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Dpreview tested the new NEX firmware and you they started with a nice compliment to Sony: “It’s apparent that the company has listened closely to what users and reviewers have been saying, and has corrected many of the camera’s shortcomings.”
Photographybay reviewed the Sony NEX-5 and became a big fan of the camera: “Aside from a few minor quibbles with regard to its controls and functionality, the Sony NEX-5 is an otherwise great mirrorless camera.”
In US the NEX-5 is in Stock at (Click on shop names):
Amazon
In Europe the NEX-5 is in Stock at (Click on shop names):
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I am surprised that Sony is receiving positive comments about it having finally provided some of the functions and capabilities it should have done from the very start.
For example, Sony is in a position to provide full-manual controls on the HD-video capabilities in its NEX cameras but has chosen instead to cripple its cameras to protect its more lucrative line of video-camcorders.
Sony may have been forced to give up 10% of the features it has withheld. But I remain highly skeptical whether Sony will even release the other 90% or even just an additional 40% of what it has purposely withheld from the Sony NEX series.
You are probably right. The problem is that, if you look around, there is not such a thing as a really good mirrorless camera. Am I wrong? There is no any single camera body that is not crippled somehow.
Pana GF1? Sammy NX100? lack IBIS, and do not perform very well on the high iso dept. UI is so-so, video the same (at least on the Pana, dunno about the Sammy). Ep2? Too expensive, not enough for its price; Epl1? crappy UI, has many of the problems of the NEX system, without having its excellent sensor. Let’s hope the new pana sensor reaches the compact mirrorless cameras soon (e.g. rumored ep3, GF2), or that next generation Samsung NX200 manages to get rid of some of the problems of the sensor.
Fact is: as crippled as the NEX5 may be (and you are right: it is indeed), if equiped with a decent UI (as it seems with the new firmware) it becomes the best of the pack.
Hopefully some of future mirrorless proposals will manage to create a wholly good camera, and not only a “less bad than the others” one…
Haha I’ll bring up a note about an application my company makes:
It’s the worst out of all our application, but it’s the best in its field.
Because everyone else does worse.
Well, that is more or less the point 😀
After all there is no Nikon in the mirrorless field, as we can see…
To get the remaining features, you’ll need to get the next step up in their product series, (perhaps a future NEX-7). They do that with all of their product lines. Also, initially they release the lower end of a product line to help them tweak the design / production of the higher end.
O.O Really? Now I’m more hopeful 😀 *patiently waiting for NEX 7, even though there’s been no rumors of it lately*
hmmm–actually, I believe that there HAS been a rumor lately: David Kilpatrick reported that Paul Genge of Sony UK said that Sony will fill out the 7 level, before moving on to the FF models, this coming year–and specifically mentioned the NEX 7. (No psecific mention of the A7xx, but I still have hope, especially with initial reports of the A580 being great.)
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As an ACTUAL owner of the NEX-5 i can say im excited to get the new firmware, the camera is great, the photos come out on par or better sometimes than my brothers D90, and the firmware will only make it better, just need to release it already…
now if sony just had a nice pancake in the 24-35mm range. thats even more disappointing than a crippled firmware! nex-5 with a zoom lens just doesnt make any sense to me.. i have a regular dslr for that. why make a super small nex but only big ass zooms..
now i will probably get the nx100 with the superb 30mm f2.. but i would prefer a smaller cam like the nex5.
I 2nd that. the nx system will soon have 3 pancakes (16, 20, 30) sony does not even have a 2nd pancake on there roadmap. The smallest lens they have announced is the macro but that is going to be a little over 2x as large as the 16mm pancake (going by the product pictures).
but the nx100 is not that much smaller than the nx10…
Sony doesn’t have any experience in pancake design – Minolta nor Zeiss have ever made any SLR pancake lenses, so I seriously doubt we gonna see them anytime soon…. pity.
lets hope they release the must needed update for a33 and a55 soon.
minolta did make a pancake lens.. the 45mm f/2 rokkor
While it certainly helps, I don’t think it goes far enough. Needs Tethered Shooting, and PictBridge. That should be low hanging fruit since they already support ptp and live view…
How come nobody is hacking sony firmware like on the PSP, or even the canon cameras?
Everyone who says the NEX is crippled or has missing features is an Internet shiner who has never used a NEX or other person with an axe to grind.
People are unrealistic and use this as an excuse to bash good products.
No better than the liars who said the iPhone 4 had an antenna problem.
Stupid to listen to them.
Bill, I agree… the only problem the NEX 5 has right now is lack of video control. If they fix that the camera will be perfect.
that is a bold statement you´re making here.. not everybody is showing off with what kind of gear they all shoot pics..i don´t, that´s for sure,because it is totally not interesting, whether i use a nex, an a900 or even a leica m9..
the NEX is a nice camera for people who come from compact-camera´s, want dslr quality pics, but don´t want to haul around with a big dslr.. no problem!
but, this camera is a camera with 2 faces, since this camera is a big compromize, and camera´s, loaded with compromises, were never the best out of 2 worlds, but mostly gave the worst of 2 worlds..
personally, i do´t care that much about resolution, gadgets and so on, on a camera.. i care most about usability, ergonomics,and easy access to menu, without having to fiddle around by digging deep inside that same menu..or batteries that run empty after a very short time..
when i am on the job, i want to be able to concentrate on the pics, instead of the menu, controls and so on..all the other crap is only distracting..
not to mention even the big zooms, wich completely makes all the benefits of this small camera useless…..
if i want to haul around with a big lump of camera, then i better take my dslr with me..
camera´s, designed by only engineers, are the worst of all kind..
sony should make this toppriority, to listen more to the users in the field, and then go to the engineers, and ask if they can make something out of it..
a NEX with a 18-200 zoom or a big lump of metal, called zeiss, is totally ridiculous.. no matter what firmware update you install on it..
keep it small, and make it usable for what it was originally meant for..