Mama Bear984 Loc: Langley, BC Canada

Does anyone out there have this camera. I have a Nikon 5100 & want to upgrade to this maybe. I would like to go to full frame but $$$.
Like D600 but not sure yet.
I do for fun, travel & landscape but for home shoots, newborns, children & pets.
Need something that has a clearer resolution in the picture.

robert-photos Loc: Chicago

I have the camera and have commented on it more than once on UHH. Please use the UHH search for "Sony NEX" and you'll find a number of posts including mine:

I owned a NEX-5, sold it and bought a NEX-7. It is capable of 90+% of my big boy Canons. I use as my personal/vacation camera and am well pleased with it.

I have a number of E-mount lenses plus an adapter which allows me to use my Canon EF lenses in aperture priority with manual focus.

There are too many pros of this camera to list here. Most want to know the cons:

1. In low light it has slow AF but this is typical of most if not all mirrorless cameras.

2. It does not have the low light, low noise capability as my Canon 7D, 5D MII or 5D MIII but we are comparing apples and oranges.

3. Normal flash sync is 1/60 sec. Often times I'm shooting in hi-speed sync.

4. Accessory flash mounting is proprietary.

5. E mount lens selection is limited and expensive. If I were to limit myself to two lenses they would be the (E-mount) 10-18mm f/4 OSS and 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS. Both are expensive lenses but better glass is more important than the camera body. NEX cameras lens correct (distortion, aberration, etc.) E-mount lenses in camera.

6. You can use Sony Alpha lenses with an adapter (expensive) which increases the selection of lenses but ruins the form factor of the camera.

7. It is a bit more cumbersome (especially if you're are used to Canon or Nikon DSLRs) and slower to use because it is a menu driven rather than button and dial driven user interface.

8. The display screen is not fully articulated.

That being said, I love it and won't trade until the next iteration comes along.

Peekayoh Loc: UK

So long as you remember that, even if it has the same size sensor, the NEX7 is not a DSLR and doesn't handle like one; otherwise it's an excellent piece of kit. I use mine mainly with my old Minolta SR mount lenses, macros and short primes. Just about any lens ever made can be adapted to the NEX series due to the 18mm registration distance.

Having said that, I'm not clear what you mean by "Need something that has a clearer resolution in the picture."

The NEX has a higher resolution, 24MP against 16MP but the difference is not all that great unless you want to print big or crop big time.

EddieC Loc: CT

It's an awesome little camera. Sharp!