[shoplink 8454]Sony NEX-7[/shoplink] control overview by Steve Huff
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A very nice introduction video. It reassures me that the NEX7 is the right option for me. I can see plenty of reasons to wait patiently for it. I am still missing a direct NEX5n – NEX7 comparison but Steve Huff is promissing to present it too.
Can someone enlighten me?
why does a Sonnar design means its not a very very sharp lens?
So which design gives you te sharpest lens?
Distagons are sharp. The Planars are also sharp, but I think those are for telephoto lenses.
Sonnar, Distagon, Tessar, Planar, etc are more design types than specific individual lens designs; some are better than others. I’m not sure you should imply they’re all sharp. Some of those designs/names were used for East German Praktica lenses years ago, with varying results!
I have the Vario Sonnar 16-80mm for my Alpha. It´s OK, but not extremely sharp.
Out of the 8 alpha mount lenses I have the 16-80 is one of the sharpest so I’m thinking I either got a really good one or perhaps you got a bad one….
the Zeiss 16-80 is one of the sharpest APS-C Zooms in all systems!
Despite Vario-Sonnar has nothing in common with the fixed focal lenghth name sonnar. Zeiss names every Zoom Vario-Sonnar without look on the optical design.
I am not sure what he means either, the other two Zeiss designs are Planar and Distagon. But the Zeiss 135mm f/1.8 is a Sonnar and that one is super sharp even wide open. So I’m not sure what he means by that. Hopefully he just got a bad copy or something.
So are you saying that the 135mm 1.8 Sonnar is not SHARP?! come on! its the sharpest primes in a-mount and also it rivals other mounts.
rapidly becomes flat battery is
overall good first look, but to say “best video camera he has seen” then leaves it with just that statement.. I would like to hear more (see more), if he shot some boxing show us the clip.. I want to know how long of a clip you can produce at a time and what controls you have for movie making !!
There’s an old computer term, “garbage in – garbage out”, normally shortened to GIGO. GIGO is the problem with Steve Huff video tests, he knows nothing about shooting video. But that’s OK, his readers know nothing about shooting video and will get comparable results.
The problem is that when people see these tests they see operator failure as camera failure. Give this very same NEX 7 to a pro, and the results will be dramatically different.
Shooting video has a learning curve. If you don’t want to spend the time learning, your results will suck. Simple as that.
Hahahah you ain’t nevah lied!
Who is this Steve Huff anyway? Just another camera blogger as far as I can tell. I doubt whether most of these guys would ever seriously criticize cameras from any company that gives them access to equipment.
From his comments he doesn’t appear to know all that much. Sony should give review cameras to more experienced photographers.
very well said C.D Embrey…
Maybe if he wouldn’t BANG the lens around on the table it would work better for him. Did he just drop it on the table?
Seriously, his comments about the Zeiss 24 is jibberish… Listen to him… He speaks vaguely and doesn’t say anything of value at all.
I’ve seen samples from this Zeiss that are magnificent… if you know what to look for. Let’s see how corner sharpness compares on a NEX between the Zeiss and his Leica babies.
I’m really beginning to loath these new celebrity blogtographers.
I think this lens doesn’t have stabilisation?
If so, the “unsharpness” is almost certainly camera shake. Look how jerky and nervous his movements are in the video. Jerky pressing of the shutter will lose critical sharpness even at 1/100 sec.
Good catch Don.
And yes… he did drop the lens… at 13:02 in the video the Zeiss takes a dive.
Oh dear the way he slides that lens around on the table is making me cringe.
Hahaha his thumbs look like they’re talking… He should paint little faces on them… hahahahahaha
That Arca Swiss “Nex Kit” looks useful but expensive – costs more than half as much as the camera it’s intended for. Hope someone comes out with an equally good but more reasonably priced version.
Jtec makes an L-bracket for the NEX 5/5n http://jtec-online.com/lbracket.html
I’ve sent an e-mail to Really Right Stuff requesting L-brackets for the Sony NEX 5n and NEX 7. Really Right Stuff is first class, but expensive. RRS makes L-brackets for Canon G series and Olympus Pen.
Great! – Thanks for the JTec link – and I hope RRS decide to make them too.
At 16:12 he claims not to know why someone would want to hear the first shutter click, and questions the feature of being able to turn it off.
Steve… When shooting long exposures (which some of us do), it’s nice to hear when the shutter curtain opens. That way we don’t question if the camera actually fired or not. IR remotes are inconsistent and unreliable. And with that being the ONLY way to shoot remotely for long exposures, the ability to hear the first shutter click is beneficial… Unless of course you want to wait around for a few minutes wondering if the signal was received.
But technically if you are doing long exposure your screen would go black right? That should be an indication if the remote fired or not.
It also goes black if the screen goes to sleep.
Personally, I don’t use the remote for long exposures, I use the 2 second timer. There’s a visual indicator for that so it’s quite clear if you hit it.
Personally, I suspect there is a barely noticeable difference in quality between electronic front curtain and actual front curtain. Maybe someone will test it someday.
You will still need a remote for more than 30 seconds exposures….