05-25-2023, 01:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2023, 01:44 PM by stoppingdown.)
Well, many points... I get Toni's argument about the cleaning system and often I don't understand certain price policies; but I don't know whether a cleaning system costs only $21.
The usefulness of a cleaning system it's also subjective. I live in a house whose tendency is to be dusty, but dry, so I don't have particular problems with cleaning. I don't see any difference in cleaning the a6000 vs a6300/a6400 for instance. When — less than once per year — the blower isn't enough, I don't have problems with pre-wet swabs. It's just a few euros per cleaning.
On the other hand I'm getting a bit upset by the tendency of having only advanced bodies with higher and higher prices. The latest (probably wild) rumours about next APS-C Sony are about a price of $1999 — usually rumoured prices are higher than the real ones and it could be $1500 after a few months after the release (I see for instance the the SEL2070G price has already dropped about 300€), but it's still really expensive. Ok, this is the APS-C flagship: but the a6100 is 730€ with still the bad EVF of the a6000. For landscape shots an a6000 with a decent number of megapixels in the EVF would be perfect. I thing I'd immediately buy the R100 if I had a Canon system.
The usefulness of a cleaning system it's also subjective. I live in a house whose tendency is to be dusty, but dry, so I don't have particular problems with cleaning. I don't see any difference in cleaning the a6000 vs a6300/a6400 for instance. When — less than once per year — the blower isn't enough, I don't have problems with pre-wet swabs. It's just a few euros per cleaning.
On the other hand I'm getting a bit upset by the tendency of having only advanced bodies with higher and higher prices. The latest (probably wild) rumours about next APS-C Sony are about a price of $1999 — usually rumoured prices are higher than the real ones and it could be $1500 after a few months after the release (I see for instance the the SEL2070G price has already dropped about 300€), but it's still really expensive. Ok, this is the APS-C flagship: but the a6100 is 730€ with still the bad EVF of the a6000. For landscape shots an a6000 with a decent number of megapixels in the EVF would be perfect. I thing I'd immediately buy the R100 if I had a Canon system.
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Sony a6300, Sony a6000, Sony NEX-6, Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS, Sony Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS, Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS, Sigma 150-600mm Æ’/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary, Samyang 12mm Æ’/2, Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN | A, Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm Æ’/2.8, Samyang 8mm Æ’/3.5 fish-eye II | Zenit Helios 44-2 58mm Æ’/2
Plus some legacy Nikkor lenses.
Sony a6300, Sony a6000, Sony NEX-6, Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS, Sony Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS, Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS, Sigma 150-600mm Æ’/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary, Samyang 12mm Æ’/2, Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN | A, Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm Æ’/2.8, Samyang 8mm Æ’/3.5 fish-eye II | Zenit Helios 44-2 58mm Æ’/2
Plus some legacy Nikkor lenses.