New NEX-7 news roundup and in Stock status!
I finally got a Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 lens for testing purpose only (don’t know if I will buy it at the end). I will soon post my first impression review on SAR. Meanwhile check these other news to learn more about the NEX-7:
Echenique (Click here) posted a NEX-7 first impression: “The Sony NEX-7 is a strange beast. As a Percy Jackson fan (and general mythology buff), I would call this a chimera rather than a camera. Its image size, image qualities, and file malleability encroach well into the low-end of medium format. Its sensor size, interchangeable lenses and bokeh characteristics plant it squarely in DSLR territory. Its body size and handling is definitely in the compact camera arena. So what is it? Well like the mythical chimera, its all of the above.”
Canadianreviewer (Click here) also tested the NEX-7: “A true object of desire for photographers and the pinnacle of camera technology today, the NEX-7 is simply a game changer and the one device that might entice DLSR users to consider smaller bodies with similar features.”
Really Right Stuff (Click here) announced new plates for the A77, NEX-5N, NEX-7.
NEX-7 in Stock status:
As I already told you it’s better to preorder the NEX-7 body only and by the Zeiss lens separately. The NEX-7+18-55mm or Zeiss kit will be shipped in late February only.
The NEX-7 is in Stock at Parkcameras UK (Click here) and on eBay sold by owners from Sweden (Click here), England (Click here) and Germany (Click here).
In USA you can find three cameras for sale on eBay (Click here). And that’s it 
Preorder the NEX-7 body at Adorama (Click here) and Bhphoto (Click here) if you want to get the camera as soon as possible (Amazon doesn’t accept preorders).
The Zeiss 24mm lens is in Stock in some stores. Click these search links to check for yourself: Amazon, Sonystore, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay.
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tobiasNEX7n
2 months ago |can’t wait to hear your findings about this lens i am also considering once my nex 7 arrives
ShakyA77
2 months ago |dunno, look how big the lens looks with the shade on it, I am holding out for a nice pancake
c.d.embrey
2 months ago |Ain’t gonna happen. See the Flange Focal distance chart I posted father down the page. An E-mout is 18mm and a Samsung NX is 25.5mm. Maybe this is the reason that Samsung has more pancake lenses. BTW the Leica M mount is 27.80mm.
click
2 months ago |i have a zeiss 24mm on my nex5n at the moment…
maybe i just don’t get it but i’m not deeply impressed – yes it’s good, fast aperture and so on. but maybe the 24mm is just not my case… the autofocus in low light conditions is really tricky, so i can stay with my manual focus lenses and save the 1000€. i haven’t shot a single photo with it which would be significant better than with any other lens. hmm.
anyone experiencing the same disenchantment? or maybe the 24mm and i just simply don’t match?
David
2 months ago |Maybe it’s just not the focal length for you?
I love 24 on aps-c, and 35mm on full frame is just amazing
c.d.embrey
2 months ago |I agree. A 24mm and an 85mm is what I mainly use on APS-C. Sometime I like to get up-close-and-personal, and other times I like to back-off from the action.
Alain
2 months ago |The more I use the Zeiss 24 the more i love it ! For me it is definitively the best lens for the Nex-7 !
Tell me Andrea what you think about !
gpc
2 months ago |I have the same experience on 5N. I have compared the Zeiss 24mm at aperture 4.0 with the kits len at the same setting on a tripod with enough light. The Zeiss 24mm is only very very slightly better. I did the same compare of Canon 50mm/1.8 ($100) v.s. Canon 50mm/1.4 ($350) v.s. Canon 17-55mm ($1000). The Canon 50/1.4 is slightly better than Canon 50mm/1.8 and is much sharper than Canon 17-55mm.
On Zeiss 24mm, I did not see the sharpness advantage of a fixed zoom len.
matgay
2 months ago |fixed zoom lol
Jonathan Geach
2 months ago |Most lenses work well at f/4, the reason for the $$$ is that the lens is just as good at f 1.8. Overall, it is a special lens and rarely leaves my NEX-5
Geir E
2 months ago |peeking at every shop in the country is depressing “Unconfirmed stock 1 feb 2012″. Oh well, I’m in no rush. but will be buying one as soon as they are available.
Oboe
2 months ago |Any news on Australian stock?
matgay
2 months ago |while you have this lens for testing, can u pleeeease also rent a zeiss m-mount 21mm/25mm/28mm to compare with? they are not much more of a price difference! really interested in the rendering.
waldomarek
2 months ago |seen the carl zeiss lens last week @ schiphol (the netherlands), 999 euro T_T
Brian
2 months ago |One of the local camera stores here (Prague, CZ) have Jan 10th as their in-stock date for NEX7 body only (their in-stock estimates have been dead-on so far with other products), but have no availability date (nor price)for the Zeiss. Interestingly enough the NEX7 body price is within $50 of the a77 body – both of which are grossly overpriced here.
I was seriously considering putting off my a77 purchase a few weeks ago to get the supposedly cheaper NEX7 – glad I didn’t do it
Joe Benjamin
2 months ago |Yesterday I received another of those “Item(s) still on backorder” notifications from Adorama with regards to my NEX-7 pre-order placed back in September, ho-hum.
BUT I just checked my credit card online and noticed a $1.00 pre-charge from Amazon. I also placed a pre-order with them back in September and have nothing else on pre-order. Could their first stock of bodies be about to ship?!
Jason
2 months ago |To me, the lens is just too big for an everyday walk around lens. I would have preferred a 24/2.8 which is the same or similar size as my 16/2.8. Having a wide open aperture for a wide lens like the 24 just isn’t getting the most out of DOF shooting. Perhaps a 40/1.8 would have been better, but for a 24, I prefer size/image quality over speed and a huge price tag.
fs
2 months ago |The 16 2.8 is definitely a great size. I really like having the 1.8, but wish it were smaller. My nex-5 with the 24 mounted is longer front to back (of the whole camera) than my M9 w/ 35 1.4 summilux — that’s a faster lens on a bigger camera. I really don’t know what they were thinking with that lens design. Obviously someone at Sony values compact size, as evidenced by the bodies. I wish they could get together with the lens guys.
c.d.embrey
2 months ago |Someone at Sony designed a low-end-consumer-camera without any real interest in quality. All they wanted was a small camera with a big sensor for advertising appeal (the thinnest ASP-C camera).
So now we have, what has turned out to be, a great enthusiast/pro camera that is hampered by the marketing peoples obsession with thin (and stylishness). A camera needs a proper Flange Focal distance to work well. Below is the Flange Focal Distance (FFD) of some popular cameras.
CAMERA – - – FFD
Sony E-mount 18 mm
Micro Four Thirds System 20 mm
Samsung NX mount 25.50 mm
RED ONE interchangeable mount 27.30 mm
Leica M mount 27.80 mm
M39 (Leica) Screwmount 28.80 mm
Contax G 29.00 mm
Minolta/Sony A mount 44.50 mm
Nikon F-mount 46.50 mm
This is why a Samsung NX can have thinner (Pancake) lenses that a NEX camera.
Sony could have used a greater FFD, like the 29.00 of a Contax G, but they didn’t.
fs
2 months ago |Well, that sounds like it explains why the lenses themselves are longer, but the thin body should make up for it when looking at total camera depth (front of lens to back of camera), right? That was the basis of my complaint about the 24 1.8 — the entire camera is bigger front to back than a leica with an equivalent, but faster lens. After accounting for the delta in ffd’s (8mm in the Leica / NEX case), shouldn’t the lenses be equivalent — i.e NEX lenses should be 8mm longer for a given design?
c.d.embrey
2 months ago |Every company has different ideas about lens design. Compare the Zeiss ZM M-mount and Voigtländer M-mount lenses to what Leica does. The 35mm Zeiss f2.0 ZM is 68mm long, the 35mm f1.2 Voigtländer is 60.8mm long and the Leica 35mm f1.4 is 46mm long. The Leica 35mm f1.4 is 22mm shorter than the Zeiss 35mm f2.
Also the extreme shortness of the FFD has to effect lens design, just as the longer SLR FFD effects design.
fs
2 months ago |Should have said the diff was 10mm — was looking at the m43 line.
Alien
2 months ago |Some of us need small and thin for travel weight and to put in to smaller, lighter underwater housings
D.Ortego
2 months ago |Nice photo of a lens with the camera as an accessory. I guess it just take some getting use to.
David
2 months ago |That top-down angle doesn’t help to be honest
If you see videos of people using it, it really isn’t that big. Still considerably less bulky than a dSLR.
daniel
2 months ago |nice!
Luca
2 months ago |I am a bit in trouble, I like the nex 7, but with pancake 16mm is good-small size for everyday use but the pancake is slow and so and so quality. With the zeiss despite its high price, it stops for me to be the size camera I will bring with me everyday, so what ? Where’s the point to do the smallest size body camera when with the lens it become big ? It really seems the team designed the camera was an A team and the ones for the lens b team.
c.d.embrey
2 months ago |Other way around. The body is the problem.
Vivek
2 months ago |Could not agree more!
While the NEX-7 can take any number of lenses via adapters (albeit manual focus), the ones made for NEX can only be operated on the NEX’.
So, A for the NEX-7 team and B- for the lens team.
LS
2 months ago |http://www.parkcameras.com says:
Unfortunately we do not have stock available for immediate dispatch. Please order today to receive your item as soon as we get sufficient stock from our suppliers. We won’t take any payment until we dispatch your order. If you would like to discuss lead times before ordering, please call us on 01444 237070, or email sales@parkcameras.com.
Alien
2 months ago |I got this today in Australia from a US site.
Hi,
Both the body only and camera lens bundle are backordered and estimated to be available around the same time by the manufacture.
And then this today:
Hi,
It is estimated by the manufacturer to be available after 01/23/12.
If you add the item to your wishlist online you will be notified via email when it is available. Or if you place an order for it, it will just ship when it is available.
Thank you for shopping with us we appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
E. sales@adorama.com