I just noticed that a certain photography store has the black NEX-3 with the 16mm pancake on special offer for 399€. I'm pretty tempted by this, but just wonder about two things.
First, does anybody here have only the pancake and how limiting do you find it? I actually have the 15mm lens for my Pentax, but don't know how well I'd do with just that lens. I know the kit zoom isn't that expensive and there's a gazillion lenses I could use with different adapters, but much of the appeal of this camera is the small size and no other lens (with an adapter) is as small, I believe.
Second, is the 16mm pancake really as bad as some reviews suggest? Photozone is one site which I value quite a lot and I've never seen them crush a lens like they did with the 16mm:
http://www.photozone.de/sony-alpha-aps-c-lens-tests/542-sony16f28nex
First, does anybody here have only the pancake and how limiting do you find it? I actually have the 15mm lens for my Pentax, but don't know how well I'd do with just that lens. I know the kit zoom isn't that expensive and there's a gazillion lenses I could use with different adapters, but much of the appeal of this camera is the small size and no other lens (with an adapter) is as small, I believe.
Second, is the 16mm pancake really as bad as some reviews suggest? Photozone is one site which I value quite a lot and I've never seen them crush a lens like they did with the 16mm:
http://www.photozone.de/sony-alpha-aps-c-lens-tests/542-sony16f28nex