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 p.144 #6 · Official: Sony A7 and A7R Fullframe Mirrorless | |
philip_pj wrote:
A fair overview may be that when a person starts listing complaints including battery life, EVF not = OVF, wake time etc. they are working from the existing paradigm of armoured up, military precision DSLRs, and in time may want to consider the obvious benefits of the new paradigm. My mileage very definitely does vary in both respects, but then again image quality and fit-for-purpose (travel, landscape) are the major criteria for me.
Phillip, there clearly are few groups of people here (and shades of gray between) - and the clever ones not commenting these threads 
For the really serious people, here are few smileys 
Group A "Happy Happy Joy Joy"- / "Fanboy"-group
This group can't discuss anything objective. Everything is so great and there is enormous hype. Anything negative is tried to be turned into "you are using it wrong, you have to use light lenses and handhold"-kind of thinking, or denied "I don't see anything, and camera should not be used for purpose X/I'm not using camera for that". These person usually seem to prefer native lenses. These users typically have history of NEX or/and other mirrorless cameras.
Group B "Hardcore"-group
This group is determined to take everything out from the camera and themselves. They find issues, compare to different product category and discuss about the issues, and try to find best ways to mitigate issues and get best value out from their A7(r) in whatever purpose they are planning to use it. Many in this group also seemed to hope that this would work with rangefinder lenses (=small package and best image quality, the "ultimate combo"). Group doesn't seem to have preference for native or alternative lenses, selection is based on performance and rendering characteristics. These users typically have history from DSLRs, most shoot Nikon D800(E) or rangefinder guys with M9/240.
Group C "Drama queen"-group
These guys buy A7(r), swear it in forum and return it. Maybe get other versions instead.
Of "the new paradigm" as you call it, really isn't that revolutionary. Like I earlier wrote to you improvements are mostly quantity based in A7(r);
- cheaper than Leica
- smaller/lighter than DSLR
- larger sensor than NEX/Fuji/whatevermirrorless
- shorter flange distance than in other fullframe cameras
All of these are good "quantities", and even better when combined to one camera, which I think is Sony's biggest achievement. In my opinion this is really good for the industry, specially because it was not done by Canon&Nikon (=the big ones) but adding 3rd player into the "game". Hopefully it makes competition hard and people get better products and value for their money in the future due to that.
For me A7/A7r never really was really about size/weight, travel etc. it's a nice bonus for sure, but not primary reason. These are obviously very important to you, but for some reason you fail to understand that other people can enjoy same product for different reasons and use it completely differently. If we would still live film era I would be shooting with medium format (would do on digital as well, but digital backs and best lenses are just too expensive) or large format. For me the reasons are really sensor quality and possibility to use optics, which I consider best from performance and usability standpoint. EVF wasn't nice bonus, as I have shoot with EVF (LCD+LCDVF) from 2008, I really could not live without great EVF. Like said size/weight is added bonus, and thanks to it I can fit 3 cameras to flight regulation camera back bag (or to hike), which I give a lot of value as it raises usability to new levels. I'm also strange in that sense that I enjoy shooting from good tripod, and generally don't feel it's limiting factor in majority of my photography. Naturally there are situations, in which I prefer handholding.
Does all this mean, that I should not enjoy the camera because I don't fulfil your definition of only correct A7(r) usage = shooting handheld with native lenses and doing things people used to do with compact digicams, but with better image quality?
Samuli
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