SONY NEX5

The SONY NEX5 has all picture quality of a DSLR, yet it’s about half the size, half the weight and far less complex. Pulling off this minor miracle took some clever innovations in glass, silicon and software code. This SONY NEX5 is a pocket professional ! If you want a small (the smallest !) camera with a DSLR capability, this SONY NEX5 must be for you !

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Sony NEX5 User Report

by Shawn Barnett, with Dave Etchells

“Smaller and more aggressive.” That’s what I was silently hoping Sony’s engineers would do after seeing the concept models at PMA 2010. Seems Sony engineers had the same idea already, likely even before we saw the concept “wood block” models. The Sony NEX5 is more aggressive than the NEX3, looking a lot like a Sony T-series camera with a grip and a big lens screwed onto the front. It also evokes the memory of the Sony F505 through the F717, unusual looking cameras produced from 2000 to 2002.

Unlike the rest of the SLD (single-lens, direct-view) digital cameras, the two new Sony NEX-series cameras don’t try at all to look like an SLR or rangefinder. Instead they look more like a midsize digital camera with a big lens grafted on. Bordering on the absurd, especially with the 18-55mm lens mounted, the Sony NEX-5 Alpha manages to pull off this seeming overemphasis on optics if only because of the lens’s shiny aluminum barrel, whose efficient shape speaks of precision. After several years of relative sameness among digital camera designs, it’s refreshing to see something bold. The Sony NEX 5 Alpha is most certainly bold.
Smallest among the new line’s competition, the Sony NEX-5 Alpha is also light. Its magnesium-alloy body weighs just 10.2 ounces (0.63 pound, 288g) with battery and card, and adding the lens raises the weight to 17.7 ounces (1.1 pounds, 502g). By comparison, the Panasonic G2 weighs 21.8 ounces (1.36 pounds, 618g); the Olympus E-P2 weighs 19 ounces (1.2 pounds, 539g); and the Samsung NX10 weighs 21.5 ounces (1.3 pounds, 610g) each with kit lens, battery, and card.

From the top of the Sony NEX 5 Alpha you see the stereo microphones, rather obviously marked L and R, and the three holes for the speaker. Between the two mics is the accessory flap, smaller than the one on the NEX-3, which you lift up and back, pivoting on its rubber hinge, to access the small accessory port. So far, the port accepts the included accessory flash and the optional accessory microphone; for now we haven’t heard of any plans for an accessory EVF, though Sony plans to release an optical viewfinder accessory with a 16mm field of view.

Here you can see the dramatic size of the 18-55mm compared to the camera body, made more dramatic by the included lens hood. The 16mm f/2.8 lens also has an aluminum barrel, and looks larger than it is, thanks to the metal mount, which is several millimeters thick. The lens is actually about as thick as the Olympus 17mm f/2.8 M.Zuiko pancake lens. The 16mm lens will also accept a wide-angle adapter and a fisheye adapter, which mount on the bayonet located on the inset plastic barrel that holds the actual lens elements.

Much like sports car designs emphasize their command of the road by contrasting their low profile bodies with large, fully exposed wheels, the Sony NEX design shows its command of light by contrasting its small digital camera body with a large, burnished gunmetal lens (the 18-55mm is shown here). That’s more true with the Alpha Sony NEX5 than the Alpha NEX-3, whose very mount size exceeds the camera body’s height (click on image at right for a larger sample). Lower left of the lens in these shots is the lens release button, and upper left is the AF-assist and self-timer lamp. Just below the shutter button, you can also see an infrared remote control port.

The large rear-accessed power switch is separate from the shutter button, which places the shutter button in a better position out on the grip, while the two are integrated on the SONY NEX-3. Despite the narrow space between the grip and lens, I find the NEX-5′s grip more comfortable than the wide, thin grip on the NEX-3. The Sony NEX-5′s grip is much thicker front to back, with a deeper angle for the fingers to get a hold. The Playback button is also on top, which is a bit of a nuisance, since it’s one of the things you want to quickly find and activate while you’re looking at the LCD.

Note the position of the two camera strap lugs on the Sony NEX 5 Alpha. The Sony NEX cameras are designed to hang with the lens pointing down, just like their spiritual predecessors (the F505-F717 mentioned earlier). This has several advantages, one being that the screen is less likely to be scratched by shirt buttons, and the small camera body won’t pitch forward at different angles depending on what lens you have mounted. Sony knows that the lenses will usually tip the camera forward, especially on a camera whose body is so light, so why not just hang the lens downward in the first place? What I discovered when I attached the strap was that several of the camera’s design elements that seem awkward at first suddenly make perfect sense.

 

 

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