Header banner
Revain logoHome Page
Gede Agung ᠌ photo
1 Level
117 Review
82 Karma

Review on Sony A6000 Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera: SELP1650 Lens Kit - Black (24.3MP) - Ultimate Photography Experience by Gede Agung ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Not exactly the product I wanted, price and quality don't match.

I would like to see the price of the A6000 at the level of 20-22 sput. However, at the time of writing, the camera is even slightly more expensive than higher-end mirrorless cameras. So, if you just like Sony in all its manifestations, you can safely skip my review, take a camera and be glad that it takes pictures many times better than any phone. For everyone else - an objective assessment of the A6000 relative to its price. So, all Sony mirrorless cameras (and not only Sony ones) have a feature - they focus for a long time and smear in the dark. Previously, this could be attributed to the features of the contrast autofocus, but in the a6000, Sony claims the presence of a hybrid AF. At first I was excited when I heard about it, so I decided to immediately check how well it works. I put the turned-off Vita in front of me, I focus on the screen - the focus cannot be visited for a long time and, as a result, it is not induced. I take a Fujifilm camera (also with a hybrid focus), and it calmly aims. So Sony still focuses on contrast autofocus, and it is not clear how phase sensors are specifically involved here. In general, I could not evaluate the advantages in the form of a hybrid focus. I was also dissatisfied with the level of noise at ISO 6400 and above. The built-in noise reduction fights them, but the detailing drops. Therefore, you have to shoot in RAW and run almost everything through Lightroom. By ISO, I compared RAWs from one stand on the Olympus E-M10, Fujifilm X-T1 and A6000. On the Olympus (with a smaller matrix, by the way) there is less fuji. Well, the third point, which does not allow us to recommend the A6000 for professional use, is to assemble a set of prof. E-mount lenses are still quite difficult - I recommend paying attention to the SEL35F18 and SEL50F18. There are no professional grade zooms at the moment. So, if you already use a compact crop. DSLR and you have a 17-55 level zoom lens, then by switching to the A6000 with fixes, you will not win either in price, or in the compactness of the kit, or in the quality of the final material.

Pros
  • Good electronic viewfinder and flip-up screen Wide angle lens included Large selection of amateur lenses Convenient menu and Wi-Fi module Decent detail Decent video quality
Cons
  • Ugly color noise at high ISO Uncertain focus at dusk Of the professional-level lenses, only fixes, prof. no zooms yet “Soft” colors typical for Sony cameras - I almost always make them more juicy in post-processing, incl. For me personally, this is more of a downside.