I have been working on getting my Sony a6400 ready for use as a web camera.

First I tried using the 16mm f1.4 Sigma lens and its field of view was to wide for a web camera. I then tried my 16-55mm f3.5 kit lens with the aperture set to 30mm and it seemed to be great. Next I did some recordings testing the cameras internal mic and my Rode Wireless GO mic attached to my H1n recorder and with the GO attached to the camera with the amp on the camera set to 1. I have not viewed these yet to see which audio set up I prefer.

What I did not like about the kit lens set up is when I turned the camera off the lens would reset to 16mm and I would have to manually adjust back to 30mm every time I wanted to vlog.

Now the good part of the kit lens resetting. I turned the camera back on to vlog again and when setting the field of view I was not looking at the aperture setting, just the screen and the setting I liked the best ended up being 20mm and I have a 20mm f2.8 Sony pancake lens! I put this lens on the camera, added a 49 -82mm filter adapter and added my Tiffen variable ND filter. Set the camera to 30fps 4K and 1/60 shutter speed and it looks great! After I get the audio set the way I want I’ll take a picture of my set up.

Now, once all that is done I will start working with Zoom conferencing software.

Working from home is growing on me. I like going to bed later in the evening, and staying in bed as long as I want in the morning.

The government put together a massive package to help the population financially during this pandemic. The also asked the population to be safe, flatten the curve so to speak yet they are sending millions of Americans checks of up to 1200.00 to help them. Why not a debit card loaded with the funds? They are now going to send millions of people to the bank at roughly the same time! Social distancing my ass. Like I said, be smart and direct deposit or send debit cards.