Those are all fair points. Perhaps I should have been clearer that I was not making an apples-to-apples comparison. The benefits of going with an A7 series camera would be the full frame format, and to fully realize the benefits would impose high costs in terms of money, weight, and bulk.
Well, Oly produce, as they underline again and again, still cameras with the video features just coming as an extra. And when it comes to making use of the on-sensor PDAF for the camera's C-AF, the E-M1 outclasses them all in CSC land - apart from some of the Nikon 1 cameras, that is.
Was it? Say no more. If there already is a CSC at all that has got what it takes to do so it's the E-M1 or the GH4. All the others, even the A7s, have far too may shortcomings.
Yeah right... That's why you should buy FF lenses for an APS-C camera. Great deal.
The best guy to answer your question might be Danny. He shoots birds with a Canon 500 on a NEX-7.I wonder who is qualified to answer. Maybe not even me.
I'm currently in Canada on a birding trip, no Lumix or Sony is here. It's big Canons but I did bring my OMD m10ii, why? It fits in the same case as the big EOS body and big white lens. Will that change? Maybe. I'm taking my GX8 + Leica 100-400g IF it really shows up
Will I add the A6300? Probably. It will be a nice continuum sitting by my NEX-5,6, A6000, and A7Rii (sold my NEX-7).
What I'll hate if I do add the 63?
No touch. No swivel. No sealing.
Another issue reminds of why I added mFT in the first place. Sony still offers NO lens with native e-mount >300mm. Of course for my wants/desires it needs to be 400mm.
So why even consider the 63? I've used the 70-400gii on my A7Rii and it WILL track BIF. The screen/EVF refresh rate has a lot to be desired as does the FPS. I have an a77ii and use it with the Tamron 150-600=BIF MACHINE if you have great (GREAT) light/or live in Arizona or Florida.
It appears the 63 has the AF and beyond of the a77ii and that the EVF refresh rate problem has been super resolved.
So I'll jump once someone has put a 70-400gii on it via LAEA-3. Then I'll know if the ultimate birders kit exist.
This is me assuming the DR and ISO performance have also greatly improved.
Just know that if Sony had ever offered the 400mm native e-mount I wouldn't own 17 (and soon t be 19) mFT lenses. Which is to say wake up Sony.
Like Canon and Nikon, Sony has adopted the business model of hobilling low end produces to create an upgrade path for consumers.
Sounds fairly normal to me. A bit like making an E-M10 and offering an E-M1 at the same time. Strange when companies do that huh.
Don't feel too sorry for us for having ..... hobilled bodies, the 4 year old NEX-7 does just fine for what I want
Yes a bit like our E-M10's that are trying to look like something from the 70's and 80's with the copied industrial look to them. If I could only have one format and camera, it would be the Sony black brick over the E-M10 ;-) I'm just glad that you don't design cameras.
I hope not. I'll take a brick with a proper grip over a body designed by marketeers who think function should follow form.
Well nobody's perfect (LOL).
Move to Fuji. They don't bother with video and are all about dials.
