sony nex vg20

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yuval.hendler

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Hello everyone,
I am new to the forum. Considering buying the Sony nex vg20. Photographs mainly corporate films. Would love to hear reviews from users.
My question: If the camera has an internal 48V voltage for microphone boom and an option to choose from the menu. If not, can anyone recommend a XLR adapter?
Thank you!
Yuval
 
There's no XLR or phantom power on the VG20. The 3.5mm TRS jack only supplies enough to power standard electret type mics. I briefly used the Beachtek DXA-SLR (for a few minutes only), but it seemed to work, and powered an audio technica at4073 just fine.

Overall I've found that the VG20 handles much better than a DSLR in almost every way.

Off the top of my head, my biggest issues that I've run into with the camera are:

- The delay in audio monitoring. It's about half a second behind the live audio. If you use good isolating/noise cancelling headphones it's not as distracting.

- Manual audio control is buried in the menu, so it's not something that's easily adjusted on the fly, but it's better than not having any manual control at all.

- Lack of in-camera picture adjustments. It would be nice to be able to turn down at least the contrast and sharpness, but it's not as if the baked in picture is offensively bad — it's actually pretty decent and equally decent in it's color grade-ability in post. Although I do feel like it seems to force too much magenta into the skintones.

- While in general the build is decent, there are a few parts that don't feel very durable. Primarily the door to the SD card slot, as well as the hinge for the LCD

- Placement of the headphone jack is awkward on the handle side of the body. When headphones are plugged in, it feels like the plug and the rubber flap/cover are in the way when you've got a hand on the grip.


Everything else I am fairly pleased with, but the stand outs are:

+ Surprisingly good low light performance. Not earth shattering, but much better than I expected and easily beats out a 7D/T2i with the same or comparable lenses and settings.

+ Resolves more than most DSLRs. Not as much as a GH2, but definitely more than the 7D/T2i

+ 1080p60 is nice after being stuck with 720p60 and increased aliasing on the Canon DSLRs

+ It has a program type priority mode for exposure that can be useful in a run & gun situation


Overall it's a good camera and pairs very well with the kit lens. For corporate though, unless need the shallow DoF or interchangeable lenses then, within this price bracket, you might be better off getting something like the Canon XF100 or 105.
 
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