Sony A7r - A Game Changer

[Hamish Gill]

I have had a few fleeting goes with the Sony A7r just lately. If you aren't aware, it is a full frame (24x36) sensor compact system camera. It has the same mount as the apsc nex series, has 36 mega pixies no aa filter is a fraction of the size of an slr but in terms of picture quality punches with the absolute best of them ... it comes in at £1700.

I bought the zeiss biogon 35mm f2 the other day, and the first thing I did was march it down LCE and take some snaps with it on the A7r

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7298/11106500326_bc9b3d95e4_c.jpg
800 iso f4 ...
here is a 72dpi full size version ... the end of the telescope is where i focused
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamishgill/11106500326/sizes/o/

More on my flickr here http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamishgill/sets/72157638157226073/

There is also a 24 mega pixie version that does have a aa filter and as such has phase detection AF ... it definitely has an advantage in the AF department from my tinkerings, but if i were to buy one, I doubt it would be for AF lenses ...

 

[Pete Askew]

This is all very interesting to me Hamish. We bought a D800E recently. The resolution is good and, by all accounts, a step up from the D800 although I haven't tested that but the live-view is still not great on a Tessovar or a microscope. If the Sony is better in that respect I would probably get one.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Looks like a nice bit of kit H.
Surely you can't by more?........ Have you not run out of money yet?! Lol