May 13th, 2010
We’ve heard news about Sony will release a compact DSLR camera a while ago, and now the veil have been lifted by Sony NEX-5 and NEX-3 compact DSLR being announced and will be available in July. The coming of this two Sony compact digital SLR made the company to be the fourth that release a mirror less DSLR camera, after Olympus with PEN E-P1 and 12 megapixels Olympus PEN E-P2, Panasonic Lumix G1, and 14.6 megapixels Samsung NX10. All of this compact camera features APS-C sized sensor, interchangeable lenses capability that have been a standard in traditional DSLR camera.

Sensor
Either Sony NEX-3 or NEX-5, both have 14.2 megapixels Sony Exmor CMOS sensor and have larger sensor than other micro four thirds coming from Olympus and Panasonic. This larger sensor hopefully will improve image quality, fewer noise in the images and allows user to have defocus effect on the background. The sensor use backlit illumination with special placement to avoid incoming light obstruction. Sony also allow ISO setting up to 12,000 unto NEX-5 / NEX-3

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