Sony NEX-6 Review: First Impressions
I just bought a new camera. It’s a Sony NEX-6. Today, I had my first chance to get out and take some photos with it, on a day out in Exmouth. I’ll share my first impressions of the camera below, but...
View ArticleExeter with the Sony NEX-6
This post follows on from my first impressions of the NEX-6 yesterday. We had a day in Exeter today, with my parents. I took my new Sony NEX-6 along, and it seems people may be interested in seeing...
View ArticleExeter – Christmas Market
Not many shots of the Christmas market, really, but a few shots in Exeter, taken with my new Sony NEX-6. I’m still loving that Rich-tone Mono setting. The market itself was quite impressive. They’ve...
View ArticleA Brief Sony NEX-6 Update
Following on from my earlier posts about the NEX-6, I’ve had it a couple of weeks now. So, how is it? Pretty good. The only shots that haven’t gone entirely well with it were some fairly close-up...
View ArticleZoom – a New Lens for my NEX-6: the Sony SEL55210
I finally decided what my first lens purchase was going to be for my Sony NEX-6, after the standard kit zoom it arrived with. I chose the SEL55210 – a 55-210 zoom from Sony. There are larger zoom...
View ArticleUnexpected Effects of Sony NEX
Having a Sony NEX camera (see my post about getting the NEX-6) has done for me what I hoped it would. I have a camera that I can fit in my coat pocket, that can take photos that are as good as I could...
View ArticleSony NEX-5R – in the hands of a novice.
I feel a bit of a fraud. My tiny amount of photography experience does not by any means make me a worthy owner of such a beautiful piece of equipment. Michael, however, thought otherwise and very...
View ArticleCharlie Photographs Penguins
Probably not the most flattering choice of preset there – it’s one I’ve named ‘A Warm Middle’ – monochrome, with cold shadows and highlights, and, well, a warm middle.
View ArticleCharlie Photographs
Not sure what she photographs at this point – just checking settings, perhaps.
View ArticleCharlie Plays with a Penguin
There’s a penguin running around her feet, out of shot. On the right is a CD the keeper was holding, using it to reflect sunbeams down to the ground for the penguin to chase. Penguins like sunbeams,...
View ArticleLegacy Lenses and Battery Life
One of the complaints people often have about Sony’s E-mount cameras is their battery life. They don’t get the life most SLRs get. Sony could fit bigger batteries, but then the cameras would be bigger...
View ArticleA Walk by the Canal with the Sony SEL35f18
Walking by the canal with a new lens. A little set to try things out.
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