Sony A7r:
First of all, the Sony A7r is marked as in Stock (with 3-4 days shipment) at FocusCamera (comes with free extras!). And the Zeiss 35mm FE is in Stock at Amazon US (Click here).. The A7 body or kit version are shipping at BHphoto (Click here).
Cyber Monday:
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Adobe Lightroom, Sandisk cards and many mroe Gold Box deals at Amazon US (Click here to see them all).
$400 off on the Sony A58 with 18-55mm & 55-200mm Lenses and Flash at BHphoto (Click here).
$300 off an 4% reward on the Sigma 105mm f/2.8 at BHphoto (Click here).
$550 of on the Sony NEX-7 Bundle with 18-55mm and 20mm Lenses at BHphoto (Click here).
Lot of free extras coming with the Sony NEX-6 at BHphoto (Click here).
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Sony has them in stock as well (without the freebies) mine shipped today via Fedex from Romeoville, IL US.
Focus Camera’s website is not accurate. I called today and they are sold out of their initial stock of 32 a7Rs. I was told that the next shipment will be Dec 14, but he would not guarantee I would receive a camera at that time.
I pre-ordered from BH on Oct 17 and was told today that they have sent out all of their first shipment and are still working through the Oct 16th orders. They did not know when they would receive the next shipment or if my order would be part of the next shipment.
So I ordered direct from Sony, I have to pay sales tax, but they at least actually have them in stock.
FYI I canceled my Adorama order and put it through Focus Camera, got a ridiculous deal like 2 free batteries, 2 64gig cards, bunch of other crap I won’t use for $38.
I placed it on Friday as my Adorama order still had not shipped. Just called today about 20 minutes ago and they said they are expecting their A7’s to arrive today and ship either today or tomorrow morning.
Should finally have mine tomorrow or Wednesday. Gah!
That’s great! A7s seem like they are in stock pretty much everywhere though… The 7R seems to be the elusive one.
EdF, when did yo uorder the A7r from Sony? Did you order it today and get confirmation for it?
Andrew, I ordered it last night around 11:00 PM EST, I ordered with an expedite delivery ($25.00). Received order confirmation in less than two hours, and by 1 PM EST today I received FedEx shipping confirmation. Camera (A7r) will be here tomorrow by 8PM (Charlotte NC).
FYI you will have to pay sales tax!
Shipping is from Romeoville, IL
Damn! Very nice! I’m officially jelaous.. 🙂 Right now, the Sony website is stating “backordered” and the CSR rep that tried to help out wasn’t able to confirm or deny if they still had them in stock. I guess we’ll see..
Thanks for the reply back!
Just got my a7r from Best Buy. Just some quick notes:
The long complained separate menu for stills and videos is now optional. It has a composite date sorted mode (which is the default) to have all your media together, movies, stills, etc.. silly thing, I know, but it’s listed as a huge sore spot on many reviews (and still was with the preproduction firmware, as far as I know) But now it’s fixed.
AF speed isn’t bad at all. I’m using my old E mount 50mm 1.8, and it focuses faster than the same lens on my NEX-6 with the PDAF. When it focuses, it’s fast, but does the quick hunt like any contrast detect would do. Not to the point and steady like the NEX-6 does. But, it’s faster overall, as far as I can tell.
Screen is much more responsive than the NEX-6. Even the back screen. Like it refreshes the live view at 60fps, rather than 30fps or something on the NEX-6.
Shutter sound is not an issue. Some people complain about the silliest things. Sure, if you’re trying to be discrete in concert hall or some public setting, or take pictures you shouldn’t be taking, it’d be noticed.
Has a lot of things I need to learn on it. Like.. it has SteadyShot! I’m guessing a digital image stabilizer? Obviously probably won’t be of much use on stills, but maybe it’s for video.
Any questions, just post them here. I’ll try to catch them.
Steady Shot is just to enable or disable the function if the lens has it. The camera also has an “Anti Motion Blur” shooting mode that just takes 4 images and then automatically picks the one with the least amount of blur. That works in JPEG shooting only.
That’s what I was wondering. Also, a lot of sony video cameras have ‘SteadyShot’, which is just watching for image shift on the sensor and compensating by trimming off the edges a little.. but it’s for video, not stills.
The manual, of course, is useless. Why do they even print them?
The Help Guide that was linked on this site a few days ago has more info but still nowhere near what you get out of a Nikon or Canon pro camera manual and way less than what you get out of a third party manual like a Thom Hogan manual. Hopefully somebody will create one of these that really dives into the camera rather than this superficial crap. Even the Help manual which is 440 pages long doesn’t even tell you what functions can be assigned to any of the programmable buttons.
Got mine earlier today as well, so far I agree with you on everything. I’d like to add that I also don’t really like the squishy feel to the shutter button, it’s not that big of a deal but I do wish it had more of a click response to it as opposed to it’s “spongy” feel, if that makes any sense. Anyway it’s really not that big of a deal, I’m just being picky.
Won’t really have time to use mine until I’m done with finals but I hope everyone else is enjoying theirs. Looking forward to the second part of the legacy test round Andrea, thanks for all the information you have provided so far!
I need an A7 without kit and some extras (atleast 1 SD card or 1 spare battery please)
Hello, Which bag (carrying case..) do you recommend for Sony A7 + 28-70mm lens + 50mm Portrait lens ? Thank you 🙂
I placed an order with Sony this morning around 10AM when their website still said the a7R was in stock shipping in 1-2 days, but this afternoon my order turned into “backordered” and when I called they told me I would not receive a camera until Dec 23rd I was also charged by Sony even though the order had not been fulfilled. Order was cancelled. Back to waiting for BH.
This whole process has been a complete fiasco. Will never pre-order from BH or directly from Sony again.
likewise. i ordered from B&H in October…they had a late november ship date then. then the ship date slipped to first week of december, then there was a specific Dec. 1 ship date. no go on any of it, and i spent some time using B&H chat online…no one could tell me when cameras would ship. Then, i read that the Sony site had the a7r in stock. I ordered it and canceled my B&H order (thus losing my place in line from B&H, and costing me more because Sony charges sales tax). I even talked to someone at Sony, and she said I would have the camera in 2 days.
Two days!
Then….my order status turned to “backordered.” I called the Sony number. Yup, he said, even though the website says “in stock,” it’s a backorder. I told him the above paragraphs. He was sorry, said the website would be updated, he will keep in contact with me about my order….
So…the updated Sony website STILL says the camera is in stock, but there was a line that added that the camera won’t ship until Dec. 22.
Here’s my theory… there are many people out there who kind of did a kickstarter funding campaign for Sony…there are a very large number of people out there who ordered an A7 before there was any large scale production, and all the pre-orders helped fund the production. Ha!
Same thing happened to me. Sony customer service lies, takes your money and leaves you hanging. I ordered from Sony after they said it would ship immediately this morning then I cancelled the order from Adorama that I had placed within 15 minutes of the a7r being pre-released on Oct. 16th. Now I have no money in my account and no camera coming for my 2 week vacation Dec.21.
Sony screwed me too. Ordered – said in stock and ships in 1-2 days. They charged my credit card in full then the next day hit me with Dec. 22nd as the ship date. This is the second time Sony has screwed me this way – which is shame on me this time I guess. This kind of stuff has to lose customers for them.
This site is more of a web brochure than a camera rumors site.
It goes in phases. After the excitement wears off, it’ll be all rumors again.
Well it’s still a better site than Steve Huffs. There less butt kissing here…and that’s an understatement.
Is there any difference between the sigma macro os hsm lens in Canada? I am looking to get the lens from b&h that is current on sale at $669.99 and I was very surprise to find that it is cheaper in all retailers in Canada. Msrp in Canada is $599.99 and currently one of the retailer is selling at $549.99. We usually have a higher price so I’m wondering if the canadian version is different from the states?
DO NOT listen to people saying Sony and others are shipping the camera out immediately. I was told by a Sony rep that my a7r would ship out immediately if I ordered it today. I stupidly ordered it and canceled my pre-order from Adorama that I had placed literally within 10 minutes of the a7r’s release. I just received an email from Sony saying my a7r is backordered and it’s not going to arrive until Dec. 22nd so now I am stuck with NO camera for my 2 week vacation out of the country Dec. 21st. I canceled my order so I have to wait 3-7+ days before my money to return into my account. I have been renting Leica cameras for 2 years now because I cannot afford a Leica and now I am sol because Lensrentals does not have any a7r’s in stock and I refuse to spend all my a7r money on a Leica rental. I really hate Sony and this site right now.