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Have you seen a gallery showing decades old photographs from 35mm film? All mirrorless cameras do better, much better. Do you think those pictures would get rejected today on the grounds of being to grainy, unsharp or lacking contrast?
Gallery quality has much more to do with with content of photographs than anything else. Light, color, gesture says Jay ...
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Yes a 49mm - 58mm step up ring is what you need. Here is one at BHPhotoVideo for example. And here are a bunch of results at amazon. I would also consider one of the kits that come with multiple step up rings such as this: http://www.amazon.com/Fotodiox-Anodized-49-52mm-52-55mm-55-58mm/dp/B001G445Q4/ref=pd_bxgy_p_text_y
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I have a NEX-5n and as far as I know there is no way to intentionally leave the shutter closed.
The way the camera works is that the shutter is always open for live-view, focusing, and metering. When you press the shutter 'release' the shutter closes, opens for the appropriate exposure time, and then closes again while the sensor is read out, and finally ...
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Metabones makes an EF-to-E adapter that brings all of the electronic features across except autofocus and some of the lens correction information. A full-featured adapter could happen, but you could lose out on an awful lot of shooting waiting for it.
Selecting lenses with an eye toward the future is a good idea, but the adapter's US$400 price tag makes ...
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In general lens lines stick around for a good long while and a typical reason to get a DSLR is so that one can invest in glass, but that said, it's never a sure thing how long a particular lens line will be around. I would be a little more confident with lens for EF mount or Nikor's mount since those are by far the two most popular and even if they get ...
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Short:
Turn camera OFF when not used.
If that makes no difference, remove battery from camera. Just opening the battery door so contact is broken should be enough. (ie camera will not turn on.
If using in standby look to see if any optional features make a difference (GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, ...)
If battery discharges completely from full in 3 months when ...
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AF-C mode is a continuous focus mode. That is, it will not "lock" focus and hold it until the picture is taken. It is best used for when you are tracking a moving subject such as an athlete moving across a field. It will constantly check the focus as the scene changes and adjust to those changes.
The reason you see this behavior even in static scenes is ...
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I think "invest" is the wrong word here. Lenses will typically last ten or more years. This is many times as long as a typical body will stay interesting.
Read
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2010/07/lenses-dont-collect-the-whole-set
it describes cost effective ways to buy lenses.
For all brands, some of their lenses are really expensive. But as others ...
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With lithium batteries, you get the longest overall lifetime if the batteries are stored at about 40% charge and kept cool. If leaving them in the camera is actively draining te battery, and you're expecting a period of disuse, you may want to discharge to as close to that level as you can guess an then stick the battery in the fridge.
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Are you getting proper exposures at 1/25? I think your blur may be more from overexposure than motion. Is the blur uniform (as if it were out of focus), directional along one axis (as if you were panning), or multi-directional (as if you were shaking the camera)?
If it is the first, you are overexposing.
If it is the second, the Moon's motion is causing ...
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Modern flash units from recognizable manufacturers rarely use camera-damaging trigger voltages, so you don't need to worry about the 580EX.
Once upon a time, the flash trigger transformer's primary voltage (several hundred volts) was directly switched by contacts in the shutter in order to generate the 4000 or so volts the flash tube needs to have in order ...
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With regard to your second question about whether the step up ring would affect picture quality, the answer is that it shouldn't.
You are putting a larger filter on a smaller lens so it won't obscure the lens in any way.
The quality of the 58mm filter will be the same as a 49mm filter (assuming the same manufacturer etc.)
If you leave the step up ring ...
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If the NEX-6 appears as a camera/storage media via wifi to your compter system, then Lightroom can import from it. However, in the case that the NEX-6 does not appear as a standard system Lightroom knows about then you can use Lightroom's Auto Import feature to automatically import images from a folder that your Sony Play Memory program writes to. Simply use ...
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As Sony works to expand their system, they've introduced a few more pancake lenses. You can see the entire lens lineup on Sony's E-mount Lenses page. Of these as of 2013, there are two "real" pancake primes plus a collapsing zoom lens which reasonably could be categorized the same way.
SEL-16F28 16mm f/2.8 Wide-Angle Lens
SEL-20F28 20mm f/2.8 Wide-Angle ...
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Some lenses meant for other mounts can be used with help of adapters. For example, Zeiss Planar 35/2 for Contax G. With a Pentax adapter, you could use the Pentax DA Limited line pancakes (21mm, 40mm and 70mm). Pentax, Canon or Nikon adapter would let you use Voigtländer's Ultron 40mm f/2 or Color Skopar 20mm f/3.5 with corresponding mount.
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