Sony A6000

Lens Pirate · Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 12:27 am Post subject: Sony A6000

Just went hands on for about 3 hours with my new Sony A6000.

PROS in comparison to Canon crops:

Ergonomics. Its smaller and lighter. Great controls with awesome customisable buttons. Feels great in the hand with E-mount, FE mount and legacy Glass.

Built in features that support manual focus, Awesome EVF, Focus peaking and Focus magnification. This is important to me personally. No excuse for Canon intentionally making manual focus all but impossible on recent EOS bodies.

Vastly better platform for a HUGE range of legacy glass.

Native lenses are smaller and lighter than Canon and some like the FE 55 F.18 are simply in a higher league than Canon offerings.

Ridiculously fast and accurate focusing and focus tracking. Insane burst speed. make sure you get a Fast SD card!!!!!!!!! This things is like a mini-gun when set to continuous shooting and continuous AF. INSANE. Beats Every Canon but the IDX series. Sony delivered here for sure.

IQ Look these files are just plain cleaner and come with far more latitude for Post processing than Canon files. Noise seems better than my 7D (long gone but i still have raw files to compare)

PRICE This little camera compares MORE than favorably to any Canon crop. Its 698 dollars FULL RETAIL at the product introduction. Can you say game changer?

Cons when compared to Canon Crop bodies

Canon glass is SLOW to AF on the A6000. I think this will improve over time with next gen adapters. I think the A6000 maybe a little faster than the A7R with adapted Canon EOS glass. I currently MF Canon glass with great results.

Battery Life is not great. Need a spare for sure. 3rd party spares and chargers can be had cheap. Work great too!

Smaller but rapidly growing native lens selection. This is offset since this camera works so well as a platform for non-native glass.

So my conclusion: if I was starting out I would not hesitate one second to adopt the Sony Ecosystem and the A6000 for a crop/sports/action camera over current Canon offerings.

Even as heavily invested as I am in Canon glass as I am in Canon glass this body STILL makes sense due to price point, features, IQ and Ergonomic issues.

Bravo Sony.

From a Photowalk around my apartment this morning. Canon a6000 with Zeiss 135 Wide open at f2.
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SonicScot · Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 4:02 am Post subject:

Nice report, thanks for that.

It's no surprise it bests the 7D on ISO noise 'performance', the 7D is almost unusable above ISO 800. Crying or Very sad