(SR4) HOT!!! Is this the first image of the NEX-7?
I just got the link to the following NEX-7 picture! I have been told this is a preproduction version! One of my sources said the image is original but the final model could have some differences!!! As you see the NEX-7 has a rangefinder style a là Fuji X100 (Click here to see that camera)! As you know the NEX-7 will feature the same A77 24 Megapixel sensor and a 3 million dot OLED EVF (it is not a hybrid viewfinder!). It has the Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 attached (but that is also a prototype). The camera should cost around $1.200.
UPDATE (Mark explanation):
1) 3 Million dot OLED EVF
2) Hot shoe
3) 24mm f/1.8 ZEISS
4) Flash and the Image preview buttons
5) Pop-Up flash
6) Manual Aperture and Shutter Speed controls?
7) ???
???
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In Sweden
11 months ago |I hope this look propogates to the lower NEX-5E!
AS
11 months ago |Great design and with the new 24Mpix sensor must be a winner. Thank you Andreea for the tips and picture.
secretservus
11 months ago |Wow. Please let this be true. As a Leica Digilux 2 user, this would be perfect for me. In fact, after months of lurking and not commenting on all of Andrea’s GREAT work, this post got me to register!
Steve
11 months ago |I was just thinking the design was poor. For example, turn the left hand dial to the right and your thumb will naturally fall on the right hand dial. You’ll need to be quite careful not to accidentally turn them both.
secretservus
11 months ago |Good point, I saw that too. It could be that they haven’t yet decided what to do with the dials yet (or didn’t want to show them in the rendering) OR they are they they pop up when pressed so you can turn them then…
Steve
11 months ago |More likely to look something like this :
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydscr1/
Alessandro
11 months ago |Steve, I so hope not!
Martin Lind
11 months ago |I guess that the leftmost wheel will be Mode dial, since it have a jog dial around the directional buttons, the right dial is the shutter control and the jog dial is for aperture.
Otherwise it would be stupid to have three such controllers.
The switch (Nrr
is a mystery, hope one is AFL and the other is AEL.
Tofa
11 months ago |OMG WOW… i just cried a little inside (in happiness!)
Woot for rangefinder and more controls!
P.S. First, eww not anymore
P.S.S. now im more than happy to continue investing in the e-mount. Love my nex-5
Frosti7
11 months ago |LOL, i shed a tear there too
Costanza
11 months ago |He thinks an EVF is a rangefinder, ha
shade
11 months ago |LOVE the design. Bring it on, this is my NEXt camera.
Stewe
11 months ago |It looks ugly.
REVENGE
11 months ago |Cool. Polish the design and it should be a hit. Too bad it probably doesn’t have in body IS, but I can see the reasoning behind it.
SLT55 Germany
11 months ago |is it a mistyping??? why is the powercontrol in the ‘NO’ mode?
the off is typed correct =)
Raghav
11 months ago |Nice Catch!!! So this image is also photoshopped then… It obviously will not have a ‘OFF’ & ‘NO’ switch… he he
Bordsteinschalbe
11 months ago |yes it is photoshoped.
very easy too see at the “movie-botton”.
…and of course the “NO” switch.
hope the nex 7 looks like this fake, i like it.
but i read the nex 7 will look like the dimage a2.
Connor
11 months ago |i noticed that aswell haha
Jinx
11 months ago |Yes, and remember when SAR said it would look like a Konica Minolta DIMAGE?
Agreed, the round buttons are asymmetrical and the “NO” is a misspelling of “ON”.
Open the picture in a new window and zoom in on it. You definitely see artifacts where the OLED EVF was PS’ed in where it meets the camera body. The focal ring on the supposed Zeiss lens doesn’t have the ripples all the way around. Like they tried to remove a marking on it. The Hot Shoe mount isn’t a real hot shoe mount. There’s no opening to slice in the foot.
If the LCD has the same tilt capability as the NEX3/5, then the OLED EVF protrusion actually limits the full angle capability of the LCD. You could easily swing the top up and hit the EVF scratching the housing. Sony wouldn’t have designed that.
The Lens listed specifies a 24mm f/1.8. The planned released Zeiss was first specified as a 24mm f/1.7. It was later changed to be more of a pancake at 24mm f/2.0.
summary, I wouldn’t fall in love with this image.
Jakubcz
11 months ago |Would love to see a fixed lens version of this…
Richard H
11 months ago |X100?
Jennzhen
11 months ago |What’s #6?
DNicholas
11 months ago |I guess it’s the shutter and exposure compensation dials?
Alessandro
11 months ago |This is perfect! If it’s like this, i’ll go for it as soon as it comes out with the Zeiss 24.
SillyGirl
11 months ago |bought
ss
11 months ago |you should write where you get that photo…
http://www.minoltasonyclub.it/cms/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31880
J-Man
11 months ago |+1 Looks like it is the source page,
but not the original upload, it was lightened and the boxes were added.
ss
11 months ago |yes, this was the original source.. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/65018618.jpg/
Frosti7
11 months ago |The photo has ben removed, sony’s work?
Sky_walker
11 months ago |Guy removed it to hide himself most likely.
Frosti7
11 months ago |Hide himself because of what? so people wont know its fake
Maley
11 months ago |The Viewfinder looks way to small, I doubt, that this is real. And I also thought the Zeiss is now 2.0.
Sky_walker
11 months ago |It’s an older pre-production version. I doubt that this lens is actually a lens, likely just a metal mock-up.
yurilee
11 months ago |To Andrea:
Now here comes one that was promised to come up side by side with A77.
But how about the other one-the 500mm f4?
Currently saving for a super telephoto (Founding Currently around ~$7500), considering if I would jump for Canon’s 500mm L II or L I, it’s a “monumental” investment for me….(a body is more like a “accessory” to that investment) In the case if I jump, a Canon body would be dedicated to the use of the lens, yet my other shots would still be with my lovely A-mount collections.
Richard H
11 months ago |It looks a bit fake to me, photoshoped. #6, the dials, completely smooth over, surely if it was pre-production they would have these marked up in some form. But anyway, I definately like the design as it is.
Will
11 months ago |The image is a render, not a photograph. Which raises the question, does Sony create renders in this kind of low-detail? I know they create much more finely-detailed renderings for their promotional materials — but why would they make a low-res render like this?
Carl
11 months ago |For design patent applications, maybe? Even a low quality rendering is beyond the normal line-art that usually graces patents.
Richard H
11 months ago |Think you’ve answered the question then. This is almost exactly what I was hoping for, so it must be fake.
Zaph
11 months ago |“This is almost exactly what I was hoping for, so it must be fake.”
Ha. And agreed.
horst
11 months ago |Well, you do a whole bunch of low res renders during design work, could be one of those.
The ‘NO’ marking and rugged edges suggest it might be some quick test render; question as always is, how close is it to the final product .
Jinx
11 months ago |You’d do you work in high res, and then export it as a lower resolution. However, if you zoom into this image, you’ll notice that there are points of the picture that aren’t the same render consistency. Look at where the EVF connects to the body. The front lens where the friction ridges are for the focus ring. And all around the camera have different resses. This is definitely a non-Sony photoshop picture.
lcv
11 months ago |Very cool design!
shame about the big lenses of the NEX system
Mr. Reeee
11 months ago |What? There are NEX lenses? When did that happen?
Aren’t there only 3 shipping and an upcoming macro?
That’s a pretty meager selection. What else is in the pipeline?
That’s fake, but the concept mostly works. The viewfinder is way too small.
kaori
11 months ago |Yes! Looks good to me!
Will
11 months ago |If this render is based on reality, then note that the LCD screen will either have to flip out to the left or flip down (like a DSLR) rather than doing the partial movement that the NEX-3/5 does, since in this render the viewfinder eyepiece would interfere with the movement of a NEX-3/5 style LCD.
jimmy
11 months ago |Looks good, but hopefully the 24mm is quite a bit smaller once reduced to f2.
Thomas
11 months ago |this is fake… an i think that
Sonys NEx – 7 will def. be a small-DSLR like camera, like the GH2/G3/ NX 20 just because it will compete against them.
maybe the NEX-5E will be rf styled? Then sony has a compact NEX-3 series, a enthusiast, NEX-5 and professional, NEx-7
Frosti7
11 months ago |YES! love that,
now we only need a stanard prime to go along with that 24mm,
because sony dosnt even have such lens on the roadmap, i’v decided to start a petition for 30mm f1.8 pancake compact lens (like the pana 20/1.7) if ur interested please sign it, thanx.
http://www.petitiononline.com/NEX30mm/petition.html
A non-e-mouse.
11 months ago |Except that a ‘standard’ prime means 35mm FOV to most people. So yeah, a 24mm on aps-c is 36mm FOV… Damn close.
Alan G
11 months ago |Looks like it has a flip out screen just like the E5 but it may just be tilt up and down in landscape format like the other sonys. It is the configuration that will shape the pro level development of this type of camera but it looks way fake to me.
Bugger
11 months ago |Wiat..I don’t see any tilting LCD… I hope that it’s just a really good flushed design
Bugger
11 months ago |And I see…more buttons and dials!!
horst
11 months ago |Very sweet , looks like a smart design with well integrated controls.
I only hope the display will be articulated; it has a gap to the body, so it looks likely.
Eric
11 months ago |Looks fake to me.
The LCD screen doesn’t even have a hinge. I thought the NEX-7 is going to have a better LCD hinge which rotates left and right.
Carl
11 months ago |EVF in the right place, check, hotshoe, check, dual control dials, check. The design itself is fairly attractive too, in a boxy Gundam-esque way, though could do with being a little smaller even accounting for it’s proper handgrip.
Now they just need some compact but high performing lenses to mount on it. Alas, we’ll probably see the NEX-7′s successor before that happens…
andy
11 months ago |That lens just seems to big. It’s only slighty faster than the x100 lens but enormous in comparison. I hope they end up producing a 24 f2 pancake instead.
brandon
11 months ago |That’s what I was thinking. That lens is too huge.
Frank
11 months ago |Is there a reason why the camera main switch has two positions, “no” and “off”??
Carl
11 months ago |You’re reading it wrong. It’s actually “on” and “ɟɟo”.
Jennzhen
11 months ago |You’re reading it upside down … it’s “off” and “uo”.
Don Cox
11 months ago |Obviously this is a render of a possible design.
The question is whether the render comes from Sony’s design department, and whether it is anywhere near the final design.
It could be some NEX fan’s idea of the ideal NEX-7.
It certainly looks like a practical and useful camera.
Erik dP
11 months ago |If it’s a fake – it still serves a purpose… It does create discussions (and hopes) that maybe Sony listens to. Could it be Sony that distribute these kind of design models?
Mark
11 months ago |I like the look of it, but button 7 can be easily press, hope it can be reallocate to else where.
HHP8
11 months ago |I remember Minolta CLE in the ’80s from this image.
I really hope 35mm full size in this shape.
Rami G.
11 months ago |OMG. I am very exited. Looking for a second body to accompany my M8 (+6 Leica lenses). Plan to buy either the NEX 7 or the Ricoh M Module or to sell all my canon gear and get the M9. I think I know the answer now. That looks so great, and with the latest Sony sensor, I cannot wait!
When is the 24 lens supposed to be available?
Melotron
11 months ago |It looks more like a rendering than anything else. On the shutter button, the ON is misspelled to “NO”.
That 1.8/24 looks absolutely huge. Thought they had taken the decision to make a smaller/pancake 2/24. Now that would make more sense.
Ryan
11 months ago |Button 8 looks very like the metering mode selection on an A700…
Valdemar
11 months ago |About detail #6: why place those 2 buttons next to each other like that? Looks like they are experimenting with the ideal position?
Allan
11 months ago |Very strange the hot shoe !!! why should sony change his type of connection !!! the HVL F20S is coming soon ! sounds not logical !!
but the concept of the nex 7 is really interesting !!
what could the “next” 5e be, between the 3 and the 7 ???
arse
11 months ago |Yeah, you are a lucky boy.
pancanikonpus
11 months ago |Stunning Nex7 SAR! not bad at all the look
Jerry_R
11 months ago |EVF and hot shoe +++
No tiltable LCD —
WyldRage
11 months ago |It looks like there’s a space around the LCD screen: I think it will still be tiltable.
leetxy
11 months ago |maybe the 7 is the iso or the drive button ?
Lucky NEX Sleven
11 months ago |Fake. That fullframe NEX sensor is so poorly photoshopped. Total giveaway.
neversay
11 months ago |freaken finally!
what a huge improvment compared to my nex 3!
i dont really care about the megapix improvement in the nex7
i just care about how it handles! i really didnt like the nex 3 cumbersome menu styling. A simple shutter speed, or aperture change is annoying. Rotating a single wheel to change both options just feels unsatisfying.
Its great for consumers but i always feel like i wanted individual dials for em!! and this prototype has it!! Also LOVING how they implemented a view finder! i seriously got sick of looking at the screen to take pictures all the time! the only time it felt fun to use the screen is when im taking really low and high shots where i have to swivel my screen, but just taking normal shots its just … wrong…
LOVE SONY for saving the future of nex!
WyldRage
11 months ago |Hopefully, the real NEX-7 will look something like this. The only grip I have with it is the movie button: it looks easy as hell to push it by mistake (which I am doing far too often on the NEX-5).
Rkieux
11 months ago |I normally do not post here. But I just want to say to Sony, this is the right direction!!! Please have a similar design for NEX 5E. Waiting impatiently!
Steve Jones
11 months ago |That lens looks far too long to be a 24mm native E-Mount design. I’d expect a lens of that focal length to project only about 30-40mm from the flange, and this one I would estimate to be something closer to 80-100mm long. Of course if it’s an adaptation of a design produced for a DSLRs then it is inevitably a lot longer as it will have to incorporate a retrofocal design (necessary when the focal length is less than the lens register). If so, that’s very unfortunate as one of the primary advantages of a camera design with a small register is that moderate wide angle lens designs can be much more compact (albeit it will be necessary to consider issues of light arriving at the edges of the sensor at heavily oblique angles, although that’s more of an issue for FF).
butch
11 months ago |you heard it here first sony will start making concave censors to clean up that wide angle and oblique light angles
NEXfive
11 months ago |Looks ugly to me. Really hate the retro style, dislike the bulky viewfinder I don’t want anyway and especially button 8. The hot shoe looks strange and proprietary. Might like these controls numbered with 6, but they also look too bulky for a real SONY NEX design. I guess the chances are 90% fake, 9% early SONY draft, 0.9% something unpredictable and the remaining rest the forthcoming NEX-7…
Dulaney Ward
11 months ago |Strange–I was just saying to myself how much I like the design because it ISN’T retro.
SVOR
11 months ago |+1
NEXfive
11 months ago |Come on, guys, look at this grip, at the bulky viewfinder and this button numbered with 8. Compared to that my Canon A1 designed in the 70′s looks stylish and modern.
Jerry_R
11 months ago |For me with NEX-7 there should be no compromises.
So it should deliver minimum functionality which Panasonic GF3 delivers:
- great EVF (no compromise here)
- hot shoe
- fully tiltable LCD (up down and left right, not just up down)
Of course I assume it will allow focus peaking too.
Frosti7
11 months ago |Admin,
so that does not correspond to Dimage A2 look-alike, is there a chance u could contact more sources to be sure that this rendering is more accurate?
B2
11 months ago |Finally nex with more controls. I can’t wait to see a real picture.
fiatlux
11 months ago |$1200 for the camera alone? It better be very good then!
Isn’t that the street price the A77 would be expected to sell for?
Filipe
11 months ago |6 a) is the dial mode (A;S;M etc)
b) is shutter speed.. and…
…and with 8 button (AEL) would control the apperture in case of manual mode!
Sky_walker
11 months ago |I hope both dials are customizable. I’d give entirely new level of control over the camera. Something well beyond any current mirrorless.
Don Cox
11 months ago |“6 a) is the dial mode (A;S;M etc)
b) is shutter speed.. and…”
It works better if one is speeds and the other is apertures, with an A position on both. As in the Leica X1:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/leicax1/page3.asp
I hope this is what the NEX-7 will have.
emopunk
11 months ago |Now.. It wouldn’t take a genius to understand that Fuji X-100 has a winning design. If they want to copy it, they should improve it. Even better build, even more manual controls.. And please.. Stop it with these huge lenses in front of such cameras. They only mean something with a bunch of interchangable pancake lenses. For all other lens sizes there won’t be any need to drop our DSLRs. Are you listening Sony?
noobidoo
11 months ago |Where is the A65 eh?
redfern
11 months ago |Personally I was afraid they’d get too far away from the compactness and the interface of the NEX-3 and 5, which I’ve gotten very used to, but this just looks perfect. Possibly too perfect to be real, but I hope that we can expect something close to this.
Also, I’d imagine that one of those mystery buttons is an EVF/LCD switch. I can’t imagine both running all the time, considering the battery in this is likely to be of similar size to the one already in use on the NEX-3/5. Perhaps the switch around #8 toggles between the two?
Akiva S.
11 months ago |As a NEX 3 owner, this could be my next love squeeze. But as always, I wonder about the quality of the EVF.
Frosti7
11 months ago |It would be better then mid-range OVF, i can almost guarantee u that
Nico
11 months ago |Very interesting design… Even if I don’t care about the EVF (useless when you see the screen of the nex-5) It looks like what I’m hoping for !!!
And can you imagine this design with a 24×36 sensor inside ?? No I’m still sleeping !!……………
reinz
11 months ago |it’s fake i think, no tilt lcd swivel and the control button look not good :p
Edgars
11 months ago |ISO button/dial is most important.
Anyway it seems pretty nice camera. Real shame is that there is very few AF lenses.
butch
11 months ago |i like it
but flip the right #6 dial to vertical so no problems hitting both at the same time
a simple tilt screen would be fine as i dont need the full rotate type
and a small 30-35mm macro even at 2.8 woudl be fine with me so long as its small
i woudl keep an adapter and Amount lens in my bag for jsut in case i needed a long shot even if no SSS or AF as i would be composing the shot anyhow.
Frank
11 months ago |The OPTION 8 looks like that they keep the standard Minolta an very useful light calculator and the AEL also. So for me this sound very good. Where on the picture of the A77 .. .this button looks to have gone … ;-(
Nico
11 months ago |Of course it’s a fake, you can see that some part have been photoshoped on a Nex-5 and other bodies (screen, some buttons on the back… And the strap anchor system photoshoped too…). Prototypes are not made with a mix of pictures and renders…
But it’s a kind of testify from people who are waiting for the Nex-7 to be, and it’s very interesting !
sonystudio
11 months ago |what about flash sync with studio flashes?
Lee
11 months ago |!!!god bless! Must buy!
nopt
11 months ago |This is *very* obviously a CG rendering, and not a very convincing one if you’re a 3d artist. The design itself is also very plain, this is not Sony design language. I don’t mean that it’s a rangefinder style design, I mean all the surface details and contours. Look at the NEX-3C, the body/surface engineering is much more sophisticated than on this 3d model.
That said, I definitely wouldn’t mind if Sony went in this direction with the NEX-7! They could make a very sexy camera, ala x100 but with way more utility.
PhotoNut
11 months ago |That is not a “picture”! It is a bad computer 3D graphics rendering and it is really ugly.
Also what is this about a Zeiss 24mm f/1.8? I thought it was supposed to be an f/2? Also why is the lens so darn big since it s only covering APS-C and can be non-retrofocus?!
Contrary to what you may have read, it is very possible to build small lenses for a NEX style camera. Afterall, look at the sizes of the legacy lenses you can use on a NEX with adapters, yet these lenses were build for SLR cameras with a much larger flange to film/sensor distance.
You can also use Leica “M” lenses on the NEX with adapters and there is not too much vignetting and quality problems in the corners.
Sony is really derelict in not innovating on matching small lenses for their NEX range of cameras.
Ideally, SONY should have customized the NEX sensors with offset microlenses so that all its wide angle to normal lenses would not be retrofocus.
GH
11 months ago |Even Leica’s wide angles are retrofocus, these days. Besides, sharpness in the corners with wide rangefinder lenses isn’t so much a problem on NEX. It is the color shift that is a big problem, and Leica has to use software fixes to deal with corner color and vignetting, despite their special microlens setup.
I definitely think this is a fake rendering, but, I also think people would flock to such a camera if Sony did build something similar.
PhotoNut
11 months ago |FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE!
Unlike the REAL A77 pictures from yesterday that you prematurely called FAKE.
extra|ordinary
11 months ago |Ready to buy…
[NEX-7 preorder button] <—Click
[24/1.8 preorder button] <—Click
Jennzhen
11 months ago |Your button doesn’t work!
Raul S.
11 months ago |FINALLY! something about the possible configuration of NEX-7..! I don’t mind if this is CG, because this might be what we’re going to see in the final product…I was wondering why we got production photos of the a77 a65 and not even a mockup for the NEX-7 if it’s supposed to be launched on late August..
Frosti7
11 months ago |A message to SOURCES
please can anyone confirm this is the next nex-7?
if it turns out to be diamage A2 style i’m jumping from the rooftop
hRs
11 months ago |why is the “on” text mirrored? settings can be “off” or “no” …
i smell a fake ><
Kiril
11 months ago |Will there be “yes” position on the other side of “off”? “No” kinda sucks
I love this design and though it is computer graphics I hope it comes close to the real thing.