BIG ROB Loc: Princeton, NJ 08540

No, the Fong Video shows much much more...you should buy that manual, there is allot to that camera.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

Agree, free Fong videos are good, but Jason is a persuasive guy....

Bigbeartom44

I agree with mas24. Get the Sony a6000/ILCE-6000 from David Busch. I get mine from Amazon to save money. I have the Nikon manuals also. He is a photographer and knows what info photographers want and lays it out logically. 349 pages and lots of color photos. He also has lots of info about photography is general.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Nice. I'm not giving up my Nikons, but I'm glad I got the A6000. Trey Ratcliffe also switched to Sony from Nikon, but I didn't like his choices of NEX 6 and 7.

Quantus5

Tony and Chelsea Northrup also have some excellent Sony a6000 overview videos.

I definitely like Jason Lanier and Gary Fong as well -- They are incredible Sony photographers!!

Great price on YouTube videos - FREE.

les2297 Loc: Central OR

ILCE-6000_HelpGuide_EN.pdf ... pg. 142 as per MadMike and pg.169.

tropics68 Loc: Georgia

As to using the camera in manual I assume you mean adjusting the aperture and focus manually. That requires a lens with an aperture ring and a focusing ring. Since Sony does not sell such an animal they have no reason to put a 'how to' in their manuals other than a few blurbs on focusing manually and focus peaking. There are videos on line demonstrating the use of vintage glass (manual lenses) on the A6000. It is neither hard nor tricky. I have a book (Sony's Alpha 6000 Digital Camera) written by Gary Friedman and Ross Warner in addition to a printed version of the Sony PDF Manual. Together they offer plenty of info., which pretty much covers all the camera's features and how to use them. I have several manual lenses that I use from time to time on my A6000. A couple of them produce images as good as any modern day lens. Good Luck.

CooledgeR Loc: Sunny (Hot) Arizona

"Gary L. Friedman ... write[s] one that may be equally as good."

P.S. Better than Busch's

BebuLamar

Without a good manual I don't know but others please confirm. I think the A6000 can focus and set the aperture manually with the kit lens although it has no aperture ring. If it can't then it's a very bad camera which I don't think so.

splatbass Loc: Honolulu

Yes, it can using the knob on the camera.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

Yes it can be used in "manual."
Manual means you set the shutter speed, aperture, and sensor sensitivity (ISO or film speed). The exposure triangle 👍

tropics68 Loc: Georgia

I guess I am confused about what you are asking. When you say "manually adjust aperture" to me that means mechanically by turning a ring on the lens. Yes you can set the ISO, shutter speed, and aperture on the kit lenses but ONLY with the electronic controls on the camera BODY. There is however a focus ring on the lenses to manually focus. If you want to set the aperture on the lens, and not through the camera, you must have a lens that has an aperture ring on it. No Sony lenses have one. For that matter no modern day Canon lenses that I know of have one either. Aperture rings are usually only found on third party and vintage lenses.

Dun1 Loc: Atlanta, GA

Gary Fong was an early adopter of the Sony A6000 and Sony cameras. He has numerous how to videos on the Sony series of cameras if reading a manual or book does not suit your taste.
Here is a link to a manual focus vid on Gary Fong's site, it should give you a chance to pick up some info
https://www.garyfong.com/learn/how-use-manual-focus-tools-mf-assist-and-peaking-levels-sony-cameras
As someone mentioned earlier, using a A6000 is pretty straight forward and not complicated, the A6000 series has so many custom feature any of Gary Fong's vids should help you

Quantus5

Tropic68 -- your are correct. To stave off any confusion, many of the current lenses you get for the Sony a6000 have their aperture adjusted electronically, i.e. no ring on the lens for adjusting the aperature.

For example, The Sony 55-210mm f4.5-6.3 has two rings on the lens. One for changing the focal length (zoom) and one for manual focus. Note: This lens also can focus electronically, so you can either focus manually or use the camera to control the focus. There is no aperature ring on this lens. Aperature is controlled through the camera controls.

Manual exposure then involves (at least the way I do it): Putting the camera in manual exposure mode, setting shutter speed (using a dial), setting aperture (using a dial), and setting ISO (at this point you only have two dials, so setting the ISO typically involves a button press, and then quickly setting the ISO through a menu). Usually I don't change ISO that much -- so not having a dedicated control for ISO is not an issue.

This is a very fast workflow, and I can take manual photos (manual exposure and manual focus), extremely quickly with the a6000.

And on the manual focus side -- I love focus magnification and focus peaking.

I highly recommend the Sony a6000. Note: I probably would have gotten the a6300 or a6500, but I am not a video shooter, and most of the major advantages of the a6300 and a6500 over the a6000 have to do with shooting video. Just could not justify the extra cost. For me the Sony a6000 was just the better value, in terms of the features I wanted.

The Sony a6000 is just a phenomenal camera!!

tropics68 Loc: Georgia

Couldn't agree more.