To me it seems to be creating the Golden Age of Noise, I don't see the creatives being more or less creative, and I don't mean YouTube 'creatives' even though none of them seem to push themselves that hard.The fierce competition between camera makers seems to be creating a new golden age for photography. There are so many amazing cameras out there and they each keep trying to make them better, whether they are useful for your needs or not.
I have an a6100, which has a similar grip to this. If you're into photography in any serious capacity, this kind of grip is absolutely maddening to use. Your thumb will always be mashing buttons unintentionally, and your other 4 fingers won't even fit. And I have pretty average size hands. The only reason I still use it is because my R6 pre-order hasn't come in yet. That compact size comes at a huge cost, for me at least.
Nobody is asking for that... yet
They simply can't into ergonomics. They simply can't.
The grip is much different. Think more A7iii. Remember this is using the same Z battery as the A7siii, A7r3&4 and A7iii.
I think this thing is going to cost $2K, but have worse specs than the R6, so no dice there.Anything that adds pressure to reduce the R6 price tag is useful to me. This camera doesn't seem useful to me.
Yes... even with the battery grip it still sucks. A dealbreaker for me. My days with Sony were numbered as soon as I gripped the R for the first time.Even the grip on the a7iii is horrible. And this one is certainly less robust, judging by the pictures. You’re going to have a very not fun time with this camera if you try to use bigger lenses on it.
They built a mean SA-CD player.No surprise to me. They couldn't even get a portable CD player right the last time I bought one from them.
Its a fullframe! From what it looks, they put it into a APS-C Body (like a6000). Thats truely impressive. For travel this is certainly a super great tool! For long hikes its always quite annoying to carry my 5D or now R5...It doesn't look any smaller than their other cameras. But maybe that is just me.
Totaly agree! That would be awesome!Would love a small RF canon FF like this as a backup/hiking body. However given the R5 and R6 I wonder how they would tackle the internal heat in an even smaller body.
Sony tried with the RX1 but you cant beat physics just yet for lens size, tho I read an MIT research where they figured out how to make lenses less then 1” thick, even a 300mm!Olympus Stylus 80 Wide: 120x64x49 (with lens!)
I wish we had some of our FF digital cameras as compact as our film P&S cameras used to be.