not only the eyes are tack sharp...other parts also tack sharp wei...

near the blue pink stripe bro...  

Vincentlee, do try to attach pics with max 1024px on the long edge.

For clarity purposes, I've uploaded a large image inside here.

Meaning, click on 1024px version then copy that link instead.

Theres alot of reasons for the drain, for one is the camera displaying wrong estimation for your battery, you can see it working when switching between shooting and viewing mode. Other is battery leakage, harmful but unusual for new and ori battery. Test again see it will happen again or not, if yes remove it immediately

Really? whats the reason for that?

50mm F1.8 rm799 consider good buy?

E 50mm F1.8 OSS
ƒ/1.8  50.0 mm 1/4000  ISO 1000

the tough and untouchable real god car... see this and you should drive your car away..... it bang you you lose... XD

That day my NEX 3N video recording managed to last for 3 hrs non stop with original batt, better than I expected.

nex camera dont have bulb mode. so cannot take milkyway anyway

i read from dpreview... yeah..

BW vs Colour.
Can anyone advise me which one is more suitable for this kind of shot?

Got price tag?

let me give a few examples of a6000 erratic exposure and face recognition


this is when camera can't find the face,perfect exposure,but no soft skin


once the camera detect faces,camera apply soft skin,but exposure hancur


camera can't find faces again,perfect exposure again,but no soft skin


found face,crap exposure


no face found,ok


no face found


face found


no face found


face found

that said,when everything bang on,the detail is just STUNNING

I don't think this is a fair comparison, due to back lighting. How about you try to pop your flash up and let the camera detect the face?

1) i dont understand this part.

2) face detection. for all the people saying very weird and funny stuff. the face detection metering was introduced in A550 (i uses it) and YES, it will overwrite watever metering mode you are on, and replace with Face-zone metering (no written facts bout it) but thats how it behave since A550, about 4 years back. and it only works best if you did not have many stuff overwritten, eg,  exposure compensation.

Face metering will set the face exposure to 15%(or up to 20%)grey... that is when human face has prefect exposure. (thats how you use spot-AEL mode available in most camera that most people dont know) but the face detection doest that automatically for you.

and i also hope sony will comeout with a new menu to OFF metering overwrite during face detection. anyway i leave it off all the time, only on it during video mode and in videomode the face-metering doesnt overwrite the selected metering.... mmmm

you mention you are not a professional photographer, but i really advise you to seek some professional teaching (a proper one, not an idiot which will mislead u even worst)

from the sample photo you posted, shows your subject are in shadow area... so the face detection will brighten the whole image to cope with the face exposure.
i) set flash mode to slowsync flash and fire it... it will turn out really really nice. (i leave my camera in slowsync mode all the time, it doesnt matter when u use daytime,coz it will work like normal flash when there too much light)
ii) activate DRO to level5, some might not like it... remember to set it back to normal.
iii) turn on to HDR mode, but control the ev stop, 2-4stop is gentle for human skin(i stick with 3eV). 5ev is a little too much.

iv) how professional ppl does it, use a reflector.

3,4) due to sensor size. its a very technical thing as many company  is still working around this. due to the DOF cause by large sensor, most of the time the sensor itself cant see the faces to even 50% detectable, unlike smaller sensor camera, which can detect face from 3 meter to infinity due to the large DOF...

the best way to cope with it is to understand how(behavior) the camera face detection works and learn to cope with it.

and softskin works best when the face area is large enough, if its just a small face in the photo, the face itself its not really that sharp that requires more softskin rite? jkjk

5) i think you can define shortcut keys for that

6) i agree with you, i hope they come out with new firmware to address this and add in a new function to set this sleep timer in remote mode.

7) due to new system getting bigger and bigger and more shit is added in.. soon it will be like nikon menu  . but try the '"FN'"' key, most of the used and important feature are there.

8) like what newbie mention, your comparison of photo is not fair due to backlighting. i doubt any camera in the world can fix that issue either.

thanks for sharing. Now we know the exposure works kind of stupidly on face detection mode.

you on weeds or what? u suddenly jump out from no where and say ppl never "listen" to you?say how dumb we are like face detection pun tak tau? u didn't give any constructive advice,what there to "listen" to you?

i guess u also have no clue about face detection and metering,you wanna act like smart arse want ppl "listen" to you,u better have clear understanding of the situation

for ur info, for sony mirrorless camera, if u set the the exposure mode with other than M mode, when u activate the face detection mode and face had detected, the camera will automatically adjust the exposure which balance with face's exposure, regardless the position where the face detected. so, when the face detected with underexposed, camera will automatically adjusted it with either maximize the aperture, shutter speed slower, or pushed up the iso sensitivity. at the same time, if the background is correctly exposure at the 1st stage before face had detected, the background will be overexposed.
that's how sony mirrorless camera's face detection works. so, if u really think the exposure issue is big matter for u, set ur camera exposure mode to M mode