Sony NEX-5n dismantled to analyze the click issue.
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Brick Yang from nphoto.net sent me the following text: “I am a Chinese editor from nphoto.net. Pls forgive my poor English. Attached here is the NEX-5N. I have removed the CMOS and the yellow one is shutter unit. In the red ring is a moveable stick to move the curtain. I found the click noise is from the stick when it moved (no other moveable things here). Near the stick is a MIC. The distance between the stick and the MIC is so short, and the noise must be recorded by MIC. I guess this is the truth of the issue.What you think?
Thanks & Best regards
Brick”
Click here to see the full report: Nphoto.net (google translated).
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Pablo
8 months ago |hmmm. I wanted to open the thing up, but after having seen the complexity, I probably will wait for more news and a possibility for even Central European 5N users to send it for repair…
emopunk
8 months ago |This thing is really stopping me from buying a NEX5N, together with lacking line up. I will do that when there’s a good 35mm f1.8 and this issue is completely solved. Just my 2 .00
Set
8 months ago |Very interesting.
Now, IF really that ‘Yellow one’ unit is the main problem, will there be anyway to DIY-fixing this ….?
Perhaps comparing with other NEX series (NEX3/C3/5/7) might can help to understand these whole NEX mirrorless shutter system, from our view as users.
beware
8 months ago |What you think?
i think you just lost your waranty
Minoltian
8 months ago |Sony lost Minoltian high quality control culture
First Nex 5N then a77
Geir E
8 months ago |Good to hear you ignore history to find a way to put Sony in a bad light and Minolta in a good one,
http://www.dyxum.com/columns/other/first_black_frame/first_black_frame.asp
Affected about every 5d/7d sooner or later, which was the only modern digital cameras that Minolta ever made.
acolyte
8 months ago |You know some of these posters may have never played with a DSLR before Sony.. Don’t have to take them seriously
Minoltian
8 months ago |that’s Konica Minolta
not Minolta
:p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p
Neo NiGHTS ®
8 months ago |So, the problem is not that there’s a loose thing or anything like that. It’s simply a microphone which is too close for something that generally clicks, anyway?
Set
8 months ago |One I also agree, second DIY-Modifying is to move the mic further away from the original place. Not easy to do and high risk!
Pete
8 months ago |Hmm, what about the new 1.03 firmware which rumored to solve this “clicking” issue? And, any news on the firmware release?
Kevin
8 months ago |Sent mine in for repair (free shipping both ways) and it is fixed.. So whats the problem?
John Spenser
8 months ago |Well, I think the problem is if people accepted that it got fixed, they couldn’t bash Sony all the time…. C’mon! Don’t you know Sony is the ONLY company in the ENTIRE WORLD that makes mistakes?
Renato S.
8 months ago |i don’t think people can act like this is nothing or not a big deal.
the problem is that this whole thing of sending and having it back is annoying and it can lead to more problems.
they have to open it and close it again, the person that will fix it, will have to fix another million of that and that can eventually lead to an error. and by the pics of the process it’s not something so trivial that only takes a minute.
besides that, so far this is only working in the US and Canada. I bought it in the US, but I’m not there anymore and they don’t really have a solution for that.
astro8
8 months ago |+100
Renato S.
8 months ago |I just don’t understand how did Sony miss it.
TophBoogie
8 months ago |I think his English is far more superior than some of the people who speak it as their native language.
As for the click issue and the horror stories of users in the USA getting their cams back from Laredo, TX service center with smudges on the sensor, I’ve decided to wait it out for the a65 and maybe pocket one of the 5N’s later on that will be click free from the jump as a travel cam
RealEnglish
8 months ago |LAWLZ!
Owned by teh rod!
I mah add greese
djares
8 months ago |I have buyed yesterday a Nex 5n in Spain and it also has the click noise, although the shop tell me they didn’t know it (I tried to listen the click in the shop, but there was a lot of noise to hear it).
Now I can return it o try to get a fix…
acolyte
8 months ago |Thanks for the share Andrea, this must satisfy a lot of people’s curiosity
I agree that this should be found with more thorough testing.
The other question is, with NEX being so small, this is possible to save space, but why NEX 3/5 doesn’t hear this issue?
Bob
8 months ago |I bought the 5n 2 weeks ago and I have no clicking issues UNLESS I shake it vigorously during filming. If I use it on tripod – no clicking. If I smoothly pan-it – no clicking what so ever. I have 2 more weeks to test it but so far so good. I took more than 12 hours of video: ~9 hours was taken on tripod (local tennis tournament) and ~3 hours of random traffic, kids etc…
Sahaja
8 months ago |Looks like Mr. Brick may have bricked his camera. Hope he got it back together OK.
Wt21
8 months ago |I hope this becomes an out of ontrol issue, because I dont care about video, and id like to get one on the cheap
Samuel Hoesny
8 months ago |so what’s the solution??
Clyde
8 months ago |Holy cow since you’ve got it all apart why not solder up a hard wire remote port…
Learn how here:
http://sonyalphanex.blogspot.com/2011/04/sony-nex-wired-shutter-release.html
It’s pretty bad when togs have to disassemble their camera and start soldering the thing just to get what should have been there in the first place… Irony that we have to wire a Canon remote for NEX.
user1138
8 months ago |Well if it is the mic, then Sony should just give every 5n user a free external mic (ECM-SST1) since I see of no way fixing the existing 5n cameras out there.
Problem solved!
Sony just send my cheque to the agreed P.O. box, thank you…
Daniel
7 months ago |I have just got my 5n yesterday and if you take off the lens. Have a litle look around the perimiter inside theres like two little objects used for conecting the lens well if you give it a little shake it seems to be those two things making the racket!