meet NEX Design Team - Interview of NEX creator

Thanks Peter for posting this link for an interesting story behind the NEX cameras. Now I know who to associate the crappy (IMO) GUI interface with - Mr. Okumura. That is my one niggle about this camera that I have. Otherwise, I enjoy using my α NEX-5 more than any of my other compact camera. Cheers. -Norm

007peter said:

Meet the NEX Designers here:

http://www.sony.com.ph/productcontent/405946/productcategory/e-mount-camera

What an amazing camera produced by this team. It wasn't that long ago that I read a similar Interview on Sony A230/A300/A330 team and criticized their every move. Apparently, the so called "lack of grip" was actually part of a design idea to stream-line the camera.

NEX doesn't exactly have the greatest grip, but I find myself agreeing with their every moves. Well done!

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tedolf said:

Clever?

Not being able to use any industry standard third party accessories?

Not being able to use any of the expensive flashes you already have at home?

No backwards compatibility even with Sony's own products, not even for alpha users?

Setting a new standard that no one else is going to adopt and then abandoning it later?

Well I guess Sony is kind of famous for that (Betamax, Memory Stick, etc. etc.).

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so, then just buy what you think the industry standard now.

MFT?

or Samsung?

Obviously Markr is a secret, double agent Troll and has gone over to the dark side. Rumor has it that he has been seen keeping the comapny of an old worn out E-p1 in cheap, smokey bars.

NEX owners ATTACK!

HA!

gfrensen admits he would like a standard hot shoe. He too criticized NEX and is therefore obvioulsy another secret Troll.

NEX owners ATTACK!

What?

Headofdestiny, you too?

Keith-C? "unecessarily crippled"?

This whole thread is being taken over by u 4/3 Uber Trolls.

Shut it down before it is too late!

Look, I had a Betamax. It was great. Still have the tapes, but not the player. Ther problem was (and the point is) that Sony wouldn't license it so the industry was forced to go to VHS. The rest is history. Incredibly stupid Sony marketing/management.

Not adopting an industry standard hot shoe, or at least the Minolta hot shoe protocol is similarly stupid.

Good point. I am confident Samsung will not become a standard. I am also starting to feel that niether will u 4/3. The failure of anyone else to come on board, particularly Fuji or Kodak makes me believe that u 4/3 will eventually go the way of the half frame camera.

Oly/Panny should sell thier souls to get another manufactuer into the consortium. Even if they have to pay someone to do so.

The fact that they have not done so attests to thier stupidity.

Yes, but will it have an industry standard hot shoe?

tedolf said:

HA!

gfrensen admits he would like a standard hot shoe. He too criticized NEX and is therefore obvioulsy another secret Troll.

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Tedolf, I .like you'r pathetic attack on the Nex series and your idiotic responses to post in this forum.

I know it is hard to read, but when you do your best you see that I would like a hotshoe, yes, but when you didn't stop reading you would have seen that I tell that it is no major drawback. I know every camer5a has its drawbacksAs for the MFT it is high ISO noise, and less pefrfect for portraits (compared to the APS sized cameras. So you have to pick the camera that suits you best. And for me that is the Nex5 and the A700 together, as these cameras together has all i want in a camera! (The A700 for the long tele work (as it has a bigger body and build in stqbilisation and a OVF) and the NEX 5 for the "every day" kind of photography I do (landscape, people, holidays and so on). For those pictures I love the High quality low light capabilities of the Nex (so I don't need the flash much) and the wider chip (for landscapes that's perfect) and all the sweet features it has (show me your out of camera Auto HDR, or panorama pictures, or the low light anti motion blur pictures....

I do like the size of the Nex too, so it is a great little camerawith some minor flaws that are easy to live with!

tedolf said:

NEX owners ATTACK!

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Doesn't matter.

You critisized NEX.

You must be punished.

tedolf said:

Good point. I am confident Samsung will not become a standard. I am also starting to feel that niether will u 4/3. The failure of anyone else to come on board, particularly Fuji or Kodak makes me believe that u 4/3 will eventually go the way of the half frame camera.

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There never was any standard for DSLRs either. Everyone had their own mount (Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Minolta/Sony, Olympus, etc) and the same thing will happen with mirrorless cameras. No one is "going" away anywhere. Panasonic will never abandon/dump m4/3 nor will Sony ever dump the e-mount, nor will Nikon with their mount when that is out.

Why did you even expect that there would be just one standard mount?

I had hoped. For about 20 years the M42 mount was a standard adopted by a lot of SLR manufactures. Also, Leca screw mount was adopted by lots of clones. Pentax K mount almost became a standard.

I had hope. For about 20 years M42 was a standard SLR mount adopted by a lot of manufactureers. Leica screw mount was adopted by lost of clones. For a time, it looked like Pentax K mount might become a standard.

i thin ktheir mission succeeded really well, the NEX is hot, at least in europe and asia. when people see me using this camera they are asking if it the new NEX. That wont happen at all with a Pen, GF1 or a standard DSLR cam. It became more then just a camera.

Khun_K said:

In my own point of view the NEX line is base on a good conept, result in a design not too successful, it is stlll a typical Japanese design, not a world design. SONY has been behnd the main stream for awhile, and still is, but NEX is one of their better product in recent years, I have the NEX-5, not a bad camera, performnace is good, but I hope the design can be executed better. To me, SONy try to achieve a modern look, but not really arrived. On the other hand, Panasonic GF-1 is conservative, safe design. SONY wants to move a step further, missioned not achieved. But overall, because of newer lens mechanism (which of course Japanese is great on this), larger sensor, good video capability, save the look, the NEX-5 still acceptable.

007peter said:

Meet the NEX Designers here:

http://www.sony.com.ph/productcontent/405946/productcategory/e-mount-camera

What an amazing camera produced by this team. It wasn't that long ago that I read a similar Interview on Sony A230/A300/A330 team and criticized their every move. Apparently, the so called "lack of grip" was actually part of a design idea to stream-line the camera.

NEX doesn't exactly have the greatest grip, but I find myself agreeing with their every moves. Well done!

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