With my NEX-7 out of action and as I was away for a long weekend in Suffolk, I had to open the wallet and shell out for the NEX-6 and NEX-7 replacement the a6000.
On it's first trip out I bumped into Paul Hackett and had a great day with him....top bloke!
This is the 4th camera from the NEX series I've owned, so the transition shouldn't be too painful.
The buffer of the NEX-7 was it's main failing imo and in my tests the fastest card with the NEX-7 was the MS PRO DUO 50 m/bs .....not the case with the a6000. This camera has UHS-1 bus which means it can use the UHS-1 cards up to 95 m/bs and does it make a difference. Buffer times slashed by a half (MS PRO DUO around 30 secs and the SDXC 14 secs) and coupled with the cameras ability to fire off 22-23 frames before buffering at 11 fps I could easily get into a rhythm shooting without any buffering problems all weekend....happy days!!
Sony have now added a multiport that accepts the new Sony RM VPR-1 remote release, a port that was sadly missing on all but one NEX camera.
I'm pleased with my initial shots with this camera, but a long weekend is not long enough to decide how good a camera is, but my gut feeling is this one is a belter for us digiscopers.
Shots taken using a Swarovski STX85 with the TLS-APO adapter. Both taken from about 20m
B Lucky
Gary
On it's first trip out I bumped into Paul Hackett and had a great day with him....top bloke!
This is the 4th camera from the NEX series I've owned, so the transition shouldn't be too painful.
The buffer of the NEX-7 was it's main failing imo and in my tests the fastest card with the NEX-7 was the MS PRO DUO 50 m/bs .....not the case with the a6000. This camera has UHS-1 bus which means it can use the UHS-1 cards up to 95 m/bs and does it make a difference. Buffer times slashed by a half (MS PRO DUO around 30 secs and the SDXC 14 secs) and coupled with the cameras ability to fire off 22-23 frames before buffering at 11 fps I could easily get into a rhythm shooting without any buffering problems all weekend....happy days!!
Sony have now added a multiport that accepts the new Sony RM VPR-1 remote release, a port that was sadly missing on all but one NEX camera.
I'm pleased with my initial shots with this camera, but a long weekend is not long enough to decide how good a camera is, but my gut feeling is this one is a belter for us digiscopers.
Shots taken using a Swarovski STX85 with the TLS-APO adapter. Both taken from about 20m
B Lucky
Gary