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One of my favorite websites Photographyblog (Click here) reviewed the NEX-7. Is it a surprise that they like they camera? Certainly not but you don’t see often a camera getting the “Essential” mark like it happened today with the NEX-7: “The combination of an excellent built-in viewfinder, handy pop-up flash, tiltable LCD screen and a high-resolution APS-C sensor, all in a light and compact body, simply can’t be beaten“. And I agree with them when they say that the real only flaw of the NEX-7 are the….missing good quality NEX lenses 🙂
More testes:
Soundimagesplus (Click here) red-did the NEX-7 vs A77 comparison using exactly the same lens on both cameras. The: “NEX-7 files are slightly softer, slightly less noisy and also slightly darker.”
Some field test images by Outbackphoto (Click here).
And the German magazine Colorfoto (Click here) compared the NEX-7 with the GX1 and NX200. Easy to guess who won 🙂
In Stock….sorry…out of Stock status 🙂
I think most of you are now almost tired to read all those fantastic (for Sony) reviews. Most of you will still have to wait a couple of weeks or even months until you can get your NEX-7 camera. I am working behind the scenes to convince different online shops in Europe and USA to notify me in advance when they will receive the a stock of new cameras. As I said a couple of days ago preorder the body only and buy the lens separately to have more chances to grab one. The only problem is that if you want the all Black 18-55mm lens ships with the NEX-7 kit only (you cannot buy it separately).
Right now I didn’t find any store having the camera in Stock. There are some auctions on ebay but you have to perform two different kind of searches to find them all:
[shoplink 8454 ebay]Ebay search for “NEX-7” (Click here)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 10976 ebay]Ebay search for “Sony α (alpha) NEX-7” (Click here)[/shoplink]. Yeah you will find more cameras here 🙂
Preorder search links: [shopcountry 8454].
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Rats. I left my preorder open for the kit on sonystyle and got an email saying it was now set to ship on March 2nd, 2012. I’ve cancelled it and hope I can get a body-only before my trip at the end of January. Crossing my fingers!
When had you ordered the kit?
December 27 2011
It’s autofocus is as slow as my point and shoot. I think I’ll pass.
Have you used a a NEX-7? Sounds different to mine. Autofocus is faster than most DSLRs.
Here, see how ‘slow’ the autofocus according to dpreview,
(try 1:37 que)
http://vimeo.com/30569015
I have got about the same information today from my dealer in the Czech Republic. It´s like a zen training.
Sony Center Prague on Charles square had six NEX-7 (body only). One of them is mine from december 23th. It was very nice Christmas gift from Sony… 🙂
Congratulations! I am waiting for the kit.
A77+16-50mm totally no stock at malaysia now XD
I agree with Admin that Photographyblog is a good site, but I am not sure why it’s not popular!!
for the common case in my neighbourhood, either most people asked to some canonikers or to some store sales reps that have most stock of canoniks. And of course the established popularity of such brands of photography. Sony is slowly (&painfully in this case) building up its image.
My two cents. 🙂
It’s a shame that they tested the NEX-7 with the AF adapter.
Had they (also) used the mirrorless adapter, it would be possible to see if the mirror makes a difference.
Also dont forget the stock status of te 5N as this camera is the one to get for a tight budget. So also please post stock status of the 5N
please please lets have a really good quality wide angle (16mm would do!) lens soon!
I ordered a NEX-7 and stock lens kit from Adorama. They told same wait for this versus body alone. They also said that the manufacturer said they will arrive after 23 January.
Can’t get the point of buying this NEX instead of NEX-5N. Yes, it’s better to use, but lack of optics forces to use converted one, and best candidates are rangfindet lenses. And they tend to work poorly with 7.