The Amazing Sony A1/A7/A9/APS-C & Anything else welcome Mega Thread!

JJ! said:
Just watched few vids on YouTube on A7R3.... nice!

Does it come with a charger?! Lol
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Yes it does lol typical
 
snerkler said:
At £1800 equivalent it’s gotta be close to the best bang for buck camera.
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I mean, its still not a cheap camera at all though is it. I'd say there are better 'bang for buck' cameras if you look at lower price ranges. In its price bracket, yes, very much so. But you don't just buy a camera, you buy lenses that are double the price. Tamron 24-70 2.7 G2 and 70-200 2.8 G2 for the same price as DSLR, then we are talking.
 
rookies said:
Well least I have a camera that can do everything so I no need to worry now..

Am a happy bunny..
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Nah, it doesn’t read your thoughts and shoot for you ;)
 
Don't wait, you can always wait for the next one but this camera IMO is undervalued and underpriced. Looking at what you get, compare to the A9 and A7R3 pricing, and also what the 5D4 and D850 retails for, I would have stick this at £2500 - £2700 and it would STILL look good value.

£2000 is seriously unexpected, this is 6D2 price point with D850/5D4 performance.
 
snerkler said:
Is there a reason Sony don’t do lossless? As innovators you’d think if anyone did lossless it would be Sony.
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Nah no innovation involved it's been done and dusted (even by Sony in fact long back in their A900/850/700 DSLRs). So it's beneath their innovative minds to implement such predestrian useful feature :p
 
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Only sticking point for me so far is lenses, must have 35 1.4. So it's samyang / mc11 35 art or wait zzz for 35 art native
 
Tom Green said:
You already had one that did everything?

A6500 also does everything :)
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D500 was nice camera. BUT this A7iii is in a different world. DR is better. IQ is better as it FF.. None of my lens need Fine Tuning.. The sigma art on the D500 kept going off and you couldnt use all the AF point with that lens..

This A7iii is a winner
 
Raymond Lin said:
Don't wait, you can always wait for the next one but this camera IMO is undervalued and underpriced. Looking at what you get, compare to the A9 and A7R3 pricing, and also what the 5D4 and D850 retails for, I would have stick this at £2500 - £2700 and it would STILL look good value.

£2000 is seriously unexpected, this is 6D2 price point with D850/5D4 performance.
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I tend to agree, it's incredibly aggressive pricing. They just threw everything in.
 
Tom Green said:
I mean, its still not a cheap camera at all though is it. I'd say there are better 'bang for buck' cameras if you look at lower price ranges. In its price bracket, yes, very much so. But you don't just buy a camera, you buy lenses that are double the price. Tamron 24-70 2.7 G2 and 70-200 2.8 G2 for the same price as DSLR, then we are talking.
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I was only talking the camera not the system, but if you look at the tech, features, sensor performance etc it’s gotta be up there. Sure there are cameras like the D3400 which are bargains, but when you start breaking down sensor size, sensor performance, AF performance, feature set etc then the gap narrows.
 
I was waiting for a d760 at this pricepoint but f it, been waiting to long and this on paper has everything I want from a hybrid especially with the sigma announcement. If the AF lives up to the hype I'll be bloody thrilled.
 
twist said:
I was waiting for a d760 at this pricepoint but f it, been waiting to long and this on paper has everything I want from a hybrid especially with the sigma announcement. If the AF lives up to the hype I'll be bloody thrilled.
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How long have you got to wait
 
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twist said:
Only sticking point for me so far is lenses, must have 35 1.4. So it's samyang / mc11 35 art or wait zzz for 35 art native
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Have to agree here... was hoping that Sigma Art would be a proper native lens and a bit smaller!
 
Raymond Lin said:
Don't wait, you can always wait for the next one but this camera IMO is undervalued and underpriced. Looking at what you get, compare to the A9 and A7R3 pricing, and also what the 5D4 and D850 retails for, I would have stick this at £2500 - £2700 and it would STILL look good value.

£2000 is seriously unexpected, this is 6D2 price point with D850/5D4 performance.
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I’m not sure the A7iii is quite a rival for the D850, but it’s not far off. Tbh I don’t know how much more it costs to produce high MP sensors and whether the price of the D850 and A7riii are therefore justified (I know the A7riii has the better build, EVF and LCD too and it’s not just the sensor).

twist said:
I was waiting for a d760 at this pricepoint but f it, been waiting to long and this on paper has everything I want from a hybrid especially with the sigma announcement. If the AF lives up to the hype I'll be bloody thrilled.
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And hopefully the pinstripes don’t affect you (y)
 
chrism_scotland said:
Isn't that just an A7iii..... albeit dreaming about the 35mm f1.8!
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A7III is 250g heavier and fair bit fatter than the original A7. I moved to Sony e-mount when they released A7 for A7 sized bodies not for A7III sized bodies
And they are still lacking in weathersealing
 
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nandbytes said:
A7III is 250g heavier and fair bit fatter than the original A7. I moved to Sony e-mount when they released A7 for A7 sized bodies not for A7III sized bodies
And they are still lacking in weathersealing
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True I forget how small the original bodies were before IBIS was added, it should be so easy to do full-on weather sealing as well considering Olympus and Fuji seem more than able to do it!
 
nandbytes said:
A7III is 250g heavier and fair bit fatter than the original A7. I moved to Sony e-mount when they released A7 for A7 sized bodies not for A7III sized bodies
And they are still lacking in weathersealing
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Isn’t weather sealing a little overrated? Unless your shooting in the p***ing rain all day. How many of your lenses are weather sealed?
 
chrism_scotland said:
True I forget how small the original bodies were before IBIS was added, it should be so easy to do full-on weather sealing as well considering Olympus and Fuji seem more than able to do it!
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I moved from A99 which has IBIS to A7 which didn't because I didn't much care for it.

Yeah for some reason they went all the way with latest bodies and decided to skimp on the base... :banghead:
 
addicknchips said:
Isn’t weather sealing a little overrated? Unless your shooting in the p***ing rain all day. How many of your lenses are weather sealed?
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Apparently all Sony FE lenses are moisture and dust resistant. If they aren't weathersealed then I'd like weather sealed lenses too :P
 
My mate picked up my a7r3 with its pancake lens and he was very surprised how heavy and solid it was. He said it looked like a pos camera and thought it must be light as feathers and built by fisher price.
 
jonneymendoza said:
My mate picked up my a7r3 with its pancake lens and he was very surprised how heavy and solid it was. He said it looked like a pos camera and thought it must be light as feathers and built by fisher price.
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Yeah I wish, fisher price would do a better job of building it properly. My son is yet to break any of his fisher price electronics (they have been washed and rinsed :D)
I bet your A7R3 won't last 5 minutes in his hands :p
 
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addicknchips said:
Isn’t weather sealing a little overrated? Unless your shooting in the p***ing rain all day. How many of your lenses are weather sealed?
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Weather sealing has probably saved me on several occasions. That being said I don’t know how none weather sealed systems would have coped, but I’m not sure I’d want to find out either :eek:
 
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