Sony NEX-5N + Summicron 2/50 -- Question

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Hello all,

So, if you know any digitally challenged chap like yours truly (perhaps old enough a dog to remember lamp-exposing slide film between baths 3 and 4), do pass the word: the combination of a Sony NEX 5n and a Leica Summicron 2/50 makes one forget that digital photography is digital.

Now here's the question: does anybody know how to change the threshold speed value of a Sony NEX when in ISO-auto mode?
Mine stays with an ISO value as long as the appropriate speed is more or less 1/60s, which could be a bit long for shaky hands like mine. Thanks in advance and best of light and luck to you all!
 
I have been right through the menu and have not been able to find any means of setting limits to auto ISO mode. The algorithm seems fixed. For example, I know the camera has an upper limit of 1600 in this mode and that does not seem to be able to be changed either. I have ordered an M mount adapter for my NEX and am keenly looking ofrward to seeing how "focus peeking" works although I am a little less keen about using the LCD to do it.
 
afaik thats not possible...one of the drawbags of using a frankenstein point'n'shoot (still, I use it myself happily)
 
that's not quite the same :)
I want the camera to chose shutter speed, but want it to automatically: adjust shutter speed within a limit (say, slowest speed 1/100) and then adjust ISO automatically within a given limit.

Pentax does this perfectly.
 
CK Dexter Haven said:
How so?
And, what are we talking about? The feel of the combo, or the results?
I'd like to see pictures from that combination.....
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The combo feels unmistakably digital of course, and yet there are funny hints of old times, like the screen turned horizontally, which makes you bow your head, look down and play it Hasselblad-ish at waist level, with zooming into the screen central part to assist focus like you used to do with the side magnifier above the 6x6 grid. And I'm glad to have my left hand back in the focusing business, so that when focus is botched it will be my fault and not my DSLR autofocus' going for whatever phase or contrast red herring there is on offer ahead.

Now, to me the results are reminiscent of the good old Velvia times because:
- at 100% pictures don't show the usual digital mud, which is probably due to an extremely light AA filter (I suppose this 16MP Exmor still has one), and
- my Summicron is back in the saddle... Velvety bokeh with highlight drops quietly glowing back there, an appeased, courteous nodding like "well, you've left us out again, but that's all right, we'll learn our place and come back to gently haunt you when you want us to".

I'll try to post some results soon.
 
wintoid said:
Set the camera to shutter priority, and you can choose your own shutter speed with autoISO
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Well, setting the camera on speed priority (whether on auto ISO or not) would mean letting it figure out the right aperture, wouldn' it, basically issuing and order like "set F2.8" that would stall on the uncoupled Sony E-Mount contacts my Summicron never heard of.
So no, I'm afraid speed priority is not an option. This kind of combination is set in A mode and manual focus by its very nature.
 
well, Auto-ISO in A mode works nice, because you basically say that you chose the aperture, and the camera should provide you with sufficient shutter speeds and up the ISO if necessary. If you could set the minimum shutter speed and the maximum ISO, it would be so much more useful. As said, check out the Pentax K5. They did this very well.
 
This feature was also missing from the early GXR firmware, but was implemented in a subsequent firmware upgrade. I don't know how responsive Sony would be to user requests for a firmware upgrade. I agree that lacking the ability to specify a min shutter speed seriously limits use of auto ISO with A mode if you can't handle the fixed 1/60 limit (that includes me). No excuse for not having this feature available.
 
Ah, got what you want - no, there is no editable Auto ISO exposure program, the user input they allow rather goes the other way. It would not be hard to add, as it would be a trivial software function not just on the Nex but on just about every digital camera - but it is missing even on high-end professional ones. So it probably is neither feasibility nor marketing that is getting into the way - I guess it is a feature not recognized as such by most makers. If that is right, user feedback could make them add it.
 
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