Just picked up a Sony A6000

Klarno wrote:

The Sony A6000 seems like a nice camera, and I might get one, or its successor, when I'm ready to move past my A3000 (that I use only paired with manual lenses and a Metabones Speedbooster-- the A3000 just doesn't have high-enough resolution screens for focus peaking to be all that good, and anything would be a step up in that department). Needless to say my use case doesn't capitalize on the A6000 having the best C-AF per dollar out there.

But Sony's DSLR division has been awfully inconsistent the past few years, ever since they started trying to capitalize on EVFs. One year they're solely focusing on SLTs, the next on NEX, the next on SLTs again, and now haven't they declared that they're only going to be developing FE lenses? I would not be inclined to buy into Sony's lens or flash systems, because they haven't shown that they can be trustworthy. After years of complaining about the Minolta iISO hot shoe, they've come out with a super-proprietary flash mount that on the surface looks like ISO standard, but when you scratch the surface it's even more restrictive than Minolta iISO, and has quite poorly designed flashes to boot (like a $600 flash that overheats after 10 flashes and won't turn on again for 10 minutes, and won't even physically fit in other hot shoes for off-camera triggering despite claims that it will because the foot doesn't meet ISO standard because of the pins for the Multi Interface Shoe).

It can cost a lot of money to have to bail out of a system because the manufacturer doesn't want to support it anymore, as Canon FD users learned a long time ago, as well as Minolta MD, Olympus OM and Olympus 4/3 users (with good things for the latter having come to those who waited for the E-M1). And with Sony, the risk is that you end up having to bail out every single time you want to upgrade, even if you're sticking with Sony. With Sony, you don't get a camera manufacturer, you get the premier consumer electronics manufacturer, chasing trends the way a badly behaved dog chases cars.

what you are describing is the fear i had when i read that Sony took over the camera business from Minolta. my worst case scenario (Sony to abandon the dSLR business after a year or two) fortunately didn't come true. but them having introduced two new mounts leaves me with the question wheter my money is well "invested" in my Alpha lenses. using them on one of the new FF bodies via an adapter is an option, but not one that i'm looking forward to - negates the benefit of a small body and makes the use of it even more unbalanced as soon as a heavier lens is attached to it.
so i'm continuing to use my old (by todays standards) camera as long as it works. if it breaks i can always buy a used a900 that will serve me for another couple years. and who knows, maybe Sony has again some offerings that appeal to me. 'cause even if they're currently selling sweet FF sensors in rather uninspiring bodies - they do know how to make a photographer's tool. i still haven't used a camera that has better ergonomics or is faster and more straight forward to use than the a900. not even the sweet GH3.