How to shoot in low light with Sony a7 a6000 - a6300 series cameras! Tutorial

This is an updated video to the last video about shooting in low light with af. This time its a Sony lens instead of Sigma. How to shoot in manual mode and Aperture mode.

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[AttackKnob]

Man, not only am I new to the a6300 and mirrorless, I'm pretty new to photography in general lol, this video helped a ton. I appreciate you taking the time to make it.

[nadajonesvideo]

I borrowed all your other settings, each screen, paused, set it up, moved on. Thanks. Well done. I was using a Sony 3.5-5.6/16-50 Optical Steady Shot so no f.2.0 for me. but I got some of my fave lowlight shots ever. I haven't tried the video yet. I subscribed, and am looking forward to learning more. I want to move into 4k video Sony Alpha camera.

[DHIEnterprises]

Turning off smile and face detection was a GREAT tip... I kept wondering why the damned thing kept hunting!

[VidsR]

This is fabulous! I wish I had seen this and studied my menu settings yesterday before I shot pics at a night time party! 😁 but never too late to learn!! Thank you!

[GrandmasterBBC]

That is very informative stuff. I'm always looking for good tips on using my a6000. That was a lot of information.. I might have to watch that a couple more times. Thanks!

[slam]

Finally, I got a video that gives me practical step by step instructions to shoot in low light. Not too technical. Thank you so much!

[KimAswani]

Thank you, got me started as I had issues getting focus on the subject for some of my long exposure shots.

[vm]

There are only these settings that actually matter and determine how the focusing is done, all the rest you show in both videos is a a load of guessing and changes that have no effect. Continuous AF vs Single AF changes the way the camera focuses, using what type and how fast, continuous is faster in sensible light conditions but AF illumination doesn't work with it, single AF is the only way to go in very low light conditions if you want to focus on an object that the AF illumination could hit, it's close object or you want more accurate AF at the cost of a little bit of speed as continuous AF is not as precise. Second how big focus area do you want, wide/zone or center/spot will determine on what the camera will be trying to focus, depends what you are shooting. The rest of the camera settings make no difference except preAF can if stationary for some time pre autofocus beforehand making focus in user request faster. You don't need to be in RAW or change anything else. Effect preview ON is fine and even at -2.0 eV you can see the image on display in low light conditions and what you will get as the photo, where as effect OFF can be useful if you are shooting with external flash etc. meaning the camera doesn't know how to compensate the image with show effect ON. Of course if you are not in need of face detect and AF lock on then turn them off but you can definitely use them even in low light if you wish and deal with their impact on focusing behavior. Overall set it to continuous mode, turn illumination on and you can blast in any conditions because the main center button by default works as single AF while your main shutter button as continuous AF. For normal use though auto AF may be better so that Eye focus can be used and if needed it will automatically switch to continuous such as for burst shooting. It's a shame one has to switch the camera between single and continuous AF for eye AF, lock on AF and low light conditions. Continuous is nice but can hunt depending on what you're shooting especially with face detect or lock on AF.

Summary: turn on continuous AF, turn off everything else you don't need, use central button for single AF with illumination when cont. AF fails in very low light, at worst press C1 to switch to manual focus and do it the old way.

[zgarrow]

A much easier way is just to turn the "Live View Display" setting to OFF. Yes, it will be like a more traditional DSLR but that it is much quicker to turn on and off for low light rather than all these settings.

[chryseluna]

Thank you so much, this has helped me tremendously, as I have just purchased an A7, whilst my little handbook has educated me a wee bit, it pales in comparison to visual footage, again thanks, big thumbs up!!

[JanleeBR]

Sup man. good vid, do you have anything for someone who just got this same cam but has no idea what they are doing?
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[makocola]

Thank you! This is very useful.
Now I would like to ask you to teach us to take night pictures of the city lights. I get this blury lights :(

[kellycap]

Are all of these tips also relevant to using video or is this just for taking still pictures? I'm finding that most of my videos are coming out very dark even when I have great lighting

[Moonshine.]

Thats good for shooting in a club, or a concert. Awesome vid

[jerroldedwards]

I have experimenting with B/W low light photos with some luck. I just bought the Sony a6000. Will these setting work for B/W photos on the a6000?

[brod]

I'm trying to video shoot my blacklight room with this exact camera, any different types of settings would you do for uv blacklights?

[michaelscaplis]

Something to test tonight. Will need to make some notes. Would've been useful if you could store these kinds of settings as a preset/favorite to easily switch between modes.

[pracquet]

Good demonstration..
I particularly liked the use of EC to adjust shutter speed in Aperture priority.
Well done.

[seann-yves]

Very informative. Can we get a review on how preserve a6000 battery life. Its an awesome camera but its battery!!! In less than half hour battery done..

[Stampajoey]

very good demo for low light. short and to the point. thanks