have the nex5 ow a few days and have to say i am excited. the first day i regretted that i`d left my G10 to my gf, cause it looked to me that i`d liked the controls way more then the menue dialing on the nex, and thats certainly still the case. but after some days i`d got accustomed to the sony.
i realize that its just the opposite of an amateur p+s camera.
i bought it with the 16mm lens, which is very sharp at the center wide open too, to get sharp corners it wants to be stopped down to 5,6/8, but its a very capable lens for the small cam.
yesterday i received my m-mount adapter and started to play around with the 2/35 summicron and the 2.8/ 90. all manually than.
its really a completely other way to photograph than with any p+s before. all manually. iso change in menu setting not automatically.
thanks to the very sharp lcd screen its even possible to get sharp images focusing n the screen, but there is also the possibility to magnify it via an assessed button 7x or even 14x. sharpness is easy to bring it spot on. due to the movable lcd this is not a poor mans leica, its a completely other cam, and a cam which force me to go back to photograph and not to snapshot. and i am a bit tired of snapshotting, cause i use so rarely any of these images for anything. noise behavior is very good till 80 and still good with 1600 and more.
other with the video. quality is good and with the sony lens the af woks quiet and very reliable, so this is very nice to use it for "snapvideoing", not bad to have it at all. hope they will bring ouit a 35mm af lens, but i doubt it a bit.
very nice cam system imo, and in difference to what i read all over the net, i think its a nice cam exactly for a prof. photographer,
because its NOT so easy to use, it slows one down a bit, and the result of this are nicer images.
using the sony with fixed manual lenses is in a new form more similar as it was with old manual cameras ( mamyia c220/330 comes to my mind ) than with any one of these other small p+s cams.
