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\nRight after I got my Sony Alpha NEX-5 with Sony E 16mm F2.8 pancake lens, Azrul<\/a> brought me to this fantastic Yong Tau Fu restaurant in Pudu!<\/p>\n

I was loving the wide angle, able to capture more at close range<\/b>. It also helped that the camera was so small and, surprisingly, quiet (or at least nobody seemed to care that they were being shot), even though I could hear the shutter.<\/p>\n


\n16mm on the NEX-5’s APS-C-sized sensor meant 24mm on full-frame 35mm format, which was pretty darn wide! All I had to do to accentuate this was to tilt upwards to make use of perspective distortion<\/b> (which is never a fault of the lens, but the camera operator…)<\/p>\n


\nA thing to note though with wide-angle lenses – if you don’t frame properly, you are going to get unwanted perspective distortion and converging lines. Here, I wasn’t pointing straight on, so the lines on top were slanted.<\/p>\n


\nI could just swing it and take a quick grab, knowing it will have the subject somewhere in the frame!<\/p>\n


\nThis is Auto HDR mode, set to the maximum – 6 EV. It takes one shot at -3 EV, one shot at 0 EV, and one shot at +3 EV, and merges them intelligently. Obviously though, it doesn’t work so well for moving subjects!<\/p>\n


\nThe Sony Alpha 450\/500\/550 had this too, but with only two frames – and one saving grace of how it’s done on the NEX-3\/5 is that it also saves the 0 EV exposure so you can use it as a regular picture. Unfortunately though, you cannot activate this when the camera is set to shoot RAW or RAW+JPEG.<\/p>\n


\nIt is a very convenient focal length for architecture and interiors.<\/p>\n


\nAt F2.8 it wasn’t the brightest but it would do. <\/p>\n


\nThough, one should not fear the dark with Hand-held Twilight or Anti-Motion Blur mode.<\/p>\n

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