Sony has really made a big hit with the NEX-7. Too bad about the production delays, oh, and the menu.
"At the risk of repeating myself, I'm going to say it again. The NEX-7 desperately needs user customizable settings. This is a sophisticated and complex camera, with a wide variety of special modes and settings. Switching between them, in part because of the poorly designed menus, is a frustrating process that is time consuming and requires a lot of
memorization of where things are and how to get to them.
As good as the NEX-7 is, and in my view it is probably the most most exciting camera that I've seen in years, until it is given custom user settings it will fail to live up to its promise. These are only a firmware upgrade away, so please Sony, let us have them soon."
Stuff-Review has made a nice little chart that pits the newcomer against the almost established crowd. That's all pretty theoretical though, since 3 of the 4 cameras are practically not available in the majority of the western world:
I wonder what the market would look like right now if the 2 big natural disasters of 2011 didn't occur. There will be another couple of months until Sony can move these babies at significant numbers.
"Why you’d buy the NEX-7: access to E-mount lenses, Carl Zeiss and (via an adaptor) Sony A-mount optics.
Why you wouldn’t: you prefer external control of exposure modes; with lens attached the camera is not pocketable; pricey.