Hadn’t picked up the mighty sony aps-c body in years, since switching for a reflex full frame body.
It was a pleasant « surprise », I had forgotten how much of a difference a smaller hybrid body can make.
It was all in one small week in Paris, but it will definitely fuel my desire to pick it up more often now that I was reminded of how powerfull and versatile it can be.
Pros :
Lightweight, easy to carry ;
Small files, compared to a big dslr raw files ;
Shooting experience , evf is a delight and the seamless evf to back screen transition is so refreshing when coming from a body where shooting with the screen is slow and clearly an after thought ;
Discrete, you don’t run around a city like Paris with a huge dslr in your hands that brings unwanted attention… like a sign that would says “i’m a tourist, please try to scam me / rob me” ;
Quality lenses, I have an extremly sharp and inexprnsive sigma lens attached to my body. My dslr sigma made counterpart cost me twice as much as the e mount one.
Cons :
Terrible battery life, coming back from a dslr which could go on for weeks before needing a charge, shooting with this small body was definitely a challenge. It is not a little con, you need to constantly switch your body off or you might run out of power mid day and regret the heavy counterpart the rest of the day.
File Transfer, Sony imaging Edge app is terrible and doesnt allow to transfer RAW pictures to your phone to edit them on the go. Made me wanna scream while wanting to quick edit some pocs during comute. This not acceptable, Sony needs to do better.
All pictures are mine and shot on my sony a6000 with the 30mm f/1.4 lens. Edited with lightroom classic.
(Night photos necessited some lightroom denoise magic, but my dslr would have necessitated the same)
This is not an ad in any way shape or form, I’ve bought every piece of hardware of software used to make those pictures.
(Reposted from r/a6000 as I couldn’t crosspost)