I just got the link to the following NEX-7 picture! I have been told this is a preproduction version! One of my sources said the image is original but the final model could have some differences!!! As you see the NEX-7 has a rangefinder style a là [shoplink 6075 ebay]Fuji X100 (Click here to see that camera)[/shoplink]! As you know the NEX-7 will feature the same A77 24 Megapixel sensor and a 3 million dot OLED EVF (it is not a hybrid viewfinder!). It has the Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 attached (but that is also a prototype). The camera should cost around $1.200.
UPDATE (Mark explanation):
1) 3 Million dot OLED EVF
2) Hot shoe
3) 24mm f/1.8 ZEISS
4) Flash and the Image preview buttons
5) Pop-Up flash
6) Manual Aperture and Shutter Speed controls?
7) ???
8) ???
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I hope this look propogates to the lower NEX-5E!
Great design and with the new 24Mpix sensor must be a winner. Thank you Andreea for the tips and picture.
Wow. Please let this be true. As a Leica Digilux 2 user, this would be perfect for me. In fact, after months of lurking and not commenting on all of Andrea’s GREAT work, this post got me to register!
I was just thinking the design was poor. For example, turn the left hand dial to the right and your thumb will naturally fall on the right hand dial. You’ll need to be quite careful not to accidentally turn them both.
Good point, I saw that too. It could be that they haven’t yet decided what to do with the dials yet (or didn’t want to show them in the rendering) OR they are they they pop up when pressed so you can turn them then…
More likely to look something like this :
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydscr1/
Steve, I so hope not!
I guess that the leftmost wheel will be Mode dial, since it have a jog dial around the directional buttons, the right dial is the shutter control and the jog dial is for aperture.
Otherwise it would be stupid to have three such controllers.
The switch (Nrr 8) is a mystery, hope one is AFL and the other is AEL.
OMG WOW… i just cried a little inside (in happiness!)
Woot for rangefinder and more controls!
P.S. First, eww not anymore
P.S.S. now im more than happy to continue investing in the e-mount. Love my nex-5
LOL, i shed a tear there too
He thinks an EVF is a rangefinder, ha
LOVE the design. Bring it on, this is my NEXt camera.
It looks ugly.
Cool. Polish the design and it should be a hit. Too bad it probably doesn’t have in body IS, but I can see the reasoning behind it.
is it a mistyping??? why is the powercontrol in the ‘NO’ mode?
the off is typed correct =)
Nice Catch!!! So this image is also photoshopped then… It obviously will not have a ‘OFF’ & ‘NO’ switch… he he
yes it is photoshoped.
very easy too see at the “movie-botton”.
…and of course the “NO” switch.
hope the nex 7 looks like this fake, i like it.
but i read the nex 7 will look like the dimage a2.
i noticed that aswell haha
Yes, and remember when SAR said it would look like a Konica Minolta DIMAGE?
Agreed, the round buttons are asymmetrical and the “NO” is a misspelling of “ON”.
Open the picture in a new window and zoom in on it. You definitely see artifacts where the OLED EVF was PS’ed in where it meets the camera body. The focal ring on the supposed Zeiss lens doesn’t have the ripples all the way around. Like they tried to remove a marking on it. The Hot Shoe mount isn’t a real hot shoe mount. There’s no opening to slice in the foot.
If the LCD has the same tilt capability as the NEX3/5, then the OLED EVF protrusion actually limits the full angle capability of the LCD. You could easily swing the top up and hit the EVF scratching the housing. Sony wouldn’t have designed that.
The Lens listed specifies a 24mm f/1.8. The planned released Zeiss was first specified as a 24mm f/1.7. It was later changed to be more of a pancake at 24mm f/2.0.
summary, I wouldn’t fall in love with this image.
Would love to see a fixed lens version of this…
X100?
What’s #6?
I guess it’s the shutter and exposure compensation dials?
This is perfect! If it’s like this, i’ll go for it as soon as it comes out with the Zeiss 24.
bought
you should write where you get that photo…
http://www.minoltasonyclub.it/cms/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31880
+1 Looks like it is the source page,
but not the original upload, it was lightened and the boxes were added.
yes, this was the original source.. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/65018618.jpg/
The photo has ben removed, sony’s work?
Guy removed it to hide himself most likely.
Hide himself because of what? so people wont know its fake 🙂
The Viewfinder looks way to small, I doubt, that this is real. And I also thought the Zeiss is now 2.0.
It’s an older pre-production version. I doubt that this lens is actually a lens, likely just a metal mock-up.
To Andrea:
Now here comes one that was promised to come up side by side with A77.
But how about the other one-the 500mm f4?
Currently saving for a super telephoto (Founding Currently around ~$7500), considering if I would jump for Canon’s 500mm L II or L I, it’s a “monumental” investment for me….(a body is more like a “accessory” to that investment) In the case if I jump, a Canon body would be dedicated to the use of the lens, yet my other shots would still be with my lovely A-mount collections.
It looks a bit fake to me, photoshoped. #6, the dials, completely smooth over, surely if it was pre-production they would have these marked up in some form. But anyway, I definately like the design as it is.
The image is a render, not a photograph. Which raises the question, does Sony create renders in this kind of low-detail? I know they create much more finely-detailed renderings for their promotional materials — but why would they make a low-res render like this?
For design patent applications, maybe? Even a low quality rendering is beyond the normal line-art that usually graces patents.
Think you’ve answered the question then. This is almost exactly what I was hoping for, so it must be fake.
“This is almost exactly what I was hoping for, so it must be fake.”
Ha. And agreed.
Well, you do a whole bunch of low res renders during design work, could be one of those.
The ‘NO’ marking and rugged edges suggest it might be some quick test render; question as always is, how close is it to the final product .
You’d do you work in high res, and then export it as a lower resolution. However, if you zoom into this image, you’ll notice that there are points of the picture that aren’t the same render consistency. Look at where the EVF connects to the body. The front lens where the friction ridges are for the focus ring. And all around the camera have different resses. This is definitely a non-Sony photoshop picture.
Very cool design!
shame about the big lenses of the NEX system 🙁
What? There are NEX lenses? When did that happen? 😉
Aren’t there only 3 shipping and an upcoming macro?
That’s a pretty meager selection. What else is in the pipeline?
That’s fake, but the concept mostly works. The viewfinder is way too small.
Yes! Looks good to me!
If this render is based on reality, then note that the LCD screen will either have to flip out to the left or flip down (like a DSLR) rather than doing the partial movement that the NEX-3/5 does, since in this render the viewfinder eyepiece would interfere with the movement of a NEX-3/5 style LCD.
Looks good, but hopefully the 24mm is quite a bit smaller once reduced to f2.
this is fake… an i think that
Sonys NEx – 7 will def. be a small-DSLR like camera, like the GH2/G3/ NX 20 just because it will compete against them.
maybe the NEX-5E will be rf styled? Then sony has a compact NEX-3 series, a enthusiast, NEX-5 and professional, NEx-7
YES! love that,
now we only need a stanard prime to go along with that 24mm,
because sony dosnt even have such lens on the roadmap, i’v decided to start a petition for 30mm f1.8 pancake compact lens (like the pana 20/1.7) if ur interested please sign it, thanx.
http://www.petitiononline.com/NEX30mm/petition.html
Except that a ‘standard’ prime means 35mm FOV to most people. So yeah, a 24mm on aps-c is 36mm FOV… Damn close.
Looks like it has a flip out screen just like the E5 but it may just be tilt up and down in landscape format like the other sonys. It is the configuration that will shape the pro level development of this type of camera but it looks way fake to me.
Wiat..I don’t see any tilting LCD… I hope that it’s just a really good flushed design
And I see…more buttons and dials!!
Very sweet , looks like a smart design with well integrated controls.
I only hope the display will be articulated; it has a gap to the body, so it looks likely.
Looks fake to me.
The LCD screen doesn’t even have a hinge. I thought the NEX-7 is going to have a better LCD hinge which rotates left and right.
EVF in the right place, check, hotshoe, check, dual control dials, check. The design itself is fairly attractive too, in a boxy Gundam-esque way, though could do with being a little smaller even accounting for it’s proper handgrip.
Now they just need some compact but high performing lenses to mount on it. Alas, we’ll probably see the NEX-7’s successor before that happens…
That lens just seems to big. It’s only slighty faster than the x100 lens but enormous in comparison. I hope they end up producing a 24 f2 pancake instead.
That’s what I was thinking. That lens is too huge.
Is there a reason why the camera main switch has two positions, “no” and “off”?? 😉
You’re reading it wrong. It’s actually “on” and “ɟɟo”.
You’re reading it upside down … it’s “off” and “uo”.
Obviously this is a render of a possible design.
The question is whether the render comes from Sony’s design department, and whether it is anywhere near the final design.
It could be some NEX fan’s idea of the ideal NEX-7.
It certainly looks like a practical and useful camera.
If it’s a fake – it still serves a purpose… It does create discussions (and hopes) that maybe Sony listens to. Could it be Sony that distribute these kind of design models?
I like the look of it, but button 7 can be easily press, hope it can be reallocate to else where.
I remember Minolta CLE in the ’80s from this image.
I really hope 35mm full size in this shape.
OMG. I am very exited. Looking for a second body to accompany my M8 (+6 Leica lenses). Plan to buy either the NEX 7 or the Ricoh M Module or to sell all my canon gear and get the M9. I think I know the answer now. That looks so great, and with the latest Sony sensor, I cannot wait!
When is the 24 lens supposed to be available?
It looks more like a rendering than anything else. On the shutter button, the ON is misspelled to “NO”.
That 1.8/24 looks absolutely huge. Thought they had taken the decision to make a smaller/pancake 2/24. Now that would make more sense.
Button 8 looks very like the metering mode selection on an A700… 🙂
About detail #6: why place those 2 buttons next to each other like that? Looks like they are experimenting with the ideal position?
Very strange the hot shoe !!! why should sony change his type of connection !!! the HVL F20S is coming soon ! sounds not logical !!
but the concept of the nex 7 is really interesting !!
what could the “next” 5e be, between the 3 and the 7 ???
Yeah, you are a lucky boy.
Stunning Nex7 SAR! not bad at all the look 😀
EVF and hot shoe +++
No tiltable LCD —
It looks like there’s a space around the LCD screen: I think it will still be tiltable.
maybe the 7 is the iso or the drive button ?
Fake. That fullframe NEX sensor is so poorly photoshopped. Total giveaway.
freaken finally!
what a huge improvment compared to my nex 3!
i dont really care about the megapix improvement in the nex7
i just care about how it handles! i really didnt like the nex 3 cumbersome menu styling. A simple shutter speed, or aperture change is annoying. Rotating a single wheel to change both options just feels unsatisfying.
Its great for consumers but i always feel like i wanted individual dials for em!! and this prototype has it!! Also LOVING how they implemented a view finder! i seriously got sick of looking at the screen to take pictures all the time! the only time it felt fun to use the screen is when im taking really low and high shots where i have to swivel my screen, but just taking normal shots its just … wrong…
LOVE SONY for saving the future of nex!
Hopefully, the real NEX-7 will look something like this. The only grip I have with it is the movie button: it looks easy as hell to push it by mistake (which I am doing far too often on the NEX-5).
I normally do not post here. But I just want to say to Sony, this is the right direction!!! Please have a similar design for NEX 5E. Waiting impatiently!
That lens looks far too long to be a 24mm native E-Mount design. I’d expect a lens of that focal length to project only about 30-40mm from the flange, and this one I would estimate to be something closer to 80-100mm long. Of course if it’s an adaptation of a design produced for a DSLRs then it is inevitably a lot longer as it will have to incorporate a retrofocal design (necessary when the focal length is less than the lens register). If so, that’s very unfortunate as one of the primary advantages of a camera design with a small register is that moderate wide angle lens designs can be much more compact (albeit it will be necessary to consider issues of light arriving at the edges of the sensor at heavily oblique angles, although that’s more of an issue for FF).
you heard it here first sony will start making concave censors to clean up that wide angle and oblique light angles 🙂
Looks ugly to me. Really hate the retro style, dislike the bulky viewfinder I don’t want anyway and especially button 8. The hot shoe looks strange and proprietary. Might like these controls numbered with 6, but they also look too bulky for a real SONY NEX design. I guess the chances are 90% fake, 9% early SONY draft, 0.9% something unpredictable and the remaining rest the forthcoming NEX-7…
Strange–I was just saying to myself how much I like the design because it ISN’T retro.
+1
Come on, guys, look at this grip, at the bulky viewfinder and this button numbered with 8. Compared to that my Canon A1 designed in the 70’s looks stylish and modern.
For me with NEX-7 there should be no compromises.
So it should deliver minimum functionality which Panasonic GF3 delivers:
– great EVF (no compromise here)
– hot shoe
– fully tiltable LCD (up down and left right, not just up down)
Of course I assume it will allow focus peaking too.
Admin,
so that does not correspond to Dimage A2 look-alike, is there a chance u could contact more sources to be sure that this rendering is more accurate?
Finally nex with more controls. I can’t wait to see a real picture.
$1200 for the camera alone? It better be very good then!
Isn’t that the street price the A77 would be expected to sell for?
6 a) is the dial mode (A;S;M etc)
b) is shutter speed.. and…
…and with 8 button (AEL) would control the apperture in case of manual mode!
I hope both dials are customizable. I’d give entirely new level of control over the camera. Something well beyond any current mirrorless.
“6 a) is the dial mode (A;S;M etc)
b) is shutter speed.. and…”
It works better if one is speeds and the other is apertures, with an A position on both. As in the Leica X1:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/leicax1/page3.asp
I hope this is what the NEX-7 will have.
Now.. It wouldn’t take a genius to understand that Fuji X-100 has a winning design. If they want to copy it, they should improve it. Even better build, even more manual controls.. And please.. Stop it with these huge lenses in front of such cameras. They only mean something with a bunch of interchangable pancake lenses. For all other lens sizes there won’t be any need to drop our DSLRs. Are you listening Sony?
Where is the A65 eh?
Personally I was afraid they’d get too far away from the compactness and the interface of the NEX-3 and 5, which I’ve gotten very used to, but this just looks perfect. Possibly too perfect to be real, but I hope that we can expect something close to this.
Also, I’d imagine that one of those mystery buttons is an EVF/LCD switch. I can’t imagine both running all the time, considering the battery in this is likely to be of similar size to the one already in use on the NEX-3/5. Perhaps the switch around #8 toggles between the two?
As a NEX 3 owner, this could be my next love squeeze. But as always, I wonder about the quality of the EVF.
It would be better then mid-range OVF, i can almost guarantee u that
Very interesting design… Even if I don’t care about the EVF (useless when you see the screen of the nex-5) It looks like what I’m hoping for !!!
And can you imagine this design with a 24×36 sensor inside ?? No I’m still sleeping !!…………… 😉
it’s fake i think, no tilt lcd swivel and the control button look not good :p
ISO button/dial is most important.
Anyway it seems pretty nice camera. Real shame is that there is very few AF lenses.
i like it
but flip the right #6 dial to vertical so no problems hitting both at the same time
a simple tilt screen would be fine as i dont need the full rotate type
and a small 30-35mm macro even at 2.8 woudl be fine with me so long as its small
i woudl keep an adapter and Amount lens in my bag for jsut in case i needed a long shot even if no SSS or AF as i would be composing the shot anyhow.
The OPTION 8 looks like that they keep the standard Minolta an very useful light calculator and the AEL also. So for me this sound very good. Where on the picture of the A77 .. .this button looks to have gone … ;-(
Of course it’s a fake, you can see that some part have been photoshoped on a Nex-5 and other bodies (screen, some buttons on the back… And the strap anchor system photoshoped too…). Prototypes are not made with a mix of pictures and renders…
But it’s a kind of testify from people who are waiting for the Nex-7 to be, and it’s very interesting !
what about flash sync with studio flashes?
!!!god bless! Must buy!
This is *very* obviously a CG rendering, and not a very convincing one if you’re a 3d artist. The design itself is also very plain, this is not Sony design language. I don’t mean that it’s a rangefinder style design, I mean all the surface details and contours. Look at the NEX-3C, the body/surface engineering is much more sophisticated than on this 3d model.
That said, I definitely wouldn’t mind if Sony went in this direction with the NEX-7! They could make a very sexy camera, ala x100 but with way more utility.
That is not a “picture”! It is a bad computer 3D graphics rendering and it is really ugly.
Also what is this about a Zeiss 24mm f/1.8? I thought it was supposed to be an f/2? Also why is the lens so darn big since it s only covering APS-C and can be non-retrofocus?!
Contrary to what you may have read, it is very possible to build small lenses for a NEX style camera. Afterall, look at the sizes of the legacy lenses you can use on a NEX with adapters, yet these lenses were build for SLR cameras with a much larger flange to film/sensor distance.
You can also use Leica “M” lenses on the NEX with adapters and there is not too much vignetting and quality problems in the corners.
Sony is really derelict in not innovating on matching small lenses for their NEX range of cameras.
Ideally, SONY should have customized the NEX sensors with offset microlenses so that all its wide angle to normal lenses would not be retrofocus.
Even Leica’s wide angles are retrofocus, these days. Besides, sharpness in the corners with wide rangefinder lenses isn’t so much a problem on NEX. It is the color shift that is a big problem, and Leica has to use software fixes to deal with corner color and vignetting, despite their special microlens setup.
I definitely think this is a fake rendering, but, I also think people would flock to such a camera if Sony did build something similar.
FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE!
Unlike the REAL A77 pictures from yesterday that you prematurely called FAKE.
Ready to buy…
[NEX-7 preorder button] <—Click
[24/1.8 preorder button] <—Click
Your button doesn’t work! 😀
FINALLY! something about the possible configuration of NEX-7..! I don’t mind if this is CG, because this might be what we’re going to see in the final product…I was wondering why we got production photos of the a77 a65 and not even a mockup for the NEX-7 if it’s supposed to be launched on late August..
A message to SOURCES
please can anyone confirm this is the next nex-7?
if it turns out to be diamage A2 style i’m jumping from the rooftop 🙂
why is the “on” text mirrored? settings can be “off” or “no” …
i smell a fake ><
Will there be “yes” position on the other side of “off”? “No” kinda sucks
I love this design and though it is computer graphics I hope it comes close to the real thing.
How large is it compared to the C3?
Are you sure that’s real? Did you notice that the On/Off switch says “OFF NO”?
hmm OFF / NO? HAHAHAHAHA..First sign of a fake..but well, it might be relatively about the same for the actual product..with the NO to ON.
I specifically asked a source about that. He said the prorotype is real! It’s not a leak of the final version!
Love it. Like a Fuji x100 with interchangeable lenses. Sign me up
Was hoping Sony will not add evf and just improve the lcd/live-view.
Good to have move buttons though, and pop-up flash.
I do not know whats the advantage of such a small body combined with such big lenses.
It would only make sense if Sony offers some smaller AND better lenses (better than the 16mm/2.8 !).
For now I see no reason not prefering a A55 or A77 when using lenses bigger than the 16mm or 18-55 kit lenses.
Building an body with aps-c sensor with suitable good and light lenses seems to be a miracle for the sony-nex system.
A 12-24, 18-200 or 70-300 lense on such a body isn´t comfortable to hold.
And thats the advantage of mft, a 9-18 and 14-150 are covering 18-300mm KB with less than 500g weight!
I got the nex-5 for my wife to use instead of the beat up P&S she used to carry around. She picked this one out after trying out the PENs and GF1~2s at b&h photo at Manhattan. FWIW she carries it around fine everyday in her handbag with either the 16mm or 18~55mm attached. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t fit in her bag if it were a A55 or A77.
-> Target market
Marvelous! It seems bigger than NEX-5 but far much better. With all this functions pop in up, who doesn’t want one? Still slim and able to fit any bag, specially for professionals who would like to have a second camera just ready to shoot. Great Sony and I hope the final model doesn’t differentiate too much from this one. 🙂
Looks amazing. Will definitely upgrade (from a GF1) to this if it’s released with a Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 lens. Pity it’s not more of a pancake like the 16mm though. Hoping it’s due to image stabilisation, though hardly necessary for such a fast lens.
This is pretty much exactly what I want. I agree that the 24 mm lens does look unusually big for that size. Hope there’s some sweet fast pancakes on the way too. The ‘NO’ button does make it look pretty suspicious, but I hope that’s just coz it’s pre-production. Really hope it’s shipping before October so I can have for my holiday!
+1, I couldn’t have said it better myself! I’ll be in Rome in October and have a private tour booked for parts of the Vatican. It’ll be dark in a lot of places and that may be too tough for my Digilux 2. I could always shoot film with my CL & 40mm Summicron, but am really looking forward to using that and my other Leica glass on the NEX-7… PLEASE make it happen, Sony!
My last post just got me thinking: Is anyone else excited about an APS-sized sensor with peaking PLUS and EVF for using with legacy glass? Please tell me I’m not the only one 🙂
You are not!
I was going for a G3 but now I will wait another month…
Most important thing people are looking for in NEX 7 is very good Image quality and very easy to use real compact DSLR with full manual control, and a range of excellent quality Lenses to match . Picture quality must be as good as highend DSLR especially at low light / night, which can reproduce exact colors,white balance,very sharp and crisp pictures. We should be able to change every single setting manualy like in a highend dslr’s. Other important part is they should have a wide range of very high quality lenses, Like L quality fast lenses,40mm,50mm, 1.8-2f, L quality fast compact travel /all purpose lens- 18- 270/300mm- f 2-2.4 . No point in having highend camera with no highend lenses. Most important thing is Image quality every thing else comes next.
The one thing that makes my Nex-5 head and shoulders above any camera I’ve used before is the articulated screen which lets me take Low angle shots. But,,,this looks like a fixed screen???? if that’s so the NEX-7 that I’ve been saving so hard for is now off my list.
I don’t care about the viewfinder, shooting with a camera pushed against your eye is sooo last century.
Wow, love the style! If it have IBIS and can handle A-mount lens as good as A77, and all buttons and dials can be custom assigned, than this little camera will be perfect 🙂
I hope that the actual product will look this way… The lens is to long though, I would like a pancake(at least more compact) 24,35,50(maybe an 85) that doesn’t sound like a lot does it? ;p LOL
i´m missing the connector port on top of the cams is in nex3/5 series. or do i have to buy a new better stereomic because they dont use the port in the high class modell?
Hi Andrea! I’ve see PETAPIXEL Blog posted your post about the NEX-7
Here’s link: http://www.petapixel.com/2011/07/14/sony-rumored-to-be-designing-the-nex-7-as-a-fujifilm-x100-killer/
looks fake, but at least it sends a message to the camera companies: we don’t want fake slr-style mirrorless cameras. we want fake rangefinder-style mirrorless cameras! 🙂
they announced that new zeiss is 2.0/24mm thin prime
Fake render is fake.
Please excuse me if this is a silly question but… I’m still using an older Konica Minolta D5, what’s the chances that Sony is keeping the same lens mount and that I’ll be able to port my lens over? I see that by the looks of the flash foot, I would be able to keep my flashes at least…
@ FatherStorm:
The Sony Alpha mount is said to be compatible with the Konica Minolta mount. There are still some great lenses with the Konica Minolta badge that I would love to try out someday…like the 70-200mm f/4 and especially their 300mm f/2.8 which is an awesome looking lens.
Anyway, to actually answer your question: This isn’t Alpha mount, but Alpha mount was specifically mentioned as compatible with some E-Mount camcorders by Sony itself. I think this is done by the use of a glass-free (I hope) adapter. Keeping in mind the crop factor when using these lenses on sensors smaller than 35mm film frames, these lenses will likely not have the same field of view as they did on film, however.
Sweet lill mama…
As long as I can keep using m’y leica and Zeiss manual lenses on it. When I Will be in need for speed, i Will pop that sweet 24 MM on it for great 36 mm shooting. This is the camera Leica should have comme out with ( and they coule sell it twice as much) instead of the x-1. Oh well liera lenses are lovely on the Nex5
I believe (and hope) #8 will be push-auto which is similar to push-auto in the Sony R1.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1042&thread=39112192
If it can shoot video in 1080p and has an external mic output I will buy it for sure.