Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today we're going to take a look at the Sony
a6000. This has been out a long time. Interesting camera, we're gonna check it out.
Thanks to Camera Craft for let me try this camera out at their shop. The a6000
is a pretty standard mirrorless camera. It has the 24 megapixels. It has an aps-c size
sensor. Has the e-mount. Now, it does have a few features that are a little bit
lackluster compared to the new stuff, but it is a cheaper camera. They've been
lowering the price steadily over the years, many many years. It's also
available used, of course, which makes it even more appealing to check out.
Although a lot of the time it's not even sold with the lens in those situations.
I do think the 16-50mm kit lens is actually pretty interesting on
this camera. It's a power-zoom type lens. That means in video you can actually
zoom in and out, which is a really nice feature for those situations and it's
pretty compact. So if you can get the kit lens, I say get it because it's unique
and interesting. It does not have a touchscreen. It does tilt up and down. It
does not face the user, face the lens. Which is a drawback, but you have to jump
up to the a6400 to get that feature. Now, I do you think the a6400 it's quite a bit
more expensive almost double at the moment. But it does give you a lot of
other features. Gives you the ultimate autofocus for the moment. Gives you that
flip up screen that can go towards the lens. So if you want to spend quite a bit
more you might want to consider that camera instead. The camera body itself is
actually pretty nice. It is very compact for an aps-c style camera. The battery
inside there is not super powerful, but it will give you maybe 350 photos or so
per charge. Actual body layout... the grip is not terrible, but I didn't notice my
hand cramping up a little bit in use at the camera shop and I only used it maybe
an hour or two. You've got the battery area, which I
should mention. The memory card slot is pretty difficult to access. They put the
memory card slot right next to where the hinge of the door is, and it's just
difficult to pull the card out once it's in there.
The nice thing about this camera compared to say the Canon EOS M50 is
that with the a6000 has the memory recall. So you can push full profiles
into those areas, and then switch to them pretty quickly. A lot of my previous
cameras I had those custom settings. With Nikon cameras they had U1 and U2.
Where I would have a custom aperture priority mode. One for manual video, or
one for flash photography. And those were just super nice to quickly conveniently
switch between groups of settings. With these videos I don't have a huge amount
of time to try out the camera, but I do try to get some use out of the autofocus and it
seems pretty decent. Considering how old the camera is, it does still have the 179
phase detect autofocus points which is really nice to see. Because it does
improve the situation especially in video, usually. The camera does have peaking
with manual focus. That's always nice to see if you want to put manual lenses on
there with mirrorless cameras you can easily adapt a lot of glass. A lot of old
film era stuff to camera. So having peaking is really important. I did notice
interestingly it has a zebra feature, which is good for video work to show
we're blowing out areas of the screen are, and that's just a really nice
feature to have. Again, with the Canon EOS M50 it doesn't have anything that
advanced. It does have an electronic viewfinder in the camera that's nice to
see especially at this price point now that it's at. It's not amazing, but it's
good enough. One of the big drawbacks of this camera, say compared to the M50, is
that this is not have a mic port. I think it's a pretty bad drawback especially
with the video stuff that I do. I really want that feature because it's a lot
more convenient to push the audio into the camera instead of trying to do a
source outside of that with some type of a recorder. I also noticed the video
record button is in an awkward spot. Probably get used to it, but it's kind of
weird. Along with the video I should mention you only get 1080p in this
camera at 60 frames a second. Now, with the Canon EOS M50 that I have, that's
pretty much the same thing because the 4k in that doesn't have dual pixel
autofocus. So spec wise with video I'd say they're very comparable. The reason I
want to talk about this camera is because the price point, and considering
how old it is... How long it's been out, you have a lot of options with it. And
the e-mount system is getting better and better. Of course,
aps-c glass is not super widely available. Sigma has been making some
stuff, which are good options. There are some Sony glass options as well, but you
can also find Samyang stuff now that are pretty small
like a 24mm f/2.8, 35mm f/2.8. Definitely a lot of good options out there with e-mount.
One thing with Sony that's kind of quirky and odd is the menu system. In this one you
definitely have to scroll a lot. With a little bit of effort and time you can configure
things to have it work how you want it to work. When I put a
memory card in Sony cameras it's always a little jarring to see them do this
database thing, which I guess it's related to blu-ray players or whatever
the heck it is. I don't know why they do that because most normal cameras you
just put it in the camera... put that card in the camera and just take a photo and
boom that's it. But Sony... Oh no, you gotta do... you gotta make this database thing and okay.. yeah..
Just..and.. what's a point? I don't know. And they hide the video files in these multiple
directories under whatever, because blu-rays or something? I don't know. It's just weird...
So look at the a6000. I do think it's a good option now. It's an old
camera, but it's still.. spec wise.. it's pretty decent. So small compact aps-c.
Decent photos.. Decent video.. and autofocus seems decent enough. Just a good option
with the price how it is now. Anyways, thanks to Camera Craft for letting me try
this camera out at the shop. Always appreciate it, and again thanks for
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