Here's another great new Travel camera, the new NEX series from Sony. It's the same concept as my Olympus PEN but this camera sports a full APS-C size sensor, so it's not a 4/3rds camera but it is a mirror-less SLR camera. Strictly speaking the R (for reflex) should not exist. But that's whole other subject.
The Sony NEX is great size and a couple of things it has over my PEN is, the grip and full 1080i HD video. Essentially, if ever I have camera in my hand, I'm a still photographer, so I'm not turned on by all the hoopla of having video in my camera no matter how many horizontal lines of video your going to give me, I just don't care. But the NEX does sit in the hand very well and this is due to the well designed battery chamber, come palm grip.
Of coarse, not being 4/3rds, it's whole new lens mount, and requires a mount adapter to take even Sony's own Alpha lens series.
It's a good looking camera, it's completely functional with some great features like an up-ward pivoting 3inch LCD screen and sweep '3D' panorama,
It just lacks the style of my Olympus PEN.
The Sony NEX is great size and a couple of things it has over my PEN is, the grip and full 1080i HD video. Essentially, if ever I have camera in my hand, I'm a still photographer, so I'm not turned on by all the hoopla of having video in my camera no matter how many horizontal lines of video your going to give me, I just don't care. But the NEX does sit in the hand very well and this is due to the well designed battery chamber, come palm grip.
Of coarse, not being 4/3rds, it's whole new lens mount, and requires a mount adapter to take even Sony's own Alpha lens series.
It's a good looking camera, it's completely functional with some great features like an up-ward pivoting 3inch LCD screen and sweep '3D' panorama,
It just lacks the style of my Olympus PEN.
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