I decided to take a cautious step into the mirrorless interchangeable lens camera world last month by purchasing a Sony A6000 with a kit lens (16-50mm) on ebay. (with perfect timing since a new A6000 dropped in price by $100 a day after I purchase it
Earlier, I thought I would buy the new EOS 760, but decided to make a more radical change.
I also bought an adapter for my EF-S lenses so I can use them on the A6000.
I'm just a couple of weeks into using it and so far, I like it:
- the camera body and the native lenses are much lighter than a dSLR. I had given up my 20D for an EOS450D to lighten up my load while hiking, but the A6000 is much lighter than that.
- Manual focusing is actually usable with magnification in the EVF and focus peaking. While auto focus works on the EF-S lenses using the adapter, it is very slow and not always reliable.
- The EVF takes some getting used to. I needed to boost the brightness just to make it usable. And with glasses I can just barely see all of it.
- I love the image quality, but then I was using a pretty old camera. Any current APC camera image would have impressed me.
- A lot of people online are enjoying the new life these cameras have given to old lenses. You have to use them in fully manual mode, but there's some very good quality available at affordable prices.
I'm a hobbyist photographer and I've just loved reading all your posts and seeing the pictures.