Re: Official: Sony A7 and A7R Fullframe Mirrorless
Getting back to Carsten\'s point, my guess is that the NEX broke the accepted wisdom that, for cameras, bigger was better (and heavier and more expensive). Which is why, initially, smaller cams were born with smaller sensors.
Sony, tentatively, made a better smaller cam, by putting a APS-C in a small body. It was the NEX, intended to out-perform other smaller cameras.
Then people started putting rangefinder lenses on NEX, and rivalling DSLR IQ.
The concept of high-end portability was born. Or re-born in digital form, because there had been some iterations in film.
Sony pushed it further with NEX 5N, then 7. Also Sigma DP 1, 2, 3
Then came the big step, with RX-1.
And now the 36Mp A7R. There is nothing any more in IQ that the large DSLRs can do that the compact ones can\'t do, unless you need great AF and/or high speed.
So it is easy to say that the Sony is too small, or E-mount too compact, or the registry too short, but that is the point. To keep it compact enough that it can be taken anywhere, yet ive up nothing in IQ.
Nov 29, 2013 at 05:46 PM
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