GMPhotography wrote:
Sorry have to disagree. I said this 20 times and it still does not compute. Let me ask a question. Who does Canon , Nikon build for. There own glass. Why in the world would you think Sony is building a camera for Canon glass, Leica glass and Nikon glass. They build Sony lenses they want you to buy them and they are putting every effort into giving you a full set of AF options for THERE lenses. They happened to build a body with a AF system with 3rd party adapters that they can get Canon, Leica and Nikon uses to market to for them to switch. That\'s a side benefit to there marketing. They have no desire to support any of these 3rd party lenses directly. What they can do is help the 3rd party adapters to make them more functional. It\'s up to Metabones to do that not Sony. This is all about getting a bonus package scenerio. You get some extra perks, why in the world do you thing as a Canon user and your lenses are not functional because of adapters that won\'t work, you blame Sony for it.
Seriously forget yourself here think about this as a industry and no one builds functionality for a competitive brand. i honestly can\'t understand folks logic here. This is a business with restrictions and limitations. Sony is after market share let\'s be very clear about that. If they can steal Canon users it\'s huge for them.but it\'s up to you do your homework on what works and what does not but your really waiting on the 3Rd party adapters notSony for the support. No one looks at them and they are the key to adapting your glass not Sony not Canon.
Now my bitch is more about reporting what works and what does not some did a good job but a lot ignored telling us any of the pitfalls at the moment with support. To me that\'s wrong and as a reviewer and tester myself it pisses me off because it makes us look bad.
That\'s my opinion. It\'s tiring to keep hearing Sony get beat up here when Im having a blast with the native glass, it\'s amazing my options. You want at least most of those options look at the adapters getting updates. That\'s the only way your going to get functionality. Not everything will work either these AF motors need to be the newest tech to do it in the first place. I can\'t use my Minolta 200 screw drive the way I can use my Batis 85. That\'s just a age thing
Not sure if your post was meant as a reaction to mine, but to be sure: I quite honestly don\'t care about Sony as a company and I\'m not looking at this as any specific industry goal by Sony. I purely look at this as a potential buyer of this camera.
From the get-go, I\'ve been skeptical about any claims, by Sony or others, that this would be a great way to use Canon lenses. What\'s disappointing to me is that apparently the AF with native Sony lenses isn\'t up to the standard of the mirrorless competition either and that does bother me, since this is one expensive camera.
The way I look at it, as a consumer, is that 42mp is nice, but not necessary. I don\'t need 4K at all at this point. IBIS is a nice addition. The camera is better than the A7R, but it apparently still isn\'t a camera that isn\'t going to frustrate me with its lack of true speed in day-to-day shooting situations. If that\'s true, it\'s just not worth the price for me and I\'ll wait for the next version.
I really don\'t understand people accepting compromises in their assessment of this camera. How can we even talk about Rebel-like speeds as being acceptable if you forked over more than $3,000?
If Sony, or any other camera company, wants me to fork over that much money, they\'re better deliver something that\'s the whole package.
As I said before, I\'ve a rental scheduled - for ten days - so I\'m going to try it and if I\'m happy with its performance with native lenses, I might buy it. If I\'m not, I\'ll probably stick with the A7R for a while longer. If it does well with Canon lenses, I\'d consider it a bonus, but quite honestly, I never believed the claims about the Canon lenses were anywhere close to what some people wanted to believe.
Aug 08, 2015 at 03:55 PM
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