Reading about the NEX cameras here has made me regret my purchase.....

parallaxproblem wrote:

Is this post meant to be ironic? If so you need to be careful as such things don't translate well on the internet, particularly when there is a large community reading who do not have English as a native language

The NEX 6 is not a mediocre camera: it is an excellent rangefinder-style camera which is perfect for travel and street type photography. The only direct alternatives to the NEX 6 are more expensive options from Fuji or Leica, the Micro four thirds format that suffers from a smaller sensor and which can never support full-frame, or the Samsung NX format which has a nicer lens system than Sony but (currently) inferior bodies. Neither Canon or Nikon mirrorless systems offer any real competition to NEX for different reasons

A DSLR is an entirely different proposition and can't really be compared to a mirrorless camera any more than a 35mm rangefinder system can be compared to a 35mm SLR system