>>3270868>>watching sonyfriends discussing budget aps-c zoom lenses>>all of them are kit alternatives>>all of them are garbage>I wouldn't want to be stuck on Sony APS-C, that's for sureThe Sony NEX 5n was my first mirrorless camera. People scoffed at the lens selection at the time, and probably always will as long as Sony prioritizes development of their full frame mirrorless lenses, but it played an important role in introducing me to the concept of a mirrorless camera. I paid $599 for just the body back in 2012. This was before the a7, before the Fujifilm X-T1, before the EOS-M. Sony gave us the option to install an EVF in the flash hotshoe, but it was crappy with low res and low fps. When I realized how quickly Sony deprecates their camera bodies with new models and how little I liked the camera, I sold it to maximize the money I could get back from it, and never looked back.
As a result of that experience, I stayed the hell away from mirrorless cameras until 2018 (excepting an EOS-M I bought on fire sale a year or so later and then also sold in disgust). People thought the Sony NEX was the biggest threat to Canon and Nikon's DSLR sales. It was actually the opposite, in my opinion. Sony's APS-C mirrorless cameras were probably the biggest boon to DSLR sales in the past 10 years because of how badly they were designed. Sony has improved the body since then with more buttons, dials and an integrated EVF, but the lenses are still a very mixed bag.
For the people who can make something like the a6000 work for them and don't mind the lingering flaws, it's not a terrible camera by any means, but I think many users will shell out the $600 for a new a6000 kit in 2018, and a year later when they think to upgrade the kit lens, on realizing how badly Sony fucked them, they will quickly go back to their Nikon D3400.
