Just picked up a Sony A6000

Aaron801 wrote:

I'm intrigued wit the A6000 and actually the whole NEX series camreas. The bigger sensor and now much bigger resolution in the very small (as small as m4/3 package) seems pretty ideal. I've picked up one of the older models though, an A5000 and I just couldn't get with the shape/feel of it. It kind of seems like a cell phone with a big lens tacked on the side of it. The shape and the control layout of my GH2 I like much much better and as great as the specs are with the A6000 with the big sensor, big resolution fast AF etc doesn't seem so great for me with that odd (to me anyway) layout. I also like the fact that m4/3 seems to have many more and many cheaper options for lenses and because it's a more established system there are more lenses that I see showing up for great deals used... which is a great thing if you're like me, a photographer on a budget. I do like to crop pretty heavily sometimes and find the "picture inside the picture" in shots that I take so the larger resolution of the A6000 would be nice. Still, I kind of think that the 16mp that the m4/3 cameras have is more than capable of great images and certainly good enough for me 98% of the time... I don't think that I'll be trading up from what I have very soon.

As for the A7, I like the shape layout much better and love the fact that it's a full frame camera at that size. Still, I know someone who has one and has issues with it. Video makes the camera overheat pretty easily and pretty quickly... and the AF seems to have some problems too. Nice design and capable of great IQ I know, but if I were to ever go this route I'd be waiting for the mkII, when they have more of the bugs worked out.

I have never had any problems with the A7 overheating in video.    Shooting the same as with video from my old Pentax KX....that DID overheat quite a lot.

I am sure there would be situations where this does occur but it is not that often and the camera has so much more control for video than my GX7.

Also, while I don't use AF much with it, that is another thing I have not had any issue with....AF with the kit lens is fast, quiet and reliable.

It does focus to EV 0 (compared to the GX7 EV -4) but in low light while a bit slower than many recent cameras, it is still quite good.....in good to normal light it is excellent.

When the light gets low, the GX7 is the one that stays home.

In a way m4/3 seems perhaps a little less than ideal as there are smaller cameras with bigger sensors out there, but if you look at it from a perspective beyond just the technical specs to the design of the cameras and the variety of whats available for both bodies and lenses, then it's s system that to my mind looks like much less of a compromise.