Stan, thanks for this write-up about YouTube influencers. It makes perfect sense and yes. They seem to be relying on the axiom that if you repeat something over and over, even if it isn't based on fact, people will come to believing it is fact.
I just gave my daughter my beloved Sony NEX-6 with it's fabulous APS-C 16mb sensor. It was much smaller than my D610 - D750 at the time. I ended up taking it everywhere. I took many pictures with that camera with it's tiny kit lens and even sold a few that were cropped.
But realistically, the NEX-6 was a challenge ergonomically and a pain to use with lots of lag in startup. And, if you didn't use it frequently, you'd have to remember how to find key functions in the menu or how to use the dial in the back for such things as how to change the aperture when in manual mode.
So, I never bothered with the next gen Sony's because Sony simply didn't "get it" when it came to actual "use-ablility"; things like a decent menu and ergonomics. But, it was that little NEX-6 that turned me onto the benefits of mirrorless. And because of the NEX-6, I knew way back then that DSLRs were old technology and that Nikon would eventually come on-board. So now that I have a Z7 and a Z50, I'm pretty much set for many, many years to come.
I just gave my daughter my beloved Sony NEX-6 with it's fabulous APS-C 16mb sensor. It was much smaller than my D610 - D750 at the time. I ended up taking it everywhere. I took many pictures with that camera with it's tiny kit lens and even sold a few that were cropped.
But realistically, the NEX-6 was a challenge ergonomically and a pain to use with lots of lag in startup. And, if you didn't use it frequently, you'd have to remember how to find key functions in the menu or how to use the dial in the back for such things as how to change the aperture when in manual mode.
So, I never bothered with the next gen Sony's because Sony simply didn't "get it" when it came to actual "use-ablility"; things like a decent menu and ergonomics. But, it was that little NEX-6 that turned me onto the benefits of mirrorless. And because of the NEX-6, I knew way back then that DSLRs were old technology and that Nikon would eventually come on-board. So now that I have a Z7 and a Z50, I'm pretty much set for many, many years to come.
Thanks again,
Kent