Mine is 5N and 6. Works on original and 3rd party chargers. Because there are too many 3rd party manufacturers, some may need to be charge with their own 3rd party charger only I guess.

someone must be giving out a lot of white smoke having issues with OEM battery on 5N.. this is sometimes the danger of people making statement without themselves owning the stuff..

I know there are those that like to discredit purely being sour grapes. Best to get info direct from proper users.

From day 1 I do not have issues with OEM battery on NEX5N.. some will drain a lot faster but that is purely due to cheaper cost.

Went back to shop, the seller tried with a few more batteries (same type) and all cant work. He suspect that the ori charger dun recognize 3rd party batt. So i bought a 3rd party charger for rm70. Not sure if I have made the right choice.

This post has been edited by danielcmugen: Dec 11 2013, 05:33 PM

Then future all spare battery you just have to buy back 3rd party battery in order for to fully utilize your 3rd party charger.

Already paid then forget about it lor. Don't calculate lor. Keep shooting!

1 spare battery should be enough la. Unless u got other meaning in your sentence.

meh.. no other meaning lar.. even thou you buy both 3rd party battery and charger still cheaper buying one Ori battery.

I have 4 Sony batteries.
Every night i will charge 1 battery through camera.
So can last for whole trip for sure

i used the the rebrand watson duo charger named Pearstone for 1 year so far no issues. i even owned the single charger so that if i want to travel light i can just use the charger plate from the duo charge onto the single battery charger.

the watson/pearstone charge have been reviewed by quite a number of blogs/forum even cheesycam recommended this charger.

mind to share where u bought locally? except from bhphoto?

for sure i got it from bhphoto. malaysia much more expensive.

sadly yes. gonna wait for d the next bulk then. thxs for sharing ur experience with watson/pearstone.

just searching about sigma sel 30mm 2.8 2nd edition, BH photo sell for 199usd and shashinki is selling RM 938

1 question for Sony nex 5T - What is the maximum distance for NFC ? Like using phone as remote trigger.

This post has been edited by Ah hao: Dec 11 2013, 10:18 PM

i bought it when i was there. if through online, for fw50 the charger going to cost you usd79.00=RM 255.00. shared shipping cost usd15+- = rm 49. so total rm304.00. excluding tax. reasonable?

This post has been edited by hnr2802: Dec 11 2013, 10:22 PM

yes. if local available, it will cost a bomb higher than getting from bhphoto.
from my few previous purchase, from sony rx100 battery/charger to nex accessories, yes, i'm able to save few hundreds.
eg. sony rx100 battery cost rm35 after tax n postage. shashinki sell rm99.
power2000 external charger cost me rm70-80, but shashinki sell rm199
therefore, alot of things that bought from bhphoto is mostly cheaper than local.
even some forumer bought the m43 body itself from bhphoto as he can save around rm500-600 iinm. (d recent v8 organizer)

Too bad, I'm going there on 25-26 Jan 2014.
Ya, booked my accommodation, gonna stay in Takayama instead of Shirakawa-go.

I have 2 ori batteries and one third party battery for my NEX-5R.
All performed quite well during my trip to Senjougahara, Nikko during March 2013.
It was minus one degree when I was there.

For CPL filter, I'm using the Citiwide CPL Filter, quality is ok, saw some ppl comment in other forum can't see any difference between Citiwide CPL filter and expensive Hoya CPL filter.
Can be bought via Ebay at a very cheap price , around RM17, free shipping but need to wait around 3-4 weeks.
http://www.ebay.com.my/itm/161073245176

My recent shot taken with Citiwide CPL Filter equipped.


Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park by gsuraki, on Flickr


As for tripod, I'm using the Beike Q-555, cheap and good, but don't expect anything spectacular.
http://www.gstrapinuse.com/index.php?main_...products_id=839

This post has been edited by uraki: Dec 12 2013, 12:17 AM

I wanted to get the Pearstone during the first BH bulk buy but found out it can only take 110v.
Now the Watson brand one can take 110-240v

How long is the charging time?



This post has been edited by idoblu: Dec 12 2013, 07:56 AM

May i know what does CPL filter do?

Techincal read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizer

Less technical read (ooo... with pretty pictures): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizing_filter_(photography)

Nice shot uraki! You used the sigma 19mmF2.8 lens with cpl filter on this?