Sony A6700 Review

The A6700 is the new flagship model in Sony’s range of APS-C sensor mirrorless cameras, positioned above the A6600 and below the A7C.

Sony have principally added a new sensor and processor, more advanced video recording and auto-focusing, and a refined design to try and make the A6700 the best cropped-sensor camera that they’ve ever produced.

The Sony A6700 uses the same 26 megapixel Exmor R backside-illuminated (BSI) CMOS sensor that was employed in the FX30 cinema camera, joined by the latest Bionz XR processor.

It has a native ISO range of 100-32,000, which can be pushed two stops further to ISO 204,800 and drop down to ISO 50 if required.

The A6700 can capture oversampled 4K video from 6K at up to 60p with no crop and also offers 4K/120p with a 1.62x crop. Video can be captured in 10-bit 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 in either H.265 or H.264 AVC files.

The Slow and Quick motion mode offers frame rates ranging from 1fps to 240fps at 1080p quality. It also has the ability to shoot the same video Picture Profiles as its full-frame A7-series bigger brothers and features both 3.5mm mic and headphone ports.

The Alpha A6700 has an auto-focus system with 759 phase-detection points and 25 contrast points that cover 93% of the frame, with the system working all the way down to -3EV low-light.

Furthermore, the Sony Alpha A6700 offers Real-time Recognition AF with AI-based subject recognition for humans, animals, birds, airplanes, cars, trains and insects.

The A6700 has a fully articulating, vari-angle 1.03-million dot LCD monitor with touchscreen operation and a 2.36million-dot XGA OLED electronic viewfinder.

It also offers 5-axis optical in-body image stabilisation rated worth up to 5 stops of compensation, 11fps burst shooting with continuous AF/AE tracking, live streaming support, Bluetooth and wi-fi connectivity and a single SD UHS-II memory card slot.

The Sony A6700 is available in black priced at £1450 / €1700 body only, £1550 / €1800 with the Sony E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS kit lens or £1800 / €2100 with the E 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 OSS zoom lens. It is made in China