hi this camera has all the basic tools you need to create great photo but more importantly
great video the best part is i've seen this go for as little as six hundred dollars used
us or if you want to buy it brand new it's only 750. so if you're looking at picking up your first
mirrorless camera or even if you want a b camera for your a7 3 or your a7 s3 i believe the sony
a6100 is the best value mirrorless camera out there right now let's cover some of the reasons
why i think this is such a great deal now i'm going to focus mostly on video for this video
but for photo this is a 24 megapixel camera and of course it does shoot in raw too you
get 4k 24 frames a second so you can get a nice crispy video and if you attach an animus ninja 5
an external recorder you can actually shoot in 4k 422. you get your 120 frames per second and
your 60 frames per second 1080p video so that means you can shoot those slow-mo sequences
or that b-roll whatever you want to shoot in slow-mo you can do it with this camera
unlimited recording time my a7 iii can't even do that when it hits 29 minutes and 59 seconds it
just stops that video and you have to manually press it to record again with this you can
continuously record till you run out of battery or run out of memory card space the camera does
of course have a built-in microphone but you don't want to use that because you have a mic jack on
the side there so you can plug in a microphone and get much better audio you have a flip screen
it goes up like that which means you can vlog with it and the cold shoe is actually right here but as
you can see if you put it in a small rig cage like this one it offsets the cold shoe so now you can
put a mic right here and it doesn't interfere with being able to see yourself if you want to vlog
now as well as being able to plug in a microphone you can of course control your recording levels
for your audio on the camera directly and it does give you a visible indication on the screen there
with some meters showing you how hot your audio is so if it's peaking and you need to turn it down
on the dial you actually have an mr which stands for memory recall now this is important because it
allows the camera to store up to three different sets of settings which you can manually assign
this is good because you can saw for example on one 4k 24 frames a second on 220 frames
per second 1080p on three 1080 at 24 frames a second so instead of having to go through and
manually change every time you can just scroll to one two or three and then that way you can pull a
set of settings quickly and not have to go through the menus and change all that that is incredibly
useful if you're not using that already with your sony camera you should be like most other sony
cameras you have customizable buttons albeit not as many as some other sony cameras but you still
have two a c one and a c two now you can assign these two things anything you want pretty much
within reason some things that you can quickly access by using the c1 and c2 uh you can change
it to things like focus mode focus hold iso white balance creative style focus magnifier peaking
audio settings clear image zoom zebras you can set an alarm to wake you up in the morning you can't
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able to assign the c1 and the c2 button you can actually reassign the ael button to pretty much
anything you want as well as the left down and the right button on the d-pad and the center button
as well but you can't change the wheel here in case you were wondering which is a shame but you
still have lots of options for changing buttons and if you can't fit everything you want to use in
those custom buttons you still have the function menu and you can manually reassign things in there
to quickly access things as and when you need them i've never personally run into any issues with
this overheating and i've used it a lot i've used it for shooting these kinds of videos i've used it
for shooting a bunch of different weddings in a summer as a b camera no issues with overheating
with the a6100 now you do get some pretty useful video making tools as well things like
focus peaking your histograms manual focus assist which is really useful if you're using old manual
focus lenses and you need to be able to quickly zoom in to make sure things are attack sharp you
also have clear image zoom so if you're shooting in 4k and you want to get a little bit more reach
zoom in digitally with pretty much no quality loss you have clear image zoom you also have
sony's autofocus which i'm sure we all know is pretty decent if not the best one out there
face detection for shooting videos you have tap to focus so if you tap on an object it will pull
focus to that for you which is pretty useful you also have object tracking which means if
you change the focus mode to tracking you tap on an object like a person they move around it will
constantly keep them in focus aside from iaf video autofocus which makes the eye always in focus
you pretty much have the same video autofocus features you do in like the higher end cameras
like the a7s iii and we get it in a 750 a6100 which is pretty incredible so this is an aps-c
camera and you can use full-frame glass on it but you wouldn't really want to aps-c lenses are so
cheap for what it is that they do there's so many different options out there from tamron from sigma
sony has their own variety and in general they are so much cheaper than full frame so i actually
still have a couple of my aps-c lenses this is a new one i'm just currently reviewing this is a
23 mil f 1.4 from viltrox they also make a 33 mil which is incredible there's the 30 mil sigma f 1.4
these are all cheap lenses both of these are under 300 us and they're ridiculously sharp autofocus is
great there's a bunch of different aps-c lenses you can use for the a6100 another great option
you'll see a lot of people talk about is the sigma 16 mil f 1.4 is the equivalent 24 mil on aps-c
so sharp autofocus is ridiculous that's probably one of the first lenses you're going to be wanting
to pick up plus a lot of these aps-c lenses are f 1.4 which means they're gonna be really really
good when it comes to shoeing in low light and you're gonna get that nice background separation
to get your bokeh too now a big thing that draws people away from the a 6100 is the fact that it
doesn't have picture profiles if you've been a long time subscriber to this channel you know that
i do not typically use picture profiles and if you're just starting out i don't recommend using
picture profiles anyway there's a easier better option for you to just kind of get your feet
wet into trying different things before you start worrying about picture profiles and that's to use
a creative style i've done a whole video talking about creative styles before and i'll blink that
up there for you it's a bit dated now but the same principles still apply now typically i used to use
autumn leaves but more recently i've been using a neutral creative style with the a7 s3 which
i'm recording on right now the a7 iii as well this camera actually doesn't even have the neutral one
now i think sony removed it because it is a pretty flat image and there is a little bit of ability to
grade in there it's like the most similar creative style you'll get to to say a log and if they were
to put that in here it would kind of discredit the a6400 which has neutral and picture profiles and
that costs 150 more so that's kind of why i didn't think they included on this however if you use the
standard creative style on this you can drop the settings to minus one contrast minus three
saturation and minus one sharpness and you get a pretty good image straight out of the camera that
has a little bit of great ability in it in actual fact let's swap that camera the a7s
iii for this camera the a6100 so you can see what you think like this which is now with the a6100
how does it compare to the a7s3 i'll let you be the judge i think it looks pretty good it's
not a picture profile as i said it's a creative style with the same settings i was talking about
a second ago all in all this is a little monster of a camera for recording video and there's no
reason why you couldn't use this for paid work too don't let the price of this camera be the reason
you overlook it the price of this should be the reason you are looking at this maybe as your first
camera or maybe as a b camera now there are a few negatives i've come across which i want to tell
you about because that's only fair the biggest one for me is the evf and in all honesty it's just not
great it's just over a million dots which by an evf standard is very very low and it's tiny when
you hold up to your eye compared to something like the a7 3 it's really really tiny it's not
comfortable to use so i don't like the evf if you had to use in a pinch on a sunny day just to check
your exposure on something if you're not using your histogram and the screen is just too bright
then you could but just know it's not going to be fun you do only have the one card slot
which is just in there behind the battery so you don't have redundancy if the card was to fail
that being said if you were to use ninja fire for this as well it'd give you that extra backup
solution if you needed it and then in that same slot you do of course have the older style sony
batteries and you will chew through these expect to i mean for a wedding like an eight-hour wedding
expect to go through anything from five to eight of these easily the good news is they're pretty
cheap to pick up a pack of these is like 25 us i believe with a charger they're not expensive
i normally recommend the ravpower ones the newer ones i've got here they're okay i don't find they
last as long but ravpower is a pretty good third-party option for you too and then the
final thing is it doesn't have a headphone jack so you can't monitor your audio as you're recording
it but you do have your on-screen controls there so you can see if things are peaking
so something to be aware of anyway so the a6100 definitely a camera that should not be overlooked
depending on what you need it for it might be the perfect b camera if you've just got the one camera
you need a second camera for doing some proper paid work just to have as a backup or a second
angle or even if you're looking at getting your feet wet into the world of video into the world
of mirrorless it's a great star option as well all that aps-c glass all the core video features that
you could potentially need at 4k that 120. there's a lot in this camera for the price that it costs
okay that'll do for now and uh thanks for watching i'll see you the next one
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