Sony Full Frame Mirrorless Cameras | Gear Talk Episode 3
Sony mirrorless cameras: The best for my photography (Nat Coalson)
Japanese Sonnar T* FE 55mm F1.8 ZA review at DC.watch.
Win a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX10 (Photographyblog).
Sony invests in image sensor production amid ‘selfie’ boom (Reuters).
Real-world samples added to Sony SLT-A77 II First Impressions (Dpreview).
Sony brings Cyber-shot DSC-WX220 and W810 to the US (Dpreview).
Sony’s new Action Cam arrives stateside with SteadyShot and more for $200 (Engadget).
A6000 promotion in Singapore.
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So, Sony has a long way to go, but a bright future if it does it well. Also, the A7s is just a one-of-a-kind camera, so is reason enough for all Video DSLR shooters to switch.
Does the A7 not have a front wheel like the A99? It sure solved focus mode changing issues for me!
It´s funny. Earlier you did not have much possibility to assign functions and features to buttons and knobs. But today, the better cameras have so many possibilities for setting up a camera for your shooting and use. But hey, now those guys in that video make a big negative deal out of the need for setting up your cam. Call it bad design, say its un-userfriendly……
Ridiculous it is.
They can bash not perfect AF or battery life, but variability and choices for setting up a cam should never be.
Secondly, they praise that you can use sooo many different lenses and lens brands on the cam, they praise the way to do manual focus, but they bash, that there are no lenses……???
I agree with you. Those are no photographers. Forget those geek-gadget-reviewers.
I thought it was meant to be fairly balanced and they did a pretty good job. While I don’t really ‘get’ the moaning about having to configure it the way you, I think this should be a plus and my Canon prior had such limited flexibility it annoyed the hell out of me! I mean he talks about that AF being clumsy, but on the 6D you have to half press the shutter before you can move the little cursor to select focus point and you can’t change it. Seriously, if you want to pre select a focus point you have to half press the shutter to ‘wake it up’. More clumsy than that, you have to do the same thing to dial in some exp comp… Annoyed me no end.
Anyway, back on point – a) being able to customise and b) having 3 identically bodied cameras means you can have a couple of them that are configured the same and act the same but for different tasks. So while maybe not a ‘perfect’ arrangement there are definitely a lot of pluses there.
I have my centre button set to focus select or whatever it’s called and through that one button I can then control all my main aspects of focus, which is way better than any Canon I have used, yeah it doesn’t have the little control stick, but I actually find the sony easier and faster (and don’t have to half press first!).
I just saw the review and I had exactly the same thought.
Since when having a camera so much customisable is a negative point?
мрън-мрън-мрън… всички обичат да мрънкат 🙂
i wont compact aps-c body (nex-7 like) and lenses (1.8~2.8 primes) where compact is one of the keys.
The guy on the left used 5D3 and A7r and was unhappy with the buttons. The other photographer used only A7th now and was happy! Both are right!
I have 5d3 for long tele and A7r for everything else and that is no good. It’s like win at work and mac at home or auto or manual gearbox car? If you are going to be a really good pro you need to learn one system so the buttons are controlled by the spinal cord.
I will sell my Canon stuff as soon as some more FE lenses emerge.
By the way admin: keep the quality up in SAR! We don’t need a new post every 4 hours. Quality …..
I’m coming around to this way of thinking – hopefully the 2nd gen a7 will iron out the teething problems and they can focus on the lens lineup…
They both pretty much agree on a major gripe I have with Sony compact mirrorless: the ergonomics. One guy thinks the a7R sucks so bad he’ll probably sell his system. The other guy who is really happy with his FEs thinks the ergonomics are pretty mediocre too.
From my perspective, if the ‘big and bulky’ DSLR issue is such a big deal (and I don’t really) Sony would be well served to look into slimming down their SLTs a bit. Sure, they can bulk up the mirrorless but that’d cheese off more people than it pleases. Buying an accessory grip is an expensive kluge that doesn’t adequately fix the problem as witnessed by the guy bailing on his Sony a7R.
he is complaining about the button layout and the size of the buttons because the a7 is too small for his big hands. why did he buy it then?
“Sony will increase production of stacked CMOS sensors (Reuters)”
That sounds like good news to me.
So now we know what a “stacked sensor” is. It refers to Sony’s back-illuminated sensors, and not some new technology. Back illumination would only be of marginal importance on large format sensors as the “fill factor” is high.
http://www.photographyblog.com/news/sony_ups_production_capacity_for_stacked_cmos_sensors/
I will have to be more specific .
I have been reffering to three layer foveon like sensors when I have been saying stacked sensor..and indeed that is a stacked sensor…
Here however they are apparently refering to a type of backlit bayer array sensor and calling it a stacked sensor.
The new curved sensors..being exmor r would therefore probably be considered stacked sensors by that definition.
So to clrify…it is the high resolution three layer foveon like stacked sensor that I am waiting for…in the interest of brevity I will reffer to it as the Barry-Sensor.
Still waiting for more details from DPReview on a77II but looking at the meager selection of sample photos they’ve posted the low-light capabilities of the camera looks pretty weak. ISO 6400 appears to be unusable unless you’re posting small images to the web. Even ISO 1000 looks pretty noisy.
Just shot some evening cricket for work with mine – iso 1600 and 3200 are very usable assuming you shoot raw. Different league to the a77. If you want cleaner with decent af you’ll have to go full frame.
Which is where I’m leaning. Waiting on a99II announcement. Maybe a88 but really need the extra mp for when I crop nature photos if I give up cropped APS-C.
I’m passing on the A77II, only because the performance difference between it, and the original model isn’t enough to justify the outlay $1199.99. I’d rather buy the Sony’s rumoured 24-105mm f/4 lens.
I have the a77’s baby brother, the a65, which IQ-wise is the same. I keep researching an upgrade to the a77II but looking at a lot of samples keeps leading me back to the same conclusion noticeable IQ differences aren’t there.
One thing that keeps me pondering this issue is anecdotally a77II owners keep mentioning they’re really seeing much better results. I’ll probably stir things up by mentioning this but there’s a guy, Dr. Mike, who’s found at least with the copies of the a77 and a77II he’s got the iso doesn’t match up with the a77 shooting at a consistently faster shutter speed. To wit, it makes it appear the iso on the a77II is cleaner at a given iso but the slower a77II shutter speed is actually letting more light in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vR9ge7sMbk
I may end up eventually getting the a77II since there’s a significant bump in other areas outside of IQ but, again, want to see what the a99II brings to the table first other than a monster price tag.