I bought this camera this year for 200
dollars.
Well, I bought this entire set up just a couple of years ago for about three
$1000.
That's 15 times more
than this Lou Mix.
Is this Sony actually 15 times better for street photography than
this Lou mix?
That's what going to find out in today's video.
Technically, these two
cameras aren't even in the same category.
One is a full frame interchangeable lens Marylise camera, while the other is a
compact camera with full manual controls.
But to me, these two cameras actually
share a lot of the same use cases.
If you're interested in street photography, both of them are pretty low
profile and offer a really nice ergonomic feel for real World street photography.
Use out.
Let's compare these two cameras over four
different parts.
First will be real
world usability.
The second will be the financial commitment of each camera.
Third will be the feature set and specs of each camera, and the fourth will be some image
comparisons.
So first, a real world usability.
I am going to be showing you quite a lot of example shots in this video, but also I have made a fool of
myself and gone out recording
some P O.
V video, using both these cameras so you can see some actual real world
usage as someone with bigger
hands.
I've mentioned this in a Sony
a seven C review in
the past.
The H seven C is not exactly a massive fistful of camera.
It's actually a little bit small for me economically, but
I have a small Greek aid on it, which blocks out just enough to become pretty much ideal
for a smaller full frame camera.
While the LX 100 is definitely very small in my hands with the setup that I have in
terms of my custom button for moving my autofocus point along with the aperture ring and the shutter speed
dial, I do find it
pretty nice and easy to use,
despite it being relatively small to make this comparison work in terms of getting the same
sort of focal lengths, I have paid the Sony a seven seat up with the Tamron 28 to 75 F
two 0.8 to match up the best I can with the LX 100
24 to 70
51
0.7 to 2.8 lens.
The screen on the
Sony A seven C is definitely something that you can't really look past.
The articulating screen when you're out taking
street photography makes it so much easier to consider very low angle shots, where you
really want to get the camera
right next to the ground and still want a good view
of your composition.
Along with that, it's also touch screen.
So then tapping the autofocus point is also extremely
easy.
Have both of these set up with a similar custom button in order to move the
autofocus point with the D pad
just because that's something I've done since I had a few TX 100 s.
But the touchscreen factor on a 70 does make it
overall clearly simpler to use.
It's more similar
to like smartphone photography.
Next, I want to talk about the financial commitment.
I know this isn't talking about the specs or anything like that, but to me, if you're considering
a cheaper camera or
really expensive camera and say
you're a beginner, the financial aspect is genuinely one of the most important aspects.
But I think a lot of
publications and other YouTubers
online will try and ignore the financial factor and sort of encourage
you to, like go after the latest and greatest with the highest specs and also the highest price
tag.
I've had comments on my
Sony a seven C one year review in which people have asked me whether or not this is a
good beginning camera.
And you know, if money is no object, if
money is no problem for
you, then
yeah, sure splash out.
You know you can buy whatever you want.
Get us only a one
if you're a beginner and you're not sure if you're serious about photography in any way, even as a hobbyist or
professionally start with something cheaper.
But as you get further and further into the industry industry, of the more
manufacturers, more models
get into video.
Different features become more necessary
to your work.
You know, I spend more on
my Sony A seven C
than I did on my car.
So if £2000 of dollars
is going to be too much to you and you know it's a really serious decision that might have
impact on other parts of your life, scale it down and get something much cheaper.
So if you are looking
at something from Sony, a 6000 series, the Rx 100 series would
be very comparable TLX 100.
But the LX 100 is relatively inexpensive.
I got mine for £154
in well used condition,
which talks about my
previous review.
That, to me, is actually
fantastic
value for what
I found from this camera.
I'm also
going to have another video talking
about the four k video of this camera, which is equally as surprising.
In my opinion, The LX 100 offers full manual control of photography
and video in what is really a compact entry level camera.
But it does it in a way
that, unlike other compact cameras, that sort of lose a lot of that like film
SLR functionality.
And like economics, the Alex 100 still has that if someone is looking to move on from
smartphone photography
to get into
manual photography, and they just want to try it out.
The Alex 100 having optical zoom with an aperture ring and shutter speed dial
and
Emanuel is so becomes a really, really good option in terms of having
an all in one package rather than thinking about buying a camera body plus lenses
Because if you're not in photography, videography for the long haul.
When you start committing to an ecosystem, you start buying camera bodies, different lenses for that lens
mount.
Then you might decide to change camera systems and have to sell your lenses and get all new lenses.
It's a financial headache.
It's not something
that you should just be encouraging people to do.
So I
think the X 100
$200 value wise, it's fantastic.
The N C.
Is that, but only really, if it's going to become a positive return on
investment
like it has been for me and lots of other
professional photographers and videographers.
Thirdly, let's get into the feature set of each of these cameras.
So first, the sensor we have on the A seven CIA full frame
35 millimetres sensor
on the Alex 100.
We have a micro four thirds sensor on the A seven C in four frame mode, we have 24
megapixels
cropped into the Super
35 mode.
We have about 11 megapixels, while on the Alex 100.
We have 13
megapixels being used of a total 16 megapixel sensor, but
it's 13 megapixels.
The A seven c has 693 phase detection autofocus
points.
The Alex 100 only has 49 or focus points, silent
mode or electronic shutter.
Now this is something that both of these cameras have.
Both of them have a silent mode, so it means when you take photos, there is no
noise or next to no noise when you take a photo so there's no mechanical shutter
noise.
The E D.
F on both
cameras Sony a seven c definitely under delivers in terms of the V F.
It's pretty
small.
It's not the best.
Honestly, the Alex 100
has a great DVF.
The Seven Seas is good enough, but disappointing, considering the price tag
of the camera
stabilisation.
The A seven c
has built in sensors
shift stabilisation,
so the sensor itself is actually
stabilised.
And then you compare this up with some optically stabilised lenses
to increase the
overall stabilisation capability,
whereas on the Alex 100 we just have optical
stabilisation within the lens weather sealing.
So the A seven c is weather sealed.
No dust or water is going to get into the camera body.
The LX 100 however sadly,
is not weather sealed.
And since my most recent video talking about the Alex 100
a lot of people mentioned the comments that they've had problems with the camera sucking in dust.
Some people even having just sucked in them, buying a second camera because they enjoyed it
so much.
But the
dust is just the problem.
Apparently, you can get it sent back to have it looked at, but this is something to be aware of.
If you're planning to go out on beaches, dusty locations,
stuff like that,
it might be a reason to avoid the camera and go for something that you can
confirm doesn't have this dust vacuum
problem.
Lastly, we're going to look at our image comparisons.
I'm not going to
make any decisions or call out my personal favourite of any of these photos.
I'm not going to make that decision for you.
I'd like for you to drop your opinion
down the comments below, because
some people might
genuinely go into this video thinking the A seven C is going to be better the A seven
C is going to be better.
And then you suddenly realise all your favourite photos in this section are from the Alex 100.
I make that point because I'm definitely guilty.
That sort of thing, I think, Well, the more money is,
the better it is.
And you know what?
Spec wise usually
going to be correct when we're looking at the results here, try and forget about the price of these cameras
trying Just look at
Does the price does the feature set actually make a difference to the images that you can
produce?
None of the photos in this video are world changing images.
They are just photos that I've taken
walking around, enjoying the
process of practising street photography.
So I'm interested to know your opinion on which camera is delivering
the best images.
And can you really tell 15 times
the difference in image quality between the two of these cameras?
To me, both of these cameras have a place in my
camera bag.
The A seven c
is for all of my professional photography, and there's still a lot of my professional video.
I did a job just last week that was all shot on the A seven c.
Yeah, it's 100 is going with
me to festivals
because I don't want to take an analogue film camera anymore.
I want more usability than that.
I also don't want to take something that costs more than my car
to a festival
where it could
get damaged.
It could get stolen.
I could not get let into the festival with it.
I think if you
are getting into photography and you're looking for something with a good manual control, the Alex one
100 is a really interesting case.
It's a really
interesting camera that has a philtre thread amount.
I think that honestly
is so much of a big deal when it comes to learning.
Photography, learning video The A seven C.
However,
professional work and personal
work, if you can afford it, is a fantastic by,
and I think it sucks that has been discontinued, or at least it's out of production for now.
From Sony, I really hope the A seven c comes back with an A seven c mark
to I would love for someone to do that because I think it's their
best camera and the LX 100 has a mark two.
But there have been some comments on my previous video talking about the mark three and what they had wanted
it.
I think Mark three would be really cool because a few things that Panasonic could pull off inside
that camera that I think would make it really, really cool.
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