Sony Alpha a6300 -كاميرا من دون عدسة سوني الفا a6300 – 24.2 ميجابيكسل, كاميرا رقمية ميرورليس

This is a fantastic “jack of all trades” camera. In some respects, it may be the best camera under $1,000, but it is far from perfect.In general, it is a nice compact size, but feels well built in the hand. It is fast and responsive, with an amazing autofocus system. Just a few years ago, mirrorless cameras had the true reputation of being significantly behind dSLRs in auto focus systems. That day is over. The autofocus system, in most respects, surpasses most dSLR autofocus systems. Being mirrorless, the camera has an exceptional live view/LCD for videos and stills. It has an EVF instead of Optical viewfinder. It may be one of the best EVFs on the market, and is superior to an OVF in most respects. The image quality is very very good. I shoot primarily full frame with the Nikon D750. This is an APS-C camera. No, it’s not as good as full frame, but it seems to be as good as any other APS-C camera out there. But there is an important caveat — Sony’s jpeg processing leaves a lot to be desired. While they may be good enough for a casual shooter, an enthusiast will want to process RAW files to maximize the image quality. There are lots of other nice features you don’t necessarily see in most dSLRs — A tilting LCD, well-implemented wifi, very good in-camera HDR and Panorama modes.Anyway, let’s get into specific pros and cons, starting with the negatives:Ergonomic/design negatives:- The hard eyecup over the EVF. It makes it nearly impossible to use the EVF while wearing glasses. Yes, it’s a spectacular EVF, but I need to lift up my glasses to use it.- The memory card slot, located in the battery compartment, flush and parallel to the battery compartment door. I feel like I am performing surgery every time I need to remove the memory card. It is not easy to slide in and out due to this positioning.- Continued lack of an easy way to move the AF point. It’s not a touch screen. There is no good thumb stick to move the AF point. You need to use the control dial, and I found myself often accidentally pushing it to the side, to the ISO or drive function, when I was trying to move the AF point. For an enthusiast level camera, there should be simpler and faster methods to move the AF point.- Cramped buttons and lack of some direct controls in general. This is largely a tradeoff of being a small camera. But in this price range, when compared to other dSLRs in this price range, you get dual control dials, you get more direct function buttons. While the camera has many assignable customizable buttons, still not enough for all the functions I need. I shouldn’t have to dive into the menu system, for example, to change the focus point mode.- Horrible battery life. But this is to be expected for mirrorless, and Sony has given it a small battery to keep the size and weight down.- Placement of the movie record button. It is in a very unnatural position, and it forces me to shift the camera just as I start to take video. (but I rarely use video and will not be commenting much on it, in this review).- Menu system. Poorly organized, difficult to find necessary functions at times. (But there is a good customizable FN menu, see below).Image quality negatives:- Poor jpeg compression. I’m not sure if it’s the noise reduction (which I reduced to low), the default sharpening, or the jpeg compression scheme, but even at moderate level ISO, my jpegs were looking pretty ugly when examined closely.- Inconsistent indoor artificial light AWB. Often in artificial light, my portraits take on very unnatural yellow colors. Be ready to fix white balance in post processing.Operations/AF negatives:- Difficulty moving AF point, see above.- Mediocre buffer in continuous shooting.- Very slow write speed, locking up the buffer. Unable to view images while they are being written to the memory card.Now the long list of strengths and pros:Design/Ergonomics:- Lots of customizable buttons and a good FN menu. Instead of digging through the entire menu system, it is helpful to assign your most common functions to the FN menu.- With a prime lens or kit lens, the entire camera is very compact. Won’t fit in a pocket, but won’t weigh you down at all.- Feels solid, some weather sealing.- Except for the difficulty in viewing with glasses, exceptional EVF.- A true level display in EVF and LCD. A huge benefit for keeping your image horizon straight.- A fairly versatile tilting LCD. Live view on my Nikon dSLR is so slow, that if I want to take a picture low to the ground, I need to get low to the ground and look through the viewfinder. With the A6300, I can just tilt the LCD and lower the camera, while looking at it from above.-Dedicated memory recall functions.- Greatly improved auto-ISO implementation. Not only can you select minimum and maximum ISO, you can also set a minimum shutter speed, or set whether you want the camera to default to slower or faster shutter speeds. This allows the shooter to use Aperture or P priority modes, without fearing that the camera will set the shutter speed too low.- Wifi is well implemented, including the ability to add apps to the camera functions.Operations/AF positives:- The autofocus system is the biggest selling point of this camera. It is simply fantastic. AF points are densely packed over the whole frame. Many different AF modes to choose from, but they all seem to work very well. Even more than great lenses, getting sharp photos is about getting proper focus. This system focuses fast and accurately, anywhere on the screen. If you need to AF on a very small point, you can even change the size of your AF point. I haven’t done much with the lock-on tracking offered by the camera, but I have followed birds in flight with zone-AF and with expanded flexible spot AF, and they work very well.- Continuing the AF, a HUGE feature for portraits is eye-AF. (slight negative that you need to program it into a customizable button, and you need to hold down the button for it to operate). Traditionally, photographers will lock onto the nearest eye with the center AF point, and then re-compose the image. With the A6300, compose the image, press the eye-AF button, and the camera will reliably focus on the nearest eye at a very high percentage hit rate. It makes taking portraits easier, and more accurate than a traditional dSLR. (and even without eye-AF, the face detect system is excellent, better than most dSLRs).- Fast 8/11 fps. The A6300, like the A6000, is capable of 11 fps. This is basically faster than any other dSLR for $1,000 or less. But, this 11 fps was rather limited. When using the 11 fps, and looking through the viewfinder or LCD, you didn’t have a live feed of the image. Instead, the camera repeatedly displayed the last image taken. Thus, you didn’t really have a live view, and it was difficult to track a moving object, which is the entire point of a fast burst speed. So the bad news, I won’t be using 11 fps on the A6300. But the great news, the camera can provide a truly live stream at 8 fps, which is still faster than almost any comparable dSLR. Older Sony mirrorless cameras could only provide a live stream at around 3 fps. So 8 fps is a huge step up, and it makes it much much easier to follow action when continuously shooting.- Video. I don’t use video much, so I won’t say much. But it does offer 4k. Even better for me, it has HFR — high frame rate — video modes. It is fun and simple to capture super slow motion video. I look forward to my kids’ next Tae Kwon Do board breaking, it will be fun to watch them splinter those boards in slow motion.Image quality:- For casual shooters, the jpegs will be very good. The great AF system will insure a high number of keeper pics.- For more serious shooters, use RAW. The files have very good dynamic range. The noise quality is very good for APS-C files. I suspect I can print 8×10’s from ISO 6400 and 12,800 in most cases. And I can get web quality images even at ISO 25,600. It won’t replace full frame for the most critical low light work, but it will produce excellent results. (with the caveat that you may need to fine tune the AWB. And as a further footnote, it is actually very easy to set customizable AWB, which you may want to do anytime you are shooting in artificial light).Some thoughts on the Sony system:Sony’s mirrorless system has been advancing rapidly. They finally have a decent selection of lenses, but remain behind Canon and Nikon. For most types of shooting, Sony has what you will need. But the thing is, why do people buy a top level APS-C camera, like the Canon 7dii or the Nikon D500? They buy it largely for sports and wildlife. Sports and wildlife require a great AF system, and long telephoto lenses. The A6300 has a great AF system. But Sony doesn’t have ANY long telephoto lenses. The longest native lenses are the 70-200/2.8 (not yet released), the 70-200/4 (a very good lens), and the 24-240 (an ok full frame superzoom). If the A6300 wants to be taken seriously for sports and wildlife, Sony needs longer lenses.(Addendum: Sony has announced a 70-300 lens. So Sony is quickly addressing the lens deficiency I noted. The 70-300 should be a natural fit for sports and wildlife on the a6300)Some price/value thoughts:If the camera body was priced around $750, I would probably say it was the best value on the market. Overall, it feels superior in build, quality and performance to most entry and mid-level dSLRs. But the camera is priced at $1,000. Similar in pricing to the enthusiast level Nikon D7200, Sony A77ii (a dSLR), Canon 70d/80d. Does the camera belong at this price level? I’m not sure. It definitely has advantages over those cameras, like 4k video, 8/11 fps. But those cameras and systems have key features for enthusiast photographers. They have more lens options including telephoto. Their bodies have better button layouts for better direct controls of functions. If you are shooting wildlife, you may need to change AF points very quickly, which is harder to do on the A6300. So when comparing this camera to the more traditional options in the price range, there is no clear cut winner. But the A6300 will be more compact than those other cameras, it will pack a huge punch in a small body, with great image quality, super fast AF, and fast performance.Overall, I recommend the camera. And the A6000 remains an even better value. Half the price, but far more than half the value.In quick summary, what’s this camera very good at:As a jack of all trades:- Great candids.- Very good image quality and flexibility of using the LCD makes it great for landscapes.- Fast AF and 8/11 fps is very good for sports/wildlife, but not at extreme distances due to lack of telephoto lenses.- Eye-AF is a great feature enabling excellent portraits, though I would invest in a prime lens like the 50/1.8, if you want to shoot portraits.- The size makes it a great travel camera.

I suspect every camera review I’ve ever written started with, “Is It Wrong to Love a Camera?” Yeah, silly, but it really is that way for me since I got into digital about 12 years ago. I’ve been staging up through various cameras and even brands. I switched from Nikon to Sony when I bought a very gently used RX10 for its 1″ sensor. Love it. Still do. But somewhere along the way I craved a bigger sensor yet, a “half frame” APS-C. I did my usual due diligence and bought an A6000 with the two much-disparaged and unfairly despised so-called “kit” lenses (there is nothing wrong with the lenses, by the way). I was already gaga for the A6000 and as I am nearing the close of my journey I think these cameras are likely as far as I will go, or need to go.As an old pro I therefore wanted a second body. I still shoot occasional assignments and it is simply foolish to bet everything on one camera. They can, do, and will break without warning. I resumed my due diligence (with $$$$ in mind of course, I ain’t made of money) and compared the A6300 and A6500 with the A6000 (and I know there’s an A7000 in the pipeline but enough is enough).I bought the A6300. Considerably less $pendy than the A6500, and except for the touch screen seems to be identical. I not only don’t need a touch screen, I don’t want one. I am a left-eye shooter, and I was lucky to come across a review that warned left-eye shooters that they would have a problem with their *noses* doing undesired things by contacting the screen while shooting. The writer said the only thing he could do was turn it off. Welp, I said, if I have to turn the touch screen off, why would I need or want a touch screen? (Duh) So A6300 it was.The A6300 and A6000 are also very similar, but the reason I didn’t just get another A6000 was the EVF. The finder on the A6300 is twice as bright and sharp. It’s spectacular. It’s like an optical finder only (IMHO) better. I thought the A6000 was good, but this is mind-blowing clarity, and the specs say it’s also faster (i.e., no lag). I frankly never detected any lag on my “antique” RX10 (original model) so I am fine with whatever. I don’t shoot sports or such but I do try to keep up with my 3-year-old granddaughter and she does *everything* at a dead run but I never have the slightest problem, with the camera anyway (I get a little winded but the camera is fine). The one picture I am showing of her was made a couple of weeks ago. Little Miss Irrepressible Perpetual Motion was *jumping* up and down. Made with my Sony A-6300 with my walk-around E PZ 18-105mm F4 G OSS, Aperture Priority, 1/250 sec. @ ƒ/8.0, ISO 5000, no flashBattery life is not outstanding. So? This does not bother me a bit. I carry extra charged batteries plus a charger. It’s a *mirrorless,* people! Mirrorless cameras are energy hogs. They are in live view all the time, screen plus EVF (and I always have both on all the time for convenience). The A series actually use more energy in the EVF, and the A6300 uses even more for its EVF than the A6000 owing to the A6300’s being so much brighter and sharper = less battery life. I think all the advantages of mirrorless easily outweigh having to carry a couple of extra batteries.Folks sometimes as, would I, as a retired pro, shoot a job with this camera. Even, say, a wedding? Absolutely! No hesitation! I am a very committed available light shooter, and I still shoot events for nonprofits. I’ve added a couple of shots on a factory floor and a conference room, all available, even mixed light. If I shot a wedding with an A6300 or even an RX10 I’d carry the flash for emergencies but it would probably stay in the bag. Image quality? At ridiculous ISOs? Sure. Noise is easily mitigated in post, most especially if you shoot raw and I shoot nothing else ever. I do not think you need a full frame to be professional. You need training and technique and the ability to shoot raw and finish it, but are these “prosumer” cameras suited to professional duty? Absolutely. If you glance at the attached pictures you will see the cameras being used in all kinds of light with no issues whatsoever.

I don’t want to write up a full review of this camera yet. There is so much to cover and it comes from a very amateur photographer. I want to take my time and live with the camera for a bit before I write any conclusive feelings on such an investment.I came from shooting with a NEX-5T and have never used a 6000. This was a big leap for me but I have been very impressed. I haven’t done much work in video recording yet but shooting pictures in RAW with my 18105 and 35f1.8 lenses has been fantastic and a large improvement from my old entry level mirrorless. I won’t go into all of the positives yet but I will say that I have gotten great sharp images from this camera so far and I expect them to get better as I learn more.I do want to go over a few things that aren’t the best. First off I was initially kind of turned off by the fact that the screen does not flip around completely. It tilts which is great and useful but without some modifications or an app, this might not be the best bet for vloggers or seflie cams. Anyways, I don’t see this as a major drawback anymore because I don’t typically use it in these ways. It would have been nice but I didn’t see it as enough of a drawback to deduct a star yet.Second, my NEX-5T had a touchscreen so I was hoping this would too. I knew when I purchased the camera that it didn’t have a touchscreen so there was no surprise when I got it, but I did actually appreciate the ability to use the touchscreen considering the Sony menu systems can be a bit clunky at times. Also, choosing a focus point by simply touching the area on the screen was a nice touch and I had expected that to be on the much more expensive 6300. Now that I have it and shoot through the EVF, there is no real need for the touchscreen and in reality, the touchscreen on the NEX-5T wasn’t all that great. If they added a smartphone style capacitive touch screen instead of the squishy inaccurate screen that the 5T had, I might have been more interested. As it stands, I’d still like a nice touch screen but I think they would charge a significant amount more for a good one and considering how I am using the camera, it is easy to live without.Third and currently finally, the battery. It uses the same FW-NP50 battery that Sony has been using for sometime now. It’s not bad but it’s not great. In one sense I’m glad they used it because I already owned a few that I could use but I would have preferred a new larger capacity battery. If there was one thing that I could change about the camera and one thing that brought me close to deducting a star for this review, it would be the battery life. If you’re traveling and plan to take a lot of pictures with this camera, I would say you need at the very least 3 batteries fully charged for the day to be safe. Again, the battery life isn’t horrible but it could have been better.That will be it for my initial impressions. After I can put more time into all of the different features of this camera I will update with a full review and include pictures. I can also answer some of the more nontechnical questions. For the ~$1000 I paid for the base model it is difficult to recommend. For the people that don’t care about the cost, then pick this up, it is a great camera. If the cost does bother you, I would probably wait it out a little longer and see how much you need this specific camera. More to come later.