garryknight

Does anyone know where I can get an off-camera TTL flash cable for the Sony A6000? I ordered a Godox one from Amazon UK but it turned out to be for the newer A6xxx hotshoe, and mine has the older type. Thanks for any suggestions. I should mention that I'm using a Nissin i40 Sony mount flash, which is 100% compatible with the A6000 hotshoe.

I use FreeFileSync to mirror my photos to an external drive. Simple enough to set up and very easy to use.

If your camera's on a neck strap, you can practise the two-handed swap. Press the lens release and rotate the lens a short distance. Grab the new lens in your non-dominant hand with the mounting spot oriented towards where it will go when the lens is fitted. Grasp the lens on the camera with your dominant hand, rotate it, and pull it away at exactly the same time as moving the new lens into place on the camera. One little twist and your done. It can take less than a second with practice.

One of the most important points, which Jaf-Photo mentioned, is that you need a good distance between you and your background. The further away, the more blurred it appears. You can often control this by selecting your background carefully. When you know your lenses well, you can select the right background at the right distance to get good 'circles of confusion' and creamy bokeh. So, 1) Lowest aperture (f-stop) you can get away with under the light conditions. 2) Longest zoom lens that will give you the kind of shot you want, zoomed in as fully as is practicable. 3) Camera as close to you as you can get it at that focal length and still keep you as sharp as possible. 4) Largest distance between you and the background to get the amount of blur you want in the background.

The other setting you can turn off to preserve battery is Pre-AF (Gear tab, page 3). It will keep trying to autofocus even before you half-press the shutter.

A little girl high-fives the Golden Lady at London's Piccadilly Circus. After about 11 years of doing photography, and especially street candids, I bought an A6000. I also started shooting mono for the first time. I've a feeling it will take me some time getting good at it, though.

I'm in the process of going through something similar. I've have the D5100 for some years, with the 18-55mm kit lens, the 55-200mm zoom, and the 50mm f/1.8 G, with a Nissin i40 flash plus the wireless remote, a wired remote, and some filters. I just bought the Sony A6000 with the 16-50 kit lens and then the 55-210mm zoom, and I'm getting the 50mm f/1.8 next week; I just picked up a Sony fit Nissin i40 this afternoon and now just want to get some remotes and filters for the A6000 to complete that bundle. And, yes, it's all cost a lot of money. The D5100 was getting a little too heavy to carry around so some time ago I got a Panasonic TZ70 as my carry-around (for the reach, not the image quality) and was having to compromise quite a bit with its plastic lens. And then I took the D5100 out again after a couple of years' break, got talking about things with another photographer, and fell in love with photography all over again. And looking around, the A6000 seemed like the absolute best choice for me. And one week of shooting with it confirmed that. The A6000 is not only much easier to wield than the Nikon, it's a lot faster, finds focus quicker and doesn't hunt, has a top-of-its-class burst mode, is far better in low light, has a lot more features than the Nikon (many of which I'm tempted to use even though I kept the Nikon in A priority), and has me wanting to go out with it every day from now on. I shoot hand-held natural light street photos for the most part, but also like nature shots, architecture, and landscapes. So, no, you're not crazy (IMO). And I don't see how you'll be missing anything, though I'm not familiar with the extra features of the 7100 over the 5100. I might not be the best person to advise you, since I'm going through a bit of a photography rebirth, but if I were in your position, I'd just go for it.