Sony A6000

[Runmonty]

Sounds like a great new purchase BF. As chance would have it I just saw a review on this camera today and the only criticisms were the viewfinder and range of available lenses.

As for focusing they did a test on a fast moving subject moving toward the camera. Apparently the subject moved from 20 metres (65 feet) - 50 centimetres (1-1/2 feet) over 5.2 seconds during which time they took 53 photos (not quite the 11 fps claimed). Only 2-3 were out of focus. Not bad at all.

[Barefoot]

Sounds like a great new purchase BF.

I know it sounds funny, but I could neither recommend nor discourage its purchase. They're just not quite ready for prime time. For someone considering taking the next step up from a compact without the budget to go beyond entry to mid-level models, then , why not? Most of us started that way and then move up. Maybe the DSLM arena will have vastly improved by the time they were ready to take another step. I don't know.

All I really wanted to say about it was that I bought the little camera to use my old M42 mount lenses. Tried to use them on the nikon body years ago, but with adapters you either lose focus at infinity or suffer a cheap piece of corrective glass. The little camera is perfect for that. If it only had in body stabilization and a faster shutter...

[kennedyw]

Sounds like a great purchase. Personally, I find that the camera you want depends entirely on what you are going to use it for, and then, occasionally, what your photography will expand to thanks to the new camera. I had a nice point and shoot that had died, had budgeted a sum to buy a wide-angle for my DSLR, but ended up buying a mirror-less camera with an excellent wide-angle lens in place of both items. And its working well for me. In answer to you Marko, the new Fuji has a pretty good system for changing the focus point, I too do this often when I am setting up on a tripod (you hit a button on the front of the camera which brings up the screen and all the cross-points in the visor and then move it with the arrow pad keys on the back). For hand-held I tend to shoot the same as I do with my DSLR ( use the centre focus point, then recompose the shot with my subject where I want). In most situations I have my controls set to separate the focus button from the release button. I have also been playing with the Fuji's face-recognition function to do street photography, and am pretty pleased with the results of that too. So my new camera works well for nice wide angle shots and street photography and I am very happy with my purchase. Nothing is perfect, but I can recommend this little camera, and its much easier on my hands and arms than my DLSR!

[Barefoot]

I started this thread a little over four years ago. Last night I watched Nikon's official announcement of the "re-invention of mirrorless". I couldn't stop laughing.

They're a day late and a dollar short. Any thoughts?

[Marko]

4K USD with a lens.... I think I'll stick with my not so much bigger DSLR.

[Barefoot]

4K USD with a lens.... I think I'll stick with my not so much bigger DSLR.

I hear you. A 50mm 1.8 Z mount lens will set you back $600 and that is the least expensive of the three lens introduced. I'm a long time Nikon fan, but I felt insulted. If you listen to the language used in the official announcement you might get the impression that the F mount's days are numbered. Dare I say that there will be a D6, but we may never see a D7? They sound confident that this is the future of the company. I'm of the opinion that the DSLR won't be with us beyond 2024, if progress in the mirrorless realm continues at its current rate.

[Barefoot]

Dear Nikon,

When I die will you please send 6 of your top executives to my funeral to lower my casket? That way I can rest peacefully knowing it will be the last time you will ever let me down.