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I feel so good after yesterdays news that Sony restarted the [shoplink 8454]NEX-7[/shoplink] production. I know my expectations are high but I have some hope that I will might get my NEX-7 camera before Christmas. And after reading the next bunch of reviews I am posting here you might understand why I am eagerly awaiting that camera.
Here is the first Spanish NEX-7 hands-on at Quesabesde (Click here): “As we continue delving into the innards of this camera with a magnifying glass and reviewing performance, it is clear that we are facing one of the most notable models of the season.” and “The Sony NEX-7 is undoubtedly the new benchmark to beat“.
And DCresource (Click here) posted a full ENX-7 review: “Overall, the Sony Alpha NEX-7 is a pricey, yet excellent mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. Whether we’re talking performance, photo quality, or features, the NEX-7 does just about everything right. The one thing that may bother some folks is the user interface, so you’ll definitely want to try the camera out in person if you can. Even with the complex interface, the NEX-7 is still a camera that I can highly recommend.”
And Amateur Photographer latest magazine contains a full NEX-7 review: “They call it the best ILC camera available today”
More bits:
Imaging Resources posted new NEX-7 image samples taken in New York City and Disneyland.
More Sony NEX-7 images at ThePictureDesk (Click here). He also posted a test with the Zeiss F-mount 35mm lens (Click here) and Sony Alpha lenses (Click here).
Most stores are not accpeting NEX-7 preorders yet. Check for yourself: [shopcountry 8454].
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“The best ILC camera available today”
Today?!!! really???!
Cheeky hehe
So when will Adobe add the NEX-7 to CS5 raw and LR3.X?
This is making me regret my nex-5n purchase more and more……
Don’t regret, smarter to invest in lenses.
Besides the 5N works better in corners thanks to micro lenses, and has better ISO.
You’re right. Better quality with M-Mount lenses on Nex-5n than Nex-7.
You mean offset microlenses but after seeing the DCresource samples with excellent corner performance, I wouldn’t bet on the NEX 7 performing worse in the corners in terms of sharpness atleast.
And the ISO performance is similar in any case, based on RAW comparisons of the 5N vs 7.
I am on preoder list.. but I start to have my doubts.. in favour Nex5n..
1st its 50 % cheaper, for other half I may spent for better lenses.
2nd the samples.. from C.H.U.R.C.H. in Spanish/Catalan review appears really bad, especially with comparison to nex5n… It seems Nex 7 for lower light is bad choice.
3rd battery life nex5n has its advantaged.
To conclude Nex 7 has amazing body functionality, very easy and useful just the quality of the photos not that amazing in comparison to nex5n. Two contradictions.
And I got stuck in between.
Ps.
Its obvious that each camera in good light will perform well.. thats why we buy cameras with big sensors to have details in low light conditions. So yea I care more about low light situations..
Pre-ordered with Amazon – wondering when “Today” is!!!! Glad to hear they are building them again. All I know is when it is “Today” I will be a happy photographer.
Mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co2Qa9y_1Ns&feature=youtu.be&t=1h36m01
Available in US by the end of the month.
Thanks, that was a great video until it stopped playing 1/3 of the way thru. It’s very informative!
Thanks for the video link; very informative.
So, it seems there will be six more NEX lenses next year (three more than the current roadmap shows), of which ‘a couple’ will be pancakes.
Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing the ‘high performance G’ standard zoom. Could turn out to be a dream combo with NEX 7.
24mm Zeiss lens too big and expensive compared to the excellent 20mm m4/3 Pana
18-55 kit lens 3.5/5.6, I’ve got it and want to sell it fast !
50mm 1.8 interesting lens good aperture, good price but it can’t be my only lens.
I would like so much buy the nex7 but I will never pre-order it till I don’t know the Sony 2012 lens roadmap.
I need a lens like the 20mm Pana and a 16/50 2.8. Is it so difficult ?
Well… I’m tired waiting for Sony lenses.
I totally agree. Good quality E mount lenses are seriously lacking and solutions involving an adapter all have their drawbacks, from losing auto aperture, focus or image stabilization to adding so much bulk and weight that the camera becomes not much different from a DSLR.
Jeez pancake fetish rants again… listen I have 20mm and I tell you it is not perfect… yes center is sharp but corner could be sharper and the bokeh is terrible. From the samples I’ve seen Zeiss is sharp corner to corner, 25% wider, and covers bigger sensor so not you nor even Zeiss would not be able to bend physics law cramming those into a lens as small as pana 20mm… that pana lens is overrated, but true it is my workhorse lens
Read carefully before ranting! Did you see the OP say anything about pancake? It’s the plain lack of quality lens… period. I have the NEX 7 with token kit lens and the Zeiss on preorder. The only other lens I can think of ordering is the 50/1.8. Maybe for soccor moms and Japanese teenage girls, the other lenses are fine, but some of us are a lot more experienced and come from SLR background. The NEX 7 was a new anomaly for Sony. I don’t think they set off building a system for the NEX 7. They set off building a system for the NEX 3 and 5, which are consumer cameras who don’t have high demands for the optics.
I know that compared to m43, the NEX optics are behind. I also know that the first 2 years of m43 suffered from the same problem (with multiple overlapping consumer zooms). I think many of us want to be assured that Sony will push up into higher quality optics the way that Olympus did and to a lessor extent Panasonic. The lenses need to be reasonably small but does not need to be pancake. We also want to be assured they will keep improving the firmware (e.g. jpeg engine).
6 new lenses coming, some high quality stuff, some pancakes. A complete 20 lens system isn’t built overnight, or in this case, in a year and a half.
Some comment that the 18-55 in not great, but I am not yet convinced that the available E mounts are so bad, particularly the Zeiss with another Zeiss coming in the spring (?80mm 0r 100mm).
When I get my Nex-7, I’ll start of with the 16mm w/ wide angle converter (a well reviewed combo), 24mm Zeiss, and the 18-200mm which has also been getting mostly positive comments from most reviewers. I like being a bit of a minimalist so these will serve my needs for now.
The A mount adapter is not cheap but it is pretty compact (check out some of the You Tube videos) and allows for a decent selection of additional lenses with phase detect AF.
Are you blind. He was ranting why the zeiss TOO BIG compared PANASONIC 20mm. He obviously wants every lenses’ size to be same as that puny Perar.
Concerning the quality of the kit-lens, have a look at the full-size samples at DCresource. Stopped down, the 1855 seems to deliver high resolution and contrast, even in the corners, especially at the wide end. The samples are OOC-jpg’s and suffer from some softness due to noise reduction (pixel peeping at 100 pct.), but corner sharpness is fine, nevertheless. I think this is promising because the first generation NEX’es seemed to have troubles with softness in the corners, probably due to the sensor design (micro lenses). I feared that the NEX 7 might suffer from the same problem. Seemingly, it doesn’t.
ok, we get it. it’s not rumors anymore.
Even though Sony resumed production I wouldn’t hold my breath. In today’s press release they don’t suggest the NEX-7 as a Christmas gift:
http://presscentre.sony.eu/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=7144&NewsAreaID=2 (German)
The NEX-7 is just so perfect built for me. Large enough to get good balance on lens and body, but still smaller than a dslr, rubber grip, tri-navi, flip-up screen, APS-C sensor, hot shoe, built in flash, EVF…etc.
You get a lot for the price really. The NEX-5N is good, but it doesn’t offer enough for me to really appreciate the switch to mirrorless just like the m4/3.
Same here Timmy. The viewfinder and control dials would make it so much better to use.
Before to make my final choice, since the Nex-7 is delayed and it has no microlenses technology, I will wait for the new Fuji LX. It seems to have a sensor adapted to M-Mount lenses and better resolution than FF expected, electronic or hybrid viewfinder, etc… If not, go back to the excellent Nex-5n which get better results than Nex-7 with M-Mount lenses (thanks to microlenses technology), or Samsung NX200 which has a very nice custom made lenses range with 20MP sensor with microlenses technology and automatic distortions correction…
Nex-7 is may be not the best one, even it could have been it with the microlenses technology….
Yup, exactly what I am waiting for. I am hoping my NEX 7 preorder gets delayed till next year so I can see what’s behind Fuji’s curtain. I would miss the Sony fun features like compositing, but Fuji has targeted the LX at a higher end user base so quality in optics is assured. Also, their colors are the best of any camera I have used. The Sony and Panasonic have the most weird colors of any cameras I have used (not garish but the least attractive).
The claims that Fuji makes about the sensor seems to point to organic cmos sensor, which don’t need micro mirrors, color filters, or IR filter. I hope that sensor is ready for prime time. They’ve been working on it for so long.
All current mirrorless cameras and DSLRs have microlenses.
They probably mean _shifted_ microlenses, that improves IQ with wideangle lenses while getting worse with long focus ones. Which DSLRs don’t need because their wideangle lenses are always retrofocus
It’s good to see the NEX-7 uses the 20am flash to control wireless (rather than the built in flash). This allows tog to put it on a bracket above camera vertically. This increases range and also allows reverse angle for firing remote flash behind the photographer too. This is good!
Until now, the a900/850 were the only cameras that allowed for this.
Is the 20am the only way it can fire wireless or just in addition to the popup?
I don’t know. Until watching the video, I had assume that only the built in flash would fire wireless remote. Would be swell if both flashes could trigger remote.
Something tells me though, that this Sony rep didn’t really know. Something tells me he’s wrong. Something tells me that the 20am doesn’t fire remote flash… but only the built in unit does.
Regardless… we still need a proper remote trigger. One that operates with IR… rather than white light.
After much deliberation, I ended up getting a NEX-5N. Like some have said, I can use the difference in price to go towards a good lens – the Zeiss Biogon 35mm F2.0 M-mount in my case. I like the IQ from that lens and the Zeiss should hold it’s value well in case I need to sell it down the road. I can also use it on my MFT system, or (most) other mirrorless cameras I should happen to own in the future.
Of course I regret a little bit not deciding to get the NEX-7: it’s such a cool and desirable camera. In my case and on my budget, however, it didn’t make sense. The controls on the 5N are a little sparse, but now that I have set it up to my liking, I can access most things efficiently. What more do I really need than the wheel to change aperture or shutter speed, then click to change exposure compensation? Or the customized center button that switches among the metering modes, AF modes and ISO? Not that much really.
And most of the things I would like better access to aren’t available via the NEX-7’s tri-navi interface anyway. Usually that’s changing the peaking level or colour to suit conditions. So the 5N is working quite well for me.
…Fuji LX with organic sensor is coming…at the same price of Nex7, with 3 real lens…;)
When?
february
Sorry. Am not very pro… But can I ask… Most point and shoot cameras can choose file size of Jpeg… Would it be something available on the nex 7 and would that mitigate the noise issue? Curious