Hi Everyone Wondering what your thoughts are on picking up a couple of spare cameras that are versatile. I have looked briefly online at the A6000, however am wondering how it would perform if being used for Star trails (high iso) or Wildlife (Need a fast autofocus). The attractions of the A6000 are obviously the price, supposed quick autofocus (feedback please), Frame rate and the ability to use my 70-400mm and effectively get around 600mm. My A7/7r just don't focus quick enough and are not what I expected as far as picture quality goes at high iso (the A7s came out too late - I already had these two). Would love to hear your thoughts on the above and am open to suggestions for other cameras. Ideally I would like to keeping my Sony lenses and lens adaptors as opposed to buying another brand and not being able to use them.
I wouldn't call them spare cameras. When I was a young photographer I used different cameras and film for different jobs. Everything from rangefinder and SLR 35mm to 8x10 view cameras. I had 4 preferred film stocks from B&W with three different developers, to color negative and transparency film. Today, We have digital sensor and firmware characteristics wedded in a camera body. It makes sense that one will want different cameras for different applications. The advantage Sony offers is a wide range of camera firmware/sensor alternatives that can be used with a common set of lenses. That's unique in the industry today.
Thanks, I know what you mean, but thats exactly what they will be - something of a secondary option, or if 1 interchangeable mirrorless camera isn't enough. Appreciate you have posted a reply, but it doesn't really answer what I was asking.
I would think if the high ISO performance of the A7/A7R is not up to the standard you are after the A6000 is not going to be any better.
