A few months before I took off on a two-week trip to France and England, I bought a Sony a6000 mirrorless camera. My transition from photo illiterate to shooting kickass wide-angle landscape shots was almost effortless. While the a6000 gives you the option to shoot in manual mode, there are loads of easy-to-use preset options. You can shoot in full automatic mode and let the camera do its thing, snap manually, or choose a mode in between that lets you change just one setting at a time.
The different settings helped me quickly learn what shutter speed, aperture, and ISO do. But the feature that seriously helped me ease into taking better photos with the camera was the viewfinder—the eyepiece you use to line up your shot. With a mirrorless camera like the a6000, when you look into the viewfinder, you see a digital image of the shot in real-time with the settings already applied. You know what your picture will look like before you actually press the button. For a beginner, it's incredibly helpful.
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I've used it to take travel pictures from France to Cuba and, of course, to photograph friends and family. Don't be fooled by the fact that this camera is easy to use. It packs an impressive 24-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, super fast autofocus, a handy tilting LCD screen, and a 100-25600 ISO range. It also can shoot continuously at 11 frames per second, helping capture fleeting moments and action shots. It shoots videos in 1080p HD, too, and has a built-in flash. Plus, you can change the lenses when you're ready for something new.
The Sony Alpha a6000 is currently on sale at Jet for $498, though it retails for $598. It comes with a standard kit lens and would be an awesome gift for a budding photographer.
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