I got word via Australian Stores that the A6000 is officially discontinued. It means they cannot order new Stock of A6000 cameras. Last week I reported how the camera successor release got delayed because of heating issues. I hope Sony fixed that and the camera will be announced soon anlong the A7rII.
Sony A6000 store link list:
Sony A6000 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonyStore. In Europe at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, AT, NL, BE, CH, FI, SE, PT, WexUK.
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http://www.sony.com.au/product/ilce-6000l – listed as discontinued 🙂
Although the body only option seemed to be still active. http://www.sony.com.au/product/ilce-6000
If this is not only a temporary supply issue, that can only mean the new to announced e-mount camera in may is the A7000. And the A7000 is more an update to the A6000 at a similar price level than a premium aps-c e-mount camera like the A77m2.
Why can’t we not have an RXBFG9000?
Sony is not playing Doom – “BFG” 🙂
Australia, the country that got screwed by Sony big time, when they as the only country in the world got treated to the incredible A3500, an A3000 with a worse kit lens!
Now they can look forward to the amazing A6500, an A6000 with a lower capacity battery and a shutter release that is slightly harder to reach!
Posting comment and feedback has been discontinued on Sony.fr too. They never posted my low rating comment about Sony LA-EA 4 adapter and left their positive comments about it ( thumb down)
What’s wrong with LA-EA4 ?
Slow, inefficient and old AF system….compared to A77 or A77ii or A6000. What else? I m using MF instead;)
I hope we will not wait 3 more months to get a final A7000 camera which will make the Samsung NX1 and A7II ashamed 😀 even if it will be in APS-C world
Hmm. It is indeed listed as discontinued on Sony Australia websites. But Sony Australia are famously hopeless; it’s bound to be a mistake (maybe they couldn’t get an order through or something)
The ‘kit’ has been discontinued for months, they don’t do a ‘kit’ anymore.
The a6100 w/ XAVCS codec, digital level and mic input finally!
The a7000 4K and 120fps 1080p!
and new E-mount zoom lens with constant f2.8 aperture? yes please! 16-50mm f/2.8 and 50-150mm f/2.8 will be so nice!
New version needs AF implementation like A77II. It definitely needs AF-S PDAF.
I’d probably expect grippier material instead of smooth coating like A7II.
How do you think it could possibly have A77 II AF? I really do have to wonder about the readers here sometimes! BTW A6000 has PDAF AF-S.
AF implementation like A77II? That means a separate AF module and a semi-transparent mirror. You’re essentially saying that they should make an SLT instead of a mirrorless camera!
You do know that the A6000 has on-sensor PDAF, don’t you?
Australia, the country that got slapped by Sony big time, when they as the only country in the world got treated to the incredible A3500, an A3000 with a worse kit lens!
Now they can look forward to the amazing A6500, an A6000 with a lower capacity battery and a shutter release that is slightly harder to reach!
Winter is coming.
Yes, please. Go ahead and give us a new APS-C model!
I don’t care whether they call it A6XXX or A7000. As long as they match my wishlist:
– Add level gauge
– New chip generation: Please no reiteration of the same A6000-chip. (Why? Because it is sooo annoying to buy a camera and having the feeling it is deprecated when the next chip comes out.)
– Improve AF even further
– TriNavi
– Weather-sealing. (Unlikely for A6XXX…)
– IBIS
Well, this would be the union of A7II, NEX7 and A6000 plus a new chip. I know it’s unlikely, but I may still dream, right? (Oh, and please let the price be closer to the release price of A6000 than NEX7.)
That would be a great spec list if released. I think they should go read what Thom Hogan wants for the D300S replacement http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/the-missing-d300s-replaceme.html, and use those specs that but add in weather sealing and IBIS for the “A7000”. The downside though is if it was released the price would have to be more than the A7 and would it then sell.
I would wish for some other things e.g. fix the 1080 video to be decent – no moire, no aliasing, decent codec that is easy to work with on both Mac and PC, fix the problems with artefacts when panning. Just make A6000 II video par with RX10. 4K would be lovely gimmick to add for gear heads
Fix the RAW format – how hard can this be? Just bring back the A700/A900 RAW and cRAW options. The A6000 IQ is inferior to most competition because of the compressed RAW. Why not add 14 bit RAW like Nikon do in all their cameras. May be only the uncompressed RAW features 14 bit. This is good enough to par the D5500 in reviews and for people that really want the best in landscape photo. If I want quality like really really crazy good quality I have the option to record 50MB RAW file! Why not? Why don’t they just unleash 16 bit uncompressed real real RAW and end the agony? I would believe their DACs produce 16bit anyway just stop throwing the data that is already there customers want it.
BTW same goes for the video codec – just blast as much info as you have. What the heck The camera is as uncomfortable as it gets for video. Even if there is 16bit RAW 4K output that requires 10 000 Euro/USD recorder or ultra expensive 1000 Euro/USD XQD card – give it to us. Professionals will not go to A6000 – it is utterly uncomfortable to use. However some wannabe people will appreciate the ability to see at least for test purposes decent quality.
It boggles my mind that the greatest electronics company making the best video equipment ever is delivering the worst prosumer grade cameras. A7, A7 II, A6000 were all ridiculed in reviews and outdone by devices from companies that never ever did even mediocre video equipment.
TriNavi is much worse than A6000 interface please remove it from the list.
“A7, A7 II, A6000 were all ridiculed in reviews and outdone by devices from companies that never ever did even mediocre video equipment.”
That’s a sweeping statement, and one I find difficult to reconcile. All the reviews I’ve read for those cameras have been positive.
Look at this A7ii review http://www.eoshd.com/2014/11/sony-a7-ii-review-5-axis-stabilisation-video-mode/ or this one http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-alpha-7-ii/7
Consistently all reviews point to mediocre video. Video that is beaten by both Olympus and Nikon. We are not talking video that is on par or a bit behind Canon or Panasonic. Sony’s video in A7ii is by far worse than the dudes that do not do video at all nor do they count on video as sales point!!!
The Samsung NX1 that too is not coming from a company with photo or video experience wipes the floor with the latest Sony cameras – AF, video, still image IQ. It is just amazing how bad Sony cameras are in comparison. True the Samsung is not pleasure to use at all at this stage but is getting better since Samsung firmware updates actually update the firmware and fix issues or add missing functions. Sony are so focused on not loosing potential revenue hidden in small bug fixes that they are loosing hordes of customers.
A7s is the only camera Sony have that sort of shows some video capability and it was literally made fun of compared to Samsung NX1. The focusing capability of the A7s is indescribably bad. It is worse that 1985 DSLRs…..
PS Don’t get me wrong I love my A7 and A6000. Even I want to buy A7r II or alike camera that fixes A7r. I do not want A7r since it has so many flaws in the spec sheet I wonder they actually released it to market. However if Samsung and Fuji continue on the trajectory they are and Sony continue to hold back on fixing basic things like image and video quality…. what is the reason of buying a camera if it ain’t taking good pictures?
I’ve followed your links, and this is what I found. At EOSHD: “The A7S remains by far the best option for video shooters and filmmakers.”. And if you read the NX1 review at EOSHD. http://www.eoshd.com/2014/11/samsung-nx1-review-glory-technology/ you can read “Compared to the Sony A7S, the NX1 is definitely not in the same league for low light but then what is?”. It’s quite clear that the NX1 is more aimed at competing with GH4. If you want that full frame look, and unrivalled low light performance, A7S is still heaps ahead.
Agreed A7s is remarkable in IQ in many ways. However it has equally big number of quirks. AF is very slow and cannot track at all, 4k requires external recorder that is more expensive than the camera, if you pan across strange things happen. I get the desire to protect more expensive produce but…..
Both are non-issues for me, and many others. The required external recorder is already bought, so Iäve got the 4k issue solved. I never use AF when shooting video, and no other videographer I know do. There’s too much at stake to let a stupid AF ruin a shot. But sure, there is a small group of documentary videographers who use AF. And yes, if you do a lot of whip panning, the A7S is not for you. You will need a camera with global shutter. Might come in the future in an A7S replacement, who knows. In the meantime you can read a bit about panning speed at http://www.red.com/learn/red-101/camera-panning-speed If you follow the rule of thumb, one image width per seven seconds, you’ll see the rolling shutter is not the only problem when panning fast.
How do you focus to an approaching cyclist?
NX1-AF can do. This is the current benchmark Sony will be compared with.
Preferably with a follow focus, like it has been done for ages. Counter question: how do you AF on the third or fourth cyclist in a group? Good luck with that.
tripod, single spot, focus magnifier
the a6000 has really good hd video, only the a7s surpasses it, don´t believe me, read Philip bloom and eoshd review on it.
http://www.eoshd.com/2014/04/surprise-sony-alpha-a6000-video-mode-huge-improvement/
http://philipbloom.net/2014/05/12/a6000/
“Even if there is 16bit RAW 4K output that requires 10 000 Euro/USD recorder or ultra expensive 1000 Euro/USD XQD card – give it to us. ”
Then exactly how many would buy this? This is like a suicide for the company to price an A7x camera this much.
What about professional video cameras that Sony already has? They might suit your needs.
D5500 has much less noise than A6000. As RAW-compression does not add noise, this is not the main reason for inferior IQ.
I think this is wrong. They have been removing all the kits with lens for some time now in Australia and switching to body only with deals on lenses. The link posted in the comments here is the discontinued kit but the body only isn’t discontinued http://www.sony.com.au/product/ilce-6000
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Exactly.
It is easy insn’t it? Kits are always more populair then body only cameras (in the A6000 class that is) So at some point the old kit is sold out, but some body only cameras are left. To attract some buyers you make a sale on lenses, so people will buy the body only with the lens of their choice.
This all in expectation of the new A6000II (the name it will be called when they follow the A7 line…)
People actually want pay for the 16-50?!
No. Sony changed their sales model here and have ONLY a body option and then discount the 16-50mm, 55-210mm and 50mm to go with the body so you can choose which you want and reduces the number of SKU’s so they exactly don’t have that problem. The kit was discontinued months ago. Originally there was NO body only version available in Australia. But the kit is definitely discontinued and has been for months. There are other ‘kits’ that are discontinued where the model is still very much current.
Hope “High End” A7000 AF will focus down to -2EV at least because A6000 AF is almost useless for low light focusing with its only 0EV AF sensitivity. And please Sony – bring good quality 16mm lens with f/2 (Zeiss ZA?) because your old 16/2.8 is a joke with its poor performance.
Well I am sitting on the fence since I have many Canon lenses, Sony 7r and need smaller, faster body for longer reach, new 24mp Rebels are on sale next week. It puzzles me the timing of Sony product releases, many cameras announced out of the blue but when need it and expected from strategic point of view Sony is in deep sleep 🙁
Discontinuing without announcement does more look like an update of a type.
So let’s expect an A6100 before an A7000.
It was always the A6000 replacement. Why anyone ever thought it would be a whole new line is beyond me!
I’d guess not either/or than “and”.
A new APS-C high end would make sense. There a high priced APS-C lenses (two SZ, three Touit) which seem to have lower sales since the discontinuance of the NEX7.
No. There is no point in a higher end APS-C, just a better one.
No. There is a point for high end APS-C. 24/1.8ZA, 55/1.8ZA and 3 Touits 12/2.8, 32/1.8 and 50/2.8 need it as many of their users.
Also coincides with the release of the a7x though…
When the replacement shows up, who knows?
a3000 started disappearing 2-3 months ago, no replacement announced yet.
So then the A6000 is still available on the sony website in australia
Does this mean SAR is wrong about this or not..???
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Disappointed that the A6000 with kit lenses only appear to have disappeared. I was hoping for a replacement so that I could get a copy of that excellent A6000 at a v. discounted price. Similarly I am looking for RX100IV so that the RX100III can dump into my budget. Both these cameras are excellent, but I will only pay so much because my NEX-6 and RX100 are not bad at all. In my opinion you need extreme shooting situations in order not to be satisfied with the current crop of E and FE cameras as well as the RX100III.
A7000 4k 100mbps xavcs SLOG profile mic in
i hope in this
So we don’t expect anything about the Xavc update… It’s quite sad how Sony assist to his clients
Well, you don’t know if XVAC implementation for A6000 has hardware limitation or not, do you? So why judging them for something you do not know?
cough A5100 cough
misclick sry
admin pls del
Do you have your brain damaged by tuberculosis?
*cough* A5100 *cough*
Do you have your brain damaged by tuberculosis? Nobody knows if the A5100’s hardware is the same as A6000’s. A5100 was released after A6000 hence perhaps with a hardware improved to support 4k.
The A5100 has the same processor, nothing was upgraded. It does not support 4K, max res is 1080@30/60p in XAVC-S or AVCHD (instead AVCHD only on the A6000). If you are so fond of TBC you probably already know people with internet access would be treated before the bacterium could infect other organs such as the brain.
Thee required hardware doesn’t simply limited to chip. The circuit board does also matter as well as the initial chip configuration which may not be possible to modify with a simple firmware upgrade. I am glad you are already under treatment. It may take a while, but don’t worry, you will be alright. I have nothing against having my A6000 supporting XAVC-S codec. I just don’t see the point of making claims and conclusions about something we don’t have a thorough knowledge of.
>I just don’t see the point of making claims and conclusions about something we don’t have a thorough knowledge of.
>I am glad you are already under treatment.
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Choose.
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>TBC cannot damage brain cos of treatment
>uses TBC as insult
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Choose.
That was an answer to your illogical conclusion and irrational answer:
“*cough* A5100 *cough*”. So perhaps in your case it did damage your brain otherwise, you would have not made illogical conclusions about something you really do not know enough and you would have not cough that conclusion out. There was a metaphor in my commentary that you missed (a damaged brain that cannot catch metaphors?)
5 years old Canon 7D can do 2K RAW continuously with ML, but Sony’s new ultrafast camera can’t do 1080p XAVC-S? You’re such a naive fanboy. Sony is crippling their cameras on purpose. Everyone, but blind fanboys know that.
LOL, I don’t know why you think I am a Sony fanboy. I have nothing against having better codecs and other improvements through firmware upgrades. I just said we cannot be certain, that is possible; maybe yes, maybe no so I wouldn’t judge Sony for that.
5 years after its release, Canon 7D still sells for more than A6000 (and it was way more expensive than A6000 when it was released). Besides, Sony upgrade cycles are noticeably faster than Canon (at least in the mirrorless section). I guess they have a different marketing strategy which some may like, while others may dislike. I do like faster upgrade cycles as it means consumers will have quicker access to newer better technologies while Canon may come up with a 7D II, 5 years after 7D and it does only offer marginal improvements over the previous model. Same for some Nikon models.
>faster upgrade cycles
>different marketing strategy
You mean:
1. Design a product.
2. Take out X things.
3. Produce & Sell the product.
4. Put something back and re-sell the same garbage
5. Repeat step 4 as long as it was done less than X times.
6. Enjoy your $$$
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Technology does not advance this rapidly. D7200 is a cashgrab, 7D MKII is a cashgrab, A7 II is a cashgrab. Companies are lazy nowadays and thank to people like you that ‘like fast upgrade cycles’ they don’t invest in sh.t. Hopefully Samsung wakes the industry up, cos it seems they are not following this trend. They put all they had into one product. Now their surprise bag is empty. Not ‘one at a time’ policy. Wait ’till the bag is full and then release the kraken, that’s how industry leading products are born. I’m fed up about tolerant people who support lazy companies and their half baked products. But no we can’t have good things, cos people are like omfg I have an A7, the A7 II has IBIS, I must buy it. Bullsh.t, you buy it when it has 4K, 14 bit raw and faster AF than the A6000. I don’t care what is in the A6000, in 2015 AVCHD = no video.
Sony is a real troll lol…
No, its not discontinued. Only the kit is. Body only is still available.
The A6000 was released around march 2014, so to Sony standards that’s to soon for replacement, but to me it’s much to late for the NEX7 replacement !!!!!! poor Sony strategy IMO, there was and still is room for a high end A7000. they really don’t listen to there own customers !!!
“.. much too late for the NEX7 replacement”
“.. still is room for a high end A7000 …” which would be the NEX7 replacement, right?
So, is it too late or is there still room for it? I’m confused.
OH, wel confusion can happend to every one, to late for a high end camera, NO but other brands have them already: like the Oly E-M5II, which is weather sealed 5Axis IBIS, high MP system, even weather sealed lenses, and so on, so Sony is not in the lead for that sort of camera’s IMO, even if it’s only a 4/3 sensor here, which by the way produce very very good IQ !!! there is some serious work for Sony ahead. !!!! don’t you think ?
They do listen to their clients up to a level like any average corporate will do. But, obviously, you are demanding them to listen to ‘Chrisy’ which is another story because it’s always a mistake to listen to self-righteous people! 😉
Ok, Sony, wtf? B&H still sells the 3yr old NEX-7 and what was probably your most successful camera to date gets discontinued after a year?
I mean, I get it, product updates, but if you’ve got a camera selling like hotcakes, wouldn’t you want to make more of them?
Depends on the update. It might be well worth it, making consumers happy.
exactly my tougths
a6000 was very cheap. I doubt they made any profit on this camera, so why keep selling it?
They will release a successor with few more features and costing few hundreds USD more. That’s how you make money. 🙂
The markup on cameras is quite large, you can rest assured that Sony and the retailers are all still making a profit on the A6000.
I think the sale of the nex-7 is much more questionable than discontinuing the a6000 as it’s obvious it’ll be updated soon.
I’m guessing the nex7 is still around as it has a few features some people may want that aren’t in the a6000 (level, mic input, tri-nav), but I’m guessing it’s an item with very low stock and very low sales volume.
You forgot the decent EVF. A6000 EVF is a peace of crap.
A7 was one of their most successful camera to date, and that was replaced in a year.
The A7 is not replaced, it is still (one of) the cheapest way to get FF.
A7II was the replacement for the A7.
Of course you can always get a older model for cheaper.
You shut your mouth!!!
We don’t need FF, APS-C is way better for so many reasons.
We should request Sony to trade it off at 90% of the price and give us a real efficient adapter for free 😀 ( LA-EA 6 with all the flaws from above lists fixed)
He actually said they discontinue Sony brand. Don’t censor his words. 😉
No he said he will sell camera to Sony members only 😉 that s why he officially claimed to discontinue E-mount APS-C for the rest of the quidam 😉
a LA-EAX that had same a7ii slt technology is needed, also it need to had the option to down the mirror, of course ff, that should be the universal a-e mount adaptor missing
A7000 will take off where the A6000 was keeping it fresh, Sony has the formula to get sales, but they will need 4k.
Who knows if and when Sony will make a constant 2.8 zoom for e-mount. Fortunately, we actually don’t have to agonize and wait. That’s why I got a Samsung NX500 to complement my a6000. 😉
I want a new NEX-7 for $300. My old one has 72,000 actuation’s, the grip peeling off, and half the coating missing from the LCD screen making it a pain to use. Drop them prices Sony!
Bring on the FF NEX-7!!!!!
Yep, it’s not “divide by 1.5x”, but rather “divide by 2.25x”, so yeah, it’s 5.3mp and not 8. Add distortion correction that is going on at 16mm and you’re down to 2mp or lower in most of the frame, except the very center. A very nice way to make a great camera like A7s utterly useless. lol
My dream a6000 successor:
More accurate AF both in low light and sun
Weather sealing
A lot longer battery life
IBIS
1/8000th shutter would be nice
A hot shoe that isn’t painted over
all those features on your wish-list are great but I feel like a lot of people like myself really need a 3.5mm mic input jack to use third-party external microphones like a Rode VideoMic. This is essential for people who shoot video regularly. Lastly, a flip out screen so we can see ourselves when we record video. I understand it’s difficult to make the screen flip up to 180 because of the EVF and I’m not suggesting to get rid of the EVF but also improve the EVF with higher resolution. But there is no reason why Sony can’t make the LCD screen flip out to the side and face the subject like the CANON REBEL SERIES e.g. T3i, T4i, T5i, T6i, or T6s. These are the only two features I’m waiting for, for the successor of the A6000 and I’m all in for a small package and the only reason why I’m holding off get the Canon t6s which i really don’t want to get ONLY because of its size. COME ON SONY!
touchscreen + NX1-like AF
And would you pay NX1 prices?
No, we just want the NX1 in Sony mount for $800.
I think if you want the same capabilities (or better) on the Sony E-mount, you should be willing to pay a little more than $800 – say $999 or even $1099. The problem with wanting all the features is that all the features cost money.
yes
Unplanned obsolescence ?
My prediction, A6100 with XAVC codec, slightly improved EVF and touchscreen.
If the A6000 is discontinued, that means there is no A7000. It is the A6000 Successor.
I’d like to have a no optical low pass APS-C option. Wouldn’t it make sense to you?