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Sony WX500 camera for vlogging

2016-08-12 · 5 min

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    So, the other day, Sony very generously

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    sent me this camera, in exchange for

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    money, so that I could make a video about

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    it. Let's say you wanted to start making

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    videos for YouTube and you're looking for

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    a decent camera, but you can't afford

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    something like the Sony RX100 series or

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    the Canon G7X series. Well, then maybe you

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    should think about buying this camera

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    because it's very cheap— I mean,

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    affordable. This camera is actually pretty

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    good considering the price. And you get a

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    flip screen, and you get 30x zoom, which

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    is pretty useful for spying on people.

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    And the flip screen is also really good

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    for making YouTube videos because, you

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    know, you have to be able to see how

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    fabulous you look while making your

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    YouTube video, right? It's also really

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    small and fits into your pocket pretty

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    easily, as long as they're not skinny

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    jeans. But it's really easy to carry and

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    it's very light. This is what the camera

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    looks like on the back. You get a little

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    spinny dial, which is pretty useful,

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    and a few buttons, record button. It's

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    pretty simple. There's no touchscreen,

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    which is fine because I hate touchscreens.

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    You also get Wi-Fi so you can transfer

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    photos straight to your phone. Okay, now

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    I'm making a video using the WX500, and

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    this is what it looks like. I'm not

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    actually sure if it looks that different

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    to my phone, but it should look a tiny bit

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    better. The main advantage of using this

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    camera over a smartphone is for the zoom,

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    really. The problem with smartphones is

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    they don't really have very good zooms.

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    Usually they only have digital zoom,

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    which has really bad quality. So let's try

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    out the zoom. So we're going to start off

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    at the widest angle, and then we're going

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    to zoom straight into something in the

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    distance.

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    Zooming. We're at 15x zoom now.

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    We're at 20x. Now we're at 30x zoom right

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    now. This is 30x zoom.

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    It's pretty stable. The stabilization

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    is pretty good even though I'm holding it

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    by hand and I'm shaking a little.

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    You can also go up to 60x zoom with

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    digital zoom, this far.

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    And then we zoom back out. It also

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    zooms in and out pretty fast.

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    Macro capability is also pretty good. You

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    can focus the things that are quite close

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    to the lens. The bad points about this

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    camera would be it's not very good in low

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    light. If you, if you want to take videos

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    in low light, then this probably isn't the

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    camera for you. You'd be better off buying

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    something else. Actually, I found that my

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    smartphone is better in low light than

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    this camera. Also, I prefer to use my

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    smartphone for making videos because I can

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    use a microphone and I can get better

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    sounding audio, which you can't really do

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    with this camera because it doesn't have a

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    microphone jack. So if you're interested

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    in a long-range zoom in a very small

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    body, then maybe this is the camera for

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    you. I don't know, it's— you have to make

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    the decision for yourself. For me, I don't

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    really use the zoom that much. I thought

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    when I bought the camera, I thought that I

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    would use the zoom a lot for like wildlife

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    stuff, but I don't really make wildlife

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    videos, so I ended up going back to my

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    smartphone. Hope you found the video

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    useful. Leave a like if you liked it,

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    please. Pretty please.

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