More NEX-5n reviews
A “Californian” NEX-5n preview by Wideopencamera.
EosHD (Click here) discovered that the Sunset picture profile of the NEX-5n eliminates most of the video quality problems: “Until now DSLR image processors and codecs have been incredibly poor at rendering a smooth gradation of shades over flat areas with little detail. We have tended to get banding and rough step-changes between different tones rather than a smooth gradient. We’ve had blockiness, poor colour rendition, plastic skin tones and blue skies that look like a huge hole in the ozone layer has just opened up. The 5N’s Sunset picture profile is designed to give smooth gradated tones to mimic the look of 10bit on an 8bit codec.”
Initial impressions and some test shots at Jaegraphy (Click here): “The dynamic range available is very impressive, I have an inkling it exceeds the D7000, a camera that I have shot a lot with. Even just in TIFF format, the files are very pliable with a lot of headroom for manipulation before showing any banding or other unwanted digital artifacts. Of the cameras that have used this 16mpx sensor family, which include the Pentax K5, Nikon D7000, and the Sony A580, it feels just as good if not better.”
K5 versus Sony NEX-5n at dpreview forum (Click here). Found via RiceHigh.
The NEX-5n is available at (Click on store names):
USA&Canada: Amazon (in Stock!), Sonystore US (in Stock!), Sonystore Canada (in Stock!) and eBay (in Stock!).
Europe: SonyStore DE (in Stock), SonyStore FR (in Stock), SonyStore IT (in Stock), Amazon DE (preorder), Amazon UK (preorder) and eBay (in Stock!).
Asia: Digitalrev (in Stock), eBay (in Stock!).
P.S.: Both the NEX-5n and NEX-7 are still within the Amazon top 20 rankings (Click here to see the full rankings).
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dac38
9 months ago |Grab a couch. This one’s mine.
Wheelus
9 months ago |Nice pair of, uh, models.
acolyte
9 months ago |*scratches head*
Well it did say ‘Californian’..
Javanese
9 months ago |Those 2 girls looks like $50 whores. Cant they find someone better, I dunno.. maybe use guys or something?
SteveJ
9 months ago |That asian girl.. om nom nom
Alpha Mark
9 months ago |x2, the asian girl look hot….sorry what was the video about? i wasn’t focusing, face/body detection was on…;)
Jacco
9 months ago |Next question is, how do people like the new VG-20?
Frederiksberg
9 months ago |Exactly! I’m DYING for some news on the VG20! There haven’t been anything since the first two days of videos. The german preview, some of Sony’s own… That’s about it.
acolyte
9 months ago |Have you got your NEX 5N, Andrea? o.o
startowa13
9 months ago |Hahahaha, what can I say… this looked like a pornstar auditions… that NEX5N will come handy in LA for sure…
Shish!
Jacco
9 months ago |Stop hatin’ on the girls.
I’m still not entirely sure what they were doing though. Something about skintone?
acolyte
9 months ago |I bet contrast and such. The lighter-skinned girl was in front of a dark background, and the darker-skinned girl was in front of a light background.
Mel Feliciano
9 months ago |The slow motion at 60fps is pretty bad. Just like all the slow motion test I’ve seen so far from the new Alpha cameras. I’m a true believer of the 1080p@60fps format. I own a Panasonic TM700 and always shoot at this format mainly because of the 28mbps (Max). I couldn’t wait for other manufacturers to jump in and make this a standard. The talking heads look good but I can’t say the same about the slow motion. Hopefully the problem is how the footage was processed in post and not the camera.
Christopher
9 months ago |Just got my new NEX 5n today! Already having buyer’s remorse though- I didn’t think that the lack of buttons and controls/feel in my hands would bother me as much as it did. At $700, I’m having second thoughts about how much I need this and thinking it’s going back and putting the money towards an a77 or a next gen FF next year. :-/ Anyone in Pittsburgh want a silver NEX 5n for $650?
simon
9 months ago |What about the 3 custom buttons? Surely you can map those to something to ease your pains.
narTmoT
9 months ago |Man, I really need a NEX 5N vs NEX 7 comparison. The 5N looks really awesome, but I still like the extra bells and whistles of the 7. The pixel density of that 24mp sensor has me a bit concerned and I doubt it will have the same amazing high iso performance of the 5N. Still, I am holding off in case Sony has pulled off some sort of technological wizardry and the Nex 7 has even better low light IQ. I bet a lot of you guys are in the same boat.
Elyn
9 months ago |Just bought and returned a NEX 5n!! Besides the menu digging, I wasn’t happy about the lack of ability to select spot exposure separate from focus. My iPhone app even does that. BUT my biggest gripe was AWB was off and Custom WB wasn’t accurate either. On top of that I got error messages using Custom WB.
Anybody else find WB not accurate or did I get a lemon?
Kaushal Subba
9 months ago |Hi Guys,
Always Lowest are providing 18-55 5N in just $645 ?
http://www.alwayslowest.com/al/index.cfm?fuseaction=shop.dspSpecs&part=38138551
Anybody have any idea how good these resellers are ?
If you have any idea with these guys, please advice ?
Thanks
Kaushal
Kakaku
9 months ago |2/10 per resellerrating
http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Always_Lowest
Kaushal Subba
9 months ago |That’s interesting ! Thanks
I was looking at this before:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4011-5_7-6258451.html
But my suspect began right off when I didn’t see product image on their product page….
Thanks
Kaushal
Kakaku
9 months ago |Never knew cnet does merchant reviews. But now I know not to trust their review…
TophBoogie
9 months ago |LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJxvLh4qtd8
This dude has a MacBook from early 2000′s and is pissed because his hardware can’t handle the footage.
Yup TOTALLY Sony’s fault
/S
Matt
9 months ago |Actually it is at least a unibody MBP, but who knows which one. That is kind of irrelevant anyway, nothing handles AVCHD terribly well. Even if it does work, it works like crap.
I wasn’t going to sign up for friggin’ YouTube to comment on there – but for anyone interested, ClipWrap is the best solution I have come across and all our footage that comes from a variety of AVCHD cams works flawlessly and it is very fast/cheap. You can convert straight to ProRes or Intermediate for editing, or ‘unwrap’ it to h.264 if you just want to view/store it (which is then HW accelerated in QT). And when we got them it was the only software that could handle SD700 50p 28Mbit AVCHD.
FCP7 can’t handle 60p 1080 timeline – so far as I know at least. You can drop 60p (or 50p) in there, but it drops every second frame.
Matt
9 months ago |And to some extent it IS Sony’s fault, problem with these new camera standards is it always takes the software manufacturers a while to support their new standards. Hardly anything could handle HDV when that came out too, the general line from the camera manufacturers was ‘shoot in HDV, work in DV’ – as they could downscale HDV on the fly on the way out.
It’s just the way it goes.
Johnny
9 months ago |Can fcpx handle those clips (60p) , from clip wrap ?
insufficient
9 months ago |funny how they never even showed the camera on different shooting angles rather having to get it at a fixed position. even worse is the slo-mo when they try to track movement or motion. are they hiding something?
Ginola
9 months ago |I just wish they would rock the high ISOs and blast away Canikon models in every segment. LOL
Gunnar
9 months ago |Elyn, 5N supports AEL through a custom button.
ANDY
9 months ago |I have been told by my UK supplier who I preordered from that NEX 5n wont be available until early october…can you find someway to confirm this?
bandrews
9 months ago |Seriously?! How come every other country in the developed world gets it in September? I’m waiting on a pre-order from Jessops and they’ve already taken the money!
Andy
9 months ago |Me too…Jessops…Theyve sent me the “free” sony essentials already..just no NEX5N to go with it…I asked is that usual for them to take the money before dispatch and apparently it is(!)…the girl on the phone sounded a bit clueless though.
That said…Sony centre UK have it as “november release in shops” sooooo WTF??
If I cancel my jessops preorder it can take up to 28 days for refund anyway…im annoyed as they should not take any money until its ready for dispatch! I could of got a white one on its way from HK by now…
First time ive preordered anything…it’ll be the last time!
acolyte
9 months ago |http://www.sony.co.uk/product/dsb-nex-5/nex-5n
Available in shops from beginning of September 2011
In stock in Amazon.co.uk.
Woodent
9 months ago |5N already selling in Russia :p Got mine as body-only (to replace the 5 lost about 2 months ago), and absolutely happy with it, although I do find the focus peaking a bit overrated – still maximum magnification is a must for tryly sharp focus. Also, the 10 fps mode compensates quite well for lack of in-body IS on manual lenses, I manage to get one precisely sharp image out of five-burst at 1/25 with effective focal length of 60mm. And, yes, the shutter itself is sooo much quieter!
Andy
9 months ago |So Andrea…can you ask anyone you might know about UK Release date? Would be most helpful!
Jack
9 months ago |So whats the song they playing?
Jack
9 months ago |It’s Just Begun – The Jimmy Castor Bunch