Recently both Olympus (Silver E-M1) and Fuji (X-T1) launched the sort of Silver special editions. Don’t know if that is something SAR readers would like to get too. If you want to see how this would look for real Antonius Widjaya posted those images of a custom paint Sony a7r.
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I come to this site to get news about future Sony lenses and products. How is this at all related?
this site as any other is for making money for his owner. get over it. i did it. feels nice.
I make money on a SIlver A7r picture?!?!?!?!!?!? Less drugs please 🙂
Nobody does anything without a reason.
Relax guys. it’s just my camera 🙂 just for fun
my condolences 😉
I think he means you earn money through traffic on the site hence you post all kinds of stuff not just rumours. But as he says people should get over it, they think running a site is free…
“Somebody mixed my medicine…” LOL
But without this sight you would have no life and no outlet for your dull attempt at humor.
Imagine how people feel who came here to read about Alpha cemeras before the arrival of the E-Mount
Some people cannot stop annoying here 🙂
Plenty fo company make silver camera by now so I was just interested to hear SAR readers opinion about it.
If you only wnat to read rumors visit that site only: http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/category/rumors/
I’d understand if it was little more prettier but this one is too ugly to share on your site.
work with the people that exist, there are no other ones. 7 billions of them have 7 billions of different opinions and for all, the only one that counts is their own. That’s life dude.
I like this post. Even if I have learned, that a silver A7 is no good idea.
Take it easy and enter the troll-ignoring-mode. 😉
That is the Preview of the new Hasselblad InterstellarLunar – so easy to see!
You’re on the wrong site, that’s all. This is a billboard style site where you find rumors when there are any. It’s often similar to find the needle in the haystack, but, just live with it.
me like.
i would never do that to mine. like, never.
As Kurt Munger would say, it’s another camera sporting the “SonySilver® paint job, resembling the finish on a $29 DVD player at Walmart.”
The pink one will be launched before Christmas.
Wait for the Hasselblad Version ^^
wow thanks for putting my photo into sonyalpharumors andrea 🙂
Thank You for sharing it on Facebook! 🙂
Well done! But i thought the camera would look better…
I usually like the silver versions of Sony cameras (I even have the silver version of the NEX-5T) but I’m not really into this one. I like the silver color of the latest A5100. I thought they would probably do this color for the A7’s successor.http://ilovehatephoto.com/
hahaha this just my pilot project. so many people can see how it looks :).
Common, tell the truth, you wanted to see if it really looks that awful, now we all know.
That’s ok Shamael . some say good many say bad :). as long I enjoy my camera 🙂
Bit too conspicuous for street photography. Could be worse though, at least they didn’t DF it…
This is ugly
sorry, terrible
Why did you replace the Sch, with a Z at your avatar?
Learn some German first 😉
Sony, unlike some Olympus and most Fuji cameras, doesn’t have the retro inspired styling on their cameras so this mod doesn’t fit well. I thought that to achieve this you did not need paint but rather sand off the paint? Or what is the colour of the casing below the black?
Hi Hendrick. the color below the black is grey with a bit Metalic i think. I just watch it a moment before i send the top frame to the painter
Thanks for the info. I imagine then that the paint job was to have a smooth finish?
“Recently both Olympus (Silver E-M1) and Fuji (X-T1) launched the sort of Silver special editions.”
Both these cameras happen to have a real chassis unlike the A7r which is 3 plates held together by stitched panels and a few screws. Let us first have a decent body please before attempting uglify the looks.
As a start, EFCS would be very useful.
I believe that the engineering behind the assembly of these cameras has many goals including size reduction, heat dispersion efficiency, modular build for easier/efficient/faster repairs, and weight management.
I haven’t seen a scenario where the A7 chassis-less design would be compromise compared to the other smaller sensor cameras with a chassis except maybe a drop test on concrete but even then any camera can suffer anything from that.
Dropped A7r (~1.5 feet on wooden floor) is enough to kill the evf (the weakest point with the shortest cable connection).
It is a compromise and they are delicate (all photo gear is- I agree) and need to be treated accordingly.
Haven’t heard about that. I wouldn’t call them delicate, though. My NEX 7 fell twice on tiles and it was OK. It had a Gariz leather case (which may have dampened the fall…)
I would have thought the A7 cameras were better built.
I think if we all expect D4/1D build quality (I had a D2x which survived falls and accidental swings on walls) then we probably wouldn’t be looking at this size/weight category much. I don’t even think the Leica M, with their renowned manufacturing, are that solid either since a drop can make the rangefinder mechanism inaccurate, but they do feel good…
NEX7 (compact) is very different.
BTW, an L plate (available on ebay for just 15 Euros shipped- beautifully crafted aluminum) offers some protection plus the few mm of better grip for the A7 series. Harris case is just decorative and expensive and should be avoided and any cost.
Apparently, the build quality of a D2 is far better than the new D4s. Things are going down hill everywhere, it seems. 🙁
I do like the Gariz cases. To be honest, compared to the Leica time or this other Japanese brand I cant remember, Gariz cases are great bangs for the buck when it comes to leather cases. They were the pioneers of the metal-like bottom that has a hole where the battery and SD card door is so you can access them without having to take the case out. Fuji copied that later on their cases for their cameras.
I don’t have an A7 camera. I do have two RX1s though and one of them has an RRS grip which is an L-plate with a grip on the other side. The other one has a Gariz case…
First time I also hear that D2 cams were better build than the newer ones. Is not like the new cams came out at lower price points if the build quality is of lesser quality. Maybe its not the build quality of the bodies, just the amount of complexity built in them that makes them more prone to failure than older bodies/tech. More stuff in, more stuff that can go wrong. That’s why I don’t advocate for OSS or IBIS or flip screens or hybrid VF….simple is best. Less stuff to rely on that keeps working well.
As many said, I now agree that the silver/black style is very gorgeous only for the rangefinder style. Unlike X-T1, X-E2, E-M5, and E-M1, this A7 is very….ugly. The black A7 looks much stylish.
Stylish…holy crap. Unimaginable, A7 and this word going together.
Looks like an old Minolta.
A beauty 🙂
When we will run out of oil, plastic will be considered as luxury
Well, see ya back then in a few trillions of years, the sun will run out of fuel earlier than the earth will turn without oil.
Luxuries? By the time we run out of oil, all we’ll be worried about is finding food and avoiding marauders.
hideous, at best
I like it. In this case, the silver finish makes it look more space-agey than retro. Nicely done!
Looks ugly…
It is funny to think that back in the day nearly all cameras were once manufactured in a silver finish, and the special editions were usually the ones finished in black! It is good of Antonius to give us a glimpse of an A7 in silver but for me it needs a brown leather case and neck strap to
fully complete that authentic retro look!
ordinary cameras were manufactured in silver finish but they were too glittery and attracted sniper’s attention to photojournalists/war correspondents, so since Vietnam war most “pro” models had matte black version. this may be urban legend as well, though 😉
It looks even uglier than the original ugly A7 design. I wander how they managed to make it so ugly, A99 in my opinion is the best looking camera out there.
The A99 looks like Quasimodo.
since when a camera needs a neck? (Kai from digitalrev, is that you?)
A99 is beautiful. Seems like design authorities think the same as me…
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/plenty-of-if-awards-for-sony/
“design authorities” … LMFAO. Never heard that one before.
FYI: design awards will be given every year, REGARDLESS if any well designed product came out or not. They just try to honor the “best” which says nothing about the actual quality of the design. Savvy?
just because you didnt heard about something doesnt mean it doesnt exist…”IF design awards” is the most respected european design “authority” (maybe the word authority is a bit strong but as a non-native-english speaker I cant find another)
just go to google, type in “product design awards” and the first thing you get are the IF awards, my ignorant friend 🙂
Perhaps this design authority should select myNamesDouchebag, I mean Condor as a consultant at large.
be nice, I just said what I think. No need to be rude.
in response to your FYI (which you added later..a low way to discus btw): so in other words, according to them, the A99 has better design than nikon D800,D600 and cannons 5D3,D6 which were in this category at the time… it definitelly says SOMETHING about the quality of the design, dont you think??
Yes, it says something. But what if I like the design of the 5D3 much more than the design of the A99?
OK, now more seriously. I laughed about the combination of design and authorities, because I think, everyone should make his own decision if he likes a particular design or not. No need for authorities at all. Except for the ones who have no taste or no own opinion.
You mean you can hang it in the belltower.
For me A99 looks really nice, A7 series in contrast look like crap! And “crap” is a kind word that doesn’t reflect the real ugliness of those cameras.
Well that is a matter of taste. The fact that most people have no taste (no offense) makes it even more tricky.
To me, Sony has some of the better designers. The A99 is far from great design, but it’s OK, definitely not ugly. Everyone can see what “ugly” really means by looking at Samsung or entry level DSLRs from Canon/Nikon.
The same applies to the A7. I like the design, except the big pentaprism-like viewfinder. Again, not stellar design, but I have seen waaaaay worse.
Agree, this is why I started the sentance with: “For me”. But honestly A7 series are one of the ugliest cameras ever!
Yeah it looks botched… Silver a6000 looks much better than this… looks like he got half way painting it there…
If the A7 was A-mount, you’d be saying it was stunning. Fact.
There is an irritating habit forming around here – A-mount fans refusing to see anything positive in E-mount.
LOL, I’m not an A mount fan, I just express my opinion about an ugly design.
And what design experience do you base your opinion on, surely you must have several successful designs under your belt to speak with such authority.
LOL, what a stupid comment.
with all respect, I have to agree with Eno, this comment was not your brightest one.
LOL, yes you are.
Seriously, I didn’t knot that…If you donate me an A mount camera than maybe, but just maybe I will be a tiny little A mount fan. LOL
haha. Same here. If he donates me an A99, I will praise the design for sure.
The pentaprism-like viewfinder is s necessary space required to house the electronic viewfinder and is a shape usually associated with cameras. Would a rectangular box looked any better? I think not. Does your profession involve industrial design, and if so what would be your solution in this case.
If the pentaprism-like viewfinder is necessary due to technical requirements, I totally understand that. But it doesn’t change my opinion about how it looks.
You’re just saying that because you look like Jabba the Hutt
paint the orange ring into silver as well please. thats the way to go!
actually, also the stupid orange R and the upper area of the grip surrounding the aperture wheel, too.
I think it’s just right. Can’t get any better with a silver paint job with this model.
Sensor plane indicator need to be white (it’s painted here), so it’s fake or preproduction version. Maybe someone wanted to paint his own camera…
I read “custom paint” somewhere, don’t you?
Looks Dinky Toys like, just awful. If it had the EVF like the NEX-7 it would look better, at least I think so.
Shamael is describing his penis “dinky toy like”.
thank god they released it only in black
means that GOD serves to something sometimes.
I will buy my next camera based solely on looks. I won’t even care if it works, but if it looks good, who cares? Making a fashion statement is much more important. And then I stop reading dumb ugliness comments in this forum and snap back to reality…
looking goood !
My pants just got short.
yuk
Though I can’t say the overall design is polished(really just three blobs stuck together, not thoughtful at all) a paint job still makes an improvement. The original black paint is too cheap-looking. They should’ve used the kind of paint they used on NEX-7, or G7X’s kind of paint, which looks like dew.
It looks old and stupid.
The original looked not as old but twice as stupid.
Just for that, I’m showing you class picture.
Your glasses look very stylish, frames made in Hong Kong.
Seriously, have I just walked into a primary school?
“Stupid”? Is that really the best you can do?
I’m sorry, did I insult your lover S.Yu?
WTF are you talking about?
I was questioning your mental age. What has S.Yu got to do with it?
I apologize again, thought you were both out.
Making some parts of it silver only goes to show just what a horrible design the camera is as a whole.
This is 2014 not 1954. My grandad had cameras which looked like this. Come on you camera manufacturers (not just Sony), let’s have some modern designs if you are going to carry on making cameras of this size for the food and street shooters. I know the kids of today may think it’s all new and modern…But It Isn’t!
Buy the a6000. Or an iPhone. At least these weren’t around in the fifties.
And no, a different paint doesn’t show a horrible design. The silver is just ugly, in black it looks phenomenal, at least for a FF digital camera.
Seems that some people buy cameras to place on a shelf and stare at, instead of using it as a photographic tool.
Buy something else? That was not the point! The point was that the camera looks just like my grandads, it is an old fashioned design, looks too boxy and with the grip, viewfinder box etc. looking as though different people had designed them and just stuck them on regardless. Horrible!
Regarding you other suggestions – What the h£ll would I want an a6000 or one of those jack of all trades but master of none phones for. I need a camera which I can hold and feels comfortable in my hands (without expensive add-ons like extra grips etc), something I can go shooting nature etc with a decent 500mm lens, not walking round town secretly taking pictures of other people or worse pictures of food.
You wanted something modern, so that’s why I suggested the A6000. You didn’t specify your need to carry around a 500mm tele. In that case I would’ve suggested a D4 or 1DX, or if they are too old fashioned, get an A99.
Thanks for your suggestions but I didn’t say that I personally wanted something modern, what I said in my original post was that if manufacturers were going to continue making small cameras for the streetshooters etc. then make them of a modern style, not like something my grandad had, and that I personally think it’s a horrible design.
What do you consider to be modern then?
Something that doesn’t have it’s extremities looking as though they’ve been found in a scrap box and bolted onto an oblong shapeless box. Something that when it ends up on the shelves of the second hand shop, (like a QX1 I saw the other day), doesn’t get the antique collectors sweating thinking they’ve found a rare camera from the 40s/50s/60/s only to find it’s just an ugly lookalike from the ‘modern’ times. 😉
Well, can you give some examples?
Not without going through the catalogues of all manufacturers, (and I ain’t doing that), then saying ‘well I like that..but I wish they’d have smoothed this out a bit’ or ‘that looks nice, but I wish they hadn’t done that’.
All I’m saying is that I’m sure they could have smoothed things out a bit and made it look as though it all belonged together instead of it looking all angular and having a ‘bits bolted on’ look and so old fashioned…er sorry..retro 😉
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, many like it, I and many more don’t. Simple as that.
Have a great day 🙂
Get this…
1950-60s Design = MODERN
2000-2014 Design = CONTEMPORARY
OK?
Fuji X100 is a GREAT modern or retro design. A good design actually within reach of most.
It’s a real turnoff to people on the street when your camera is not a “modern” design.
Turn off to people on the street???? Who the h£ll is looking anyway. Most people wouldn’t know a Fuji from a fart or a Sony from a spectacle case. That’s just the talk of idiots who will pay the earth just to, in their own mind, be trendy. Bet you pay £300 for your jeans too, thinking someone actually gives a damn.
The comment was meant to be sarcasm in response to the original post. Obviously people on the street couldn’t care less about the camera a stranger is carrying.
Alan… Sarcasm… Hmmm. Is it possible you might be British? Pound sterling… Hmmmm. The only people on earth who think its cool to add “Great” to the name of their beloved country.
OMG you said “fart”. What a dirty mouth. Watch out for moderation!!!
If I’m doing street photography and it looks like people aren’t digging my camera’s design I usually just throw it at them. After you smack a few random homeless people with your camera they usually calm down. I then can take some “action” shots of people flailing their arms and running at me with broken bottles. Seems to work.
In that case you need an all magnesium body like the A7r in black. The strong body to absorb the shock and the black finish to hide blood and dead skin.
How about a nice cup of “chill the f!”£k out”?
The man did it. He likes it. Whatever his reasoning, if it’s not to your taste, don’t label a man you don’t know as a kid looking to be trendy. He may actually be a nice guy.
This is what happened last time a “real” designer came up with a modern design, do you really want more of that ?
P.S. : Seriously, what’s with pictures ?
The camera itself is just as ugly as those old Minoltas: it looks like hammered shit (haters gonna hate.)
With this crappy painting: looks like silver hammered shit. Just some hipsterizing mod for an excellent camera (hardware) with a shitty design.
Yech!
It looks like silver hammered poop*
*OMG a 4-letter word
I’m thinking the silver attracts attention to the ugliness of the A7. In black you can get away with it’s refrigerator looks, but the silver accents all the wrong places. It also looks cheap. Silver and cheap don’t mix. Plus you have a mesh of silver, orange and red now- that barely works on a pair of Nike sneakers let alone a camera.
You’re damn right.
Worse than the original. I accepted the A7 design, but NEX7 design was much more beautifull.
A7 looks like some guy in its twenty with the cap turned back. Now with this silver, looks like a toy, amateur toy.
I don’t really care about the silver, but i would definitely support anyone thaht can do something about the “heyhey look at me brand” flashy orange lens mount.
The orange ring it’s nothing, it almost doesn’t appear. The Canon’s red ring is flashy. “Oh! Look at my red ring!” And that “ugly as hell” thingy in Nikon’s handgrip. Looks like some Power Rangers stuff.
No way, the orange ring it’s very discrete. Just look at Canon’s red ring: “Oh look at my red ring!” And that Nikon’s red thingy in the handgrip… looks like some Power Rangers stuff.
The orange ring is rather discreet. If you dont like it then you can just paint it black with either paint and a brush or a permanent marker. Other options: wide black rubber band or tape…
Do you walk around with your camera without a lens or body cap on it?
The moderator should be a very sensible and pure person since my last 2 posts got blocked just because of my reference to “poop matter” towards the camera painting. Perhaps he/she did the lousy paint job that ruined the already ugly camera.
I find it ironic that the when you are dealing with the mother of all collectible cameras (Leica) that the cameras most sought after aren’t the one with the shiny bits but the all black ones… Now some goof has gone and tried to make his camera look cheaper… To each his own I guess.
It looked like silver hammered shit indeed… But at least it’s not like this Nikon’s offense to the eye. WTF… What is it anyway, a hazmat camera? lol
It looked like “silvo cheapo” indeed. But at least it’s not an offense to the eye like this Nikon. What is it anyway, a hazmat camera? lol
-Hey where’s the Nikon hazmat camera man???
-Oh sorry about that. Here it is!
http://nikonrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Nikon-1-S2-camera-top.jpg
Well that’s because people who collect Leicas don’t necessarily have good tastes or knowledge of the subject.
This looks digusting…….
Bad taste.
New model with old shutter problem?
Sony’s design has been steadfastly modern. Doing a retro paint job on a body with modern lines is kinda silly.
As an architect and designer I can tell you the Sony’s attempt at the A7 is neither modern design nor any design that is close to appealing. Its a Lexus, not a Porsche or Ferrari (if you know what I mean). Most old people and those that are design-challenged like Lexus. Great cars, poor taste in design.
Sony folks need a lesson in what is good, timeless design. Leica cameras over the years have somewhat held their own in design but even they can be improved. Yeah… I am kinda hard to impress. That said, I love the direction Fuji have gone with the X series. Now only if I could impress on Fuji to build a camera as well-built as an OMD EM-1.
There is a demand on real vintage style camera. Why Sony din not make a leica styled A7v(intage)?
A vintage, rangefinder styled FF mirrorless Sony with a native M mount would do really well, IMHO. Especially if it sold for under US$2K. Way more interesting than a cell phone lens to me. 🙂
If you want a rangefinder you need to get one.
Christ that looks horrible, like the nikon df. Waiting on that FF nex7.
Ugly as hell. But that’ s just me.
Sony is not a copy cat they always look to bring something you. So, I doubt they’d make a silver edition. But Sony still suck though.
Sony sucks and so does your english.
Eww
Silver…Not so much, all black everything.
Glad I have my black one already. Also preferred the black Minolta X-700 over a silver X-500 or 300.
Actually I like it.
Disgusting! That hump just gross me out every time. Could they just make a a6000 full frame?
I’ve always liked the design of the A7, but I didn’t know they could look that ugly…
Ugly, Little, Toy Camera.
Puke
Or did you mean OMD!?
I found this trying to see what it would look like in vintage metallic – despite it being paint I quite like it. I think a better way to go would be to strip down to the bare metal and clear coat.