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Pretty. I'm hoping I'll be able to use all my Minolta lenses on one...after they get all the bugs worked out.

PF
 
Nice. Very jealous
I really want one but my 15mm cv doesn't seem to be compatible so it looks like the 5n for me
A review of real world handling of the 7n would be nice if you get a chance.
 
carpark said:
Nice. Very jealous
I really want one but my 15mm cv doesn't seem to be compatible so it looks like the 5n for me
A review of real world handling of the 7n would be nice if you get a chance.
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Just curious, how does a lens that's not compatible with nex 7 works fine with 5?
Thanks
 
rondo said:
Just curious, how does a lens that's not compatible with nex 7 works fine with 5?
Thanks
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Whether it was a happy accident or intentional, the NEX-C3 and NEX-5N's sensor handles incident light rays better at the edge of the sensor, when compared to the old NEX-3 and 5, as well as the new NEX-7. So, rangefinder lenses perform better on the C3 and 5N.
 
douglasf13 said:
Whether it was a happy accident or intentional, the NEX-C3 and NEX-5N's sensor handles incident light rays better at the edge of the sensor, when compared to the old NEX-3 and 5, as well as the new NEX-7. So, rangefinder lenses perform better on the C3 and 5N.
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This is totally unclear, and it's misleading to make such a blanket statement, not least because you do not own the camera and have not tested this yourself.

The 5n is very picky about wides, but works very well with some. Who are you say this is not the case with the n7?

The same person who postulated a canon slr 28mm would outperform a summicron 28 on the 5n, then proceeded to send all your canon SLRs back because of poor performance.

You have been so helpful in the past with the old n5 LCD tricks etc. I don't understand your latest gun jumping in the least. Sry
 
rondo said:
Just curious, how does a lens that's not compatible with nex 7 works fine with 5?
Thanks
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In reviews online the Nex 7 seems to have a purple cast when used with a 15mm cv wide lens. The Nex 5 does not have this problem. I use the lens a lot so is a factor for me when buying a camera.
If anyone wants to prove me wrong then please do. I want to buy the 7 over the 5 anyway. And maybe its just a firmware thing that will be fixed at some point?
 
At least the NEX-7 is nowhere near the ergonomic disaster the NEX-5 is... to me, the 7 is the infinitely more user friendly camera for people who appreciate shutter speed dials and built in VFs.
 
I pre-ordered with Ron Harrison here in Sheffield (N England) - first batch arrived yesterday and I have mine (at v slightly less than original list price) - Harrison's is a good trad family run camera shop (son's and daughters of the original Ron).
danny
 
Opps, it seems I'm late to my own party. ;) LOL

Yes, there are some reports that say the NEX-7 produces a colour cast in the corners which the NEX-5 doesn't.
Well, I don't know. I do not own a wide angle RF lens that I could use on my NEX. The only wide angle RF lens I have is the Jupiter-12 which cannot be adapted to the NEX.

I plan to use 50mm, 90mm and 135mm RF lenses. The wide angle is covered by some SLR lenses which do not seem to cause that colour effect.

But I will have the chance to try some M-mount wide angle lenses in a couple of days when I meet a good friend. We plan to "compare" my NEX-7 and his Leica M9.

And yes, I will write about the NEX-7 as soon as I get the chance to really shoot with it. ;)
In the last days we had dreadful weather here in Germany and I did not have much time to shoot.

The built and the handling of the NEX-7 are a dream! The viewfinder is good - not as good as a really top-level optical viewfinder but the best EVF I have ever looked through.

The NEX-7 parameter settings and features are impressively versatile, almost to a confusing level. You can set almost any feature to any button you have. I guess, I still need to find my optimum setting. LOL

The resolution is "WOW"!!! I have shot with an EOS 40D, an EOS 5D and a NEX-3 (apart from some other cams) and the NEX-7 seems to outresolve those cams by far.

The performace is impressive, quick (although not lightning fast) AF and a burst mode of 10 pics/sec! I don't even know what I could need that for. My son runs fast, but not that fast. ;)

High ISO performance is amazing. Much better than the already nice NEX-3 and even better then the fullframe 12 MPix EOS 5D! ISO 1600 is clean, even with ISO6400 you get usable images!

I just have tried an Olympus PEN 1.8/38 lens indoors - fun!

Will show some pictures later...
 
uhoh7 said:
This is totally unclear, and it's misleading to make such a blanket statement, not least because you do not own the camera and have not tested this yourself.

The 5n is very picky about wides, but works very well with some. Who are you say this is not the case with the n7?

The same person who postulated a canon slr 28mm would outperform a summicron 28 on the 5n, then proceeded to send all your canon SLRs back because of poor performance.

You have been so helpful in the past with the old n5 LCD tricks etc. I don't understand your latest gun jumping in the least. Sry
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Hey, Charlie, I was teasing you about your Summicron. I have little doubt that is a fantastic lens on NEX. My FD vs. M lens experiment was just about comparing lenses of drastically different costs, and I'd still bet that the two FD 28s compare nicely to the 28 Ultron. Besides, some of the FD lenses were fantastic, and I do still have a couple of them. Because the 28/2 wasn't as good as I expected at infinity, and the 17/4 wasn't that great, I backed off of moving entirely to a FD lineup, and I went back to my comfy M lens lineup, but it was worth a shot. I have no problem admitting my experiment failed. I've posted A LOT in camera forums over the past 5 years, and I'd say my track record is pretty good, so cut me a little slack. :D

As for the NEX-7, it's a bit of a different situation. I had doubts when I saw one tester's corner results, and things still seemed dubious when Rock Huffwell's review showed up, but, now that Michael Reichmann has also found that the 5N is better with wide angles than the 7, it pushed it over the edge, for me. I would be shocked, at this point, if all of these reviewers got it wrong, and some of them had final firmware & hardware in their possession. The magenta cast of the 7 seems obvious, but the jury is out on resolution smearing, as far as I'm concerned.

Hey, I hope I'm wrong. I think I can deal with no tilt EVF, but that, in combination with rangefinder performance, caused me to cancel my NEX-7 preorder that I made on day one. I'll probably buy a 7, after all, if the corners end up being equal to the 5N, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
 
If there is that problem with wide angle RF lenses (which I will see on Jan 4) then I doubt that this can be improved by a firmware update. What are they supposed to do against it?
Reduce magenta colour in the corners? But what then if you use a lens that does not cause that problem? How can the cam know that a manual RF wide angle lens is mounted?
The only thing I can imagine is that they include a function in the software where you can activate that an RF wide angle lens is mounted and then reduce magenta colour in the corners. But that would only work if all those lenses produces the same colour cast.

BTW, you can always shoot in b/w. ;)

Anyway, I have not seen that cast so far, but then I did not have the chance to really test the cam for that...
 
Kent said:
If there is that problem with wide angle RF lenses (which I will see on Jan 4) then I doubt that this can be improved by a firmware update. What are they supposed to do against it?
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Well, they could filter it. It is a matter of CA interfering with the three-dimensional sensor structure, and knowing the sensor and lens, aperture and focus distance it can be completely calculated out of the image. However, the latter three are unknown with manual lenses on the Nex7 - at least the lens data must be known. If you could enter the lens manually (which would either require Sony to add popular lenses to an internal database or some way for users to import their lens data into the same), that would be good enough for practical purposes - most post-processing lens correction software does not do anything better...
 
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