Sony Alpha 6400 | APS-C Mirrorless Camera with Sony 18-135 mm f/3.5-5.6 Zoom Lens

I've been watching reviews and comparisons about mirrorless apsc cameras for months before settling on the Sony a6400 and i have to say I've got no regrets. It's everything i wanted and so much more. The lense it comes with (18-135mm) is also superb with fast silent auto focus, great reach and built-in image stabiliser.

I bought before the sony alpha for vlogs but I changed my camera to this one. What a change, really good camera. I’m happy with it

This camera has been a revelation to me. Having worked with the Nikon 1 system (V1 and V2) I had already learned to enjoy the compactness and light weight of a mirrorless camera. But a lot of progress has been made in the decade since I bought my Nikon V2 and associated glassware, and Nikon seem to have abandoned the top-end of the 1 system at their V3 (for which I anyway refused to pay the extra price of an "optional" EVF).PRO: 1. enormously versatile body with a large range of lenses. I also bought two prime lenses: the Sony 50mm (FF 75mm) 1.8 and a 12mm (FF 18mm) Samyang manual focus lens. The camera is nicely balanced and /handles/ beautifully with all three -- though my kit lens (18-135) is quite large by the standards of the Nikon glass I was used to.2. Easy to customise (if you must), but the (several) custom buttons are already allocated to very sensible functions.3. A large number of well thought-out modes: including the usual PASM (P mode feedback in the display is very helpful) as well as Panorama, High-dynamic-range (SCN).4. Bluetooth linkable to my phone to get GPS data, and to control the camera remotely. The menu system that controls this is a tad complex unless you already know what you are doing, but it only takes getting it right once to know what you are doing.5. Wifi link to upload images (unexplored as yet: I use the fast USB connection)6. The images are ... just great. I use RAW+JPEG, and the on-camera processing for the JPEG is virtually instantaneous. With a decent speed SD card you don't notice the processing or the write time.7. Charges in a couple of hours or less via the USB port; and a good power supply is provided. If you run out of charge you can also power the camera from the mains via this USB supply, or from a phone-style portable power supply. I also bought a couple of after-market batteries and an external charge-adapter for a tiny proportion of the cost of the camera, and I haven't investigated whether you can charge and run at the same time.--CONS: (not dealbreakers)1. Sony imaging software is not very versatile or very good (Nikon's is much better) so I have had to take to Lightroom, because A6400 is not known to OS/X Photo program on versions of OS/X before the most recent one (even though A6300 and A6500 are) . Arguably this is a gripe about Apple not retroproviding updates to basic software and forcing one to update to their bleeding edge (which I won't).2. Sony's layout of the "image database" on the SD card is a tad idiosyncratic; and initialising it with the camera (the only way) forces an SD volume name of "NONAME" -- tough if you use more than one SD card and don't know how to rename the volume . And don't you DARE try to delete images on the camera from your computer. The (spurious) advantage of being able to recover photos you accidentally delete on the camera itself is more than offset by the inconvenience of not being able to treat a mounted SD card as a straightforward part of your filestore.3. Deleting images after importing them /has/ to be done on the camera. This can be tedious if you have taken images over several days.... 3 or 4 button presses per day. Simply reformatting the SD card does it faster; but at the cost of putting up with it renaming the volume to NONAME. Stupid.I'll add some pictures in due course.

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I love this camera, it's so small and light and easy to use and yet it has so much capability. I'm really impressed with the images I get, It has become my number 1 camera.

Great camera no need to spend any more great image quality good size and easy to use use it regularly recommended

My last mirrorless camera was an Olympus, this is so much better and the quality of the images and the feel of the camera way out performs the Olympus OM-D II that I owned before.I was slightly hesitant with so many options but I am really happy with the Sony A6400 and the lens. It feel good in the hand and takes a great image.

Before I go any further, I want to let you know that I am a complete beginner. All my current knowledge comes from 1 month of heavy researching camera reviews, etc. So if you are interested in a newbie’s perspective, here you have it:I initially wanted to get the Canon M50, since it was more user/beginner friendly, but i never liked how the faces were all too smoothed out in every single video. That was for me a deal-breaker and I turned my attention ( and budget) to Sony A6400. In my mind it was a little bit hard to justify spending £1000 just on the camera alone, but now that I have got it .... it goes beyond words. This thing is way sharper in pitch black with just the laptop’s monitor on my face than Canon is broad daylight. I mean ... I just looked at the footage and a genuine WOW came out of my mouth.In regards to Sony’s proverbial complicated menu (as opposed to Canon’s) I will say this: it’s not as bad and complicated as some reviewers make you think. The fact that it has “my menu” feature is game changing and helps me a ton as a beginner, since I will always have the most important settings right at my fingertips.If you want to use it as a webcam as well, you do not need the ElGato Cam Link necessarely. All you have to do is install Sony Remote App onto your computer and then add that Window Capture into OBS. The only downside is that you have to have the remote app maximized in order to ger the footage in OBS. It doesnt have to be on top, but it has to be up and not minimized on the taskbar.Video and photo quality is just insane, with loads of features as you already know. What makes me happy is that changing from one mode to another is really easy and once tou get the hang of how the dials work in each mode .... you are good to go (it took me about 4-5 hours as a complete beginner who just got his first ever camera).Battery life is okay, i managed to keep it up for 4-5 hours of intensive use (menus, settings, video recording on and off, loads of photos). If you are planing a full day’s use, then get 2 more batteries, just to be on the safe side (if you are doing a lot of video). I have shot 38 minutes of 4k video in a quite hot ambient and this thing was just mildly warm, so definetely no overheating issues.In the end I will say this: if you can afford it, get it with no second thoughts. You can use it to produce amazing content, learn both photography and videography and grow into it. Kit lens is more than fine, Since it has a decent apperture and some reach / focal lenght to it, so it’s ideal to start learning with.