Just picked up a Sony A6000

Maklike Tier wrote:

I didn't get that sense at all. All the points he made were very valid and the story told in a very colourful way that I actually enjoyed reading.

There is a sense of frustration in all of this. Recently I almost went and bought the A6000 after the web tests of it went out. But when I did the mental gymnastics, it didn't really matter about the actual A6000 body itself when I woke up and realised that I had to stick a $1000 prime lens on it to make all those pixels work.

I think the joy of photography is simply more than counting megapixels and pixel-peeping. Sure, more is always more, but there's a certain discomfort in a consumer electronics company attempting to act like a camera company but not really having a handle on what that actually means.

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I bought the NEX6 when the then pie in the sky A7 was still regarded as "the FF NEX" for all the right reason and I really like it. What it does is provide a very useful vehicle for using my Canon EF lenses via electronic adapters. One camera body for a very specific purpose which is does well.

Therefore I thought out my purchase and did not simply buy (say) a Sony A7 for the FF sensor alone and then wonder what I was going to do about lenses afterwards.

However in my case I already have a good selection of legacy lenses and the NEX6 brought me most of the adapters necessary. Therefore my switch to an A7 would seem to be more natural than that of most, but I have simply chosen not to do so for the present and bought a M4/3 camera instead. Therefore my quite capable NEX6 is hardly superseded.

Maybe I am counter culture but the 4/3 sensor provides me with the tiny GM1 body format and this was my thought-out aim.

Perhaps some camera purchases are impulse made churning of gear and I only try to make comment on the necessity to look deeper than the latest fad camera that has come on to the market.

New technology might be good but replacing like with like might need a little harder think (the A7 to me is "like the NEX6" as it would almost certainly replace my perfectly good NEX6 if I had bought one). The A6000 has a few advantages over the NEX6 and some disadvantages unless anyone can see any real advantage in a lower resolution evf.