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

Introduction

Sony doesn’t play it safe. Sony doesn’t stick to the old digital camera paradigms and technology. At a time when the top dogs in the digital camera world are still mired in the race to produce the best digital SLRs, Sony has concentrated on non-dSLR cameras, including mirrorless models like the Sony Alpha a6000/ILCE-6000, and its newer cousin, the more expensive a6300/ILCE-6300. (For simplicity, I’ll generally refer to this camera as the a6000 throughout the book.)

This camera is part of a wave of new cameras that replace the entire NEX product line, and includes (so far) models dubbed, in the USA, a3000, a5000, a5100, a6000, and a6300.. Sony has packaged up the most alluring features of advanced digital SLRs and stuffed them into ...