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my first hand experience with the a6300 for 2 days

justaguy

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Hello everyone

Just thought i would share my experience with the 6300 with any who are interested. First impression taking it out of box is yeah, feels more durable and then after putting battery in i noticed the second thing was the buttons are way more weather sealed and you notice that right away when pressing any of them which is great. Next big thing i looked for and surenough was there just like in the big brother a7rii is Copyright yeah! can finally add your copyright info and have it embedded in the exif, and also the monitor/viewfinder can now be toggled via a custom button of your choice... which i love. Next big thing that grabbed me and in a big way you will notice is the much improved viewfinder(WoW) super crisp and bright and i even asked the best buy sales person to let me take it in their back room studio they call it to see if i could see in a very dark room through the viewfinder because i couldn't see through the a6000 for doing night shots like star trails and such but behold the sensor i guess is now sensitive enough that you can see great at night almost like night vision through the improved viewfinder just like the a7rii.... Happy bout that!

I used the kit lens 16-50 and did some long exposures of a stream and was really impressed with the results, and i would highly recommend it over the a6000 but to my testing i have found that high iso is improved over the 6000 but still not to where i would like it to be...

If you have any questions i would be happy to try to answer or at least give you my thoughts.

 

cheers

 

Oh and if anyone is interested i can upload a couple raw files from it for your pleasure and peeping!

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