Re: Time to go to heaven, Sony A7Riii(3) announced-
Why would they remove PlayMemories? That is such a great feature. I use that often as an excellent remote and back up to tethering in certain situations. Is there an alternative to it?
Vcize wrote:
I know I'll be called ungrateful but this is rather disappointing as a landscape shooter. I can see the draw for people shooting more moving subjects but there seems like a lot of overlap there with the A9. Do wedding shooters want 42mp?
Remember these announcements are usually pie in the sky and then as reviews really solidify we typically find that a lot of the promises are under delivered. For instance I'm guessing "A9 AF" means they used some similar algorithms but in practice with the hardware and sensors involved the AF will be well behind the A9's.
I'm guessing same sensor means same long exposure noise issues? And if so more star eater algorithm. If I'm wrong on this that would be one big advancement I could get behind, but with Sony's poor direction in firmware already being semi-confirmed in other annoying areas I am not optimistic.
Still drops to 12 bit in lots of instances. One less instance, which is nice, but still way too many. No lossless compressed.
Whereas play memories could be a real game-changer if they opened it up a la a user-developed app store, instead we are going backwards and eliminating it entirely. Very very disappointing as a landscape shooter.
No mention of touchless shutter, which is actually really useful for landscape shooters. I'm guessing with play memories being dropped it's gone completely now. Just another half finished idea from Sony that could have been great if they'd put the last 5% of work in, instead of getting it 95% done and then abandoning it.
In this respect, a half finished version of pixel shift that is 5 times the PITA as the versions that have been on the market for years is unsurprising. As someone above mentioned if you have to take separate raw files into software anyway it's not that different from shooting a longer FL and stitching, which probably handles moving leaves and water better than pixel shift anyway.
Any word on the processor? A7r2 is incredibly laggy compared to DSLRs. Would be a big win if this thing lets you move around the menus faster and doesn't those couple second hang-ups regularly.
Bottom line is software is really the direction where I wanted to see Sony improve, and they seem to be only going backwards even further there. No real improvements on the software front, and elimination of playmemories which was useful as a landscape photog (though it, like everything else software driven by Sony, needed improvements).
Great hardware, mind-numbingly dumb software. Par for the course with Sony. I was really hoping the next camera would fix a lot of these issues instead of exacerbating them and I could put those Canon/Nikon mirrorless announcements we all know are coming on ignore because I really really love Sony's lens lineup. But looks like I'll still end up where I was before, if they can deliver on hardware/lenses without the horrible software "quirks" that Sony makes us endure, I'll have to pay attention.
Oct 25, 2017 at 10:24 AM
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