Tomorrow (March 18 at 1:00pm EST) BHphoto will host a Live Stream Event about the Sony A7 series. You can read more about the event and submit your questions on that BHphoto page (Click here). The guest list includes Mark Weir from Sony, Pulitzer prize winner and Sony A7r user Brian Smith.
Let’s hope Mark Weir will take the chance to talk about both Sony A and E-mount strategies! Be sure to send in the “right” questions 🙂
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I hope someone will ask about higher resolution and what trends we will see as well as asking for some indication of how high the resolution can go in the forseable future.
Can you list to this after it is over? I have work during that time and listening to shows like that is quite difficult.
Listen, not list.
Mark Weir- is a designer of the camera or a sales rep?
Mark Weir has not the deep technical knowledge of a camera designer, he is basically a sales rep. However, he is not completely lost regarding technical things, being senior Manager of Technology at Sony.
And he possesses one big advantage, which we seldom find among the Sony camera designers – MW speaks very understandable English, because that is his native language. 🙂
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The science behind managing to create a camera with both a light leak and shutter vibration problems 😉 Seriously though, I am very much looking forward to the next FE camera (hopefully without such problems and much quicker AF).
I Just threw down a bunch of hairy questions… I doubt he will answers most of them.
Uncompressed RAW
Camera Preview Lock During file writing
Charging the Camera while using it to shoot
Picture in Picture Focus assist
bet they don’t even thought they said they would. Big spenders two cameras given away.
Admin: The Buy.com A99 deal expired 9 days ago. The current Buy.com price for the A99 body is $2,099.99 which is really not much of a deal.
Has Sony ever revealed anything interesting in those ‘live’ events? They’re most probably just gonna waffle about how awesome and revolutionary the A7 concept is. And they’re doing this about four months after release (which is rather late). Combined with all those deals and rebates the message is clear: “hwerlp its not selling as expected”.
That’s what you get for rushing something to the market and then being so ridiculously slow to respond to problems. I wished this would have been a success for Sony but they’ve once again shown how disconnected they are from reality and their customers.
Btw. didn’t that Weir guy also say that committment in A-mount will be “very clear soon”? It’s safe to say that this will be just a waste of time except for the person who win’s the A7 (with the probability of being struck by a meteor).
So, there are complaints over complaints: light leak (which other cameras show too), shutter vibration and other ‘fundamental’ problems…Fuji made an affordable full format camera, which is small and has great resolution, in case of the A7R even fantastic resolution; but it’s not perfect enough for all those ‘pro-photographers’…Although there are many great picture samples in the net…If you want a camera, that is perfect in EVERY way and AFFORDABLE, you shouldn’t write to SONY, you should write to god…
Both the light issue and shutter vibration issue have been proved to be very minor that you can ignore them and no Pro will be bothered about that. Did the pros stop buying 1D mark IV when it had awful focussing system or 5D which also has light leak problem? Enough pros have already bought the a7r so stop trolling.
What about asking about a commitment to firmware upgrades like fuji do so well. I have a fuj x-e1 and it is a very different camera to what it was when I bought it. I now have a sony a7r and I would like to see it blossom too! (Auto iso is a big concern to me for example).
To be fair, so is the a77…
HELP!
I can’t get my a7r to show the light leak issue.
I have tried everything, flash, sun, studio lights. ISO 100-25600.
Every angle possible.
Still nothing…
What am I doing wrong…
You had better send it back…:)
Hope I can get a refund!
the light leak only shows up for idiots. normal people don’t have the issue.
Pointless marketing nonsense. He will not be able to reveal anything. He hasn’t done before and he won’t now.
I agree. A significant price drop would achieve miracles for the A7 sales.
Hopefully we’ll see some questions about non-zeiss primes with oss…
WHAT A FKING JOKE!
THEY ANSWERED ALL THE GOOGLE-ABLE QUESTIONS AND DIDN’T EVEN ADDRESS ONE SERIOUS QUESTION…
SONY IS A FKING JOKE!
Which question? Light leak was addressed, however shutter vibration and lossy compression not addressed.
Mark Weir Senior Tech Mgr. said regarding Light leaks and I’m paraphrasing: We are amazed about the variety of photography, users taking long exposures with ND filters, sometimes 10 minutes on a bright sunny day. Camera manuf. didn’t have that in mind. Machining tolerances need to be tighter. Sony is paying a lot of attention to the problem, studying it and concerned about it.
if you looked carefully, the hairy question was pulled out first, light leak, and there was nothing new. Just what’s acknowledged already. As I stated, it’s all google-able.
– RAW file compression
– Camera lock during buffer release
– Screen update during long exposures
– picture in picture focus assist
– I even wanted him to say something about software distortion correction and how much resolution is lost because of that.
– Being able to use the camera while charging, effectively turning all PowerBanks into extended batteries for the camera.
I must have flooded their twitter feed… Instead they answered all the soccer mom questions…. They even pulled out a question about TEH MIRROR LOCKUP FOR TEH A7….. OMFG /facepalm
THIS IS SONY MARKETING BULL
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Was borderlne deciding between D800 and Sony, but with recent pricing on the 7R, couldn’t resist the Sony. A7R, 24-70mm, flash bundle, and grip.