tried nex-5n with both 18-55 n 16mm lense.now considering to trade my 550d n get the nex

You are welcome. I forgot to talk about the 16mm. Even it is cheap when bought it combo, I decided not to buy it because this is not a good lens. It is very soft at corners even if you are willing to stop down. And 16mm is 24mm in full frame which is very wide and not good for general all purpose use.

The 18mm of 18-55mm is good for landscape also but unfortunately have a big problem, it has a very very big barrel distortion and your horizontal line is not that straight and if your shoot architecture, you will cray when all lines are not straight. Luckily if you shoot raw you can "fix" it with lens correction in camera raw or light room. Just remember after you fix it, the borders will be cropped away gone so 18mm will be more like 20mm.

Again the biggest problems with NEX system is not the camera but the lenses. I have been waiting and waiting and waiting and they are just very slow on things. I hope there will be a good wide angle zoom release later.

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Added on July 11, 2012, 8:03 pmThe kit lens of NEX is as good as the Canon (which is surprisingly very good). The NEX sensor is better than Canon which is a fact now. Canon has been lacking behind competitors. But remember that there are still lots of weakned in 5N compare to say 550d. There are too little buttons/dials with 5N so if you need more control (such as shoot in manual mode) it will be challenging. Also shooting with LCD screen in bright days are not easy compare to optical viewfinder. So be careful when you trade because you will lose some money, unless you trade 2nd hand with 2nd hand.

This post has been edited by samsungfreak: Jul 11 2012, 08:03 PM

Thanks for your reply.n yes i found it hard to manually set with nex.

Can i ask if anybody try out time lapse with sony nex5?

i have a wireless remote control, but i cant find any Timer Remote Shutter Release for nex5.

the only 1 i get is this http://mirrorlessforum.com/sony-nex-3-nex-...rvalometer.html which cost usd69...just too expensive...>.<

or any user here could share their experience in shooting time lapse sunset?

If you have iPhone, you can buy the NEXremote app from iTunes for US$1.99
You pair it with infrared dongle that you can purchased from eBay for US$6 + shipping or you can DIY your own.

you should try nex 7 then... it is a breeze to do any settings... have not used the menu button for ages (except to switch fully from AF to MF)...

what if i dun have iphone or android phone? >.<

Though luck then....
So far the only option is the US$69 thing that you've seen in the web

The cheap US$5 remote fr eBay or the expensive Sony remote doesn't have the time lapse function

The street price is 2550 for NEX-5ND for the full package with bag, 8GB and the Sony tripod and cleaner kit. Any further discount will be on your own nego skills.

over my budget

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.

Nolah dude you need to enable Direct Manual Focus. That will do exactly what you wanted, the moment you half-press then turn the focus ring.

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.

Please add me to the list, happy new white Nex-F3d user here
Bought it today in Melaka Sony Centre for RM2159 (free 8GB SD, bag and screen protector) with 2 years warranty.

Yup. So you have to keep half-pressing to maintain the focus point. Unless of course, you got the NEX-7...

How come 2 years warranty? I thought it's 1 year only?

different seller do offer different package bro...
and the warranty might come from the shop its own or Sony Malaysia as well..

It's Sony promotion warranty period.

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

There is a AF/MF button on the back to allow you to quickly toggle.