Sony NEX-5N review

Comes with touchscreen and two million more pixels

Sony NEX-5N
Lens-heavy, the Sony NEX-5N is one of three new NEX compact system cameras

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FOCUS: This outdoor image, taken in the light of a late autumn afternoon, witnesses the Sony NEX-5N's background defocus option to full effect, very effectively reducing the sharp portion of the image to the flower heads and blurring the backdrop.

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SHADOW: A bright background and a dark foreground is a problem for any exposure system. Commendably here the Sony NEX-5N has preserved a lot of shadow detail, brought back with a subtle use of Curves in Photoshop and without introducing noise into the bargain.

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LOW LIGHT: This low light shot, taken under low tungsten lighting at ISO 3200 and using the optically stabilised kit lens, reveals what the Sony NEX-5N and kit lens combo is capable of when performing at its very best.

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PANORAMIC: Sweep Panorama mode creates up to 23MP images that can be 2D or 3D, by stitching together a rapid-fire sequence of shots into one wide photo.

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Gavin Stoker
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When not wrestling wild bears or leaping tall buildings in a single bound, Gavin Stoker can be found editing British Photographic Industry News, the UK's longest running and only photo trade title. He has over 25 years of camera testing and reviewing under his belt.