Is Sony Making A New Aps C Camera

Sony A6500 discontinuation signals shake-upward for its APS-C mirrorless cameras

The Sony Alpha A6500 that launched in 2016 (Image credit: Hereafter)

Sony'south crop-sensor APS-C format mirrorless cameras accept always had only a express number of models, and that number is now reducing.

Last yr, Sony removed the Alpha A6300 model from its website, which eventually led to retailers removing it from shelves. It's now the plough of the Sony A6500 to follow arrange, with the camera no longer listed on Sony'southward online marketplace and some retailers labeling information technology as "no longer available" or removing any mention of the model entirely.

That leaves just the Sony A6000, A6100, A6400 and the A6600 in the visitor's APS-C format bodies – at least in some markets. In Australia, only three of those models are available on Sony's online storefront – the A6000 from 2014, and the 2019-released A6400 and A6600. Does this hateful the A6100 is doomed too?

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Are we saying adieu to the Sony A6100?

The discontinuation of the A6300 and the A6500 would brand sense – they're crumbling kits that launched in March 2016 and October 2016 respectively – merely the A6100 was just announced in 2019 and was the successor to the A6000, bringing some significant upgrades over the older model.

While the effective sensor resolution was more than or less the aforementioned, the A6100 included a front-end LSI scrap that bumped up the camera's functioning, alongside a newer BionZ Ten processor. Native ISO range on the A6100 was also slightly meliorate, taking it to ISO 32000 from the A6000's upper limit of ISO 25,600 (even for video). And it was capable of 14-flake RAW and xvi-bit image processing, which the older camera cannot handle.

And then let's not forget the advances in autofocus – Sony mirrorless cameras have come leaps and bounds in AF performance since they outset launched, and the A6100 brought existent-time Middle AF and tracking for both humans and animals.

The A6100 was as well capable of 4K video recording at upwards to 30fps, while the A6000 is but capable of Full Hard disk drive 1080p at up to 60fps.

In that location are some other differences, like small-scale pattern tweaks to make the A6100 more convenient and calculation more than modern features similar the improver of an intervalometer for timelapse videos and Bluetooth connectivity.

That said, the A6000 was a hugely popular beginner-friendly photographic camera, and given information technology has endured since 2014 is a pregnant feat for Sony. So it does make sense to hold on to a bestseller.

And the A6100 seems to accept been discontinued only in certain markets (where it'southward withal bachelor through a few retailers flogging existing stock), only continues to be sold in the US and Uk. Whether the A6100 will soon go the way of the A6300 and A6500 worldwide remains to be seen.

The Sony A6100 is no longer available on Sony Australia (Image credit: Sony)

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Sharmishta is TechRadar'south APAC Managing Editor and loves all things photography, something she discovered while chasing monkeys in the wilds of Republic of india (yes, she studied to be a primatologist but has since left monkey business behind). While she's happiest with a camera in her manus, she's also an avid reader and has become a passionate proponent of ereaders, having appeared on Singaporean radio to talk nigh the convenience of these underrated devices. When she's not testing cameras and lenses, she's discovering the joys and foibles of smart home gizmos. She also contributes to Digital Camera World and T3, and helps produce two of Time to come's photography print magazines in Commonwealth of australia.