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I know I'm not the only one. I know that this forum is full of sony lover, I'm one too, so I put my hands ahead and beg you not to defend the a6300 at any cost. this is serious. I've had many cameras, which I treated very bad, being in my youth days a photographer of disasters like earthquakes and similar. this a6300 is my first mirrorless, my first sony, and the first camera I've ever treated as a fragile child, always keeping it clean and warm and safe. It also is the first camera to ever fail me. It happens that all of a sudden it stopped responding to any input but shooting pictures. at first solely every once and then, then it got worst and worst till the day it could only shoot pictures, not opening the menu, not changing aperture or shutter speed, no anything. I figured it out: it is the shutter button: for some reasons it remains "half pressed". I searched the web and found out that it is a COMMON ISSUE, which is not good at all. I want to add to this that that button seemed a little awkward to me since my first uses of the camera. I assumed it was my imagination at that time, and maybe it was. I don't want to point out any crafting failures or so, but - why the hell does it happen? - how do I fix it? I love my camera and don't want to change it - nor can I afford to, now that I think of it : ) with love, yours @ph_LDA

I have a question for A7 II owners: its shutter button performs more like a Nex 7 or a Sony A7r? What I mean is this: with the Nex 7, you get up to a small "detent" that lets you know you're about to shoot, and then if you keep pressing the shutter fires instantly. So I really hate the shutter in the A7r, that I find "mushy" and basically unpredictable. You press, press, press and nothing happens, and then suddenly the shutter fires. With the A7r is not a biggie, because is basically my tripod camera. But I plan to buy the A7 II to use it handheld for streets, travels etc. and ditch the Nex 7 that I use for this purpose. But if the shutter still behaves in the way I don't like I might have to begin to think for alternatives (i.e. another camera system just for this use).