I made the decision that it was time to invest in a DSLR because I had my honeymoon coming up which was in the picturesque setting of the Maldives and I was determined to get some good photos so a few months before the wedding/honeymoon I finally made my decision and opted for the relatively new Sony NEX range of cameras rather than a fully fledged DSLR. I have often questioned this choice since then and am still not sure whether or not I made the correct decision.
I opted for the NEX-3, mainly because of the price and because the differences between that and the NEX5 were very few and of minor importance from what I could tell. The main differences that were immediately apparent to me that I could see were that the NEX-3 only shot 720P HD video instead of 1080P and also that the NEX-3 didn't have the built in infra red remote trigger which the NEX-5 did. However these 2 differences didn't seem to make up for the large price differential between the two cameras (and the NEX-3 was on offer at the time as well - walking over the road from the Sony store to the Jessops store saved me nearly £200!)
The camera came with the Sony 18-55mm lens and I immediately set about taking random pictures of things in the hope that something astounding would appear - at first I was a little disappointed with the results, and then I took stock of the situation and remembered that this wasn't some all-powerful fantastic picture producing machine, it was still just a camera and I had to make it work for me. So I set up a picture of a flower and was really happy with the results (below) - this was simply a hand held picture, I hadn't at this stage got as far as buying a tripod!
I was also immediately pleased with the aperture settings - producing pictures with the foreground & background blurred and the centre image in focus, this was the first time I had experienced depth of focus and the results are always pleasing.
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