Sony really can’t stop to release new NEX cameras 🙂 The Indonesian agency postel.go.id listed two new Sony NEX cameras having Wi Fi support. The NEX-5R and NEX-6. The cameras should have the following features:
NEX-5R: 180 degree flip screen (like the NEX-F3) and 16 Megapixel sensor and Wi Fi support
NEX-6: Built in Electronic viewfinder (lower resolution compared tot he NEX-7 viewfinder). Wi Fi support and price between NEX-7 and NEX-5R.
The cameras will be announced along two pancake zooms (yes pancake!) and a fast prime lens…all coming in September!
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Well, some NEX lenses at last. However, it’s still true that Sony has no clue how to build a camera system with more NEX cameras in existence and on the roadmap than decent lenses to put on them.
Canon is going to kill Sony with their mirrorless system once Canon starts to offer lens after lens.
Overall, I still think that Micro Four Thirds has the strongest overall offering with very good cameras and very good lenses and accessories. Currently not even Sony with years of action in the mirrorless market space can match that.
The Olympus E-M5 is doing it for me and both my NEX-7 and 5-N are on the chopping block.
Soon enough the NEX system will have more cameras than lenses for it 🙂
Harold
lol Harold you are right. They just need to release a couple of small fast auto focus primes, or give some incentive to some other manufacturers to do it. Some tantalisingly low f stops like f1.4’s or f1.8’s it would make a big difference.
Matt
And those primes better be stabilized!
Pancake zoom lenses are a good selling point. Especially for NEX!:-)
Name a mirrorless system that has more GOOD lenses than bodies? Ok I’ll go – Fuji X-Mount which has 2-3 good lenses and one body.
Sony: 6 bodies – 2 Good lenses
Samsung: 8 bodies – 3-4 Good lenses
M43: 19 bodies – 6-8 Good lenses
Nikon 1: 2 bodies – 1 Good lens (maybe)
Canon EOS-M: 1 body – 1 (possibly) good lens
What a silly metric for purchasing a camera? I don’t care about how many bodies have been produced for however many years and targeted at what ever different market niches. I just care that the system has ONE good body that meets my needs and that it has most of the focal lengths I care about covered with good quality optics.
My post is aimed to highlight the fact that while Sony have the least ‘good’ lenses (of the big three mirrorless) they have also released the lowest number of bodies. This constant talk of Sony just releasing bodies is a bit of a load of crap. Have they been concentrating more on ‘consumer’ lenses? Yes, most definitely. M43 is still by far and away the most mature system though.
> GOOD lenses
And the definition of good lens is what?
Average in plain english instead of marketing speech?
Sony NEX lenses have usual performance drops outside center of frame and NEX-7’s demanding very high MP sensor just makes most lenses fall on their faces in outside center performance.
Also Samsung has mostly usual sharp only in center at full aperture lenses.
4/3 sensor’s image circle is more favorable to lens design but again there’s no rush of lenses which could be considered really good.
Fuji X-1 Pro isn’t different with optically undersized designs.
18mm f/2 has usual performance drop towards edges (high software distortion correction worsens that) with average vignetting and without 2 stop dimming corners aren’t there.
35mm f/1.4 has similar style with edges needing stopping down to f/5.6 to get their sharpness to anything comparable to center leaving 60mm as that good lens.
Words “good lens” has clearly suffered fall from cliff of Grand Canyon inflation of value.
Just where are lenses giving reasonably flat and high corner to corner performance at any aperture and focal length?
Ultra fast apertures are optically extreme so having softer edges at f/2 and bigger apertures can be expected but soft edges down to f/4 and even smaller don’t belong to good lens.
Also long focal lengths especially in zooms can have softer edges especially at full aperture considering those are mostly used for photographing centered targets.
what do you wanna do with camera like nex? Good lens for it? 24mm zeiss, 50/1.8, 18-200 e-mount. I shoot some spectacular photos with these lenses. Not to mention some more legacy lenses that are very easy to use with the focus peeking feature in nex.
if you want more lenses to do more, then nex is not for you. M43 system has lots of lenses but why do you need those lenses? With that crappy iq you still won’t be able to do things more than what the nex cameras can do with its lens selections.
people who bitching out bout lens for nex are either don’t have the camera or just people who don’t really focus on photography but rather just camera collectors who hv money to spend but don’t hv passion for real photography
Sorry, we’re not as passionate about photography as you but some of us just want to take good (enough) photos easily, and a NEX with adapted lenses don’t do that. Try taking photo of kids with that. Can’t even use a ‘real’ flash on a NEX unless you have the 7. I can use powerful flash guns on my PEN and can do it wirelessly with TTL.
I’ve adapted manual lenses and though they were great at first, compare to a new native lens, there is no contest unless you have the more expenses manual lenses like Zeiss, etc. For example, I’ve used older 50/1.4 for portraits, but the Oly 45/1.8 is so much better in many ways: sharper from wide open, better contrast, better color, AF of course and do so on.
Including the lenses and better flash support, it’s easier to get better result on m4/3 than NEX. Having more NEX lenses can only make the system better and it needs it.