 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Sony FS700 camcorder which will be used for tech tips purposes. This is a...oh it cost a lot of money. So yes, this was something I legitimately purchased in order for us to bring you all kinds of higher quality production values and all kinds of good sort of stuff. Let's see what Sony has to say for themselves on the outside of this very very boring brown packaging. So here's a bunch of hoo-ha about trademarks and registered trademarks and what not. Here's a big warning right on the top of the box. Damage to this unit verifiably caused by the use of non-info lithium batteries will not be covered by the warranty. When using SD class 4 or faster is recommended. Alright we've got a super 35, CMOS, XMOR, whatever that is, probably the sensor in all likelihood. It has a 4K sensor in it, that's something of note so you have to get a firmware upgrade later on down the line to get 4K support. They're estimating it will cost 500 to a thousand dollars which still makes it a great value for 4K capture but I think is absolutely ridiculous for just charging for firmware. My IT industry roots would disagree with that particular approach. So AVCHD is how it captures to cards however it also has the option of capturing to HDMI just with using an HDMI output and a capture card such as the Intensity Pro from Black Magic which I also purchased. So okay we have one of those microphone doodads. Let's just go ahead and open it up. So wind blocker. Okay forget it I'm not going to be able to open that. You know what? Open! Thank you! There we go. Just a simple foam one. Foam there. Fascinating. Interchangeable lens, digital HD video recorder, okay operating guide, very short. And warranty here so labor is for 90 days and part is one year. One year warranty on this thing. Good thing I bought it with my Visa which has an extended one year warranty. Content management utility, okay interchangeable lens, digital HD video, oh there's the real manual on a disc. Hey! Way to go Sony! And then here's apparently another one. Here's an operating guide. Setting the headphone sound, all that kind of good stuff. This is all, no this is all English. Wow okay. Alright what else have we got in here? Is that a knife piece? I don't know. I'm not much of a camera guy. Actually Diesel is the one who's going to be showing me how to use all this stuff. So I'm just excited about the fact that we're going to have a, okay. Magnify-y. Very cool. I'm just excited about the fact that we're going to have a much better camera overall and that someone will be operating it and that we will be able to bring you better overall production values. We'll be able to set like depth of field and stuff like that so that it'll have that blurry background and just generally look better. This thing can capture up to 960 frames per second which is also kind of cool. Although it doesn't really capture any kind of decent quality at that frame rate and it can only capture for I think a couple seconds but you can get some pretty reasonably long captures at reasonably high quality at as high as 240 FPS which is great for like slow motion and that kind of stuff that we will obviously be playing with if we're going to be investing this much into equipment. You've got to make sure you're using it. So it comes with a microphone. There's the microphone that matches that foam condom thing that goes on top of it right there. However, we're going to be using a different mic so we'll be using an NTG2 from Rode. There you go. That one comes with a 10 year warranty. See they understand how to stand behind an expensive product. This camera is like $8,500 and they give you a 1 year warranty with it. Look at all these accessories and what not. This is exciting. So here's a battery charger. VCR slash camera. Nice. Love it. And then charging. There's a power adapter for it. There's DC output. So this is oh okay so you're either charging or you're outputting to the camera slash if you have a VCR that runs off that connector then I guess you could do that. I guess they mean like video capture recorder. Okay this is the lens. So important to be careful with this. I'm not going to play around with this too much. So it's a kit lens but as far as kit lenses go my understanding is this one's actually pretty decent. So there's the little cover for the end piece. Looked into getting something that was not a kit lens but did not end up wanting to go down that route. So here we've got all of our manual controls for focus as well as for zoom. Cool beans uses an E mount. So something to be aware of guys is you need an adapter that costs a few hundred dollars if you want to use anything but a Sony native E mount lens on this camera. That was again the reason we went with the kit was because to get anything decent that was not the kit lens was going to cost at least a thousand bucks. So we went that route. Here's a microphone holder. Oh that's disappointing because I bought one. Oh well. Now we know. What else we got here? Okay so there's your hand piece which you can use to zoom as well as something to do with focus and photos. You attach that to the camera. It's a very modular design much like the FS100. So there's a lot of pieces and gizmos that you can attach to it in order to customize the experience. Comes with a remote. See continuing the proud tradition of cheeseball remotes with expensive gear that I've seen time and time again in my years in the IT industry as well as whatever other industry. It just seems to be sort of by law everyone does that. Here's a USB adapter of some sort. I'm guessing that's for pulling footage off the camera. Here's some strap. Hopefully there's instructions to go along with all this. And lots of cables. So here's a component adapter. Component video out. Here is just is this really just RCA cables? Really? I mean if I really FS700 I need RCA cables. Okay maybe I'm missing something here. I'm sure I'm missing something but that just seems brain dead. Okay here is another. Oh this looks like the piece to actually run the camera off of. So there's your filter as well as your wire and power adapter. So in that case I have no idea what the point of this is. Because that's not even the same like anything that's not even remotely related. Okay it's okay. Diesel will be able to figure all this out. It won't matter for me. Two power cables for those two pieces for the battery charger as well as to run the camera. Another USB cable which I'm sure there's a point to USB A to mini B which is somehow different from this USB cable which I can't identify what that is. Okay ah InfoLithium batteries. So I'm going to need a bunch of these I suppose at some point. Alright that goes there. And now we are left with a battery cover. Yeah we're not interested in that. Oh no that's not a battery cover. What is this? I don't know it doesn't matter. Let's open up the camera. Wow big. It's actually a little bit bigger than I expected. So bearing in mind I know absolutely nothing. I can already tell this is a lot more baller than the XA10 that we're using to film this. It does come with ND filters so you can use those to adjust the something to do with the amount of light that comes through or something like that. That was one of the reasons we ended up going with the FS700 versus the FS100. You have to get like little ND filters to change the quality of the light and put them over top with the FS100 versus this one. It's built in. We've also got manual controls for pretty much everything and it's dog. So that's a huge advantage over something like the XA10 that we've been using up till now where everything's done via touch screen interface that's extremely inconvenient. The ergonomics on the FS700 are also supposedly quite a bit better than the FS100 although I've never seen either of them in person up till now. So here do you want to just come in and have a close look at the body here? It's not that heavy. Once you throw a lens on it I guess it's going to add quite a bit of weight but we've got a new tripod as well that's going to help us with the additional weight requirements that we have. You know what? Let's throw the battery in and see what happens here. I mean that's what we do on this channel right? We just sort of randomly do things and then we hope that it sort of works. So there's an indicator arrow that, yep that didn't work. Oh there we go. All right. What happens if we turn it on? Power on. And it doesn't come charged. Oh yes it does. There we go. And we can set things like the time zone. Okay forget that for now. So there we go. Face detection, last seen, auto manual mode. Lots of cool stuff that I totally don't understand. There's the battery release button as well. There's your mounting for your tripod. Actually a wide variety of different mounting mechanisms here as well as little rubber feet so it doesn't go anywhere if you put it down which is important because it's expensive. Okay headphone monitor so you can monitor well sound just like that. We've also got HDMI out so this is what I talked about before where we'll be using HDMI out to capture to a Blackmagic card. And then this one. That's what we're going to need when we're doing 4K out. So that's your HD SDI out which is more flexible cables, lighter weight, all these are good things. However, there's these fancy red mirror cables now. So this is what we'll be using for HDMI capture that you can use 28 AWG wires and still achieve a 50 foot distance on them. So we'll be running that out of here, wrapping it around an arm to make sure it doesn't pull too hard on the connector and going that route. So here's all of your audio controls right here. You control which input and how much and who and what as well as all the, wow look at all these dedicated controls for playing back. I guess they really mean for you to use this in the field. It's got a beautiful display on it. Great viewing angle on that. Can you tell from there? Is it just, yeah you can't really tell. Awesome viewing angle on there. So they really mean for you to actually be reviewing your footage a little bit to LCD hold. Oh okay, you can make it, yeah you can make the LCD hold in place or you can totally release it so that it's, there we go. Okay, some more mounting pieces, mounting points for all kinds of various accessories and stuff. Like I said, very modular. You can release this as well and then put different sort of adapters and what not. This is, this is for that something. We had it, here we go. This is for this I think. No it's not, I have no idea what that's for. You know what, we'll be back. So yeah, we figured it out. It's for like a flash memory recorder thing. So we put that spacer in there now. Also there's your inputs for audio. One and two. This right there. You can change modes from video to photo. I really hope you're not taking photos with this thing though because that's really not what it's for. And that pretty much covers it. So here's your shoe mounts for various accessories and what not. So we're going to build it and then show you guys once it's assembled. So I think we've got it assembled now. Like I said before, we don't really know what we're doing but we have this camera now so yeah, it's bigger than I expected and we've got the microphone attached now so we ran that to the input here. Oh yeah, iPhone size comparison of course. So there, here I'll put that there. iPhone can basically be like an output for this thing or rather like a display for this thing so it's huge. See there, there's the iPhone again, there's the thickness. And yeah, so we figured out what this thing's for. It is an eyepiece. It's just a slight magnification and darkening of the LCD so you can see in there if you were able to see in there. This doesn't work, the zoom here, because Sony doesn't have motorized lenses yet for the E-mount so I don't know what they were planning to do with that. Maybe they'll have it available as a firmware upgrade for $500, $1000. So I think that pretty much covers it. We have to unbox, we have lots more gear to unbox here. I'll show you. We have Kino Flow lights, we've got Manfrotto tripod, we've got Blackmagic microphone, more Kino Flow lights, very exciting stuff so stay tuned for more unboxings to come.