p.1 #1 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
Official specifications for Sony’s new α7 and α7r bodies are now out. Get ready for the lightest, full frame camera with interchangeable lens ever produced. Both combine design traits of Sony's NEX cameras with a larger DSLRs look, in a compact form.
Plus, when using a high quality adapter like the Metabones Canon EF Lens to E-Mount Lens Adapter III, Canon shooters striving for higher resolution and broader dynamic range images, may be able to use their beloved Canon glass on the new Sony α7 series -- Something that is sure to shake up the DSLR market.
p.1 #2 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
Sony’s new A7 and A7R digital cameras are the world’s smallest full-frame interchangeable lens models 2. Highly anticipated by professional photographers and imaging enthusiasts alike, the two new cameras offer an unmatched combination of creativity, customizability and portability.
The A7R model features a 36.4 effective megapixel 35mm Exmor® CMOS sensor – the highest resolution sensor in the history of Sony’s A line – with no optical low pass filter for added resolving power and increased image detail. The A7 model boasts an impressive 24.3 effective megapixel 35mm Exmor® CMOS sensor and an innovative fast Hybrid AF system.
p.1 #9 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
Very, very excited about this. Can see my lens collection in a few years being Canon EF, Nikkor and native CZ full frame with nary a Canon body in my bag. For the first time in years I would have my cake and eat it, choose between Canon and Sony full frame, and still keep my beloved Canikon primes! Choice is expanding in a way I didn't dream of yesterday.
I haven't seen the price of the lower resolution of the 2 new Sonys, but I would expect the cost to be competitive in a year or two. In terms of upgrade I no longer feel that I would be bound to get a 6D2 or 5D4, possibilities, possibilities!
p.1 #13 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
Rickuz wrote:
rofl! I'm an apple using yuppie.
That's only forgivable if you do not drive an Audi and you emphatically do not use a Leica.
p.s. other supporting evidence could include a lack of fantasies involving Steve Jobs, and absolutely no desire to cover a Sony A7 in a boutique leather case (in brown).
Gochugogi wrote:
Sheesh, that A7R is one ugly yuppie puppy!
p.1 #14 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
Paul Mo wrote:
That's only forgivable if you do not drive an Audi and you emphatically do not use a Leica.
p.s. other supporting evidence could include a lack of fantasies involving Steve Jobs, and absolutely no desire to cover a Sony A7 in a boutique leather case (in brown).
Darn, I almost made it! Cleared everything except the fantasies about Ste.. I mean, the boutique leather case.
Gochugogi wrote:
Sheesh, that A7R is one ugly yuppie puppy!
I don't know. I think it looks kinda nice away from the product shooting table, especially in the video I posted earlier.
But anyways. I wouldn't care if this camera looked like a turd. It's the specs I'm after. The only thing that can disappoint me now is the dynamic range, but I don't think that will be the case. After all, the sensor is the latest exmor.
p.1 #15 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
For me, I don't see enough to take on a new system and all of the expense. I think I can get by with my 5D3 w/ 24-70 II. Put a 40 2.8 on the 5D3 and it will probably be compact enough for me to get by when I want FF and more portability. I think my EOS M hit a nice sweet spot for portability, IQ and cost. I am probably more excited about the next EOS M than these A7's right now, but could be convinced by good early adopter experiences.
p.1 #16 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
^ Fair enough, but I'm having a hard time seeing the "big expense" here.
It's a $2.200 mirrorless FF (The worlds smallest and lightest) with high resolution and high dynamic range, that will accept your EF lenses through an adapter. It will also take lenses from Sony, Leica, and pretty much every other mount in existence.
You'll need an adapter for the EOS M as well, so what's the difference?
Adapted lenses aside, there will be 12 new lenses from Zeiss next year, especially designed for the A7 and A7R.
p.1 #17 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
Rickuz wrote:
^ Fair enough, but I'm having a hard time seeing the "big expense" here.
You'll need an adapter for the EOS M as well, so what's the difference?
A Sony-compatible flash unit ~$500; an Arca Swiss plate ~$60; whatever (USB?) cable release Sony will provide ~$50; charger ~$40; second battery ~$40; SD cards ~$100...
Sony really missed a trick here not making the flash shoe Canon and Nikon compatible.
p.1 #18 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
Yeah, I fully expect that the sensors on these babies are going to comfortably outclass everyone elses, Sony being the sensor bosses, although for me personally its the high ISO performance that will make or break the deal.
With the native lenses not having to be retrofocus (if that is the right word) high quality is going to be the order of the day. In terms of cost, leaving aside the cost of an EF adaptor (which I would only have to buy once), the Sonys don't look expensive compared to the 6d/5D3s of this world.
p.1 #20 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
David Baldwin wrote:
Yeah, I fully expect that the sensors on these babies are going to comfortably outclass everyone elses, Sony being the sensor bosses, although for me personally its the high ISO performance that will make or break the deal.
With the native lenses not having to be retrofocus (if that is the right word) high quality is going to be the order of the day. In terms of cost, leaving aside the cost of an EF adaptor (which I would only have to buy once), the Sonys don't look expensive compared to the 6d/5D3s of this world.
That is the word. But it only affects wides. Normal and tele lenses don't need to have the retrofocus design even on DSLRs.
I'm an apple using yuppie. 