p.56 #1Official: Sony A7R V announced (pre-orders now available)
tsdevine wrote:
Mine is that way too.....but I really, really, really had to look closely. My "bought near release" a7R III is the same.
Awesome, thanks for confirming.
tonychen wrote:
Are your camera bought Brand new or used? In the old days, lots of people manually remove the black coating from Sony hotshoe so that regular flash can work on Sony body. Removing the coating just makes a direct electrical contact. Not sure if it's the case here.
Brand new. Part of it was curiosity, and I'll admit a small part was a concern of it being brand new as I bought it through greentoe, but have never had problems before, and there are shutter activations and serial numbers to check. But glad to see it's just my faulty memory and it seems like (all) of the Sony cameras are like this.
p.56 #2Official: Sony A7R V announced (pre-orders now available)
Eruditass wrote: tschopp wroteEruditass wroteAm I misremembering or did they change the the metal part of the hotshoe lip? I thought I remember all black on my A7R4, but on my A7R5 it's not, it has a rough unpainted/cut texture
https://i.imgur.com/WUcVGFQ.jpgMy hot shoe is tighter than the Riv.Sorry, I mean specifically this lighter colored region, did this just change on the R V? So did your R IV have just painted black? I sold my non-a A7R IV version a week ago but didn't remember this, was just curious about the change.
I just looked at my A7R5, it has the same lighter color. To me it looks like it was painted, then machined later. I don't remember seeing this on the R4, but i'm not sure I would have noticed. I only removed the plastic cover to install something.