And who would buy the 80d knowing that the oh so mighty AF-system can't even track a flying bird?
That's not true. It tracks flying bird very well.
Well, that's nice to know. It just did'nt sound like that reading this review (and other reviews). My point was simply this: why make cameras with such incremental upgrades? Why give it 45 AF points but make sure they don't work to well? Why not just give a lot when you're asking these prices? With the A6000 Sony gave you superb AF, high speed shutter, great video, sublime IQ, focus peaking, zebras and on and on - for half the price. And had the most popular apsc camera. No wonder. It's not that complicated
I bet the 80D surpass the A600 AF any days of the week and twice on Sunday. You are also omitting the fact that when you shoot in high speed burst the EVF has blackout.
I'm a big fan of mirrorless camera but I wouldn't consider the A6000 as a super AF.
Well, from what I gather none of us has shot with the 80d, so that's really going nowhere
I shoot with both the A6000 and the old 7d and to tell you the truth I have just as many misses with the 7d. Only - or rather - biggest difference is lenses where Canon exels. I would however say that people who can't track and get a whole lot of keepers with the A6000 in decent daylight simply don't know how to shoot with it.
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Talk for yourself, i have 80D. I also own a fuji x-t1 with the xf100-400mm. It's true that you can get some good shot with any mirrorless camera but they usually take longer to acquire focus. Once they got it, they are good at maintaing it. Evf blackout is the biggest downside to mirrorless camera. In a few years, mirrorless will be superior than any DSLR. We are just not there yet
I suggest you read some of the AF tests on the A6300. It's pretty clear that the A6300 has already passed most dslrs and even solved the black out issue as well. Wll, the A6000 was/is already very, very fast acquiring focus. And was eating much more expensive dslrs every day of the week. And pretty, pretty impressive tracking moving objects. Only downside was lack of lenses. And like Canon insulting entusiasts with yet another "crippled" dslr Sony also failed big time by not providing good long lenses at the launch of the A6300. What a bummer!
The 80d has a lot going for itself. Swing touch screen, a decent burst rate, nice buffer, improved IQ - there's a lot to like. But in the tests I've seen the purportedly better AF dosn't score better (in fact a little worse) than the predecessor the D70. In my eyes that's down right insulting (to a lot of people). And very stupid.
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Dude. I don't have too. I tried the A6300 on multiple occasion. In real life, the A6300 cannot hold a candle to a DSLR for tracking BIF. The EVF blackout makes it very difficult and it takes longer to obtain focus.You have to reduce your FPS down to a lower burst (3fps) to be able to have less blackout. Once it got focus, it maintains it very well. The 80D have 7 FPS without any blackout.
It doesn't mean the A6300 is not a good camera. Like I mention. I have the same issue with my Fuji X-T1. It's a different method for shooting BIF. You have to do small burst while o n the DSLR I can do burst until I hit the buffer.
Of course my 5D mark III, beats both the 80D, Fuji and Sony. But I also have to carry the big tamron 150-600mm and that gets heavy pretty quick. Hence the reason why I have the Fuji X-T1. There is day where I don't want to carry the tripod and the gimbal head.
Btw, I also tried the A6300 + metabone adapter + Canon 500mm F4. It was so slow to acquire focus by the time it was ready to capture the birds were already gone. Even the nice gentleman who let me try that setup told me, once man, I like that Fuji a lot. It was much quicker, lighter and quieter. I think he will go back to using his canon for BIF and use his A63000 for other purposes.
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