Would you consider the Nex-3 and 5 to be succesful cameras?
Certainly the nex-7, for my taste, would be smaller,and the EVF would be more like the x100, but with RF like splitscreen focusing.
But what it can do far outweighs the details.
They will not be able to produce enough of these cameras, you watch.
As far as the size with lenses, you once again miss the point:
With a nex, it's your choice. You can go lean, or you can go big.
As far as the legacy lens being "niche", this feature has attracted many to the nex line, and has brought the camera tremendous respect---priceless marketing.
It's curious you don't see the huge coup the Nex-7 represents. I'm no fan of giant corporations, but thank god for sony, in this case. Obviously Canon and Nikon think just like you do
To dismiss the ergonomics of the nex 7 out of hand, never having spent any time using it (not sure if you have shot with the nex), really is been there done that hubris.
Nothing new there, we have seen one silly review of the Nex-5 after the next, utterly missing the point of the camera, from digtital Rev to DP review.
Only a few ever bothered to get to know the camera, like steve huff, because their parameters were already set.
But it doesn't matter, the market knows much better.
I think Doug said he'd never pre-ordered a camera in his life, till this one. Posts like that are all over the place in the various forums. If that does not tell you something, you simply aren't listening.
I saw the same attitude amoung the wise elders when shaped skis came on the market
"It's a fad!" they said, loudly and repeatedly.
10 years later those same people can't even concieve of using "classic skis".
best,
Charlie :salute:
nex-5 + OM200/5
