Late last year i purchased my first mirror-less SLR. After several hours of research and looking at far to many lens charts and critical reviews i splashed out on a Sony A6000 with a standard 24-70mm equivalent power zoom lens. I was looking for a toy in the beginning and even after my purchase i was still convinced it was a toy, that was until i took it out for a bit of street photography in my home town and i was blown away! Now let me qualify something first, the standard power zoom lens that comes with the A6000 is not a great lens and it has some serious short comings including insane distortion at the wide end which includes vignetting from the actually lens front assembly! And it is fairly soft on the right hand side, but otherwise it is sharp, light and very unassuming. I quickly found that the overall extreme lightness of the package empowered me to shoot in a way that I have not done for many years and the 24MP APSC 1.5x sensor delivered outstanding results, especially in dynamic range which blew away my older Canon EOS 5DMk2. Then recently we took a holiday and I made the decision to use the A6000 a number of times instead of my D750 and I was not dissapointed at all! In fact the A6000 captured some stellar images and all in a package that is about 1/4 the weight of my D750 and 14-24mm lens yet packing the same number of pixels and one of my favourite shots is the one below which is razor sharp except for the sky which is the softer right hand side of the lens, i delibertly turned all of my verticals that way to keep the soft side in the sky where possible.

After shooting about 1,000 frames now with my A6000 I have found that one of its best features is its size and weight which allows me to carry it in my camera pack with my Nikon's and use it to find interesting subjects and angles before I even lug the full on gear out of my pack. It has become my exploratory camera which goes with me everywhere and gets used to test out different scenes and angles comfortably and without drawing unnecessary attention to myself and also for inconspicuous street photography for which it excels. But don't think that the photos from this are all test shots as Im finding more and more shots that the Sony has nailed straight off the bat and if i didn't tell you what camera I had used, you would never guess it was a sub $1,000 consumer A6000!

Amazing Sony A6000

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