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Frogfish wrote:
I generally agree with those comments. I'm trying to decide between the A7r3 or A7r4 + an A74 to replace my A9 and A7rii : I shoot travel, landscapes and street (with possibly a lot more projects - portraits & themes on the streets of Shanghai, next year) the A7r4 seems to best meet that criteria so long as you are happy enough to shoot APSC for wildlife/birds. Astro more difficult - I usually use the A7rii for that at present. Decisions, decisions.
When you try to cover a lot of subjects with a single system — and most people do — the compromises can be difficult to parse. Different photographers will come to different decisions, and there is no one choice that is universally right.
If most of your photography is done handheld, as opposed to using a tripod, I think that the attraction of the very high resolution options may be diminished a great deal. This is doubly-true if you aren't typically making large, high quality prints. With the low end of today's MP resolution typically being at least in the 20MP+ range, you can assume that you'll be able to make excellent quality 20" x 30" prints if your technique is good.
On the other hand, if you are making even larger prints and you typically work from the tripod and carefully mitigate all of the factors that might diminish images sharpness, the higher MP cameras can be worth it as long as you can also get by with their typical slower operation.
To give you one example, I use a high MP full frame system for landscape photography and I do need to be able to produce large prints from the files. But I use the same camera/lenses for photographing wildlife, including birds in flight and otherwise. Now that's not an ideal setup for the latter kind of photography, but it works quite well enough to let me produce good photographs of that subject with the same system I use for landscape photography.
If my primary purpose were the wildlife photographs I might start out with a different (probably faster and lower resolution) camera body and conclude that I could still make quite good enough landscape photographs with it. After all, it wasn't that long ago that I did just that using 12MP and later 20MP camera bodies.
Good luck.
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