Ron,

After posting that shot of the Great Horned Owl, I decided to see if I could find some decent shots with the 16-50 zoom. I have just returned from a month up in Washington and Oregon and I went through the pictures I took during the trip to find ones I had taken with the "kit" lens. Here is one I took of the remains of a ship wreck on a beach just down the coast from Astoria, OR. It was shot handheld at f8, ISO 320, and 1/1000 and the lens was at the 39mm position as far as zoom. I may have to rethink my opinion on the 16-50 as this looks pretty sharp to me. I cropped it to let you get a closer look at the detail.

Ron,

I have had my a6000 for about 4 months now and just love it but have to agree the IQ of the 16-50 leaves something to be desired. I have been using some of my old Canon FD manual focus lenses and have found that with focus peaking even my old eyes can manage to get good sharp images. Since you mentioned BIF, I have attached a picture of a Great Horned Owl in flight taken with a Canon 50mm f1.4 FD lens. I found that the fast burst rate of this little camera is a real asset. Of course I had to buy an adaptor to use the Canon lens on the Sony but it really didn't cost much and let me use some great old lenses that have been gathering dust.

I bought the A6000 to use with my old Minolta SR mount manual lenses. It works great for that. I don't think I could have made a better choice. The A6000 has focus peaking and focus magnifier which makes manual focusing easier than with my old SRT-101. It makes a very good low light camera with a f/1.2 prime and 1600 ISO.

Con #1: I have the standard 16-50mm kit lens and it is nothing special. You should be prepared to get a better lens which may cost more than the camera.

Con #2: The Sony documentation is terrible. Luckily, the Gary Friedman ebook is the best camera "manual" you'll ever read.

Ron I have the A6000 and just freaking love it, I also have a Sony HX400 and shoot a Canon D7 II. and a Sony a350, The a6000 is the camera I shoot, the rest stays in a closet.

I will also tell you I sold the 16-50mm and the 70-200 I did not like them. the 70-200 was ok, but didn't like the 16-50 because of the way it zoomed.

the image quality from the a6000 is just freaking amazing along with the camera, the lens I use is Sigma ART 19, 30 and 60mm they are priced right and just as sharp as anything out there.

I also use manual focus lenses most of them are Minolta's that work extremely well with super IQ.

I took this shot yesterday with a Tamron manual focus 90mm 2.5 macro on my Sony a6000 I love this camera.