Rienzphotoz said:I partly agree with you, except for I've what I've marked in Red font ... to me those comments suggest that you have not used an a7 or the a7R with or without an adapter. I have been using a7+metabones adapter+EF primes for over a month now and I can tell you that there is a significant weight and size difference between my 5D MK III and the a7 with the adapter. One of the best things about the a7/a7R is how quick and accurately it focuses even with manual lenses, using focus peaking. I prefer Canon eco-system and the Sony a7/a7R only compliments it ... people who travel a lot and still like to carry some of their good lenses will understand and appreciate the size/weight advantage the Sony a7/a7R provides.Chuck Alaimo said:Badger said:How about we take the sensor from the Sony A7R and slap it into an SLR body?
At the end of the day, its all about ending up with the best picture possible but many of us are so comfortable with the SLR form factor that any other form, makes us uncomfortable. We also "look" less than professional if we show up with a "smallish" camera that looks like the same camera everyone else has
isn't that the d610 and d800????---
I firmly believe that once this whole, make it smaller thing is dropped then canon and nikon can do what i bet they actually want to do ---make a mirrorless option that fits with their current ecosystems of lenses ---.
It's funny that many say slr's are dying, but what i see is a mirrorless market that has no identity. Oh we want to be smaller, but not really small, we want to be user friendly for all, but not really, we want to be as good as an slr but need 10 more years to make appropriate lenses, but dang it to do that we're making something the size of an A7, which isn't all that much smaller than an slr, snor does it really weigh significantly less than an slr, and once you toss the adaptor on there and use standard lenses, it's the same size and barely and less weight.
Even for travel, if i still have to have a camera bag and multiple lenses and batteries then how does that size factor really help? Eventually the market will figure this out and either drop the whole idea of mirrorless or, integrate into the existing ecosystem.
No, i have not used either of the new sony's yet as no one that I know of in my area has one! That and, i don't have 2k in disposable funds to try it out.
My travel analogy is still valid. Yes, your bag may be lighter, but, 1 body and 2 lenses is still going to take the bulk of your carry on luggage space (A7 plus batteries plus adaptor plus a 24-70 and a 70-200 for instance) That's the bottleneck if you ask me. In terms of space in my carry on, you can easily swap out the A7 for my 6d (while the 5d3 may be larger than the a7, the 6d is a lot closer!) and it leaves pretty close to the same footprint.
My point is you still have 1 full bag dedicated to photography. that's the problem as i see it with mirrorless. for some that little bit of size and weight makes a difference, but to the masses - a compact camera with no interchangeable lens is always going to be smaller. A camera you can fit in your pocket and need nothing extra is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay smaller than anything that requires a bag to store extra stuff like lenses in.
the only way i can relate this is if i consider my farily recent honeymoon and what gear I brought. I went pretty minimal - 6d, 24mm, 50mm, 85mm, and a flash, charger, batteries. Would the A& have really changed what I could fit in my bag? Not really.
Upvote
0