A couple of NEX-7 cameras are right now in Stock at Amazon (Click here). And every time it is in Stock it quickly jumps on position one of the mirrorless sales ranking.
And Cameralabs (Click here) made a short NEX-7 versus Canon markIII image comparison: “Ultimately I’d call their real-life resolving power at 100 ISO as being essentially the same, and while that may not come as a huge surprise given their similar sensor resolutions, it remains a great result for the NEX-7 considering its considerably lower price tag – not to mention its considerably smaller body too.” Surprised?
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I just received my Nex 7.
First impressions:
– great size, quality, ergonomics.
– image quality at high ISO is nearly as good as my A900.
I am very pleased.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/10/us-sony-idUSBRE83907220120410
the sony system is dead before it has even started.
who will buy into a sony system when it´s verly likely that they drop the camera business over the next 3 years!!
6.4 billion net loss…. they have no money to do R&D for expensive high end stuff.
Man, you have no slightest idea how the big corporations work.
but you unemployed looser have?
please tell us how 6.4 billion loss are a good thing, you genius!!
im sure they cut 10000 jobs because they want to have them more spare time.. time for their kids and going on vacation?
Stop spreading such unsubstantiated non-sense. The article gives no reason whatsoever to support what you claim. And even if they were to drop the camera business they’d probably sell it rather than just drop it.
fact is you know shit….. your guess is as good as mine.
i bet you thought kodak would never be in the situation they are in right now. face it.. sony is in very bad shape.
Lala is just abusing people, not knowing anything about them. That is so self-indulgent.
Sony has PUBLISHED that they will be profitable this year with these layoffs. The layoffs are in areas that Sony is EXITING.
Maybe Lala should just go back to contemplating someone’s navel…
No sony is not dead. But on the thin ice between smartphone-cam-users and professional shooters. Neither is buying sony products lagerly, so to be interesting enough they should bring a FF body for the A77 price. This woul d be an outstanding element again to roc k the CaNikon APSCusers!
cameralabs comparisons are faulted.
they compare in-camera JPEGs! I’d like to see the same comparison done between RAW files in ACR.
The comparison is rather strange. Mark3 vs Nex7? 24-105/4L vs Zeiss 24/1.8! Strange lens choise for comparison, isn’t it?
It seems that Andrea has a penchant for posting these silly comparisons in which the NEX-7 has a great result. Please stop wasting your energy on these, Canon isn’t “shitting their pants” by any means and neither the D800 nor the NEX-7 will steal any market share from them.
Andrea, Instead of posting these ridiculous insights of yours, perhaps you could use some of the influence you have over Sony to get them to release a firmware update to address the RIDICULOUS auto bracketing on the NEX cameras (among other things)?
Thanks.
Defn stop crying you loser. Go somewhere else of you dont like it here or cant stand THE thought that THE nex7 is à good no à very good no à superb camera.
Need more lenses for Nex !
Has anybody else noticed, that in the NEX-7 kit, the camera is made in Thailand, but the lens made in Japan? I’m sure that adds to the shipping delays…
a forum about photography or rumors about cameras, with people that think they know about how the huge mega corporations actually works, give me a break … shut up and read your rumor, them go crawling into your hole.
I don’t believe that one must understand the economics of a mega corporations to realize that when Canon is announcing refreshing 13 lenses in just one year, Sony is coming with just 1 or 2 new lenses in the same time. Sony is further selling their best CMOS chips to Nikon for first year exclusivity use and are now selling bodies and lenses more expensive and of more plastic than CaNikon. This is no good situation for a surviving marginal business… with Fuji, Panasonic and Samsung in their neck just waiting to take over number 3 in photography …
The digital imaging business in Sony is very small. Sony is bleeding in the TV sections which was its main bread and butter before the LCD race took off. The fact that it failed to do well and continuously command a premium it used to do in the CRT era hurt them badly.
The fact that Canon is refreshing 13 lens a year instead of spearheading innovations in digital imaging leaves much to be desired.
Does the A77 feels more plastic than Canikon ? Is the A77 much more expensive than 7D and D7000 ?
I think this would be a good year to chuck all the accounting losses and make all the impairments and write off and put blame on the Thailand flood. Next year, the balance sheet and profit & loss would look better and start to growth.
If you have time , take a look at their cashflow statement in their 10k , dont be surprised to see they are making losses yet generating lots of cash ….
Talking about these financial problems inside Sony I think no one knows what the future will be. And it is clear that existing alpha users (like me) are not switching from one day to the other, but I wander if a newbie of today would choose an actual alpha starting by €750 (A57) when there are 1100D and D3100 for €350 ? Even a new NEX user will not automatically upgrade to alpha with the experience in lake of lenses, I guess it is rather the other way round: alpha users are also buying NEX to have a good compact cam too. But the key question is: can Sony take over users from CaNikon as easily as they did with the Minolta users years ago? I don’t think so, and the switch from analog to digital is now finished, so new users are hard to find. And CaNikon up-graders from compact and bridge cams will stay with their brand as they also have good cams in all divisions today. FF alpha users are or have jumped ship and because of the lake of OVF, more APSC users (like me) are also planning to jump ship.
On the other side, I don’t know any CaNikon user struggling with similar thoughts to jump over to the aplha ship. So I think the long term answer is: Yes life for alpha users will probably change dramatically in the years to come! It’s up to you to see this more + or –
well…. not all here are stupid rednecks with no education like yourself.
sony is making a loss for years.
the natural disasters are easy to blame.
but in the end sony has bigger problems.
no margin in the high end camera biz and no real userbase compared to canon and nikon.
the TV biz is dominated by samsung and LG with more and more pressure form the chinese.
they can talk whatever they want.. if the camera biz is not making a huge increase in profit they will drop out of making higher end cameras.no FF alphas anymore then. they will sell the sensors to companys like nikon who can actually sell cameras.
maybe we will see one or two more generation of alphas…. but then it´s decision time.
like the new CEO said “nothing is sacred anymore”…..
it´s simple!
sony is not making a profit because most of their products are not bought by enough people.
and why..because most of their products suck compared to the competition.
but im sure sony music will get some money by sueing 14 year old teenagers for downloading MP3´s.
I should bundle all these comments and read them to my kids as bedtime stories. Beats them all. 😉
The NEX 7 may have just met its match…. and lost. The Olympus OM-D E-M5 (weird name!) looks to be spectacular. http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/03/16/olympus-OM-D-E-M5-studio-test-samples. Just as I was getting used to my Sony.