Sony A6100 and A6600

I brought a Fisher Price to my last shoot and the client Googled "Fisher Price Cinema Camera" and couldn't find it so he was so impressed that I had the only Fisher Price Cinema Camera (FPCC) on the planet that he doubled my rate...
 
NorBro said:
And as far as "pros" using these cameras...I've made more money with Sony mirrorless' than anything else on the planet.

Good business doesn't worry about which cameras are used. I use cameras to make money and I would use a Fisher-Price if I could.
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I tend to agree with this. I don't buy cameras for "status" or because Mr. Trendy has one. Bang for the buck... my FS7 and 6300 have been really good (maybe the best) business / camera purchases in an almost 30 year career. Not that I don't wish for 10bit internal & higher bit rate on these s35 mirrorless....
 
scorsesefan said:
I brought a Fisher Price to my last shoot and the client Googled "Fisher Price Cinema Camera" and couldn't find it so he was so impressed that I had the only Fisher Price Cinema Camera (FPCC) on the planet that he doubled my rate...
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Do you have panalog for it?
 
James0b57 said:
How are video shooters using these types of cams?
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It is really depends on which country you are on.
Maybe its not much use on the US market, but in Asia my country almost 90% of the videographer that doing wedding/corporate is on Sony bodies. Most of them is on the 6xxx bodies.
 
ph2003 said:
It is really depends on which country you are on.
Maybe its not much use on the US market, but in Asia my country almost 90% of the videographer that doing wedding/corporate is on Sony bodies. Most of them is on the 6xxx bodies.
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Very cool to hear that! Can you share a link to some videos? If you have the time.
 
James0b57 said:
Very cool to hear that! Can you share a link to some videos? If you have the time.
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well the market here is very different compared to US, mostly everyone here just paying the bare minimum for the videographers.
The video production quality here cant compare to US, thus everyone will go for the less expensive body with more features.

This is the event I shooted this month https://www.facebook.com/EntrepreneurInsight/ (its a very big event, even our PM is attending)
you can see the interview in their FB pages, and the color looks like ****.
 
That’s fantastic, thank you!!!

Rubbing shoulders with some big people! Nice!
 
Here in Spain almost every event shooter I see is using Sony cameras nowadays, but I've never seen them with an a6XXX body, it's always an a7X body. The last big "brand party" I went to had six people shooting: three photographers, with different DSLRs, and three video shooters, all with a7X bodies. Three years ago it was all Canon, everywhere.
 
Yea same here, in recent year almost every canon body shooter switched to Sony (including myself too)
smaller shooter mostly on 6xxx bodies while bigger shooter is ofc on 7x bodies.
But for photographer here still dominated by Canon body (mostly they dont need to upgrade the body, many still using 5D classic/5D2)
 
Rectangular slabs (phones) have limited ergonomics for a camera.
Light field sensors (no traditional lenses) and computational camera systems will shrink the size to whatever the desired use case: hand held (pistol, glove-like, etc.), action (mount anywhere), etc.

New mixed reality eyewear is coming from Apple and others: won’t need traditional controls to control a camera or see what’s being recorded.

It’s already possible to control a camera with voice- “camera, set my custom cinema look and settings. Action!”. AI AC’s are coming. With lightfield + computational camera you can switch lenses via voice too: “camera, install Cooke anamorphic 35mm in full frame mode” etc.

Phones will have better cameras; they aren’t the future of cameras. Cameras will morph into IoT devices of all kinds (cameras needed for AI, not just image capture).
 
^ Out of all of that, the only thing I think is coming in the near term is the Apple mixed reality eyewear, and I'm definitely excited about it. I hate my iphone 8 (worst phone I've had in a decade) but love my airpods, I think Apple is horribly bad at evolving concepts* but is very good at coming with very usable first versions (vs lots of companies that bring out half-cooked products in the first gen of everything but then are good at developing them in later generations). I think they can succeed where the Google Glass failed.

* The "back" button in my iphone is in the absolutely worst possible place it could be. The only way it could be worse would be if I had to press a two-button combo to go back. That location made perfect sense in the very small iphone 4. In 2010.
 
It's not that a smartphone shape is perfect for a camera but that it's perfect for a portable computer with a screen that fits into a pocket. And everything flows from there.

PS. As phones only, the trend was to minimize size and that was achieved by the mid-late 1990's already. It's possible and, perhaps, even likely that folding/flexible screens will allow a multi-panel type miniature smartphone that could fit into a shirt pocket again.
 
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Last night, I was watching a YouTuber with his new A7RIV and a 200-600 out and about on a wild life shoot. "The AF is fantastic and 61 MPX is perfect for almost any crop in post", he said.

A9 II may have better connectivity but A7 RIV has its benefits too.
 
The first a9 didn't have S-Log2/3 either. I thought Sony would have at least added 60p in this one and make it like the 1DX Mark II (with 4K/60p and no LOG to offer some sort of cinema camera protection), but I guess they are saving it all for the a7SIII.

It's been mentioned in the past from Sony executives how are they still working on putting 60p into their cameras and I find this interesting because of two reasons:

(1) As amazing as technology is, do some major companies still have some technical adversities like managing heat at high resolution framerates based on their architecture in their current bodies?

(2) If not, who did the cartel agree with to not provide us 4K/60p in a mirrorless just yet? Panasonic?

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Skepticism about Keiretsu aside, Sony - a major player - has been loading up their mirrorless cameras since 2014.

Everything short of 10-bit, feature after feature, and still no 4K/60p...how fascinating is that?
 
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