Ron, yes would love to hear/see your perspective with the A7r!
Michael, I still feel the RX1 and more so the RX1R will be better than the A7 35/2.8 combo. A7r will be very interesting!!
rscheffler wrote:
though have also been rationing my time online. Definitely still shooting the M9.
I take that as a good suggestion I need shoot more than gear talk and surf around here.
rscheffler wrote:
Busy with work, life, etc... though have also been rationing my time online.
Me too. It took the A7 cameras to cause me to pop back in here, my first comments here since the spring.
I might still be interested in the A7r even if it doesn't handle certain WA RF lenses well, but obviously I'd rather it did well in that area and thus be more useful.
If not, I'm going back to lurking.
Still shooting the GXR on occasion but mostly the D800 these days. My youngest son has taken over the GXR and as his enthusiasm for photography continues to build, I'm happy to let him have at it. I do miss having a compact image maker all to myself though!
I think it's interesting that someone earlier made a remark about the difficulty of focusing manually with peaking. Indeed I went back to my GXR files and there is definitely a high percentage of missed focus shots, some of them really critical. So I'm a bit unconvinced about the usefulness of such cameras with RF lenses unless one has the time to use image magnification for critical focus. I think the best way to go is with native FE lenses, Which by the way are superb, perhaps using RF and other alternative glass as a fill gap until more focal ranges are introduced.
Edward, certainly no matter how proficient I was, or wasn't, with manual focus lenses and focus peaking on the NEX or GXR, spending most of the last year with the D800 convinced me of the same.
Now that Sony has in effect guaranteed the longevity of the E mount, I'm less concerned about vendor lock in and the breadth of available optics. High quality lenses should naturally follow from Sony and others -- assuming of course the market for a higher end FF ILSC remains robust enough for Sony. I think it will - if they cannibalize DSLT and NEX APS-C sales to some degree, so be it.
I agree with you both. I find that to ensure I have critical focus on what I want, I have to use the focus zoom functionality on my NEX 7. Focus peaking isn't accurate enough.
Yeah it's already tough with my CV35 1.2 wide open.
Having said that with a bit of fore thought I can set my depth of field up front if I'm planning on shooting a moving target like my kids and get a pretty decent number of keepers.
Thanks for the report Ron. Sad to hear that the 21SEM isn't working great on it, because that's a fantastic lens. I'm looking forward to seeing results from it on the A7R.
A7r with Contax G 21/2.8. Looks like no major improvement over the NEX 5N, but a little better with regards to corner smearing. That comparison is a bit unfair as the A7r uses a larger part of the image circle than an APS-C sensor.
Not that it is very interesting but if you crop out a APS-C coverage out of the FF image it looks like it could be significantly better than the 5N.
EDIT: Google translation error - bad images. not taken with A7r
No major improvement over 5N still suggests that ZM 18 and Elmar 24, both clean on 5N, but not on 7, could be clean on A7r. That would be sweet indeed!
A7r with Contax G 21/2.8. Looks like no major improvement over the NEX 5N, but a little better with regards to corner smearing. That comparison is a bit unfair as the A7r uses a larger part of the image circle than an APS-C sensor.
Not that it is very interesting but if you crop out a APS-C coverage out of the FF image it looks like it could be significantly better than the 5N.
Hope A7r will be better. At least, I hope Leica 21-35R can still work with it 