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vandetta_10
post Jul 11 2012, 05:06 PM

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tried nex-5n with both 18-55 n 16mm lense.now considering to trade my 550d n get the nex smile.gif
vandetta_10
post Jul 12 2012, 01:17 AM

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QUOTE(samsungfreak @ Jul 11 2012, 07:58 PM)
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.


Added on July 11, 2012, 8:03 pm

The 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. biggrin.gif
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Thanks for your reply.n yes i found it hard to manually set with nex.
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post Jul 12 2012, 01:32 PM

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QUOTE(mavericksam @ Jul 12 2012, 09:37 AM)
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)...
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over my budget cry.gif

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