hey everybody welcome to Dan Bullman
photography today I want to talk about
the best budget-friendly lenses for your
sony a6000 now I love the sony a6000
it's light it's super compact it has
great autofocus and the sensor is
amazing so you can get incredibly
detailed images and one of the other
things that's great about the a6000 is
that it's a really budget-friendly
camera you can get the sony a6000 for
around five hundred dollars and what's
even greater is that you can find a
number of really good lenses for under
five hundred dollars as well you don't
have to break the bank to build out an
excellent camera kit so i'm going to be
giving you my top three recommendations
for sony lenses that cost less than five
hundred dollars as well as mentioning a
few honorable mentions at the end and
giving you a hack
if you will to figure out how to use or
vintage lenses on the sony a6000 as well
now the first lens I'd like to recommend
is sony's nifty fifty the 50 mm f
1.8 now this lens is actually on my
camera right now filming this video and
i use it to film most of the videos on
my channel now it's really good because
it's a fairly inexpensive lens that costs
around two hundred dollars and it's still
really sharp so you can get really great
portraits with this and the focal length
is good it's about a short telephoto on
the sony a6000 equivalent about 75
millimeters so it's not the best for
like everyday walking around purposes
but it's a good lens that's a step up
from the kit lens you're looking to get
into something a little bit better
my next recommendation is the sony
20-millimeter f 2.8 lens now this is a
fantastic lens if you're looking for
something to shoot landscapes or scenes
where you need a wider angle lens on the a6000
this is about 30 millimeter equivalent
and I've had some really great results
with this shooting cityscapes and night
scenes and things where I just needed to
capture a broader scene this has been a
great lens for me that does have a few
drawbacks
one of the first drawbacks I can think
of is it doesn't have optical image
stabilization so if you're using it for
something like handheld video your video
might come out a little bit shaky and
I've had some problems with that but
otherwise this is a really really good
lens one other thing to note is this is
an aps-c sensor only lens so if you were
to upgrade to something like a sony a7
later on this lens would not be a great
option for that so my last sony lens
recommendation is the 35 millimeter f
1.8 now this is my absolute favorite
lens I'm consistently blown away by the
results that I get with this lens it's
super super sharp really great for
portraits and things where you want a
lot of detail in the scene and its
really great all-around lens because
it's about 52 millimeter equivalent on
the a6000 you can just get some
fantastic images with this and it's a
really good multi-purpose lens now this
lens costs about 450 dollars but i
think it's well worth the price and this
is the camera or this is the lens
rather that i have on my camera most
often now all these lenses that I've
mentioned so far ones that i personally
own and have in my kit so i can vouch
for them through my day-to-day use of them
now there are some other great lenses in
the sony lineup and some third-party
lenses as well from brands like sigma
and rokinon and i'll link them up
down under "honorable mentions" in the
description so you can check out links
to those as well you're interested in
seeing some other lenses one thing i
will note is there aren't a ton of great
options on the telephoto lens end for
sony a6000 or the zoom lenses there are
few options and there in the honorable
mentions below but wait there's more
now if you're not afraid of manual focus
and you're interested in getting an
adapter you can actually use old
35-millimeter film lenses for your sony
a6000 and get some really really great
lenses for incredible prices now the two
lens systems that i recommend
Canon's FD lens system this is a canon
FD 85 millimeter f 1.8 this lens cost
about two hundred dollars which if
you're going to buy an 85 millimeter f
1.8 today you pay astronomical prices
for it and there are tons of canon FD
lenses for really good prices because
that lens mount is no longer in use and
you can pick out of it an adapter to use
these lenses on the sony a6000 for
fairly cheap another good lens system to
look into are m42 lenses and these were
lenses that were used on old Soviet
cameras as well as some old pentax
cameras as well and a few other brands
it's often called the universal lens mount
because these lenses were made for a
variety of different cameras and you can
get some really fantastic lenses
for dirt cheap prices
this is a pentax super takumar
50-millimeter f 1.4 lens now I got this
lens on a camera body that I bought and
the whole thing together was around
seventy dollars so this is an amazing
lines if you want to buy a 50 millimeter
f 1.4 from Sony I think it's like
eighteen hundred dollars so this is like
literally less than a hundred dollars
and all you have to do is get a cheap
m42 adapter for sony camera and pop it
on there some other options are the auto
chinon 35-millimeter f 2.8 this again
this lens like twenty dollars and
they're just a ton of options out there
if you're willing to look at manual
focus film lenses and the adapters are super
cheap as well most of them or a hundred
dollars or less so you're looking at
opening up a whole range of options for
sony a6000 if you're not afraid to
manual focus check out the links down in
the description for more information
about these lenses and adapters I hope you
guys found this video useful please let
me know what you think down in the
comments are there any lenses that I'm
missing do you have any questions feel
free to comment below and let me know
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