On top you can watch Steves Huff short NEX-6/5r hands-on. And here are some more reviews and tests:
RX1: New user reviews at Amazon (Click here). RX1 shutter sound test on youtube. Example photos on Zenfolio (via Dpreview forum). Sony presentation in Tawian (SonySDF).
NEX: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the NEX-6 (Doppler-Photo). Sony NEX-6 image samples at CameraLabs. NEX-6 test at Mynavi (translation here). 10-18mm image samples at CameraLabs.
Reminder: The luxury leather case producer Gariz announced a new case for the NEX-5r and NEX-6!
NEX-5R: You can buy it on their [shoplink 15853 ebay]eBay store (Click here)[/shoplink]. There is also a [shoplink 15887 ebay]Light Brown (Click here)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 15888 ebay]Brown (Click here)[/shoplink] version. Gariz has also some other little leather accesories for the NEX-5r like lens cap and bags (look here via Slidoo eBay).
NEX-6: Gariz also released three different NEX-6 case: [shoplink 15882 ebay]Brown (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 15884 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 15883 ebay]AllBlack (Click here)[/shoplink]. (full list at Slidoo).
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Every preview of the 10-18 is on the new 5 or 6 series NEX. Would really like to see a review of it on a NEX 7.
Try this: http://verybiglobo.blogspot.cz/2012/11/sony-sel-1018-sony-nex-7-brief-instore.html. This is a rolling review, however not a professional one.
Why is the shutter silent on the RX1 and not on NEX cameras?
Because the RX1 uses a leaf shutter, which is almost silent
Is it possible that the future FF NEX native lenses will all have leaf shutters, or will a full electronic shutter be more likely? I’m just throwing dung around here. I only have a slight clue what I’m talking about.
Much more likely to be focal plane shutter. Leaf shutters are expensive and have to be implemented in every lens for a ILS system. Focal plane shutter on the camera only has to be done once.
Focal plane shutter, also means that the camera can work with any lens that can be mounted and focused, which is important because many folks like to use 3rd party and legacy glass.
This is because the Rx1 does have a leaf shutter.
am i just having too high expectations or is the 10-18mm really disappointing? i so wished for it to be a great lens so i dont need to put my big alpha-wideangle on the Nex anymore.. i really hope Zeiss releases their NEX lenses soon!
Ugh, Steve Huff, yet another “photographer” who doesn’t understand the basics of photography.
IF you think that a lower resolution give you better low noise performance, then your ideal camera has just 1 pixel!
What a fucking idiot.
Seriously tired of this nonsense.
Correctly measured, a higher resolution sensor will always give better low noise performance, and this certainly is the case when comparing an NEX-6 to an NEX-7.
I am not sure what type of engineer you are, but the extreme example you are giving actually works against your claim. A 1-pixel sensor will have zero noise as it is only one pixel. In addition, due to the larger area the measurement should be more accurate.
If we take in account down-sampling of two images to one and the same lower resolution or printing to the same lower res/size, then the higher res sensor image will have of an advantage of losing more noise in the down-sampling process. However, there is a threshold for the size of sensor sites which makes their readings too inaccurate due to the current state of the technology and further increasing in the number of pixels becomes counter productive – the sites would be so small that more pixels will be giving erroneous readings (noise) than correct readings. This minimum site size is what is currently limiting the number of pixels on a sensor and the only way to increase them is to make improvements in the sensor technology. (or increase the number of pixels regardless of quality – compacts)
You’re repeating what you heard from someone else, incoherently, and thus making no sense.
Maybe it’s too much to expect you guys to understand how these sensors work, but why then do you tell me I’m wrong when it’s obvious you don’t have any physics, photography or electronics knowledge?
Of course you’re “downsampling” but that’s just another way of saying that you’re comparing the SAME SIZE AREA on the two sensors. Those who think that higher pixel density sensors have more noise are comparing apples and oranges because they are comparing the same number of pixels, not the same sensor area.
ISO is a measure of light, and thus a relevant comparison in ISO means you compare the same sensor area (And thus the same amount of light, presuming the same lens, etc.)
It’s bad enough that the myth persists, its astounding that people who don’t know anything about the situation will repeat incoherent “arguments” to defend the myth.
To bad the engineer is too busy with a calculator to actually test cameras.
So, MR Engineer. Go ahead over to dpreview.com, and pull up some camera reviews, and pull up their high ISO test (any camera with a higher ISO range) and on that sample page, pull up the NEX-7 and the NEX-5N. Then scroll around their test image, and look at different parts of the image.
Go ahead, we’ll wait for ya.
Got it yet?
Now take a look, and you’ll see that for a comparable sensor family, the NEX-5N performs BETTER at high ISO range.
Why?
It’s not the density of photosites Mr. Engineer, it’s the SIZE of the photosite. The smaller more densely packed photosites perform worse at high ISO settings.
In layman’s terms, drinking through a normal straw works better than drinking through one of those coffee stirrer straws. The smaller photosite straw lets in less light that the large photosite straw. (Remember, you open your aperture wider to let more light in. Same physics here, or did you forget that part?)
Now all that said, given a different sensor family, you can get better high ISO performance from a denser sensor, for a price. A quite steep one.
Or Mr Engineer, are you suggesting that the Nikon D3x had better high ISO performance than the Nikon D3s?