Thom Hogan review of NEX-7

robdel wrote:

12mm 4

15mm 4

18-35 2.8

21mm 1.8

28mm 1.8

35mm 1.4

50mm 1.4

80mm 1.4

80mm 1.8

105 1.8

35-70 2.8

70-200 2.8

300mm 2.8

pancake 35 1.8

I could go on. If you're happy with a few slow consumer zooms and a handful of middling spec primes (minus the third-party Zeiss), and that works for your photography, then fine. Some of us see incredible potential in this camera system, both on it's own, and as a possible replacement for DSLR system, even for professional work.

Fuji, a tiny company in comparison, has a more complete, better thought out offering and roadmap for the next 12 months than giant Sony. Don't tell me to get a Fuji. I like the NEX system and want it to succeed. Without first party lenses that play to its potential it will remain what it currently is: a system with copious amounts of unrealized potential, nearly strangled at birth by a company more interested in chasing the next shiny consumer object than building a real platform for photographers.

Sony realizes this and is slowly getting their act together. If they want this system to succeed, they need to do better.