zackiedawg
WEDway Peoplemover Rider
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Excellent sports shots...beautiful crispness and isolation, and good frozen action.
I get much the same responses and reactions out shooting birds - I run into dozens of other long-lens shooters and I find it particularly funny how different the reactions are between when I use my A580 DSLR and my A6000 - though things are even changing there too. When I carry the A580, either with the Tamron 150-600mm or Minolta 300mm F4 APO and teleconverter, much of the time the camera brand is not as noticeable from a distance, and the camera is a traditional DSLR, so many Nikon shooters give a nod and hello with the Tamron lens onboard, and when I use the Minolta lens, I get regular nods and hellos from Canon shooters who assume that's what it is. On rare occasions, I get asked what body or lens I'm shooting, and the mention of Sony or Minolta either gets a surprised but friendly reception and second look, or some 'snobs' seem to have nowhere left to go and end the conversation drifting away. When I have the A6000 on the other hand, especially with the confusing and large 70-200mm white lens, I get distant initial reactions from Canon folk that think I'm one of them, until I get closer - then I tend to get either confused looks and no questions, or a surprising number of 'what camera is that?' - more than a few come out more like "what on earth is that thing?"...tiny body, big white lens. Going back a year or two, the reactions were often more unfriendly, assumptions that I'm some silly amateur who obviously isn't getting any shots worth a darn with my tiny camera and big lens...lately though, the reactions from many DSLR shooters is significantly more curious; 'how do I like it', 'how does it focus', 'how fast is it', and so on. More and more people seem to have heard of the A6000, and hadn't seen one in the flesh yet.
Those photographers who have seen me multiple times, or saw me earlier in the day shooting with a DSLR and long lenses and now see me with the A6000, tend to be much more open and curious, and seem to assume that I am an experienced birder and know I shoot with a DSLR, so they figure the mirrorless setup must be pretty decent for me to be relying on it...and they are the ones that tend to ask a lot more questions, even ask to try a few shots with it. Some of the unsocial DSLR snob types you run into aren't keen to talk much to other photogs, especially those with a different brand, and not having seen that I also shoot a DSLR assume that I'm a know nothing amateur with a sadly undercapable camera.
It's all rather funny to me! I will say that I've noticed a significant change over the past year, with far more people asking me questions about the A6000 and mirrorless in general. I still don't see many mirrorless birders out there - a total of 4 other e-mount shooters, 1 M4:3 shooter, and two Nikon One shooters so far out of hundreds and hundreds of DSLR shooters. But a few have been very impressed at the A6000's performance when I let them try it, and some have either picked one up or are thinking about it now. Especially when I explain my DSLR rig is my early morning and winter shooter, weighing in over 8Lbs, and my mirrorless rig takes over for hot and humid afternoons and summers at less than 3Lbs. And while it's a lot less focal reach, the A6000 is definitely the better, faster, and more fun bird-in-flight shooter!
I get much the same responses and reactions out shooting birds - I run into dozens of other long-lens shooters and I find it particularly funny how different the reactions are between when I use my A580 DSLR and my A6000 - though things are even changing there too. When I carry the A580, either with the Tamron 150-600mm or Minolta 300mm F4 APO and teleconverter, much of the time the camera brand is not as noticeable from a distance, and the camera is a traditional DSLR, so many Nikon shooters give a nod and hello with the Tamron lens onboard, and when I use the Minolta lens, I get regular nods and hellos from Canon shooters who assume that's what it is. On rare occasions, I get asked what body or lens I'm shooting, and the mention of Sony or Minolta either gets a surprised but friendly reception and second look, or some 'snobs' seem to have nowhere left to go and end the conversation drifting away. When I have the A6000 on the other hand, especially with the confusing and large 70-200mm white lens, I get distant initial reactions from Canon folk that think I'm one of them, until I get closer - then I tend to get either confused looks and no questions, or a surprising number of 'what camera is that?' - more than a few come out more like "what on earth is that thing?"...tiny body, big white lens. Going back a year or two, the reactions were often more unfriendly, assumptions that I'm some silly amateur who obviously isn't getting any shots worth a darn with my tiny camera and big lens...lately though, the reactions from many DSLR shooters is significantly more curious; 'how do I like it', 'how does it focus', 'how fast is it', and so on. More and more people seem to have heard of the A6000, and hadn't seen one in the flesh yet.
Those photographers who have seen me multiple times, or saw me earlier in the day shooting with a DSLR and long lenses and now see me with the A6000, tend to be much more open and curious, and seem to assume that I am an experienced birder and know I shoot with a DSLR, so they figure the mirrorless setup must be pretty decent for me to be relying on it...and they are the ones that tend to ask a lot more questions, even ask to try a few shots with it. Some of the unsocial DSLR snob types you run into aren't keen to talk much to other photogs, especially those with a different brand, and not having seen that I also shoot a DSLR assume that I'm a know nothing amateur with a sadly undercapable camera.
It's all rather funny to me! I will say that I've noticed a significant change over the past year, with far more people asking me questions about the A6000 and mirrorless in general. I still don't see many mirrorless birders out there - a total of 4 other e-mount shooters, 1 M4:3 shooter, and two Nikon One shooters so far out of hundreds and hundreds of DSLR shooters. But a few have been very impressed at the A6000's performance when I let them try it, and some have either picked one up or are thinking about it now. Especially when I explain my DSLR rig is my early morning and winter shooter, weighing in over 8Lbs, and my mirrorless rig takes over for hot and humid afternoons and summers at less than 3Lbs. And while it's a lot less focal reach, the A6000 is definitely the better, faster, and more fun bird-in-flight shooter!
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