NEX-7 Six Month On

Icon Chapel – San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. April, 2012
Sony NEX-7 with 18-200mm @ ISO 100
It's now been six months since I started using the Sony NEX-7. I received one for testing in November, 2011, just before leaving for six months in Mexico, and have been using it there all winter.  It was my primary camera over that period of time. I liked it so much that shortly after starting to work with it I ordered one for my long term use.
The NEX-7 has been a huge success for Sony. Delayed by the events in Thailand and Japan last year, and only now entering full-scale world-wide distribution, this 24 Megapixel APS-C camera is small enough to fit in a pocket (at least with pancake lens) yet able enough to produce large exhibition quality prints. But, it's not without its flaws. 
My daily use over a period of five months has lead to fairly intimate familiarity, and some six thousand frames later I think that I have a good sense of the camera's strengths and weaknesses. But,...