Sony NEX-5R Review

4.5
November 28, 2012 | Mark Goldstein |

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#1 Matt

I think there must be a bug in the software creating the scoring stars - every review is coming out as 4.5 starts

6:26 pm - Wednesday, November 28, 2012

#2 JS

Excellent IQ, 5 stars from me!

7:52 pm - Wednesday, November 28, 2012

#3 Frank Stanton

Ooh, Matt, you so funny!

8:50 pm - Wednesday, November 28, 2012

#4 mario_lem73

No wonder of equal rating given to different tested cameras, as almost nowhere will find so bland and pointless reviews. I don’t know why the website does and who gives them cameras, but these reviews do not give any practical information either beginners or advanced users. Around 80% of the texts are identical, there are no serious comparisons of photos or analysis. How a serious site can say “The Sony NEX-5R has an antishake mechanism built into the camera body” when NEX cameras using in-lens stabilization and the person testing the camera supposed to use it during review period!?

9:42 pm - Wednesday, November 28, 2012

#5 Fred Shamootsin

I’m puzzled by your IQ scoring system for myriad of cameras with different sensor sizes and makes.For example Canon G15 , Olympus XZ2 ( both with 1/1.7” sensors )Fuji XF-1 ( 2/3” sensor),Leica Vlux 4 ( 1/2.3” sensor) all have been given score of 4.5 for IQ and Olympus E-PL5 and E-PM2 ( Micro 4/3 sensors ) have been given score of 5 for IQ ( let alone Sony’s RX-100 with 1” sensor has also been given 5 in IQ department) and Sony NEX-5N and NEX-5R both with 1.5” sensors have been scored 4.5 in image quality.
Would they all produce the same picture qualities and yet they cost so different ?
Would you please shed some light on your IQ scoring which will be highly appreciated.

7:40 am - Thursday, November 29, 2012

#6 John-e-boy

This is £499 on the Currys website as of today and still can claim the new Sony £50 cash back deal on this too making it £449 for a superb camera, bargain!!!!!

11:14 am - Thursday, November 29, 2012

#7 Tim

The above comments have a point, I love this website but the reviews do need some thought and development.  It’s impossible to make a comparison between different cameras…. presumably the IQ score factors in the price of the camera, hence two cameras being able to score the same despite having entirely different performance (compact vs DSLR). But that makes it very hard to make any serious comparisons.

How does this camera perform compared to full DSLRs of a similar price? Actually I have no idea from this review.

10:23 am - Sunday, December 2, 2012

#8 dj

Nice camera. Well done Sony. I actually dont look at the scores too much but i do read the reviews and check out the images samples. I like this web page a lot. It does reviews on everything photographic and it comes out with camera reviews quite regularly. I give it 4.5/5 stars.

7:09 am - Monday, December 3, 2012

#9 Alex

In my opinion the NEX 5R is a great camera, just in low light situations it perform very well. For all german Users, I wrote a german review about the camera, with some testshoots on low light. Look here: http://www.stroica.com/sony-nex-5r-im-test-erster-eindruck/

11:38 pm - Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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