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#Sony video camera recorder with flip up screen manual#
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The A6600 has just a single card slot, and worse, it only uses the UHS-I standard and not UHS-II with triple the speed. It works okay, but feels out-of-date compared to the 3.69-million dot, blackout-free EVF on Fujifilm's X-T3. Oh, and on top of all that, the A6600 is still pretty ugly, too.Īnother negative is the 2.36-million dot OLED electronic (EVF) viewfinder, which is also largely unchanged from the last model.

#Sony video camera recorder with flip up screen manual#

Given that, and the lack of manual controls, using the A6600 was frankly a frustrating experience - especially after I had such a good time with the well-designed A7R IV. Many functions are buried in the wrong menus, and require endless scrolling to find. The A6600's menu system is roughly the same as before, which is to say, not good. It's inexcusable for Sony to leave those things out on a flagship, $1,400 camera, especially when you can find them on all its competition. That means it still lacks a front shutter/aperture dial and a joystick control for focus. The A6600 has the same button and dial layout as before, bar some minor nip-and-tuck work.

Unfortunately, that's where the ergonomic improvements end. In that department, it beats its main rivals - the X-T3 (390 shots), Canon's M6 II (305 shots), the Panasonic GH5 (410 shots) and the Nikon Z 50 (300 shots) - by miles. You now get 810 shots on a charge, an incredible spec usually reserved for DSLRs. That grip not only makes it easier to grab and hold the camera, but also houses a much larger Z-series battery. The A6600's body is pretty similar to the previous model, except for one important detail: a much bigger grip. Can it can hold its own against its full-frame stablemates? Can it beat the X-T3?Ī lot of fans were hoping that Sony might reboot the A6500's rather plain, ergonomically-deficient body and go with something that looks more like the A7R III.

#Sony video camera recorder with flip up screen upgrade#

However, Sony did not upgrade the three-year old sensor. The A6600 has in-body stabilization, a key feature that its rivals lack, and packs other promising features like a bigger grip and battery, along with improvements to its famous AI-powered autofocus system. From a competition standpoint, Sony is also under pressure to top Fujifilm's X-T3, which has a higher-resolution sensor, more 4K video features and much better handling than the A6500. What's more, the A6600 arrived just after Sony's 61-megapixel A7R IV full-frame mirrorless camera - possibly the best camera I've ever seen. For a couple of years, nothing else on the market could touch it. First of all, it had to follow the A6500, launched in 2016 with innovative features like 4K 30 fps video, fast 11 fps shooting speeds, in-body stabilization and face- and eye-tracking. As Sony's new flagship APS-C camera, the 24.2-meagpixel A6600 has a lot to live up to.