Have the A7RIV since 2019 and added the A6700 over a year ago and the A7CR 8 months ago. While I love the results and smaller form factor, there are numerous shortcomings in these compacts, compared to the A7RIV, that make them cumbersome and bother me. They are listed below by importance to me:
~Limited 1/4000ss on both, with a Mechanical ss on the A6700 and NO true mechanical shutter on the A7CR. Both have a 1/8000 ES shutter. I live in the desert area that has mostly bright sunny days. And my wife and I visit Thailand a lot, she was born there, and to cover all photo situations, my compact camera really needs a True MS at with a 1/8000ss. Why have f1.4 or f1.8-f2 fast primes if you have to put a ND filter on them to shoot outside? Or deal with the A7CR banding/funky bokeh issue of using a ES above certain shutter speeds?
~Flip out LCD, I don’t do selfie video and never use the screen tilted now, as having the screen to the side of the camera is unacceptable to me. Really need a A7RV type screen on these compacts.
People buy the A7CR mainly for photography, not video (the A6700 is better at video), but Sony put the above 2 huge (to me) limitations in on the A7CR and hopefully V2 will correct this.
~ The A6700 has a very good flexible silicon eyecup that slides on, but the exact same EVF on the A7CR doesn’t have the ability to use this eyecup?? Instead you are left with a clunky 3rd party solution of using the flash slot to anchor an arm, or adding a external one that goes over the top of the camera, to lock in place
~Too many unmarked dials to turn or buttons to push for basic settings. My EC dial on the A6700 is marked, but Sony eliminated the marking on the same dial for the A7CR?? Miss having the joystick too, more than I thought. Yes you can push the center of the Control Wheel and then rotate the dial to move the AF point, but that is a unneeded 2nd step required every time you want to move the focus point. If you forget to push it, others settings, like drive mode, ISO or the display settings change, a REALLY bad solution. Why can’t we at least have a button push to lock the CW to be AF movement only? A simple joystick solves all of this.
~Dual Card Slots. I get around this by carrying a 11” iPad Air with a USB-C port and at the end of most shoots backup in the field. Having Dual card slots would eliminate me having to carry the iPad and accessories in my camera bag.
~1/160 Flash Sync speed. I use OCF a lot and would ideally like 1/400 FS, but am OK with 1/250 FS like my A7RIV.
For these reasons I won’t be giving up my A7RIV anytime soon. I am looking at other brands of smaller compact cameras that have most, if not all of the above features and possibly replace the Sony compacts due to all their limitations.
Have the A7RIV since 2019 and added the A6700 over a year ago and the A7CR 8 months ago. While I love the results and smaller form factor, there are numerous shortcomings in these compacts, compared to the A7RIV, that make them cumbersome and bother me. They are listed below by importance to me:
~Limited 1/4000ss on both, with a Mechanical ss on the A6700 and NO true mechanical shutter on the A7CR. Both have a 1/8000 ES shutter. I live in the desert area that has mostly bright sunny days. And my wife and I visit Thailand a lot, she was born there, and to cover all photo situations, my travel camera really needs a True MS at with a 1/8000ss. Why have f1.4 or f1.8-f2 fast primes if you have to put a ND filter on them to shoot outside? Or deal with the A7CR banding/funky bokeh issue of using a ES above certain shutter speeds?
~Flip out LCD, I don’t do selfie video and never use the screen tilted now, as having the screen to the side of the camera is unacceptable to me. Really need a A7RV type screen on these compacts.
People buy the A7CR mainly for photography, not video (the A6700 is better at video), but Sony put the above 2 huge (to me) limitations in on the A7CR and hopefully V2 will correct this.
~ The A6700 has a very good flexible silicon eyecup that slides on, but the exact same EVF on the A7CR doesn’t have the ability to use this eyecup?? Instead you are left with a clunky 3rd party solution of using the flash slot to anchor an arm, or adding a external one that goes over the top of the camera, to lock in place
~Too many unmarked dials to turn or buttons to push for basic settings. My EC dial on the A6700 is marked, but Sony eliminated the marking on the same dial for the A7CR?? Miss having the joystick too, more than I thought. Yes you can push the center of the Control Wheel and then rotate the dial to move the AF point, but that is a unneeded 2nd step required every time you want to move the focus point. If you forget to push it, others settings, like drive mode, ISO or the display settings change, a REALLY bad solution. Why can’t we at least have a button push to lock the CW to be AF movement only? A simple joystick solves all of this.
~Dual Card Slots. I get around this by carrying a 11” iPad Air with a USB-C port and at the end of most shoots backup in the field. Having Dual card slots would eliminate me having to carry the iPad and accessories in my camera bag.
~1/160 Flash Sync speed. I use OCF a lot and would ideally like 1/400 FS, but am OK with 1/250 FS like my A7RIV.
For these reasons I won’t be giving up my A7RIV anytime soon. I am looking at other brands of smaller compact cameras that have most, if not all of the above features and possibly replace the Sony compacts due to all their limitations.
Dec 11, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Previous versions of SpecFoto's message #16704618 « Anyone moved from A7RIV to A7CR? »
