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Sony - Alpha a5000 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50mm Retractable Lens - Black
Average Customer Rating:
4.3
Rating breakdown 42 reviews
5 Stars
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4 Stars
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
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1 Star
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76%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for Sony - Alpha a5000 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50mm Retractable Lens - Black
Customer Rating
5
Great Camera
on September 21, 2014
Posted by: RichD
This camera is all about small size and great large sensor images. It is the smallest camera with an APS C size sensor with a zoom lens at this time. You need to hold it and compare it to the A 6000 and others to appreciate it's smaller size. If I don't wear tight pants like blue jeans it fits in my pocket easily. I have used this camera for over 2 months, taken over 2,000 stills and 10 minutes of video. I don't work for Sony.
It is loaded with an extraordinary amount of manual and automatic options. For me, whatever it doesn't have, I don't need or want. Such as the lack of a view finder. They are inconvenient. Who wants to lay on the floor to compose photos of kids and animals or stand on a chair to shoot over a crowd. Also, I don't need a touch screen to make the same touch mistakes I do on my smart phone. I will take buttons and wheels over a touch screen anytime. This flip screen is perfect.
Reading some of the critical reviews of the A 5000 motivated me to add my impressions.
As far as shutter speed, it has no lag. Push the button, it fires instantly. While water skiing with my kids I took over 750 shots and 5 minutes of video on 1 battery with still more power left. Rapid fire action of jumping over the wake was incredibly fast with lots of mid air shots per jump. They were also perfectly exposed and extremely sharp. Just remember shoot with the light behind you, spot focus on the subject etc. I'm no expert on video but the 1920 x 1080 29 fps quality is excellent. If someone thinks a point and shoot with a higher fps rate can be better, what about the overwhelming image content from an APS C sensor over a 1.7 point and shoot sensor?
You need to hold it, shoot it and review your pictures. The A 5000 is excellent, smaller and a bargain compared to it's competitors.
It is loaded with an extraordinary amount of manual and automatic options. For me, whatever it doesn't have, I don't need or want. Such as the lack of a view finder. They are inconvenient. Who wants to lay on the floor to compose photos of kids and animals or stand on a chair to shoot over a crowd. Also, I don't need a touch screen to make the same touch mistakes I do on my smart phone. I will take buttons and wheels over a touch screen anytime. This flip screen is perfect.
Reading some of the critical reviews of the A 5000 motivated me to add my impressions.
As far as shutter speed, it has no lag. Push the button, it fires instantly. While water skiing with my kids I took over 750 shots and 5 minutes of video on 1 battery with still more power left. Rapid fire action of jumping over the wake was incredibly fast with lots of mid air shots per jump. They were also perfectly exposed and extremely sharp. Just remember shoot with the light behind you, spot focus on the subject etc. I'm no expert on video but the 1920 x 1080 29 fps quality is excellent. If someone thinks a point and shoot with a higher fps rate can be better, what about the overwhelming image content from an APS C sensor over a 1.7 point and shoot sensor?
You need to hold it, shoot it and review your pictures. The A 5000 is excellent, smaller and a bargain compared to it's competitors.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Customer Rating
5
I Love My a5000 Digital Camera
on September 26, 2014
Posted by: Elko
We bought the camera for our family vacation, to Chicago. Small, light-weight, and pocket-friendly. With built-in flash, and automatic settings, talking pictures was effortless, and the picture quality is crisp and dazzling.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Posted by: vfuentes
Verified Purchase:Yes
Awesome camera, great quality pictures. Easy to use, in most cases superior auto handles the details beautifully. Play memories allows fun apps and picture modes.
Wish the screen was touch, and Apps a bit cheaper, but overoverall worth every penny.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Posted by: picdude
Verified Purchase:Yes
More camera then I ever thought I could buy for the money. Absolutely extrordinary picture quality...beyound my best expectations!
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Posted by: Sitamma
Verified Purchase:Yes
I'm really happy with the A5000 Sony camera. The pictures are clear & crisp, videos are great and there are many different settings to work with. I wanted to go beyond the $150 cameras but not to the $500+ range so this one was perfect and had the features I most wanted (flip screen, panorama & zoom while video recording).
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Posted by: ikuznets
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
The easiest way to highlight camera features is by comparison to other known ones. So I will compare A5000 to two neighboring cameras: Nikon S9300 on lower end and Sony A6000 on higher one. Here is why.
Nikon sensor properties are common for its point-and-shoot segment: 16 MP resolution, 3200 ISO rating, 1/2.3" size. Sony A5000 parameters: 20 MP, 16000 ISO, APS-C. Sony A6500 has top characteristics in this group: 24 MP, 25600 ISO, APS-C size. This sensor is also installed on Sony A5100 - an intermediate between A5000 and A6000 in Sony's product line.
I used all three cameras and the point I want to make is that Nikon-style cameras produce pictures that are just as good as the ones made by modern 12 MP cameras of smartphones like Samsung. Or just any reasonably good smartphone, with small deviations. Obviously, this comparison is made without using optical zoom on camera and digital zoom on phone.
A6000 picture quality is way better than any smartphone. Sky-rocketing sensitivity, twice more pixels etc. And A5000 occupies a sweet spot in between: its pictures are distinctly better than smartphones even with kit lens like SELP1650, but it costs approximately twice less than A6000. The sensor size on both Sonys provide way better light sensitivity compared to any other smaller sensor. And from user perspective, the biggest difference at normal conditions between these two models is the viewfinder.
From the practical point of view, A5000 is cheap enough to not care about too much during travel (thanks to its lightweight and compactness), but it shares E-style lens mount with most of the new Alpha family. This allows smooth transition into more sophisticated models that can be started with kit lens, continued by adding better primes and zooms, and then finished by upgrading the camera while already having all necessary lens and accessories collection.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Customer Rating
3
great pictures and video But Overheats Very Quick
on July 15, 2017
Posted by: sonny215
Gender:Male
purchased the sony a5000 for vlogging and picture taking. After a very short time of recording indoors in air conditioning it over heated and stopped recording which leads me to believe if taking video outside the time would be cut in half due to overheating. pictures and video are amazing light weight and stylish.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Posted by: Boltsfan
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
I have a Nikon DSLR and this little camera does everything it does and much easier to carry around. The picture quality is outstanding also.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com