#SONY VIEWFINDER FULL#
What you don’t get with this camera is a front-facing screen or 4K video (it’s restricted to full HD), but this reflects the marketplace when this camera was launched. The 1.44m-dot EVF has a low resolution by today’s standards but it does the job pretty well – and it’s especially good to get a viewfinder on an APS-C mirrorless camera at this price. (Image credit: Digital Camera World) (opens in new tab)
#SONY VIEWFINDER SERIES#
And it's not one of those annoying pop-up 'finders you get on the RX100 series cameras, either. The Sony A6000 has a built in electronic viewfinder, where many of its rivals still don't. The viewfinder is bright and clear except in broad daylight, when it’s too easily lost in the glare. It's also not very scratch-resistant – ours has picked up a few scrapes and digs over the years we've had it. It’s also a ‘wide’ screen, so in the regular 3:2 aspect ratio for stills, it doesn’t use the full screen width, which makes the screen feel quite small and cramped. It’s worth noting that this is the default option for the central button when Flexible Spot is selected: if you’ve got it set to anything else, it won’t work in the same way.Īlthough it’s not a touchscreen, the screen tilts, which is useful for shooting from some awkward angles, or for shielding the screen from glare.
You can then use the directional keys to move around the screen. From here, you simply need to press the button in the centre of the scrolling dial on the back of the camera to bring up the focus point selection option. To make things quicker, set Focus Area to Flexible Spot.
Setting the autofocus point on this camera is a task that would be speedier with a touchscreen, but it’s not too bad if you set the right custom buttons. Sony always likes to include lots of customisation options on its cameras, and the A6000 includes programmable C1 and C2 buttons on the body. The Sony E 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 (opens in new tab) has a much longer zoom range and performs better than the average superzoom lens. You can also buy the A6000 body only, giving yourself the freedom to choose from the large range of different E-mount lenses now available. Reflecting the broader trend, the A6000 comes complete with built-in Wi-Fi and NFC.Īs its standard kit lens choice, the A6000 comes with a 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 power zoom – a lens still bundled with modern equivalents, like the Sony ZV-E10 (opens in new tab) vlogging camera. On the back of the A6000 is a tilting LCD screen, which is joined by an electronic viewfinder: the same 0.39-inch, 1.4-million dot device found on the first edition RX10 premium bridge camera. And while a few cameras have without doubt improved on this since then, it still feels extremely responsive, even by today’s standards.
The image sensor has 179 phase-detection autofocus points, and there are also 25 contrast-detection points for the hybrid AF system.Īt the time of launch, Sony claimed that the camera had the fastest AF in the world among cameras with an APS-C sized sensor. The A6000 is equipped with a 24-megapixel APS-C sensor, which was state of the art when this camera was launched back in 2014 and only a couple of APS-C cameras improve on this even now. (Image credit: Digital Camera World) (opens in new tab) Key features The A6000 has a 'wide' 3-inch screen which means, annoyingly, that the left and right edges have black strips where regular 3:2 ratio still images don't fill the full width.
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