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 p.54 #20 · A7/A7r - performance with WA RF lenses | |
snowboarder wrote:
I'm sorry, I'm just gonna say that, but this guy Steve H. is a complete moron. He promised
a full report, "I'm going to Nashville, will test both cameras with a range of wide M lenses, blah, blah"
and he keeps posting some Otus shots nobody gives a damn about.
My suspicion is there are clearly some problems and he is paid by Sony (at least he gets affiliate links
income) so he is VERY careful to say anything. He has ZERO reputation, nada. Just another paid commercial
so called "blogger".
Oh give me a break. Huff may not be to everyone's liking (he tends to be overly enthusiastic at times), but jumping to your accusations just sounds like utter fanboy talk. I see it all the time on tech websites. Apple gets a good review, Android fanboys rage that they must be paid by Apple...not that, you know, the product might actually be good. Vice versa the Apple fanboys come out, same thing.
Do you not notice that in this preview, on multiple occasions he remarks how the A7 and A7r aren't as good as the Olympus E-M1 in certain areas....AF nowhere near as fast as E-M1 in low light, build quality not as good as E-M1, doesn't feels as good in the hand as the E-M1. That doesn't sound like someone who's a paid Sony shill. If you read his site a lot, you know if anything he's a Leica fanboy. Why didn't he go full into M lenses? Don't know....
But I know what I'd do in a scenario where I had limited time to test a whole range of things and an item popped up such as certain M lenses acting poor: I'd hold back until I had a chance to REALLY test it.
You don't want to take a shot with one M lens that shows major corner shift and declare that the cameras suck with wide angle M lenses, only to find out that it only happens with THAT lens, and only in certain circumstances. Then you have to walk it back, and that's WAY worse for someone than exercising caution in the first place.
He does do a summary saying "After using these cameras extensively with a variety of Leica M mount glass I can say that if you shoot 35mm and up, there will be no issues on the A7 or A7r with color fringing or magenta edges or focusing. If shooting lenses such as the crazy 12mm Voigtlander or the 15mm or a Zeiss 21 2.8 or Voigtlander 28 f/2 you will see different degrees of either Vignetting or Color issues on the edges." He then goes on to expound on his experience with the 50 Lux, then later says "But back to the wide-angle thing…some of these ultra wides lenses are just not meant to work well with full frame digital bodies. The good news is that if you like B&W you can use the 12, 15 or any ultra wide you like. Just convert to B&W and you will not have problems.  Lol. But seriously, if you are primarily an ultra wide Leica M lens shooter, you may want to skip these bodies. If you shoot 35mm and up, to me, these two cameras put out better IQ than the Leica M. Quite the fear for Sony so I applaud them for that."
My guess is that he's saving more detailed writeup for his review when he has more than two days with the camera. But even getting that much detail given the short period of time is pretty good. (he also then posts samples from a bunch of Leica M lenses...they may not be the best at showing the corner shift, but they're there).
As someone who reviews gear regularly, I try and personally test out as many features and capabilities of a camera as possible, but often I may not have time to go in-depth on certain features. In those cases, I usually won't go in-depth in my review on that feature either because I'd rather be light on detail there than say something that ends up being blatantly wrong. I tend to focus on core features. If I were in this Nashville thing, my primary concern on a short-duration preview such as this would be testing absolute image quality, responsiveness and intuitiveness of the interface in daily shooting, performance with native lenses and autofocus performance, and then after that, if I had time, I'd get into some of the more obscure features, adapted lenses, etc.
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WTF? 
