What to do? Cool your jets, for a starter.
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Rglmiro wrote:
The new full frames will be best in the future. Its a little more expensive now, but it will be cheaper later. Technology always goes in that cycle.
The old technology APS-C is fine, but full frame is better so it will take over.
I have 3 lenses for NEX-7. I am disappointed that they will not work with the A7 camera body. I really like the Zeiss 24mm. I want to buy one of the new Zeiss E 16-70mm, or some kind of medium zoom. But I don't want to invest more in NEX lenses.
I will keep my NEX-7 and lenses for a few years, but not thinking of buying new lenses.
Despite the many rants to the contrary, Sony is not - cannot - walk away from the APS-C format as you suggest, jusst because it launched a FF camera!
Nikon didn't walk away from the APS-C when it launched a FF, and neither did Canon. Despite any dcreases in FF prices in the coming 5 years, even if current prices dropped by half, they will capture less than 20% of the DSLR and mirrorless market. FF will for at least a decade be the smallest market segment, and advances in the APS-C sensor and cameras will continue...especially at Sony.
Sony won't announce where it is going with the APS-C line, any more than Nikon announced its Df, until the cameras are ready to sell. 10 years ago, my D70 had a 6mp sensor, and I look at those images today, and most are hard to differentiate from those made with my D7000 or my NEX-6 in the 11x14s and 16x24 prints on my walls. I can easily see inexpensive 36mp APS-C sensors within a year, likely in the same body as the A7 today.
Unless someone simply cannot live without the bragging rights with a FF, they'd be better of simply cooling their jets for a few months and waiting for the next generation of APS-C cameras from Sony. Going out an buying FF lenses before the next generation of APS-C E-mount cameras is launched makes no sense at all - NONE - unless you are prepared to commit to FF forever.
There are plenty of inferior photographers here on the forum who've already bought A7(r) cameras and are disappointed because a FF couldn't make significantly better photos than their NEX camera of Martha and the kids, their pet dog, or the petunias in their yard.
We all know that the market for internal combustion cars died with the introduction of the first hybrids, and everyone who owned a propeller-driven Cessna rushed out to buy a private jet as soon as they were announced. Sailing craft died as soon as the first motorboats were launched,
Like you say, "Technology always goes in that cycle."
And we all know that a FF makes your dead APS-C images come alive, don't we...