Sony A6000

Very good camera, make sure there are lenses that work for you. APSC E mount is pretty well catered for these days.
 
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it is the mutts nuts, i love mine -)
I pretty much consider it a compact version of the D7100/7200 with blisteringly fast af and great colours
just get one , you will not be disapointed
 
I keep looking at these and they seem to be very well priced but one thing that puts me off is the max shutter speed of 1/4000 sec which would mean using ND's if shooting at wide apertures in good light.

This issues used to irritate my intensely with my Panasonic G1 but these days I'm much happier with my GX7 which will go to 1/8000 and so far I've been able to shoot at any aperture I want even in sunny Asia.

1/4000 sec is wonderful if you shoot at f8 all day but if you are tempted to shoot at wider than f2.8 even in the cloudy and dimly lit UK that can cause problems and necessitate the use of ND's.
 
Just bought one with the kit lens. Despite indifferent reviews the kit lens is fine for general photography and the odd macro or wide angle. Looking at getting a 105 ish macro and adaptor for e mount as there is only a 30mm macro in the Sony range. But I'll take my time with the lenses. The camera itself is just so nice to hold, takes lovely coloured shots and is simple to use. You will not be diappointed
 
I moved from a d90 to a6000 so a huge leap in terms of technology and love it. The native lens range is getting better by the day and there's always the fun of legacy lens.
 
dave-nikon1958 said:
Well no bad reports yet then. Keep them coming. Cheers :ty:
Woof woof: See what your saying, but I would only need it for general photos, I still have my Nikon D700 for specialist work.
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It looks like a very attractive system, small RFstyle bodies with a good APS-C chip and from many reports good and fast focusing. As I said I've looked at this system a few times a s a replacement for my MFT kit and I have to say that they're very tempting and the only nit I can pick with it at the moment is just that one issue and for anyone shooting at (maybe) f2.8 to f4 and smaller it wont be an issue at all.
 
topgazza said:
Just bought one with the kit lens. Despite indifferent reviews the kit lens is fine for general photography and the odd macro or wide angle. Looking at getting a 105 ish macro and adaptor for e mount as there is only a 30mm macro in the Sony range. But I'll take my time with the lenses. The camera itself is just so nice to hold, takes lovely coloured shots and is simple to use. You will not be diappointed
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If you can do manual focus samyang/rokinon released a 100mm macro in e mount recently.
 
Love mine. As Hogboy says, feels like a compact Nikon D7xxx. I find myself taking mine out unless I have a specific reason for using my slr.
 
Brazo said:
If you can do manual focus samyang/rokinon released a 100mm macro in e mount recently.
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its a slr lens so its probably a canon mount one with adapter glued on which they did for older models. so buy it in slr mount, then get a adapter, gives you alot of flexibility vs total lock in
 
Recently brought the a6000 .... FANTASTIC piece of kit, image quality is first class (and I use a Canon 1DX so know the difference) :plus1:
also purchased the Sony 70-200mm F4 G OSS SEL70200G FE lens ...... AMAZING lens
Wont be selling the Canon gear but as a go to/walk about camera the a6000 is the dogs dangly bits
BUY ONE YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED √√√√√√√√√√√

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tman said:
Recently brought the a6000 .... FANTASTIC piece of kit, image quality is first class (and I use a Canon 1DX so know the difference) :plus1:
also purchased the Sony 70-200mm F4 G OSS SEL70200G FE lens ...... AMAZING lens
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How is the AF speed?

I have been seriously thinking about pairing up a A6000 with the 70-400mm SSM II for airshows.
 
Mike.P said:
How is the AF speed?

I have been seriously thinking about pairing up a A6000 with the 70-400mm SSM II for airshows.
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Thats an A mount lens, so depends on which adapter you use. Native e mount lenses are fast though.
 
I got my a6000 in Dec as a take to work and back camera, i was getting fed up taking my Canon 5Dmkiii everywhere with me, but quite often not using it.
I have hardly touched my 5Dmkiii since, and in fact im planing on selling the 5D by the end of the year. Im not saying the a6000 is better, but its more than good enough for most things, and i have a lot more fun with it.

Its great that i can use all my Canon lenses on it, this has helped with the transition between systems, although i tend to use the E mount lenses most.
 
dave_bass5 said:
Its great that i can use all my Canon lenses on it, this has helped with the transition between systems, although i tend to use the E mount lenses most.
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Hi Dave. Your Canon lenses, have they got auto focus etc with the converter because with Nikon lenses you don't get all the functions. Had a very quick look at your flickr site, impressive.
 
Hi Dave (great name by the way :).
Thanks for the compliment. Most of the newer ones are with the Sony, I'm very impressed with it.
Yes, all my Canon lenses are fully functional, although AF can be very, very slow. I find in good daylight AF is useable but most of the time I just use MF.
With the a6000 MF is much easier to do, due to the focus peaking and Focus magnification.
 
Something to bear in mind is peaking isnt entirely accurate, with fast lenses its very inaccurate. Magnify is the best option in my experience.
 
twist said:
Something to bear in mind is peaking isnt entirely accurate, with fast lenses its very inaccurate. Magnify is the best option in my experience.
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I find the opposite, at wide apertures I find peaking fantastic as only a small is shimmering whereas when you stop down most of the image is peaking so it's more difficult to decide what is in critical focus. I can use peaking at f1.2 and get sharp shots with my A7 and I'd guess that the A6000 has similar peaking goodness :D
 
woof woof said:
I find the opposite, at wide apertures I find peaking fantastic as only a small is shimmering whereas when you stop down most of the image is peaking so it's more difficult to decide what is in critical focus. I can use peaking at f1.2 and get sharp shots with my A7 and I'd guess that the A6000 has similar peaking goodness :D
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Not for me, with my Mitakon f0.95 peaking didnt even work, but then DOF was paper thin. I found for anything that required 'quicker' manual focus magnify was miles more accurate. 'Narrow' apertures like 2.8 were better.
 
Can't say Ive found certain lenses to have issues, but I do use all 3 levels when the need arises, and my eyes of course.
I find focus mag to be a bit more hassle, although it has its place.
I love my Fish eye lens. I set it to infinity the first time I used it and have never moved it. Wish all lenses worked like that :-).
 
Took this one of unusually still daughter using a Minolta MD 50mm lens at f1,7. Focus peeking for this, will try and see if the focus magnifier makes any operational difference.

Portrait by Jon, on Flickr
 
twist said:
Not for me, with my Mitakon f0.95 peaking didnt even work, but then DOF was paper thin. I found for anything that required 'quicker' manual focus magnify was miles more accurate. 'Narrow' apertures like 2.8 were better.
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Now that is odd. I've used all of my old lenses on my A7 and peaking has always worked. Can this be a lens issue? I thought it was a feature related to contrast on the sensor?
 
woof woof said:
Now that is odd. I've used all of my old lenses on my A7 and peaking has always worked. Can this be a lens issue? I thought it was a feature related to contrast on the sensor?
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No way it could be a lens issue, it did work, but was useless as there was so little actually highlighted it may as well have been off. Magnify on eye lashes works way better. DOF at f0.95 on a FF sensor is ridiculous so thats probably why the peaking had very little to highlight.
 
narbs said:
Took this one of unusually still daughter using a Minolta MD 50mm lens at f1,7. Focus peeking for this, will try and see if the focus magnifier makes any operational difference.
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I think that a magnified view will always be best but peaking is something I've tested and used a lot and for whole images or even quite severe crops I've found it quite accurate especially at the widest aperture for the reason I stated above, because at the widest apertures very little shimmers.

Anyway, what I can do may not work for others and that's the key... it has to work for you but I wouldn't like to think that anyone would be put off buy internet reports of peaking being very inaccurate as I think it's something that you need to try for yourself and decide if it's for you or not.

Wide aperture shot of my GF + 100% crop, looks like a pretty good hit to me.



 
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