Re: Why are people not buying Sony's Swiss Army knife "A7cr"
chez wrote: Aztatlan wrote: jaygould wrote:
This argument about failing SD cards are overblown, imo. Another risk is to lose the camera altogether (either by accidentally dropping it into a lake or similar, or having it stolen). Two cards won't save you then.
Views like this will change quickly when you too suffer a card failure.
Personally I have experienced two SD card failures. Fortunately neither time did I actually lose anything - the first time I had dual cards and the other card was fine. Many great images survived as a result. The other time I had nothing of importance on either card, so the failure was nothing more than a nuisance.
Single card slots are awful. SD media is a common enough point of failure that nothing besides the very cheapest of cameras should have a single card slot these days.
I take it you bring along a spare camera everywhere with you. I’ve had cameras fail on me and have seen numerous cameras dropped into rivers making them unusable.
I do, yes. At least, I bring a spare camera everywhere that matters. If I am just out for the day with my family I would not (I may not even bring any camera apart from my phone for such an outing) but if say, traveling overseas - absolutely yes, two bodies always. I will also generally have some overlap in key focal lengths, so for example if traveling on a landscape trip I have more than one wide-angle lens in my bag such that if disaster struck one of them, I have redundancy.) This approach has paid off before. I once slipped on some ice in Yosemite and snapped the 15-30 zoom off my Nikon D810, damaging both lens and camera. I had a Sony A7RII in my bag as well though, and with my Loxia 21 was able to keep shooting wide angle landscapes immediately without issue. Obviously I lost the flexibility of the zoom, but was better than having 35mm as my next-widest lens.
Uncle Chip wrote:
Are there any disadvantages with the A7cr over the A7rv for landscape photography?
Not for IQ, but for quality of life features yes.
Worse screen/EVF, single card slot, and I think it uses the old articulating screen design (now superseded with the R5) that can cause some issues with L-brackets. I may be wrong on the last point though as I have not handled an A7CR with an L plate installed.
Re: Why are people not buying Sony's Swiss Army knife "A7cr"
chez wrote: Aztatlan wrote: jaygould wrote:
This argument about failing SD cards are overblown, imo. Another risk is to lose the camera altogether (either by accidentally dropping it into a lake or similar, or having it stolen). Two cards won't save you then.
Views like this will change quickly when you too suffer a card failure.
Personally I have experienced two SD card failures. Fortunately neither time did I actually lose anything - the first time I had dual cards and the other card was fine. Many great images survived as a result. The other time I had nothing of importance on either card, so the failure was nothing more than a nuisance.
Single card slots are awful. SD media is a common enough point of failure that nothing besides the very cheapest of cameras should have a single card slot these days.
I take it you bring along a spare camera everywhere with you. I’ve had cameras fail on me and have seen numerous cameras dropped into rivers making them unusable.
I do, yes. At least, I bring a spare camera everywhere that matters. If I am just out for the day with my family I would not (I may not even bring any camera apart from my phone for such an outing) but if say, traveling overseas - absolutely yes, two bodies always.
Jan 22, 2024 at 04:36 PM
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