Sony makes cameras that are easy to love. Not all of them are perfect, but when it comes to design, Sony usually has an edge. That was lost with many of the Alphas, with the exception of the high-end of their body and lens lineup. We definitely see more of Sony’s acute design skill built into the Sony NEX-5, so I decided to write this sony NEX5 Review.
There are so many interesting innovations in the Sony NEX-5, that it’s difficult to know where to start. Easily the biggest features though, is that the Sony NEX series is the first interchangeable lens digital camera system designed to tackle continuous autofocus and exposure adjustment while recording video, where all the components, bodies and lenses, support the feature.
A 14-megapixel Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor is responsible for the high quality we found in the images from the camera, and a new Bionz processor is also hard at work in the camera.
Several hot features were brought over from recent Alphas and Cyber-shot digital cameras, including Sweep Panorama, Auto High-Dynamic Range shooting, Handheld Twilight, and Anti-motion-blur modes, each of which strategically combine and align several images into one seamless one.
It’s pretty impressive stuff. As if that weren’t enough, Sony’s also announcing an upcoming upgrade that will enable a special 3D Sweep Panorama mode that will work with several as-yet unannounced Bravia TV sets.
Sony have really shaken up the camera market, even though they wern’t the first manufacturer into the Single Lens Direct-view digital camera category, the Sony NEX-5 is a unique camera that will be remembered for their design as well as their excellent image quality.
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