I\'ve been a Sony NEX7 user for the last 22 months. Because of my old eyes I pretty much require an EVF solution like the NEX7 or now A7r.
I went to buy/look an 800/e several times but couldn\'t really get past the usability of the live view situation. I shoot manually almost 100% of the time so critical focus is important to my process.
Like many, I was excited when the A7r was introduced and it delivers on resolution and MTFs as long as it\'s in B&W.
However, when I went out to shoot my first shots in the field and in color, some issues immediately came to light.
More than anything (even shutter blur) the Sony \'lossless compression\' is causing artifacts and bad tonal transitions. It\'s not too visible in the 1st iteration but when you go to post (or zero post) and then JPEG it\'s glaring. I haven\'t been able to create a color JPEG without the issue.
It\'s all in LR 5.3 but I\'ve tried most variances of the options without success (other than export as 200mb TIFF) Import sRGB RAW from camera into copy, copy as DNG, no process, no output sharpening, export into sRGB, AdobeRGB, ProPhotoRGB.
If you have a good viewing setup (large screen, high resolution) have you seen such problems with tonal gradients in the 800(e) ?
