Sony NEX7: 24 Megapixels, 2.4 Million-Dot Viewfinder

Oh, Sony, what are you doing? Didn’t you get the memo that the megapixel race is over? What? We should have sent it on a MemoryStick? Whatever. The NEX-series of camera is Sony’s equivalent of Micro Four Thirds — large sensor (in this case APS-C sized) in

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/sony-nex7-24-megapixels-2-4-million-dot-viewfinder/

there’s rather excellent news for anyone who hates shutter lag. Sony has put in an electronic “first curtain” shutter. Normally on a live-view camera, the shutter needs to be closed before it can fire and take the picture. No longer. Sony says that this cuts the shutter lag from 100ms to a startlingly good 20ms.