Re: Official: Sony A7 and A7R Fullframe Mirrorless
shelt wrote:
Hey Sebboh et al, the a7 (not sure about a7r) is being shown in Palo Alto today and tomorrow:
Come experience the Sony A7 for the first time in the Bay Area. Glenn Wienfeld from Sony will be in store at Keeble and Shuchat from 10AM-3PM on Friday, November 8th and Saturday, November 9th. He will be here showing Sony A7 and the RX10 and answering any questions about these new cameras, so come down and see what all the industry buzz is all about.
Unfortuantely I can\'t make it, but thought some other SFers might be interested...
Thanks again for letting us know about this. I made it down to Palo Alto and spent quite a bit of time shooting the A7 with the Minolta CLE\'s 28, 40, and 90mm and a couple of shots with another guy\'s Pentax 31mm f1.8 limited.
Because it\'s a pre-production version, the Sony rep (a very nice, patient, knowledgeable guy) asked me not to post the samples from my SD card that he didn\'t realize I had in the camera. I promised I wouldn\'t.
But here are my impressions. First off, it was an overwhelmingly positive experience. I\'m quite sure now that I\'ll keep my preorder in place as these cameras are a joy to use with alt lenses. The EVF is very good and it was extremely easy to focus using magnification.
I really liked the ergonomics of the camera -- the grip, the screen, the EVF, the eyecup, the buttons. I do wish the shutter button were a bit further forward but it wasn\'t the deal breaker I had feared.
The camera looked extremely sexy with the alt lenses, especially the Minolta CLE 28mm f2.8. I think people would stop you on the street and ask about that combo.
Looking at the images (out of camera jpg\'s) -- it\'s difficult to tell much because of Sony\'s heavy-handed noise reduction, but all the lenses looked fine without corner color casts. Nothing sharp in the image corners to judge smearing. The Minolta 90mm f4 and especially the Pentax 31mm f1.8 look especially promising.
UPDATE: with the release of Lightroom 5.3RC today, I\'m able to compare RAW vs JPG on one the pictures from today. The jpg is horrendous -- very red skin tones (probably due to a green shirt the subject was wearing), very strong NR smearing, underexposed. The RAW processed in LR looks fine -- exactly the quality I\'m used to seeing from other modern FF DSLRs like the D600.
Below are images taken with my iPhone of the camera with various lenses:
Re: Official: Sony A7 and A7R Fullframe Mirrorless
shelt wrote:
Hey Sebboh et al, the a7 (not sure about a7r) is being shown in Palo Alto today and tomorrow:
Come experience the Sony A7 for the first time in the Bay Area. Glenn Wienfeld from Sony will be in store at Keeble and Shuchat from 10AM-3PM on Friday, November 8th and Saturday, November 9th. He will be here showing Sony A7 and the RX10 and answering any questions about these new cameras, so come down and see what all the industry buzz is all about.
Unfortuantely I can\'t make it, but thought some other SFers might be interested...
Thanks again for letting us know about this. I made it down to Palo Alto and spent quite a bit of time shooting the A7 with the Minolta CLE\'s 28, 40, and 90mm and a couple of shots with another guy\'s Pentax 31mm f1.8 limited.
Because it\'s a pre-production version, the Sony rep (a very nice, patient, knowledgeable guy) asked me not to post the samples from my SD card that he didn\'t realize I had in the camera. I promised I wouldn\'t.
But here are my impressions. First off, it was an overwhelmingly positive experience. I\'m quite sure now that I\'ll keep my preorder in place as these cameras are a joy to use with alt lenses. The EVF is very good and it was extremely easy to focus using magnification.
I really liked the ergonomics of the camera -- the grip, the screen, the EVF, the eyecup, the buttons. I do wish the shutter button were a bit further forward but it wasn\'t the deal breaker I had feared.
The camera looked extremely sexy with the alt lenses, especially the Minolta CLE 28mm f2.8. I think people would stop you on the street and ask about that combo.
Looking at the images (out of camera jpg\'s) -- it\'s difficult to tell much because of Sony\'s heavy-handed noise reduction, but all the lenses looked fine without corner color casts. Nothing sharp in the image corners to judge smearing. The Minolta 90mm f4 and especially the Pentax 31mm f1.8 look especially promising.
Below are images taken with my iPhone of the camera with various lenses:
Nov 09, 2013 at 12:28 AM
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