They fooled us. We've been debating whether it would be an a6100 or an a7000, so they came out with the Sony a6300. The features and specs are about as everyone expected. They did include my absolute requirement, an audio in jack for my Rode mic.

Body only price $998. I'm going to wait a few months to see how it shakes out, but it does look like an upgraded a6000. That means a lot of the major problems will not be there.

That would give me two bodies. I want a 35mm f1.8 for an all purpose lens to mount on the 6000 and move the 18-200 over to the a6300.

Sold my Nikon D7100 and trying to sell my D7000. First time in 40 years I won't have any Nikon gear.

Nikon and Canon have both dropped the mirrorless ball. I'm not a fan of Sony, but they are the only serious game in town. (I know some like the tiny 4/3 sensors and the phony 1 inch sensor (Actually about 1/3 inch), but aps-c is the right size for me.

I bought an a6000 in late fall of '14, body only for $550. A sustained price drop didn't take place till a year later, when basically, the a6000 with two "kit" lenses came out for $550. But this so-called new version of it, despite the label "a6300," perhaps should be considered INSTEAD AS A NEW HIGHER-LEVEL MODEL based on some of the a6000 design aspects, RATHER THAN A SUCCESSOR. Maybe I'm just arguing semantics here, but when was the last time anybody bought an electronic device of any kind that retailed for almost twice the price of its predecessor, i.e. $1000 vs $550? I haven't researched this, but take the Sony a7 mark I series of cameras: did their revised versions, the mark II's, debut with U.S. retail prices that were almost double?

For those of you interested in upgrading to the a6300 and actually own the a6000 model, are the differences in function and performance that significant that you're willing to pay almost twice the price of its predecessor? Obviously, this is a matter of preference, so there's no such thing as a wrong answer.

From my POV, if I'm going to pay that much more $$, I'd expect IBIS (Sony's more recent 5-axis Image Stabilization mechanism,) to be included. But now, if I purchase another E-mount camera, it will likely have to be along the lines of an a7 mk II, just to get the IBIS feature, but that's just me.

As a Sony user and owner of both A-mount and E-mount lenses, I'm glad I didn't pin my hopes all on one future model, as multiple rumor-type websites and interviews with various Sony "officials" proved totally unreliable, if not deliberately deceptive for the sake of Sony's outmaneuvering their competition, with respect to the "successor" of the a6000. As my Sony A55 occasionally seizes up, I'm looking forward to purchasing the new A68 model.