New A6000 owner. Goodbye Canon

davidcrebelxt wrote in post #17539709
Anyone have advice on places they've found helpful?

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=RYXwCGWb7Yg
I found this interesting.

I've not had my a6000 long, but so far I'm really liking it. It offers quick and easy handling like a point-and-shoot, but has the full capability of a DSLR. It's the kind of camera you want to take everywhere with you and doesn't have to beg to be taken out for a good run, so to speak. My a6000 came with the 16-50mm kit lens. While some have criticized the kit lens as being a little soft, I've not really seen that. If anything, the images I can acquire with the kit lens are just a bit sharper than the Sigma 18-250mm and Tokina 11-16mm lenses I use with my Canon T2i.

The only thing I think might take a little getting used to is the Sony's cooler colour gamut - the a6000 definitely does not have the warm colours and deep reds that Canon cameras tend to have. By the same token, the colours coming out of the Sony do seem to be accurate and correctly balanced.

In short, the a6000 is a lot of camera for the money. It's also a much better camera than the NEX-6 I had two years ago and sold because I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.

Would the Sony 35 1.8 a good lens for chasing 3 young boys on the A6000?

I would want to take full advantage of the camera's AF abilities.

Using the Fotga EF - E mount adapter, quite impressed with how the Canon EF-S 10-22mm performs on the A6000! Very sharp, and very wide

Patrick H wrote in post #17580855
Would the Sony 35 1.8 a good lens for chasing 3 young boys on the A6000?

I would want to take full advantage of the camera's AF abilities.

I decided to not try and replicate what I have and got the 16-50. I think the combo will cover 70% of the shots I will take. My 6d and primes will do the rest. The few shots I took have left a smile on my face and I have yet to read any manual or tutorial. Any recommendations for YouTube tutorials?

Patrick H wrote in post #17583634
Any recommendations for YouTube tutorials?

You can check out the link I posted a few posts back.
I found it interesting.

Patrick H wrote in post #17583634
I decided to not try and replicate what I have and got the 16-50. I think the combo will cover 70% of the shots I will take. My 6d and primes will do the rest. The few shots I took have left a smile on my face and I have yet to read any manual or tutorial. Any recommendations for YouTube tutorials?

That's been pretty much my experience as well - much of the photography I do with the a6000 can be done with the 16-50 kit lens. I'm surprised at how versatile it is.
However, I did recently acquire an old Canon 35mm FD manual-focus lens, and the adapter is on its way, so it should be interesting to see what I can do with a MF lens that has the focal length of a standard full-frame 50mm lens. I'm also considering getting a wider prime, something like the Rokinon 14mm, for landscape work.
I've been trying to get a Sigma 19mm instead, but everywhere I look, the lens is either on backorder or just unavailable, and a few retailers are saying more 19mm lenses are coming soon. But the common denominator is that neither Sigma nor the retailers will say why this lens has become pretty well impossible to get, and none can give a straight answer on when it will become available.

There are a few retailers on eBay and Amazon who claim they have new 19mm Sigmas in stock, but they want at least $100 to $150 over an above the typical $199 retail price for which the lens could otherwise be had - if it was in stock.

I am thinking of buying a6000 body and would attach it with my Canon lenses (50mm 1.8 STM, 40mm STM, 18-55mm IS) through EF - E mount adapter.

I have noticed in this thread that many of you own these lenses. Does the autofocus function smoothly (with an adapter mounted on a6000) as far as these 3 lenses are concerned?

Any suggestions for buying a particular adapter?

I only run my Canon 50mm and 40mm STMs in manual focus, AF with the adapter is too unpredictable and I am able to focus a lot faster manually with the A6000's great MF peaking.

So its better to stick to manual focus?

With none native lens, manual focus is a lot faster. I have tried with my canon lens and auto focus is very slow.

EnigmaDXTR wrote in post #17646905
With none native lens, manual focus is a lot faster. I have tried with my canon lens and auto focus is very slow.

Given this experience, it is better to stick to manual focus with non-sony lenses and thereby avoid buying expensive adapters. Am I right?

Kaval wrote in post #17647020
Given this experience, it is better to stick to manual focus with non-sony lenses and thereby avoid buying expensive adapters. Am I right?

Be careful with Canon EF lenses, as their aperture is set electronically. So the EF to E adapter has to be able to communicate with the lens to set the aperture of the shot. Cheap adapters without electrical connections can't do that.

I have the Fotodiox EF to E adapter ($100) and it works fine in MF with all my EF lenses and with slow AF with most of them (an exception is the EF100L).

Miguel

Miguel: Thanks for the advice.

I am currently using a manual M42 adapter for canon mount and it works perfectly as far as MF is concerned. Based on these posts, I am now realizing that electronic adapter for Sony E Mount is a tricky matter.

Sony 50/1.8 OSS can be found for $180-200 used, and imho is far better than Nifty 50. Nifty is a tad sharper but Sony is very sharp also, and has great bokeh and colors.

Sony 18-55 kit lens is decent enough, I'd say on par with 18-55, and can be found for sub $100, I paid $70 for mine. You need to make sure it's made in the past two years, as the early silver-colored batches from 2012 had issues.

So for $250 to $300, you will get high quality native e-mount lenses that are more compact than an EF to E adapter + Canon lenses, and focus faster. An adapter itself will probably run you half of that amount.

Sigma 30/2.8 (old version) is about $130-150, very sharp. But with the first two, do you really need it ?

I wouldn't mess with Canon lenses unless you have something unique that makes sense to adapt. Even then, I would not expect AF to work too well.

A big advantage of a mirrorless system is portability, and adapters kind of kill the fun.