[Klaus]

Silent shutter! I will move to this one. The A7R (I) is next to unusable for testing.

 

http://www.opticallimits.com/index.php?v...cle&id=935

[Guest]

http://www.opticallimits.com/index.php?v...cle&id=935

Looks pretty good indeed. Fast AF even with Canon lenses via adapters may be the icing on the cake for some. Expensive though.

[davidmanze]

Sony have things well sorted out, each shortfall or technical criticism is listen to, taken on board redesigned, and dealt with in the next model, they are getting nearer and nearer to making the A7 series beyond reproach and in double quick time! 

[Klaus]

Sony have things well sorted out, each shortfall or technical criticism is listen to, taken on board redesigned, and dealt with in the next model, they are getting nearer and nearer to making the A7 series beyond reproach and in double quick time! 

 

Well, let's say it this way - the A7R was severely flawed with zero customer support from Sony.

 

The A7R II makes the EOS 5Ds ® look very dated though ...

[youpii]

It's a bit too expensive, and they didn't add a high-rez sensor shift mode

[Scythels]

#1 complaint with sony is godawful construction of their equipment and no sense of how to do anything, really. 

 

E.g FE lenses, $1200/ea, focus cam is glued to the motor, which is exposed to more force than any other part of the lens, instead of using a latching system, screw, or other piece... constant focus failures.  OS is the same way.  The barrels are finished nicely on the outside and the rings generally feel good, but the lenses that aren't Zeiss badged are very, very plasticy inside and the Zeiss badged ones are merely below average. 

 

FWIW Fuji is the same way.  As are panasonic and olympus.  Attractive finish, bad internals.

 

Interesting SLR Magic is perhaps worthy of a "fastest improving" award there, but canon still has the cleanest mechanical engineering in their lenses by a country mile (and tied for best reliability, too).

[Klaus]

#1 complaint with sony is godawful construction of their equipment and no sense of how to do anything, really. 

 

E.g FE lenses, $1200/ea, focus cam is glued to the motor, which is exposed to more force than any other part of the lens, instead of using a latching system, screw, or other piece... constant focus failures.  OS is the same way.  The barrels are finished nicely on the outside and the rings generally feel good, but the lenses that aren't Zeiss badged are very, very plasticy inside and the Zeiss badged ones are merely below average. 

 

FWIW Fuji is the same way.  As are panasonic and olympus.  Attractive finish, bad internals.

 

Interesting SLR Magic is perhaps worthy of a "fastest improving" award there, but canon still has the cleanest mechanical engineering in their lenses by a country mile (and tied for best reliability, too).

 

Well, I can only comment from the optical impact.

 

The full format FE lenses seem to be well centered (so far at least). The APS-C ones are often a disaster.

Pana is soso but usually not totally off.

Oly was superb during the FT times but has deteriorated with MFT

Canon - was bad, now very good.

Sigma - was terrible, now good.

Tamron - soso, sometimes on the bad side

Tokina - OMG (we gave up here essentially)

Nikon - generally good

Pentax - don't ask 

Samsung - #$%^&(

Fuji - bleh

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[Klaus]

The A7R II makes the EOS 5Ds ® look very dated though ...

 

....joke post.

....the problem with this latest revolutionary Sony is that they aren't intro'ing it at $1k or more cheaper....to encourage Canon in the same direction

 

Well, it is, isn't it ?

Here in Oz, the A7R II will start for 3800AUD vs 5300AUD for the EOS 5Ds R.

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