Great camera, I bought it for its size. I am a Nikon shooter, but I am coming around to Sony.
There are a lot of things that I like about these mirrorless cameras. But I recommend the Gary Fong videos on YouTube. He is a Sony ambassador, and he goes in depth on how to set it up and use it.

Sure the kit lenses are good. The only problem with the Sony e mount system is that there isn't a lot of lenses available for it.But more are coming out, and with luck yo can find good used equipment.
I got a mount on eBay for about $10 I think, that will let me use Nikon lenses. Of course they are now manual, but still usable.

I can't believe this topic has gone on for 14 pages, when there are two simple answers. You have your Adobe sycophants who think it's the best thing since sliced bread and it works just fine for the pro's, and the dedicated photographers who want the convenience of both PS & LR in a package with recurring updates. It works for them, and that's great. Then there are the hobbyist, amateur and advanced photographers who just can't justify spending ten bucks a month forever, (Until Adobe raises the price) who will only use a small portion of the features with LR & PS, and find alternative programs that do exactly what they want them to do much cheaper or free. Actually, this boils down to the same thing as the Canon vs Nikon debates. Different strokes for different folks, and nobody is going to change anybody's mind.

Computer security experts say you should always maintain a minimum of three (3) forms of backup for your photographs. At least one should be off site to protect against loss in the event of fire or natural disaster. The Cloud is not the best choice because your photos will be under the control of a second party that may have technical problems, financial failure or bankruptcy, sale to an unreliable party or may hold your data hostage to rising costs. My system provides both on and off site redundant backup that is completely under my own control.

My system consists of the following:

1) All storage of photographs is external to the computer’s (iMac) internal drive.

2) Downloads from the camera, editing, final product and primary storage is on a 5Tb Western Digital My Book drive.

a. Each shoot is stored in a folder identified by job name and date.

b. Within each folder are three sub-folders labeled “RAW”, “Edit” and “Final”. All uploads are made to the RAW folder and only copies of the raw files are copied to the Edit folder for editing. The final output that may include JEPG, TIFF, etc. files are transferred to the Final folder.

3) The complete primary storage drive is backed up to a Drobo 5-drive RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). This allows multiple backup copies of the data along with offsite backup. In addition, the Drobo’s firmware automatically corrects any data transfer errors and insures that all backup drives have matched data. The RAID consists of five Western Digital Red Drives, which are designed for this type of service and have an excellent reputation for reliability. Furthermore they are “hot swappable” which means they can be safely inserted and removed from the Drobo without removing power from the system.

a. The Drobo is only powered on when backups are being made. Otherwise, it is powered off. This limits the exposure to possible hacking.

b. Although the Drobo can hold up to five drives, only four are in the unit at any given time. Three of the drives are never removed and provide the basic redundancy.

c. The fourth drive position is used for the offsite backup. Two drives are used for that purpose.

4) Once a week or as necessary, drive 4 is removed from the Drobo and taken to the bank. Drive 5 is removed from my safe deposit box and drive 4 takes it place in the box.

5) Drive 5 is inserted into the Drobo where the data from Drives 1, 2 and 3 are automatically copied to it.

As a result, I have complete redundancy and no recurring costs. The safe deposit box costs me nothing because I keep at least the minimum required amount in my bank accounts.

Now tell me why I would possibly want to use cloud storage of my photographs?

You clearly didn't intend to be mean, but you did identify and stereotype a category of UHH members, and in a negative manner. I'm not sure that anyone took offense, or would consider you to be mean - at least I hope not - but it could have been interpreted by some as a blanket statement, it could also have been interpreted as mean by some. How can you be sure that you weren't delivering a message that was understood in any of those manners, even if unintentional. You can't. You did however stir the pot and received a variety of reactions. Then the discussion took on its own life...

However, in the spirit of kindness and goodwill, let's accept that your intent was pure, and that we extend Season's Greetings to all, regardless of race, creed, or religious affiliation. Even those that are sometimes snarky, sarcastic, self-absorbed, or somewhat intolerant, and try to do a little better next year.

That is true. Perhaps for many reasons, some good, or well intended, some not so. One thing that would help is if people considered whether they actually knew anything about the topic in hand before responding. Trying to be 'kind' or 'helpful' while demonstrating ignorance of a topic or question is neither kind nor helpful.

This happens a lot in the brand discussions. Comments such as "I don't know about this but as a long time <brand> user, I think this might possibly be what you need..." seldom have any value. I do know quite a lot about Canon equipment, Alan Myers (Amfoto1) knows a lot more and is very generous with his contributions, very occasionally he makes a mistake, but they are very few and far between. I don't know that much about Nikon, Pentax, Sony, or mirrorless cameras so generally try to avoid commenting on specifics.

Then there are the discussions about jpeg versus raw formats. I find it quite amazing how many people express strong opinions while demonstrating considerable ignorance about the topic. It is more complicated than some people think, yet less complicated than some of those same people realize. Again some people try to help, and in doing so proliferate misinformation. That does not help anybody achieve understanding, no matter how well intended it is.

Then there are the computer discussions where we have some very well informed individuals, but many that have very limited expertise, yet they happily give uninformed advice.

Conversations wander, and a discussion forum is about conversations, UHH is not strictly a technical support site, so off topic things can sometimes be valuable, or at least entertaining. However, it is always possible to keep things civil, even if the topic is contentious.

As a former colleague once said in response to the comment, "You Southern women are so nice.", she just shot the guy down with "Honey, we ain't always nice, but we're always polite!"