Sony Nex6?

ShredMasterPlus

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1) What is your budget? We'll budget is flexible but rather cheap, could probably let go $5-6hundred if need be, will be able to invest more later.

2) What experience do you already have with cameras? Have you ever even used one before? Very little, I have owned a Cannon G10 for a few years but It just died a couple weeks ago. I take a fair few pictures but nothing to crazy.

2) What gear, if any, do you currently have? I have a Go-Pro haha thats about it.

4) What are you planning to shoot and how do you want to use your camera? Are you going to use this with the sole purpose of shooting skiing? Mostly Skiing/Landscape and traveling pictures and some film. Zoom is very important to me for scoping future lines and getting the shot from ridges opposite of the line. With the Nex6 sony makes a 55-210mm lens that works with it. as someone that has no experience outside of point and shoot, obviously that's a lot of zoom but how will it fair at reasonable close range, I'm talking 20-30feet none of that flower picture bullshit.

5) Do you want a camera that you can hand to your friends, that could or could not have film experience, and let them shoot you? or will you be doing all the filming? Doesn't matter here, my friends will learn eventually as well.

6) When filming skiing, how do you tend to shoot? (follow cams, leave it on record on a tripod and hike, film from a tripod, etc) All of the above except follow cams.

7) What computer do you currently have/use to edit (if not currently editing, what would you most likely use)? If you can provide specifics, such as hard drive space, RAM, processor size, that would be great. when i can i just use my moms Imac, seems to be pretty nifty.

7) What program do you currently edit on? How familiar are you with it (1- just learning; 10- I can make tutorials and know the keyboard layout) Imovie lmao, hoping to move past that I'm decent with computers and after making a couple super sub par go-pro edits I really enjoyed the process and would like to get more in depth and produce a higher quality product!
 
I have an a6000 as a second camera body, mostly for water shooting. I'd say try to get one of them because the upgrades that have happened since the nex6. It'll likely perform better.
 
13488900:1337 said:
I have an a6000 as a second camera body, mostly for water shooting. I'd say try to get one of them because the upgrades that have happened since the nex6. It'll likely perform better.

Hmm good point. Do you think I'd be ok getting only an a6000 body and a 55-200mm lens for mostly shooting skiing. I could source another lense eventually for sure but trying to get a setup sorted for October and money is a bit tight till after then due to a big trip.
 
13488931:ShredMasterPlus said:
Hmm good point. Do you think I'd be ok getting only an a6000 body and a 55-200mm lens for mostly shooting skiing. I could source another lense eventually for sure but trying to get a setup sorted for October and money is a bit tight till after then due to a big trip.

The 16-50mm kit lens isn't awful, having that and a 55-200 would be a good starting point if you can pull it off! I bought my a6000 kit on amazon used and it came in perfect condition, saved me a few $ too.
 
Third to the party with an a6000 and have both the 16-50 & 55-200 kit lenses. The camera kicks ass, looking for some more glass. The lenses I have right now are ok, not fantastic. Issues I have are they don't have manual focus (mostly for long exposure stuff) and not fast lenses, I knew that going into that.

That said I picked up the body and both lenses used for 600 shipped so no real complaints.
 
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