What is the difference between replacing Sony HXR-NX5 with HXR-NX5R?

A few years ago, the listing of Sony HXR-NX5 was like giving China video industry practitioners a shot in the arm. Sony's G-series lens, 1/3-inch "Exmor”CMOS imager, optional AVCHD coding mode, innovative memory card design, and HD-SDI interface to expand the adaptability of the product system make HXR-NX5 one of the most cost-effective products in China's video industry in the first few years.

After nearly seven years, HXR-NX5 finally ushered in a new generation-HXR-NX5R. Although NX5R only has one more letter than NX5, the new product has been upgraded on the basis of inheriting the excellent performance of NX5 and NX3.

NX5R continues the 20x optical zoom and the wide-angle F 1.6 aperture. Compared with NX5, NX5R is equipped with a larger 1/2.8-inch "Exmor”CMOS sensor. In terms of encoding format, NX5R not only retains the AVCHD 28Mbps of NX3, but also adds the high-definition encoding format of XAVC S50Mbps. This XAVC S coding, which evolved from Xavc coding, is small in size and high in code rate, which significantly improves the image quality and makes people have more.

The dual card slot design of Sony HXR-NX5R allows the machine to record image files continuously with two memory cards. The maximum capacity of a single memory card that NX5R can use is 32GB, which can fully meet the full HD video shooting for more than 6 hours.

Some photographers gave the evaluation of "all five stars" after using HXR-NX5R for wedding shooting, and praised the performance of HXR-NX5R.

The first is the LED light on the nose, so that photographers don't have to worry when dealing with dark indoor shooting. Unlike other cameras, which have fixed LED lights, NX5R lights can adjust the brightness of light according to actual needs, so that photographers can use the best lighting according to the actual environment. The large aperture of wide-angle end 1.6 also makes photographers more confident when dealing with insufficient light.

The second is focus. Wedding and other activities have a remarkable feature, that is, the subject will be in a state of constant movement. In this state, the cameraman must capture and grab the lens according to experience, so it is particularly important to zoom and focus quickly at this time. At this time, NX5R's fast and stable focusing can give full play to its greatest advantage. The custom shortcut key that comes with the fuselage sets the zoom function, which also allows the photographer to zoom in at any time during shooting and view the position of the focus.

The three-stage ND filter can also deal with the problem of great difference between indoor and outdoor lighting conditions. Especially when shooting outdoors, the brightness is too high, which makes the photographer have to shoot with a small aperture and can't achieve the blur effect that everyone likes, which is perfectly solved before the three-speed adjustable nd filter.

Generally speaking, although NX5R has only one more letter than NX5, its performance is almost leaps and bounds compared with NX3 and NX5. Even according to the current professional photography standards, its various functions have been relatively perfect. Used for weddings, meetings, events, etc. Especially when there are few seats, NX5R has irreplaceable advantages for machines with the same price.