Good Morning!
Let’s start the new week talking about the Sony NEX-6. There are many new reviews to check out! On top you can watch the Sony NEX-6 teardown and Infrared conversion video. I would not try to emulate him 🙂 The full tutorial can also be read on their website ir-photo.net.
ePhotozine posted the full chart test pictures while the dutch Pixelmania (translation here) posted the full NEX-6 review and gets recommended by the reviewer team. There is also a camera test with the 16-50mm pancake lens test at Lesnumeriques (translation here). And also German reviewers are testing the Sony NEX-6 like at Chip.de (translation here). Now four Sony cameras are on the top 5 list at Chip.de. French readers may be happy to learn about the Sony deal described at Lemondedelaphoto.
The NEX-6 is shipping almost everywhere (but not in US) and click those direct links to check out price and in Stock status: Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Wex UK, Wex Germany Sonystore DE–UK–FR–IT–ES–NL–SE–FI–CH and more links at Alphacameradeals.
Plenty of auctions are available on eBay (here on Slidoo).
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awaresome video.
Hope it works well after assembler back together
Great, in stock in Czech Republic too
http://www.megapixel.cz/sony-nex-6-cerny-16-50-mm-1347438428
The results of the 16-50 are a little bit scary !!
Differences are huge between same lenses… And not very good at all..
How funny would it be if the sensor had Nikon stamped on it. 😀
Really disappointing about the 16-50mm. It means Sony still lacks any portable pancake lenses, at any focal length.
Lol, nice shocker @ 4:57.
Good video though, thanks Wiebe.
The A100 IR conversion talks about shorting a couple of pins to get rid of the charge in the capacitor. I guess he never read it!
Hopefully Olympus can help Sony with lenses
I am stunned that no one seems to want to test the hybrid focus on a moving subject! I’ve read everything I can find about the NEX-6 and still no good tests of the continous focus capabilities! This is the key capability that has been missing from mirrorless. Now Sony has offered some hope and all the reviewers are ignoring it. Unbelievable.
The converted NEX-6 works very well!
I was very well aware that flash capacitors hold charge, I just did not expect there to be a contact at that particular spot… I left this bit in the video as I think it is a good warning for anyone doing their own conversions or camera teardowns.
The most important thing that I learned here is to, “…keep the women away.”
Ummm If I were him, I would buy an used NEX5N and convert it for IR shooting. NEX6 is too new 🙂
By the way, why don’t use an IR filter instead? Does it get the same result?
Very interesting however I am very concerned that he did not replace the filter he removed with a piece of clear filter material. Without that in place, when cleaning, one is touching/cleaning the actual surface of the sensor. In normal cleaning, the sensor is never touched directly, it is always the IR block/anti-aliasing filter where the dust actually resides and that is what is cleaned off–NOT the sensor itself. Without a replacement glass, I would be scared S***less to clean the sensor off if dust were present.