Sony Alpha NEX System: Interview with Sony UK

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I hope you don’t get bored with all those NEX news :)

– Hands-on on Engadget
– NEX-5 review on SLRCLUB (in korean only / found via fotoactualidad)
– GH1 vs Pre-Production Nex 3 5 ISO comparison (whatdigitalcamera / dpreview forum)
– NEX image samples on swiatobrazu.pl
– Pentax K-x vs Sony NEX5 (dpreview forum)
– What’s NEX? (Photoclubalpha)
– A huge Zeiss lens on the NEX3 (sonytone.com)

Youtube NEX links sent by our readers:
– Sony α NEX-5 & NEX-3
– Sony NEX-5 HD sample 1

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We noticed at least two curious “poblems” if not “conflict between Sony and Amazon.

1) Phil Askey from dpreview wrote: “Having spent a considerable amount of time producing previews of both cameras we were slightly surprised this morning to see full reviews of the NEX-5 on another sites who were apparently given production cameras (which we were promised but never received). We only received pre-production models and honored Sony’s request not to publish images.” Important notice: Dpreview is owned by amazon!

2) Amazon US is usually fast in offering pre-orders when a camera has been announced. After three days amazon is the only major shop in US to not offer the NEX cameras for preorder!
As you can see here, Adorama, BHphoto and RITZ do list the NEX cameras.

There is absolutely nothing on Amazon…..and did you notice the MicroFourThirds banner instead? Curious :)

Anyway I believe in both cases we only saw a comunication problem between the two giants.

Toru Katsumotoe (Sony Senior General Manager) has been interviewed by ePhotozine.

The most interetsing parts are:

– no need to bring back-illumintaed tecnology on big APS-C sensors
– The A and E mount do not compete against each other (Alpha series will continue)
– The E mount distance from lens to sensor is 18mm and it needs to be at 44mm for A mount lenses to be effective.
– Autofocus should be working with the adapter and we have engineers still working very hard (maybe we can do it on a firmware upgrade).

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