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Will you cancel your M5 pre-order after seeing the A6500?

Started Oct 6, 2016 | Polls thread
Peter63 Senior Member • Posts: 1,529
Re: Will you cancel your M5 pre-order after seeing the A6500?

I am getting the M5. I have an A6000 and don't have fun shooting with it. I have the body, a Sigma 19, Sony 50, kit lens, and Sony/Zeiss 16-70 and they are all for sale on Craigslist right now. Seeing the A6500 makes me think I might keep a couple lenses and continue with two systems.

I like the specs of the A6500 but there is still no front dial, the screen is tiny when reviewing a 3:2 image, and the touch screen only works for focus point selection. I feel like despite the killer specs, there are always caveats with my Sony setup that make it less enjoyable to use. I will have to wait and take a closer look once there is more info but my feeling is that even if I add an A6500 to my kit, the M5 will be my favorite body to use.

On the positive side, it looks like A mount glass is supposed to work well with the straight adapter, no pellicle mirror is required for good AF. If the A6500 opens up all of the A mount glass and the M5 opens up EF and EF-S glass for native equivalent AF, the mirrorless world has become a lot more interesting.

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