SONY NEX 5 Review

As the fourth major manufacturer to enter the market for small, mirrorless digital cameras with interchangeable lenses, Sony had to make a big impression. We think they’ll do just that with the new Sony NEX 5 and NEX3, two cameras they’re calling “alpha compact interchangeable lens digital cameras.” The promise of mirrorless digital cameras has been high image quality without all the bulk, and the photographic versatility of interchangeable lenses. The Sony NEX5 delivers that better than any model so far, and does it with style and a sturdy build.

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SONY NEX 5 Reviews

The 3-inch LCD tilts up 80 degrees and down 45 degrees, and has a 920,000-dot resolution. The display also uses Sony’s Clear Photo LCD Plus and Tru Black technology from Sony’s line of digital picture frames. The LCD is easier to tilt upward than downward, requiring a little finesse combined with force to coax it into its 45-degree downward angle. With the strap attached, the LCD is always facing up, ready for chimping. Wrap your fingers around the Sony NEX5′s grip and bring your thumb around and up to the strap, and your thumb easily reaches the power switch. Draw your thumb back to use the Control wheel and soft keys. The Control wheel is very well designed, with a high edge around the perimeter with fairly sharp cuts for a good grip. Rather than fill the small space with expensive buttons, Sony has designed a new interface that’s context-sensitive. The menu’s responsiveness is very quick, with snappy clicks to accompany wheel motion and onscreen action. It’s sometimes confusing, but always responsive. More on this later. We did notice that using the Control wheel to make frequent adjustments can wear on your thumb after only a short time, but thankfully the Control wheel also serves as a four-way navigator, which you can also use to step through the menus. You can continue see sony nex 5 review below to know better about this product and can make full use of this camera.

One note on aesthetics: The optional lens rings are brushed aluminum which made it a bit jarring on the black body. The supplied flash is also silver colored but a bit more muted. With everything attached, especially the 18-55mm zoom, the camera looks awkward. This would be less of the case with a silver-bodied version (also available). Perhaps Sony could offer all black lenses as well as a black flash? Just a suggestion…

On the top of the SONY NEX5 APLHA are stereo mics, playback button, a decidedly retro on/off switch and the shutter button on the angled grip. Also here is the Smart Accessory Terminal for the supplied flash. Since the body is so small, there really wasn’t anywhere to place an in-body flash. When screwed into position, it angles up to prevent vignetting. This port can also be used to attach a more accurate optional stereo mic to complement the AVCHD videos. But then you lose the flash so as with every camera there are tradeoffs.

Storage and battery
The Sony NEX5 Alpha camera is compatible with two memory card standards, each with various permutations. The first is the Memory Stick Pro Duo/Pro-HG Duo/Pro-HG HX Duo, and like Olympus did with the Pens last year, Sony now also supports SD, SDHC, and SDXC media in the same slot.

The Alpha Sony NEX5 camera uses a 7.2V 1080mAh lithium-ion battery with part number NP-FW50. Tested to the CIPA standard, the Sony Alpha NEX5 is expected to get about 330 shots per charge. Expected Battery life is shortened somewhat because while the camera is on and in Record mode, the Sony NEX-5 will continue to seek focus whether you’re in continuous or single focus mode.

Sensor
The Sony NEX-3 and Sony NEX 5 Alpha have the company’s third generation Exmor sensor. It is an APS-C sized HD-CMOS sensor that Sony says is 60% larger than a Four Thirds sensor, and 13 times larger than a typical video camera sensor, so they expect performance gains in both areas.

Dust
The Sony NEX cameras have a dust abatement and removal system, where they’ve included a charge-protection coating on the low-pass filter, and they also vibrate the low pass filter to shake dust free.

Processor
Sony doesn’t say much about the new Bionz processor beyond that it’s the third generation of the chip. Looking at the images, it could be a big part of what’s improved their image quality so much.

Autofocus and metering
The Alpha Sony NEX-5 uses contrast-detect autofocus only. It has two autofocus modes AF-S for single and AF-C for continuous focusing. There are three autofocus area modes, including Center, Multi, and Flexible Area modes. You can also choose full Autofocus, DMF, which allows you to adjust focus after the autofocus operation, and Manual Focus. Focus is fast and fairly accurate.

Optics
Sony’s new lenses are designed to respond more quickly than conventional SLR lenses can, with the express purpose of enabling autofocus while shooting video. Most SLRs either disable autofocus while capturing video, or else they essentially ruin the bit of the video where you’re focusing because of the lens motor noise and the excessive focus and exposure changes required.

Sony says the new E-Mount lenses have silent focus and silent, continuous aperture control. See our Optics tab for a more thorough writeup of Sony’s new approach, as well as our completed test results for both kit lenses.

White balance
options include Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Flash, Color Temperature/Filter, and Custom.

Menus
Sony’s introducing a whole new menu system on the NEX series cameras, one that looks and sounds quite snappy as you navigate, but our pre-release cameras had a few problems that served as the only real negative points in our experience with the SONY NEX-5 Alpha and NEX-3. See the Shooter’s Report for more on that. The general interface is pretty good, if you stick to the basic controls.

Special features
The Sony NEX 5 Alpha comes with quite a few special features borrowed from the Cyber-shot line, the most interesting of those being the Sweep panorama feature.

 

 

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