My Little Sony and the Zeiss zoom have been with me for two weeks now. Unfortunately, it is the rain season now so not much fun going out shooting.
My 'real adult' set is a Canon 5DIII with EF and EF
L lenses. Needless to say, my expectations were mixed.
The first impression was that the camera-lens combination is bigger than what I expected. The second was that the lens zooms the wrong way.
The picture quality seems to be about the same as from the FF Canon. Of course the optical variables are different so the DOF/angle of vision will be different also. Peanuts. Surprising, though, the pictures that come out of this little machine. they are crisp and clear. the autofocus is up to the task as long as there is light.
Once the sun goes down this por thing loses the focus. The Zeiss zoom seems to block the autofocus light. Or something. Bad experience there.
Battery life is mediocre after the 5DIII. As I am not sure whether I am going to keep this camera, I have not ordered the charger or extra batteries yet.
They will be on the shopping list if I keep this Sony.
There is of course vignetting and distortion on the short end of the zoom. A click on LR takes care of it.
The Metabones adapter has not arrived yet. People seem to say that it is no good with AF and not so hot with MF either. The discussion about this matter has acquired features of a religious discourse. I will see what my experience is before I say anything at all.
Sony is very good in adapting the possibilities of in-camera picture processing. As a mastodont myself, I do RAW. Probably the out of camera .jpg would be "good enough" for most purposes. Again 'they' say that the -jpg machine on the Sony is hard handed. Whatever. The RAW files are good.
The camera shoots at 10 fps and it sounds very impressive. My model did not like it at all. Maybe she gets used to it. She told me she prefers the 'real' camera but the reason was that I spent too much time fiddling with the Sony because I do not my way about it like I do the 5DIII.
My feelings about the a6000-Zeiss 16-70 combo thus far:
- not as portable as I would have liked
- AF not as efficient as I would have expected
- picture quality is pretty amazing
- the user interface is not something that you'd call intuitive but not the worst there is
- this combo is definitely a downgrade from a FF Canon system, no two ways about that
- the flash is silly but fills in nicely at -1 stop
Who would buy this and for what?
- Honestly, I have no idea why a DSLR shooter would switch but maybe with some more getting used to I'll figure it out.
- Canon users, get the SL-1.
"Next time, take the real camera, please!"
65mm, ISO 640, f/4.0 at 1/100s, ambient light from the evening sky
