I just tested my Nex-7 for panning and results varied wildly with the settings. @ any MPG4 size (12M or 3M avi) panning is jerky. Just big jerks, just not smooth. Like squeegee jerky for lack of better words. Switching to AVCHD it is interesting to see that images are still jerky at all 25fps settings (I’ve got the European version). However, switching to 50fps all jerking immediately stops and the image is sharp and nicely smooth while panning, at least for my uses and checking in the viewfinder. This is the case for both interlaced and non-interlaced settings (50i & 50p).

So unless your Nex-7 in this test was @ 50/60fps you don’t see what the Nex-7 is really capable of.

Rgds, Ulrik

I.E. I don’t know what you’d call it, but since the Nex-7 is higher up would there not be greater input force exerted upon it as it is further away from the fulcrum point of the tripod?

Therefore the force of your tripod movement on the Nex-7 is greater than that exerted onto the Canon, so basically even thou they’re being moved at the same time, it is nonetheless like the Sony is being swung around faster and with more force than the Canon?

As I said, no physicist and I can still see the Canon being better but maybe the test isn’t quite accurate? As in they both need to be level and from an equal distance from the middle of the tripod for true accuracy?