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Who here switched from a Nex-7? How did you feel about losing tri nav??

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i have been holding off on upgrading from my beloved nex7. Great camera, amazing ergonomics, and on top of that I have an underwater housing. I have always felt that the focus speed was lacking and would love to have the addition of slow motion, the time lapse app, touch screen for macro focus, better IQ, better high ISO (I feel anything above 400 is noisy on the nex7) and ibis.

So so I guess my question is does the loss of tri nav negatively change how you interact with the camera. And if so is it enough to hold off from an upgrade esp. considering the cost of a new underwater housing?
 
"So so I guess my question is does the loss of tri nav negatively change how you interact with the camera."

Tri-navi was awesome. A great way to run a camera.

I miss it. I miss it to the point that I only use my A6300 in conditions where I need its particular performance characteristics for active shots of my kids, silent shutter, great back panel display. Otherwise I use a DSLR..

I am not sure, but I think some of the cameras in the Sony A7 series might have Tri-Navi. I don't know.
 
Since sony was not my primary camera... i never sprung for the nex7. ( i also did not see any zoom lenses that justified the investment. Bodies are nice but you are buying a system at that price for for the body my system expectations were higher.)

That being said, i think the Trinav is a great idea. The lack of decent dials on my A6000 is probably my biggest complaint about the camera body. I tend to shoot in M 90% of the time so i find this really annoying.
 
So you don't use your nex 7 anymore? Why not?
 
Still much to happy with my Nex7 and using her mostly in M mode with legacy lenses.

Will upgrade after Sony gets me an Apsc camera with the tri navi again.

peter
 
Maybe it's just me, but I don't get this hype about the tri-navi. Unlabelled dials who some complained where quite easily turned accidentally. I had a SLR for a long time with separate dials front and back, but I never really missed it on either 5N or A6000.

Maybe I simply more adept using P mode? :-)

You can adjust exposure with a separate dial on the A6000 if you want to expose differently.

You can use A-mode and adjust aperture or S-mode and do the shutter.

You can use Program-shift with a flick of the rear dial to set aperture wider or shutter faster if you like and still retain P-mode dynamicall adjusting exposure.

It is only when using M-Mode alone that you might gain some comfort with an extra dial.

But then, when do you really need to do M-mode? I only use it for manual flash or in low lit museum mode to force OSS with low shutter speed to keep ISO low.
 
I use M mode a lot and I don't have a problem with the controls on the A6000. It has dials for aperture and shutter speed, and it's only one press on the rear dial to change ISO.
 
I also use M mode often and when it comes to adjusting settings underwater it makes it much easier and faster to set up a shot
 
I never considered it a 'loss' -- just a different way of interacting. If I though I needed dials and buttons for every possible operation I would have stayed with nikon [300n].

[5n, 6, 7, 6000, 6300, 6500 -- oh, yeah and rx100, rx100ii, rx100iii, hx90v -- currently only 6500 and hx90].
 
"So you don't use your nex 7 anymore? Why not?"

Most of my photos are of my kids. So I crank up the ISO to use shorter shutter times and the A6300 has less noise at high ISO. And the autofocus keeps up with the kids better.

For an awful lot of travel photos and such, nothing wrong with my NEX7. I sure got a lot of photos out of it that me and my family really like.
 
I still have my NEX7 in reserve, but don't use it much. At the time, I liked the idea of tri-nav, but I think in the eyes of manufacturers, auto-ISO has mostly made the idea obsolete. The ability to get rid of a dial probably helped.
 
Do you really use auto ISO? I would think in many cases it moves up to high on its own.
 
DLutzer said:
Do you really use auto ISO? I would think in many cases it moves up to high on its own.
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Auto-ISO always works according to exposure. In P-Mode, the camera decides shutter speed, aperture and auto ISO based on which focal length and lens you use, which AF-mode (AF-C puts emphasis on fast shutter speeds), where aperture already is...

In M-Mode, Auto ISO is selected based on exposure only. You can adjust that through expsure compensation to give a +/- offset.
 
I still have my NEX7, but prefer my Fuji X-E2. I shoot RAW, convert to 16-bit tiff with the camera manufacturer's converter and process that. I find the Fuji RAW superior to that from the NEX7, less compression.
 
sorry - - I have no reason to switch yet - - NEX-7 still better than me and after all this time I am comfortable with it.

I dont get hung up on TRI-nav or command knobs or whatever. I have used many different systems and after a week or two I have adjusted to all of them.

My gear works, I am comfortable with it, what more could I need

NEX-7, Sigma 19mm f/2.8, Zeiss Touit 32mm f/1.8, Sigma 60mm f/2.8 & the Sony 18-105mm f/4 G

Seriously, if I can't get the shot with this gear can I really blame the camera?

--
Mr. Ed
 
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