Can take picture of the tilt-able flash ar?
Also show some that you taken?

One weakness of Nex 5N on tripod use is the focusing. With SLR, we can easily focus a spot and switch to manual focus to lock the focus but we cannot do this with Nex. Even we can switch to manual focus in the menu, the "continuous pre focusing" of NEX will move your focusing when you are on the way in your menu. There is no way to turn off "continuous pre focusing". There is also no such feature as "back button focusing". It makes it quite annoying to use it on tripod unless you do manual focus. I wish they release a firmware to let us turn off the pre focusing.

Another thing is if you put ND400 filter to it to do longer exposure, it becomes darker than SLR so auto focus is difficult, even manual focus can be difficult.

But once you release it, won't it do the "continuous pre focus again"? because once you release your finger it is back to AF already.

Oh OK. Never touch the Nex 7, it can disable the "continuous pre focus"?

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Added on July 13, 2012, 3:50 pm
I don't think toggle is the right word to use coz it doesn't switch fully to AF or MF if you are on the other mode. you have to hold it while using it... else it will just roll back to whatever mode you were in... with that, if you wanna switch fully, only way (i think) is via the menu. unless i am wrong... any other nex 7 users please correct me.

on a77, there are ton of button, will be good if there is video show how to make use of this button efficiently in special shooting environment condition

Thanks for sharing bro.

BTW suddenly come to mind. Since these lenses (voiglander, M lens etc) arent design originally for NEX... what are the other limitation of using such lenses compare to the original Emount lens?

I know the first thing is ... it is Manual focus only. Then the Aperture is set manually too. But is that the only difference?

What happened when we use liveview on LCD... and as we change the aperture... will the the liveview update the exposure as well? Will the camera KNOWS what aperture we are using and indicates our aperture in the screen? Meaning.. Will what we see in the lcd, is what we will get in the final photo? And will automatic exposure works with these lens? We can use Aperture Priority mode? or just SUPER MANUAL only. & there will be no EXIF data in the final image.

The adapters actually come with any electronic contacts? or is just to mount the lens onto the body without any other connection.

If everything works the same way, only Manual focus + Manual Aperture... Then I can consider those lens.

hi pal... good day to everyone of you...
recently i got some questions with my new SEL50F18...
when i was using AF/DMF mode (with peaking feature), the lens sometimes focus at the wrong item... initially, i thought it is something to do with the focal length. But I turn to MF. I actually can manual focus to the subject i want when i standing at the same position. And the DMF function seems like AF only, when u "fine" tune too much, it will auto focus again for you...

can some sifu guide me how to use it? cos it is like keep on focus at wrong subject... LOL

Besides, i do set the camera setting to "flexible focus spot"... is it adjustment needed at that setting option?

Hi Albert! Thanks for clarify this. I nvr tried any samyang lense before and this is first time I play with LIveview so dont know how it should work yet. Btw albert you have many experience with other lenses. In your opinion do you think there is any manual lens worth getting compare to the CZ24mm f1.8? If lets say manual focusing is not a problem. Budget about same with CZ. In term of sharpness and rendering quality while wide open. I actually have been looking for Voigtlander 35mm f1.2, but it is more expensive than autofocus CZ, but is there really difference in picture quality. There is no way i can test this lens. Assume comparing both lens at F1.8 (instead of 1.2) Voigtlander 35mm f1.4 is much compact but looking at the review the lens is not very sharp ... will it justify to get a manual lens more expensive than CZ 24mm? It is actually quite fun playing manual focusing on NEX, since I find nex tend to miss focus a lot more often compare to Alpha especially in low light.

Oh!! didnt know Studio Zaloon actually selling these lens.. Thought uncle chin selling sony lens only

So you are saying the Voightlander may even have better image quality than the nex CZ or 50mm F1.8? I'll visit Zaloon and have a test myself before deciding if it is worth to sacrifice the autofocus/stabiliser.

newbies in nex..what is the mount for the Voigtlander you try in zaloon? and the mount expensive?

already done that, not aperture problem, my problem is cant focus...no matter how i turn the focus ring on the lens it cant focus, all blur...

Release without lens ON, i wonder which setting is wrong...

Hmm.. i read articles from various sources of photography. Yea, best is to get out n shoot pics to improve skill. That is no doubt. But sometimes inspirations do come from the works and writings of others.

Anyway.. I see a trend from different authors where they are saying the same thing:

The next big thing would be about Video and moving images. It seems that still images is becoming something less and less appreciated. The convergence is already happening where the upper end of DSLR are now made to also take great full HD videos. 

Internet bandwith and memory card capacity has also kept up and probably is quite fast nowadays to support video uploads and streaming. Youtube has shown itself to be the epitome of video portals, i'm wondering if Facebook will allow video uploads in addition to image uploads . hmm..

So, probably in the current and coming times, these NEX's and it's lenses really do need to be the be good at still and be even better with video to stay relevant.

I'mma Gearhead ! LOL



Did a quick test on my 1-day old RX100 with my Nex 5 + E16, similar lighting condition, similar ISO, diff shutter as Nex sensor is abit more sensitive maybe it's bigger, and similar aperture at f/2.8, f/5.6, and f/8, RX100 at 28mm, Nex at 16mm (24mm), and the result...

E16 lose, lose until cham cham, very very lousy. WTF to Sony made a crap lens to use on APSC sensor and a good lens on 1" sensor, maybe their marketing gimmick to ketagih their customers to buy more and more ? Lol we're the water-fish !

Off topic, I should test the E16 with my iPhone 4 maybe it will win this time !

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Added on September 21, 2012, 10:57 pmDammit, just found that my A200, Nex 5 and RX100 unable to share the similar charger, and transfer cable, WTF so many cables tangling on my table now !

Is it very hard to create a universal port to all their cameras ? dammit they should learn from Apple on this.

any idea for this? AF adaptor for A mount, so cheap for the pricing compare to LA-EA 1 or 2 series

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-Minolta-AF-le...370289332614%26

no you can't do that on F3... only latest model like 5R and 6 able to do that...
cos the body able to charge the battery through cable or you can take the battery out and charge it with external charger...