Upgrading Nex-5N - what downsides should I consider?

Blurred1 said:

dankwok said:

I have never used a camera with touch screen (except my smart phone camera), so I might not fully realize the advantages of such a feature. However, fast AF and impressive object tracking capability of the 6300 might alleviate the lack of touch screen. On top of it, face recognition and eye-AF features together might even render selecting AF points moot, especially if you are shooting the same kids over and over again! I shoot a lot of kids too, like you, I usually shoot them unposed. I am planning to give the 6300 a try to see how well it performs with the running kids!

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Blurred1 said:

Russell Evans said:

Most people forget to turn off the Display Settings Effect when stopping the lens down in low light. The lens aperture closes with the Settings Effect on, and that slows AF as it has less light to work with. Turning it off means the aperture stays open, closing down only when the shutter is triggered. If you are using the lens wide open, this doesn't matter, but it is pretty likely that the DOF is making people set the aperture smaller when using a faster prime.

Face Detect, Eye AF, and Lock On AF, probably would provide a lot of what people are doing with the touch screen on the 5n. It's a little more work getting used to using the features, but it probably is even quicker to use the new AF features than a touch screen, especially if you are using the EVF.

Thank you
Russell

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Thank you Russell. I never heard about Display Settings Effect before, just tried it and there must be a way to use it effectively as assessing exposure is difficult - would you recommend using histogram view with it?

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dankwok said:

Blurred1 said:

dankwok said:

I have never used a camera with touch screen (except my smart phone camera), so I might not fully realize the advantages of such a feature. However, fast AF and impressive object tracking capability of the 6300 might alleviate the lack of touch screen. On top of it, face recognition and eye-AF features together might even render selecting AF points moot, especially if you are shooting the same kids over and over again! I shoot a lot of kids too, like you, I usually shoot them unposed. I am planning to give the 6300 a try to see how well it performs with the running kids!

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-Daniel

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Thank you Daniel. To be honest I don't understand how selecting focus point will work with running kids without the touchscreen, as surely it's impossible to be equally fast in selecting it with the wheel (if I remember correctly that's the option on A6300) , so the only hope is for face/eye recognition. This makes me a bit uncomfortable as it's entirely up to the camera to get it right- never realised I'm a control freak

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I don't either! That's why I have not had much luck with shooting them in action with my NEX-6. I'm hoping that my upgrade will improve in that regards. I have a 3.5 and a 1.5. Their expressions are also very elusive, difficult to capture, but also makes it that much more satisfying if I hit it at the right moment.

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csintexas said:

I am wondering if folks lost site of you mentioning the D750? When that was in the mix I kind of drop the a6300 as being a contender for low light. Although I personally do not think it is a huge difference I just see over and over that FF will do a bit better. I think the D750 is a very well regarded camera.

I have never used face detect but AF-C tends to focus on everything but what I want in focus (but I guess that every camera will do that)

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Russell Evans said:

dankwok said:

I don't either! That's why I have not had much luck with shooting them in action with my NEX-6. I'm hoping that my upgrade will improve in that regards. I have a 3.5 and a 1.5. Their expressions are also very elusive, difficult to capture, but also makes it that much more satisfying if I hit it at the right moment.

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Gary Fong has a number of videos about using the features of the a6000 and a6300. This one is about the a6000 and the tracking AF.

Eye AF on the a6300

This one is about AF lock on the a6000, but it also is a good demo of the Face detect AF

Thank you
Russell

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csintexas said:

I am wondering if folks lost site of you mentioning the D750? When that was in the mix I kind of drop the a6300 as being a contender for low light. Although I personally do not think it is a huge difference I just see over and over that FF will do a bit better. I think the D750 is a very well regarded camera.

I have never used face detect but AF-C tends to focus on everything but what I want in focus (but I guess that every camera will do that)

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D Cox said:

My suggestion would be to get an A6300, if only for the higher image quality, but to keep the NEX-5n for situations where the touch screen is useful. You would get very little money for the 5n.

If you have the 18-55mm kit lens, that is widely considered to be better than the current one, so worth keeping.

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D Cox said:

My suggestion would be to get an A6300, if only for the higher image quality, but to keep the NEX-5n for situations where the touch screen is useful. You would get very little money for the 5n.

If you have the 18-55mm kit lens, that is widely considered to be better than the current one, so worth keeping.

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