Since when is an ILC like the NEX-5 "hard to use"? Set camera to auto, point, shoot. Just because it has optional manual controls for expert users does not mean

Since when is an ILC like the NEX-5 "hard to use"? Set camera to auto, point, shoot. Just because it has optional manual controls for expert users does not mean you have to use them. There is a difference between "making controls that are minimal and simple" and "an absolute monomaniacal fetish for minimalism". Cameras use different settings for aperture and exposure, rather than a unified EV dial, because those are two different things. If you can't control aperture, then you can't control depth of field. If you can't control aperture, then the automatic system might do something stupid, like expose a sunlit scene at F/2.0 and 1/1000, which will throw away lens sharpness. If you can't control shutter speed, then you can't do dumb arty things with long exposures. Manual control of both is critical for using a flash in a dark room, where the onboard electronics cannot possibly know enough about the environment to expose it correctly. (I also like how all the text is on images. Beautifully minimal, impossible to copy and paste, and impossible for a search engine to spider.)