Six months. Three thousand shots. I am the leading expert on the Sony A6700. Jason Vong and the internet agree with me on most of this. Here is what Sony needs to fix.
One. Give me the dang joystick. The D-pad is not intuitive. I want an 8-way joystick to place the AF point, even though Sony’s autofocus is sticky as hell.
Two. A bigger grip. This small body gives me flying pinky. I have meat paws. Make it a little taller. I know about the aftermarket baseplates.
Three. A better EVF. This one is horrible and pixelated. Pixelated like faces pixelated out at a trial on TV. For sixteen hundred dollars I want more than a million dots.
Four. Simpler menus. It is like a Russian nesting doll. Cryptic abbreviations, too many items. McDonald’s had to pare down the menu and so does Sony.
Five. The single card slot. Common complaint. I have never lost a photo to card corruption since 2002, knock on wood, but two slots is two slots.
What I love: the rangefinder style. I can shoot under a hat brim without putting my head up like a goofball. It is small, it is fast, and the AF is sticky.
To the people who say Sony sensors are soulless: what does that even mean? I thought that was our job as photographers. You inject the soul into the photography. No camera is going to do that for you. A camera is just a tool. Although I will admit I have an emotional connection to my cameras.
It is a wonderful camera. Sony barely needs to upgrade it. They can sell this for another couple of years.
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