When you switch to Manual Focus mode, the NEX will give you a 7x or 14x live closeup to aid with focusing. This is obviously useful and when in this preview mode you can use the 4-way directional pad to move the preview around the scene (for example, if you wish to focus on an [...]

Tomorrow, Saturday 26th June, is International HDR Day! As I’ve said before, I’m not a huge fan of the overcooked HDR style which either removes all shadows from the image or makes the sky so unnaturally dark that the ground appears to be the light source! However, I’m getting ahead of myself. HDR what now? [...]