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I noticed the first price drops on the brand new Sony A7s cameras:
6ave sells the A7s with free extras for around $2,260 only on [shoplink 27672 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Third party sellers have the A7s for $2,442 on Amazon US (Click here).
And don’t forget you get up to $375 credit on the A7-A7r and A7s purchase if you trade in your DSLR at Amazon US (Click here to get all info).
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Any news on the RX2 or A7m? 🙂
It worries me on the ebay listing, the details are for 24.3 MP.
What’s the problem? It must be twice as good…
May be it is for 2 for the price of 1.
Haha. I would be worried too if I ever caught myself wondering if I should buy an expensive/delicate piece of electronics from some shady fleabay seller.
Its not that bad. You can buy things with warranty on ebay and if you get screwed early you can file a case and get your money back. I purchased 2 cameras from ebay that had a warranty and when they both went bad I was able to get it fixed for free under warranty.
“…both went bad…”
and you didn’t stop and think twice?
Needs to drop way more than that.
Well, I sold the A900- sad to see her go. But, I had to be honest with myself. I enjoyed my A77 in terms of user features way more and ended up playing with my Olympus equipment more this past year. What to do….(rambling to myself). I’d be perfectly content with an A99- but maybe it’s time to go E mount. Anyone been to B&H in NY? I hear you can play with ALL of the cameras. It’s time to visit meca and make my next move.
You can physically try different body & lens combos there. Just be aware that they close super early on friday and are closed all day saturday.
OTOH, they are open on sunday.
Yep- I’m going then since I’ve never been. Can’t wait.
the a7s honest price is 1300$
Your mothers price is 5 pounds.
Be careful not to cut yourself with that edge.
It may worth over $1200 for the 12M and the half hearted 4K. Anything more is a premium meant to be discounted over time on eBay. $1500 is a fair honest Present Value.
Put down the crack pipe, then step back.
Discounted already? Death of the e-mount! Sorry, couldn’t resist. ;^)
A99 – $1699.99
A7r – $1499.99
A7s – $1299.99
A7 – $1199.99
a7s should be 999.
Your mom should be $9.99.
Drugs are bad.
Actually, I originally thought the A7s was a total rip off…..until I started shooting with it.
The damn thing truely is an amazing camera. its a pocket Sony F55 ( minus the 10bit)
With 14.1 stops of video dynamic range in SLog2, Im now actually now starting to think that’s is UNDER priced!!!
Im not easily impressed but the A7s truely drops my jaw! wow!
A7s has 12,85-12,9 DR stops in RAW depending on image sample variation. The so called 14+ stops is utterly exaggeration. It is a very capable camera with good DR, but it is not that good as you make it sound it is. It is defiantly NO F55, that’s for sure. F55 has a global shutter and 14 bit of data in RAW mode and A7s “features” one of the worst rolling shutter in any camera yet.
I must repeat myself once again, it is a very capable camera but it has a lot of flaws, especially the lack of internal 4K recording.
Please do show how you come about to that 12.85-12.9 DR figure. Cliff probably referred to the Cinema5D article. Even DxO has around 13.2 eV (for still though). FWIW, over at Cinema5D, they believe it has more than 14 stops, but the info can’t be used in video. I’m still waiting for someone to do a highlight roll-off test for DR.
Check DxoMark, but please select screen size not print size, print size down-scale’s the 12Mp image to 8MP, that’s why you see more DR, this aplyes to any camera they test.
So in 4K mode this camera has a maximum DR of 12,9 stops, in Full HD it may have a little bit more (13+ stops) due to down-scaling, but the 14+ or 15+ DR stops is pure exaggeration.
And other thing to be aware is that shooting Slog is a waste, it is extremely flat ad after grading you will definitely get banding in 8 bit. I feel that the 4K and Slog options are there mostly by name and of little practical use for most users who by this camera.
The A7s is a very good camera but far from perfect!
I don’t know how anyone can trust a website ‘reviewing’ cameras named Cinema5D and expect them to be objective.
Cinema5D and EOSHD are simply names. Artifacts of the days gone by when Canon was the best at DSLR video. These people were using Canon, so they named their sites as such. They’ve got no bias to a specific brand.
Ahem :
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/new-sony-a7s-reviews-you-knew-a7s-dynamic-range-is-damn-close-to-the-40000-arri-amira/
That review is a fraud! Canon 5D mark 3 has less DR even in RAW then presented there and Gh4 has 13 DR stops of DR: http://www.dvinfo.net/article/acquisition/panasonic-gh4-dr-and-gamma-timelapse-and-more.html
I got mine – officially licensed PAL/NTSC version in HK for 2030 USD a week ago.
Any deal in Europe? Just in USA?
You can currently buy a BMPCC and metabones adapter, and still be less than half the price, given that the BMPCC has just come down by 50%. That’s 10bit 422 or continuous RAW DNGs and almost the same dynamic range, for the cost of one cheap APS-C lens plus a £300 metabones, (and you onlyneed the metabones if you want to go 5d style wide or DOF… for the super 16 look, you probably don’t need it).
All you lose vs the A7s is the low ISO (but you get some of that back in post from via RAW) and of course 4k, but as the European Broadcast Union have already come out and called 4k unsatisfactory of itself, you wont see 4k mainstream for some time and it will only be useful in post (cropping, oversampling) for some time. Sure the BMPCC is idiosyncratic at best, but at £400 vs +£2k its a bit of a no brainer vs either the A7s and GH4 if you discount 4k.
Ebay seller has the spec for A7r but is selling an A7s. Doesn’t compute unfortunately. Either selling wrong camera or has the wrong spec. A7s is not 24.3 MP