Our reader Vaclav Mach took the time to make an accurate size comparison between the soon the be announced Sony A7 and other FF cameras. Click on the pictures to see a large size version!
As you can see the A7 is surprisingly small! Thanks Vaclav!
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Small is the new large : large FF that is.
One can turn the argument around – Leica M is not that small 🙂
Vaclav, thanks for the great comparison image!
Sony has done an interesting job in making the A7 look tiny — but add the thickness of the eyepiece projection and front grip, and I’ll bet that its “pack size” (which I define as the smallest box that will hold it) is quite chunky.
Of course that may be good from a handling perspective. But I’ll bet that an A7 plus two or three fast fixed-focal-length lenses will require a somewhat larger bag than a Leica with similar lenses.
Bags and Leica fans are inseparable! 😉
Hi, that is not an M9. That is an M6, which is a film body.
Can’t believe no one has noticed yet.
M9 or M240 for that matter is not much larger than M6
M9 is thicker, but not that much … and I used an M6, because it was lying on my table … and I wanted to know how will the Planar look on my future A7 🙂
(the Planar on A7 is shopped, of course)
no ovf..pass.
The A7 Design could have been lot better. Well…I am done with Sony with I guess.
Do you happen to know the weight of the Sony yet?
Leica looks really good. I wonder why Sony wanted to use ‘mirrorbox’ with evf and destroy nice lines?
Easy: Sony needs to accomodate big lenses, including legacy ones. It also competes with other 35mm cameras that follow the same paradigm. So it is basically for marketing reasons.
Leica aspect remains unrivalled for 35mm. But it caters only to its well proportioned manual lenses.
If the EVF were just a tiny bit more discrete…
My idea is still that rangefinder form factor, even when a bit bigger, is more stilish and nicer. The first non leica rangefinder ff with IL for less than 2000$ will get a lot of love. I’m surprised sony is not planning sauch a model, as well.
+ 1000
I am estonished that sony – at least in partnership with Zeiss – didn’t yet come up to that… Leica with its pricey M240 has let a lot of room for a Digital rangefinder in the range of 2000/3000$…
Ha! Micro Four Turds is dead! LONG LIVE SONY!!!!
Seriously with this available soon who in their right mind would defend using such an abomination and insult to photography as an Oly or Panny? Only the deluded fauxtographers that cling to the manure level IQ of Micro Four Turds!
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!!!!