Sony A6000 landscape photography in the Azores
The landscapes of the Azores are stunning, so I thought this would be ideal to test the Sony A6000 landscape photography capabilities. I haven’t invested in any dedicated APS-C wide angle lenses, but I do have the SEL2470z that translates to a moderate 38mm wide angle. 
I would have preferred to go wider, but, on the other hand, this lens has a lot of artefacts on a full frame camera, so it performed better on the Sony A6000. You can check out my full review of the Sony Alpha ILCE-6000 here. The 24.3-megapixel Exmor APS HD Cmos sensor allows for plenty of detail, and there is enough information in the RAW images for cropping to straighten horizons without a degradation of image quality. 
All these pictures were edited in Adobe Lightroom and OnOne Software’s Perfect Photo Suite 8.1 which I will be reviewing soon. This software has some nice presets for landscapes to start with, and I especially like the Perfect Eraser tool in the enhance menu for removing small objects like power lines, people, large dust spots and signs.
This Sony A6000 landscape photography test indeed proves that this is a very capable all-round camera, and not just for action shots.
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Hello Wim! Looks like a6000 with proper lens is very good for landscapes. In this Azores set there are two pictures taken from almost same point. The difference in color – is it result of postprocessing, or just pictures taken at sun and cloudy conditions? And what do you think about jpeg IQ straight from the camera. How it compare with jpeg pictures taken with X-T1 in the same conditions? Thank you
Hi Vladimir, you should try both Sony A6000 and Fuji XT1. It’s easier to change settings on the XT1 like iso, aperture and shutter speed, and straight out of camera jpeg is better, noise reduction (jpeg) is less aggressive. The A6000 has better autofocus for things like street photography, and is a real bargain all things considered. If you like my style of processing, you’ll need to start shooting RAW and process later, no out of camera jpeg will be like this.
another photographer said that it’s RAW photos aren’t really RAW? I watched his review a while ago so I don’t know what he was trying to claim they truly were. But would you say that the “RAW” files the a6000 produces are full fledged?? I’ve been obsessing over this camera since I found it months ago. So far everything I’ve hear about it is absolute music. I want it so bad.
Hi Justin,
Sony does use a type of lossy compression for their RAW’s. They do this in order to keep the file size manageable in regards to RAW sequential shooting and the camera buffer/write to SD card. There is still a lot of information in these files and the majority of users don’t find this problematic.