New mirrorless camera advice and picture examples welcome

[Steve Ross]

Shortly I will be purchasing a new camera, I have decided that I want a mirrorless camera and my budget is £500. I've watched allot of reviews but it would be nice to see some real world examples. If anyone on these boards has a mirrorless camera please can you post an example picture (preferably landscape) and state what model mirrorless camera you have so I can see the images your model produces, also please list any pros and cons of your model, you think I should know.

Thanks in advance,
Steve.

[© Tom Cooper]

I am using a Sony NEX-6, which was discontinued over a year ago.  I am quite pleased with it, including the ability to adapt old manual-focus lenses to it.

There are drawbacks, though.  There are certain shooting modes that can't be used together, such as self-timer and bracketing.  In addition, it came with a kit lens (16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS) that has serious light falloff at all focal lengths and very serious barrel distortion at the wide angle end.  If you only shoot JPGs, in-camera software corrects those issues, but if you shoot raw, you don't really want this lens.

Tom

P.S. The most recent several pages of my gallery are shot exclusively with this camera.

[Kevin Childress]

I think you're taking a good route, Steve. If I had it to do all over I would definitely go mirrorless. I looked at mirrorless cameras when I bought my first DSLR but the technology was fledgling at the time so I didn't take that leap. I'll also add that if I were to do it all over again (with mirrorless), I'd definitely go with Sony. My Nikons have outstanding dynamic range in the raws and Sony manufactures the sensors in both cameras, perhaps to a Nikon spec I suppose. But I know that Sony-camera sensor have the same dynamic range capability so that's a big draw for me. Their low-light ISO performance should be equally as good. Furthermore, the Sony/Zeiss lenses are reported to be quite sharp. Regardless of the make/model you look for, one thing I would suggest is to look for cameras that have as many body-mounted controls as you can find (button controls for things like white balance, ISO, bracketing, manual focus, metering mode, or what have you).