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.

Actually I posted that because I was about to rebut each and every point he made but then I thought why bother? As someone who's owned an A7 for 7 months and a NEX-5N previously, none of what he says meshes with my observations or experience at all. The A7 actually has one of the best implemented dial systems of any camera period (including pro DSLRs), but he's complaining about the interface!

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.

Well actually you could stick the $300 SEL 50/1.8 on it or the $200 Sigma primes on them and it would make all those pixels work just as hard. So perhaps you simply didn't do enough market research about what are actually available and good on the system. When Sony did cheap lenses, people complained they were soft. When they moved up, people complained they were expensive. It seems what people really wanted were cheap and good... then chose to ignore that such options were often slow (like the Sigmas) or with a narrow FoV (like the SEL 50).

The truth is, these cameras are reaping in awards, as are MFT cameras - all for good reason.  Because actually pretty much any camera exceeds the capability of most amateurs and the differences lie only at these tiny margins... but on forums like DPR these tiny margins seem to become matters of life and death in the wars between fanboys of different stripes. Unfortunately, a sense of perspective seems to be a rare trait among DPR users