Sony NEX-5R/B 16.1 MP Mirrorless Digital Camera with 3-Inch LCD - Body Only (Black)

Sony NEX-5R/B 16.1 MP Mirrorless Digital Camera with 3-Inch LCD - Body Only (Black)

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• DSLR-quality in about half the size and weight
• 16 MP APS-C sensor with fast up to 10 fps shooting speed
• Fast Hybrid AF includes phase-detection for DSLR-like focus
• Full HD movie shooting at 60p/24p with full exposure control
• Wi-Fi sharing and downloadable camera apps

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Brand : Sony
Category : Electronics,Camera & Photo,Digital Cameras,Mirrorless Cameras
Rating : 3.5
Review Count : 96

Sony NEX-5R/B 16.1 MP Mirrorless Digital Camera with 3-Inch LCD - Body Only (Black)

• NEW FULL FRAME TO NEX LENS ADAPTER AND LENS SPEED BOOSTER ADAPTER AS WELL AS OTHER ADD ONS and also NEW APPS AVAILABLEI have heard that a 3rd party manufacturer has announced something called a LENS SPEED BOOSTER for the NEX series that will enable the attachment of a \"full frame lens\" to the NEX mount including of course the NEX5R. According to one review \" When you attach a full-frame lens to the adapter, it will give your mirrorless\' APS-C or MFT sensor nearly full-frame coverage out of that lens, while increasing the amount of light hitting the sensor by one stop. So a 50mm f/1.4 effectively becomes a 35mm f/1.0\". The NEX5R has what is called an APS-C size sensor. The so called full frame sensor is a larger sensor size found on more expensive cameras and is supposed to be the same size as the old 35mm film. This is another example of 3rd party add on s including the various adapters that allow the attachment of a variety of lenses. You\'ll have to search on the Internet for details of the new lens booster.NEW APPS FOR NEX5R and NEX6 ARE HERE (Update)Much more than just loading photos onto a computer by WiFi, one of the key capabilities of the NEX5R is the ability to modify the camera and make it more powerful by uploading new apps to it. It\'s sort of like buying a camera that can grow more powerful over time. It depends on your imagination as well as Sony\'s. Two new apps have been added to the app store. As I mention below, these apps join others including the remote control app which I think is wonderful. THE REMOTE CONTROL APP WORKS WITH TABLETS TOO,you can SEE THE IMAGE ON A SCREEN MUCH LARGER THAN THE LCD OF THE CAMERA. Remember the NEX 5R GENERATES IT\'s OWN WI-FI SIGNAL. You DON\'T NEED TO BE IN A WIFI HOTSPOT.1. Timelapse , which as the name implies automates time lapse photography2. Cine photo , which creates a sort of photo-video mashup where part of the \"photo\" is a movie.You can see samples at the app store.The 180 DEGREE TILTABLE ARTICULATING SCREENThe ability to see yourself (something the Nex5n and the Nex6 can\'t do) as well as yourself and others or yourself and the surroundings is incredibly handy. It enables many shots at interesting angles you just wouldn\'t get and the ability to frame the picture or video leads to more great shots and fewer duds. I can\'t over emphasize this. Until you try this yourself it isn\'t obvious what a potential boon this could be. You\'ll scratch your head wondering why so few other cameras (exceptions, albeit more of point and shoot type, include the Samsung MV800 and MV900, BenQ G1 and the Casio ZR1000)5R EASIER TO ADJUST THAN THE 5N, GREAT FOR MANUAL CONTROL and WHY USE MANUAL ANYWAY?The EXTRA CONTROL WHEEL allows for better manual control vs playing with with the menu screen on the 5N. By rotating the control wheel on top and the wheel on the back you can get full control of aperture and shutter speed in manual. Using that together with the histogram and you can adjust for exquisite pictures. Why use manual control? Because sometimes the semi automated settings just don\'t get you what you want.INDOOR PICTURESThis camera can TAKE GREAT PICTURES in less light THAN OTHER CAMERAS using higher ISO with less image noise. Automatic white balance (color adjustment) to get accurate colors in the picture works better outdoors than in. I often need to use Custom White Balance indoors to get accurate colors. It\'s easy,set it to custom and just aim the lens at something in the room that is white and click the shutter.See below for UPDATE ON USEFULNESS AND FUN OF THE REMOTE CONTROL APP FOR CELL PHONES AND TABLETS. This remote control app facilitates self portraits and group or scenery shots with yourself in the picture,something which turns out to be very handy creating a lot more opportunities for photos as does the 180 degree and also fractions thereof, tiltable screen. (once you have worked with an articulating screen such as this one that allows views from all sorts of angles you will scratch your head wondering why all cameras don\'t have one)POWERFUL IMAGE SENSOR The 16 megapixel sensor on the 5R seems to have hit a sweet spot for light sensitivity. The megapixel count along with the large size of the sensor helps get better pictures versus a point and shoot. It is also easier to get shallow depth of field which lets you focus on the subject and blur the background. Some reviews argue that the 16 megapixel sensor as on the 5R actually produces better looking pictures at higher ISO than the 24 megapixel sensor on the NEX 7 because the 24 megapixel sensor has more pixels squeezed in and therefore smaller pixel size. Smaller size pixels usually produce more noise than larger size pixels.When you increase ISO, you are increasing sensitivity to light but you also get more noise, it\'s like turning up the volume on an AM radio with a weak station, it gets louder but maybe also more static.So when higher ISO,(sensitivity to light) is employed to get pictures in darker conditions, they say that the 16 megapixel sensor actually produces superior pictures with less image noise than the 24 megapixel sensor!MORE NEW FEATURES OF THE NEX5RBut a new day has dawned and now I am the proud owner of the Nex-5R. It\'s like they sent the Nex-5N to a hot rod shop and they ripped out the engine and dashboard and replaced it with a souped up turbocharged 16 cylinder engine with a voice controlled light activated dashboard. This baby has an OPTIONAL TOUCH SHUTTER on the 180 degree flexible screen, you just touch the screen ,not only does it lock focus, it takes the shot! And that SOUPED UP HYBRID focus using a contrast /phase detection combo means speedier focus with pictures when the subject is moving.Having phase detection cuts down on the hunting that contrast detection does.CONTROL OF ISO ISO for VIDEO and PICTURES: The ISO for video (sensitivity in darkness) is ADJUSTABLE THROUGH 6400 vs 3200 on the 5N. The ISO for pictures is ADJUSTABLE to 25,600. The availability of the Multi Frame Noise Reduction APP will help with the problem of image noise in darker conditions. This is a built in feature on the SLT cameras.COMPARING FEATURES OF NEX 5R ,5N, NEX6 The NEX 5R offers SUPERIOR AUTO (does more) and INTELLIGENT AUTO vs the NEX 5N which offers only INTELLIGENT AUTO.The TILT screen on the NEX 5R tilts upward 180 degrees to allow self portraits and portraits with yourself and others or scenery, the tilt screen on the NEX 6 does not go to 180. The NEX 5R DOES HAVE a TOUCH SCREEN and an OPTIONAL TOUCH SHUTTER (see below) vs The NEX 5N that has a TOUCH SCREEN ONLY. The NEX 6 DOES NOT HAVE A TOUCH SCREEN.By the way, Sony offers a free software update for some older NEX lenses so they can use the ultra fast hybrid focus of the 5R.OVERHEATING WITH VIDEO RECORDING May or may not occur and depends on the environment. I can feel the camera heating up as it is recording. I RAN ONE TEST in a 70 degree room and got a warning indicator at around 18 minutes.I did not wait to see when the camera would shut down. Many if not most dslr cameras especially from other manufacturers, C or N ? have limited short shooting times.MORE ABOUT DOWNLOADABLE APPS The REMOTE CONTROL CAMERA APP is turning out to be more USEFUL than I thought it would be. It allows you to SEE a (nice reproduction) image on your cell phone of what the camera is seeing AND trigger the shutter to capture the picture.. ALSO it has the option of introducing a 2 second TIME DELAY IF you wish. (Remote control does not seem to work in video, I think it ought to!).. This app concept is a great idea. It\'s sort of like buying a camera that can get more powerful with time. They NEED A LOT MORE APPS. But they are on the right track. The App is USEFUL and FUN. Remember the NEX 5R GENERATES IT\'s OWN WI-FI SIGNAL. You DON\'T NEED TO BE IN A WIFI HOTSPOT. Making a change on the camera is reflected on the tablet image, eg. changing the aperture. Images can be saved to a folder on the tablet in the Gallery. The APP worked on a Google Nexus 7 but not a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. I see from comments on the play store that many Galaxy Tab owners have experienced this and are looking for an update.SO NEAR YET Sony cameras push the technology. Yet,they always seem to leave something out or take something away. Case in point, I bought the SLT-A33. Great for video except the built in mic picks up the noise of the lens motor so I plugged in an external remote lavalier mic..Voila, no camera noise! but the camera shuts down on me when the sensor overheats. OK, so then I bought the Nex-5n. It takes great video and photos but there is no place to plug in an external mic and Sony sells one, count em, one external mic that fits on the \"smart\" accessory terminal (And still picks up local camera noise such as when you touch, tap or jostle the camera or rotate the lens barrel). The NEX 5R AND the NEX 6 do NOT have an external mic input (the NEX 6 does have a non proprietary hot shoe, though) but the NEX 7 DOES have an external mic input.
• Since current reviews of the NEX-5R already cover technical aspects and picture quality, I won\'t go into those too much. My review focuses on a few usability issues that I found through using it the past few weeks.WiFi ConnectivityOne of the main reasons I chose the NEX-5R over another compact system camera in its price range is WiFi connectivity. But having WiFi isn\'t as useful as I thought it would be due to the limitations in Sony\'s software. There are several ways to get pictures from the camera and they all have drawbacks.- Direct Upload - Sony touts apps as one of the big features for the NEX-5R and Direct Upload is an app that does what its name suggests. However, the only two supported destinations are Sony\'s PlayMemories service and Facebook. No Flickr, no Picasa, no Dropbox. Uploading to PlayMemories is pretty easy, but once my pictures are in there, I can\'t do much with them. I can\'t even share a picture by directly linking to it. Instead, I have to send an electronic postcard using one of the gaudy templates.- PlayMemories Mobile - What I love about taking pictures on my iPhone is being able to share them instantly through text message, email, Instagram, etc. The PlayMemories Mobile app for iPhone allows me to use my phone to view and copy the photos currently on the camera. The only problem with this method is it requires disconnecting my phone from my WiFi network and connecting to a wireless hotspot the camera creates. I understand why Sony did this; there most likely won\'t be a WiFi network available outside. However, when I\'m inside with both the camera and iPhone connected to my home WiFi network, PlayMemories Mobile should be able to connect to the camera through the existing network.- PlayMemories Home - I hate having a bunch of USB cables connected to my laptop so the main thing I expected to do through WiFi is upload full resolution pictures from the camera to my laptop. It sounds like I might be able to do this using the PlayMemories Home software; there\'s a short paragraph about it in the manual but it is weirdly worded so I\'m not sure. I wasn\'t able to test this out because the PlayMemories Home software doesn\'t work with OS X. It took me a while to figure this out because the packaging plainly states the camera is compatible with Macs. However, Sony is being only partially truthful because although Macs can recognize the camera when it\'s connected through USB, PlayMemories Home is not available for Macs.- USB cable - This is the old-fashioned way and it works just fine. After connecting it to my Mac, Aperture immediately recognized it and I was able to upload pictures easily.For now I\'m grudgingly using the USB cable method to upload pictures. Once in a while I\'ll use PlayMemories Mobile on my phone, but fiddling around with the WiFi network is too much of a hassle so I\'d rather wait until I get back to my laptop before sharing any pictures.Touchscreen & ResponsivenessThe overall quality of the hardware is fantastic. It feels very sturdy. The only aspect of the hardware that isn\'t excellent is the touchscreen. It\'s definitely nowhere near as responsive as a touchscreen on a modern smartphone.The software makes the touchscreen feel even worse than it is. Many buttons have small touch targets so it takes several tries for me to successfully tap them. Fortunately, there are hardware equivalents for the on screen buttons. For example, instead of tapping the OK button on the screen, I can press the center button on the directional wheel, which I do most of the since it\'s a lot easier.Typing on the screen is a huge pain. On certain screens, Sony displays a dumb phone style keyboard where multiple letters share one button so I have to tap it several times in order to get the letter I want! When trying to download an app, I have to log into my PlayMemories account. For those instances, Sony displays a regular keyboard. However, the screen doesn\'t always recognize when I tap a key. The good news is I\'ve only had to use the keyboard a couple times - connecting to my WiFi and logging in to PlayMemories.A minor hardware decision that bugged me is the NEX-5R comes with a bulky shoulder strap similar to ones that DSLR\'s have, which seems to defeat the purpose of getting a relatively small camera. Instead of using the included shoulder strap, I bought a wrist strap that\'s much smaller. The one I bought is the EzPhoto leather wrist strap. It looks great and is strong enough for me to confidently hold the camera using just the strap. At only $8, the EzPhoto wrist strap (available on Amazon) is a great purchase.Overall the NEX-5R is a fantastic camera. Although the issues I described above are disappointing, they don\'t affect the most important feature of the camera, which is taking high quality pictures. EzFoto Black Genuine Leather Hand Wrist Strap, for Fuji X100 X10; Nikon N1 V1 J1; Leica X1 D-Lux5 M9 M8 M7 M6 M5, M4; Panasonic GF1 GF2 GF2K GF3 GX1 LX-3 LX-5; Olympus E-P1 E-P2 E-P3 E-PL1 E-PL2 E-PL3; Sony NEX-3 NEX-5 NEX-C3 NEX-5N NEX-7.

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