tashley
Subscriber Member
Well, the A6000 is here but I'm afraid it's about as much use as a chocolate fireguard to me: the included manual is really just a Quick Start guide and it refers you to Sony support website, which gleefully informs me that support for the camera is coming soon.
The crux of this is: which focus area modes does AF-C work in if you want tracking? I have read that it only works in wide area mode. There's nothing in the manual that I can see, but there does seem to be some form of continuous focus in Wide, Area, Centre and Single spot modes though I imagine that Wide is needed (as I have read) for tracking performance. Trouble is, you can't dictate what it thinks is the subject.
I will explore in some proper depth but with no instructions it ain't easy. First test,the famous 'running dog' test with the 55 F1.8, failed to find any setting that could track to any useful degree at all.
Otherwise everything seems OK, focus is very fast and accurate on static subjects, the JPEGS look horrible and LR doesn't read the RAW yet, whereas Sony's IDC does its usual weird stuff on them and is to be avoided.
Mine arrived with a large and unshakeable blob of dust on the sensor (a first for me with Sony) and I have to say that unless you have fingers like chopsticks, getting the memory card out is going to really annoy you.
More later.
The crux of this is: which focus area modes does AF-C work in if you want tracking? I have read that it only works in wide area mode. There's nothing in the manual that I can see, but there does seem to be some form of continuous focus in Wide, Area, Centre and Single spot modes though I imagine that Wide is needed (as I have read) for tracking performance. Trouble is, you can't dictate what it thinks is the subject.
I will explore in some proper depth but with no instructions it ain't easy. First test,the famous 'running dog' test with the 55 F1.8, failed to find any setting that could track to any useful degree at all.
Otherwise everything seems OK, focus is very fast and accurate on static subjects, the JPEGS look horrible and LR doesn't read the RAW yet, whereas Sony's IDC does its usual weird stuff on them and is to be avoided.
Mine arrived with a large and unshakeable blob of dust on the sensor (a first for me with Sony) and I have to say that unless you have fingers like chopsticks, getting the memory card out is going to really annoy you.
More later.