Agree to disagree on your statement about Leica.Although their blood is too rich for anyone,you are missing the point of Leica.To begin with they are not for the average photography enthusiast and not marketed as a commercial camera.Their main selling point is retaining like their 35mm film rangefinder.Basically not anyone will gets it but those people migrate from rangefinder 35mm film will be at ease with M series.Their dyramic range beats everything on dslr but it takes a lot of skill and technique to master.When a hk friend came over here,gets to try out her M9.To be honest it's clunky and the lcd preview screen is crap.But the magic happens when the file is loaded on a computer.A bit like shooting film in the old days as you won't fully know what picture you get until it's developed.Cost and aesthetic value aside the Leica photos has it's own unique look that can't be emulated on photoshop or other dslr.The closest is fujifilm x series.

It's the same when you compare ff to medium format,it's photographer's photographer camera.You need to earn your stride to be able to use one.When you already at that stage to earn that stride cost it's something is not your main concern.

Try comparing nex with leica lens equipped with a true leica m9 as the difference is apparent.Thought nex it's a digital format hence what's the point bringing a 35mm film dynamic range to this discussion???So are we gonna talk about 4x5 next.
Not saying must get Leica or Hasselblad but rather than just comparing tech sheet of respective makes and models why not just embrace how each brands or makes as an equipment on it's own.

Zoom your lens to the max to move in and out until your subject is in focus.If you really want to max out your focus point.Although on paper each lens has a minimal focus distance you still can push a little more if don't mind some degree of softness around your shot.
You may want to try these.
1. Macro lens.
2. Raynox if don't want to buy macro lens.
3. Extension tube but prepare to lose couple or triple of stops.
4. Reverse your lens if you have old manual focus lens.
5. Long lens like telephoto zoom.
6. Last resort digital zoom.

Taken with my dinosaur a300 with 50mm macro long time ago.Subject is a 12 inch figure.Think I took this shot beyond the recommended focus distance hence a little soft at the bottom half of the picture.It's not technically sound but I can live with it.

This post has been edited by crazeoneeighteen: Sep 21 2012, 09:21 AM

My nex5n was given to gf as mostly now I shoot with 550d with sp90.Hope to get nex6 so can use some of those lens accumulated from dinosaur days.
If you are talking about 12inch figure you won't have problem getting a full portrait shot with your kit 55mm focal end.
Something like this.

If any tighter need different lens addy or some of the mentioned tips.
Setting wise can be f8 to 16 and not worry about shutter speed as camera will be on tripod.Just make sure have a spare battery if you constantly relying liveview to take your shot as you'll be using long shutter speed and time to compose figure stance.Or bump your iso to shorten long shutter speed.
Also check google or youtube for focus stacking so should you want 100% sharp across your subject especially your figure in dramatic poses.

Wah!!Got military kaki here oso.

Start with clean background.

Where got sifu,still trying and struggling la.

"fuiyoooooooooooo.. cantik sgt ni"
Thanks man.

where u buy this?
This one extinct addy unless you don't mind expensive 2nd hand.Try hitting v-storebiz.com for future releases.

Beside Zaloon where's the best place to get nex stuff as not too fond going there and price also not much different when I last shopped there.

If shoot a lot of videos and hires raw it's better to get class 10 as writing and transfer speed faster lo.Otherwise normal class 4 is ok,i think kua.

Not exactly nex camera,using 2 cameras one was 7d while the other my humble 550d.
Was transferring 2 16gb worth of footage,one on class 4 and then another with class 10.As far as I remembered class 4 takes more or less 15 mins while class 10 is around 7 mins or so.Same goes when formatting both cards as class 4 just lag but I'm not saying class 4 is unusable.All this happens I forgot to bring the back-up class 10 sdcard during one of my video shoot. I'm not gonna measurebate what's on paper just some practical experience I had before.If you deem class 4 is enough so be it.I'm cool with it.

Target 1/60 on 50mm for minimum freezing shutterspeed on reasonable static subject,not the jumping or heavy action one la.
Captain Obvious will say use f1.8 or lower to give more stops.
Freestyle handheld is not something everyone can do la.Even 1/8 speed addy shake like pissing but I know some bionic steady hand take up to 2 secs with full jedi mind focus.
Spray and pray with continuous burst and hope you can get 1 usable shot with not too slow speed like 1/10ish.
Foolproof method to bounce flash with trigger but not sure how to do it efficiently on nex as I remembered I need to get a hotshoe adaptor with pc port to use my cheapo slave flash on older a300,because flash fires before shutter.You can get a lot of cheap radio trigger for manual flashing.TTL trigger will cost a lot more or reasonable priced TTL cable provided you owned a sony speedlight.

Can't wait to see the standard hotshoe on all newer sony model as that opens up a lot to use 3rd party stuff and hope they play nice.

This post has been edited by crazeoneeighteen: Oct 1 2012, 11:49 PM

Wait for 5r la...got new pancake zoom and wifi some more.Although cost a bit extra.

Arr the first preview of Nex 6 by Steve Huff is out.Really can't wait to get it.
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2012/10/11/t...ck-look-review/
His shot with RX1 is fricking sweet and I think Sony is getting to something with it.

Not sure which software you use but your slomo shots is stuttering.Native 25fps is not ideal to crank slomo.Need to shoot it at 50 or 60fps but you can not stretch it too much either.Intense slomo need to be done with Twixtor plugin or get it right during filming with your panning.Vertical photos way too many and left too many black space.Since your material mainly stills,you can do optical pan and zoom within the photo so you don't leave it hanging on your screen.

Editing philosophy is the same as taking picture.What's the intention and objective.Technique and style just a means to get to goal.

Not familiar with Vegas,but on fcp I need to convert it to 50fps preview so when I dump it to my 25fps timeline it will slowdown by half speed.Not sure about nex video format as all this while my video was mainly shot on Canon.Rule of thumb to slomo is 10% to 15%.Anything more to that gonna be either twixtor or shoot natively at higher fps.