Re: Official: Sony A7 and A7r full frame mirrorless announced!
cputeq wrote:
It\'s not going to kill anything, really. You\'ve got basically a niche product here - a larger niche than say a Leica or RX1 crowd, but still niche.
The typical consumer isn\'t going to give a damn about paying $2300 for a FF mirrorless camera (with some expensive native options), when MUCH cheaper and more fleshed out options exist.
This camera is taking a higher-end Fuji-esque approach to the system, but unfortunately the lens availability won\'t be as parallell as the bodies.
And, depending on how you look at it, Sony has unfortunately paired with Zeiss for their initial rollout. Sony/Zeiss seems to have gone IQ over size initially, which means the system mass is going to be considerable compared to a m43 or even APS-C setup. Maybe Sony will roll out their \"value\" line of lenses (aka 85/2.8 A-mount) to reduce the total system size.
Yeah, my RX1 still has a silent leaf shutter and fantastic lens in a smaller package. It isn\'t going anywhere.
The conundrum that Sony has to deal with is that, while they can make smaller, f2.8 lenses (which they did with Zeiss 35/2.8, btw,) a bunch of f2.8 lenses aren\'t going to draw users away from the smaller formats, since they can get a similar look from their faster aps-c and m4/3 lenses. One has to take the whole system size into account, not just the lens size, and the whole system size of the A7 is still much smaller than any FF DSLR on the market. If I were interested in an interchangeable lens system, the A7/r would be a no brainer, for me.
Oct 16, 2013 at 10:48 AM
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