Hi and welcome in this video, in today's episode I want to talk about the best
camera, a photography beginner can buy, I would recommend. Such a long sentence but
so much in that video
So first thing first, this is no sponsored video, this is no video I got money from
Sony. This is a video I'm doing for my free will because I'm very convinced of this
camera. I'm testing that for quite a long time now. I had it with me on the Azores
Island in Norway and I will have it with me in Scotland next week and I love this
camera for few reasons and I want to tell you the love reasons first and
then the contras as last, that you just have an overview about the camera
and why I would recommend the camera . So first thing first it's pretty small so
you can just put it literally in your pocket. I put the camera in my jacket all
of the time it's so small even with the lens you can just put it in the pocket.
It's very lightweight it's not heavy and that is the normal am kit you get when
you buy it. So it's the camera and the 16 to 50 mm kit lens, which is
pretty small and pretty lightweight as well. When you compare it to my a 7r2
with a battery grip and with a big lens, the landscape lens, on it it's so heavy
and it's so much bigger. Look at that look at that look at it's just that
weights something like 1 or 2 kilo and that is maybe 200 gram or something you
can just put it in the pocket. You can hang it on your belt and like the people
you know the people with cellphones who have the cell phone on the belt you can
just walk like that you can be like them. Or you can be different do whatever you like.
So and if you compare it to just the bigger camera without a battery grip or
something it's still a lot smaller and a lot more lightweight so that's first
point. Second point is, it's so easy to photograph with those cameras. I learned
myself on the 600d from Canon and I did a lot of videos on my German YouTube
channel with the 600d. It was a great camera but it was a few years ago.
The Technic which is now in the camera is now a day pretty old and pretty
yeah old fashioned. You have so much new and great features inside the Sony
cameras and inside mirrorless cameras all in all, there are great other
mirrorless cameras as well, but I would go away from DSLR so that's one thing I
say. I'm DSLR's are not the future, mirrorless cameras are the future.
Silence for moment everybody in that hate section below. Oh no that's what I
just say. It's just my opinion, so all the advantages you have from the mirrorless
system, which I would say later as well, you have in that small camera as well so
you have a digital viewfinder you can just look through and you actually see
what you get. So when I just hit the for example the aperture then I see the
picture gets dark and brighten I cannot just see it in the live view like DSLR
users from Canon for example and know it as well. On the
back screen. You can see it in the viewfinder, so you don't have to put the
camera down. You can just scroll or you can adjust the shutter speed, you can see
everything in the viewfinder and when I do a picture Chuck like that I can see
it in the viewfinder as well and how great is that and that is all with auto
focus. The great advantage from mirrorless cameras, what I always say is,
when you focus manually you have the focus peaking and the focus peaking is
so great I just use it I don't use the auto focus anymore because you can focus
so easy manually with focus peaking. So you have a lot of technical things which
make the photographing more easy and easy is always good. Lot of people say mmm
Photography is an art and it has to be difficult,
that's what German people always say, it has to be difficult. No but it don't
have to be. If it's easy, then it's easy. Why not. Why don't make it easier? So that is
a pretty good thing and an awesome thing what I would say a lot of people don't
know what is inside that camera and why is the perfect beginner camera is just
go to the menu and then go to I don't know what it's called in English maybe I
switch the camera in English now it's easier. So now everything is in English
and when you go in the menu in the first thing where the camera is, on point seven,
to shooting tip list and I imagine never check that before. I did it when I
was sitting on the toilet, actually it was. I go and there you see all
those nice things, you see basic techniques for shooting portraits,
landscape, night scenes blah blah blah. Okay I go in to landscapes because I
like landscape photography. Oh sky direction of the like let
check that. If you point the camera to the blue sky when the Sun is in front of
you the sky may turn out parlor or paler than it actually is. If you want a deeper
blue point the camera with the Sun behind you.
Boom great tip for beginner, perfect so as a beginner you don't need a book, you
don't need to buy my books anymore, damn now I don't have a job anymore, no you
can just look in the camera and check all the nice tips which are actually on
the camera. Boom how nice is that? So if you have the camera already check that
section, it's great. You can get great tips out of it. If you don't have the camera,
buy the camera it's nice. The next point I have on the list is all the brand new
features I said already all you have the nice viewfinder which is digital. You
have the focus peaking, you have a super fast autofocus which is the main thing
they are promoting in the advertisement, but it's one thing I don't actually use.
It's good to have, but it's one thing I don't use but you have 60 frames when
you're filming Full HD and that's the point why
I use actually, because I like filming, I like slow motions if it's just 80%
slower or something or even you can do 50% slower with 60 frames per second.
That's pretty nice in Full HD inside the camera and another advantage you can
focus because you don't have a mirror anymore. You can just focus like you do,
when you're just taking photos while filming and that is awesome. Continuous
focus and stuff like that it's cool and those are all features inside the camera.
Because it's that small you think they can't be much in the camera but
that's actually a flash inside look at that how nice is that little flash? It
has everything and that was one thing I was very very convinced when I first
tested the camera. Now the great thing
you have the screen so it is actually a camera I would build myself like that,
because you have a viewfinder actually. You know those small cameras
without if you find it has a viewfinder and you have a flip screen. Boom, so you
can go with low angle or when you're filming like that you can use the flip
screen pretty cool. One thing I was switching to Sony from
Canon was the sensor. I love the full-frame sensor of the 7r that was the
first Sony camera I used. I was switching from the 60 and 5d mark 3 to
the 7r for landscape shots and I love the dynamic range and the dynamic range
in that sensor is great as well. It is an APS-C sensor so no full frame, but it's a
great sensor. 24 megapixels, you have all the details, it has nice quality and you
always think oh the camera is so small it can't have a great quality but it has.
One thing I would recommend you the normal kit lens is great 16 to
50 mm, it's quite more wide angled than normal kit lenses but what
I like for landscape photography is the 12mm samyang F2.0. It has an
open aperture so 2.0 which is great for star photography and for portrait as well,
I did a lot of portrait shots, you get a nice bokeh out of that but as well you
have a screw filter thing on front and you have 12 millimeters which is great
for landscape shots and that thing cost 350 euros. That camera with the kit lens
cost 600 euros, so when you buy all together you don't have thousand euros.
It's less than thousand euros and that is awesome. When you just think about that
camera 600 euros, it fits inside that camera seven times with the lens on it,
seven times, you can buy seven cameras for the price of that camera.
So as a beginner it is great it's just there's nothing better for that price on
the market I would say. But as well everything that is shining has its shadow
behind and there are a few things that I don't like on that camera. Well that's
just my opinion maybe you see it different, maybe see oh that's a are
the great points from the camera but what I don't like about the camera is
that it has that wheel here and I don't like it with the big cameras here with
the exposure correction and stuff. I don't need those buttons.
You never needed an exposure correction on a pro camera. That's what I
say and it's too close to the aperture, so usually when I'm turning the button I
turn that button and then I'm switching the mode and I wanted to change the
aperture because they are so close and it has a nicer feeling because
it has those little reels and those little yeah bubbles on top so it feels
better and it feels like, oh you have to turn that wheel and not the other
wheel. So I don't know why they did it and it's a thing I did a lot when
first started to take photos with that camera. Now the thing is because I do
videos I want to have an audio in it doesn't have an audio in so when you're
filming with external microphones or something you can't put it directly in
the camera. You need an extra recorder. A lot of people do it extra but I for
myself I always say if you can save time save time an external recorder always
needs more time to setup and as well to synchronize behind when you do it
the afterwards in editing. So those are two points I don't like. Another point
i don't like with the lens is that it don't has a scale on it.
I love lenses with the scale. I have it on my landscape lens, you have it on the
samyang lens, so you know exactly where you focused. I would say they did it
because they want to keep it easy as well but I don't like that you zoom here,
it's like camcorder you zoom inside there and then you focus there,
so you don't have an end. Usually when I focus I
want to have an end and a beginning so I know exactly where to focus so when
you're filming is difficult but then just change the lens it's easier.
There you have your end, you have the beginning and then you can focus very
easy. That's what I say that's just my opinion but all in all 600 euros with a
lens, very small, all technical features you need in 2016 it's a great camera and
you has SD cards. That's one feature I like because it's so small. You have the
SD card right next to the battery and that's cool. Battery life that's always
the thing with the Sony cameras it's all digital you don't have a mirror so you
need more battery but an iPhone needs a lot of battery as well so never mind you
get used to it. I for myself I need three batteries two
batteries a day with that camera and three batteries a day with that camera
when I'm not filming when I'm filming with in high ISO as well then I need a
lot of battery power, maybe five batteries a day or something but it
always depends. Two batteries a day you're fine with that camera. So that was
just my opinion on the a6000 and everybody who asks me what camera should
i buy. If you are on a budget till six hundred euro for example go and get the
a6000 you won't be disappointed it's great for everything for film
for taking photos, fast autofocus, for landscape you can use it for everything.
There's no thing where it's not good into and there's new camera coming the
a6300 maybe when the video is out the camera is already out but it's much more
expensive, you don't actually need it as a beginner it's just an upgrade for
people who need something more some more specifications but if you're a beginner
his camera is great and if the new camera is out the price for that drops
as well I think in the end of the year maybe it's 500 euros or something it's
great. You can do nothing wrong with that camera and another thing I forgot is
oh there's so many things I want to say about the camera. I use the time
lapse app on that camera. As well you can use it on the big cameras but you can
use it on the small camera. So when I'm out in the field I'm photographing with
a big camera I just put the small a6000 on a tripod hit the timelapse app, hit
record and boom boom boom boom boom it does the time-lapse. I do my shots I do
how much time it takes. I go back to the camera I just hit stop boom done.
Timelapse done, photos done, everything's done. So that was just a quick overview, well
quick quick it's not that quick but if you have something else to say about the
a6000 maybe you'r experiences with that. Post it in the comment section below.
I'm looking forward for your comments and if you liked the video share it with
somebody who might be interested in it as well. The link to the a6000 is in the
description as well as on my website learnfromben.com check it out and
we see us next week, next Friday there's new video about photography each Friday.
New videos coming out about editing, filmmaking, photography if you have other
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videos as well if you can speak German check out my channel they're over 400
videos about photography already it's pretty awesome. So see you next time and
never forget Sag mal Einstellung Digga! und Haut rein!
there's a nice shortcut
which gives you a before and after so if I hit the Y button you see before and
after and you see how much it is