David Busch’s Sony Alpha a6000/ILCE-6000 Guide to Digital Photography

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Working with Lenses

A couple of years ago, there were relatively few Sony E-mount lenses for mirrorless cameras with the typical size (16.5 × 23.5mm) sensor. The situation has significantly improved with additional models released by Sony, Zeiss, and other vendors. Of course, in another sense, there are dozens of lenses that will work reasonably well with the a6000, even if they weren’t specifically made for it. Any of the Sony AF or Minolta Maxxum/Dynax A-mount autofocus lenses designed for SLRs or for digital SLT cameras like the A77 ii and A99, can be used with the a6000 if you buy an optional Sony LA-series adapter.

Now that Sony is also making lenses in FE-mount, for the full-frame mirrorless Alpha a7-series, those lenses, too, will ...