{"id":37217,"date":"2016-10-06T22:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T22:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/?p=37217"},"modified":"2016-11-09T22:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:18:57","slug":"a6500rx100v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/a6500rx100v\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony unleash yet more cameras! The A6500 and 24 fps raw continuous shooting RX100 V"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sony are known for bringing out lots and lots of cameras. It seemed like every week a new camera came out, then on April 16th the Kumamoto Earthquake struck Japan which badly affected Sony\u2019s main sensor factory. They had issues making enough FS5s and FS7s to meet demand because of this. Now almost six months later, they are back on track\u2026<\/p>\n

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Only a week and a half ago I came back from the HUGE Photokina show in Germany where I was talking on the Sony stage each day about my filming career and my use of Sony cameras over the past few. \u00a0At the show, their only new camera was the Alpha mount A99 MKII. Whilst this was a beast of a camera, my lack of any Alpha mount lenses and the inability to put Canon or Nikon (and of course E mount glass) made it not that exciting for me.<\/p>\n

Well, today they fixed that lack of new Sony camera feeling by announcing two new cameras. A new flagship APS-C camera taking over from the its-only-been-out-for-five-minutes A6300 (which will still exist and continue to be sold), the incrementally monikered A6500, and the replacement for the RX100 IV which is also cleverly named the RX100 V!<\/p>\n

What have they done improvement-wise over their predecessors? Quite a lot, really.<\/p>\n

Let us start with the Sony A6500.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The A6300 is a really nice camera with a fatal flaw (in video mode) that should be improved massively by one of the key features of the A6500. The rolling shutter issues in video made handheld shooting on the A6300 impossible without an OIS lens. In fact, I bought a couple of E mount APS-C lenses with OIS because of this. That didn\u2019t fix the\u00a0skewing if you panned the camera fast enough or a double-decker bus went through your frame at 30 miles, but it removed the micro jitters and made handheld possible (but only with those lenses!). The super good news is that the A6500 has 5-axis internal stabilisation like the A7 II series of cameras. Whilst this doesn\u2019t fix slow sensor read out that causes rolling shutter issues, it will make handheld shooting possible with any lens, even without OIS. But that isn\u2019t the only good news. Sony have said the camera has a much faster sensor read out in 4K and HD. If this is the case, then this camera could become a must-have for many. I had problems recommending the A6300 because of that rolling shutter issue. I will need to test the A6500 myself to see, but let\u2019s be positive here!<\/p>\n

As I write this, I really should be trying to finish my mega-vlog video autofocus edit. It has become a bit of monster, but I am getting there. The A6300 competes against the Canon 1DX MKII\u00a0(amazing),\u00a0Sony A7RII (pretty good), A7SII (not so good), Panasonic GH4 (also not so good) and many others. The video autofocus of that camera is really good as it uses phase detection and it also tracks. One of the annoyances for me was that whilst the tracking worked well you couldn\u2019t tell it WHAT to track. The A6500 has a touch screen and touch focus. This will make a HUGE difference (I hope!)<\/p>\n

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Another new feature is the slow and quick mode that was introduced on the Sony A99 II.\u00a0In this mode, frame rates from 1 fps to 100fps can be selected in 8 steps for up to 50x quick motion and 4x slow motion recording. This will be proper over-crank, so once it is shot it will be slow motion without any need to conform in post. I don\u2019t know what the bitrate for this mode is, though.<\/p>\n