It may be a surprise for you but TheCameraStoreTV team picked the GM1 and not the E-M1 as one of the best three cameras of the year (the other two being the K-3 and A7r). And you know what? I tend to agree. The E-M1 is certainly a more capable camera. But the GM1 is always with me since day one. So easy to keep it in your jacket!
P.S.: I will soon launch a poll to see what was the best MFT camera for the 43rumors reader community.
GM1 store list:
In US at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
In Europe at Amazon Germany, Wex Germany, Amazon UK, Fotohanskeuzekamp, Cyberphoto Sweden and Wex UK.
E-M1 Store Links:
Olympus E-M1 body at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto, Amazon DE (via DL), Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL), WexUK, Topshot FI, CameraWorldUK.
Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO Lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, AmazonDE (viaDL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus E-M1 with 12-40mm Lens kit at Amazon DE (via DL), WexUK and CameraWorldUK, Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus E-M1 with 12-50mm Lens kit at Amazon DE (via DL), WexUK, CameraWorldUK, Amazon UK (via DL), Amazon ES (via DL).
Olympus EP-13 Eyecup for E-M1 at Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus HLD-7 Battery Grip for E-M1 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus LC-62D Metal Front Lens Cap for 12-40mm at Adorama and BHphoto.
Olympus LH-66 Lens Hood for 12-40mm at Adorama and BHphoto.
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Olympus are corporate fraudsters, and their cameras are fraudulent, as they hardly make any of the components themselves (don’t forget that sigma makes their best lenses – how humiliating).
Yeah right.
Wonder who made you, Mr. Fail.
Big mistake, bogus parts, not working.
Does your mom know you are on the Internet again? I thought she unplugged you because you were wanking too much.
Sorry guys, nothing left in my life other than troll. 🙁
No accounting for taste! They were drunk, right? LOL
Too much alcohol, too little research and objective reasoning. 🙂
No doubt…the lens of the year was the Otus…out of my price range, but no definitely the optical accomplishment of the year.
e-m1 is too expensive…too……without doubt…..in The Next weeks the prices Will drop down a Lot……surely
Agreed – we’ve already had some short periods of 12% discounts in Spain – by the New Year it may start getting sensibly priced
Why bother have a poll here? We all know the fanboys here will vote for anything Olympus multiple times.
I wouldn’t even bother vote.just give it to the E-M1 already.
Why bother so much with this site, you don’t miss a post!!? A matter of love and hate, or what? Don’t you have anything constructive to say? Only this crappy bullshit all the time??
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Yoda
It is a sad day when grown men quote from childrens films, and in their mind think they are being philosophical.
MrIDIOT (or should I say MrCHEAPSKATE)is at it again. Just wishes he could afford an E-M1. If it wasn’t for this forum, he’d have no where to go.
Last I checked, my Canon 6D purchase for the body only was much more than the E-M1…
don’t ever try to pull that card again, you’ll just look really Stupid.
I do agree that the tiny GM1 is an engineering marvel; much better than any point and shoot. It’s almost a GX7 in a very tiny package.
I just don’t agree with the buzz about the Sony A7/r though. I understand it intellectually, but I’ve tried one out, and it doesn’t seem to do it for me. (Granted, I didn’t try it out for long, and so it’s not necessarily a definitive trial.) It’s a great sensor in a very flawed package otherwise. It would be like a car with a powerful engine but poor suspension, handling, tires, steering, etc.
I really hope Sony refines their system and gets it right…but they don’t have a track record of doing so.
But certainly the GM1 is a great addition to the camera market, as is the EM1…and the innovation and advancement in the camera industry keeps getting better.
Yep, GM1 + 14mm f/2.5 makes a great pocket camera, and I’m surprised Panasonic don’t do it as a kit.
The A7 is a very big deal. It’s a FF Mirror less camera. So much so, that Canon and Nikon will have to take Mirror less seriously, or be left out in a big way.
Sony just threw down the gauntlet, now everybody has to step up.
I get what you are saying about the A7 FF mirrorless being a game changer. In theory, yes.
But one, whether it has impact will depend largely on sales. And the handicaps of the camera may hinder sales. Also, the A7/A7r are relatively expensive FF cameras; can it have that much of an impact when it will sell in relatively small quantities? Then there’s the fact that Sony marketing isn’t particularly great…and that the Sony retail distribution network for these camerasis not that large.
So sure on the internet the A7 has the chatter; but we’ve seen it happen that the camera with the chatter doesn’t really add up to sales. Time will tell.
Right now the A7/A7r are niche products; largely for those with legacy lenses now willling to use an adapter. I’m sure they are selling, but they are hardly selling out. They are easy to get and are not sold out.
But I am not at all convinced that the conventional wisdom of these Sony cameras being this game changer is at all true.
The A7 is a game changer, no matter how much you are in denial. It is the full frame OM-D.
$1400 is what I paid for mine. How can you call that expensive?!
The camera itself is fabulous. Far better controls than my canon 6D and better image quality.
And the other revolution are the Zeiss optics. Sony is following Olympus’ lead this time and strengthening the young system with top quality glass only. The 55/1.8 is a steal if you see what the Otus and the 58mm Nikkor are going for.
How is the image quality better than that of the Canon 6d?
Dox rates the 6D an 81 and the Sony A7r a 95 –
And that means what in reality?
“The A7 is a game changer, no matter how much you are in denial.”
Because you say so?
I’m sorry but a body without lenses isn’t even a camera. Ok, so it has a few lenses, well, that makes it FOR NOW a very restricted camera, but one with the potential to become a game changer if the system is built up properly.
But they will?
Hmm yes, they also did with NEX, right?
“It is the full frame OM-D.”
It has the wrong mount for that.
Sorry, lenses matter.
“$1400 is what I paid for mine. How can you call that expensive?!”
A body is only part of a camera system, and for about any serious setup, its not the largest chunk of the overall price of a setup.
“The camera itself is fabulous. Far better controls than my canon 6D and better image quality.”
Thats a call of judgment, not having used either, I take note of your opinion.
“And the other revolution are the Zeiss optics. Sony is following Olympus’ lead this time and strengthening the young system with top quality glass only. The 55/1.8 is a steal if you see what the Otus and the 58mm Nikkor are going for.”
And that 35/2.8? how well are the corners? And eh.. how about size?
“It is the full frame OM-D.”
The A7 is a great camera(and a game changer for sure…), but it’s definitely not the full frame OM-D.
Yes it has better resolution and high ISO performance is better, but with the OM-D(with IBIS) I can shoot hand held on much slower shutterspeeds(or lower ISO) no matter what lens I put on it(even adapted lenses). With the A7 and especially the A7r it’s much more difficult to shoot “sharp” pictures with.
Also there are a lot more and better lenses for the M43 system, but Sony will work hard on that.
“If” Mike owns an A7 he did not pay $1400 for it. No retailer is selling a “just released” $1700 camera at a $300 discount. THAT is BS.
No, it isn’t!
I am Leica M User and also a Olympus user since the E1.
The A7R has a great sensor, but that’s all. It’s is slow, the User interface is horrible, some buttons like the front wheel are simply not useable und it has shutter that is just plainly wrong. Build is also ok. The Evf might be good, but better use the Em1 one first.
The Zeis glass, well it’s relabeled Sony, not original Carl Zeis like for example the new Octus, which is massive but great (actually the only none Leica Lens that matches the 36MP).
The zooms are well not good at all. The F4 one might be ok, but if zoom I want f2.8 and that would be massive.
And as for all the other stuff: Well, the OMD E-M1 runs circles around the A7(R)
So, why could be a A7R of interest? Well there would be only one reason: to use Leica M lenses. However once adopted the disappointment starts. Below 50mm not good and below 35mm a nogo. Ok what abou a 50mm Lux? Well, soft. Not what you would get from a M.
So, yes. The Sony is a disappointment and the only small damn good 35mm system is …. Leica M.
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Those that don’t think the A series isn’t a game changer, is in serious denial.
-It’s cheaper and is way more feature rich than any Leica.
-it’s Full Frame!
-It’s Small for a FF camera, around the size of a E-M1.
lenses will come, because the camera has a huge buzz about it and the cameras are selling.
If the A series takes off, Canon and Nikon will be Forced to compete very seriously in the mirror less market! And if they do, where does that leave M43?? I’ll tell you where.. In the same boat as Four Thirds. A overpriced, under performing camera system, with sub – image quality, compared to Full Frame and APS-C Mirror less systems.
Olympus prices are going up to near FF prices. If FF prices come down, Olympus is DOOMED.
So the A system will be a system someday. So when CaNikon decide to follow Oly&Pana and remove the mirror and launch a new set of lenses they will be interesting systems…. huhuhahaha… Hope you have a confortable chair cause it will be a looooooooong wait… lol..
Obviously, you’re an idiot. Who said they had to make new lenses?
If they make a Mirrorless system that uses their L series of lenses, that would spell trouble. Many pros will instantly adopt it, because it will work with their vested lenses.
I know, I know, you’re scared, so instead of contributing to the comment, you spew nonsense… I understand, you’re upset. Words hurt.
But you know, you can shoot with what you have and be happy, instead of attacking anything you deem offends you.
We’ll I don’t think you got what I’ve wrote. The day the A7 might be a breakthrough is when you could use flawlessly the Leica M lenses. Relabeled Sonys lenses aren’t of interest ( real Carl Zeis however are…).
As for your list about features in regards to a Leica M you most likely never used one..!
Apart from being full frame in sleak, good looking, very ergonomically body there are three elements which are key to the enduring success of the Leica M
The Leica M lenses
The Rangefinder
Less is more
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To be fair, if A7/A7r is called “expensive”, then E-M1 is the most ridiculous overpriced camera.
Yet so many people regard the E-M1 as their favourite camera.
Kirk Tuck (Visual Science Lab) has an interesting article about the Sony A7 and E-M1.
A camera is more than the sensor and price tag.
dont need FF for my shooting
While the A7/A7R are big deals, they’re coming from a company that doesn’t seem to know how to make a product that photographers want.
They outfit their photographic products with a checklist, as they do their electronic products, but there doesn’t seem to be any thought to using the products.
And charge the battery for 310 minutes on a USB cable??????
Does one think a photographer ever thought that one up?
It might as well have a mirror, because there is little point in shrinking the body if you don’t do the same with the lenses.
It’s a Franken camera – a marvel of science but ultimately severely flawed as a camera.
Why bother so much with this site, you don’t miss a post!!? A matter of love and hate, or what? Don’t you have anything constructive to say? Only this crappy bullshit all the time?
The Camera Store videos are great.
Panasonic is overrated piece of crap!
Takes one to know one, you 12 year old moron.
For your infos, me, wife & my kids have gf3, g5 and gx7 kiddos!
But i still prefer my ep3 & ep5!
Panasonic always have softer image than oly period!
You are a smart guy… really!! lol..
But why all that hate?? Shoot raw or add a bit of sharpness in post and be happy.
Naah, actually i dont hate that panasonic camera. What i hate is people who worshipped, extragenerated and overblown panasonic cameras. It seems everyone condemn oly, i dont know why so many hatred toward oly.
no, you don’t hate them, you only think pana cameras are overrated pieces of crap…. hahahaha…..
what I REALLY don’t understand is why people try to create an war between the two brands… I have had both, sold some and in the end I’m planning to keep only the gx7 for now cause I’m more a video guy… but I’d love to see an oly camera with better video specs…. but this is me! joe is different, mary is different, a,b and z are different… one brand has is strengths, the other has others…. it’s natural!!! x-fanboy, y-fanboy… it doesn’t exist!!! there are some who prefers more of a photographic machine, others prefere it hybrid… there are the buttons, the menus, the screen., the VF… just a matter of own preference… this war doesn’t exist… so a little bit of reasoning would be appreciated.
Cant disagree, and the E-M1 cant win everything.
GM1 – great show of the size potential. Give me the black one with the 17mm f1.8!
Pentax – Has been making great use of the sony sensor for years and deserves credit…
But the Sony, my only caveat is a 35mm f2.8… Marginal IQ improvement over the EM5 plus 17mm f1.8… For a lot more money.
Either way, funny video!!
Astute choices IMO, and enjoyable video.
I think they could have put EM1 instead of Pentax, but Pentax could surely use the love more than Olympus. And that Pentax sounds like a great APS-C camera.
Good choices.
I agreed with Chris on this .
The GM1 & A7r are true breakthough in camera industrial .
Well done to Pana & Sony .
These two companies deserve a reward for not forgetting that one of the main sales argument of mirrorless is size and weight.
Sam, i agree with you a thousand percent!
There’s just too many blinded fanboys in denial, that don’t mind being stuck with legacy 43 glass.
Not to mention, Olympus is back to making larger Lenses, but yet they complain about FF lens size. Haha!
Interesting times ahead in mirrorless.
Kirk Tuck’s camera of the year is the (no surprise) Olympus E-M1:
http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-vsl-five-star-award-of-year-goes-to.html
http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2013/12/happy-to-share-that-my-favorite-camera.html?m=1
Nice Spin, CC… BUT that’s his favorite camera of the year THAT HE DOESN’T OWN.
His favorite camera of the year that he owns is actually the Panasonic G6!!
Haha! The usual Olympus Fanboy spin…
No fanboysm here, you create this. You act like a kid that doesn’t have absolutely anything more interesting to do and come here the depreciate a system that others like. So you throw all your shit at the fan and wait for us to respond your stupid arguments, than you come back and call everyone a fanboy… what a miserable way of life, trolling anonymously… “oh I can only take good pictures with a FF camera…” lol… I tell you, the problem is with you, it is so clear and evident!! Some here can take better pictures with a PS than you with you marvelous piece of old junk… think about that. So I want to advise you, let the love the 43rumors-main-reader have for m43 outcrop and buy a GM1 or an EPL5 to start with. You don’t have to tell us… do it in secret, to satisfy your conflicted ego… Maybe in a near future you will be with us, fighting the trollers… 😀
A-HAHAHAHA! A Child, a Troll, REALLY? Coming from someone who is trolling ME by Trolling my NAME. HAHAHA! You just made yourself look really Pathetic! -Cheers, Foolish one! You have transcended Trolling! You do it at such a high level, you don’t consider yourself trolling!
Here’s the facts.. I’ve either own or owned a L-1, GF2, GX1, G5, GX7 and numerous lenses, even those from Olympus, which i gladly got rid of. So yeah, i can comment and give opinion on M43 topics. I bet i own MORE M43 than you ever did!
You’re just upset that i don’t think like you as well as the other fanboys. “Lemmings”, and blind ones at that. I know why i got into M43, and it’s not for Image Quality. But please, continue to play yourself. Please continue to mimic me, it’s amusing, really. I have another fan.
Happy Holidays!
I own the EM1 and I can say whole heartedly they made the wrong choice. I’ll take the more capable camera and I must say the quality is so so so exceptional. I have shot every level of Nikon and Canon and I have not seen a camera shoot sharper. To qualify myself, I am a pro with a successful photography business so I have been around for awhile and played with just about every camera. As a point of interest I have well over 100,000 shots on an OMD EM5 with no issues if anyone was wondering about the Olympus M43 camera quality. I will never ever go back to a traditional dslr. One last thing, the new 12-40 pro lens is beyond unbelievable and if you are thinking about getting it, do it.
So why do others claim that you do NOT get the sharpness and detail of 35mm? Does this only apply to the latest >36 megapixel sensors with probably some 25% additional detail after processing out the corner flaws?
I am sick to death of how forum measurebators and people in the camera industry view cameras and sensors in isolation. They NEED lenses to go with them, and at the moment, the A7 has almost none (unless you’re happy with adaptors and manual focus). So at this stage, it is little more than a proof of concept, and is most certainly NOT deserving of all the ‘best camera’ awards it is getting. And its size advantage over DSLRs is completely negated by the size of the lenses in any case, so to my mind, it’s a pointless concept anyway, and one that won’t do anywhere near as well in the market as everyone is expecting. I also expect it to have the worst wide angle optical performance of any camera format in history, given how much trouble NEX already has at APS-C size. And guess what: optical performance matters just as much as sensor performance (if not more so), but so many people on camera sites seem to forget that cameras require lenses to work.
I would have put BOTH the GM1 and the E-M1 in the list, along with the K3 (probably the only truly groundbreaking DSLR this year).
Merry Christmas everyone! Good will to all photographers, whatever camera they use.
+1
Get out there and shoot, that is surely what photography is about.
Boehoehoe……they did not pick the EM1. Please get a life. The Em1 is an to big M43 camera with ugly looks and a 2 year old tiny sensor with average photo output and bad video output. The EM1 is also way overpriced. The Camera Store made some wise choises in this video. Most people on this earth who are going to buy in to a mirrorless system will never look look at the EM1 because of its price quality mix. For 500 euro you get a NEX6 with kitlens which outperforms the EM1 in almost every way. The EM1 is 1500 euro for the body only. Thats super quality APSC and FF territory. Its just ridiculous from Oly. They should stick to quality small and fairly cheep camera’s.
Hmm.. get a life eh? Maybe you should take some of your own medicine.
I just feel sorry for you, now. THIS is how you spend your Christmas Eve? Trolling camera sites? I hope the New Year fills that empty hole in your heart.
Viezevure’s first deciding point is beauty. If ugly, no buy.
BTW is there a Nex forum ou blog? If so, your friends are waiting for you, for the happy conversation about how beautiful and spetacular the Sony systems are… wow the alphas… omg the splendid nexes… the incredible lenses selection… although you look more like a kit lens guy…
Cheep Cheep Viezevure, have a good Christmas.
Omega, you to have a very nice Christmas. And on that matter………… I wish everybody a very very nice Christmas.
I would qualify the E-M5 for the second time, since I own it 🙂
And since it now has an acceptable price…
However I can’t deny I have taken an interest in the A7, and also discovered how flawed it is. Nevertheless I invite you to read Roger Cicla’s balanced article:
http://petapixel.com/2013/12/23/bit-a7r-sanity-rising-trash-talk-fanboy-ism-actual-facts/
To understand how the whole of mirrorless is evolving, for good or evil…
Question in my mind is if short distance to flange can accomodate such a big sensor, or if the attempt is doomed.
If it is then the E-M1 is the only game in town, like argued by Kirk Tuck. Sony however could do a better, much better attempt in 2014.
Low prices show how desperate it is to win.
“Question in my mind is if short distance to flange can accomodate such a big sensor, or if the attempt is doomed.”
One can always add a ‘spacer’ (bit of tube) to increase that distance, at the expense of making the lens larger. A short flange distance in itself does not make it any more difficult to use a large sensor then a long flange distance would.
Additionally, while you can add an extra bit of tubing to compensate for a short flange distance, you can’t do the opposite, and make a long flange distance shorter, hence, short flange distance is more flexible.
The one small issue is that a short flange distance on such a camera won’t help much for keeping lenses small.
Hence avoid crappy participation 🙂
It’s not quite that simple – the mount restricts the angle of the light that can go in, creating problems for wide angles on NEX with APS-C. It can only be worse with FF, so I expect this format to be seriously compromised at wide angle.
The original 4/3rds mount was designed to optimise the angle of the light going in, and as Micro is a slice out of it, you can still design good wide angles for it by extending the back of the lens. Indeed, the 12-40 looks like a 4/3rds lens with a built-in Micro converter to me – it is smaller not because of the mount, but because it uses software correction.
Not that simple again. Leica succeeded in fixing wide angle with microlenses and FW, so perhaps Sony could as well.
The problem is that this ruins the theory of adapting wide lenses for landscape, and keep the cost of the system low.
Apparently the problem is not only confined to wides, but it invests edges in general. So even native normals are quite big to recover telecentricity… And there’s some FW correction going on even in RAW.
I am nit sure I would want to go through all that for FF35, instead of getting a D800.
There is a simple reason for wanting such a mirrorless 135 format camera. It can adapt a whole bunch of lenses that cannot be adapted to Canikon FF formats due to not enough room for creating an adapter. That concerns things like Leica M/m39 and Minolta SRT mounts for example. The point of course being that you can use those with their ‘intended’ field of view.
Sure, for the SRT lenses I could buy a 5D, replace its mount and modify its mirror and hope it all works out, but thats a really silly approach imo.
In size, it won’t gain you anything in this approach, it merely gets you access to a large number of lenses. Now if you don’t own such lenses, I don’t see the point of this at all, but I happen to own a significant number of such lenses, so an A7 or A7r is interesting to me. Not enough so to buy one now, gonna wait for more people having tried this, and see what the price will be after a year or so.
There are 2 issues here:
– flange distance
– mount width
The combination can indeed restrict the angle of light that can enter, but in itself, a wide enough mount with a very short flange distance can simply be ‘extended’ and doesn’t have to cause such restrictions.
Additionally, the sensor is also restricted in what angle of incidence it works well with, the ‘bad corners with wide angles and short flange distance’ is related to that as well. It is a known issue with known solutions. It doesn’t occur with longer flange distances for the simple reason that wide-angle lenses in that case need to be more retrofocal which limits the angle of incidence. The alternative is to ‘tune’ the microlenses so they account for the angle of incidence in the corners of the frame.
That is correct – the problem with NEX is that is both very shallow *and* very narrow, even for APS-C. With FF, I can only predict optical disaster, unless Sony has pulled off some kind of technological miracle with offset microlenses or something like that.
In the end A7 was mostly interesting for Landscape and Portrait – we see that Landscape has problems, so Portrait is left, a bit too small for the price.
Even more relevant it is not a ‘decisive moment’ camera because of the crude shutter, the internal delays, the lack of IBIS. These, were duly noted by K. Tuck, and are all reasons for giving the E-M1 the crown.
Sony of course could do better in 2014, but how much and at what price? Certainly some won’t object to 2000 $ lenses, but if most are?
You’ll be stuck in the expensive cartridge/printer model of business.
By comparison Oly and Panny might come up with a more convenient ‘Super 4/3’ or implement sensor improvement without asking to shed their present good lenses.
At any rate m4/3 can quietly prosper next to mirrored FF35. Much more convenient too.
You’re forgetting that other “benefit” of these new A7 cameras — the easy adaptation of legacy glass to fill the void of native lenses! You can slap on an adapter and use your giant legacy glass with some performance penalty and weight balance issues while waiting for Sony to release $3K small but slow native glass. Unless they decide to invent something new and ditch this system. But on the bright side, the flash mount is now standard, the sensor doesn’t overheat after 8 minutes of video (at least there are no reports of that yet) and it doesn’t have a Minolta hot shoe! Hurray for Sony!
And for mirrorless shooters who are nostalgic for that great mirror slap sound, THIS is your camera! The world’s loudest mirrorless camera! Panasonic really missed an opportunity with the GX7 and GM1 here by offering totally silent operation. Even cranking up the volume on operation sounds to the max on the Pannys can’t compete with the Sony in this area. Nothing scares the birds out of the trees in your landscape photography like the crash of an A7 shutter. There is no substitute.
I am not forgetting the ‘easy adaptation’, but that has been the first myth to crumble about mirrorless FF. Van Wolferen and others showed what mess the A7 made of the Voigtlanders UWAs, and of the legacy below 35mm in general.
So now Landscape is verboten, until some native lens comes saving the day.Meanwhile I use my 4/3 9-18 with maximum sharpness across the frame, and a weight of 250 gr.
Problems however are not confined to UWAs. A7 warrant FF performances only at the center of the frame, to get even performance across the frame you must start correcting heavily. So it’s an easy prediction that in the end you’ll have two type of users. Those who use legacy and have to break their backs, and those who have native lenses, Sony or Zeiss and must invest 10,000 $ to have the beginning of a system.
Note that the A7 are not v. reactive cameras, quite the opposite. They seem to invoke a tripod, so sensitive they are to handshake. They remind me of film Hasselblads, and certainly spoil any Street Shooting, as noted by K. Tuck.
IMHO the above shows v. well that the return to the Golden Age of 35mm is just a myth, from people who cannot give up the paradigm of FILM.
Since digital sensors, the small ones, outdid 35mm FILM, both in resolution and sensitivity, colour depth and any other feature, while promoting unheard reactiveness, resurrecting old lenses, with all their warts, is a mere exercise in vampire reanimation 🙂
Yes you can have fun, but it has v. little to do with daily photography.
“Sony however could do a better, much better attempt in 2014.”
A7 is clearly marketing gimmick. I doubt Sony expects much from the experiment – largely only the publicity. IOW: “trading blows” with the CaNikon. What is a very good strategy to promote the camera brand. Still, I think they would kill two birds with the single stone and A7 wouldn’t be a monetary loss for them.
I think for Sony the NEX 3/5/6 and A5x/A7x are the mainstay and for market performance they should be watched instead of the overhyped A7s.
The only problem for Sony IMO is that they found that camera bodies generate more publicity than lenses: one can keep releasing mediocre lenses and “compensate” by releasing better bodies.
Not really. People are not stupid: at least they should have heard of Perceptual Resolution, i.e. resolution as a result of both sensor and lens resolution.
That is exactly where the plan of marrying the A7 to legacy lenses is failing. Instead of resurrecting those old 35mm glories it is killing them.
Oh yes, you can use old SLR lenses + thick adapter, but then where is the size advantage anymore?
And I am not even sure that they resolve evenly across the frame…
> But the GM1 is always with me since day one. So easy to keep it in your jacket!
… I think @Admin owns us a personal experience report! 🙂