Gadgetory

this is sean hollister with the verge and i'm here with nate rel as well as sony's new translucent mirror interchangeable lens camera this sony alpha 837 this one here is a 16.1 megapixel sensor and 15 point autofocus system same as many others on the sony alpha line and in fact it's also the same as the camera i'm holding to record this footage with a sony NEX f3 this particular camera that you're looking at has a brand new 18 to 1 35 millimeter lens on it which is going to be available as a kit lens for several of the alphas later in july and it starts with this lens at seven ninety-nine or with the standard 18 to 55 millimeter kit lens for 599 you can see them having a little bit of trouble with the auto focus of the dexter 3 let me switch over in the manual out that we go manual ring dial and anyhow so the alpha 837 for the price of 59 to 999 has an articulating screen on the back nice big panel there which can tilt up quite a bit and also down if you want to get shots from a different angle this is going to be available in june with the lens in july now in a moment we're going to switch over and use the alpha a 37 to film this NEX f3 and we're back with the NEX f3 Sony's 500 9999 successor to the next c3 earlier version of this mirrorless interchangeable lens camera you can see here there is quite the honking zoom on this camera that's because it's a new 18 to 200 millimeter lens it's going to retail for 849 99 in July but back to the camera here spin that around to the side and you're going to see a USB port on the left that's not just for data that is how you're going to charge the NEX f3 it doesn't come with a separate battery charger instead it recharges over USB and sony tells us it's going to take maybe about five hours to charge up the battery internally the NEX f3 also has a pop-up flash as we've seen in a few leaks jumps right up like the one on the on the next 7 and you can pull it back with your thumb for a bounce flash if you like other interesting new feature of the f3 is the articulating screen it pulls up like you'd like expect in the back and can angle down a ways but you can actually push it up 180 degrees or something Sony is calling a mirror mode to take self-portraits and not actually out there we go seeing on the screen right now we zoom in while you are arranging yourself in this mirror mode and acts just like a mirror with the image reversed so you can set yourself up for a portrait like you'd expect but once you start the start the shutter 3 second timer after that goes off the image it takes is actually reversed completely so if you've got a neat you know text logos on your shirt or anything it'll appear the right way up that's the same 16.1 megapixel aps-c sensor in there and autofocus system 51 autofocus system and bonds processor as the Alpha series and we'll find this in june for five hundred ninety-nine ninety-nine with the 18 155 millimeter kit lens you're wondering why this video is having some focusing issues here it's because i'm not used to this camera i am recording all of this on the alpha a 37 we saw a little while ago learning what i'm doing for the first time here thank you for watching