One winner will also receive a NEX-3N compact system camera to test out their new skills.

Featuring the same image sensor that you’d expect from a DSLR camera, the NEX allows you to take professional standard pictures, providing the best results and picture quality on the market.

With a selection of 15 e-mount lenses available you’ll discover the ideal lens to bring your vision to life.

What’s on at the Sony World Photography Awards Workshops

The workshops will cover a variety of topics suitable for camera enthusiasts from beginners to budding professionals, and will coincide with the opening of the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition on 26th April.

There are three separate workshops covering a range of topics. From showing beginners how to improve picture quality, providing an understanding of commercial photography and turning a hobby into a career, or looking at the developments in full-frame photograph over time, there will be something for any photography enthusiast.

Speakers will include Michael Wayne Plant, who specialises in work around identities and social landscape, and Magdi Fernandes who works across fashion, music and sports.

All attendees will be entered into a prize draw each day for one lucky winner to receive the Sony NEX-3N.

Click here to enter for your chance to attend the workshops and win a Sony NEX-3N.

Should you miss out on the prize, don’t worry! You can still book yourself a ticket to attend one of the workshops. Click here to find out more about tickets and times.

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The NEX 3N comes as the direct replacement to Sony’s entry level compact system camera, the F3, and as with the F3 it’s aimed at those looking to make the jump from a pocketable compact to a camera with an interchangeable lens.

As a Sony NEX-F3 replacement, the Sony NEX-3N offers a redesigned chassis that makes it what Sony claims is the smallest and lightest APS-C size compact system camera in the world.

Along with its 180-degree tillable LCD screen and a host of features like Auto Object and Auto Portrait Framing, the Sony NEX 3N could be the perfect ‘next step’ camera for compact camera owners looking to take more control of their photography.

Find out some of the key features and why this may be the camera for you in our testing team’s hands-on Sony NEX 3N review.

Hands-on Sony NEX 3N Review Video Transcript

The NEX 3N comes as the direct replacement to Sony’s entry level compact system camera, the F3, and as with the F3 it’s aimed at those looking to make the jump from a pocketable compact to a camera with an interchangeable lens.

Whilst the specifications of the 3N shows a comfortable improvement over the F3, when it’s in your hands it proves far more impressive than the specs let on; for instance there’s a big boost in build quality, button and dial layout and a new sleeker look, all of which helps reinforce a feeling that Sony is pushing harder than ever to be number one in the market.

Despite being Sony’s entry-level CSC, and having a price tag of just £400 for body and 16-50mm lens kit, my first impression wouldn’t put this in the same category as many other entry level CSC’s. As mentioned the build quality and overall ergonomics are reassuringly solid, with a metal rather than plastic body and well designed grip that actually manages to look sleek whilst still providing a good comfortable grip.

Internally being an NEX it has Sony’s APS-C sized sensor, so a larger sensor than those offered by Olympus, Panasonic, Nikon and Canon.

At 16.1 million pixels this might not seem ground breaking in comparison with the other manufacturers, but when it comes to noise at the higher sensitivities this increased sensor size really will make a difference, especially if previous NEX models such as the 5R are anything to go by.

This sensor combined with the updated Bionz processor should ensure CSC beating image quality, and performance throughout it’s 100-16000 sensitivity range, a full image quality test will be carried out once we have full production samples.

The 3N will sit below the 5R in the NEX line-up and features in common include a full mode dial, 180 tilt-able LCD and to a certain degree it looks, but it lacks the 5R’s touch-screen and the finesse of the large thumb dial, which, I felt during testing, set the 5R apart from the crowd, but then again it looks as though Sony could be following the trend started by Olympus by giving photographers great image and build quality across the range, and just reigning back the features to separate models.

For this reason the 3n sits very comfortably between premium compacts and the 5R, offing updated features such as Auto Object Framing that expands the Auto Portrait Framing feature that we’ve seen on previous NEX models, and now adds Auto Macro and Tracking framing. Again a full update on how well these work when we have full review samples.

Unlike the 5R, but similar to the F3 and Cybershot range the 3N features a pop-up flash with a GN of 6 at ISO 200, and a very familiar feature for all compact users is this zoom lever which with the new 16-50mm kit lens enables you to zoom in and out from the camera body, very nifty and compact like..

Size is also similar to premium compacts, and whilst the NEX range has never been large, the 3N is noticeably smaller than the F3 as is the new kit lens which almost halves the size of the previous version

So the NEX 3N looks very interesting and promises from what I’ve seen so far to be a very high quality entry level offering and will be available from mid-March. For more information check out Techradar.com.

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