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Sunday, January 22, 2012

NEX-7 Brief Hands-on Impressions

Tried it at the Sony showroom and then immediately decided to buy a K-5! ;-D

1. Not too big and heavy and is comfortable to hold.

2. Build quality is nice, body felt solid, except the flash.

2. Built-in flash is rather flimsy, especially when it is popped up or during being opened. Closed flash still has some slight play which I don't like (against what every K-5's closed tightly)!

3. Shutter lag is more noticeable than my NEX-3, i.e., double shutter actuation is indeed noticeable and can be heard.

4. Image saving requires rather long time per picture. (Unsure if it saved RAW+ but the waiting time is really rather longish!)

5. The Tri-Navi operation system and interface is difficult to use! At least I couldn't adapt to it on the first run! I hate that the selection range is long for the parameters but there is no facility and any means to reset the value and do the homing.

6. Don't have any high expectation on the EVF! No matter what it is stated on paper, it is YET an EVF! Refresh rate, dynamic range, colour rendition and accuracy are all old problems!

I didn't test on the IQ, as I only had one spare SD card with me but which I brought for use in testing my new K-5 which I wanted to buy and I did not want to take the risk of messing up the image file numbers. But anyway, after the above quick test and play, the NEX-7 was already kicked out of my wish list and in fact it is about (US)$130 dearer than a K-5.
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Catalana · 688 weeks ago

(Smiles)...congrats to your K-5. Hopefully you got a decent sample.
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justmy2cents · 688 weeks ago

Imagine what Pentax would squeeze out of this sensor... Interesting first look, a bit of comparing apples and oranges though, at least as long as the "K-mount mirrorless" remains a rumor
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OGL · 688 weeks ago

Congratulations! K-5 is very good camera...I like it very much.
The one moment - DO REMEMBER - AF is not much better than previous cameras from Pentax. My K200D is not worse in terms of accurancy.
K-5 is just bit faster and better to catch sometimes.
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iToobz · 688 weeks ago

My K-5 also had dust in the viewfinder, then after having used it a few times I noticed there was a speck of something on the sensor. I had it cleaned by Pentax, this problem was not the same as the one experienced by some with the initial batches and was not covered by warranty.
I love the camera though and if I thought that Pentax were no longer going to be making DSLR's I'd buy another. . .
Hope you enjoy yours!
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deadbird · 688 weeks ago

I wonder if the 24mp Sony's are showing us the limit of how many megapixels we should try to shove on a sensor. If I recall correctly, DxO tests show the K5 and D7000 are rated higher than the a77 and NEX7. On the Alpha, I would blame the translucent mirror cutting light and clarity, but I do not know what the NEX's problem would be, other than we are reaching the point that the megapixel race for the current APS-C format is over.

This would be great news, as it would mean camera companies can then focus on other elements of the camera than the sensor. Of course instead working on light field technology or improving HDR more, I am guessing 3D and 4k will get looked at more.
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Cold · 688 weeks ago

"Shutter lag is more noticeable than my NEX-3, i.e., double shutter actuation is indeed noticeable and can be heard."

You should have turned on the electronic first shutter from the menu -- that drops the shutter lag down to 20 ms

See
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/NEX7/NEX7A6...
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Cold · 688 weeks ago

"If I recall correctly, DxO tests show the K5 and D7000 are rated higher than the a77 and NEX7"

K-5 scores 82, Nex-7 scores 81, and D7000 scores 80

5 points equal 1/3 difference, so these 1 to 2 points differences are basically zero.
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Simon · 688 weeks ago

Congratulations, have fun with the new gear.
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Say What · 688 weeks ago

Pretty quick to dish a camera you played with at the counter? IMHO you shouldn't post opinions on things you have not researched nor given a reasonable amount of attention to. 10 minutes at a display booth does not make you famillar with any device despite your experience and education.
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Guest · 688 weeks ago

You are very special. Almost all reviews said the TriNavi is a plus, and you took it as negative. Do you intentionally want to make yourself someone special?
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Guest · 688 weeks ago

do you call that a review (not even an impression – it’s like somebody played in store for 5 minutes with a camera and wrote whatever it came to it’s mind.) LOL !
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Guest2 · 688 weeks ago

No mention of sd card speed rating. Since he did not know what format he was saving, could have been RAW+JPG, and if had a slow card, waiting will happen. Does not care about image quality?? Really?? Frankly not a credible hands-on (not even a review).
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Guest · 688 weeks ago

Well, for someone like this who don't even know what himself is doing when he's testing a camera, it shows how useful the "review" is. LOL
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Kosta · 688 weeks ago

This site is for Pentax users. Ah DUH! of course he would be biased.
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· 688 weeks ago

No need to knock the guys first impression, even if not very factual, how many of us have dismissed a car we could never afford for the silliest of reasons, take it with a pinch of salt and move on else you would be silly to let this persuade you to buy a K5 or a NEX 7.
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Lpix · 688 weeks ago

LLLOOOOOOLLLL!!! What is this? A " hands-on" or hands-off"?? Certainlly not even a preview...
"6. Don't have any high expectation on the EVF! No matter what it is stated on paper, it is YET an EVF! Refresh rate, dynamic range, colour rendition and accuracy are all old problems!" That's a bit biased, don't you think?
You said it yourself: "old problems" - this is a new camera with a never-before-seen on a camera viewfinder! You better do some serious evaluation before saying uneducated guesses...
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nico · 688 weeks ago

Amazing you can judge a camera so quickly in a display booth. Seems your opinion is quite different than those that have actually used it.
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GUEST · 688 weeks ago

not sure if troll or really just want to condemn the nex 7...
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O'RLY · 688 weeks ago

Wow, you've got your 19th commentor here in your blog! Congrats! NEX-7, say what???
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Joshi · 688 weeks ago

I think, you try to justify your decision pro K-5 which you now regret. Sorry, but I share the opinion that you can't decide on a camera within 10 minutes playing around with it.
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Craig L · 688 weeks ago

Thanks for the info on the NEX 7. I'm still up in the air about getting one. I really like my NEX 5N though. I bought a K-5 with Pentax 50-135 and LOVED both the camera and the lens. I throughly tested it for a week and could not get sharp photos to save my life. In auto focus or manual focus. I was heart broken because it was the first camera I've owned since college that I really loved (and that was back in 1986). Since then, I've had more than 10,000 images published and used about every camera system under the sun. I wanted to get a new K-5 but was terrified that I'd have the same problems, so I just gave up on it. Best of luck to you.
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Heinz · 687 weeks ago

Wow....what a fantastic in depth hands-on, I'm deleting all the other websites that actually tested the Nex-7 from my favourites. You are the man!
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Fants · 687 weeks ago

Wow... the Sony Defense Brigade is here in full force, eh? The article is titled "Brief Hands-On Impressions," people, not "In-depth hands-on review." He tried it out and decided it wasn't for him. End of story. I suspect that he'd admit that nearly everything he's written is highly subjective, and that plenty of people would feel the opposite. Even on the EVF subject - I'm sure lots of people will be fine with the NEX-7's EVF because it's the best in the business. But if you don't like EVFs for the reasons he stated, this one's not going to change your mind.
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Rene · 687 weeks ago

Hey, all you guys defending Sony, I have a suggestion. Why don't you just comment on the 6 points he made about the NEX7, rather than on the person. For example, he said the body felt solid. Was that wrong? He said the flash was flimsy. Your comment? Image saving time is long. Is that true? Blindly attacking without any rebuttal or without raising any issues seems to be an admission that his points were correct, hence your anger because he was right about the NEX7 being.

Here is one more for you all to consider: Sony NEX lenses are mediocre and there are only a few of them. Not everyone can afford to buy lenses costing $1000+ to get the quality that the camera is capable of.
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Impressionable Mind · 687 weeks ago

Why not just use the camera on your cell phone if IQ doesn't really matter? Very useful review... I must remember never to pay attention to you when you speak.

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