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Sony Alpha a6400 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 16-50mm Lens + 2 Pack SanDisk 32GB Card + Backpack + ZeeTech Accessory Bundle
Sony Alpha a6400 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 16-50mm Lens + 2 Pack SanDisk 32GB Card + Backpack + ZeeTech Accessory Bundle
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Sony Alpha a6400 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 16-50mm Lens + 2 Pack SanDisk 32GB Card + Backpack + ZeeTech Accessory Bundle
Sony Alpha a6400 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 16-50mm Lens + 2 Pack SanDisk 32GB Card + Backpack + ZeeTech Accessory Bundle
Exceptional camera. Menu system not as bad as reviews said. Does not get hot at all after a 2.5hr non-stop video at 1080p using dummy battery. Does get quite warm, in a 72deg room, when recording at 4k, but not hot. Internal mics are mediocre, but added shotgun mic and audio is excellent. This is the water-resistant AL-magnesium version, a step up from a6100; worth added expense for magnesium housing and water resistance for protection on a rainy day. Bought with 19-135 lens, pics are excellent. Only flaw is why the camera cannot output h.264 video over USB or the WiFi? Instead have to buy a hokey (price gouged) HDMI "capture" card; HDMI is already digital. Sony has h.264 compression in the a6400. It is used on videos recorded to the SD card. The new a7 will have h.265 lossless compression; too bad they were not on the ball and did not put this in the a6400. h.264 compression is several years old!
After a year and a half, all I can say is fantastic! I am nearsighted and the red focus assist negates the need to wear glasses or use the viewfinder's built-in diopter adjuster. I use this cam with a Laowa 9mm rectilinear lens (manual focus) for indoor pics, and the articulated screen is great for this. It allows the camera to work like a Hassalblad; holding the camera low to get the angle right (so vertical lines are parallel). One can hold the camera at waist height and tilt the screen up. With the 35-135 kit zoom, the auto-focus is excellent. With the SEL200600G, works great, but the big zoom does use up the battery, so keep a spare. Another wow factor is the digital-zoom-in-while-focusing (C1 button in still pic mode). This allows viewing the image zoomed in to get the focus perfect. Water rest mag case is the way to go too. I never worry about being out in the rain with this camera (but I do make an effort to not let it get wet anyway to be safe). probably have shot several THOUSAND pics and all I can say is "wish I had this camera thirty years ago". Thanks Sony!
So I had to ask my son which camera was best and he told me Sony. Then proceeded to advise on this one as it was his 1st and he really liked it. He is now on his 3rd Sony, only upgraded. It will take me awhile to learn all the functions but so far, great camera.
I’ve had this camera for a few weeks and am enjoying the heck out of it. It does all the camera things I would hope for. I’ve used the auto settings and many of the manual settings. I even took time exposures to capture the lunar eclipse. All in all it takes great pictures. One thing I dearly hoped for was that the camera would seamlessly integrate with my iPhone and iPad. I had stopped using my prior digital camera because it was a pain to go on vacation and have to wait to get home to see the pictures. My thought was that the WiFi and BlueTooth interfaces plus the Sony app would do the trick. Sadly not. WiFi/BlueTooth is simply too poorly implemented to make it useful. The Sony app tries but fails to overcome the bad interface on the camera. This is not a problem with this camera. Rather it’s a problem with the whole Sony line.
I read some reviews and welp they were not wrong this camera is really good.
This is my first mirrorless digital camera. I am simply blown away by the features and the simplicity of the menu system. Autofocus is spot on. I am thankful for the plethora of support videos on YouTube for the a6400. I couldn’t have come this far so quickly without them. While there is no built in image stabilization, I am using a Sony lens which is providing sufficient stabilization for my purposes.
This camera has an amazing quality. Both pictures and videos turned out great every time. I love how it stays in focus when zooming in video mode. It records videos for 30 minutes continuously. The only downside is if recording videos for too long, it gets hot and shuts off.
Amazing photos came out with camera.
I love this camera so far. I'm a novice, so I don't know what I don't know yet... but so far, everything I've tried to do has turned out better than I was expecting of my skill level. There is no image stabilization... so if you're intending to carry this thing around shooting video of yourself, then this probably isn't the one you're looking for. I'm almost exclusively using this mounted to a tripod, and couldn't be happier. If I had to ding ANYTHING on this at all, it would be the menu system. There are ... so ... many... menu items, and the way these are organized is weird. I feel like Sony could do well to hire an actual user experience designer to look at these menus and organize them based on what different users might be trying to accomplish. If you're a novice photographer, considering buying this... that's the first thing I'd recommend getting accustomed to. Just spend a few hours looking through the menus, and setting up a custom menu that has the settings you think are most applicable to what you're doing.
Exceptional camera. Menu system not as bad as reviews said. Does not get hot at all after a 2.5hr non-stop video at 1080p using dummy battery. Does get quite warm, in a 72deg room, when recording at 4k, but not hot. Internal mics are mediocre, but added shotgun mic and audio is excellent. This is the water-resistant AL-magnesium version, a step up from a6100; worth added expense for magnesium housing and water resistance for protection on a rainy day. Bought with 19-135 lens, pics are excellent. Only flaw is why the camera cannot output h.264 video over USB or the WiFi? Instead have to buy a hokey (price gouged) HDMI "capture" card; HDMI is already digital. Sony has h.264 compression in the a6400. It is used on videos recorded to the SD card. The new a7 will have h.265 lossless compression; too bad they were not on the ball and did not put this in the a6400. h.264 compression is several years old!
After a year and a half, all I can say is fantastic! I am nearsighted and the red focus assist negates the need to wear glasses or use the viewfinder's built-in diopter adjuster. I use this cam with a Laowa 9mm rectilinear lens (manual focus) for indoor pics, and the articulated screen is great for this. It allows the camera to work like a Hassalblad; holding the camera low to get the angle right (so vertical lines are parallel). One can hold the camera at waist height and tilt the screen up. With the 35-135 kit zoom, the auto-focus is excellent. With the SEL200600G, works great, but the big zoom does use up the battery, so keep a spare. Another wow factor is the digital-zoom-in-while-focusing (C1 button in still pic mode). This allows viewing the image zoomed in to get the focus perfect. Water rest mag case is the way to go too. I never worry about being out in the rain with this camera (but I do make an effort to not let it get wet anyway to be safe). probably have shot several THOUSAND pics and all I can say is "wish I had this camera thirty years ago". Thanks Sony!
So I had to ask my son which camera was best and he told me Sony. Then proceeded to advise on this one as it was his 1st and he really liked it. He is now on his 3rd Sony, only upgraded. It will take me awhile to learn all the functions but so far, great camera.
I’ve had this camera for a few weeks and am enjoying the heck out of it. It does all the camera things I would hope for. I’ve used the auto settings and many of the manual settings. I even took time exposures to capture the lunar eclipse. All in all it takes great pictures. One thing I dearly hoped for was that the camera would seamlessly integrate with my iPhone and iPad. I had stopped using my prior digital camera because it was a pain to go on vacation and have to wait to get home to see the pictures. My thought was that the WiFi and BlueTooth interfaces plus the Sony app would do the trick. Sadly not. WiFi/BlueTooth is simply too poorly implemented to make it useful. The Sony app tries but fails to overcome the bad interface on the camera. This is not a problem with this camera. Rather it’s a problem with the whole Sony line.
I read some reviews and welp they were not wrong this camera is really good.
This is my first mirrorless digital camera. I am simply blown away by the features and the simplicity of the menu system. Autofocus is spot on. I am thankful for the plethora of support videos on YouTube for the a6400. I couldn’t have come this far so quickly without them. While there is no built in image stabilization, I am using a Sony lens which is providing sufficient stabilization for my purposes.
This camera has an amazing quality. Both pictures and videos turned out great every time. I love how it stays in focus when zooming in video mode. It records videos for 30 minutes continuously. The only downside is if recording videos for too long, it gets hot and shuts off.
Amazing photos came out with camera.
I love this camera so far. I'm a novice, so I don't know what I don't know yet... but so far, everything I've tried to do has turned out better than I was expecting of my skill level. There is no image stabilization... so if you're intending to carry this thing around shooting video of yourself, then this probably isn't the one you're looking for. I'm almost exclusively using this mounted to a tripod, and couldn't be happier. If I had to ding ANYTHING on this at all, it would be the menu system. There are ... so ... many... menu items, and the way these are organized is weird. I feel like Sony could do well to hire an actual user experience designer to look at these menus and organize them based on what different users might be trying to accomplish. If you're a novice photographer, considering buying this... that's the first thing I'd recommend getting accustomed to. Just spend a few hours looking through the menus, and setting up a custom menu that has the settings you think are most applicable to what you're doing.