Ray Sachs
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- you should be able to figure it out...
Funny thing happened when I went to the Sony store in my local mall today to return the A33 I bought a few days ago (awesome camera, but too damn big - I knew I wouldn't use it enough to justify buying it). They had something like a 20% restocking fee on returns, but no charge on exchanges. So I figured I'd exchange it for a lower cost Nex camera and then when I returned THAT in a couple of weeks, the restocking charge would be a lot less. And I'd been curious about the Nex anyway, with all of the pros and cons floating around out there about it.
Well, damn, I'm in love! THIS one is NOT going back. Best little street camera I've ever had in my hands (at least for MY set of wacky preferences). I took a mostly full battery back with the A33 and they let me keep it for the Nex and they took the brand new one and stuck it in the A33 return box - a win win for all involved. So I spent an hour or so walking around the mall, shooting with it. What an intuitive little camera. Nearly no exterior controls, just a control wheel with a four way, and two additional buttons that can be programmed. In aperture priority, you turn the wheel to change the aperture, one click switches the function to ISO, another switches to exposure comp. In shutter priority, the main ring controls shutter, etc. Everything I personally need at my fingertips. And I LOVE the flip up screen, even more than the one on the A33, just because this camera is small and weighted such that its really intuitive to use it like an old twin lens reflex, at the belly. NOBODY seems to notice you taking photographs with this setup - its awesome!
Although the AF box doesn't get as small as I (and others!) would optimally like, the AF seems quite good and very quick in any sort of light at all. I shot for about an hour and I don't think I missed focus on more than a handful of shots.
There's about a mile of snow on the ground, so I figured the mall was as close to the "street" as I was gonna get for a while. A mall is just a big set of indoor pedestrian streets anyway. And here are a few of what I came up with.
-Ray
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Well, damn, I'm in love! THIS one is NOT going back. Best little street camera I've ever had in my hands (at least for MY set of wacky preferences). I took a mostly full battery back with the A33 and they let me keep it for the Nex and they took the brand new one and stuck it in the A33 return box - a win win for all involved. So I spent an hour or so walking around the mall, shooting with it. What an intuitive little camera. Nearly no exterior controls, just a control wheel with a four way, and two additional buttons that can be programmed. In aperture priority, you turn the wheel to change the aperture, one click switches the function to ISO, another switches to exposure comp. In shutter priority, the main ring controls shutter, etc. Everything I personally need at my fingertips. And I LOVE the flip up screen, even more than the one on the A33, just because this camera is small and weighted such that its really intuitive to use it like an old twin lens reflex, at the belly. NOBODY seems to notice you taking photographs with this setup - its awesome!
Although the AF box doesn't get as small as I (and others!) would optimally like, the AF seems quite good and very quick in any sort of light at all. I shot for about an hour and I don't think I missed focus on more than a handful of shots.
There's about a mile of snow on the ground, so I figured the mall was as close to the "street" as I was gonna get for a while. A mall is just a big set of indoor pedestrian streets anyway. And here are a few of what I came up with.
-Ray
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