4K for $2K? Sony FDR-AX100 4K Camcorder Impressions!  #Helpful Post

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guys johnathan here at eld in this past

week I did a recap of 10 of the cool

products that I saw at CES 2014 one of

them was the Sony FDR - a x100 4k

camcorder and a lot of you asked me to

cover it a little more extensively now

first and foremost the biggest selling

point about this camcorder is the price

point 1999 and I know some may see that

and still think it's crazy expensive but

the fact of the matter is right now for

4k options as far as the video go you're

looking at a minimum of four to five

thousand dollars so this is really

aggressive pricing on Sony's part now I

know someone's going to make that Galaxy

Note 3 comment for what it does it takes

outstanding video but there's so much

more that goes into actual video quality

as opposed to just pixels and resolution

their dynamic range image stabilization

the actual codec that it records in and

of course the actual sensor behind the

camera

now speaking of sensors I need to get a

few questions regarding that in my

previous video and it features a

one-inch sensor which is roughly about

the same as what they put in their rx

100 cameras and I actually own the mark

2 version of that and that is hands-down

my favorite point-and-shoot that I've

ever owned it takes some pretty

outstanding pictures and videos so even

though it has a one inch sensor which is

smaller than micro four-thirds and an

aps-c because of my experience with the

rx100 mark 2 I wouldn't be too worried

about these sensor size or image quality

on this camcorder that also does feature

Carl Zeiss glass with an aperture range

of F 2.8 2f 4.5 and with the sensor size

factored in it has a 35 millimeter

equivalent focal length of 29

millimeters so it's not super wide but

as you can say it's wide enough

it also features 12 times optical zoom

and built-in and D filters which is

definitely a plus when you're shooting

outside as far as the actual recording

goes it's going to do so at a resolution

of 3840 by 2160 at either 30 frames or

24 frames per second so no 60p but with

the aggressive pricing that's kind of

expected with this camcorder if you did

want 60 frames per second it can do that

at 1920 by 1080 but you are capped out

at 30 frames per second on 4k recording

as you guys can see it's not overly big

I got a chance to actually go hands-on

with it and it's pretty light for what

it is on top you can see there's a 5.1

surround microphone which I'm sure it's

going to be decent and ok for most

scenarios but what's cool is even though

this looks like a normal hot jookin

x-ray but it's actually going to be

for various adapters including one that

would allow you to have an XLR input

into this camera so in addition to

having a 3.5 millimeter audio jack you

do have some flexible options as far as

that goes you have a pretty decently

sized 3.5 inch LCD screen and tons and

tons of controls and use the access to

buttons around the camcorder so you can

see we've got easy access to white

balance night mode

iris gain and ISO as well as the shutter

speed another plus that I talked about

in my previous video was the fact that

it shoots on standard SDXC card slots so

you're not limited to sony's proprietary

memory stick cards in this case now last

week at CES they wouldn't let me take

any footage with me because obviously

the prototype but they did have a booth

set up where we can actually go hands-on

and test out the camcorder and I was

actually a lot more surprised than I

thought I would be obviously this isn't

a perfectly lit environment and a

perfect scenario for the camcorder but

just messing around with the zoom and

looking at a 4k monitor with the amount

of detail and sharpness and clarity of

this camera it actually kind of blew me

away just to give you guys an idea of

how well the zoom works here is where I

was on the floor you can see way back in

the distance that's how far these

Samsung booth was and as you can see I

was able to get pretty close up to the

subject so you can see with the brief

time that I got to spend with the camera

it was definitely impressive on top of

that it also features Wi-Fi and NFC

connectivity and overall for the price

point I think it's going to be a solid

option for 4k recording more importantly

it's a big move into the video industry

which is going to bring down pricing on

other cameras and camcorders and it's

going to help lead the 4k revolution now

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