dilbert said:
3kramd5 said:
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I bought an A7R2 with a reasonably high expectation I'd sell it at a loss soon after. Fortunately those things about it I dislike are things I can live with and I've kept it.
What do you dislike about it?
It's mainly the controls/UI.
1) I struggle significantly selecting focus points; the camera is very prone to changing menus while I'm trying to toggle across the AF spots. I would much prefer a dedicated control pad which does nothing else. If I am shooting anything unpredictable, I use canon DSLRs. If I'm shooting studio, landscapes, etc., I use the a7.
2) It annoys me how it locks out certain functions, such the viewfinder magnification if I haven't specifically enabled manual focus, or manual focus via the lens ring with native glass if I haven't specifically enabled manual focus. I like to use a combination sometimes (AF to get close, MF to fine tune). That's a no-go with native e-mount AF glass.
3) It has a strange propensity to open up the menu somewhere other than where I'd left it. Since I rarely enter the menu other than to format the card or disable airplane mode / transfer photos to my smartphone, it's not a huge deal.
4) It's absurdly slow reviewing photos, particularly zooming (regardless of what quality setting I've selected for display).
There are other things I'm sure, but those are the ones that immediately came to mind. 1 and 2 are the big ones.
dilbert said:
And does the A7RII have a constrast focus and exposure selection system that works the same as live view on Canon DSLRs?
My comments above about selecting AF points apply equally to the EVF and the rear display, although much of the time it's doing phase detect. Manual focus is significantly better on the A7 due to in-EVH magnification (which trumps rear display magnification due to clarity and relative size); using the rear display it's 6 to one, half dozen to the other (in other words, sony's implementation is ages better than nikon's). I had a lot of hope for focus peeking, but have thus far found it unreliable since it's just displaying high contrast areas, which are often in very OOF areas.
I'm not sure what you're asking regarding exposure selection. I have it set up for easy access to all three exposure parameters, and have a button mapped to bring up metering mode. I wish I could hold a button down and spin a wheel to change ISO (like with canon). Unfortunately I have to bring up a menu, which isn't as quick.