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Sony's New Alpha NEX-5R

Sony's Alpha NEX-5N impressed us last year with its svelte body, excellent image quality, touch-screen LCD, and support for an optional EVF. Its successor, the NEX-5R, is in many ways the same camera, with a few noticeable internal improvements—notably a faster autofocus system and built-in Wi-Fi.

The 16-megapixel sensor now has 99 phase-detection autofocus points in addition to the standard 25 contrast-detection points. This allows the camera to focus faster, and to better track objects. It equals the 10 frame per second shooting of the NEX-5N, but is now able to do so with tracking autofocus, whereas the 5N was limited to a single AF lock at that speed.