About to end: 365 days NEX-7 project by Luca Rossini.
Luca Rossinis 365 days project with the NEX-7 is about to end. You can read more about it here: http://www.lucarossini.it/category/366nex/. You also know him for that great job he did with Sony on the new NEX-6 in Alaska. There may be a new project soon and I can’t wait to see his new idea 
And here are two more friends articles:
Robin Wong (Click here) made his first attempt to shoot in Studio with Alpha stuff. Alpha Studio Experience.
And Jordan Steele (Click here) explains in a must read article why the Full Frame equivalence doens’t matter.
Jim Kopriva
4 months ago |Beautiful series. I love the rigid geometry of his more recent stuff. I gotta pick me up an NEX body one of these days. I love my Alphas but the liberty and flexibility of e-mount is beckoning.
Jim Kopriva
4 months ago |Beautiful series. I love the rigid geometry of his more recent stuff. I gotta pick me up an NEX body one of these days. I love my Alphas but the liberty and flexibility of e-mount is beckoning.
Luca Rossini
4 months ago |THANKS!
The new project will be unveiled soon
Bob
4 months ago |I love this site but can you stop putting (click here) on every hyperlink? It’s ridiculously redundant–we all know how to use the Web. Thanks.
Martin Irwin
4 months ago |Congratulations on an excellent 365 project, Luca!
I await your new project, with huge anticipation.
CTPhotographX.com
4 months ago |At 4:04 on video, tog says “the other thing that amazes me, is this new flash socket here, which is designed to work with any standard flash around”.
m’kay. i’m so sick of misinformation in ad hoc videos. who wrote the script for these lines?
Adam
4 months ago |I thought with the new hotshoe you can attach any standard flash, but it’ll be in manual only mode? Is it not?
CTPhotographX.com
4 months ago |Sure… I love Sony flash devolution relative to the evolution of competition. Next year they’ll release a phosphorus powder flash that fits perfectly on the new shoe… all manual.
Carl
4 months ago |Actually, that has a certain retro chic about it.
If we’re going old school, I’d sooner Sony come out with a 6X6 camera (or snag Bronica off Tamron), but then, the lenses….maybe not.
CTPhotographX.com
4 months ago |ooooh fab idea. I likes me some Bronica… always have. I say do it! But call it Kowa.
Ian
4 months ago |Looking forward to your NEXt project Luca. CTP what do you mean about the hot shoe? Isn’t it an ISO hot shoe?
CTPhotographX.com
4 months ago |No. It’s a smart microphone connection disguised as a dumb ISO shoe. Sony just devolved back to 1960 with a single hot pin, which by all rights, is indeed ISO compatible.
The included adapter for iISO doesn’t have the locking pins for secure fit, like the F60M flash. So users are reporting (Dyxum.com) that adapted iISO flash legacy is loose fit, unreliable, and poor performing.
Some can’t even get their standard ISO radio slaves to get on the shoe completely because the front pins don’t allow full slide in.
But sure. Any old dumb manual flash will slide right in and fire… nothing more.
Most folks have absolutely no idea what’s been lost on Sony/Mino flash system.
There was no need to kill the flash system just for sake of microphone, which requires a separate bracket to even use it. That XLR should have been side port connected, and iISO could have simply been improved or updated.
They didn’t do this for Sony owners to benefit. They did it so Canon owners wouldn’t automatically reject the camera from ignorant perception of non conformity. They did it to entice converts. They screwed their own user base heavily invested in iISO.
Yes I’m pissed. They hurt my business by doing this. They’re supposed to help my business. They’d get more converts that way.
Slingers
4 months ago |Well done Luca. The results look like they were worth the effort.
timon
4 months ago |Jordan Steele wrote the article (“Full Frame Equivalence” and Why It Doesn’t Matter) therein contained a lot of wrong views, it was based on DxOmark’s problem and played out more wrong. Also, Jordan Steele is too less technical judgment ability.
The article is fully worthless, and is likely misleading others, especially in some fanboys.
it is fully not a must read article
CTPhotographX.com
4 months ago |While I haven’t read the article you reference, I have indeed been seeing more and more “reviews” that seem to be more corporate script reading than actual user reviews. Lot’s of ad hoc half truths out there these days. I’m getting sick of it.
So many proclaimed “advancements” are found to be critically crippled upon closer inspection. Rare to find a well rounded professional user report these days.
Carl
4 months ago |Professionals make money by selling photographs, not through web advertisements on their blog.
There’s quite a few people out there who want to be the next Ken Rockwell. We shouldn’t automatically assume they’re able to offer advice equivalent to that of people whose livelihoods depend on the equipment they use.
Jordan S.
4 months ago |Hello. I welcome thoughts on how I can improve my articles, and I would invite you to respectfully leave a comment on the article listing areas where you feel I may have ‘wrong’ views. I stand by my article – there is certainly nothing intentionally misleading in there, and the facts of the situation are laid bare.
As to my technical competence, I’ve been a serious photographer for a decade, and I’m a registered Professional Engineer (electrical)…I have a pretty good grasp of the technical details of photography. My article is in no way based off of DxO, though I do use their measurements as a talking point for one portion of the article. (And I am perfectly aware of the limitations of DxO’s measurements…but that’s not what the article is about).
Carl
4 months ago |Not wanting to assume to know what other people are thinking, but perhaps the issue is that the article didn’t mention “artistic effect” once. From a data acquisition point of view, differences between sensor sizes are little more than a SNR issue, but from the perspective of photography – the art of taking photographs – it is rather more important to many of us.
Jordan S.
4 months ago |The article was not in any way meant to say there weren’t advantages to full frame. In fact, I have an entire section in ways that full frame cameras are superior to APS-C or 4/3 sensors, including the ability for shallower depth of field and greater depth to the image. It is left as an exercise for the reader to take those technical components and apply them to how they shoot. Since every photographer is different, benefits for one may be inconsequential. As far as artistic efforts go, there is not much more than that to say (unless you start comparing lens lineups directly, but this is not a comparison piece on which format is ‘better’.)
The whole point is that those who argue, especially with regards to aperture, that full frame is always ‘better’ in this regard, often disregard the (many) situations where the inherent advantage of the larger sensor is negated…and that if you are a photographer who only shoots with an APS-C or 4/3 sensor, it is pointless to compare everything to full frame, just like it’s pointless to compare all of your full frame gear in terms of medium format ‘equivalence.’
timon
4 months ago |Hello, Jordan
Sorry, English is not my native language,
I just wrote a little, not much more words, not wholly.
Did you know data/meaning below?
Nikon d4, ISO 75 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.016%, SNR 47.4dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Nikon d600, ISO 79 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.010%, SNR 46.0dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Nikon d800, ISO 74 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.010%, SNR 43.3dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Eos 1dx, ISO 80 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.043%, SNR 45.1dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Eos 6d, ISO 80 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.036%, SNR 44.4dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Eos 5d3, ISO 80 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.050%, SNR 45.4dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Sony a99, ISO 61 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.014%, SNR 45.0dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Eos 5d, ISO 92 measured, (a very old camera, launch in 2005, and then you can also see 4/3 camera in 2005)
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.061%, SNR 43.6dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Nikon d5100, ISO 84 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.012%, SNR 45.5dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Nikon d5200, ISO 69 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.012%, SNR 41.9dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Nikon d3200, ISO 71 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.018%, SNR 42.2dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Olympus OM-D E-M5, ISO 107 measured,
SNR 0dB, Gray Scale 0.028%, SNR 42.2dB, Gray Scale 100%,
Nikon d4 is the best highlight range SNR. Nikon d600 has a very excellent sensor, (Sony sensor)
In SNR 0dB the Canon sensors are not very ideal shadow range, as a true causation brought of Canon sensor’s DxO DR is lower than Nikon, here is not bad highlight range.
the d5100 has a quite well APS-c sensor (Sony), the highlight area have higher SNR, not only for shadow area.
People should also notice below,
1. If camera maker overly reinforces camera’s internal front-end noise reduction, which can bring sharpness worse, though looks like higher DR and SNR.
2. In testing period, a longer run time could bring the shadow SNR to turn into worse.
3. a smaller pixel pitch always gets worse.
a smaller pixel pitch also has even harder of the imaging quality of the Border and Corners, it could only turn into worse but not better. The sensor micro-lenses will be continued at next 5 years or longer.
(you can observe Photozone and get a comparison of the pixel pitch and the imaging quality of the Border and Corners. It is very important, but DxOmark would not tell you).
Alf
4 months ago |The article “full frame equivalence” is 100% correct.
If you don’t agree with that, then you don’t agree with laws of physics.
timon
4 months ago |did you know about what camera physics?
Luca Rossini
4 months ago |in theory I’m personally happy with the flash socket changes that Sony did. I say in theory because I don’t own a NEX-6 or an a99. But I currently work with the old a850 and a900 (other than with the NEX-7). Both my dslrs had their flash socket replaced in the last two years (the a900 is being repaired right now) because the socket missess the contact with the flashes. So the camera doesn’t see the flash anymore, which most of the times results in no flash shooting, but others results in flash shooting at full power. Both scenarios produce useless shots.
Now I guess that the new system is less prone to produce this issue, due to how the contacts with sony flashes are now located. I maybe wrong, but when I saw the nex-6 with the new socket last July I was sincerely amazed but the total change in design that Sony came up with. Sure, the day I shall decide to sell my current equipment and go for the a99 (or what that will be) I’ll have to sell my flashes too, but I don’t really care..
I’m not a reviewer, my blog talks about life and photography
CTPhotographX.com
4 months ago |My life and photography would have been better served by an improved, upgraded, more robust, feature rich iISO, rather than a complete abandonment of it, crippling my investment to near dead.
The included adapter, has all the class of throwing a meatless bone to a starving dog. He’ll take it gratefully, but it hurts more than helps… especially when the dog knows there used to be meat on that bone…
Were there any Blue Chip Designers at Sony, the XLR could/should have been an integrated connection port left side. No cables, no bracket, looking as if completely integrated… Without blocking the flash shoe for other purpose. Similar to the Maxxum 9000 with flash booster bracket, which connected with pins under camera, provided additional power, completely without cables. That’s how MF connection should have been.
There was no need for MF ISO. Could have been accomplished with far more elegance, foresight. It was just a desire to seduce Canon users away from their 5DMKX…
Pall M. Olive
4 months ago |the guy just worked a whole year with the nex 6 – but he get the wrong camera in the tittle
Andrea
4 months ago |Well done Luca. Make the italians proud of you!
Complimenti vivissimi.