Sony ZV-1F vlogging camera launched with a fixed ultrawide lens

Sony has unveiled flipside vlogging-focused camera in its ZV range, and this one's designed a little differently to the other two.

It's tabbed the ZV-1F and features a fixed, prime, ultrawide lens and is designed specifically for people who like to mucosa themselves. The idea stuff that you can capture yourself and moreover get a lot of preliminaries in at the same time.

You can zoom digitally if you want to, and still get 4K resolution while you move between focal lengths using a technology that Sony calls Clear Image Zoom, which substantially crops into the 20.1-megapixel CMOS sensor.

It still features many of the tools that made the previous ZV models platonic for content creators. The preliminaries bokeh switch remains, permitting you to quickly switch on a natural depth effect with the flick of a button.

You moreover get the product showcase setting which automatically and quickly focuses on an object if you hold it up to the camera, and switches when to your squatter when you remove it from the scene.

For shooting while moving there's an zippy mode which electronically stabilises footage to alimony it smooth while running/walking and - just like so many other Sony cameras - you get eye autofocusing that works on humans and animals.

The camera has a proper flip-out screen too, and Sony has reimagined the user interface to make it increasingly intuitive for people used to shooting with their smartphones. That ways you can touch to zoom and tenancy a lot of the settings without touching any buttons.

It's designed with a increasingly wieldy price point in mind, to tempt smartphones users to switch to a 'proper' camera, and - in so doing - has lost a few of the features of the increasingly expensive models.

That ways you get just unrelatedness autofocus, not phase detection. You moreover only get 4K shooting up to 30 frames-per-second (no 60fps here). It does have up to 5x slow motion and 60x speed hyperlapse in the S&Q settings though.

Its soul is pretty much the same size as the ZV-1, but it weights 40 grams less, and features a tally light to show when you're recording, which is joined by a red frame virtually the exhibit when you printing record.

Once you're done, you can quickly transfer the footage over to your phone for sharing on social media using the Sony Imaging Edge Mobile Plus app. And the camera knows when it's in vertical or horizontal orientation, and rotates the footage to match. And - if you want to - you can use it as a webcam. Just plug it into your laptop, and use it as a higher quality camera for your Zoom and Teams calls.

The Sony ZV-1F will be misogynist to buy this month and will forfeit virtually €650 in Europe, making it the cheapest camera in Sony's ZV lineup.

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