Sony NEX
  
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| NEXes presented at Photokina 2010 images by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
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| NEX-7 with adapted Rokkor lens image by Howard Stanbury (Image rights) |
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| NEX-3N with original E-mount lens image by the other Bailey (Image rights) |
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| NEX-5N with adapted Zeiss lens image by fotograf@flickr (Image rights) |
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| NEX-5 with adapted Zeiss Biogon image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
The Sony α NEX cameras were introduced in 2010 by Sony as a completely new type of system camera. It's the first time that a really very slim digital compact camera body got the features of much bigger system cameras, mainly DSLRs. That means that the camera has got an autofocus lens bayonet, an APS-size image sensor, and a tiltable 3" high-resolution color display as viewfinder. An adapter is available for Alpha-System autofocus lenses, the Sony α NEX Camera Mount Adapter. Thus the NEX system cameras are marketed as part of the Sony α system, despite of the NEX's new E-mount. The NEX's slim camera architecture enables adaption of more manual-focus system lens types than to any other available system camera.
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| NEX-3 with original E-mount lens image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
In 2011 the number of available E-mount lenses was doubled to six, and the camera series was updated. The NEX-3 got the modified type name NEX-C3, a new design, and the newest 16 Megapixel image sensor. The NEX-5 got also that 16 MP sensor, the new type name NEX-5N, a touch-screen and a connector for an 2.3 Megapixel electronic viewfinder accessory. The new model of 2011 was the NEX-7, with built-in electronic viewfinder, built-in pop-up flash, α system flash shoe, and three dials for manual exposure setting as innovative digital camera concept. The amateur models of 2012 NEX-6 and NEX-5R got a new hybrid AF system with the contrast AF of the older NEXes combined with an on-sensor phase detection AF. In 2013 the development management announced that the name NEX won't be used anymore in the future, despite of a new full format NEX model planned for 2014. This and all other futher E-mount system cameras shall be marketed just as Sony α system cameras.
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| NEX-C3 with original E-mount lens image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
Contents
Cameras
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| NEX-5 with NEX flashgun image by the other Bailey (Image rights) |
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| NEX-5 w/ stereo mic image by the other Bailey (Image rights) |
- Sony Alpha NEX-3
- Sony Alpha NEX-C3
- Sony Alpha NEX-F3
- Sony Alpha NEX-3N
- Sony Alpha NEX-5N
- Sony Alpha NEX-5R
- Sony Alpha NEX-5T
- Sony Alpha NEX-6
- Sony Alpha NEX-7
- Hasselblad Lunar
Sony E-mount
The Sony E-mount is a lens mount designed by Sony for their NEX ("New E-mount eXperience") series of camcorders and mirrorless cameras.[1][2]
On 8 February 2011 Sony announced the release of the specifications for the E-mount lens system allowing for third-party lens makers to create lenses for the NEX cameras without having to pay royalties.[3][4]
The Sony E-mount is a bayonet lens mount that, like the Fujifilm X lenses mount, has two main components: The bayonet, and a set of 10 electrical contacts along the bottom.
Lens mount adapters exist for the most common 35 mm lens bayonets, as well as for M39, M42, T-mount and C-mount lenses to an E-mount camera.[5][6]
As of 2014, dozens of E-mount lenses are available.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Wikipedia: Sony_E-mount
- ↑ Category:Sony E-mount
- ↑ "Sony opens the E-mount specifications! (SR5) New third party lens announcement soon!".
- ↑ 'Sony Discloses Basic Specifications of the "E-mount" for Interchangeable Single Lens Cameras without Fee'.
- ↑ "Guide to Lens Mount Adapters for Sony E-Mount"
- ↑ Brian Smith. "SONY A7 / A7R LENS MOUNT ADAPTERS"
- ↑ Wikipedia: List of Sony E-mount lenses.
Links
- NEX operating system Linux, sources on Sony-site
