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the highpoint to the alpha a6000 Sony's follow-up to its NEX six mirrorless interchangeable model is it seriously speedy continuous shooting it laps the field with its 11 frame per second burst and that's with autofocus and auto exposure in either raw or JPEG I'm Laurie Brennan and this is the a6000 not only is it fast but continuous shooting and JPEG runs at least 50 shots and probably more I just didn't try although it takes a while for the camera to save the images to the card that doesn't interfere with shooting another burst it does prevent you from reviewing though and for some reason Sony put the right indicator on the bottom of the camera instead of the back in all other aspects of performance it tested a bit slower than the NEX 6 though in practice it feels about the same you can speed up the autofocus system by turning on pre AF for one of the continuous autofocus options but features like that use up more battery power and the a6000 while rated at a hundred shots more than the NEX six still only lasts about 420 shots on the charge the autofocus system works pretty well most of the time but on the occasions when it makes the wrong choices it can get really frustrating and like many mirrorless models it's pretty slow on startup the a6000 has a higher resolution sensor than the NEX 6 it jumps to 24 megapixels from 16 and that means there's a lot more image detail I found that even as low as ISO 800 though I could get better results from RAW processing than the JPEGs which look kind of mushy you can fill with the amount of processing in-camera if you'd like on the other hand I did shoot some ISO 12800 photos which while still noisy we're certainly usable there's a reasonable amount of recoverable shadow and highlight detail as well and the default creative style color settings don't push contrast or saturation egregiously though the neutral setting is more accurate video looks quite good as well with the exception of a few real annoyances I really like the cameras design and features implementation Sony gives good grip on its merrill list models and everything an advanced user might want is easy to get to quickly although the EVF is smaller and lower resolution than the NEX six it's still fine and I didn't really notice and it's really necessary since the otherwise good LCD screen is hard to see in direct sunlight Sony does get brownie points for the tilting flash the Wi-Fi connectivity works fine although it's really laggy for remote shooting but I really hate that in order to update to the full Smart Remote app a capability that most competitors simply built-in you have to sign up for a Sony Entertainment Network account and it's a real pain entering text on a phone without a touchscreen in order to log in despite the small annoyances though the a6000 is a great overall camera for more advanced photographers who want something smaller than a DSLR especially if they need the continuous shooting speed I'm Laurie Coonan and this is the sony alpha a6000