Amateurs Get a Shot at the Top ; Sony's New 'Compact' Takes On the Big Slrs at Their Own Game - Could It Be the Only Camera You'll Ever Need? Gadgets [Eire Region]
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Sony's NEX-5 is the first compact camera with interchangeable lenses. It's complicated AND small: the worst of both worlds. You'd expect amateurs to regard it with suspicion bordering on terror and 'serious' photographers to sneer at it as a jumped-up happy snapper, barely fit to share bag space with their precious SLRs.
Never in the history of photography has so much lens been screwed onto so little camera. The NEX-5 is minuscule - like a Sony compact but with a Cokecan-sized lens on the front. Unscrew that can, though, and you get an inkling of the secret of the NEX-5: its sensor is the same format that Sony builds into its fullsized DSLR cameras.See the full content of this document
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Amateurs Get a Shot at the Top ; Sony's New 'Compact' Takes On the Big Slrs at Their Own Game - Could It Be the Only Camera You'll Ever Need? Gadgets [Eire Region]
For years, camera manufacturers have been involved in a megapixel arms race - and most of us, myself included, bou...
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