NEX-3 and NEX-5 - a couple of interesting cameras from Sony

A couple of interesting cameras announced today Japanese Sony. New items belong to the Alpha series and are sort of compacts with the possibility of changing optics. Their dimensions are obliged to the developers of Sony, who decided to abandon the use of a system of mirrors, making the device more compact. The NEX-3 and NEX-5 models are 24.2 and 25.4 mm thick, respectively.




Both cameras are equipped with a 14.2-megapixel Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor and a BIONZ image processor. ISO sensitivity reaches values ​​of 12800. The cameras have 3-inch pivoting screens (921 thousand points), which are also used as a viewfinder. To connect to the TV, you can use the HDMI-out, and to exchange data with a computer has a USB-connector. It is noteworthy that you can store the footage on memory cards of various formats: Memory Stick Pro Duo, Pro-HG Duo, SD, SDHC or SDXC.
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In addition to body size and colors, the NEX-3 and NEX-5 differ in terms of shooting video. NEX-3 is capable of shooting 720p video, and NEX-5 Full HD. In stores, new items from Sony will appear no earlier than this summer. It seemed to me, or this kind of cameras are the link between DSLR and compacts? from the first got the opportunity to change lenses, from the second miniature dimensions.