BEST CAMERA 2015 A6000 SERIES

I thought, this is an awesome way to test out this camera’s focusing capabilities. That same afternoon, with the a6000 fresh in my possession, we stopped by our friend’s house to go swimming. But, smaller lenses like the Sony FE 28mm f/2.0, the Sony-Zeiss FE 35mm f/2.8, and my trusty Sony-Zeiss FE 55mm f/1.8 felt right at home when mounted on the a6000.

I tried a few lenses on it, and because of it’s small size, larger lenses felt a little unbalanced. It had several customizable buttons, so I went ahead and set the functions for those buttons to match my other two cameras.

BEST CAMERA 2015 A6000 SERIES

It was a quick “tsk”, and it sounded like a baby version of the shutter on my old Canon 1D series body.

I took a test shot, and the shutter sound jumped out at me. That’s a good thing, I thought, because I could jump right in and take photos immediately, instead of fiddling around with controls. The other thing I noticed was that the controls were close-to-identical to my RX1 and Sony a7II. Without a lens, it weighed close to nothing. The a6000 was tiny, almost as small as my Sony RX1. The first thing that I noticed was its size. A few days before our trip, I picked up the a6000 along with a couple of lenses to see what all the fuss was about and I thought I’d write about my observations. I was intrigued about the idea of bringing this little mirrorless camera with me to our mini-vacation. I didn’t have any gigs booked for the upcoming weekend, but my wife and I planned a family trip to the coast. One day a few weeks ago, my friend, Ryan at Horn Photo told me that he had a review copy of the a6000 available. The Sony a6000 coupled with a Zeiss FE 35mm f/2.8 lens. At that price, it was really tempting to get one. But, is it worth it? Would it be of any use next to my RX1 and a7II? Now that it’s been around for almost two years, it can be easily picked up for less than $500. A lot of people raved about its autofocus performance and it’s crazy-high frame rate (up to 11 frames per second).

I kept seeing it in gadget and photography blogs, and it seemed like a permanent player on many top-10 lists. At $800 during its release, the a6000 sold like hotcakes. It was a sub-one-thousand-dollar camera and it was marketed toward enthusiast photographers and beginners. Honestly, when it was released on February 2014, I never gave the camera a second thought. For over a year now, I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about the Sony a6000.

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