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Or enthusiasts who are looking for a platform fo adapted rangefinder and older SLR lenses.What remains, then, is enthusiasts who are not cost sensitive, looking for more of the latest gear.
Resonable success yes, but hardly world-changing. NEX7 is in a different price bracket, significantly higher than entry-level DSLRs so it won't be seen as an alternative to a DSLR by the mass market.Or enthusiasts who are looking for a platform fo adapted rangefinder and older SLR lenses.
Agree that's also not going to ba a huge mass of people.
However only time will tell, same logic could be applied to the Nex 3 and 5 when they came out, and I think they have been a reasonable success.
:wtf:Stefan,
I would rather say the Fuji X100 is a game changer.
I was more thinking of the viewfinder of the X100, which conceptually qualifies as a game changer, at least to me (though I have never used one so implementation might not meet the promise).A very expensive niche camera with a fixed lens which main attraction is retro style can never be a game changer in my book. It might give good IQ, but for that price with it's limited options it better does that or otherwise it doesn't even have a reason for existence.
I predict here and now, you are dead wrong.I don't think NEX7 will sell in large volumes at all. Seriosuly, who would buy it?
It's too expensive for the mass market so it's not an alternative to even high-end compacts like G12 etc.
It's too big to be pocketable, even with a pancake lens, so it doesn't replace a compact.
It's too expensive and too big to be a compact travel alternative to a DSLR.
The system is nowhere complete enough to be seen as an only system for.
What remains, then, is enthusiasts who are not cost sensitive, looking for more of the latest gear.
Viewfinder is neat, but we'll have to wait and see if it "changes the game".I was more thinking of the viewfinder of the X100, which conceptually qualifies as a game changer, at least to me (though I have never used one so implementation might not meet the promise).
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I still don't understand why you are so excited about the NEX7 that you want to call it a game changer. What game is changed, and for whom?
The Nikon sure will be of limited interest to enthusiasts, I'd imagine, with its tiny sensor that falls in between p&s and m4/3 in size.this should be realized and launched pretty soon:
http://nikonrumors.com/2011/08/16/f...terchangeable-lens-camera.aspx/#ixzz1W2CWp5Ab
and if Fuji wants to stay in the game they must launch an X200 with interchangeable lenses.
Regards
Stefan
It's potentially a game changer for me. I already migrated completely away from my A900 system after using the NEX-5 and rangefinder lenses for a while, but I do see the resolution differences at my usual print size. This NEX-7 is like combining the GH2, NEX-5 and A900 into one camera, and then adding a little rangefinder seasoning (in terms of the lenses I'll use.) It's really almost exactly how I'd design a digital camera for myself...outside of maybe wanting a larger sensor that probably won't happen for a long time, if ever.I was more thinking of the viewfinder of the X100, which conceptually qualifies as a game changer, at least to me (though I have never used one so implementation might not meet the promise).
You could turn your argument around and ask what's the big deal is about an EVF camera whose main attraction is piss-poor ergonomics unless you have tiny Japanese hands.
I still don't understand why you are so excited about the NEX7 that you want to call it a game changer. What game is changed, and for whom?
Sure, I understand your thinking and I don't really disagree. And I understand others' excitement here, for the same and other reasons. But that's pretty far from a mass-market success.It's potentially a game changer for me. I already migrated completely away from my A900 system after using the NEX-5 and rangefinder lenses for a while, but I do see the resolution differences at my usual print size. This NEX-7 is like combining the GH2, NEX-5 and A900 into one camera, and then adding a little rangefinder seasoning (in terms of the lenses I'll use.) It's really almost exactly how I'd design a digital camera for myself...outside of maybe wanting a larger sensor that probably won't happen for a long time, if ever.
In fact, I believe the NEX-7 is the first camera I've ever pre-ordered.
290 grams, sure. Add three or four lenses and hoods, those brass-ring filters you will surely get for your new lenses, a camera bag, flash and batteries and the weight difference to an A77 is marginal. And WRT handheld stability and sharpness I'll take a 900g camera body over a 290g any time. Sometimes less weight isn't a good thing.I predict here and now, you are dead wrong.
The Nex-7 will outsell the field at that pricepoint.
There has never been a camera made with the size, performance and versatility of the nex-7. There is huge buzz already in the staid lecia community--who rarely cast a second glance at the dirty little nex-5
The true performance of the sensor is not apreciated, since the raws are still unreadable.
10FPS, fast AF, best EVF ever made, new lens adapters, and lenses on the way from sony, not to mention all the makers who now have the specs from sony.
It will shoot beautifully with legacy glass.
It weighs 290 grams.
The talk of too big and too small is simply silly--it's the smallest thing ever seen that can do what it can do---by a mile.
Sony has just wiped the floor with canikon and the in the box thinking you put forward. :salute:
The camera will be available in November. One year from then I'll dig up this thread and we'll see who was right LOL
PS please don't misread my tone, not trying to be disrespectful. Many agree with you, I just think they all are crazy!
Hi LarsSure, I understand your thinking and I don't really disagree. And I understand others' excitement here, for the same and other reasons. But that's pretty far from a mass-market success.