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Hi all. I've been thinking about selling my Nikon D300 to buy a Sony A6000 as a general use camera. Read reports that its the muts nuts. Anybody got one and their thoughts please.
Well no bad reports yet then. Keep them coming. Cheers
Woof woof: See what your saying, but I would only need it for general photos, I still have my Nikon D700 for specialist work.
If you can do manual focus samyang/rokinon released a 100mm macro in e mount recently.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
If you can do manual focus samyang/rokinon released a 100mm macro in e mount recently.
Recently brought the a6000 .... FANTASTIC piece of kit, image quality is first class (and I use a Canon 1DX so know the difference)
also purchased the Sony 70-200mm F4 G OSS SEL70200G FE lens ...... AMAZING lens
How is the AF speed?
I have been seriously thinking about pairing up a A6000 with the 70-400mm SSM II for airshows.
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.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.
Something to bear in mind is peaking isnt entirely accurate, with fast lenses its very inaccurate. Magnify is the best option in my experience.
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
Try again Dave
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.
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?
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.