NEX-7 preview by Steve Huff!
Steve Huff (Click here) received the production version of the NEX-7 directly from Sony! You can see a first comparison with the Fuji X100 and Olympus E-P3 on his website. This is really a great camera! And it shows on Amazon rankings too (Click here) because it manages to be always in the top 20 most ordered (or preordered) cameras.
Time for you to preorder the camera (as I did): Amazon, B&H, Adorama, J&R, eBay (Click on the hop name to visit the NEX-7 product page).
Kalpurush :)
2 years ago |The NEX-7 pic looks very nice compare to the other two.
Nice work Sony
Andrew
2 years ago |Steve Huff is mighty lucky! I wish Sony would hand deliver my NEX-7 a month early
Anyways, very excited for the full review!
Any flickr users? For continually updated NEX-7 photos and reviews, please visit:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nex7/
yong
2 years ago |Was that shutter rolling effect in the video ?
Geir
2 years ago |He commented that it was better than his ep3 because the ep3 had jello-effect (rolling shutter).
Renato S.
2 years ago |the ISO6400 in the video was just fine! I think that it’s pretty decent and I also think that the 1/3 may make some difference in cases like this.
yeah, I really feel that with the NEX-3/5 you don’t have control over things and it’s kind of annoying – even though I’m managing to deal with that in the NEX-5n.
but I think that “more control” should have been one of the main differences between the “3/C3″ and the 5/5n”. with the C3/5n you do have some differences like 100-25600 instead of 200-12800, you have AVCHD 2.0, etc. but between the NEX-3 and NEX-5, the real difference was kind of ridiculous. so they could had used “more control” as another point to differentiate it.
yong
2 years ago |but i saw jello in the NEX-7 video too, when he tested it ~
michel v
2 years ago |I don’t understand what’s great about this article.
Half of Steve Huff’s article is masturbatory “woohoo I got this new camera” filler text, then there’s the boring comparison shots that tell you NOTHING about the camera’s quality, then the rest is a straight copy and paste of Sony’s press material for the Nex 7.
Is *that* what should be expected of technology writers these days?
dk
2 years ago |I haven’t read it but this guy is a photographer, not a technology writer.
NEXfive
2 years ago |Yes, and neither he’s a film maker. His video showed nothing really trustworthy, since only judged by this single one I’d say the Zeiss without OSS isn’t working well in film mode, while the auto focus is too slow and not very accurate either. But okay, this was only meant to be a first look P-review…
c.d.embrey
2 years ago |Got that right. Not a clue about how to do video. But for his audience, it may not make a difference.
Eric
2 years ago |Exactly. His audience, which I’m a part of, are mostly street, landscape, and travel photographers. I honestly don’t even care if he mentions video at all in his full review.
Nico Foto
2 years ago |Hmmmm…he looks more like a blogger to me…not saying he’s not a photographer or a technology writer…but he sits in the middle, and his goal is to have as many clicks and visitors as possible. Nothing else. So don’t expect “ground breaking” photography or, for that matter, technology writing from him. He’s blogging, that’s his main goal and attitude…
I don’t want to be repetitive, but i’m bored of his house, his friend, and his son shots. Looks lame to me. But again, i don’t think of him as a photographer, but rather, a blogger. In that sense, his strategy fits, and seems to be working quite ok (otherwise why would B&H or Sony send him goods?).
Forbes
2 years ago |Indeed, Steve Huff is a blogger, an enthusiast. I have followed that website for years and it has changed a lot, especially after his marriage ended. That seems to have been a turning point, not just for him personally, but for the site. It needed external financial support and Steve had no alternative but to look for sponsors.
In my experience that has changed the blog from photography/enthusiast orientated to gear/commercially orientated.
That said, even for Steve this ‘first look’ video is nothing much. Usually he would explain more about the build quality, any aspect relevant for its use that was easily noticeable. You know, first impression. Didn’t get any of that. Too bad, because I always enjoyed his efforts.
narTmoT
2 years ago |Well, he did say that he only got to spend a couple hours with it. I think the whole point of this article/video was to build anticipation for the actual review and the samples he will be collecting during his trip.
I am looking forward to hearing what he thinks of the NEX-7, particularly how it compares to the NEX 5n, which he seemed to be a fan of as well.
john
2 years ago |If you put 1080 50p in video mode, you dont have any jello .
I have sony nex 5n and in 50p there is no jello or rolling shutter.
David
2 years ago |The point was advertising his site.
Telling everyone that now he has the camera and will be posting bits about it for the next two weeks so you should keep checking back!
Nico Foto
2 years ago |Exactly
rUY
2 years ago |+10. not a good article.
robdel
2 years ago |Did you read the article? He explicitly states it’s not a review but a teaser. Pretty well every camera review website does the same thing. Check out preview for example. Their “previews” are little more than press releases from the camera manufacturers. Their final reviews are quite detailed however, and so are Steve Huff’s.
Steve Jones
2 years ago |OK – that video answers one thing. The Zeiss 24 f1.8 is definitively retrofocal. That is the rear focal length is longer than the front (which reduces edged effect issues at the expense of lens length).
I’ll leave others to work out what the evidence on the video is for that. You can also work out if a lens is telefocal in design as it exhibits the opposite phenomenon.
nb. I’d be surprised if the Zeiss image circles isn’t capable of covering a full frame. There’s not real proof in the video, but the size and history of the lens design rather suggests it.
shaokeephotography on facebook
2 years ago |andrea!
i’m not sure if anyone has posted this video here before, but this is a great one done with the nex-5n.
http://www.quadrocopter.us/2011/10/07/cinestar-6-and-nex-5n/
c.d.embrey
2 years ago |This video is too useful, for judging camera quality, to have been posted before
Nice find.
duque
2 years ago |I wonder what the Information on the Lens size is.
And how Sony is going to deal with it.
To me, that is the most interesting part of the whole article
shaokeephotography on facebook
2 years ago |something i found that i’m not sure if anyone posted this here before.
Sony A77 got the Editor’s Choice Award from American Photo Dec 2011 magazine. check the mag out, its free to download
http://storemags.com/american-photo-december-2011/
calxn
2 years ago |From what I see, the Zeiss is slightly better than the X100′s lens. Classic Zeiss smooth bokeh and high contrast. It’s also apparent that the EP-3′s sensor isn’t a match for the Sony and Fuji. The smaller crop isn’t helping bokeh either.
Steve
2 years ago |It’ll be interesting to hear what Sony has planned. I wonder if the presentation that Steve Huff has will get posted online somewhere.
“learned why the lenses are so big and what Sony is doing to resolve that (more on that in my full review)”
Dan
2 years ago |The external dials have me sold. Now I want one….
ty
2 years ago |Why stop at X100 and EP3? Compare it against the M9. Put some M glasses on it to see how NEX7 stacks against a $6??? camera.
mrme
2 years ago |seeing how the X100 has better dynamic range and is sharper in those shots I don’t see the need to compare it to something with an even better glass and worst sensor. Heck if it wouldn’t be for the awful chromatic aberration level of the EP-3 the nex-7 would be under it as the EP-3 has also a better dynamic range and sharper image.
startowa13
2 years ago |Somebody is wearing funny glasses here… funny, because I have 10 peple in my office who are professional photographers saying that Nex7 image is the best out the 3 shown here…
Clyde
2 years ago |But there is something odd about that tree test. Huff claims all three lenses set to f2… but look how much more DOF the Fuji has keeping the back branch much sharper than on both the EP and NEX-7. And donsidering the better bokeh of the NEX and EP, I’m not convinced that Fuji is at f2 at all. He says it is in the paragraph… but the Fuji is the only shot that isn’t specifically titled with the F-Stop listed.
Zeiss looks so good with that contrast. Though I certainly don’t understand why all these reviewers claim something to the effect of “I’m not posting full resolution samples yet… that will come later”.
WTF… you got all the cams sitting right there pal. Why Not?
Clyde
2 years ago |Oh no… can’t do that… win or lose some will complain that it’s an unfair comparison.
We don’t want to rrrrrruffle anyone’s feathers… especially since that E-Mount Zeiss will more than likely trounce any M Glass that’s put on the 7… probably. Some will claim that a fair comparison will only be had with mounting same glass on each body. I say fair means giving each camera the best lens it was designed for.
Dan
2 years ago |I actually agree with everything you said except “especially since that E-Mount Zeiss will more than likely trounce any M Glass that’s put on the 7″. There are some negatives to putting alt glass on the NEX but most don’t care.
Clyde
2 years ago |AF aside… I will be extremely surprised if any short throw rangefinder wide-angle will come close to the IQ of the Zeiss Retrofocus design across the entire image plane. Standard to Telephoto M glass should be excellent on NEX… but wide-angle needs retrofocus.
The only wide-angles I can see competing with IQ from the Zeiss 24mm E-Mount is the legacy Pen F 20mm and 25mm… or adapt larger wides from standard APS or Full Frame.
I could be wrong… but as of yet I’ve seen no M series wide angle adaptations for NEX from anyone that can keep IQ as evenly dispersed as retrofocus designs. I’d like to be proven wrong… there’s a lot of great M wides out there. But they all fail in the midfield and corners.
The Leica M cameras can handle a few wides very well because of the camera design. But NEX doesn’t implement the same structures as the M9 for wide angles.
Cray
2 years ago |Lots of jealous people here. Just wait for the full review.
Baba Ganoush
2 years ago |Is it just my imagination, or did the focus of the NEX-7 in video mode struggle a bit in the second video Huff posted? As one example, it appeared to be hunting a while before the silver G-Tech hard drive under the Mac display on his desk came into focus.
Does anyone have any hard information on the cycle time for shooting in raw or raw+jpeg with the NEX-7? Not necessarily burst mode, but just repeated single shots.
Clyde
2 years ago |Yeah it missed focus on his dog when he walked outside too. The gravel is sharp but the dog is soft… and the dog is mostly centered. No real test here… but it was noticed. That’s probably typical for the they random style snapshot vid he showed. Don’t look to Huff for qualified vid testing for real vitographers.
Yuri
2 years ago |New video Sony Nex-7 Camera test NightShot 914 sec http://youtu.be/1BOVtX4G4MY