play with my a6000 with 16-70z for few weeks now
i don't know if anybody share my frustration but i felt sony a6000 were not designed by photographer but bunch of idiot engineers who knows nothing about photography and whose goals were just to crammed as much features into the camera as possible without really know how to use them

i'm no pro-photographer(nor wannabe).i'm jpeg shooters (no,don't suggest raw to me),and here's my quirks about a6000 that i hope fellow forumers can help me with

1) lock on focus (not tracking) work like shit, the camera doesn't respect your "lock-on" area,rather the lock square just resize,expand,contract and run away from your selected area according to its own mind,focus on off center subject is a pain in the arse with this camera. my 3 years old xz-1 has muuuuch better lock on focus than this shit

2) face detection feature will overwrite your chosen metering mode and switch to centre/spot weighted metering whenever it detect a face. you'll always end up with overexpose image if background is brighter than subject, auto exposure also become very erratic under this situation. none of my other old camera does this shit

3) soft skin features doesn't work with burst mode,happy pressing on shutter button and missing shots.my xz-1 does this with burst mode. it also doesn't work without face detection turn on,so happy overexpose and missing shots.

4) face detection lock on face 50% of the time if i'm lucky. camera phone does this better

5)flexible spot focus missing the lock on focus,unless u go in function menu to reactivate everytime u want to lock on something

6) power saving mode doesn't work with remote control turn on,why? can't i just set to longer sleep time if the concern is remote can't wake the camera up?

7) camera menu messy as cow shit

i don't understand sony has so many restriction on all their features
this is just part of my complain,has dozens more but i can't recall them all,wonder if anybody has any work around on this

let me give a few examples of a6000 erratic exposure and face recognition


this is when camera can't find the face,perfect exposure,but no soft skin


once the camera detect faces,camera apply soft skin,but exposure hancur


camera can't find faces again,perfect exposure again,but no soft skin


found face,crap exposure


no face found,ok


no face found


face found


no face found


face found

that said,when everything bang on,the detail is just STUNNING

Shitty place. Bought twice from them.
On the 1st order, they listed an item as in stock but 3 days after payment still no word from then so I called. No one answered. I wrote email, spam their FB and still no one replied until 3 days later which is 6 days after payment. The guy told me item is not in stock and ask me to wait another week. Parcel only arrived 14 days later. Delivery from date of payment : 3+3+14 = 20days.

2nd time, a year later. Forgotten how shitty their service is. Ordered something, arrived 3weeks later. This time they didn't bother replying anything. Calls, emails, FB. No I didn't order during holidays and no the order tracking wasn't updated on their website

Just go check their FB to see how poor their service is. I know for sure they delete a lot of negative feedback. They used to have a review section but took it down after streaking countless negative reviews. The review is still listed on my own FB, if anyone wants proof just let me know.

One case where they delete comment is when someone bought a Xiaomi powerbank and claimed it was fake. He backed it with photos. IPMart rep had the balls to tell him that they never stated that it was branded "Xiaomi", the guy proceed to provide an invoice that clearly showed it is stated as Xiaomi. Then IPMart proceed to blame it on the vendor, which was weird since the way they claim that they never said it was branded Xiaomi insinuated that they themselves had control of their own product descriptions. I also have screenshots of this comments prior to deletion.

Later when I saw people had complaints unattended, I provided information and contact details for complaint center; IPMart blocked me off on FB. Seriously. Don't give them business. I'm just thankful I didn't receive fake product but shitty ass follow up and late delivery.

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SKMM / MCMC Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission
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KPDNKK Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism
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Screenshots of IPMart fake Xiaomi powerbank comment

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ya, bought non-camera related things. Fast and reliable.

let me give a few examples of a6000 erratic exposure and face recognition


this is when camera can't find the face,perfect exposure,but no soft skin


once the camera detect faces,camera apply soft skin,but exposure hancur


camera can't find faces again,perfect exposure again,but no soft skin


found face,crap exposure


no face found,ok


no face found


face found


no face found


face found

that said,when everything bang on,the detail is just STUNNING

let me give a few examples of a6000 erratic exposure and face recognition

that said,when everything bang on,the detail is just STUNNING

I am not the least surprised by the camera's action when it comes to face detection and soft skin and whatever 'features' that it has. It's all marketing. The A6000 and the whole mirrorless APS-C cams are now targeted at the mass market. This means the target market are those who like to take selfies and have a cool cam to show off. The features are for this segment of the market. They are not for the pro or the semi-pro.

The camera correctly exposes the face when it finds one because the target market likes to see their faces in the pics. To hell with the other things in the frame.

Pro and semi-pro users can turn off these 'features' and let their own brain do the thinking. After the shot they can edit the pic to their heart's content using a photo editor software of their choice.

I don't know about you but when I use a camera, I like to choose my own focus point, use Aperture priority and do my own white balance tweaks. I don't like the camera to 'think' for me when it comes to those settings. Of course I am just using the dinosaur A850 and I don't use the auto focus point selection 'feature' that it has. Tried it once and turned it off and I have not missed it yet.

play with my a6000 with 16-70z for few weeks now
i don't know if anybody share my frustration but i felt sony a6000 were not designed by photographer but bunch of idiot engineers who knows nothing about photography and whose goals were just to crammed as much features into the camera as possible without really know how to use them

i'm no pro-photographer(nor wannabe).i'm jpeg shooters (no,don't suggest raw to me),and here's my quirks about a6000 that i hope fellow forumers can help me with

1) lock on focus (not tracking) work like shit, the camera doesn't respect your "lock-on" area,rather the lock square just resize,expand,contract and run away from your selected area according to its own mind,focus on off center subject is a pain in the arse with this camera. my 3 years old xz-1 has muuuuch better lock on focus than this shit

2) face detection feature will overwrite your chosen metering mode and switch to centre/spot weighted metering whenever it detect a face. you'll always end up with overexpose image if background is brighter than subject, auto exposure also become very erratic under this situation. none of my other old camera does this shit

3) soft skin features doesn't work with burst mode,happy pressing on shutter button and missing shots.my xz-1 does this with burst mode. it also doesn't work without face detection turn on,so happy overexpose and missing shots.

4) face detection lock on face 50% of the time if i'm lucky. camera phone does this better

5)flexible spot focus missing the lock on focus,unless u go in function menu to reactivate everytime u want to lock on something

6) power saving mode doesn't work with remote control turn on,why? can't i just set to longer sleep time if the concern is remote can't wake the camera up?

7) camera menu messy as cow shit

i don't understand sony has so many restriction on all their features
this is just part of my complain,has dozens more but i can't recall them all,wonder if anybody has any work around on this

your a6000 is lemon copy...sell it off and buy a99 + cz50mm.... 

Btw, yes they already have the Nissin i40 for Sony locally. KLPF got offer summore.



And no... I haven't bought mine yet unfortunately. The Sammie 2/16 first. I really dig the i40 though, maybe next time.

let me give a few examples of a6000 erratic exposure and face recognition


this is when camera can't find the face,perfect exposure,but no soft skin


once the camera detect faces,camera apply soft skin,but exposure hancur


camera can't find faces again,perfect exposure again,but no soft skin


found face,crap exposure


no face found,ok


no face found


face found


no face found


face found

that said,when everything bang on,the detail is just STUNNING

its not,it is common "features",i believe even a99 has it
try face recognition with backlit background,then you'll have the same lemon

I don't think this is a fair comparison, due to back lighting. How about you try to pop your flash up and let the camera detect the face?

nope...i havent encountered such problem...im using a77 for wedding jobs and used the face recognition features....

when you free, please do a backlit test for comparison. 

sure bro...tomorrow got job can try out la...

Regarding exposure setup and shooting a person with landscape, Are we supposed to use Multi Mode metering?
I find it better using Multi mode instead of centre or spot for my Nex-5R