Today, DxOMark released new findings and a report on the Sony A6000 announced a little while back. According to their findings, it seems to be outdoing pretty much every other new camera on the market with the exception of the Nikon D5300 and D3300. Sony’s new flagship APS-C E mount camera has a 24.3MP APS-C sensor at its heart. And while many may still say that that is way too many megapixels for a small sensor, the results are surely in.
However, during our briefing with Sony, what they were really pushing was the autofocus–which is super fast and utilizes phase detection.
The A6000 seems to excel the most when it comes to color depth and dynamic range. But all those megapixels seem to be messing with the camera’s low light performance. While these numbers all say one thing in terms of lab results, we’ll need to get the camera in for a more thorough test in order to see how it performs in real life tests and whether the problems are enough to affect full image quality vs just a small pixel peeped sample.
And as we always say, none of this means anything if you don’t know how to meter correctly to begin with and don’t know how to apply knowledge of color theory in order to get better colors out of your images.
Stay tuned for the full review.