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The Sony NEX-6 camera and the new kit lens have exceeded my expectations. It is the sharpest, fastest digital camera I have ever owned and I have owned many including Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Fuji. It took some reading and playing with it to fully appreciate it and get it functioning the way I want to use it. There are enough options to assign functions to quick buttons so you don't have to go digging into the menu system to get the setup you want. It's amazing the capability they have packed into such a small camera and lens combo. The few negative comments I may have had are far outweighed by the results I am getting. The electronic viewfinder is amazing and has me shooting like I did in my days with an SLR. For a right handed person it is perfect. For a left handed person--learn to shoot right handed. The accessories packaged with this kit are great, especially considering this kit is priced only slightly more than the camera and lens alone. I especially like the wide angle and tele lens adapters. They are very useful and make me less compelled to go out and buy more lenses right away. Spare battery, charger, filters, cleaners are very useful. A lens hood and flash would be nice additions. The included camera case was quickly relegated to an old camera and a new one acquired for my needs. I tried my Canon Speedlight on the hotshoe. It does not function as an automatic flash synched with camera settings, but it does work fine in bounced mode. Perhaps a dedicated Sony flash is needed to be fully automated. I don't know if the accessory shoe would solve this problem or not. I could not get a direct answer to my question on the Sony Support Site. I know they can't guarantee their answers. I was just asking for help with their best guess. The wifi setup is extremely tedious and frustrating. A touch screen is definitely needed but not available. Keying in your wifi settings and passwords by scrolling thru a tiny table on the LCD screen is awful. Especially when you have to keep entering the information again when it fails. It took me 3 days to get the wifi working. When I finally got to the Sony site to download the apps I got the message the site was down for maintenance. It took me another 24 hours to get the apps. I think Sony at least should allow you to perform these functions while connected to a PC by a cable so you can use the keyboard. I would call myself an advanced amateur (50 years in photography) and did a lot of research of available cameras before deciding on the NEX-6. It is expensive but with this camera you can start off with no experience using the iAuto modes and get outstanding results. For the pro, it has everything you can ask for without stepping up to the size and expense of a DSLR. No one will be disappointed with this camera choice. Amazon and it's vendor are great--I had the camera in two days.
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