I accompanied my friend to the shopping mall today. He just bought the Sony NEX-5 digital camera. After leaving the shop with his new toy, we went for lunch and I taught him a thing or two about taking pictures with a dSLR-like camera.
He has been using a compact digital camera for years. Using it in auto-mode at all times. He shunned dSLRs because of weight and size but has always wanted better picture quality than his digital point-n-shoot could deliver. So when Olympus came out with the micro 4/3rd, he was very tempted. But luckily, he wasn’t in hurry because Sony’s NEX series is IMO better than Olympus/Panasonic offerings.
I spent an hour describing things like focussing, exposure, ISO, aperture and shutter control. I wasn’t familiar with NEX’s menu navigation and had to spend about 30 minutes going through all the essential functions. From a dSLR point of view, the menu navigation in the NEX could use a bit more polish. It’s not as intuitive and straight forward as I would prefer. But compared to point-n-shoot cameras, it’s a lot better.



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