Sony Nex 5n on a Cinestar 6 from GravityShots.com on Vimeo.
As you know I own the [shoplink 8452]Sony NEX-5n[/shoplink] but sadly I had no time to test it as I am really busy travelling across Europe for work reasons. I can give you only a short impression, Ergonomomy, Usability and Touchscreen are really NOT good for my needs. But the image quality, the peaking mode are amazing + the combo with the [shoplink 8725 ebay]Nokton 35mm f/1.4[/shoplink] is amazing. Will write a short review as soon as I am back at home next week! And below you can read a couple of new NEX-5n related news:
There is a full NEX-5n review at DC.watch. It’s in japanese but you cans till look at the pictures 🙂
Dpreview is already showing NEX-5N images on their comparison tool. As you see the NEX-5n does an amazing job at High-ISO!!!
New image samples at Outbackphoto.
The “clicking” issue has been reported to Sony engineering (See https://forum.sel.sony.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=10944) and the Sony China store removed the order option.
And here are the NEX-5n order links. But I suggest you to wait for Sony fixing the Clicking issue(!): [shopcountry 8452].
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The clicking hasnt been a issue for me in general use…people are overeacting…either learn to shoot stable video or stop swinging it about.
If your shooting a film with it you should use a external mic anyway…on board mics are not great for this to begin with!
Unfortunately the 5n doesn’t have an external mic jack and the only Sony external mic option does pick up the clicking. You don’t really need to wave the camera around to get it to click (one click during normal panning is one click too many) it seems tilting the camera seems to cause the clicking easier. But hopefully there will be a painless fix shortly or Sony might end up with a lot of 5n’s to resell as refurbs.
When I mean external I mean not attached to the camera…I use a zoom external mic on a Rig so problem is solved…still..having a NEX 5n and using video for my 3 year old…not one bit of footage…walking around with general use has a click sound. Swing it about a bit there is a some. So its not such a big problem for general use.
Besides most people shoot montage videos and put music over the top.
It’s great to see that NEX5N can give noticeably better results than Nikon D7000 at any ISO. So is there any APS-C camera out there at the moment that can beat NEX5N with high ISO. I don’t think so. Well done Sony!
5n even defeats 1D-MK IV…….
I only played with the 5N in the shop and found the touchscreen feels like a last minute addition.. its very responsive but not very well implemented with the ui. I would have expected things like a touch shutter and better touch menus, the shooting mode wheel is redicules to use with touch..
overall the 5N felt like a great cam! I dont get the people that complain about the clicking,sure its not professional but its a stills cam first and foremost and one of the best also..and the audio would be horrible without the clicks anyways 😉 even Phillip Bloom complained about the clicks even though i never saw video from him with any kind of live sound.. guess we are not happy unless we find the hair in the soup 😉
It’s not so bad… but following my kid with the camera, and he doesn’t move much causes clicks loud enough to block out my speech. I used the external mic too. still there. Sucks for people who buy the camera to sort of be a do it all… as it’s bad to film wiggly running kids with. My 5 had great audio for quick home videos… and this does too… just not once you move it. Not everyone just makes music videos for Vimeo with these sorts of things.
I’m betting Sony actually will fix this. Sony wanted home videos with this camera… not just overdubbing filmmakers (who may go for nex7 anyways).
To be fair… i’d still keep the camera. Just look at DPReviews comparison and go up to 128000.
Beats out everything in its class. As a photo camera it’s still the little guy to beat.
I also have the NEX-5N/Nokton 35mm combo, and I found the touchscreen a nice addition.
I almost never use it to go through the menus, but it has a great feature when using manual lenses: when the peaking is not precise enough and you want to focus really precisely, just touch a part of the screen to enlarge that area (much better than fiddling with the buttons).
Wow, ISO6400 shots rock. Wonderful work Sony 🙂
Wow, cinematic look.. hehehe.. nice music.
Have you seen how much that helicopter thing is costing ? I guess I would expect some kind of cinematic look for that amount of money, occasionally you might be better of renting a real helicopter and a true super 35 HD Camcorder unless you use it all the time 🙂
I used the dpreview comparison tool to compare the Nex-5N to the 7D, D7000 and the Sony A580. It seems the 5N has at least one stop better high iso performance than the rest!!!! Pretty amazing from a camera that costs less than half the price of the 7D and D7000!!!
Compared also to the 1d-IV and the D3S – while the 5N’s performance doesn’t match the big guns of CaNikon, it comes very close!!!
Now I’m really gutted the A77 doesn’t perform as well. This for me can be a deal breaker :(((
Maybe I’ll wait for the Sony FF or jump ship to the 5d-III or the D400/D800…
anybody know what lens dpreview used to test the 5n? coz the edge resolution is shockingly bad.
Two quick conclusion after looking at DPReview and comparing to A580:
1. Definitely, improved Jpeg engine – resolves significantly more details up to iso3200.
2. Weakened AA filter – more details but visible artefacts, which I don’t mind however.
I just looked to the dPreview Side and compared it Side to Side with the EOS 5D MK2 and Nikon 3Ds, on ISO above 200 It outperforms the 5D MK2 especially looking at sharpness and captured amount of detail, too. Compared to the 3Ds the Nex-5N looks noticeably better till ISO 1600 at ISO 3200 it seems a bit sharper but also a little noisier, from 6400 on the 3Ds looks better, from ISO 6400 on this becomes pretty noticeable.
To be honest I’m as well impressed as astonished, i wasn’t expecting the Nex-5N to perform that good, and I’m now really starting to doubt that the Nex-7 (still being more attractive for me) can outperform the Nex-5N on ISO settings above around 800 to 1600.
(Although if it does that would be absolutely awesome!)
I’d like to see this system in an A55 successor. I don’t need 24mpx.
Andrea,
Is there any discussion/rumor on an A55 successor?
I’m sure they have got something in the pipeline but as the A55 and even the A65 this will only do the trick as an consumer Cam so i will guesstimate it to be nothing more ten an Modernized A55 such as the Nex-5N is compared to the Nex-5 or the Nex-3C compared to the Nex-3 and so on…
I think every sony engineer already hates word click.
What is disapponts with the “click” problem is the reaction of sony or absance of it. This problem at least week in any site and no reaction. is it some holydays in japan?
when we have an answer to the solution of this problem .. and go like 3 weeks and still nothing at all .. how hard can it be to find the solution to something as small
I didn’t hear any click from that video.. hahaha.
At low ISO (<=1600) the Panasonic GH2 is clearly better detailed (probably a lighter AA filter) just look at the coins:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicDMCGH2/page20.asp
You can read Milano 1881 on the GH2 but not on the NEX after ISO800+.
@ISO3200 the GH2 is still outgunning the NEX on detail but starting to loose on noise.
@ISO6400 it's all over, because the NEX takes over completely
Note 1: This very well might be a consequence of an ultrasharp lens on the GH2 (I believe dpreview still uses the Olympus 4/3 ZD 50mm F2 as a benchmark) and a kit lens on the NEX-5N.
Note 2: High contrast edges are pretty badly resolved on the NEX-5n (but as a matter of fact also for other NEXes, NIKON D7000 or CANON 60D) from visions of moiré to stairstep jags, something that isn't present on the GH2 if you look at the black labels on the bottleneck.