks more like a scaled up 360p, codecs are stupid... The only reason you would wanna use it is because of its actually really great mic preamps and battery life (one huge npf can literaly last a day). In fact, still using it for cheap streaming of conferences and stuff like that, where u need something robust and reliable more than something pretty. Something similar in format/price but waaay better is the fs700 (if you have an atomos): the 4k raw out of that is incredibly good for a camera so old: crazy sharp, deep colors and plenty of dynamic range.

[@spoonbang]

#CRANON

[@lukewood7060]

I've been using it for 12 years and it is still awesome. I've shot many things with it over the years, such as this music video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqmsdmhoo5eGo7Msi=80Y5VEovA8lwtr8V

[@ronnyandernie]

Cranon

[@lovelymusicnow4404]

Underwhelming

[@tinyman_101]

your ad for dr disrespect sucked

[@GlitchyIsNotHere]

yo dawg ur dr disrespect video was trash 😭😭

[@padelboys7628]

I have a sony nex5n its from the same era. color is nice using the modifided sunset profile (google that) but has issues... overheating is the worst one. The FS100 will solve that. both cameras will make a great A/B duo... only problem its is just HD. Having more than HD its great for youtube as it allows to punch in your footage. so maybe using an AI upscaler? will it be too time consuming? will it match the non upscaled footage?

[@krystiankrysti1396]

dood, buy used 5DII and film in raw