Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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No surprise about NEX emerging as the winner.
@aim120
Yeah, too bad they pretty much went all touch screen. Killed the camera for me
@aim120
I tried a nex in a store. It feels like a toy and the lenses are way to big for the camera.
The usability of this thing is so bad its laughable. Smaller is not always better... a little bigger, more buttons and a easier accessible and more structed menu could have helped there.
The lenses still suck though. Not surprising since that thing is marketed towards the playstation crowd and not enthusiasts who want good quality *sharp* images...
@aim120
I have an NEX-5 and I have to say I love it. I think the best way to understand it though is not to think of it as a camera. It is not for people who love cameras. Sony is a gadget company and the NEX-5 is a gadget which takes very, very good pictures. I have to say my favorite aspect about the thing is that it tends to evoke violent reactions, positive and negative, from people who spend a lot of time around cameras and feel that they should be a certain way.
In terms of usability, I think it's fine. It's different. But it's fine.
@AverageCanadian
NEX doesn't have a touch screen
@Stormstrike
The NEX 5 is better build then many DSLR,certainly the best built compact interchangeable lens camera.
The lens again is all metal,
the EPL-1 is more like a plastic toy.
If you want it to bigger and have more buttons ,then get youself a DSLR.
The main objective of NEX is the small form factor and class leading image quality,which it has achieved.
@Abraham P That's a pretty insightful perspective. I have a soft spot for Sony, but get put off by their fondness for propriety standards.
With cameras particularly, I think it's critical to hold one in your hands and actually use one before buy it. It's how I ended up a dedicated Nikon fanatic; back in 2005 I was all set on buying a digital Rebel, but then I went into a store and held both the Rebel and the D70 - and my mind was quickly changed. The D70 felt the way I thought a camera should, the Rebel - with better specs on paper, felt wrong.
The problem comes when people start taking their preferences as absolutes.
@aim120
I think NEX is a LOSER.
The camera is aimed at a person who doesn't know how to use the camera, and probably doesn't EVEN WANT TO LEARN how to use a camera. It's difficult to convince an ignorant camera user to buy a 1000 dollar camera (I don't mean "ignorant" in a bad sense, it's the people who ignore what camera does, they just want A PICTURE). People who spend that much money on an APS-C sensor WILL want more, and what they're stuck with is controls THAT ARE WORSE than on some Point-N-Shoots.
It's a neat camera though.
@aim120
That makes it even worse then. So you have to navigate all the controls with one dial and a button?
@pretol
Well who said this cameras is aimed at ignorant user who don't want to learn.
Sony main target audience is DSC upgraders and as a secondary camera for existing DSLR owners.
For those who want the best image quality ,but don't really want a DSLR for it size and complexity ,the sony NEX suits them.
If this camera was a loser like you say,why is it the highest selling compact interchangeable lens camera in japan and overall in number 3 .So it outsells most DSLRs.
Even in dpreview it was in no 1 to no 3 for the last 3 months in terms of clicks.