Sony NEX-5N

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 31. August 2011 - 6:07

The Sony NEX-5n is one of the new mirrorless cameras from Sony. I was able to play with it for about 15 minutes! Yeap, that's ¼ of an hour. I'm not allowed to show the photos, “he” kept the sd card. I wasn't really allowed to try it, but some Starbucks, some “slick” talking and I spend 15 minutes with it.

The camera is nice, the focus is fast, almost as fast as a regular dSLR. It's not as fast as a Canon 7D but it's still darn fast. It feels lot faster than a Canon T3i or a Nikon 3100. The images on the back of camera looked very good, but it was JPEGs. The LCD is super-gorgeous. The NEX-5n has a panorama and an HDR mode (I didn't try them) and I'm very interested in the panorama mode.

The camera design is nice and sleek. The problem are the lenses: Huge! Humongous! The 18-55mm lens is 3 (three) times larger than the camera! There's a small hand grip, but I still found it very awkward. But don't forget that I only use the camera for 15 minutes, I may be able to get use to it with time. What I do not understand is:

  • What's the point of making a camera so small when the lens dwarfs the camera body?

Could there be some small fixed “pancacke” lens coming?

I'm applying for a patent to integrate the camera within the lens. The 18-55 zoom could almost swallow the camera. The only reason to have the camera sticking out is the lcd. Where to put it? Use your imagination.