Hello peoples! I recently acquired a Sony A6400. Now I didn’t get it for stills, I got it mainly to start practicing video as I’m majoring in film.
Video I haven’t messed around with it all that much, but I’m pretty pleased with the results so far.
Stills tho…… I’m super disappointed. I think it has to do with that it has an EVF. I get EVFs have a lot of advantages, but those come at the expense of the user experience.
I was shooting some landscape just now, and the flip up screen is cool and all, but I COULDNT SEE MY SCENE. Like I had no idea what was actually in my shadows, and it was not conducive for taking good pictures.
Eye af and all the info is cool, but idk… I just don’t like EVFS for stills.
D700 raw files were so good I literally just shot in matrix metering mode and just recovered whatever shadow detail I needed in post. There was rarely a time I needed to exposure comp.
Made composing really easy since the VF was crystal clear and I could trust my meter to get me good results setting me up for a post edit. I get that’s possible on a mirrorless cam but the difference is, there’s no OVF. Having to bump exposure to see my shadow detail is just so uncanny lol. But I guess I’ll get used to it.
Try turning DRO on. It won’t do anything to the RAW files but it will brighten up the shadows in the viewfinder a bit.