Sony A6000 worth £200 more than A5000?

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Sorry for another thread but this ones narrowed down from my previous where I thought I wanted a DSLR but a mirrorless will suit my needs much better.

I was set on the A5000 - it seems like a cracking camera for £250 however the curveball is that it literally seems to be sold out everywhere! Rainforest has a blizzare dispatch window of 1-3 months. There's one Currys which has it in stock that is 20 miles away + that is £300.

I leave to go travelling in 3 weeks so unless something comes into stock within the next week or two I'm stumped.

I'm kind of forced to now be considering a A6000 which I can find for £500 in stock at Currys.

What would you guys do in my situation. £300 for the A5000 or is the A6000 worth the extra 200.

I take mainly landscape photos and photos of artchiecture. I'm coming from taking photos with my iPhone 6. I'll be sticking with the kit lens that comes with either camera for the time being.

Please advise!

 

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Thanks for your replies guys.

I popped into Currys to have a physical look at them both. The A6000 is noticeably chunkier and bigger (relatively speaking here) than the A5000. I think for my personal usage, the A5000 fits the the bill, I don't require an EVF as I've never used one (coming from a phone) the increase in megapixel will probably be wasted as I share the majority of my photos on Instagram and the better stability would also be wasted as I take my photographs of stationary objects. I think I could put the 200 I save towards a lens or just on plane tickets! I also think I may have sourced an A5000 at John Lewis.

There's no doubt the A6000 is a superior camera but for my needs if I can source an A5000 it'd be money well saved.

There was a Panasonic GF7 in stock at 310. It looked good but haven't done much research on it. Less MP at 16.

JRJ - I had a look on digitalrev and it states they order them in. Going by conversations I've had with online sites it seems that the Sony factory which produces the sensors for all cameras was hit by the earthquake in April and has been closed and has just over the last few weeks reopened. So for that reason the only places where you'd be successful in getting hold of a camera is at places who have physical stock of it right now, any website which needs to order in probably won't get them or will give you a lead time for of 1 month plus.

 

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Jessops website seems to have a5000s for delivery - not sure how reliable they are.

Yep Minstadave you're right, struggling with upgrade direction. I'm thinking about gx8 too, possibly with the 12-35mm but yeah the drop in sensor and physical size is bugging me and keeping me from jumping on the buy button.

Thanks it seems supplies back in as Amazon has stock too!

Also FYI re the GX8 Panasonic are offering 50 quid cash back. Just saw it on John Lewis website.