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All in all, I like the camera very much and am glad I bought it. The quality of the photos is great. I'm especially impressed with the Hand-held twilight mode. I got an indoor picture in low light with almost no perceptible noise. Amazing. I've used some adapters and non-Sony lenses as well with excellent results. In fact I almost prefer using the external lenses with manual focus to shooting with the 18-55 auto focus. I have a few reservations with the camera. The rear display is not bright enough to work with in direct sunlight. I'm now thinking the EVF may be a required accessory for anything more than casual shooting. The external flash is kind of a drag and not something I want connected all the time. Although my intent is to get decent pictures without the flash as I really don't like the look of artificial flash (although I do miss having a fill flash, but that can be somewhat mitigated by using the HDR mode). Finally, I don't yet have a good way to use the 5n to control my external strobe units, although I'm working on a work around. Eventually, I'm sure someone will release a wireless strobe unit that fits in the accessory port. Once this happens, I will be glad to send my Canon Rebel SLR off to eBay land. The final thing I would love to see is a pancake-style lens with around a 28mm focal length. The NEX with the 18-55 is not quite pocketable, and the 16mm lens, while small enough, seems a bit too wide angle for walk-around use.Read full review
I knew I had outgrown the "point and shoot" cameras, but I also did not want a full size/full blown/heavy DSLR. This camera is great. Its everything I wanted in a DSLR, but in a smaller package. The main things I wanted my new camera to be able to do was; 1. Take great sports pictures with little to no blur. 2. Multiple shots per second. 3. Panaramic pictures. 4. I wanted a camera that worked via a remote control (NOT just a timer) The Sony NEX excels at all of the features I wanted, and I really enjoy being able to swap out lenses and filters.
This was replacement camera for my old Canon SX 110 which my son dropped. But i am glad to have this one now..great picture and video...awesome features both for professional and newbies like me. Light weight and easy to carry. Only shortcoming i felt is the Zoom capability of the lens that comes by default (18-55mm) thats like 3 X zoom...and you need to spend huge money to get the 11x zoom lenses.
I'm a pro and the NEX-5n is the first time my primary camera has not been a DSLR. Sony has created a very robust camera in the NEX-5n. It is capable of just about every photographic trick you could wish for... and I'd love to discuss that. However the 5n is an even more significant achievement for video enthusiasts - here's why... The NEX-5n is one of the first large-sensor cameras to completely unlock the video mode. This means you can dial in any setting you please, including really low shutter speeds. The creative potential is unlimited, with 1080/60p and 1080/24p video modes. The camera is capable of fast-focusing while recording, and can even focus-track moving subjects that you select on the touch-screen. Really amazing capability that until last year cost thousands of dollars to access, and not even at this quality. The quality of the video itself can only be described as 'perfect'. OK, so video is a hude deal, but so is the camera system. Thanks to Sony's foresight, there are alpha-series lens adapters, including a unit that has a translucent mirror, for phase-detect focusing with alpha lenses. This is a huge deal because it adds dozens of amazing lenses to the system, all of which can also be used for video. As for still photography... the camera is a dream to use. It is tiny, it is fast, it takes 'perfect' pictures 99.9% of the time - it's really on the photographer to frame the picture well, because the camera is going to capture exactly that, and do it well. 3D panoramas, HDR photos, handheld low-light, smile detect, it's all there in an impossibly tiny camera.Read full review
I bought (and soon after, returned) the Sony NEX-5N. I had been looking for a small, but feature-rich camera that could compete with a DSLR image quality-wise and serve as a backup. I liked the NEX's small body size, but hated the bulky kit lens, which is made of cheap aluminum and therefore easily scratched and dented. Sony's video features are great, but the lens quality was a restricting factor. I didn't like being limited to Sony's lenses, either - Canon and Leica have much better quality. The NEX-5N doesn't have an on-board flash, and I did not like having to line up and install the removable flash every time I wanted to use the camera. I also didn't like the LCD screen's limited position range - why did Sony even bother when it could have gone just a little bit further and made it a true flip-out screen? I took the NEX-5N and its shamefully bad kit lens out for a round of photos. They were soft and in some cases, even blurry. Toward the edges of the photos, there was distinct warping, kind of like an unintentional funhouse effect, which I was definitely not impressed with on a nearly $700 item. The camera was awkward handling-wise due to the heavy lens on such a skinny body (in any other situation, the body size would have been a plus). The touch screen feature is also a bit overrated and redundant: the buttons on the side of the LCD screen are sufficient, and who needs fingerprints and smears on an LCD screen when trying to gauge photo quality on a camera with no native viewfinder? Add to that, the pictures where I used the screw-on flash showed huge shadows where the lens got in the way - in other words, poor flash location and design! It's almost as if Sony wants you to start spending BIG money on accessories like remote flashes, viewfinders and lenses that just don't cut it. Overall, I wanted to like this camera. But I couldn't. The software that came with the camera was very good, but Sony should seriously reconsider a few things regarding its hardware offerings. A MUCH better kit lens, a built-in (and better positioned) flash and even a basic viewfinder would have made what is potentially a very capable camera great right out of the box. NOTE: After I received my refund, I opted for a Canon S100 at half the price (and size). Its compact size, lens and photo quality make it a great first camera or a very worthwhile companion to a high-end DSLR when you don't want to carry around bulky equipment.Read full review
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