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When Sony launched the [shoplink 8461]Sony A77[/shoplink] we were one of the first websites to report the flaws and limits of the camera. You may would think that these kind of things would not happen with the Canon and Nikon cameras specially when they are aimed for the pro market. But as you see they are also having some troubles:
Canon 5D markIII ($3499)
Light leak issue problem (Canonwatch). And the problems has been confirmed by Canon itself (via CanonWatch).
Nikon D800 ($2999)
Greencast, memory card and tethering issues (Nikonrumors). “Exploded” D800 (Dpreview).
I hope Sony will not make a mess with the A99. They should release a mature product with no major flaws and ZERO Hardware problems. If they can manage to do it they may will dethrone the most sold DSLR camera of the moment (the Nikon D800 according to A. rankings).
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The D800 problems with its Sony sensor does not sound good at all!
Totally Sony’s fault, I agree. : P
Green cast is on-camera LCD only. The Memory card has nothing to do with sensor either. So is the tethering.
If they can manage to do it they may will dethrone the most sold DSLR camera of the moment (the Nikon D800 according to A. rankings)…
If sony offered a square sensor 36x36mm!!! no need for vertical grip = compact flagship. more sensor real estate is good! Nikon can not do it with a OVF.
You obviously didn’t read the whole article, if any of it.
Too bad people are more forgiving to Canikon compared with Sony’s flaws….
The Nikonistas are blaming the Sony sensor- that is what I was trying to point out (sarcastically).
it’s LCD green cast, not sensor..
LCD issue, not sensor!!!! sheesh, fanboyism till never try to get facts just jump to conclusion its sony…
Zstan is right, canikon are more forgiving and put blame on anything thats sony…. shhesh…
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Your are a complete lyer, im a d800 user, i read every forums, no one say (or said) that its sony’s fault, its well known this issue is linked to the screen!
Jack A.., Look at the dpreview link posted by the Admin and read the comments.
Yes, I found one! “ssmumich00” blamed the sensor, but nobody else in the about 50 posts I read. ssmumich00 made the assumption without trying to justify it in any way. From the other posts it was obvious that it wasn’t the sensor.
You got some interesting responses to your comment, lol.
So True~!!!
Better than no FF camera.:(
Would you rather have a camera with faults or wait a while more to have minor glitches fixed and have a properly running piece of gear in your hands?
Regardless of brand glitches will exist with new products. Sony is not immune to this.
I would rather have a camera with faults while waiting for minor glitches to get fixed.
+1
Me too but the A77 demonstrated how much of a negative impact it can have.
Waiting patiently for the Canikons to spew their crap in here to defend their expensive equipment…
How much is a while? btw, how many lenses does Sony has or launched lately? Canon/Nikon cameras have some problems indeed. Let’s see how the companies react. If they don’t do it in a proper manner, then don’t buy their products.
So much inferiority complex running in these comments. If you prefer Sony, then buy it. That’s simple
Well, Sony is going to launch some lenses, from what the rumors says.
Canon & Nikon has many problems indeed! Same goes for the Sony Cameras. Lets see if people will bash Canons hardware issue just as much as they did with the A77…
Funny you should mentioned inferiority, I see the Sony SLTs and mirrorless systems to be better than most of their counterparts.
That was a rather typical response, instead of criticising CaNikon for their piss poor quality testing, instead you throw in a comment about Sony.
Pathetic.
Does anyone remember the black dot issue on the 5dmkII. People will complain about almost anything, that doesn’t mean that these aren’t great cameras.
Problems will be worked out with a firmware release
how about banding issue?
5diii also has low ISO shadow banding.
Light leak…… sounds like a hardware recall to me…..
A firmware fix would mean Canon just shafted all the people who bought the camera early…. It would be a big “up yours”.
Kinda. They’re addressing the issue, at least.
Yes, it’s a new record time when compared to the vertical banding issue.
What I meant by the inferiority is that many people “get married” to the brands of their cameras and start defending them as a football team. I had and have many Sony cameras, and a Canon. I like Nikon as well, Olympus, Fuji etc. It depends on the camera not the brand.
It’s not that my opinion is right and others are wrong. This is a blog and everyone has the right to comment. My point is that people should be more technical and look at the cameras as machines and stop defending brands as if they were “part of the family”
doubt will recall, the best bet is to provide free repair, just open up, put a sponge beside the leak area, close up, return…
Bees to a honeypot. This thread should attract the Canikon trolls in hordes.
Well, shit happens to everyone, I don’t know if that’s any reason to rejoice.
yea shit happens, but sadly, people just love to carry fans with them… instead of bringing the mops.
“When Sony launched the Sony A77 we were one of the first websites to report the flaws and limits of the camera”.
So this website discovered and reported the issues?
The statement clearly states “reported”. Nothing about discovering the issues.
My guess is that sony will have reduced buffer.
If people are happy with their cameras, they never post endless treads, they go and take picture. People with camera flaw want to post their story in every forum. Finally it seems that all camera are flawed… but they aren’t.
+100
real photographer, shoot shoot shoot, 20k shutter, discover a issue, continue to shoot shoot shoot till shutter breaks at 200k… does the issue bother him?
gearhead, shoot 200 shutter, discover an issue, rant rant rant rant rant, shutter still at 200.
If you had a new car and you drove it 20k and found out it could no longer turn left, would you drive drive drive until 200,000k?
only if sony discontinued the replacement for one year. yes, sony did.
@rob
your example is called a ‘disfunction’
we’re talking about ‘inconvenience’.
apples and oranges.. hello….
I think that major of a shift in meter reading can be called a disfunction – esp. if critical exposures are required for paid projects.
But a shot can still be taken no?
You’re the living organism here, not the camera, you can always compensate for the shift. Hence, inconvenience.
no rob is a robot
Actually, depends on if you know HOW to shoot. 20K shots are commercial folks. I shoot about 200 a month. Naturally, my shots are long exposures day and night, while working on comp. and quality to the n’th degree. 🙂 My shutter will last decades.
People may be interested to read this test by an award-winning photographer and writer, Darwin Wiggett. He feels the 5DMIII’s low noise assertions don’t really pan out when you look at the darker portions of higher iso images. Also, he’s not too pleased with the fact that the camera seems to process the RAW files quite a lot. Have a look at his article here:
http://oopoomoo.com/2012/04/photo-shoot-with-talyn-stone-and-a-quick-test-of-the-canon-5d-mark-iii/
wow, the CANON 5D mkIII sux to the max… this is unforgivable! even sony’s 24MP is useless… HUGE filesize… pointless…
by the way i use a D800… eh?
THIS JUST IN: Sony sensors explode in Nikon D800! 😀
I read the articles – it doesn’t look like the sensor is exploding as the camera still takes good pics.
Sarcasm: the internet doesn’t get it.
sony had to take back recalls for the nex5n. wonder if canikon have some balls to take back all the d800 5d3???
D800 problems are something that can be fixed and camera can be pretty much used with certain limits, 5DMK3 can unfortunately render camera bit useless which is really bad. Canon should recall. Nikon maybe too, just to save face and at least try to show they care about customers (even tho they dont).
Considering the price of a 5Diii you might consider buying a used 1Dsiii.
Actually they sell 1DsMK3 here for less (not much less but less). And yes its much better camera, if you dont need movies (or high ISO). For landscapes, absolutely. If you dont go over ISO 1600, then yes too.
“leasson”
You meant “lesson” right?
Otherwise I agree, they could prevent this from happening if they tested cameras enough. Wish all manufacturers did same testing as Zeiss or Leica does.. (to lesser degree ofc, but at least SOME testing). Making users betatesters is not fun..
Canon, follow car manufacturers like Toyota..Recall all your 5D MK3s..
BTW, is the light loss in 5D Mk3 any way related to Sony?? 🙂 🙂
Oh brother, maybe you guys should stick to wooden box cameras. All of our electronics today pushes the edge so there will be some manufacturing and/or software flaws. Unfortunately, a few lemons get magnified on the internet megaphone. Reminds me of the uproar over the iPad 3 head “issue” a few weeks ago. I was sitting at home using my iPad 3 that while warm, was cooler than about every laptop out there. Couldn’t figure out why the internet had blown up and crying and whining and claiming they wouldn’t buy one unless it was fixed. Lo and behold, it wasn’t a big deal.
You can have one of 3 options. Old technology, longer delays in new product innovations, or cutting edge tech in your electronics. Before you monkeys start jumping on me for being a brand fanboy, I own many brands, including Sony. When the ghosting issue came out on the SLT, I waited and then bought one anyway. Like I said, you can still play with your Super NES or an XBOX 360. Chose and stop whining like a bitch.
So, what is the lesson to be learned?
Nikon has simply too many orders to handle. Design, start producing, announce, keep producing, sell. Too short a cycle and these rare errors are not easy to come across in testing.
If Sony rushes for the FF, it might have more of these issues: homo sapiens forumus will complain.
If they take their time and eliminate more of the issues, or keep the manufacturing pace slow and controlled, homo sapiens forumus will complain.
Lesson learned: Homo sapiens forumus complain.
Canon and Nikon undoubtedly have invested more time, experience and money into the development of their new FF cameras than Sony could dream of doing, it would be incredibly nieve to assume that Sony will bring out a perfect camera, especially as everyone seems to think they are rushing to get the A99 to market.
The A77 took 2 or 3 updates to get it where is it now, which some still argue is flawed compared to the competition, however, I regard that alone as being great experience for them and if the A99 is a slightly higher spec A77 with a FF sensor in, I’ll be happy, regardless of the plusses the competition may have. No matter what Sony release, there will be a reason to buy Canikon for some people.
but if sony release 36x36mm SLT, along with NEX9ff, canikon will be the “little” guys
I’m really sick of this.
If, if , if , if and……if
Retarded comment, retarded poster
Dream on matgay. In the best of circumstances – and with a great deal of effort on their part – it would probably take Sony at least 10 years, or three more generations of full frame camera models, to be on top of Canon and Nikon in the full frame camera market.
Is Sony prepared to stick it out that long, put in the effort required to develop and build the cameras and lenses necessary to accomplish this goal and to build a professional support network at least as good as those Nikon and Canon have?
Will the A99 be tested for as long as the D800, D4 and 5DMk3 before release? Nikon were testing their new full frame cameras at least 9 months before release – and there are still some faults. I’m sure Canon does similar rigorous beta testing on their full frame models and again still dome faults.
Sony should at least make sure every A99 goes through a really thorough QC check before it is shipped, so as to catch as many faulty cameras as possible. Otherwise they can be certain every faulty camera will be reported all over the internet, which can easily turn into a real marketing disaster.
Most people will overlook the faults in the Canon and Nikon cameras simply because those companies are so well established in this market. Sony doesn’t have the luxury of being in that position.
Classic early adopter teething issues.
omg… exploding sensors 😀
this site still here?
Other than the nex 7, which can hardly be found in stores, what does Sony offer in the pro dslr range?
Some camera from 2008 with no LV, no video, shitty high iso, etc, etc.
Funny how the meat heads and fanboys ran took a break from taking horrible high ISO pics of their cats to come here and comment on the best dslr in years, the Nikon d800.
Pathetic people, pathetic work!
Bahahahahaha
It sounds like you are trying to make yourself feel better about your camera and your work. Otherwise I wouldn’t think you would be wasting your time hanging around a site that you were not sure was still here. You are either very lonely person or are yourself, pathetic. I know you are not a skilled photographer or a professional simply from your juvenile response. I hope you are just an immature teenager because then there would be some hope for you as you grow up. Why would you worry about Sony cameras?
The high ido of the a900 are not much worse than 5D MkIII or D800. At least up to and including ISO 1600.
D
MCP, are you actually bi-polar?
Nope, just bi-sexual. 😀
real photographers don’t need high ISO, Video or LV.
They also don’t need a Nikon badge to look “pro”.
They also dont need a post on their rumors site bashing brands with a higher market position than them.
Typical Sony users trying to justify why Nikon and Canon suck. Reminds me of that tiny ass kid in high school who always ran his mouth, but never had anything to show for it.
You all have the discontinued a850 and a900 in the ff market. Canon has: 5d, 5dii, 5diii, 1ds, 1dsii, 1dsiii, 1dx, 1dc and Nikon has: d700, d800, d3, d3x, d3s, and the d4.
Meanwhile, both companies have atleast pulled a profit since 2008.
It’s cute how upset you all get, especially your hallmark troll/fanboy “sonya77”. I’d love to personally see some of your work.
Anyways, im going to go back to taking photos! Take care!
Define “real photographer”, Clifton … as in terms of 2015.
trip trap trip trap
With the cost of the Canon you’d think that they would at least be giving out a free roll of masking tape…
Let’s see your photos meatheads!
Real photographers don’t need video or LV?
Haha, Sony users are plain stupid
My photo link is in my profile, meathead. I don’t profess to be a great photographer but I’d LOVE to know what I’m missing out on by using Sony.
Way to generalize a whole user base, a-hole.