Re: Official: Sony A7R V announced (pre-orders now available)
RoamingScott wrote: Dultimate wrote:
I'm getting the feeling that the B&S board is going to have a few A1's for sale here soon. I'm surprised at the amount of people that have the A1 and are willing to contemplate the RV.
I'd suspect that nearly everyone that bought an A1 who would remotely consider the A7Rv as a replacement isn't pushing the A1 to its max, and that using the highest end capabilities of it are edge cases for them.
I also suspect that many people making this trade down are going to forget how brutal a slow reading sensor is for certain shooting, and how annoying blackout can be. Hope they don't sell their A1s first
Im looking at what I am shooting versus what I need . The A1 is king no question about it and if I wanted to stay electronic shutter then no question the best choice. BUT BUT BUT looking at my A7IV for instance at I paid 2300 dollars. I could easily say screw it blow the mechanical shutter in 2 years and throw the thing in the trash. Do the math at 40K per images on mechanical shutter when will that shutter say bye bye lets say for instance it kicks out in 120000 and that's being friendly. Than lets say of me for instance if I can still avoid LED banding and don't really have to be QUIET when shooting the I have anti flicker, variable shutter in mechanical to adjust the banding out . Plus im sitting in a ballroom with 2 thousand people im taking less financial risk of losing a 6500 camera or getting damaged plus im not the only one shooting but have a assistant that does a lot of it. Then you look at this from a real business risk reward perspective. Im not stupid been at this for decades I don't just talk about this stuff its ingrained in my DNA . Been all over the planet and risks are involved shooting . Plus honestly between you , me and the fence post having a lets say with lens in hand im looking at a monopod that's worth 9 grand ready to fall be stolen or shot for than you do think lower risks. And I am at risk, no doubt about it. Do I love my A1 absolutely and that decision to maybe move on is not an easy one. I know the features but I also can cheat this better than almost anyone. I shot this shit with a A7RII an got by. Than LED was not involved back then. The LED issue is fairly new and all the lights we rent for Production which is at least 90 lamps for the stage work is all LED. Besides that Im not going to have to worry about that 9 grand when I walk out of the room. Less sweat with a 2300 camera and 70-200
Now all of this is consideration for what you do , you need and what your exceptions are . Not many people can do that better than me. I know exactly what I need . None of this decision making process is easy or not about doing my homework. I know there are a lot of Pros going through these same decisions. If I shot birds or even needed 30 FPS then decision is over. I don't even shoot 3FPS and never shot birds they can write checks.
Now none of that whole thing was about the A7RV feature sets that are reasons to look at. I could simple not put this camera on line if I can do it all with a A7IV and not even risk it. I have that option too or use sparingly. Or take the A1 offline
Stuff to think about digest and maybe make a decision to push on. I lost the A1 than I know I lost out on its feature sets too and that aint easy to swallow
Dec 05, 2022 at 03:13 PM
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