There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
For myself, all of that aside; I got into Konica-Minolta/Sony because 1- I could afford it, and 2- I like the very hands-on, kind of old-school feel and operability. Most of the primary things one does on the fly are accessible with knobs and buttons, just like an old manual camera..instead of having to page through the menus on the LCD on the back of your camera. And now that cameras like the A9, the 7R III, which bring us to the edge of medium format in a DIGITAL platform....well, I dont regret that I still use Sony and that most of my lenses are compatible, and that I am very comfortable with a Sony in my hands.
Now. All that being said..... the camera itself is actually less important than the eye and brains behind it. You can use any camera to train the eye and mind how to see and photograph... then worry about the next move on camera purchasing. That Sony Alpha 6000 is a good camera to be going along with. :)