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best camea settings for Sony A6000
today we'll talk about the best settings of this camera
with the help of today's video
you'll be able to achive better results with your alpha 6000
apart from that i'll also tell you secrete tricks 
which are not common & will further improve your results
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one more thing
incase you own a later models e.g. A6300, A6500 etc
these tricks/settings will work on all these models too
it is possible that you might find it in different page 
since newer models have diffrent menu system
but if you look carefully, you will find all these settings
in this Instagram erra, people love filters
for example..miniature effect
or high contrast black white look 
or paint effect
or selective coloring effect
you will get all these filters in-built in your A6000
& some of them can be used with videos as well
so lets see where we can find these filters
these filters are known as "picture effect"
to access them, we'll go to camera menu
then we'll go to 4th page & click on the last option
once you are inn, you will find lot of filters
e.g. minieature effect, soft light, high key etc
you can experiment with them & create a unique result
isn't it great :)
how many of you know that a sony alpha camera..
can literally memorize your face !
how does it helps ?
well once you register your face with it
your camera will be able to track your face
even if you move across the frame
if you are in a group, it will find you & focus on your face
ignoring everyone else
its a magic guys :)
to enable this feature
first we'll go to camera menu & go to 2nd catagory
which represents by a gear icon
we will click on it & then we will go to 5th page 
there you'll see the first option "face registration"
we'll click on it & click on New Registration
a square box will appear on the screen
you frame your or your subject face insdie the box
and take a photo...
camera will ask for comfirmation...
here you will click on "enter" & you are done
congratulations your face has been register 
now you camera will detect & track your face easily
next trick is my personal favrouit
becasue its related to camera flash
no matter how hard we try to avoid it
but we get into a situation where we are 
forced to use camera's built-in flash
because of bad lighting
& an on camera flash always made us look bad
it makes everything white & bright
however sony A6000 has a little trick 
which can save us
flash head of this camera is design in such a way
that we can easily tilt it with just one finger
& now you can bounce the flash from any surface
as here you can see, i am using a straight flash
you can see how bad is the result
now without making any change
in the camera setting, I'll take another photo
but this time I'll tilt the flash head 
and bounce off the ceilling
& you can see the difference in the photo now
not only from ceilling but
we can bounce off the wall
& can get a different effect
which offcourse is better then an on camera flash
in some places you might find
ceilling too high or wall too far
in these senerio
you can increase the power of your flash
so it can travel farther & can bounce off easily
so to access the flash power settings
we'll go to camera menu under first catagory
then we'll go to 2nd page & click on "Flash Comp."
here you can adjust the flash power
thorugh camera scroll wheel
0 is the default setting, 
+ value means increase in flash power
- value means decrease in flash power
thats how you can control your flash power settings
& you can make some amazing photos with 
camera's built-in flash
how many of you like google pixel's camera ?
how many of you like enhance HDR or HDR+ feature..  
of google pixel camera ?
in sony A6000 there is a feature
which gives us a similar sort of look
that is called DRO or Dynamic Range Optimizer
this feature brighten up the shadows
which makes our photos more bright & vibrant
to enable this feature, we will go to menu
then go to first catagory & 4th page
here you will see the 4th option which says 
DRO/Auto HDR
we will click on it & enable it
here you will go to AUTO DRO option
& set the desired intensity using scroll wheel
there are multiple levels
greater the number stronger would be the effect
so how many times you have faced this situation
that you're shooting in an indoor location
& your camera settings are set accordingly
& suddenly you have to move out to take a shot
You click the picture without changing your settings
& you get extreme over exposed photo
& you miss that moment because of camer settings
to tackle this, there is a feature in our camera
which can helps us in avoiding such misses
by automatically adjust the exposure
as per the available light in the environment
which means if we are shooting in dark
camera will componset by pumping up the exposure
& if we move to a brightly lit area 
it'll automatically bring down the exposure for you
so you can just focus on photo taking
& all these exposure changes, would happen
smoothly & cinematically
this feature called Auto ISO
to access auto-iso, we will go to camera menu
we will go under first catagory (camera icon)
& then we will move to 4th page
on the 4th page, the first option is ISO
click on it & choose AUTO option
you can access the same settings through a shortcut
if you push the scroll wheel
towards the right, where ISO is written
this is your shortcut to access ISO settings
once you're inside the ISO menu
go to the auto option & then click the scroll wheel
towards the right
now here you will define the minimum
& maximum ISO value as per your need
in this case i am using 
minimum ISO100 & maximum ISO3200
& then click on ok...and now you are all set
now your camera will make automatic
exposure adjustment
using the ISO values define by you
what if I tell you that you can double 
the focal length of any lens with sony alpha camera
that too without any quality degradation
just imagin, our kit lens, which is 16-50mm
would become a 16-100mm
incase you own a 55-210mm lens
imagin that'll become 55-420mm !!
perfect for wildlife photography
this feature is known as clearimage zoom
its a kind of digital zoom
which provides better result as compare to
conventional digital zooms
befor you rush on it, let me clear one thing
it will only work for JPEG images & not with RAW
if you are shooting in RAW
you wont be able to use this feature
to enable clearImage zoom
we'll go to camera menue & its 2nd catagory
which represents by a gear icon
then we'll go to page 3
where you'll see 2nd option is Zoom Setting
click on it & select the ClearImage Zoom
and you are done, when you'll zoom your lens
first it will use optical zoom & onec the optical
zoom is finished, clearimage zoom will kick in
which is another 2 X zoom
if you ask any portrait photographer
how would he/she evaluate if the focus is good or not
they'll tell you that
if subject's eyes are in focus
they'll consider it as a good focus
to tackle this, sony invented "Eye-Autofocus" feature
this helps in finding the subject's eyes
by just push of a button
& camera automatically find & focuses..
on subject's eye
to enable this feature is a bit tricky
because its not available in the main manu
lets go and see how to enable eyeautofocus function
first we'll go to camera menu
then we'll go under 2nd catagory, 6th page
there you'll see the 2nd option called..
"custome key settings"
we will click on it
this feature require to mapped through custome key
i am choosing custome button 2 (C2) 
once you click on the custome button, you'll get a list
choose the Eye AF option from the list & click ok
& now you can use eye AF by pressing the assign custome key
almost every camera manufacturer put
some kind of picture profile in their camera's
sony is not different & they called them creative styles
how are not aware of these creative styles
they keep shooting their stuff using the default style
which is not suitable for all the different senerios
there are numerous different styles available
which might be more suitable then using a default profile
to access these creative styles, go to menu
under first catagory, first page, 5th option
which says "Creative Style"
once you click on it
you'll see different types of creative styles
like.. vivid, nutural, standard, black&white etc
you can also tweak the individual parameters
of each style, by pushing scroll wheel to the right
then you can adjust the parameters like
contrast, saturation, sharpness..as per your taste
I would recommend you to experiment
with different styles & create unique results
this should be the first piece of advice 
I should have given you...
but late is better then never 
to get the best image quality out of your camera
please check & verify the following settings 
we'll go to camera menu, 1st catagory, 1st page
& click on the 1st option, which is "image Size"
& make sure you select first option which is
L:24M
if you want the highest resolution photo avoid 
using 6megapixle or 12 megapixel options
then on the same page, go to the 3rd option
that is quality
if you want to shoot hight quality JPEG
then select the option 3rd option "Fine"
if you perfer to shoot RAW, then you can pick
any of the above, since RAW is the best quality
one more thing guys, I get many comments here
as well as on my Instagram account
& they complaint about getting low quality compress photos
images which are not even 1MB in size
although they have selected the 24MPX option
in all these cases I have noticed
that people are using mobile app to transfer the photo
by default mobile app transfer 2MPX photo 
which is offcourse a low res, low quality image
to achive the faster data transfer rate thorugh NFC or WiFi
however you can change this by going in
the app settings, & change the photo resolution
to original
or you can transfer your photos using SD card
as we all know that sony a6000
doesn't do good in battery department
so here i would like to give you a tip
which might help you in preserving some  
some battery power
if we go in menu, go under 3rd catagory
which represents by a WiFi type icon
if you go on the 1st page, there you will see 
the 2nd last option "Airplane Mode"
mostly you will find this turned off
what this does is, it kept your NFC & WiFi band open
thus keep consuming your camera battery
so we will switch it ON 
so that it shuts down the WiFi & NFC band
which helps in preserving more battery
sony keep pushing the new firmware update
to add some new features & kill some bugs
so its highly recommended to keep your
camera firmware upto date
you can check your current camera firmware version
go to menu & under the last catagory..
which represents by a suitcase icon
under it you go to 6th page
& click on the 2nd option which says "verison"
& it'll show you the current camera firmware version
next you go to sony alpha site, find your model
& see whats the lastest version they are supporting
if you find any update there
just download & install it
if you dont know how to do that
then click on this link & watch this detailed video
i have mentioned step by step process
of camera firmware upgrade for sony as well as cannon
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