XE1 versus Nex 7 versus OMD EM5

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XE1 versus Nex 7 versus OMD EM5
5 months ago

I posted this in another forum so sorry for the cross posting but I did not get much of a response regarding the Fuji XE1.

I have a superb Nikon D800E camera and want to supplement it with a more compact walk around camera for architectural, landscape and family photos. Also videos.

I am considering the above 3 cameras.

A lot of people on the Nex site pushed for the OMD as it has in camera stabilisation, will work with my Nikon lenses with an adapter (so will Sony).

I originally was thrilled with the posted XPro 1 images when it first came out and wanted to get one. The images seemed to have a vibrance to them and fabulous colour saturation.

I know Ken Rockwell is controversial but he loves his X100 and XPro 1. The Fuji lenses appear to be second to none and are really fast.

Price is a little higher but not much. The main negative I get about Fuji is the controls are not intuitive and it can take a while to setup to get the good shot (I find my D800E is like that but the result of course is fantastic but a point and shoot it ain't).

Also the AF is slow although the new firmware does not seem to have been reviewed that thoroughly in this regard.

The other complaint is lack of RAW conversion software or Lightroom does not convert Fuji RAWs properly.

I looked on DPreview and the high ISO showed the XE1/XPro 1 noise to be the lowest of these 3 by a large margin.

What is your experience with XE1/XPro 1 or the others above? Which do you think is the all round better camera.

On paper it appears XE1 has fantastic image quality with great colours and rendition, superior lenses and best high ISO noise performance.

Nex 7 has best sensor and good movie controls. It can handle Nikon lenses with an adapter and legacy Sony lenses of which there are quite a few. Noise at high ISO seems poor.

OMD has great in camera stabilisation, fastest AF, good lenses, a good range of lenses and is able to handle Nikon lenses with an adapter. Poor noise at high ISO. Stabilisation is good for movies as well.

The camera whilst small is somewhat heavy and 1/2 way between DSLR and compact. It could be smaller and lighter. If its too big I would use the D800E which is better than any of these as I want a light, unobtrusive travel camera to image building sites and family and walkaround with superb image quality and also low noise high ISO for nightscape shots.

Greg.

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