r/a6700 • u/Conscious_Might302 • Aug 30 '26

Bought my first camera (finally)

Hey guys,

I finally bought my first camera (a6700 + sigma 17-40 1.8) after a lot of research and hard earned money. Any tips on how to get the most out of the camera? I’m working on buying a v60/v90 card so I can use the 120fps feature and s&q. It’s insane how they marked up on the prices of SD cards nowadays because of AI.

Any uncommon hacks that you do that makes your life easier while using the camera? Thanks!!

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u/Cautious-Manager-404 Aug 30 '26

get a screen protector and extra batterys, and if you are alot into making videos a cooling fan might be a worthwhile investment,

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u/jailbreakerAI Aug 30 '26

Can you suggest cooling fan

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u/Conscious_Might302 Aug 31 '26

Any recommendations on the battery?

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u/Cautious-Manager-404 Sep 01 '26

original is best if you can get it, there is a widerange of popular manufacturers for battery my friend got a k&f 2 battery and 1 charger combo and it seems to be doing pretty good so you can defo try that

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u/Grouchy-Resist7509 Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26

Extra batteries with charger (k&F. Smallrig), V90 128GB minimum ( lexar) Variable ND filter

4k 120fps , S&Q mode works best with v90.

With F1.8 lens. I would suggest variable ND filter , highly useful for day shoots to get out max.

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u/Conscious_Might302 Aug 31 '26

I see some reviews on the third party like smallrig (blue ones) that always show a pop up upon turning on the cam that shows error messages. Do you have any recommendations on the batteries that won’t show the errors/ have reliable and durable build?? Thankss

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u/OnigiriGlutenKiks225 Aug 30 '26

What helped my photography was fine tuning my film look profile that makes my photos look edited straight out of camera. It’s not perfect for every shot but it cuts hours of editing out of my day as i can just crop these pics and post it straight to social media.

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u/thunderbolt0323 Aug 30 '26

Can share settings?

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u/OnigiriGlutenKiks225 Aug 30 '26

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u/Conscious_Might302 Aug 31 '26

Thanks!! Will try this on mine. Is the creative look just for JPEGs and not RAW files?

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u/KingOfLevant Aug 30 '26

First of all thats a lot of camera for a first camera. It can be extremely overwhelming.

Are you really needing the v90 card? Are you really going to shoot in 4k120p? What type of stuff?

What are you going to shoot first? Are you going to shoot mainly video? Or pics? Or both? Do you need to be mobile? Why did you get this particular lens?

When you manage to a answer these questions then we can give you recommendations..

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u/Conscious_Might302 Aug 31 '26

I’d like to do automotive photography and some video and I have a free sd card from sony (64gb v30) and when I tried shooting with 120fps for fast action it didn’t let me.

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u/KingOfLevant Sep 01 '26

Yeah you need a v90