SAR reader Ferrell McCollough sent me this:
The Sony A6000 Flash bounce cards have a new addition. I just added the Amber Flash Bounce card to the set of White and Clear cards. If you want to have a look, these products have been popular among the A6000 owners. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-A6000-Flash-Bounce-Card/dp/B00LEX4RW4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427319737&sr=8-1&keywords=Sony+A6000+Flash+Bounce.
There is also a new underwater TTL Housing for Sony Alpha a6000 from Ikelite.
And Colby Brown reviewed the A6000:
If you told me two years ago that for less than $600 I could get my hands on a mirrorless camera that not only compares to most DSLRs in terms of features, functionality and image quality, but beats many of them, I would of thought you were crazy. To me, Sony has created an incredible camera at an incredible price point that is honestly hard to beat. On top of it being much more affordable that most DSLRs, it offers awesome image quality, 11 fps shooting and an AF system that for the most part is better that most other cameras out there. In addition, add Sony’s wifi/app support and its growing line of both e & fe mount lenses, and the Sony a6000 becomes an even better deal.
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.
A6000 Gariz case on eBay in [shoplink 26006 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 26007 ebay]Brown (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 26008 ebay]Camel (Click here)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 26009 ebay]Red (Click here)[/shoplink].
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The flash bounce is nice, but way too expensive for a piece of plastic.
You have to be joking. It’s $15 for the set of three. It’s a very low volume item with a very specific use that works with one or two camera models and he has to pay off the molding and other costs. $15 is very cheap in that light.
No offense meant here, but while you do have valid points, I think you don’t realize how cheap these things are to make, low volume or not. I also see two flash cards for 40CAD in the offer, but even 5 bucks for one would be too much.
Cheap to make in China, or in a shed if you’re retired, but these are being made by a fellow photo enthusiast who could be making a lot more money at his day job! Plus, I think, to the best of my knowledge that Ferrell was, at the time, the only person making this accessory, but we still complain. I await your less expensive knock-off………
Apparently, I got moderated for irony.
Anyway, I’ll write it again. Don’t make it sound like this guy sacrificed himself for the greater good. At the price I am seeing, 20CAD for one, he’s easily making more than 50% profit (he can correct me if he so wishes). However, you are barking at the wrong tree. I would gladly pay the price for this thing, if only to support him, but that doesn’t make it cheaper.
These parts are precision machined on a CNC mill to tight tolerances, for $5 a piece it’s a bargain.
Amazon USA they are $14.99
Interesting that there is such a difference.
LOL wow really dude? $15 is too much because of the cost of the materials?! If that was the case then the A6000 and every other camera is probably worth under $100. R&D and certainly mark up is required if you’re going to want to make anything available and worth the time and effort. If you think it’s so easy to come up with then put your own r&d into it, test and research your materials (and find a place to make them) to come up with 3 variants and see how much time and money it costs you at the end. I bet my man doesn’t even break even at $15 in relation to the time, materials, iterations, etc.
Vlad, I think you don’t realize how expensive things are to make when the volume is low. If you think I’m wrong test the idea by designing a unique widget and then call China to get a price on 1000 of them.
Thank you to everyone who has recognized the time and cost in bringing this card to market. Many hours of testing and many prototypes were made. I wanted this card to enhance my own photography and I thought Sony customers would too. Always pursing something more I have developed the amber color to match the RoscoSun CTO gel and this is probably something I’ll never financially profit from, I did it to round out the set to satisfy my own needs.
The price seems quite fair to me. The idea is that the inventor makes a little money from his idea and the time spent getting it sourced.
That’s actually brilliant usage of the hotshoe. Lesser cameras like the A5100 can’t have stuff like this because its lacks hotshoe. And greater cameras like the A7 don’t even have built in flash.
This just further shows what a nice, small, yet complete package the A6000 is, compared to other cameras below it and above it.
Does A6000 come with magicfairydust too?
The built in flash is close to useless. The body is too small for shoe-mount flashes. Why don’t you sell that A6000 and buy RX100. At least “point and shoot” seems to be the usage scenario of your A6000 based on those comments.
“now days”, “lets”, “change of peace”, “tac sharp”, “would of” What a massacre.
I agree, it’s inexcusable. Amazingly, people today aren’t even embarrassed if errors like these are pointed out.
“…growing line of both e & fe mount lenses…” yeah right. When was last time we saw e mount aps-c lens from Sony? They abandoned it as usual and now their new toy is fe lineup. Time will come and they will abandon fe too. That’s why Sony never changes. Same attitude toward customers who invested in their cameras.
The only “growing line” is the one of a6000 owners with money in hand, waiting for the lenses.
Don’t forget to look at your side. There is another waiting line of the Amount- users as well. Seems that Sony is not interested in our A and E-Mount money 🙁
Only FE matters, sad
Uhhh…Sony JUST released the 16-70mm F4 Zeiss for APS-C E-mount.
Just released as in a over a year ago?
Colby’s spelling and grammar aside, I can’t believe his “notable lenses” list. I own the A6000, bought it the day it came out, and by far the best two lenses I’ve used with it are the Sony 35mm f1.8 and 50mm f1.8. These two are “must-have” lenses for the A6000. Trust me.
Agreed. I would throw in the 10-18 too.
Flash bounce Card ships not to Germany 🙁 someone knows How to get this from where else?
they do, just send an e-mail as I did. I live in the netherlands. sales@fmphotography.us
The build-in flash on A6000 pretty much useless. Shadow catches from the lens when shot direct head on and too weak for bounce. Let alone add on diffuser,
Big flashes, small bodies. Small bodies, big flashes…dobadita…dabadada..ooooh…yeah.
You say it best when you say nothing at all……….