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We're kind of late to the party,
and well, honestly,

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we've went abroad
that's why our review

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of the Nothing Phone (3a) Pro
was late.

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This is the premium variant
in the Nothing (3a) series,

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and this was released 
with the (3a).

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Except that in the Philippines,
it's released a bit later.

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Powered by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3

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with a Samsung GNJ 50MP
main camera sensor.

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Its selfie camera sensor
is also 50MP

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which definitely, I'll say,
is very good.

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And this one comes together
with three major Android updates.

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More details after 
this quick intro.

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(introduction music)

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Now, the Nothing Phone (3a) 
that has 12GB of RAM

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and 256GB of storage
is currently priced

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at Php27,999
and you can buy this

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in Digital Walker,
online and offline.

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I'll post the link
on the description box below.

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Now, this phone is available
in two colors—

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either you go for the black
or the white color.

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And another thing is that
this one supports eSIM.

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And of course, don't forget
this one comes together

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with its glyph interface
which is one

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of my favorite features here.

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Another good feature
is its Nothing theme

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that's all black for the icons
which I think is very unique

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on its own.

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And it's very uniform.

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The only thing is that
you'll have a hard time

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where the Facebook icon is
because you won't

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easily identify it 
since they're all the same.

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Like with these logos,
you'll see the logo

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of Genshin Impact,
Call of Duty Mobile,

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and Farlight 84,
you won't be tempted to play

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because they're all black
and white.

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You don't know which is which.

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Resists temptation.

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One of the good things with it
is its beautiful design.

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I love the glass finish
on the back

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and its transparency
is very nice.

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Its design on the camera bump
is kind of different

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which is very unique on its own.

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And it also has plastic
side frames that's a matte finish

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and a Panda Glass 
front protection.

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Its bezels are not that thin
but it's symmetrical,

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up and down, and left and right.

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And it has a special button
on the side.

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If you press it,
it'll take a screenshot

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and you can record 
the sounds here and attach

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the voice messages
on the screenshot

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which is very useful for me.

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It's a very unique feature
that's present

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on the Nothing (3a) Pro,
and also available on the (3a).

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Before we continue,
of course, I just want

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to invite you to subscribe
to my channel so you can see

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our review of the CMF Phone 2 Pro
pretty soon in our channel.

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And of course, don't forget
to hit that notification bell

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as well.

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One of the things that's okay here
is that this one

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is being powered by the Qualcomm
Snapdragon 7s Gen 3

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which, for me, is quite
a good midrange chip

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which was able to roughly give me
a 780,000 points

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on AnTuTu Benchmark.

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This is the score that I got
when broken down.

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Its loop score is 1,060
on the Wild Life Extreme

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and 99% stability.

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This is the score I got
on Geekbench CPU benchmark

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and on the GPU benchmark.

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Its thermals are looking good
and it throttled to 90%

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of its best performance.

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Now, its battery here
is a 5,000mAh of battery

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which I think is just normal,
nothing special,

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it's not that big.

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And 5,000mAh
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Normally, you'd want to have
a bigger one like 5,500

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or 6,000mAh.

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But this one is just ample enough
for a whole day of usage,

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supporting up to 50W wired charging

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without a charging brick inside.

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You have to buy it separately.

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I would suggest you buy something
like Anker or UGreen.

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On a day-to-day usage,
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the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3
is very power efficient.

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And it can last you maybe
around 1.5 days

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before this phone fully drains.

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Using this as my main daily driver
while I'm working,

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it can last for 1.5 days
based on my experience.

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And when I put this
on the PCMark battery stress test,

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it gave me 18 hours
and 19 minutes of screen-on time.

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And this one is being tested
under 50% brightness

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and 60Hz of screen refresh rate.

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This Nothing Phone (3a) Pro
is long-lasting.

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When it comes to display,
this one has

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a 6.77-inch AMOLED display.

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It has 120Hz of screen refresh rate

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and its maximum brightness
is 3,000 nits.

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It's protected by the Panda Glass,

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this one will give you
a good swiping experience

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be it on your favorite 
social media apps

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like Facebook, Twitter,
and of course, TikTok.

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And when you swipe here,
you'll feel that

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your experience is smooth here

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as long as your 
internet connection is good.

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When you watch movies
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expect your experience
to be okay

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because the beauty
of its display,

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its AMOLED screen is definitely
one of the better ones

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that Nothing used.

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Expect that your viewing experience
will be good,

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giving you your money's worth.

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This phone has two stereo speakers, 
one on the bottom

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and the other one is hidden
on your earpiece.

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Let's listen to how loud it is
when we max it out.

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(HANDS UP by MEOVV)

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Honestly, its sound is not bad.

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I would say it's above average
for me, but nothing near

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the flagship level sound.

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But it's not bad.

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When it comes to gaming,
I played three games here.

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We've played Delta Force,
Call of Duty Mobile,

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and Farlight 84.

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On Delta Force, this is quite
a new game for me,

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but I was able to get
a hang of it already.

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And playing for around 30 minutes,
my experience was okay

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with it.

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Putting it to the graphic settings
that it can handle,

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I would tell you that
the experience was not bad here.

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I was able to enjoy this game,
having quite a good sounds here.

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Its touch response was okay.

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I didn't feel any lags here.

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And after 30 minutes
of gameplay, 36°C.

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On Call of Duty Mobile,
expect your graphic experience

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will be good here,
there's no doubt about that.

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And I did play quite a number
of BR matches here

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and to be honest with you,
I enjoyed here.

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Playing for roughly an hour,
I really enjoyed it.

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The touch response was good,
the graphics was good,

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I didn't feel any frame drops.

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And the hottest temperature
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was 36°C.

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On Farlight 84,
I also maxed out its graphics.

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My experience was also okay.

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I didn't feel any frame drops
while running.

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And especially when there's
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it's still fine.

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You won't feel that 
it has frame drops or lags,

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I didn't feel anything
while playing the game.

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And one thing I liked about it
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is very responsive 
on my every single touch.

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After 30 minutes 
of gameplay, 36°C.

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Let's now talk 
about its camera here.

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One of the things 
I was surprised here

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is its camera performance.

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I would say, and I was 
so happy with the output

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that I got on the Nothing (3a) Pro,
which I'm happy

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to share to you.

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And it starts off with 
a 50MP main camera sensor

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with OIS.

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This one is a Samsung GN7 sensor.

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Followed by a 50MP
periscope telephoto lens

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with OIS with up 
to 3x optical zoom.

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This one is a Sony LYT600 sensor.

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And there comes the 8MP
ultra wide lens

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which is a Sony IMX355.

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This one can let you shoot
up to 4K and 60 FPS.

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And its front-facing camera
is a 50MP Samsung S5KJN1

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which can let you shoot
up to 4K and 30 FPS.

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Now probably one 
of the better cameras

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that I've used 
from the Nothing (3a) series

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is the Nothing (3a) Pro.

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And taking a look 
at these shots from outdoor,

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I love the way 
how this shot was captured.

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It is just a very simple shot,
just a quick snap.

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And we can see that 
this building looks very sharp.

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Its details look good.

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And how this shot was captured
looks very dramatic.

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It's kind of got like
a vignette effect

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and it gives you 
that melodramatic feel

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on this shot.

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And this is another good shot.

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Even if it's kind of gloomy,
we can see it looks

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pretty nice and solid as well.

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If you're just simply 
panning around,

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you can get some nice shots
on this camera.

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Equally nice for this shot.

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I can tell you that 
it's not that saturated

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and this can be a good post
on Instagram

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because of the beauty
of its green shade.

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And this shot is from another angle.
It's still beautiful.

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Now taking a look
at some of these flower shots

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that we got, it looks really nice,
it's very solid.

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You can see the details
on its leaves.

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And if you're trying to take
other colorful flower shots

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on outdoors, expect it
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and detailed shot here.

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Capturing another building shot,
and you can really see

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that the details are good.

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Now trying to play
with the different lenses,

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this is an ultra wide shot,

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normal,

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2x,

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3x,

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6x,

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and this is a 10x zoom.

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We can see it's digitally zoomed
but it's still okay.

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If you're asking me 
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it can zoom up to 60x zoom.

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When it comes to video,
it can give you up to 8x zoom.

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When talking 
about food photography,

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there's no doubt in my mind
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can definitely perform.

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You can see all of these shots
that we captured

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on the food...

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And this is probably one
of my favorite shots that I got.

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It really looks nice,
these greens for salad.

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And looking at some 
of these other food shots

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that we captured,

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even its halogen yellow bulb,
it still performs well

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under this camera.

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Taking a look at some 
of these shots of the LED lights,

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it looks pretty nice and solid.