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A6000 vs 750d
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Hello everyone. I’m new here and just getting into photography. I’ve been researching Cameras on a daily basis for a while now and have narrowed my search down to either a Sony A6000 or a Canon eos 750d. Both of these get great reviews. While i know both are slightly different propositions I like the Sony for its size, picture quality and value for money. The 750d while more bulky is a fantastic piece of kit for the cost and gets great reviews plus there is a lot more choice when it comes to lenses available (A6000 is catching up though).
basically what I’m looking for in a camera is something that had the following ;
Wifi/nfc – more focus on stills than video but a decent video mode would be a plus, something upgradeable with lenses and not too bulky to bring when out hiking or on holidays.Mainly ill be using it to take the usual beginner stuff, maybe focusing on landscape & portrait.
any advice would be greatly appreciated.Thanks
Hi Niall and welcome to PI and photography, while PI is relatively inexpensive, photography can break the bank. :D :D As for your camera choice, I’ve know experience with Sony cameras as I use a canon camera myself. The main advantage of Canon and Nikon for that matter is there is a huge supply of used lens and accessories.
Dave.
Hi Dave, thanks for the reply. Ya the availability of equipment both new & used for nikon/canon dslr is obviously a huge advantage. The reason for looking at the sony is it’s portability along with good image quality and price. Canon/nikon mirrorless options don’t seem to be up to the same quality yet.
Having said that another way to look at it is that once you put a bigger lense on the A6000 it’s not so much more portable than a digital slr anymore.Hi,
In my opionion, when it comes to making a choice between mirrorless and DLSR camera, it ‘s not only about the size and portability of the equipment or available lens range. It is also about the ergonomics of the camera and the options this camera provides and those that you really need (eg. fast AF, sensor size, really good LV, EVF, great low light performance, video recording, tilt screen, plenty of dials and buttons, battery life etc.) Of course, I’m not going to describe and comapare all the features of these two cameras because I’m sure that you do have some basic knowledge about them. And, of course, I don’t know everything about them. But because you wanted some advice I ‘ll give you mine.You mentioned that you will be focusing on landscape and portrait. This tells me to mention about sensors and that drives to a quick talk about color and sharpness. Canon – in general – is the master in the aspect of portrait photography because it gives the most natural looking color of the skin on the photographs among all other brands. However photographs taken with SONY are very rich in colors what is very plesent for an eye. And sharpness. Images from Canon are soft and – again – that’s great for portraits where SONY is great for detail.
And because of that I would rather want to have a portrait shot taken with originally natural color of the skin than spend some time for post processing in order to achieve that. Imagine edit 150 shots from a shoot. For me it’s 1:0 for Canon.
Now, the sensor size and a word about lenses. I know that in this example they are the same – APC-S. But if landscape and portrait photography become your favourite area you may want (or need) to upgrade to a full frame body after some time. You may find that you want some wider angle of coverage or even more shallow depth of field. And here is 2:0 for Canon. Sony – at least for now – has only it’s expensive A7 full frame line. Canon has 6D, 5D and 1D.
And lenses. If you get some lenses for Canon APS-C that work also with full frame Canon without any adapters you will save money.Ok, let’s give SONY something. 1 point for it’s video mode. That includes: reaction time, possibility to use EVF while recording, pretty fast AF.
By the way, 750D is really light (for a DLSR). For portraits or landscape you won’t need big lenses. Canon 50mm (1.8 as well as 1.4) is even smaller than SONY’s SEL 50. Aren’t big and hevy.
As a Nikon user I can suggest D5300. =)
The choice is all yours.
Hi maciej90, thanks for that great reply. It’s great to get opinions from people who have experience with different types of systems. I have looked at Nikon, in particular the d5500 which gets good reviews. I really like the touchscreen on the d5500 but it’s autofocus is reportedly a bit jumpy plus it’s that bit more expensive than the 750d.
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