Sony A6500 topic, 4K, 5-axist stabilizer, touch screen

Readbook

I think RS test is more interesting

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@Readbook

I think RS test is more interesting

Sensor is essentially the same as A6300.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Hands on

Menus

https://www.ephotozine.com/article/sony-alpha-a6500-hands-on-review-30077

kkfok

I wonder if it can now set custom white balance in Movie mode. The problem was really a hassle for us who shoot underwater.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Hands on video

And only interesting part from it - close up of stabilizer sensor assembly slowed down:

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@zcream reminds you that you can buy NX500 for $530 now - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-NX500-4K-Camera-White-Only-Body-SD-Card-/322285566382 and it really never overheats and has more useful bitrates set, from top high hack/pro ones to low everyday use, and it is HEVC.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

The a6500 uses 5 axes with E-mount lenses that have electronic contacts and can transmit EXIF data or 3 axes with adapted or native lenses that lack electronic communication. With E-mount lenses that feature optical stabilisation, 3 axes are used on the sensor and 2 axes on the lens. The latter is also valid for adapted A-mount and EF-mount lenses (as long as you use an electronic adapter).

http://www.mirrorlessons.com/2016/10/15/sony-a6500-review-first-impressions/

One more pointless hands-on

http://www.newsshooter.com/2016/10/15/hands-on-with-the-sony-a6500-what-we-know-so-far-for-video-users/

Vitaliy_Kiselev

On Sony PR and so called "reviews"

The 1920s is often viewed as the golden age of advertising—the decade in which the industry really blossomed into the principal capitalist art form. As Merle Curti showed in his study of the advertising industry journal Printer’s Ink, before 1910, advertisers, by and large, assumed that consumers were rational and self-interested and could be appealed to on that basis. Between 1910 and 1930, however, the majority of comments indicated that advertisers were viewing consumers as nonrational. As a result, advertisements increasingly abandoned the reason-why approach and appealed to fantasies and emotions.152 A speaker at a 1923 advertising convention in Atlantic City captured this sense when he warned, “Appeal to reason in your advertising, and you appeal to about four percent of the human race.”153 This sentiment became accepted wisdom among advertisers. William Esty of the J. Walter Thompson agency instructed colleagues that all experts believed “that it is futile to try to appeal to masses of people on an intellectual or logical basis.”154 John Benson, the president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, observed in 1927, “To tell the naked truth might make no appeal. It may be necessary to fool people for their own good. Doctors and even preachers know that and practice it. Average intelligence is surprisingly low. It is so much more effectively guided by its subconscious impulses and instincts than by its reason.”

The Untold History of the United States

joethepro

The a6500 uses 5 axes with E-mount lenses that have electronic contacts and can transmit EXIF data or 3 axes with adapted or native lenses that lack electronic communication.

Sigh. I knew it was too good to be true. Maybe someone will hack it to unlock the other 2 axes. :)