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Dim lighting n portrait, easier to get a lens with F1.8. NEX Kit lens.. so so only, may push it abit to ISO1600, or use a slower shutter speed aided by putting both elbows on the table prevent your camera from camera shake.

NEX's E-mount has choices of 50mm 1.8, Zeiss 24mm 1.8, Zeiss Touit 32 f1.8 or 35mm 1.8. I use the 50mm for portraits and cosplay photography.


Not the case.. you can choose to have RAW only, JPG only, or both RAW + JPG.

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Search for Dicapac, available from shashinki website.. should be less than RM500, made in Korea. Otherwise , get the Olympus TG-2, or cybershot TX series which is about 1k each. Less heartpain if it ever screws up and drowns. I myself use TG-2 and i had it strapped across my body when i swam in Port Dickson Triathlon in July, no problems.

Try looking for SOny HVL-F20 if you want more bounce capability on the smart accessory terminal. The bundled 5R kit flash cannot adjust it's orientation. External flash can trigger via your own camera's flash actually.. if let's say you want to use a Sony HVL, or Nissin, YongNuo flash, set the mode on the external flash and then fire your camera flash. Both flash should go off. Old NEX-5 had pre-flash problem that can be solved using the SYK seagull adapter.


If RAW yes.. big distortion at 16mm and 16mm ++. JPG no worry, everything is corrected for you in camera. Color accuracy not to worry. depending on the scene in front, u should quickly tweak the White Balance Adjustment on the spot and take test shot. Probably takes less than 2 minutes to fire 3 test shots and get the WB right.

Yup, need adapter. Some Nikon lenses have manual aperture ring control, so you can adjust it with the adapter ... I think Canon's mostly don't have aperture ring, which means you have to set the aperture in your Canon body and then only plug it to the NEX adapter. when you want to change aparture, unplug from NEX adapter back to Canon body and change Aperture again.

However, I think there is the more expensive speed booster adapter with electronic aperture control. I haven't searched for it so not sure the price and whether you can buy it retail here or not.


By the way.. that 35-80 canon Mark II model, you may try removing the front element of the lens.. it becomes a crazy sharp macro lens haha...

NEX has a DSLR sized sensor inside but a kawaii body size, so it's just as good as the latest dslr's at your price point. Some photo shoots contest Winners and magazine published pics are from NEX, so don't worry. You should consider it!

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NEX-7 replacement and NEX FULL FRAME coming ma... but NEX-6 is already very capable. Even without an updated model , i think it's still relevant and will continue to sell today.

I guess sometimes going from 16mpx to 24 mpx gives you slightly more possibility for cropping, and getting out a decent 1/2 body portrait of the speaker on a rostrum. Crop should still look decent for facebook upload or 4R print. Or the new cam body has significant enhancements in sensor performance in low light. But still yea, a faster lens is the most straightforward way to go.

Maybe can consider the SEL 50 1.8 or the 18-200, if you are talking about e-mount. The SEL50 1.8 would be good if you are some distance from the speaker. But once you move into the meeting room, you will face difficulty in capturing the entire room in the frame and have to switch to kit or a wider zoom. if you take the 55-210, you will still have to swap it out when you get into workshop room, so perhaps the 18-200 would be the best compromise.

OR.. wait till October ,November cause there's 'rumors that "Sony could launch the new e-mount 55-150mm f/2.8 G zoom lens in September" .

In addition, you may consider a flash add on so that you can use lower ISO on the long zoom, to get a cleaner picture while cancelling out the dim orange/green lighting on the speaker's face.

by the way, ANYONE GOING FOR THE FLASH WORKSHOP at the CURVE 3pm today????
I'll go cause I wanna learn more about it, so maybe can meet up.

I covered my company's townhall meeting with the sel50 and 1650PZ on friday. Yes, slightly troublesome to switch lenses during the event; 50mm 1.8 when i capture the speaker and Emcee, switch again to 1650 while standing at the corner to capture the entire hall , switch to 50 when Q and A session comes up to get a good portrait of the persons asking the question. Switch back to 1650 when everyone is standing in a line to take the group photo. It's doable but of course not so convenient, sometimes i'd like to have a second NEX haha.

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Event!!

Cameras & Electronics Expo 2013 (CEX 2013)
Venue : Viva Home Expo Hall, Kuala Lumpur
Date : 2nd - 4th AUG 2013
Time : 11am - 9pm

Going?

For me, it's not that case. I bought an Olympus TG-2 even after having nex5 n nex6. More Important that the picture you compose tells a story, or invokes an emotion from the viewer, irregardless of what camera was used.

I use the handphone cam where appropriate . For some, handphone cam is the best fit for them to express themselves and that's fine too.

Right, portability Yup and the waterproof reliability. Yea, generally the bigger the sensor, a higher quality image is be expected but technology keeps changing the odds. That OM-D jpg results can beat some APS-C's! Also, New Panasonic GX-7 look to be upping the ante to APS-C's too.

The end results depends on which medium and size is being used, I've seen those huge billboards, department store wallpapers that are huge, single storey high, which probably requires high megapixel count to be that sharp n detailed. But of course maybe they stitched smaller megapixel images to form that one big picture.. who knows , lot's of tricks in the digital world.


ic.. my simplistic mind says... just borrow his filter and ask for the settings, copy the same settings on 5R. Maybe Meng Keat can help on the filters and stacking of filters to get that.


Today @ CEX, met MengKeat and RX-78 .

- For NEX, one stall selling casings RM50 for 2 items.. the casing looks like Gariz type.
- Sigma selling 'Art' line 30mm 2.8 and 19mm 2.8 around RM650 - RM690 price.
- Tamron 18-200 i think priced at RM24xx..
- There's a display that mounts and OM-D on a vibrating platform and u see the image shake on the big screen. When you 1/2 press the shutter.. my gawd the image stabilizes so perfectly. NO wonder 5-Axis is sooOOo.. impressive. Imagine this on the NEX-Full Frame!!

Oh ya.... Guys... My NEX-6 built in flash short circuit.When I flip it out n flash, it spark with loud noise with bunga api effect.The plastic cover On the flash assembly also flew off.

Crazy... In front of cosplayers. Just this afternoon indoors at sg Wang. Happen with my eye On the viewfinder. Lucky it didn't explode or shock or shatter into my eye.

I use Nex weekly for the past 10 months, only sometimes with flash.. But still.. Surprised. Really surprised.

Just press button to flip up flash n fire. No manual finger tilt/bounce.

I was triggering an external optical slave flash, but have done that many times before without any issues.actually fired several external flash shots before that occurred.

Got event soon, so I can't send nex-6 to service center until end August. Who knows how long Sony would take to repair n return it to me.

Any dedicated person here wants to start up Nex thread ver. 5 ?

I'll pass to you all the html stuff for the 1st and second posts. PM me please. Otherwise i'll soon close this one and open V5.

Thanks.

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