Tagged with nex-7 - Personal View Talks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/nex-7/feed.rss Mon, 29 Apr 24 06:43:58 +0000 Tagged with nex-7 - Personal View Talks en-CA Official Sony NEX 7 topic http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/749/official-sony-nex-7-topic Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:23:18 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 749@/talks/discussions



NEX 7 video:

AVCHD Ver. 2.0, average bit rate
1920 x 1080
50p: 28Mbps (PS),
50i: 24Mbps (FX), 17Mbps (FH)
25p: 24Mbps (FX), 17Mbps (FH)

MP4 , average bit rate
1440 x 1080 12Mbps
- Approx. 29 min., MP4 format movie for up to Approx. 2 GB.

Price: $1350 with the 18-55mm lens, $1199 body only.

Sony press release:

http://presscentre.sony.eu/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=6940&NewsAreaId=2




Reviews and Previews

http://dpreview.com/news/1108/11082419sonynex7overview.asp

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NEX-7 vs GH2 comparison http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/5342/nex-7-vs-gh2-comparison Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:38:22 +0000 tetakpatak 5342@/talks/discussions Originally, when I bought the NEX-7 I had entirely still photography in my mind. Its mighty APS-C sensor (24MP) is capable of creating fantastic photos. Considering its video recording capability, I haven't expected anything remarkable. Although, it is quite interesting- I've made this test footage last week and compared it with the GH2, which is (especially here on the P-V site) very well-known to most of the visitors:

Test footage details:
The choice of lenses was done very carefully. Considering different crops of the APS-C and micro-four-thirds sensors (1,5x vs 1,86x recpectivelly) I've used the lenses that have similar view angle, same speed and extremely similar optical performance. All lenses had proper lens hood at all times. The aperture was most of the time stopped down for one step (day at f/4.0, night at f/2.8) except in very dark scenes, where both Nikkors had fully open diaphragm. In the NEX-7 there is no possibility of shooting in 24fps mode so I set it to 25fps and adjusted the GH2 to HBR and 25fps.

NEX-7 with stock firmware (PAL) // GH2 with the patch Cake 2.3 by @balazer
AVCHD 25fps 1080 // AVCHD HBR 25fps 1080
The GH2 camera files were quite exactly double-sized compared to the NEX-7

Daylight footage settings:
Lens: Canon FD 35/2.8 // FD 24/2.8
Lens aperture: (always) 4.0, no filters
Crop: 1.5x35=52,5mm equivalent // 1.86x24=44,6mm equivalent
ISO: 200 // 200 (always)
AWB // AWB
EV 0.0 // 0.0
Metering: multi // frame+center
Colors progr.: standard // standard
In-camera setting: default // default (0,0,0,0)
Mode: aperture priority (both)

Night footage settings:
Lens: Nikkor 35/2.0 Ai // Nikkor 28/2.0 Ai
Crop: 1.5x35=52,5mm equivalent // 1.86x28=52,1mm equivalent
Lens aperture: 2.0-2.8
ISO: 1600-1600
AWB // AWB (one take manually set to 2500K both)
EV: at first 0.0 both, later -0.3 / +0.7
Metering: multi // field+center
Colors progr.: standard // standard
In-camera setting: default-default (0,0,0,0)
Mode: manual (both)

Comments and bit of my subjective impressions:

Exposure: by default settings (EV 0.0), NEX-7 tends to overexpose EV+2/3, GH2 to underexpose EV-2/3
Colors: NEX-7 tends to reddish, GH2 to greenish colors. The NEX-7 has possibility of adjusting the color tones for every color mode, also for AWB.
White balance: NEX-7 is capable of getting much cooler AWB, extremely weird situation occurs at 2m45" when the WB in both cameras was set manually to 2500K
Moiré: two tipical situations by 1m40" but generally, the NEX-7 has obviously less moiré
ISO: NEX-7 has feature of changing the ISO sensitivity during the recording, the GH3 offers this but GH2 and GH1 not. In the daylight ISO was set manually to 200, in the night to 1600 in both cameras.
Sharpness: I was expecting clear winner GH2 and much worse NEX-7. Yet, the result is very similar. Please mind that in one scene I forgot to focus the lens (by 2m35") mounted to the NEX-7
Contrasts: in all test situations the NEX-7 shows more details in the shadows, but it would need bit more testing because of the camera's propensity to overexpose what I didn't notice at first.

The NEX-7 is even smaller than GH1 or GH2 and it has bigger sensor.... I like its concept, very minimalistic- pure idea of the "mirrorlessity". Its big advantage is the still photography, such a comparison wouldn't make much sence because it simply blows off not only the GH2 but even most of the DSLRs with APS-C sensor.... it's newer generation. The big drawback of the NEX-7 considering its video functionality is its sensor overheating. On the room temperature, some 20min are maximum one can expect, regardless if the display is lifted or left in its position. I am kind of very pleased to see that the NEX-7 renders the shadows very smooth and in cinematic spirit, with lots of details. It is a feature that we are struggling to get with our GHx cameras. This cinematic image gets more obvious by using a bit less sharp lenses than Canon FD or Nikkor that I used in this test.

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People getting Sony NEX 7 cameras. http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1739/people-getting-sony-nex-7-cameras.- Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:05:01 +0000 Shield 1739@/talks/discussions http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-alpha-NEX-7-24-3-MP-Digital-Camera-Black-Body-Only-/270874898995?pt=Digital_Cameras&hash=item3f1166f233

Body only, and it's at $1825 already. Geesh people.

Here's some raw video footage. I see LOTS of moire in the daylight shots.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonynex7/page24.asp

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