Nex 5 lens alternative
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ahha sorry pardon me
maybe 35mm am looking at
as 50 mm is too tight
lthought the 50mm sony lens is damm sharp
leica self undersands is expensive ahah
Voigtlander any advice on this model?
and price range i a looking at?
i guss this is manual lens
What do you mean by 'good bokeh'? There's lots of lenses out there at 35mm.
Do you need a short minimum focusing distance ? Then leicas and voightlanders are out (mfd usually more than 70cm), unless you get helicoid adapters.
Do you need the lenses to be compact ? If so, SLR lenses are out too. If you don't mind their sizes w the adapters, can consider Oly OM, Nikkor, Canon FD, Pentax..
Do you have a budget ?
Personally I like the 1960s Olympus Pen F series for NEX, cuz they are small, have short mfd n the focus length not too difficult to work with (most common pen f lens is the 38mm f1.8 ). But good copies are not easy to find and being old glass, the rendering is a little 'classic', as they lack the special coatings tt modern lens come with.
Do you need a short minimum focusing distance ? Then leicas and voightlanders are out (mfd usually more than 70cm), unless you get helicoid adapters.
Do you need the lenses to be compact ? If so, SLR lenses are out too. If you don't mind their sizes w the adapters, can consider Oly OM, Nikkor, Canon FD, Pentax..
Do you have a budget ?
Personally I like the 1960s Olympus Pen F series for NEX, cuz they are small, have short mfd n the focus length not too difficult to work with (most common pen f lens is the 38mm f1.8 ). But good copies are not easy to find and being old glass, the rendering is a little 'classic', as they lack the special coatings tt modern lens come with.
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if i use a manual lens how will i compose my pictures ?
as 5n dont have a viewfinder or a evf too
will it works on our sony 5n lcd panel to compose?
as in or sony 5n lcd dislay will reflect the effect when we adjust the shutter speed and adapture?
or its like old sch manaul SLR only take the pics then we will know the outcome of the pictures?
as 5n dont have a viewfinder or a evf too
will it works on our sony 5n lcd panel to compose?
as in or sony 5n lcd dislay will reflect the effect when we adjust the shutter speed and adapture?
or its like old sch manaul SLR only take the pics then we will know the outcome of the pictures?
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yes, the LCD will show what will appear on your pic, like any PNS. if you adjust shutter speed and/or aperture, or other settings like ISO, depending on your shooting mode, the camera will adjust accordingly. eg, if you are in Aperture mode, when you change the aperture on your manual lens, or change the ISO setting on your camera, it will adjust the shutter speed automatically to achieve the 'right exposure'.
As for keeping things in focus, 5N has two features that helps: focus peaking and touchscreen digital zoom. For focus peaking, you can just compose your pic on the LCD, and areas that are in focus will 'shimmer' with yellow colour (or red or white, depending on what color is preset by you). For touchscreen digital zoom, let's say you want to check whether a particular subject is in focus, you just touch the LCD screen where the object is shown, and the camera will do a 'digital zoom' or 'crop' that shows that particular area you touch only, so that you can adjust your focusing ring to make sure the details are in focus. Then, once you are happy, shoot. Or if you want to check composure again, half-depress to get out of the 'cropped image' to show the original image, re-compose, then shoot.
it's the perfect camera for manual lens. go youtube or browse thru the clubsnap forum, n u will learn more. Or even better, go down to the shop to try out.
As for keeping things in focus, 5N has two features that helps: focus peaking and touchscreen digital zoom. For focus peaking, you can just compose your pic on the LCD, and areas that are in focus will 'shimmer' with yellow colour (or red or white, depending on what color is preset by you). For touchscreen digital zoom, let's say you want to check whether a particular subject is in focus, you just touch the LCD screen where the object is shown, and the camera will do a 'digital zoom' or 'crop' that shows that particular area you touch only, so that you can adjust your focusing ring to make sure the details are in focus. Then, once you are happy, shoot. Or if you want to check composure again, half-depress to get out of the 'cropped image' to show the original image, re-compose, then shoot.
it's the perfect camera for manual lens. go youtube or browse thru the clubsnap forum, n u will learn more. Or even better, go down to the shop to try out.
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