Category Archives: Sony a6500

Dave Dugdale Expands on Philip Bloom’s AF Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUtRfpqJp8 Dave Dugdale decided to expand on Philip Bloom’s AF test Part 1 and Part 2, with two test of his own using the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II and Sony a6500. His methodology is a little different and uses different lenses, the  Sony Zeiss 55mm F1.8 Sonnar T* FE ZA and Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM, but he has come up […]

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Philip Bloom Video Auto-Focus Mega Test Part 2

This is part 2 of Philip Bloom’s  big video auto focus shoot out between 10 cameras. In Part one Bloom started off with some pretty typical tests, before trying an impossible test and giving up. The Sony’s all do very well, but so do the dual pixel focus Canon’s. Part 2 is a little more realistic […]

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DPReview: Sony a6500

DPReview completed their Sony a6500 review and it’s overall pretty favorable, but they didn’t put the camera in the same category as the Fujifilm X-T2 even though it compares well against the X-T2. Unfortunately the way DPReview does their scoring doesn’t allow for a true comparison of the cameras across categories. So even though the X-T2 […]

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DXO: Sony a6500 Sensor Review

DXO reviewed the Sony a6500 and it should be no surprise that it uses the same exact sensor as the Sony a6300. In fact they are so similar that a simple EXIF edit is all that was needed to open RAW files from the a6500 in unsupported editors. With the new Sony A6500 mirrorless hybrid featuring […]

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Adobe Lightroom CC 2015.8/Camera RAW 9.8/iOS 2.6 Update

Adobe released Lightroom CC 2015.8 and Camera RAW 9.8 with support for the Sony Alpha a6500 (ILCE­-6500) Sony Alpha a99 II (ILCA-99M2) Sony DSC-RX100 Mark V Lightroom for iOS was also updated

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Open Sony a6500 ARW Files Now

If you just can’t wait for official RAW support for your Sony a6500 there is a way to change the EXIF data of your files so that RAW converters think they are opening Sony a6300. Tom Goetz put together a scrip to help you do it quickly with ExifTool that you can download and get directions of how to […]

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