VERY PLEASED: I purchased the NEX-7 kit after reading the review by Damian Gadal on Amazon.com. I test ran the camera before I purchased it online. My purposes were: LIGHTWEIGHT and tack sharp. Those needs were met. I had to wait a couple of months to purchase the expensive, 3rd party, adapter by Metabones that will allow me to use my Canon system of lenses with the NEX-7 camera, saving me a lot of money. The downside of the adapter is that manual focusing of the non-Sony lenses is required. Small inconvenience. Metabones was so sold out that I had to get on a waiting list for the $400 item. It became available yesterday. There is an excellent demo of the NEX-7 by Michael Reichmann on his "Luminous Landscape" web site that shows the relative size and weight of the body and the set of lenses, in comparison to other cameras.
A bonus is all the in-camera things that the NEX-7 can do,--it does HDR in-camera, it stitches together a panorama after you have "waved" the camera in a semicircle, it will take a "partial color" picture, eg. showing the red in red roses in front of a Victorian house that it desaturates into a black/white background, it will create a sepia-toned image in-camera, and lots of other fun effects.
One reviewer carped that he did not like the Menu setup and expected something more like the Canon and Nikon menus which I find to be a burden. I love what Sony has done with their menu. The entire camera is a hybrid between a heavy high end camera and a lightweight pocket camera. I have both and now PREFER the lightweight camera that does all the same things, plus some neat effects. The only niddly thing, if forced to find something negative, that I can say is that the focusing of the liveview NEX-7 is a tad slower than my Canon lenses. I can live with that. It is not as slow as a pocket camera which hesitates while it takes an exposure reading.
Delivery of the camera from Cameta was prompt. Well-packed (actually Sony over-designed the packaging and it's a bit like taking an origami apart)
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