Sony a7r with Canon Lens experience

[joaopedroglm]

Hello Guys,

I know that this is a Canon forum, but i would like to hear some thoughts on this matter from Canon people.

So i`m thinking on buying a Sony A7R to join my trusty Canon 5d2 and Fuji X100s. I have a Sigma 35mm 1.4, Zeiss 21 and a 70-200 IS 2.8, and i`m thinking on buying the sony 55 FE 1.8 too.

You can see my kind of photography here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/giamppiero/

I would like some advices from people who bought and use the A7r for Landscape photography and streetphotography, and what about the adapters experience, and general experience with the camera.

Thanks
João

 

[Sabalok]

Well, it works great.

AF with EF lenses is slow and not usefull for action but manual focus is great with Sonys A7 cameras.

You don´t need an expensiv metabones adapter.

AF will not much faster with a Metabones adapter and all other features are good with 100$ adapters too.

The image quality is fantastic with the 36 MP Sony A7R.
I use my A7R with a 16-35mm f2.8 and the 14mm f2.8.

Night skys are fantastic with the A7R and 14mm f2.8 combination.

 

[Dylan777]

Owned it and hated it.

Stay with their FE native lenses. FE55 is awesome. For street and landscape, I think FE35mm and new recent release FE16-35mm f4 OS might be a better choice.

 

[msm]

Owned it and hated it.

Stay with their FE native lenses. FE55 is awesome. For street and landscape, I think FE35mm and new recent release FE16-35mm f4 OS might be a better choice.

I disagree, I use my EF lenses more on the a7r than on my Canon bodies nowadays. I only manual focus though, but that is so easy on the a7r and super precise with the focus loupe. Focus peaking is not as accurate though unfortunately.

And yeah the FE55 is great, almost as sharp as the otus even wide open. Unfortunately not as well corrected against color fringing though.

 

[raptor3x]

For landscape photography, especially on a tripod, I think you'll be very happy with an A7R; although you may want to wait until the A7R II comes out and then grab an A7R for even cheaper. For street photography, I think it's a bit iffy unless you're sticking with stationary subjects, in which case the A7R will be fine. For moving targets with your EF lenses you're stuck with focus peaking, since you can't effectively use the loupe on moving targets, which seems to only really be good at f/2.8 and smaller. You could also try some FE lenses, but I'm not too impressed with the AF performance there. In theory, since it's mirrorless, the focus should pretty much always be bang on, but I've found in practice the hit rate on static subjects is significantly worse than my 5D3. In any case, if your primary usage is static scenes that you'll be manually focusing then I think you'll be very happy with it.