a6400 and when I say 'the world' I mean

mainly the press in America got shown the

a6400 and the rest of world kind of just

watched the American press getting hold

of the a6400 but anyway it's here I've

got it in my hands in my bag in fact and

people saying a6400 vlogging this

vlogging that in fact I should be vlogging

with that and not this so here we go

Oh magic through the beauty of video editing

the gh5 has turned into an a6400 anyway

first of all I've got a bit of beef with

some of the things that been said about the

a6400 like huge fillet steak

massive t-bone steak beef with some of

the things that have been said anyway let's

go it is Sony's first big release of the

year but what is there to big up about

the a6400 but first this video is

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that flips up every time there's a new

camera that comes out with a screen that

faces forward the whole vlogging

community just loses their shizzle or another

bodily fluids because it's a vlogging

camera yeah and Sony highlighted this

with their own promotional videos with

not just one but two promotional videos

but then the whole issue of putting the mic

on top on the hot shoe thus blocking the

screen became apparent people's hot

shizzle went straight back up right up

from where it came from and the

complaints started coming out what a fail

Oh Sony what have you done it's blocking

the screen I can't see myself that's not

very good vlogging camera then is it

but you know there were solutions

solutions came out and Sony's solution was

a sort of L bracket which is fine

apart from the fact it probably

blocks the battery compartment which

seems alright it's not blocking the screen

anymore but the thing is you will need

to change the batteries a lot with the

a6400 and then there's also the fact that

it'll probably just come loose what else

is there

tape cheap and stupid then there's the

up yours arm which to be fair you might

as well just give it the finger but

forget all that because the solution

is easy and cheap and quite obvious for

just 25 pounds 99 sounds like an ad but

is not an ad and with that one penny change

you get you can use it to attach the

thing to your camera it's a cage and it

will give you serious video geek

credibility I mean I don't know why Sony

didn't release their own cage accessory

because with rx0

they have a little cage thing for it

they could have made millions with this

but look if you can stretch your budget

to add a cage get an a6300 cage because

the cold shoe's on the right solves your

problem put the mic on the right of the

screen

a6,500 cage cold shoe's on the left see

you're still blocking your screen just

on one side but if you have the rode

videomic pro Plus which is quite a

chunky mic make sure that you push it as

far forward as possible because it might

knock against the screen which will make

a noise because the shock mount does

wobble about talking about wobbliness

and talking about that knocking sound I

mean that is one thing the rolling

shutter is pretty damn atrocious it's

like jelly

jello depending where you're from like

when you're vlogging like this you

really don't notice too much of the

jello effect right

that's my only way across the river

but for what it's worth the rolling

shutter in 4k looks a little worse than

a7 III not much more but still worse

it is however much better in 1080p but

you're probably buying a Sony just to

boast to your friends that you can shoot

in 4k with your fancy new mirrorless

camera aren't you otherwise it's quite a

good camera the video there's no

recording time limit a7 III has a 30

minute time limit this doesn't have any

probably because it doesn't overheat as

fast as the a7 III side-by-side the

a7 III starts to overheat after 1 hour

25 minutes and stops quite soon after

that the a6400 just kept going on and on

and on just like a frickin Duracell

bunny after about 2 hours

I gave up because I've got better things

to be doing to be honest

proxy recording for faster editing mic

input no headphone jack but really are

you gonna be monitoring your sound while

vlogging I don't think so when we talk

about vlogging cams of course the big

competitor to the a6400 is the Panasonic

GH5 the camera I'm using to film

this right now but that arguably has the

better spec because less rolling shutter

in-body stabilisation but this could

excel in one area and that's dynamic

range and that's useful because because

I want to get my face right out this Sun

right now because I think it's burning a

hole in my eyeballs god let's move over

okay that's much better foe my eyeballs but

now we need to expose this correctly

because I'm in the shadows if we expose

this for the sky keeping the details in

the sky this if we try to pull out

details on my face it's just gonna end

up a noisy mess right like that

okay so let's change the exposure let's

expose to the right as they say which

basically just means overexposed

of course this is quite an extreme

example because it's extremely backlit

but you know in the Sony advert they said

it'll be good for back lighting

situations yeah clear even with

backlighting well yeah it's always clear

when you switch on the artificial

lighting isn't it but there we are

exactly same aperture exactly same

shutter speed same ISO so now I can see

on the zebra pattern that they're both

over exposing the sky and that's what we

want because we don't want a noisy face

although my face is noisy when I open my

damn mouth the GH5 has the better video

options for sure 4K 60 but the

a6400 retains the details in those

highlights much better the video on the

a6400 is pretty good overall it's just the

rolling shutter but to be honest is

anyone really gonna mark your vlog down

if your content is good besides with an

ultra-wide the GH5 IBIS wobbles in the

corners too a lot of fuss has been made

about this being a vlogging camera but

why don't they just focus on this as a

stills camera because in terms of specs

it's pretty damn good so here we are in

Trafalgar Square because it's Chinese

New Year and they've got some stuff

going on some Chinese-y type stuff

look there's Chinese people over there

over there there's one right here

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of course this is no ordinary Chinese

New Year celebrations this is in

the UK so this is done in British style

though they've done it with the weather

like this with people standing around

and middle-aged Caucasian

people dressed up as middle-aged Chinese

people it's got the same Sony

eye autofocusing system

but the difference is that now

it's always on and then brilliant other

neat touches you can customiae what

focusing zones show up so you don't have

to scroll through a load of focusing

options you don't ever use anyway but

also the touch screen is good for moving

the focus point and also you can just

press on your subject to start tracking

just now some Chinese dude asked me are you

Lok 'are you Lok' 'no I'm the other on'e Chinese people can't

tell the difference between one Chinese

dude there's another Chinese dude racist

now the auto focusing on the sony a6400

with Sony's eye auto focusing

is brilliant i don't know how they can

make it to work so well it's just it's

like black magic

in fact sony should have called it eye

black magic because that's a very sony

name to come up with isn't it curiously

doesn't work on panda eyes but apparently

there will be firmware updates soon

where it will work on animal eyes i'm not

sure about men dressed up as animals but it

will work on animals apparently that's

probably in a future firmware update

maybe the face and the eye AF thing though are just

incredible i must note that this footage

like record of the screen it shows auto

iso but actually on the screen you can

see what ISO it is even though it's on

auto even when i'm moving about like a

crazed madman it keeps following my face

and my eye like a crazy mad thing as

well when you put this focusing ability

together with the fact they can take

photos several of them in quick

succession like this

then you can take over the world or at

least you can get number of shots in

focus there were a couple that was

slightly off but impressive nonetheless

given that I was quite close up but

dare I say even though I haven't had

both cameras side by side or that was

just last week when I tested the Fuji it

feels like the Sony's eye and face AF

is just a little bit better than Fuji

noticeably better it kicks its ars....so

anyway only kidding they a6400 is

amazing value it would be wrong to just

dismiss this as a vlogging camera gone

wrong because not only is it a mostly

good camera for video but especially for

stills it lacks the ibis of the a 6500

but this is stiff competition for the

recently released

fujifilm xt 30 which is exactly the same

price and also lacks ibis yes the

screen flips into the mic but a camera is

more than just seeing your own face in

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