DxOmark (Click here) just published the A6000 sensor test results. As you know the A6000 has phase detection pixel across the full sensor but despite that it manages to match the best APS-C sensor on market to date. So you have both, top image quality and top autofocus performance on a small mirrorless camera. can’t get any better than this! Oh yes it can….the camera will ship tomorrow in USA 🙂
This is what DxO writes about the A6000:
Based on sensor performance alone, at $649 (body only) the A6000 appears to be excellent value for money. And while we’ve yet to assess image quality with native mount lenses, the Sony A6000 certainly looks like a promising addition to the range.
Sony A6000 store link list with US and Europe links:
Sony A6000 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonyStore. In Europe at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, AT, NL, BE, CH, FI, SE, PT, WexUK.
Silver A6000 at Amazon US, BHphoto, WexUK.
Sony A6000 with lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonyStore, Sony Canada, WexUK.
Silver A6000 with lens at Amazon US, BHphoto, WexUK.
Sony 70-200mm FE at Amazon, BHphoto, SonyStore. In Europe at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, AT, NL, BE, CH, FI, SE, PT
More A6000 tests:
a6000 outguns a99 in burst shooting
Sony A6000 image samples at Imaging Resource. AF test with A6000 with FE 55mm f1.8 by Josselin Cornou on Youtube.
SAR reader Michael and Joseelin sent me the links to some A6000 video tests:
“Just been surfing and found some new a6000 youtube videos that you – and your readers – might like to see. First one – sadly – shows that the a6000 struggles somewhat in low light and there are other videos out there to suggest the same: the a6000 is not quite on par with the fastest micro 4/3s from Panasonic (probably it´s another story in good light). Anyway, it´s not slow either. Video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Y1e96W_o8
or, maybe, as indicated in this first australian review from The Australian (newspaper), it simply has a focusing problem when you go rapidly from near to far and vice versa (he wrote a piece on it as well in his written review, you can find it on the web). Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNbyM60lUSQ
and finally a good test with fast moving object approaching the camera: 5-6 missed shots out of more than 20 – that´s not bad. And as other reviews has underlined it seems that the a6000 is very good at getting focus back after losing is. And video just seems great. Video 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5dhqgEgC4U
and a pretty impressive low light video (notice that af doesn´t even get distracted when people passes in front of the lens). Video 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sTXVmxXylg“
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so let’s wait for some “real world” reviews for the a6000
Haha there are plenty and they’re all good. Sony seems to have knocked it out of the park and the fact they’ve managed to do that on such an inexpensive model is astounding.
I wouldn’t got that far. Since Sony is consolidating bodies the a6000 makes a lot of sense in a so-so economy targeting consumers. Sony did a great job fixing one of the biggest gripe with mirrorless: AF. On the other hand, I get why NEX-7 owners are disappointed over some missing features and cheaper materials. I expected an IQ bump which we’re not seeing.
The a6000 is terrific for new buyers. Upgraders? Obviously, it depends on what you’re upgrading from but I can see many NEX owners shrugging an a6000 off.
should do a burst test vs the a77..
the a77 will lose in a few seconds///what a shamE!!
Not to mention the a6000 has better frame coverage for AF, much better high ISO, better buffer, smaller, cheaper, better EVF, WiFi, Multi Interface shoe… etc etc, on what was already a very good cameras (a77). Makes me pretty excited to see the A77 II.
If they can add a better dual AF system (triple AF system?), along with all the modern perks (WiFi, tethering etc) AND add 5-Axis IBIS the A77 II is going to be a killer camera.
so i am wondering the a77II will be mirrorless or not..
If it ‘s mirrorless , i think the iso performance can be better than a6000
Why would it be better, a6000 is also mirrorless. But it won’t be, it will be SLT, but I suspect it will lose less light to SLT Than in the past. The new 24MP sensor is a huge improvement on the old, despite the small difference in lab testing, so the light loss will be far smaller issue than on the A77.
I’m afraid you’re going to be right. I was hoping the 32MP rumor would pan out but I suspect the a77II will be a marginal improvement in IQ. Better ISO but not even by a stop. Rumor has it there’s going to be a boost in AF. Will it match or beat the a6000? I don’t know but Sony needs a good camera for sports and I would imagine the a77II would be designed for that use case (another reason not to pump up the MP). Which suggests solid FPS performance is called for too.
What triple AF?
The A99 has OSPDAF+SLT PDAF .
If they can add the same A6000 OSPDAF or better AF in the Sony A77 and the ability to lift the SLT mirror on the FLY and 5axis IS then it will be the ultimate APS-C camera.
A very very good result, puts it in top spot for mirrorless cameras smaller than FF by a healthy margin.
Looking at the images is was hard to imagine the a6000 not doing well.
It’s a bad news for a6000 “haters” claiming it will be never N7 successor!!!! Now we can see a6000 does have better performance without Tri Navi… Specificity of Sony next 7… And I can live without blike thebleveling gauge as I m not either architect (OK it’s an easy bad joke)…
Thx DxOMark and even if u don’t agree their tests and the results, the comparison of cameras results are relevants 😉 as they follow same protocol for every camera…
Sorry for misspelling.. It s the damn auto correction on smartphone
Better performance without tri-navi? You mean that even without a third dial the IQ is better?
I just meant many complained about A6000 because of lack of Tri-Navi and leveling gauge… Now we have better performance i wont mind to not have Tri Navi ( which is Sony specific) and seems not missing to many other camera owners ;)… maybe i m more clear? However, some lacks of Sony would be more weather-sealed and water proof, from what i read 😀
However if they were releasing a sony A7000 with Tri Navi and leveling gauge at the same time than A6000 and which would be slightly updating the nex 7, then i would buy it for sure to get extra features ( would be silly then not to 😉 compared to A6000.
Bravo Sony, brave. I think it’s safe to say that A6000 is the best APS-C camera ever.
Well done, Sony, you have impressed us again and again. Do that for A-mount and we’re fully convinced.
The best they can do for A mount is discontinuing it.
Why would they need to do that? Just shoehorn this sensor into the A-mount IBIS cradle and chuck the pellicle mirror. It would make a lot of people happy, I’d imagine.
Hey I had
Admin, I had to repost the video (AF test 55mm – A6000) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIk_dyFBLYY
focus is quick… but it seems that PDAF is not working.
that would be an incorrect assumption. Users on dpr confirm pdaf with a6000 and the sel55
This is not sel 50mm… its FE sony 55mm.
… That would be the sel55
There is no sel 55mm, only sel 50mm and fe 55mm
The code is sel55f18z all the Sony/Zeiss badged Sony e mounts are sel
Whoa, way to bury the lead! Can you please give more info re: “the camera will ship tomorrow in USA”?!? Is this only from Sony Store, or also from major retailers like Amazon, B&H & Adorama? My Amazon pre-order shipping date still reads: “We need a little more time to provide you with a good estimate. We’ll notify you by email as soon as we have an estimated delivery date.”
Sony’s USA online store shipping tomorrow. Non-Sony stores should see them beginning next week.
Despite believing that the AF of the A6000 seems to be really good, I am increasingly getting frustrated about people’s inability to make some proper AF tests. Here, we have another 3 bad examples:
Video 1: First, who cares about the time it takes to focus between a distant and a close subject? I never do that in real life, do you? I want to know about tracking abilities! Second (and much worse), the author set the camera to ‘center’-mode. As far as I understand, you only get CDAF in that mode. For CDAF, performance is decent, but I want to know whether PDAF still works decently in low light!
Video 2: Some self-filmed videos would have helped. The provided out-of-camera-videos are filmed at daylight and untrustable marketing videos.
Video 3: No low-light, background and subject are sharp in most of the frames (use larger aperture?).
you may just have to buy it and test it yourself. I don’t get the point of those videos at all.
point 1) lots of people? it was probably the #1 asked for test in a lot of threads I’ve read
point 2) that video isn’t even a review no clue why anyone would ever link it
point 3) from the maker of the video “shot with the 55-210. It was early evening in the UK so not a lot of light. ISO was on auto and bumped up to 3200, and f stop was 4.5, shutter speeds were around 1/640 to 1/1000” they also stated “My feeling is that half of the files are sharp enough to print and the remaining half are good enough to use as part of a video”
terrific.
Sony we need more lenses….not bodies.
How many lenses do You need? There are 20 E-mount lenses + 2 converters.
You’ll never fix a broken record 🙂
An 85 and a 135 is a must for any system. Has nothing to do with a broken record.
And there are 15 lenses, not 20(FE excluded), some of which are pretty horrible in quality.
Why do you exclude the 5 FE lenses? The 55 1.8 essentially is an 85mm on NEX and Axxxx bodies.
Because the point of a aps-c mirrorless system is to be relatively compact, and that extends to the lenses.
By your logic the Fuji system would have what… Two lenses? The point is that there are more than 20 lenses for the system from Sony only.
The 55/1.8 is no bigger than the 24/1.8
Get over it. You are turning your nose up at one of the best lenses on the market. I would take the 55 over Fuji’s 56mm any day. So Sony has excellent, 35, 50 and 85mm equivalents, a nice wide zoom and an excellent 70-200/4.
You are changing your initial argument. You want highly compact, very high quality APS-C only lenses. I hate to break it to you, but you will not be able to purchase an 85mm 1.4 pancake lens anytime in the near future, perhaps when liquid lenses are available in 10 years.
The FE lenses are relatively compact compared to FA lens counterparts. The FE 35mm is highly compact and the 55mm is fairly small.
There are a lot of points to an APS-C Mirrorless system. The fact that you can adapt just about any lens you want due to the short flange distance is a huge benefit you simply cannot find on SLR/SLT designs. If your only consideration is compact, perhaps you’d be better off with a point and shoot or a MFT. Aside from that, even with large lenses, the Mirrorless APS-C cameras are still less bulky than an SLR.
A 55 is a 55 a 85 is a 85. That does not change. When someone wants a 85 they want the 85mm look not to just stand about were you would stand if you had a real 85mm.
Slightly shallower DoF? The field of view of the 55mm on aps-c is 82.mm.
Not to mention the ability to adapt literally hundreds (thousands?) of legacy lenses which are often cheap and great.
Exactly!
Has been in stock the last week here i Denmark 🙂 … Only thing I would love to have seen would have been a touch screen, but not a big deal ….
Why does the sensor look bigger on the NEX7? Camera bodies look the same size.
because the a6000 body looks bigger with the bigger grip-
its the angle (looking down a bit on the a6000 and straight on for the nex7) and clarity of the shot (you can see the inner black ring between the mount and sensor in the nex7 shot)
What’s the point without lenses? Don’t get me wrong, there are enough lenses in the lineup but the QC is so shitty that you often have to get lenses replaced at least multiple times to get one that is actually ok. Currently waiting to get a 16-70Z replaced… a lens that had a starting price of 1k$ with severe decentering (2nd copy already). That’s just ridiculous.
@Admin
Please don’t worship and quote DXO Mark. You can set a good example through this blog.
Given that they have never tested kit themselves, and post links various other sites, what would you have them do?
Posting a link and quote is worship now?
DxO is one of the only testing sites with well documented and scienttific testing methods. What’s your point?
What a ways mirrorless has come these past few years (since the days of my GF1 and NEX5).
The tech continues to improve at an impressive rate, and the costs continue to drop (relatively).
Makes me wonder what features/performance etc. we’ll see in 5 years time… 10 years time….
Amazing.
I wish Sony would bring a trade in program. I would like to trade in my NEX-7 for the “little wonder”. 🙂
They do have a trade in program. $310 for the ned-7 with lens and in good condition.
LOL. To think that I paid 1200 Euros for the body only…
I do think the Leica nuts have a valid point about Leica cameras and lenses. 🙁
I would sell it now before the price goes down too much. I cant see you spending more than 200.00 for the A6000 if your nex-7 is in good shape.
I see the nex-7 go for more than 600.00 for just the body alone so I would not trade it in. I would sell it. I sold mine for about 700.00 for just the body.
Trade in program? Sell your NEX-7.
As long as it’s in good condition it should net a decent amount.
Likely more than $310…
I’m actually less impressed than I had hoped. Only slightly better in low light than my NEX-7. The improvements in focus speed are great for some purposes, and the price is good. But the viewfinder is certainly nothing special, build quality seems a bit lower, and I would miss the digital level feature. I was planning to get an a6000, but if these DXO results bear out after more testing I’ll probably wait for the next generation.
if you have a NEX-7 then probably no real good reason to get A6000, but if you have NEX-3N like me, i will absolutely upgrade.
I’ve got the NEX-7 (and an a7r), but have the A6000 on preorder along with the 70-200 f/4. I’m hoping the latter combo will be a good choice for shooting action while on vacation, as I travel light.
About 1/3 of a stop better in low light, to be exact.
2/5 of a stop better in fact
so i guess this ends any rumor that there would be a limited time discount or special sale on the A6000 in a couple of weeks?
No progress in the overall rank vs. NEX-7?
*yawn*
Maybe not, but increased ISO sensitivity and faster focusing/processing is progress.
What were you expecting?
Well, after 2.5 years, the APS-C flagship has only progressed 1 point in DXO. Worse, APS-C development seems relegated to the “incremental upgrade” paralysis that preceded the death of A-mount. In 2.5 years, if the DXO score goes up by just 1 point with the next APS-C “flagship”, m43 will definitely have caught up.
IMHO build quality of GX7 is quite a bit nicer with a magnesium shell, tilt EVF, and touchscreen. My GX7 is also completely silent, which is more useful to me than phase detection.
Don’t get me wrong, A6000 is one hell of a camera, but m43 seems to be playing their cards right, differentiating their products just enough to be innovative/compelling in this crowded space.
Half the release price too. More money for lenses.
I’ll take the A99 since it got beat. Please send quickly.
A bit OT, but … Have the Sony lover Shawn Barnett left dpreview?
Of course the Sony scores lower than the Nikon!
What’s your point?
If i wanted a DSLR body, i would go for a Canon 70D instead of Nikon 5300…
A6000 could be perfect camera if It had microphone input.
And tri-navi and level meter and the old Nex7/6 EVF.
actually I don’t believe in scores. if you look great on desktop or prints is good enough
keep telling yourself that.
98% of camera owners take pics without them ( they are interesting bfeatures but not at all needed to make great pictures). It s like telling you need last IPhone to be sure to call people in good conditions;)…Just a childish caprice as u still have 2 dials..
I hate these dedicated mics. That is something that really annoys me. Time to buy another.
Which only 0.35% users have need of. No thanks!
Skip Sony’s poor excuse of a limited mic and do it the right way. Shotgun mic or lav receiver preferably off camera, but into a real recorder like the H4. Then sync in post Sony’s incamera track created with the default camera mic with the recorder track using PluralEyes. Deactivate/silence the incamera track. Done.
The only thing the lack of input does is eliminate the simplified connection of an external mic, like my Rode, directly in creating the incamera track, but there you are dependent on the lesser quality of the recorder built into the cameras. Sony may actually be doing you a favor.
Well well it could be much better if it would stayed on the design table for a bit longer..
Japanese marketing politics is to ge the monies from the consumer by providing a product that is half finished..and this is no exception…- well name one procuct that is such in the field of photography? within 5 years?:)
Is A6000 sensor better against colorshift/vignetting than NEX-7? I am hoping Sony can start making small, non-retrofocus, high IQ lenses…
Great little camera which is unfortunately let down by a poor choice of (native) lenses..and the few acceptable ones are hugely overpriced. Unfortunately third party lenses seems to not work with new PDAF..or do they?
If anyone has ordered the A6000 on B&H, call them ASAP to see if they can ship the camera before they shut down their business for two weeks. You can’t even cancel your order when they are closed. A6000 will be in stock everywhere after this weekend. B&H will be closed soon till 4/23!!!!
You have to order before April 13th in order for them to ship it out before their biz shuts down.
Is the A5000 autofocus system going to be the same as the A6000?
Nope.
I took a look at the color separation measurements and it is not as bad as I expected: worse than previous NEXes, but better than Nikons.
So you’re saying it is worse than the NEX-3N….
I don’t know anything about 3N, I always compare with 5N, which is still the best choice for MF.
Just got my tracking number! ordered from sony.ca wasnt supposed to ship till next week but should have it tomorrow!
something tells me that Sony is paying DXO for all these good reviews. Few days ago DXO crowned the Xperia Z2 as the new king of camera phones over the nokia 808 and lumia 1020 which i thought was strange to begin with and now this. For me DXO has lost its credibility
Sony always made great sensors but so so lenses
next generation SONY A7 (A8 ?) with sony A6000 autofocus….and without the 80:th look with the “head” above the camera. If so…wow…it will be a winner.
did anyone receive their tracking number from Sony US?
Just got an A6000 to play with. Used the 1650PZ and the Tamron 18-200 on it and must say this little camera is real fun. Easily connects to WiFi , instantly finds a Panasonic and a SOny Tv and plays the pictures via WiFI. After updating the “Romote control app” in the camera (via WiFi and play sony play memories store) Ipad and smartphones can be used to take pictures (incl. a variety of settings that can be done on the ipad (exposure, time, focus, zoom). Really liked it.
Picture quality is very nice also in low light conditions (far less noise at ISO 3200 than on my A77) . Although the AF is fast i got the impression that it fails especialy with the Tamron at 150-200mm when there’s little light. The AF light comes on of course but due to my large hands and the bigg lens there isn’t much getting to the object :-). Liked the ability to customize the color keying effects (once you download and install the Pictureeffect+ App from the store) . Couldnt really test the AF in burst mode yet but it IS fast and mostly on target. All in all a nice cam at an interesting price point. Battery drains pretty quickly when plaing around with the camera and Wifi , used two batteries within aprox 2,5 hours., but of course playing around, zooming a lot and transferring all pictures via WiFi.. I really missed an external battery loader (ootB battery can only be charged while in the camera).