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After almost a month playing with the Canon M (in-dept review is coming soon), I betrayed the Canon brand and bought a Sony Nex 7 a few days before the New Year:<\/p>\n
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Sony was my first digital camera (it was 6Mpx silver Cybershot with a huge flipping up and down lens), and it was not love at first sight: I did not like it much, after the Canon Elan 7 (film camera) I had.<\/p>\n
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Canon still is my primary studio camera, but we desperately needed something little for my wife and me to carry with us all the time. The Canon M failed to fit this niche, and I can tell you now after about a week with the Nex 7, I love it.<\/p>\n
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I never buy cameras with <\/p>\n The camera is amazing: super fast focus, clever modes, and it looks nice. A cool orange leather case<\/a> is on the way and we also bought hot shoe adapter<\/a> which already proved to work with studio strobes and wireless transmitters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”62974,62975,62976,62977,62978″ posts_number=”5″ show_title_and_caption=”off” _builder_version=”3.19.7″ custom_margin=”||1px”][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n The Sony Nex 7 has a HDR mode (3 shots with up to 6Ev Dr), and while it still can\u2019t match the quality and creativity of photoshop-made HDRs, it does a decent job of extending dynamic range of the shot. Below is a before and after of a single and HDR shot made by Sony Nex7:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][cwp_hq_et_pb_baslider src=”https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Before1-2.jpg” src2=”https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/After1-2.jpg” slide_on_click=”on” overlay_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.5)” labels_bg_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.2)” _builder_version=”3.19.7″ label_text_font_size_tablet=”51″ label_text_line_height_tablet=”2″][\/cwp_hq_et_pb_baslider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n Yesterday I got some shots with 30mm F3.5 macro (true macro, 1:1) lens:<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”62985,62986,62987,62988,62989,62990″ posts_number=”6″ show_title_and_caption=”off” show_pagination=”off” _builder_version=”3.19.7″ custom_margin=”||1px” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop”][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n I took the camera with me to a nearest store and snapped some shots. F4.0 (except the bubbles one, those were studio shots). DOF is super shallow, bokeh is nice:-) <\/p>\n The next round will be in-studio testing. But only after Canon M v.s Canon 7D review is ready.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All the best!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_sidebar orientation=”right” area=”et_pb_widget_area_4″ _builder_version=”3.17.1″][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sony Nex 7, First Impressions After almost a month playing with the Canon M (in-dept review is coming soon), I betrayed the Canon brand and bought a Sony Nex 7 a few days before the New Year: The next day it arrived and I made a sexy studio portrait<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4869,"featured_media":62970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9487],"tags":[12252,2464,12444,12445,3174,2504],"yst_prominent_words":[12405,12443,12442,12406,5116,817,3091,12286,5745,1959,2838,1415,11819,11546,908,1602,4121,11541,11538,253],"class_list":["post-62966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cameras-lenses","tag-first-impressions","tag-photography","tag-sony-nex-7","tag-sony-nex-7-first-impressions","tag-studio","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62966"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}shit<\/del> kit lenses, and now we have 16mm F 2.8 and 30mm F3.5 macro (arrived yesterday) lenses. 16mm will go back to BHphotovideo.com, as we have pre-ordered the 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS<\/a> newcomer and there is no reason to keep both.<\/p>\nFirst shots with 16mm lens on Sony Nex 7:<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nI found the Sony Nex 7 is a much more mature mirrorless camera compared to the Canon M which I am writing a test review of right now. The only thing I\u2019d like to improve is the noise levels at higher ISOs, but considering the high pixel density (24Mpx on a crop size sensor) it is probably as good as it possibly could be.<\/p>\n