Designed for creators to love
No experience is necessary to capture great looking videos. The ZV-1 is designed to capture amazing videos of you and your world, without any tricky setup.
Beautiful and natural skin tones for everyone
The ZV-1 makes all skin colours look vibrant, natural and healthy. There s also an optional Soft Skin Effect mode for a smoother look.
Background bokeh for a professional touch
The large 1.0-type CMOS sensor and wide-aperture lens deliver images with professional background bokeh, as well as clear detail even in challenging low-light conditions.
Let the camera catch your eye
With AI2 technology you can rely on the autofocus sticking firmly to your face and eyes without wandering to other subjects. When you want to focus on another subject, just touch it on the screen and let the camera do the focusing.
Fast and precise focus transitions
The ZV-1 s Fast Hybrid AF system lets you simply and quickly switch focus from a face to the background, for more stylistic and watchable videos.
Pro-quality bokeh control with one touch
By just pushing the Bokeh switch, you can switch background bokeh on and off no need for complex manual adjustments. Now it s easy to simply select a professional-looking defocused background, or keep the entire scene in focus, with just the press of a button.
Product Showcase Setting, ideal for product review videos
Product Showcase Setting allows you to switch with just a single button press to settings that are perfect for product reviews. It widens the angle of view and switches the focus to the object instantly, so you don't need to wait for the focus to shift, or place your hand behind the product to shift the focus to it3.
Shoot great video, wherever you go
The ZV-1 is built to get great shots while you re moving. With amazing image stabilisation, you can shoot smooth video when walking and, as the lighting changes shadow to sun, or outdoors to in, the automatic exposure (AE) tracks faces and makes sure they always appear well-lit.
Designed for even better audio
You can capture clear vocals even when shooting in a crowd. The camera s unique directional 3-capsule mic gathers clear sound from in front of the camera, ideal for movie shooting.
Wind screen for outdoor shooting
The supplied wind screen reduces wind noise for worry-free outdoor shooting. As well as achieving premium sound quality, that also means you ll spend less time re-shooting and editing footage affected by wind noise.
Use your favourite mic for the sound you want
With a microphone jack and MI shoe, you can pick from your choice of mics, to get exactly the sound you want.
Recreate the world in your image
The ZV-1 is designed to bring together simplicity and power, opening up creative opportunities as wide as your imagination.
Dynamic video through slow motion4
Make every movement more cinematic with Super Slow Motion video, capturing the most fleeting of moments for playback at up to 40x slower than real time.
Time-lapse for that cinematic effect
Interval shooting mode5 automatically captures sequences of images from 1 60 seconds apart, from which cinematic time lapse videos can be created on a PC, where clouds flow past like water and whole days pass in seconds.
Take amazing pictures as well as video
The ZV-1 has everything you need to capture images that really shine in your timeline and video thumbnails. The pin-sharp ZEISS® 24-70mm6 lens focuses light to a large 1.0-type Exmor RS CMOS image sensor, with it all coming together in the powerful BIONZ X image processor.
Express yourself with creative effects
Picture Effects and Creative Styles allow for near-limitless visual possibilities from simple monochrome and partial colour effects, right through to complex miniature effects.
Shoot then share easily
There s no longer a need to compromise your images with your smartphone camera just to share content quickly. The ZV-1 delivers both stunning images and seamless connectivity, for better and easier posting.
| Picture quality | |
| Camera type: | Compact camera |
| Megapixel (approx.): | 20.1 MP |
| Sensor type: | CMOS |
| Maximum image resolution: | 5472 x 3648 pixels |
| Image sensor size: | 1" |
| Still image resolution(s): | 3:2 mode: 20M (5,472×3,648) / 10M (3,888×2,592) / 5M (2,736×1,824), 4:3 mode: 18M (4,864×3,648) / 10M (3,648×2,736) / 5M (2,592×1,944) / VGA, 16:9 mode: 17M (5,472×3,080) / 7.5M (3,648×2,056) / 4.2M (2,720×1,528), 1:1 mode: 13M (3,648×3,648) / 6.5M (2,544×2,544) / 3.7M (1,920×1,920), Sweep Panorama: Wide (12,416×1,856/5,536×2,160), Standard (8,192×1,856/3,872×2,160) |
| Image stabilizer: |  |
| Image formats supported: | EXIF, JPEG, RAW |
| Image sensor size (W x H): | 13.2 x 8.8 mm |
| Lens system | |
| Optical zoom: | 2.7x |
| Digital zoom: | 11x |
| Focal length range: | 9.4 - 25.7 mm |
| Minimum focal length (35mm film equiv): | 24 mm |
| Maximum focal length (35mm film equiv): | 200 mm |
| Maximum aperture number: | 1.8 |
| Lens structure (elements/groups): | 10/9 |
| Focusing | |
| Focus adjustment: | Auto/Manual |
| Auto focusing (AF) modes: | Continuous Auto Focus, Single Auto Focus |
| Exposure | |
| ISO sensitivity (min): | 100 |
| ISO sensitivity (max): | 1280 |
| Light exposure modes: | Aperture priority AE, Auto, Manual, Shutter priority AE |
| Light exposure correction: | ± 3EV (1/3EV step) |
| Light metering: | Centre-weighted, Matrix, Partial, Spot |
| ISO sensitivity: | 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12800 |
| Shutter | |
| Fastest camera shutter speed: | 1/2000 s |
| Slowest camera shutter speed: | 1800 s |
| Camera shutter type: | Electronic |
| Flash | |
| Flash modes: | Auto, Flash off, Flash on, Slow synchronization |
| Video | |
| Video recording: | |
| Maximum video resolution: | 3840 x 2160 pixels |
| HD type: | 4K Ultra HD |
| Video resolutions: | 3840 x 2160,1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Motion JPEG frame rate: | 60 fps |
| Analog signal format system: | NTSC, PAL |
| Video formats supported: | AVCHD, HEVC |
| Audio | |
| Built-in microphone: | |
| Memory | |
| Compatible memory cards: | MS Duo, MS Pro-HG Duo, SD, SDHC, SDXC |
| Memory slots: | 1 |
| Display | |
| Display: | LCD |
| Touchscreen: | |
| Display diagonal: | 7.62 cm (3") |
| Display diagonal (metric): | 7.5 cm |
| Display resolution: | 921600 dot |
| Display aspect ratio: | 4:3 |
| Second display: |  |
| Ports & interfaces | |
| USB version: | 2.0 |
| HDMI: | |
| USB connector: | Micro-USB A |
| HDMI connector type: | Micro |
| Microphone in: | |
| Headphone outputs: | 1 |
| Headphone connectivity: | 3.5 mm |
| Network | |
| Bluetooth: | |
| Wi-Fi: | |
| Near Field Communication (NFC): | |
| Bluetooth version: | 4.1 |
| Wi-Fi standards: | 802.11b, 802.11g, Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) |
| Camera | |
| White balance: | Auto, Cloudy, Daylight, Flash, Incandescent, Shade |
| Scene modes: | Close-up (macro), Fireworks, Landscape, Night, Night portrait, Portrait, Sports, Sunset, Twilight |
| Shooting modes: | Auto, Manual, Program, Scene |
| Self-timer delay: | 2,10,12 s |
| Contrast adjustment: | |
| Brightness adjustment: | |
| Design | |
| Product colour: | Black |
| Weight & dimensions | |
| Width: | 105.5 mm |
| Depth: | 43.5 mm |
| Height: | 60 mm |
| Weight: | 267 g |
| Weight (including battery): | 294 g |
| Packaging content | |
| Quick start guide: | |
| Logistics data | |
| Harmonized System (HS) code: | 85258900 |
