Be sure to read the stuff about the control interface. I was decidedly
unimpressed. And especially so given where they've come from with
Minolta. I suspect the Minolta guys (if there are any left) had nothing
to do with this camera. This comes from the same mentality that gives
your FM tuner up/down push buttons for tuning rather than a smoothly
controlled rotary knob.
Chuck Norcutt
Tim Hughes wrote:
> This actually looks like a better option for me, than the Oly micro
> product, for climbing use:
>
> it is a bit smaller and it comes with a 24mm/2.8 equiv lens as
> standard, with supplementary lenses for even wider.
>
> http://www.dpreview.com/previews/sonynex5/page2.asp
>
> 24mm is my ideal normal climbing lens.
>
> Initial price is only a little more than the costco special on the
> Oly pen ($500) with kit zoom offered currently. The oly compact
> pancake lens raises the price of oly quite a bit and is only 34mm
> equiv.
>
> Will wait for review , but this looks like a winner for rock
> climbing.
>
> Tim Hughes
>
>
>
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