Sony A6000

[JDelage]

All,

What do people think of the Sony A6000? It seems like a very impressive piece of equipment. I did a search and couldn't find anything; I'm surprised it's not been discussed yet.

 

[pallse]

I dont know why people dont discussing this camera but I am very close to buy it. I was close to choose the gx7 but then I found the a6000 option and is hard not to choose this one. It has very fast auto focus, large sensor, fair price.

As I am a fisheye/wide angle shooter my plan is to take the a6000 with the 16mm wide angle lense plus the fisheye adapter (good price too contrary to the lumix 8mm) with nauticam housing and the 4.33" dome port.

I dont care about having less availability of lenses against the m43 cause I am not doing uw macro at all and I know exactly what I want.

Only downside I've found till date is that I cannot find someone who have tried this setup at sea! Is there anyone out there who can tell us few things about the 16mm with the fisheye adapter? Any vignetting? Sharpness?

 

[Interceptor121]

Nauticam is just about to release an housing

http://www.nauticam.com/product.asp?id=297

 

[Sandra112]

Will the a6000 OSPDAF work on the 18200LE and 35f1.8? These 2 lenses are important for me, but i'm properly not the only one.. A list would be great of the native e-mount lenses that works on the a6000 pdaf

 

[Interceptor121]

You never use a long zoom lens in a housing so forget it
35 may work as it does on the a7 but is a lens for portrait work not sure how useful

 

[danmarshell]

$220 Meikon A6000 housing and connect fisheye dome port
Meikon Sony A6000 underwater housing waterproof case

 

[mselenaous]

Interesting. I had not heard of this brand. It is only rated to 130ft. Did you order directly from China?

 

[danelteller]

My friend ordered it from China, will dive with it to Maldives on December. We are recreative divers, this cheap uw housing may be is right for us.

 

[bvanant]

There is a review of the A6000 and the Nauticam housing up on the Optical Ocean site, I wrote the review, part II is in the works.
Bill

 

[mozaik]

The Sony a6000 is a very impressive camera. I too am puzzled as to the little publicity it's getting. The first Sony cameras , NEX-5 /N and NEX-7 were very good sellers for underwater use and the Sony mirrorless cameras have only improved since.

at $598 (B&H Price) with a 16-50mm lens this camera is an excellent choice for diving with a Nauticam housing.