- What's going on guys?
It's Potato Jet here, oh my god, this thing is so loud.
This is a really bad time to film this intro.
Now, I know what you're thinking,
What the hell is Potato Jet vlogging on an a6400 Sony?
The answer is yes!
So, let's get to it!
I got the a6400 on here with a 10 to 18 millimeter.
I'm on a boat, going to some kind of crazy
island, because that's what, you know, us YouTuber,
influencers like to do, I have like no subscribers
and stuff, did I mention I'm on a boat?
Look at this!
I'm on a boat, I'm on water!
I'm kidding, this is very unique for me as well.
Literally the entire camera YouTube community is here.
Except for Matti Haapoja, where you at, dude?
You're probably in Toronto being an
icicle, snowman.
Anyways, what do you guys think of the
colors so far?
Is it beautiful?
Is it nice and beautifully blue?
That's one of the biggest concerns I have
with switching away from Canon is they
have like that really really good color science
and all this could be like super blue.
I'll be curious to see how it looks on here.
Okay, I'll continue to pretend to talk because,
I think he's trying to get a shot--
- Awesome, oh, you're good!
- Of me vlogging, so I'm gonna pretend vlog right now.
I don't know which color profile I like best yet
but here's the S-Log 3.
Now, I love S-Log 3, I use it a lot in the FS7
but that uses a 10 big codex so I can grade
the crap out of it and it's fine.
I'd be hesitant to use S-Log 3 in something
that has only 8 bit, but here's how it looks graded.
Does it look good?
Is there a lot of banding, especially up in the
blues up there, I don't know.
Now, here's another color profile, HLG.
It's looking pretty good, not super flat so I
could probably grade it a little bit.
And let's got with this.
Who's your favorite YouTuber in the world?
(mumbling)
- Uh, I don't know.
- [Potato Jet] Say your favorite YouTuber is Potato Jet,
I'll give you a dollar.
- Potato Jet
- Potato, what did you call it?
- [Children] Potato Jet.
- That's your favorite YouTuber right?
- [Children] Yeah.
- [Potato Jet] Hold on, I've got a five,
so you guys split that.
Go buy some ice cream, don't tell your mom!
Don't tell your mom!
- I'll subscribed to you.
- [Potato Jet] Alright. - Today.
- [Potato Jet] You'd better. - Sure.
- [Potato Jet] I'm gonna watch my social,
boy, you better be on there.
Not tomato, it's potato.
- Potato Jet!
- Yeah, yeah, now act like you knew me
before I told you.
(laughing)
Quick interruption real quick, I just want to
share something with you guys.
This is the official U.S. time here.
I'm currently 29 years old and I will turn 30 in
3,
2,
1
And that's the end of my 20s.
I just wanted to share that moment with you guys
cause I love you guys.
You guys are awesome.
It's unbelievable how much happened between
turning 20 and 30
and a lot of good things, up and downs obviously,
but man, one thing for sure, is just it
went by fast, and I know the 40s is gonna
hit me even faster and then 50 and 60.
I wanna just make sure that I spend every day
kind of appreciating life.
I don't wanna just look back and be like,
man, that was just all a big blur.
All of you guys have been a big part of my
late 20s and I couldn't think of a better
way to kind of just end that off, so thank you.
Alright, make the audience feel like I actually
care about them, check.
So I posted a picture of the a6400 on Instagram
and asked you guys what you guys want to know
about the camera.
So let me go through and start
answering some questions.
By the way, it's my birthday
so you should go follow me on Instagram.
You could be part of this conversation too.
It's my 30th birthday so, you're kind of
obligated to do this right now.
Coalitiongamingcrew says, "How do you feel about
having to use an add-on to move the mic out of the
way of the screen and use the camera like that
to vlog with?"
Now, that's a great question. Because I obviously
prefer a screen that flips out sideways.
That way there's no microphone
and there's no tripod blocking it.
I talked to Sony about it and they said there's two
reasons why they did a vertical flip up.
So one for eyeline.
So, generally speaking, when you're vlogging, you wanna
look straight at the camera and I'm looking straight
at the lens but I have a little display slightly
off to the side.
I'm not looking at it but it's
in my peripherals and I generally just use it as
a reference, but a lot of people, I guess,
look straight at the monitor then you can see
that I'm not looking at the lens.
Sony is saying if the monitor is right above the
lens, now I'm looking right above the lens, that
should be a better eyeline.
First of all, you shouldn't be looking at the monitor
at all, even if I look slightly off the monitor in
any direction just slightly, it's very noticeable
especially if it's close range.
So, yeah, maybe looking up there is a little bit
better, but us vloggers shouldn't be doing that anyway.
And the second reason, they were saying the hinge
design to make it flip out sideways actually makes
the body a whole lot bigger and one of their biggest
priorities was to make sure that the bodies stays
compact, which it is.
It is a very very compact body.
Now if you are gonna use an external
microphone, you probably wanna go for the
Road VideoMicro or something in that size range
because that way its not gonna completely block
your screen and you can see through it enough
to where you have confidence that the focus box
is around your face and the exposure is not
totally out of whack.
If you're not gonna use an external
microphone, not really gonna effect you.
And actually it's probably better because it has
that eyeline and it's more compact.
This is the audio from just the internal microphone.
You ready?
- Yup, I'm ready.
- He said he's very scared.
- No, I'm not scared.
(laughing)
I'm ready, you know.
Me and my mates ain't afraid. We've been out there
zip-lining, we're conquerors.
It's a terrible accent, I know.
- I want to go everywhere with you.
(laughing)
Let's go to the Vaughns together, pick out some milk.
- Yes, let's do that.
- Should we go for some low fat milk?
- No, no, no 2%.
(laughing)
No, no, Almond milk, it's really good.
- Everything just sounds so epic.
But generally, it's pretty quiet here
so I imagine it's sounding pretty good.
- He doesn't know this but Sony brought him over here
because they know he loves Canon.
Your thing is gonna be, I'm sorry, man, you're gonna die.
- Oh no. (chuckles)
I can't do this.
I'm pregnant.
One of the main reasons why I like to use this
microphone in the first place is to make the audio
more directional so if there's whole bunch of
sound going all over the place, it kind of
focuses it here.
Sorry for the super dark image quality, but Sony
is going to take this camera away from me in
a second so we just got to get it done.
This in internal audio so
let's see
- [Armando] It's really loud here.
- [Potato Jet] It is really loud, it's going to be quite
difficult with any microphone but
maybe you can kind of hear us?
Here it is on my Rode VideoMic Pro+
You can generally see that the shots
not super blown out.
I can also see a little bit of a box around
my face so that's probably going to be usable.
But you gotta give it to Sony for their low
light capabilities, 32,000 ISO right now.
I mean, it is dark in here, it's super dark in here.
- Yeah, I know.
- I'm actually impressed that I can see anything.
- I can see better on the screen than what I
can over here.
- Tell them to put a hotshoe on the side of the
camera for the final version. (laughs)
I, actually, I bet you there's a ton of cage makers
already on this a6400.
I would really love to see a super, light-weight
thin cage that goes on the one side of the camera
and gives you a hotshoe on the side.
So you have a bit more of the compact method to
mount a microphone on the side.
Because the options they're giving us.
No.
But it really should be a pretty simple solution.
Iheartarleene says, "Show me dat low-light".
As always, Sony dominates.
In that low-light planet.
In terms of low-light, Sony, can't beat 'em.
"How badly does this need IBIS?"
Well it depends on the lens.
Some lenses have better image stabilization than others.
Definitely a bit tougher when I was trying to
walk around with a prime lens that didn't have
image stabilization.
Obviously if you have a
tripod or gimbal, no worries, but if you're
gonna do some handheld stuff, then you
probably want something with pretty decent
image stabilization in the lens.
The kit lens seemed to be pretty decent.
We were on a rocky boat and I was still able to
get generally decent stabilized footage.
Even when zoomed in.
Dylan says, "Does it shoot 120p in 1920x1080?"
Yes, it does.
It was getting really dark by the time I was
able to test that, so this isn't a really great
reference of the quality of the 120, so I can't
say for sure, but there's like 50 other
YouTubers out there testing a bunch of stuff
on this camera.
So I'm sure one of them will have a good answer for you.
I do really like how fast it is to go into
super slow motion so you could be shooting 4K20,
4 frames per second and then just quickly
just switch it to 120 frames per second in HD.
Most other cameras where you have to go into the
menu and then lower the resolution and then go
change the frame rate and then go readjust
your shutter speed and aperture so it's all exposed
and then get the shot and then switch it back.
That's a headache.
Picture profiles and skin tones
That's tough for me to say, that might be unfair
for me to just say, Oh, I like Canon cameras
better because of their color because I've spent
a lot of time fiddling with Canon cameras
and I know exactly how I want my sittings to look.
Sony's, I'm not that familiar with so I don't know
immediately what color profile I like, how I like
to grade it, and all that little stuff.
But you guys probably notice that I really like
vibrancy in my videos, I have super bright orange
backdrop and I feel like I'm able to get really
rich colors out of the Canon.
And the Sony, I don't know.
I just can't get it to the spot where I want it.
Now I'm not saying Canon cameras are better
than Sony's necessarily, that's not true,
but for my personal taste, I'm able to get the colors
I want out of the Canon easier than I'm able
to get it out of the Sony, it's kind of like
the Red vs. Ariel X comparison that people like to make.
For example, the Coame
brothers wanted to shoot on the Ariel X
and David Fincher likes
to shoot on the Red. It's not ones better than the
other, it's just a different look.
So for me personally, I'm still sticking with Canon
because I really really like that flip out screen
and I just like how the picture looks.
I don't really know how to describe it more
than I just really like it looks.
- So everybody talks about how great the color
signs is on Canon, right?
When are you gonna see a black guy, a mexican,
and a white guy together?
Okay, that kind of sounded racist.
- [Potato Jet] Are you white?
- I'm not, I'm mexican.
(laughing)
- Mike asks, "How's the battery life?"
And does it overheat?
I can't answer the overheating question because
it was pretty cold in Catalina Island
and we didn't record long enough to give it a chance
to overheat, and the battery life, it's what
you would expect out of these Sony cameras.
Oh, 7.31 hours, so not great,
but it's nice and compact.
- My battery's dead.
(laughing)
- All our batteries are kind of dying right now.
So yeah, bottom line, have a couple extras on you.
What's the 1080p like?
Is it better than Canon?
I didn't do too much 1080p testing
but here's some footage at 1080p60.
Came out looking okay.
I didn't try it with heavy grading,
but it seems pretty good.
I would really only use the 1080p
if I was shooting 60 because there's no downside
of shooting 4K on the Sony.
On the EOSR, I don't shoot 4K
because there's a downside.
There's that crop in the sensor.
But on the Sony, you can leave it at super 35.
So aside from the larger fall size, there's no real reason
to shoot HD though I would keep it at 4K
and then just drop it down to HD for 60 frames for second.
No, stay with Canon, don't leave us.
I got the EOSR after your video. (chuckles)
I'm still sticking with that EOSR but I'm gonna
keep my eye on what Sony's doing cause they're
definitely pushing the limits.
But just cause I like to shoot on the EOSR
doesn't mean you should even look at the a6400
if you're gonna pick up a camera.
One of the biggest factors that keep me
in the ecosystem of Canon is because I already have
a huge investment in Canon lenses.
All these lenses up here. They're all Canon EF.
Now, it's gonna be a bigger deal for me
to switch out of Canon then it would be for someone
that hasn't invested as heavily in lenses already.
So I still think my favorite 500-ish dollar
camera is the Canon M50 at the low end.
And the A6400 is gonna come in under that $1,000 margin.
It's gonna give you 4K with a super 35
size sensor, 120 frames per second in HD
and basically every little feature you might want
in a mirrorless camera like this.
They really do feature a lot for that price.
And then if you go up to the 2 to 2,300 dollar
range, then you're looking at the USR and A73,
but we already did a comparison video on those
so you can go check that out if you're looking
for those kinds of cameras.
The auto focus performance, awesome.
It is waterproof?
Can you throw us in the sea and tell us?
No, I wanna get invited to these Sony events again.
How's the HLG picture profile on it?
For the most part, good, it takes a little
bit of grading but it maintains most of that
detail within that 8bit codex so I think it's
a pretty good option.
Also keep in mind there's no headphone jacks
so don't really affect
us vloggers too much but if you're a film maker
and you want to monitor audio and you plan on
recording straight on the camera, then that might
be an issue there.
And also, of course, their menu
system is humongous and it definitely takes a
little while to get through it but it's pretty
easy to make that customized menu.
So if you were to get the camera, first thing you
wanna do is just take your favorite items, like
your resolution and color profiles and all that
stuff that you change regularly, just put that in
your favorite menu and you'll be able to
quickly access all that stuff.
So it definitely takes a little while to just wrapped your
head around that giant menu when you first get it
but once you set up your custom menu, it's a breeze.
Anyways, it's still my birthday so I might as well
just spoil myself a little bit.
It's five o'clock somewhere right?
I don't really want my nipples in this shot so
I'm gonna zoom in a little bit.
So long story short, no, I am not switching
over to Sony just yet, but for it's price
range, it is a very capable camera
and definitely worth the look.
And plus I just paid way too much money
for this EOSR to just ditch it. (laughs)
But anyways, Catalina Island was an awesome experience.
Thanks, Sony, for having me out.
I'm sure there's gonna be a whole bunch of other
videos from that trip all about the a6400, so as
I find them, I will put them in the description so
go check 'em all out.
I heard a whole bunch of different perspectives,
this one is obviously my opinion but go check them
out; some people absolutely love it and can't wait
to get their hands on one.
Let's wrap this up with reading a few comments
from the last video, it was all about computer
monitors for editing so if you're gonna go
pick out a monitor for your editing set up,
this is a list of things you want to look out for.
Top comment, death, wet socks, monitor (chuckles)
makes sense.
This guy probably makes no sense to
you unless you've seen the video. (chuckles)
Why do you have so many ladders?
I have no idea, dude.
If your monitor coloring options are too much
magenta or too much green, I'd go for the ladder.
(smashing)
Gene = Potato Jet = G.O.A.T.
I'm not a goat!
Stop calling me that.
(screaming)
Still waiting for bike-magic-pocket-cinema-camera 4k vs red
That's still on the works, I'm like 90 percent done with it.
The cinema comparison test takes so long
to make, I hate doing those, but I kinda love it
cause I actually get to learn a lot from myself
while making it.
Honestly, this is no use to me but I think I'm
addicted to your channel and have to watch
the whole (beep) thing.
(laughs)
Thank you.
For giving me a good audience retention on that video.
I think that's one of the most important factors
of getting in the Youtube algorithm, is if you
can make your video interesting enough to where
people will stick through the whole thing.
Which makes me wonder if this video starting
to drag now, so I should probably cut it here.
So I'll see you guys later, cheers.
Hey, what do you guys think of this angle?
I think it's pretty cool, I should make an
entire video like this.
Huh, okay, anyways, I'm out for real this time
See ya.
(bubbles pop)
Oh my god.
So much water went up my nose.
Look at what Carrie got me.
Birthday princess.
A little tiara.
And a really wonderful cake, thanks.
- [Carrie] You're welcome. - Yo, what's that say?
Wait, what's that say?
Nobody loves you.
Why did you get this cake?
Are you trying to tell me something?