Shopping for a $700 mid-range mirrorless camera
I’m in the market for a $700ish mid-range mirrorless camera. I’ve been working on a pros and cons list in my head and thought I’d get a blog post out about it.
Things I’m looking for (in no particular order):
- WiFi (I lied above, this is #1)
- iPhone App for accessing photos and remote control (#2)
- Good for shooting sports (water polo and swimming)
- Bracketing
- Timelapse (I watch a lot of Casey Neistat’s stuff and envy his ability to do great time lapses)
- 4k video (would be nice, not a requirement)
- Selfie-able display (the tilt up and down only ones seem lame)
- Lightweight
- Decent low light shooting
What I started looking at before I decided on a Mirrorless was a Canon EOS Rebel T6i Digital SLR with EF-S 18-55mm IS STM Lens from Amazon for $849 (and at Costco for $999 in a big kit). I finally just decided that I want something mirrorless and started my search.
What I’ve been looking at:
- Panasonic DMC-G7KS Digital Single Lens Mirrorless Camera 14-42 mm Lens Kit, 4K
- +Mirrorless
- ~16MP CMOS
- Four Thirds sensor
- +Articulating Display
- +WiFi
- +Extract 4k photo from video
- +Lightweight rubberized plastic but with a DSLR look
- -Not weatherproof
- $797 on Amazon
https://youtu.be/UnhE-ARYLzk?t=747
Timelapse test
- Sony Alpha A6000
- Mirrorless
- Great selection of lenses from Sony (or use an adapter)
- 11fps shooting
- Clean images up to ISO 1600 in low light
- 12 ounces
- 24.3 Megapixels
- WiFi
- No articulating display only up and down tilt
- $689 for a 16-50mm lens on Amazon
- Olympus OM-D E-M1
- A few friends have this one and love it.
- Weatherproof
- WiFi
- Articulating display
- Body only – New for $999 used for $699 on Amazon (May be too rich for my blood once I add in a lens)
- Nikon 1 J5 Mirrorless Digital Camera w/ 10-100mm Lens (Silver)
- 60fps? Wow..
- Tilty only display no articulation
- Classic look
- WiFi
- $646.95 on Amazon
Panasonic DMC-G7KS it most likely the one I’ll end up with, what do you think?
