A6300?

Swandog7

Swandog7

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What's up camera gods. I'm trying to get into more "serious" photos and videos and would be in a great setting when I go off to college next year. I'm not an expert in cameras, but have a decent idea what I'm doing. I was thinking of getting an a6300 that I could keep for a couple years and help me progress my knowledge and still have a quality camera. What do you guys think? Been finding them new for $899 body or right around there, and would add a lens or two. Other suggestions, comments, thoughts?
 
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What's up camera gods. I'm trying to get into more "serious" photos and videos and would be in a great setting when I go off to college next year. I'm not an expert in cameras, but have a decent idea what I'm doing. I was thinking of getting an a6300 that I could keep for a couple years and help me progress my knowledge and still have a quality camera. What do you guys think? Been finding them new for $899 body or right around there, and would add a lens or two. Other suggestions, comments, thoughts?
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Figured I would add I will be using this a lot for photos outsides, as well as some pics skiing, tripod setups, etc. Some video too. Will be more for personal use besides maybe passing it around at PC or something every now and then.
 
i think the a6300 is a phenomenal camera and that this would be a solid purchase for you. i'd make sure you get a couple extra batteries and a decent tripod if you dont have one already.
 
I love my a6000, not much difference between the two except video quality (I think). I had an a65 that I sold and also have an a99. I love them all. The a99 is kinda big and overkill so I got the a6000 for traveling, ski, and surf pics. Can get decent housings for cheap for scuba and surf videos/pics in the water. I'd add some pics, but idk how on mobile.
 
Think I might pull up on a A6000 this week sometime. Anyone else got some last minute advice, recommendations , testimony, etc?
 
13800801:Swandog7 said:
Think I might pull up on a A6000 this week sometime. Anyone else got some last minute advice, recommendations , testimony, etc?
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Settled on the A6000 with a 15-50 and a 55-210, going to pick it up next week. Super stoked!
 
13803834:Swandog7 said:
Settled on the A6000 with a 15-50 and a 55-210, going to pick it up next week. Super stoked!
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You're gonna love it. The a6300 is dope af and if you ever want to shoot video its perfect. You can upscale the 1080 to 4k in premiere and it still looks crispy. Be careful with the rolling shutter tho
 
13804427:eheath said:
huh?
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You can upscale the video you shot at 1920x1080p at 120 fps to 3840x2190 at 120 fps and the video will still look great. Normally when up scaling lower resolution video, on most cameras it either looks like the native resolution you shot at, or it will look worse. Check out YCI Imaging on youtube, He upscales most of the music videos he shoots in 1080p and they all look amazingly sharp still.
 
13804518:Goonsquad_Prod. said:
You can upscale the video you shot at 1920x1080p at 120 fps to 3840x2190 at 120 fps and the video will still look great. Normally when up scaling lower resolution video, on most cameras it either looks like the native resolution you shot at, or it will look worse. Check out YCI Imaging on youtube, He upscales most of the music videos he shoots in 1080p and they all look amazingly sharp still.
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I don't believe this, at all. Upscaling is not an option to 4k. 720p to 1080p, sure, but you're taking something and stretching it to something 300% bigger. Also, you can't say its sharp at 4k unless you have a large 4k monitor, 15" mbp doesn't count.
 
13804549:eheath said:
I don't believe this, at all. Upscaling is not an option to 4k. 720p to 1080p, sure, but you're taking something and stretching it to something 300% bigger. Also, you can't say its sharp at 4k unless you have a large 4k monitor, 15" mbp doesn't count.
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Yeah, true. Upscaling high mbps 1080p video to 4k does end up looking a little bit better than just 1080p though, its not an insane amount better, but I'd say its a little bit better. I've done it shooting at 1080p 60 @ 200mbps on my GH4 to fit a little bit of slo mo video into a video that I mostly shot in 4K, and you can't really tell the difference between the 1080 @ 200mbps and the 4K unless you really pixel peep, or have a 4K monitor. I guess what I was trying to say is upscaling to 4K is nice if you shot 90% of a video in 4K, but had to go back down to 1080p for some parts to get slo mo, since the a6300 and GH4 can only shoot 4K natively up to 30fps.
 
13804553:Goonsquad_Prod. said:
Yeah, true. Upscaling high mbps 1080p video to 4k does end up looking a little bit better than just 1080p though, its not an insane amount better, but I'd say its a little bit better. I've done it shooting at 1080p 60 @ 200mbps on my GH4 to fit a little bit of slo mo video into a video that I mostly shot in 4K, and you can't really tell the difference between the 1080 @ 200mbps and the 4K unless you really pixel peep, or have a 4K monitor. I guess what I was trying to say is upscaling to 4K is nice if you shot 90% of a video in 4K, but had to go back down to 1080p for some parts to get slo mo, since the a6300 and GH4 can only shoot 4K natively up to 30fps.
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Yeah if you're never going to view the video on a 4k screen, you probably cant tell and at that point you might as well downres everything to 1080p. Unless you're poppin out $1k for a 4k TV thats a decent size or rocking a $800 4k monitor thats at least 30" you cant really tell. So in the end, 4k delivery is still not here, not worth stretching pixels IMO, but I would bet in the next year or two we will see an explosion of 4k monitors and TVs in houses.
 
13804555:eheath said:
Yeah if you're never going to view the video on a 4k screen, you probably cant tell and at that point you might as well downres everything to 1080p. Unless you're poppin out $1k for a 4k TV thats a decent size or rocking a $800 4k monitor thats at least 30" you cant really tell. So in the end, 4k delivery is still not here, not worth stretching pixels IMO, but I would bet in the next year or two we will see an explosion of 4k monitors and TVs in houses.
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Exactly. I still shoot 4k a little bit because of the ability to adjust framing in post and crop in, and still have the video look great. Sometimes I still export in 4K because my shitty computer takes longer to downres the 4k into 1080 than it does just exporting the 4k files. I shot a 3.5 minute music video for someone in 4k and it took 40 minutes to export in 4k, and 2 hours to downscale the same video and export in 1080. From now on I'm only going to shoot 4k if I absolutely have to, or if I upgrade my processor anytime soon
 
Brought it home today. Still gotta look for a glide cam, tripod, mic, and some more accessories in the future
 
13806082:Swandog7 said:
Brought it home today. Still gotta look for a glide cam, tripod, mic, and some more accessories in the future
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Yeah same here, along with a remote so I can do long exposure shots over 30 sec... too bad it's lots of $$$$$$ I can't throw at a hobby yet :/ life and adulting and shit
 
13806082:Swandog7 said:
Brought it home today. Still gotta look for a glide cam, tripod, mic, and some more accessories in the future
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What tripod are you looking at getting?
 
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