Your premise is wrong. I said they could make FF cameras much cheaper, not that they already are. But they do have the cheapest FF cameras in the market, and it has a bunch of high dollar stuff like that high res EVF and magnesium body.
The a7 is retailing around 1K at the moment. That's already pretty cheap. In time these cameras will only get cheaper, as they get cycled out by newer models especially.
US$1200.00 is the lowest I can find. This is far from the retail price of the a6000
The body is $999 on Amazon. And it should cost more... it's a much better, significantly higher spec camera.
I see US$1200.00 on Amazon. Show me the US $999.00 link if you can find it, thanks.
Yes, that is also a distinct possibility
Keep drinking that Kool-aid, chap
Way too much koolaid
It would if Sony were able to make one single half decent standard zoom for the thing . they`ve not pulled it off in the last 5 years at any price, I`ve come to the conclusion they`re incapable which is amazing as its easier to make glass for smaller sensors (and all they have to do is copy Canon or Fujis superb Mirrorless APS-C lenses) they did it full frame first time round with the FE28-70 and managed it for APS-C DSLR too (16-50 F2.8) .. Weird . they obvilously don`t care anyway
Humor me. How is an A7I "technically worse" than an A5100? Only thing I can think of is AF, which is irrelevant to the large contingent of A7 owners who don't shoot action or use MF legacy glass 100% of the time anyway. A7 washes A5100 on DR and color depth.... A5100 does beat the A7 on normalized high ISO performance but we are talking half a stop here. For shooting legacy glass the A7 is the better body by an appreciable margin.
LOL !! , yeah, they`ll do anything for revenue - look at all the Crap compact camera lenses they let their name appear on ....... though it`s nothing new , some of the old eastern Bloc made Carl-Zeiss Jenas were right coke bottlesBut Zeiss keeps giving those standard zooms the Zeiss seal of approval. Not Sony's fault.
Again, except for the sensor, and it's demographic (the highest end consumers, soccer dad's, and hobbyists), the A7 is weaker, and has inferior technology.
Lol, EXCEPT FOR THE SENSOR lmao. And what piece of Sony documentation do you have that explicitly outlines the A7's target market?
If any of these things mattered more than the difference in format you tried to take out of a discussion on Sony's shift in focus on format types, why are people still paying 2-4x as much for A7s as they are A6000s/A5100s? Why are people buying $650 focal length reducers, which make the A6000 more expensive than the A7, but still leave it with an inferior EVF, controls and worse AF? And how is the A5100/A6000 battery better when there is no grip option?
Sony is undercutting Canikon in price and implementing technologies never seen before on a full frame camera. You can't rationalize irrational bias, but that is what you are trying to do here.
It is 1k CHF here in Switzerland, close to 1 K USD. Nobody is saying it is a6000 price, but we are seeing over time a steady reduction in price for FF cameras. I would not be surprised if we start seeing some basic FF camera bodies being released at or under 1K in the near future. Just my opinion of course.
You are in forum land I think - think broader than dpreview.com - it's not bias, not at all.
