Played at Yodobashi Camera today :)

ahaslett wrote:

Bhima78 wrote:

tt321 wrote:

zuikowesty wrote:

I also picked up an A7 with a 24-240 or some such on it, and was appalled at how bad the focus was. It simply could not focus at ALL at the long end in the store, while none of the MFT lenses had any issues, even the 100-400 at the long end. The A7II with Zeiss 24-70 was better, but still slower than any of the MFT combos I tried.

I had this eye-opening (-watering?) experience myself with the A6000. Maybe newer cameras fare better? Or maybe after owning for a while you learn how to use them properly?

Yodobashi is an experience for sure.

I've tried quite a few FF Sony's in my local camera shop. The only one that actually felt as responsive as my m43's cameras was the A7Rii. The others just felt a bit pokey, with the original A7 being so dang slow, I'd probably just use adapted MF glass on it.

The A7R has a rather charming habit of giving up after a bit and reporting focus lock anyway. Found the OOF shots a bit puzzling until this became obvious.

Andrew

I am so happy that I am not alone and we don't have Sony defensive here.

I will acknowledge that the A7RII might be starting to get the act together but the A7 MkI was a half-finished poorly designed camera with awful ergonomics that was sold in the squillions simply because it had a FF sensor inside.

What worries me about the Sony A7 series MkII is that the price Sony puts on its "sorry about that, will this one do?"  Model is quite substantial for something that is still (better but) not sorted out ergonomically and is likely to be superseded by the next one after the next which will have finally have graduted from ergonomics school.

I might have AUD$4,200 in me to update my A7R for a later model but I want it to be perfect and keepable - I am not into playing expensive regular update games along the way to this Nirvana. I would be very happy to have one such camera that I can find enjoyable to use and will last me a long long time.

Book me in for an A7R MkIV.