Sony Alpha 6000 Camera Has the 'World's Fastest Autofocus'

Sony may be getting out of the PC and TV businesses, but it's doubling down on cameras by strengthening its mirrorless offerings with a new model that the company claims has the world's fastest autofocus.

The Sony Alpha 6000 has a hybrid autofocus system that combines 179 points of phase detection with 25 points of contrast detection. I had a brief hands-on with the camera, and found it to be a pretty fast draw. Whether I pointed at targets that were bright, dark, close or distant, the camera locked on almost instantaneously.

The Alpha 6000 is the successor to the NEX-6, but it's more compact — another priority of Sony's (at CES, the company debuted the "world's smallest" mirrorless camera with Wi-Fi). Its body weight is just 12 ounces, and without a lens, it's 1.8 inches thick. Read more...