Light and also some shade ...

I'm using the viewfinder with the Sony NEX 5R. The viewfinder is therefore suitable not only for the NEX 5N, as the product description actually says. Without a viewfinder can be outside even in low light conditions, ie cloudy sky, not good photography, there simply is not high enough, the brightness of the live camera image (applies in principle-not only for the NEX). The viewfinder is inserted up into a multifunctional terminal of NEX and must be fixed with a small screw. That does not make it, he loosens quickly during operation. This solution has a significant advantage and disadvantage, in contrast to the built-in viewfinder NEX 6 and 7:

+++ Disadvantage: the viewfinder protrudes significantly from the level of the camera and gets caught easily in a pocket or take the NEX 5 some of its compactness.

+++ Advantage as opposed to a built-in viewfinder, you can open this up and how oblique film with an angle viewfinder from above and must not keep his eye on the camera. So you can shoot more relaxed than with the built-in viewfinder and so is just ground-level films possible.

The viewfinder itself is made perfectly. Whether the contacts but after frequent top Insert function so sure, is the question. The screw for fixing to the camera is not optimally accessible, so that it gets a little tricky when it has to be fast. The picture is very good and sharp, with almost 2.5 million pixels. A refractive error can be corrected to get a sharp image. The brightness of the viewfinder is not regulated. Heavy that would not have been. That and the very high price cost one star rating. Perhaps we should but the NEX 5R 6 instead of take, particularly if you film a little? On the multifunction terminal the NEX can always sit only one component, ie the viewfinder or flash. Here constant change is announced.