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 p.1 #2 · Battle of the walkabouts: NEX 7 faces off with 5D II.... | |
1. Shooting experience. I assume that we are all familiar with the DSLR, so I won't get into that. But NEX7 may be new for many. I was struck by how different it is form pervious, smaller NEX. It feels halfway between a NEX and a DSLR. Chunkier, heavier, though still emintenly less than the 5D. It is still a stealthy go-everywhere, though no longer an almost toy-like size.
Then it has an EVF, which is a godsend for those shooting often in portrait orientation (I do). Now my 5N offered the same as an option, but I tried it and disliked it. I foudn it fiddly to put on, and was afraid to pocket he camera with the VF on, for fear of breaking it. Not so the 7, where the VF is integrated. Quite unexpectedly, while I had developped a great fondness for shooting my NEXes from the waist, with the LCD turned up, I find myself today shooting the 7 almost excusively with the EVF. As pretty as an optical one in the 5D it ain't, but in terms of function, meaning securing focus and composition, it is flawless. Now I find myself looking into the 5D VF and struggling to find the magnifier...:-)
Also, I tried focus peaking on the 5N and disliked it. It immulinated too much of th epic for my taste, and I could end up with OOF pics if I trusted it to focus. My feeling is that it has been made more discriminating on the 7, and this combo (EVF + peaking) gives me a near-perfect keeper rate from a sharpness point of view.
This is hardly trivial, because the NEX 7, with its very high pixel density, is a highly discriminating camera to say the least. Get anything not quite right with it, and it shows it mercilessly. But get matters right, and the IQ is... well, you will see.
So, to sum it up, as a walkabout experience, the NEX 7 combo wins on bulk and weight, wins on VF focusing, wins on shooting in LiveView, wins on shooting from the waist. The 5D II wins on having an optical viewfinder. Not that much....
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