A yo guys how you doing? Marlon King
here and this week I'm gonna be talking
yes after a year of video creation I
about my new camera the sony a6500
finally managed to upgrade my camera and
I upgraded from the Canon 70d. In this
video I'm going to be talking all about
that. I'm gonna be showing you some
photos that I've taken. I'm gonna be
talking about some of the frustrations
when switching from Canon to Sony
and maybe how you can overcome them and
pretty much if you're looking to do this
upgrade or you're just interested in
purchasing the sony a6500 it's worth
sticking around and watching this video.
Alright guys you can imagine my
excitement the other day when I had the
parcel turn-up unboxed it and here was
the camera... and you can imagine how I
felt when I found out that the lens
wasn't going to be delivered until the
following day so that was fun and games
but I managed to just about contain
myself and here it is it's finally
arrived. If you watch my previous
video and my review on the Canon 70d
you'd have seen at the end I talked
about some of the perfect cameras to
upgrade to if you already had the 70d.
I did conclude that either A6500
or the a7 iii would be the
best choice purely based on features and
seeing as the sony a7 iii was nearly
2,000 pounds without lens I decided to
go for this little puppy and first
thoughts - it'sreally good camera! It was a lot
smaller than I imagined here it is now
it's a quite small I'll do a little
zooming in a second. But as you can see
very nice. Fits in the hand really well
and actually although it was quite small
it's also slightly heavier than I was
expecting. I guess it's because it's
so similar in size to my G7X ii. it's only
a little bigger really but of course it's got a
bit more inside it going on so that's
why the extra weight. All-in-all it
is definitely a lot more portable
than the 70d. I was actually surprised
when I put it in my camera bag, it just
kept them going in and there's a big gap
above it and each side of it. I'm
gonna have to really customize that bag
but that was exactly what I was hoping.
In actual fact it fits in some of my
smaller camera bags now so I can go back
to the old days and have a little
smaller camera bag. It makes taking a
camera around a lot easier. As a
quick test I've set this camera with the
exact same settings as I currently have
on my G7X mark ii which is a 50 shutter
speed F1.8 - actually F 1.7 on the sony
can't get F 1.8 directly and ISO 320 so
let's quickly switch over and see what
it looks like. Alright guys so this is
switched over to the Sony. I have no idea
whether it's in focus because I can't
see the screen. It's not a flip screen
but hopefully it is in focus and
hopefully if I move my hand that doesn't
trick the autofocus. It's on default
settings I haven't changed any of the
color profiles at the moment. I'm going
to have to play around with that over
time, but hopefully that gives you a good
comparison against the canon g7x mark ii.
Now talking of first impressions when it
come to using this camera and setting it
up this was where I come across my first
frustrations. Quite simply whilst
this is touchscreen, it doesn't really
feel like it. I think it was a very quick
add-on from Sony and it's a little bit
disappointing really considering my
Canon 70d had touchscreen and it was
released in 2013. A6500 was released end
of 2016 I believe in November and pretty
much the only thing you can do with it
is your focus points which is a great
feature to have but after you've come
from Canon and they've got just a
wonderful menu system. Canon are
pretty much the Apple of cameras and
when it comes to using this menu system
immediately you go to touch the screen
it doesn't work and also quite often
found myself twisting the little dial
here the little wheel and
that doesn't work in the menu systems
either. So you literally have to push it
like an old Nintendo NES pad from the 1980s but
that said, one of the pros of this camera
is all of the features it has.
This is pretty much the equivalent of a
developer camera, they haven't removed
any of the options that they put in when
they was trialing the camera. They've
just left them all there and you've got
menus and menus full of different
options you can try out and from that
point it does mean that you've got a lot
more flexibility to try out different
things. Some of the particular modes like
a 120 frames per second was one of the
main features I was looking at. Also
this does 4k another reason to upgrade.
So far so good. Yes the menus were
a little bit frustrating, outside of
setup when you're talking about changing
settings for taking photos out on the go.
You are a bit back to the old school
where you have to memorize all the
buttons. Which ones do what, because again
you can't do the touchscreen which just
really does make life a little bit too
easy. When I first started taking photos
on the camera it had a very loud beep.
I was surprised to see that I
couldn't actually find an option to turn
it off so that was a bit
frustrating. However, in the end I've
managed to find the option - it was hidden
in one of the menus. As I said they've
got loads and loads of menus. The
viewfinder seems okay, seems very clear.
it's my first experience using a digital
viewfinder. It's not as good as the
real thing but it's certainly better
than not having one and it come in quite
useful when in bright light. Now if
you've done any sort of research on this
camera you'll know that the screen
brightness is one of its downfalls
actually my G7x has a lot better screen
on it and quite frankly when it was
bright sunlight I just couldn't see what
I was doing at all. I knew this from all
the reviews that I'd read but I can
confirm that is the case.
However the viewfinder did help me out
on those situations now when it comes to
video my first clip that I tried when I
got the camera
I was a little bit disappointed because
it didn't even focus on my face but I'm
gonna take that as a learning curve. I do
need to start using this camera a little
bit more and once I work out how to set
it up and get it to focus as I need. I
should be good to go. Another thing
coming over from Canon, a lot of the
lenses have a manual focus autofocus
switch on the lens. This is a Sigma
lens but it seems on the Sony cameras
you do not get that switch and I was
quite baffled how to manual focus when
I've got this massive big manual focus
ring here but it didn't seem to be doing
anything. However, it appears that there's
this auto focus manual focus button here
on the back and if you hold that down
you can then adjust the focus
manually as you need. You actually
find that if you look at the display it
zooms in so you can get a more accurate
focus which is quite a nice feature.
However if you are quite close to your
subject you'll find maybe less useful
but all in all at least you can manual
focus because I was wondering what was
going on initially. So let's jump
straight onto the computer and have a
look at some of the photos that I took
over the weekend. This was
one of the first photos I've took on the
camera and it's worth noting that
obviously the lens complements the
camera so I was using the Sigma 30mm 1.4
we can see with this shot at F1.4
the other guitars are out of focus
and they're about 60 centimetres away.
We can see on this guitar is still
nice level of detail down there on the
bridge. Moving on to this shot this was
also taken at f1.4
we're slightly closer to the guitar now
we can see what a small level precision
you've got when you're using F1.4 the
whole of the neck is out of focus as is
the bridge. Just that one little
point that is in focus and looks
pretty sharp but that's a difficult
image to tell. So this one at the weekend
was Taken
at sunset or a little bit before
it's actually golden hour and whilst it
is a little bit overexposed I mean that
can be fixed in the RAW file but when we
look here we can see there is a lot of
detail in the face and in the hair it's
just a very sharp overall. I'm really
impressed with the image quality of this.
Finally moving on to this shot
of me looking rather moody because I
forgot my sunglasses. When we
zoom I'm just really impressed with
the level of detail in particular how
sharp my eyes are. If we look in there my
eyes are very sharp and in general
detail all over the face. So I'm just
very impressed with that photo.
The camera is on default color settings
and I haven't adjusted any of the
sharpness settings on the camera so this
is just straight out of the box. When it
comes to the memory card I took the
memory card straight from my old camera
I wiped it on the PC put it straight
into this camera. It didn't even ask me
to format it just started using it
straight away which is great and after
doing some photos over the weekend I
took about 480 photos and I shot them in
both RAW and JPEG and that come to
just over 13 gigabytes
worth of data so that's approximately 24
megabytes per RAW file and between 3
and 8 megabytes per JPEG file so be
warned the file sizes are big, but that is
standard these days. All right guys
that's my first impressions on the Sony
A6500 - I hope you found the video
helpful. Especially if you're considering
purchasing this Sony camera in future. If you
did, please give the video a thumbs up
and consider subscribing for future
content. I plan to keep you updated with
this a6500 - especially as I keep on
going with it. I've currently only got one
lens as well. it is a prime so if I buy any
more lenses I'll let you know how I get
on with them and what I purchased. Have a
good week guys I'll catch you same
time, next time
peace