The A6000 body weighs 12.1 ounces. Adding the 7.3 ounce 18-55 lens brings the weight of the package to 19.4 ounces. Compare this to 9.5 ounces for my old Panasonic LX3. Or to 4 pounds and 7 ounces (71 ounces) for my Canon 5Dii with the 24-70 f/2.8 lens.
The sensor has 24.3 megapixels. It is 6058 by 4012 but images are saved as 6000 by 4000. The sensor itself is 23.5 by 15.6 mm (so it is APS-C with a 1.5 crop factor). Note that a micro 4/3 sensor is 17.3mm wide and has a 2.0 crop factor.
My particular interest in this camera is to have a lighter camera to carry on backpack trips that also takes excellent photographs. When weight is not an overriding consideration, I will continue to use my Canon DSLR cameras.
It is often sold with a terrible 16-50 kit lens. The 18-55 lens is much better, both optically and mechanically. The camera weights about 12 ounces and the 18-55 lens is about 7 ounces, so the combination weighs 19 ounces -- just over a pound. This makes it popular as a backpacking camera for people who are weight concious (as any intelligent backpacker should be). (You can save 3 ounces by going with the 16-50 lens). This is also the main reason I am interested in this camera.
The 18-55 has a field of view equivalent to lenses with a focal length of 27-82.5mm, which is a fair match to the 24-70 lens I enjoy on my full frame camera. The 18-55 is a design that changes f/ number from 3.5 to 5.6 as many less expensive zoom lenses do.
It is not hard at all to go through a battery each day with the A6000, even turning the camera off between exposures!
This is a real issue for a backpacking camera. Note that a battery weighs 41.8 grams (1.5 ounces). Compare this to 75.5 grams (2.7 ounces) for one of the batteries that I used in my Canon 5Dii DSLR. 6 batteries would weight 9 ounces. (along with 19 ounces for the camera and lens), which is not out of the question.
The battery is a NP-FW50 and is a 7.2 volt lithium ion battery with a 1020 mAh rating. The genuine article from Sony costs $62. I have been using aftermarket batteries by Wasabi battery that are rated 1300 mAh and have found them to be as good or better than the genuine Sony batteries for $10 each.
I have seen people say they only get half a day from a battery. I suspect they are leaving the camera on continually. And with video (which I don't do) you get maybe 30 minutes.
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I picked up mine from a friend who was upgrading to the A6300. He sold me just the body and I added an 18-55 lens purchased from Ebay. It arrived showing 1463 shutter activations, which is certainly lightly used.
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