Sony A6000 – movie AF test
The last couple of days new A6000 autofocus test videos have been tested by early reviewers. Here is a list of videos you can check:
http://youtu.be/RQKCztJHkvQ?t=1m14s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P80fKrazOEU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQKCztJHkvQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUEkMQ0xIDo
http://youtu.be/uHs-etevgCM
http://youtu.be/XwE4G-SSN-M
Sony A6000 preorder list with US and Europe links:
Sony A6000 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama, BHphoto (Click here), SonyStore (Click here). In Europe at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, AT, NL, BE, CH, FI, SE, PT, WexUK.
Silver A6000 at WexUK (Click here).
Sony A6000 with lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama, BHphoto (Click here), SonyStore (Click here), Sony Canada (Click here), WexUK (Click here).
Silver A6000 with lens at WexUK (Click here).
Sony 70-200mm FE at Amazon (CLick here), BHphoto (Click here), SonyStore (Click here). In Europe at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, AT, NL, BE, CH, FI, SE, PT
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impressive…
The A6000 will definitely become my backup-camera,
beside my A77 and hopefully beside an A99II
A77, A99 or the A77II will become backup cameras and will eventually be obsolete when there are more and more e-mount lens, especially the tele lens with OSS, coming out in the future.Tele lens with optical stabilization simply works much better than IBIS.
For a professional, a camera of the size and shape of the current e-mount offerings will never work with a tele lens. It is simply not ergonomic and can not do the job over the course of a day. The current e-mount cameras are fine for certain focal lengths, but unless the e-mount bodies take the shape of the current a-mount cameras, I don’t see how you can put a 300mm 2.8 or 500mm on such a camera and work comfortably for hours.
For the general consumer – sure, e-mount is perfect. But don’t expect to get pro-grade tele lenses, or super-fast lenses with it either. The simple reason for this is that with e-mount the main objective it to keep the size and weight down. This can not work with fast, high-quality glass – simple physics. So stop bashing a-mount. Both systems have their advantages. A-mount does not pretend to be as good as e-mount in all aspects, I can not understand why e-mount fans keep trying to prove that e-mount cameras are a complete substitute for a-mount bodies.
While I agree with your principles (that A & E mount systems can coexist) there is nothing in the “physics” that prevents E-mount from cameras from having fast, large, or telephoto lenses–just Sony’s current marketing push. Yes, the ergonomics of most *current* E-mount cameras are geared towards smaller, wider, and more portable lenses but there’s nothing about the Mount that makes it that way. In fact film SLRs (which also had large, fast, telephoto lenses) were closer in size and shape to the A7 than the A99. DSLRs were originally so big because they needed the extra space for electronics but now that bulk has become the “norm”.
None of this means A-mount is inferior. Or likely to disappear soon. Just laying out the facts.
DSLR with tele lens is hardly an ergonomic combo as well. To put a lens on a shoulder and then use a gadget like google glass as a viewfinder is much more stable and easy to use.
The DSLR have gaind substancial weight the last decade, they were not always this big and heavy. My first SLR was a Pentax MX, weight just short of 500g, thats only 25g heavier than the Sony A7. I also remember the firs time I handled the Minolta 300mm f2,8 – it does not matter what camera you use, this lens IS front heavy, even in combination with a modern full scale DSLR. I se no reason why photographers could not get used to the same camera/lens balance that were quite useable 30 years ago.
I bought the E-mount 55-210 for about €200 in Hong-Kong and it´s an amazing lens for its value. Might not be pro-grade but it is a much underrated lens. It gives good contrast and pretty sharp pictures even wide open. Ok, wide open is not 2.8 but a not so impressive 4.5-6.3 but for digital I don´t mind as much as I would have done for film especially as it has an excelent OSS. Dof is still shallow enough. And with 4.5-6.3 you get a nice light and compact lens in your bag or a well handling kit on your NEX body. Might not have the same ergonomic quality as a DSLR but if you hold it well there´s no problem holding it steady. And there´s a great working OSS thrown in as well that which will help you to get steady pictures. Just hoping that the AF will perform great with this lens as well! And a AF test with the 50 1.8 please.
Your dreaming .E mount will keep getting slower smaller lenses and the ISO performance will keep rising gradually until its a non issue .Your never going to get big glass . that right their defeats the E mount doctrine .Their sales pitch their niche . This is whats going to happen to A mount first their going to rip the STL out as no pro is going to loose a single photon of light to Af and loose IQ .A7ii will be featured as direct competition to the 7Dii cannon and its going to offer a much larger leap technologically .cannon owners will real ripped off again .Thy cant possibly jump too far as thy will loose money on their flagships models .The next leap after that will be the Z shift when sony perfect it thy will be able to mount every lens and possibly even AF rapidly via moving the sensor plane .Now your thinking What about the Af in the sony lenses lenses ?.thy will be focusing at the same time making blistering hot af speeds but we will have to pay a crap tone of cash for the privilege 70 200 gii as a example.E mount guys need to stop bashing A mount is all sony after all. All i hear from e mount uses is I have a small willy but its better than you big one for gods sake just go and take some pictures
Wow, so fast…
Quite impressive!
What kind of hawks is those bird? They seem very not aggressive as I think they were.
I believe they are seagulls, not very aggressive. They love being fed food scraps.
Haha, depends where they are. When tourists keep feeding them, they lose all sense of caution and become extremely aggressive. I’ve seen them jump on small children and steal their ice-creams more than once!
What would REALLY be ergonomic: something like a pair of eyeglasses with a viewfinder (or two) on them that you can flip up and down. Why would the viewfinder have to be on the camera? With the viewfinder glasses on you can hold your camera every which way. – MVesseur
The camera is tracking very well, stayed in focus most of the time and re-acquired quickly. Overall a great performance for a camera in this price class, perhaps the best in class.
Very impressive!! Goodbye DSLRs
I wish they’d put some info on the lens used…
It’s the Zeiss 16-70/4.
Much focus! Such awe!!
A bit more convincing than previous focustests I have seen done with this camera, if it just could do this with a 400mm telephoto …
In the last two linked videos, the P16-50 definitely does better than the P18-105