p.4 #1 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
WillR wrote:
I have an A7RIV Many of the features in the A7RV are things I'd like (focus bracketing, better stabilization etc), but I upgrade every other camera cycle, so I'll get those with whatever else the A7RVI brings. But there are some things I'd like to see in addition.
In general, I think Sony is (surprisingly) behind many other camera makers in some of the non-optical, more computational, aspects of modern cameras. their AF is of course great, but why did it take so long to add focus bracketing? So in that spirit
1. I like the R series not because I need 60 or more megapixels for any output I produce, but because i want to be able to crop and still have at least 20 or more megapixels left. This allows me to pick different aspect ratios, find a picture in a picture, "extend" the long end of my lenses, etc. In my A7RIV I often enable the crop mode for composition help. That is, if i want to extend the long end of my lens the crop mode lets me see what this will look like. In fact, sometimes I enable crop mode for composition, but then take the picture in non-crop mode. Why can't Sony allow us to pick many different kinds of crop modes to see in the EVF, and assign them to a button or dial? I don't need the camera to actually produce a cropped image (at least in raw). I just want to see it. The Fuji GFX100RF has an aspect ratio dial. Why can't a high megapixels Sony have one too?
2. All the AF stuff is great, but why can't I have a function that automatically sets my focus to the hyperfocal point? The camera knows everything it needs to to do this
3. Perhaps a little harder, why can't I set two focus points in a frame and have the camera adjust the focus and/or the aperture so that they are both (reasonably) in focus?
4. Olympus has their "electronic ND" filter effect. It'd be harder for a high res Sony, but pretty neat if it could work.
5. Many other camera brands do double exposure in camera. A lot of the ICM folk like that. Its not really my thing but it does have utility, and again the other companies can do that processing. Why not Sony?
Most of these things would be worth more to me than going from a 60 megapixels sensor to an 80.
We will see what we end up with (I'd guess sometime next year).
p.4 #2 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
- Smaller body
- Higher quality materials, more premium feel.
- Screen that starts the tilting out more like the Fuji x100vi, ie pulling from the bottom-left and you can
start tilting right away.
- No crop 4k60
- More settings to control how the camera behaves when zoomed-in for manual focus. I don't want it to exit just because I changed the aperture, I want to see what changing the aperture looks like while zoomed in, if it affects focus, how much sharper the image looks. If I want to see how it affects the overall scene, I'll exit it myself. As it is now, I have to re-zoom in and check focus again.
Also applies to the A7c iii (with the addition of a much higher EVF, LCD resolution) and which I hope will be around 45 megapixels.
p.4 #3 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
It's probably not going to happen, but I would like a smaller body. One of the reasons I switched to the A7riii when it came out was because it was much smaller than the Canon 5dmkxx of those times. Every iteration has gotten a bit bigger and heavier since.
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p.4 #4 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
I don't want a smaller body. Sony has the A7Cr for those who want a small body. One of the reasons I like the A7r V more than my previous A7r II is that I appreciate the slightly larger body especially in the space between my fingers and the lens. If anything I would be for increasing this space a couple of mm, but I don't want to see the body shrunk. I might be in the minority, but I am generally quite happy with the size of the A7r V.
p.4 #5 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
I know it's always an unpopular opinion in a gear thread, but I am happy enough with my A7r5 that I doubt I'll need the v6 unless there's a transformative change or "gotta have it" feature. I even thought I would hate 61mp but crop/recompose is something that would be hard to give up.
p.4 #6 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
Ditto for me. I’m pleased that Sony is still making a Photography First camera.
corposant wrote:
I know it's always an unpopular opinion in a gear thread, but I am happy enough with my A7r5 that I doubt I'll need the v6 unless there's a transformative change or "gotta have it" feature. I even thought I would hate 61mp but crop/recompose is something that would be hard to give up.
p.4 #7 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
corposant wrote:
I know it's always an unpopular opinion in a gear thread, but I am happy enough with my A7r5 that I doubt I'll need the v6 unless there's a transformative change or "gotta have it" feature. I even thought I would hate 61mp but crop/recompose is something that would be hard to give up.
True, unless your current gear limits you from capturing the images you want, I don’t see the need to continually upgrade to the latest tech. That’s just getting onto the manufactures wheel and running in one spot around and around.
p.4 #10 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
Yogifi wrote:
- Screen that starts the tilting out more like the Fuji x100vi, ie pulling from the bottom-left and you can
start tilting right away.
Oh yes, the Fuji display mechanism beats everything in my opinion. I've never understood the enthusiasm for the rather cumbersome Sony solution. Unfortunately, it's likely that this solution will remain in place forever. Especially since virtually all reviewers praise it as the best option among all cameras, and the average user generally adopts the reviewers' opinions.
p.4 #11 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
Myself, as a pro architectural photographer, I would be interested to try the FX2 viewfinder and see if I would like such on an A7r. I'm not worried about more megapixels since SONY now has med/small raw options.
Internal 1tb would be fantastic instead of a second card.
Besides SONY producing a native T/S lens, I'm good.
p.4 #12 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
Steve Spencer wrote:
I don't want a smaller body. Sony has the A7Cr for those who want a small body. One of the reasons I like the A7r V more than my previous A7r II is that I appreciate the slightly larger body especially in the space between my fingers and the lens. If anything I would be for increasing this space a couple of mm, but I don't want to see the body shrunk. I might be in the minority, but I am generally quite happy with the size of the A7r V.
In A7rV Sony found the right compromise in body size. VI will probably feature A9III and A1II style body which is a good thing. I do not expect other changes.
Faster sensor with more powerful processors will unlock improvements in faster operation and higher EVF quality when focusing. I think it is unrealistic to expect A7rVI to have much better image quality than V. If there is a slight increase in resolution, it is only a minor improvement as 60mp is quite enough.
p.4 #13 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
corposant wrote:
I even thought I would hate 61mp but crop/recompose is something that would be hard to give up.
ArcPhotography wrote:
I'm not worried about more megapixels since SONY now has med/small raw options.
I apologize in advance if my question is naive, but I'm curious to know whether compressed RAW also places noticeably(!) lower demands on image processing hardware. In my opinion, it should, but I come from a darkroom background and have never had a good relationship with bits and bytes, hence my question. I edit exclusively with LR Mobile on the Galaxy Tab S8 ultra. It works great with the 33MP RAW-L from the A7iv; the question is, will it work just as well with, say, the 61MP RAW-M from the 7Rv? I definitely don't need the 61MP, but the A7Rv's beautiful viewfinder keeps popping into my head.
p.4 #14 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
Compressed RAW _should_ (logically) place _MORE_ processing overhead on the hardware you are processing it on.
The advantage of compressed files is that they take up less space and can be transferred faster.
But to process a compressed RAW file your device has to first uncompress it. And that takes processing power. After that, it's the same as for uncompressed files.
Note that the lower resolution compressed files will probably be easier to process than the full res raw files. But do you trust Sony's in-camera downsampling to do it right? I wouldn't.
p.4 #15 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
It may not be necessarily about any specific model: IMO, one area Sony is seriously lacking is their software interface: Imaging Edge Desktop needs to be seriously worked out. I have given up it as it seems like a software developed in early 2000.
As per this camera model, I think the most important improvement should be the sensor itself. Can Sony make a new revolutionary sensor with significantly higher dynamic range and less noise? Here is an idea:
A sensor that consists of two types of pixels: first type has the standard response to light while some sensors which are of a new type have less sensitivity to light. For example, three quarter of pixels or 45m pixels are of the first type while one quarter or 15m pixels are of the second type. The second type pixels are 3, 4 or even 5 stops less sensitive to light and their job is to capture the highlights in a contrasty scene. The camera's processor automatically combines the information from the first type pixels from the areas where light is not overblown with the information from the second type pixels from the areas where the first type pixels are overblown. The result would be a single image with 3 to 5 stops extra dynamic range.
Sony may make a new category designation for a camera with such sensor: A7 hdr. I am not an expert on the field and I am wondering from an engineering point of view what difficulties might be along the way to make such a sensor that is made of two different types of pixels? I don't know how they manufacture sensors: how each individual pixel is made and how they are put together to make a sensor?
p.4 #16 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
Improved AF
Improved FPS (15 is fine)
Increased MP (an increase to 80 will still keep it comfortably around double what the A7V may have with a 44 MP sensor)
Improved EVF
Internal Memory (Backup): 500GB-1TB - do not think we'll get this
Base ISO of 64 rather than 100 (as per Nikon) - do not think we'll get this
An 80 MP high res camera would keep its niche next to a 44 MP A7V and a 50 MP A1 II
Will also love to see these improvements incorporated into an A7CR II
p.4 #18 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
yongliu wrote:
Auto-protection during lens change: sensor and lens rear side automatically closed/covered during lens removal, and opened after lens mount.
How should a camera automatically control a lens protector that is not present on the lens?
p.4 #20 · What is your wish list for the Sony A7RVI
I am currently shooting the A7Rv and A9iii. Since I don't shoot wildlife and I wanted GS for shooting strobes outside, I decided to go A9iii over A1ii. I am seriously considering upgrading the A7RV to the A1ii, even though the A7Rv is just about perfect for my everyday street and travel use.
So now I am going to sit on the fence and wait to see what the A7Rvi brings and I predict that there is a <10% chance that Sony will offer something compelling enough to make me choose the new R series over the A1ii.
But in that low probability situation lies the potential Sony will surprise us with innovation like they did with the A9iii, which we all expected to be a 60FPS 33MP stacked sensor body.
For me, the equivalent of a "game changing" camera for the A7Rvi would be a high MP global shutter with equivalent image quality to the A1ii but "gimped" to 20FPS. Price it at $5500-6000 (post tariff price in the US). 40-50MP would be plenty, but I think the advantages of global shutter would be enough in flash and especially video to get hybrid shooters to spend the extra money over the Canikon competition. Lower the price of the A7Rv and then you have a global shutter pair of bodies - A9iii and A7Rvi that Canikon cannot match for several years just like the OG A1 stood alone for a few years. I would love to own that combination of bodies!
