Sony a6300 with Sony Vario-Tessar T E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS
The Sony a6300 seems like a good candidate as a great street camera. I have pulled together the best reviews and drawn some conclusions.
- Likely that Sony have retooled to create the a6300, because although it looks like the a6000, it has a more substantial-feeling magnesium alloy construction compared to the composite materials in the a6000 which it supersedes.
- The menu system is complicated and is beginning to be overwhelmed by the number of functions it contains.
- Can successfully shoot at 11fps and 8fps with a simultaneous live view
- Constrained by a relatively small selection of lenses.
- The AF point can be difficult to position.
- RAW files have good dynamic range.
- ‘The a6300’s image quality is excellent – as good as any we’ve seen from an APS-C camera of any type, from any manufacturer’.
- ‘dynamic range and noise performance of the sensor are as good as things get in an APS-C camera’.
- ‘If you’re looking for a camera with great image quality, excellent autofocus and top-notch video, it’s the strongest all-rounder’.
- ‘Overall, then, the [Sony] a6300 is a camera where you benefit from putting in the work required to get the best out of it. It’s worth it, though, since it’s probably the most capable stills/video camera I’ve ever used. If the lenses you want are available, unless you really need a specific feature of one of its rivals, it should be at or very near the top of your list’.
- ‘I love its EVF, speed, tiny size, tough build and great looking pictures in any light — as well as its completely silent operation’
- The EVF works flawlessly whatever lighting condition.
- The silent mode is a considerable benefit
- ‘Once you get the camera set it works very fast, but getting it set can be maddening since important menu options are carelessly spread all over its arbitrary menu system. Expect to wade through the entire system every time you want to find something. It takes a long time to learn this camera’.
- If you dont get a sharp image with this camera it is because you are doing something wrong.
- ‘425 phase-detect AF pixels that reach almost to the peripheries of the frame. This is the highest number of phase-detect points we’ve seen on an interchangeable-lens camera to date, and this density, together with 169 additional contrast-detect points, is said to enable the camera to focus on moving subjects in as little as 0.05 seconds’.
- ‘Dynamic range in raw files starts at a reasonable level, although by ISO400 this starts to slip, and at the highest settings performance from the Panasonic GX8 and Olympus Pen-F is considerably stronger’.
- ‘In the absence of any significant failings, it’s only really a handful of smaller shortcomings that let the A6300 down. The screen feels somewhat underpowered; some of the controls aren’t quite as accessible as they could be; and the lack of in-camera raw processing is a shame. Furthermore, while the tiltable LCD is great, it’s shame it’s not a touchscreen’.
- ‘Sony A6300 represents an exceptional value for a camera which offers so much in such a compact package. It packs one heck of a punch in both features and performance, and undoubtedly gets two thumbs up as a Dave’s Pick‘.