Sony Alpha A7 Kit

Advantages: - Phenomenal matrix for its price / size, which, however, requires good optics. As a result, excellent performance from ISO up to 6400 for printing. Even higher for the Web. - Hybrid autofocus (on the 7R and NEX-7 contrast) Very tenacious and fast. 100+ points. - Heavily modified in comparison with the NEX-7 EVI, which was miraculously good even on the crop - All electronic functions, including the "magnifying glass" mode with manual focus, now work without the slightest hint of lags. There were complaints about the camera turning on for a long time, but I immediately updated the firmware and did not notice the problem at all. It turns on much faster than the NEX-7. - A very decent and fast whale lens (a new development of Sony herself with aspherical glasses) - Excellent ergonomics of the carcass, five wheels (including the mode wheel) compared to three on the NEX-7.It has become noticeably more convenient and, in my opinion, the 50D falls short of the reference one - NFC, the phone can act as a remote control - Price. For that kind of money, you can only take a 6D with the worst AF and no glass. - A huge number of adapters + short working distance. I'm waiting for the adapter, stocking up on Jupiters and Planars. - Relatively fast, up to 5fps, burst mode. The camera, however, is not "sporty". - Huge opportunities for videographers, including a full set of necessary interfaces and a hot shoe originally thought for videography.

Disadvantages: - Camera jPEG (Sony's eternal sore) - 300 shots from one battery (Eternal sore mirrorless with EVI) - Few glasses for the native FE mount format (stupid claim for a system that is not even a year old) - In NFC mode, only jPEG shoots - Whale glass chromatite, and the camera so far corrects aberrations only in jPEG. The disadvantage is partly contrived. - (grunt, not a flaw) The beautiful 50mm now shoots with a vignette, because it is made for a simple E-mount. Pay attention when choosing lenses - FE is not just E. - Sony lenses are often more expensive than those of NIkon and Canon, although so far on mount FE is too little to draw conclusions

Comment: Before this was NEX-7 + 50mm 1.8 from Sony. The move to full-frame was originally planned for the NEX-9, which evolved along the way to the Alpha 7 announcement. No regrets. The camera shoots like God, even from a whale glass, which surprises the familiar reportage "Nikonists" from their D4 and friends from the Mark 3. Of course there are drawbacks, but they are more than overlap with advantages, the main of which are undoubtedly the picture quality and price. There is no point in hearing the grumbling of mirrors, these guys are very much attached to their native creaky construct and they just feel sorry for throwing away the park of glasses, on which money was spent, like on a decent car. So the potential arguments against the A7 on their part are more likely an excuse for their own "professional" mania :-) I switched from Canon 50D to NEX-7 a year ago and, apart from pluses, found nothing in such a change of barricades. We plan to purchase 35mm Zeiss. Examples of photos in the album on Ya.

Advantages: Full Frame Lightweight and compact with a whale Omnivorous optics 3 control wheels Wide coverage area af Synchronization with phone out of the box Swivel screen

Disadvantages: Not convenient and small buttons Especially the C2 buttons and video recording - it is the worst thing I've encountered. Screen with huge useless fields - about 1 cm to the left. No touch screen No built-in or bundled flash - when installing hlv-f43, all compactness and lightness are lost Terrible battery life Speed ​​and tenacity of autofocus (hybrid is better than contrast, but it is very, very far from a full phase sensor with separate sensors from the matrix)

Comment: Interesting constructor Matrix as on D610, D750 Possibility of excellent work with minolta A optics Possibility of good work with Canon optics You can work with Nikon optics too. (In manual mode - mostly, although there are some exceptions) Manual optics are almost all. You can use sony minolta flash units, through an adapter in TTL mode You can assemble an excellent kit that can compete with the best DSLRs in slow shooting, but the weight will be comparable (2.5 kg versus 2 kg) You can assemble a compact travel kit - but the quality will be close to crop You can use a compact fix with acceptable quality You can overcome poor autonomy - at the cost of weight and size There is even an adapter LA-EA4 that turns this camera into a DSLR (translucent mirror, phase AF points) Such modularity is good news In general, it is the best choice for that to try a7r mirrorless - too bad autofocus A7m2 - from the differences - stub - but is the presence of a stub worth almost 2 times more money? A7r2 and a7r3 are the best that mirrorless cameras can give, but they have the same disadvantages and advantages as here.

Advantages: Good ergonomics, excellent color rendering, wide dynamic range, high ISO operation

Disadvantages: Camera JPEG

Comment: The camera can really be seen as a compact replacement for professional DSLR cameras. The quality of images from this camera is in no way inferior to existing DSLR cameras. And considering the parameters of the sensor, it even surpasses the quality of images of some cameras. Despite the small size, I had no problems controlling the camera. Everything is convenient, the buttons are of sufficient size so that the control is not difficult. Excellent viewfinder comparable to optical. Swivel bright screen. They write a lot about this camera in blogs - about the loud shutter, the resonance of the matrix, the loose lens that transmits light, etc. Personally, I didn't find anything like that. I would call the shutter sound moderate. Sometimes it's louder. The camera produces excellent sharpness with a good lens. The only problem is camera JPEG. In order to get good pictures you need to shoot in RAW and use a converter. Photos need editing - contrast, saturation, levels. If you want to get a masterpiece straight from the camera, this camera is not for you. On one charge, the camera can take about 280 - 300 pictures. You can watch a snapshot from this camera here: http://photoswift.livejournal.com/35892.html

Advantages: high quality photo / video, performance and design are incredibly pleasing! Rich functionality, potential for compatibility of lenses from Canon and other systems with efficient autofocus. The price at the start is reasonable.

Disadvantages: battery, price of Zeiss lenses ..

Comment: Except for Canon of the "one" series, no other camera was so surprising, so small in size, and so powerful! The build quality is the highest, the electronic viewfinder is the best I've seen - the picture looks exactly as good as in the optical one. There is little noise, the video is without smears, close to the professional level of video cameras. Photos with the best lenses are excellent. If you have a Mark III, then it will become the second camera after the A7 for sure! It makes you take pictures more often, does not bother with its low weight and dimensions, which in turn is a smart move from Sony. I put it in my small a7 + CZ 35mm bag to take stunning pictures every day! Think less about photographic equipment and think about creating masterpieces. This is its purpose.

Advantages: Lightweight, compact, convenient, excellent picture quality in photos and videos. Gorgeous autofocus when shooting video. Good opportunities with manual optics work. Excellent price for a professional grade camera. High ISO workers. A bunch of automatic modes for the hobbyist that will give him the perfect opportunity to feel like a pro, superb HDR. And in general, everything is super.

Disadvantages: The camera itself has autofocus. Not quite nimble for reporting, but perfectly acceptable.

Comment: There are drawbacks, but this no longer applies to the camera - there are few optics available for the amateur, continuous bunnies at a price of 30 thousand. I understand that the emphasis is on professionals and those who use similar Hasselblad Lunar and others (which are based on Sony cameras) But I would like at least half a meter of aperture in two, it is possible without a stub, but up to twenty, not forty. And I don’t understand that the whale is smacking, he is quite good, well, so dark, so what. In short, I advise everyone who wants to shoot good photos and videos, who needs high ISO and lovers of manual optics. The camera is 100% worth the money

Advantages: one.35mm full frame, film lenses will cover the frame they were designed for. 2. The working distance is 18 mm. You can attach any optics. 3. Fast autofocus with a standard 28-70 lens, good sharpness, the lens itself is very well made. The trunk extends only 1 cm. The rear lens does not move, that is, there is no vacuum cleaner effect. 4. The viewfinder is just a song, focusing on melee optics is convenient both in very poor light and in bright sunlight. Focusing magnifier, contour illumination, automatic exposure without chips in all modes. 5. Many programmable buttons. 6. In the video, you can set ISO and shutter speed. 7. White balance does not lie almost automatically. 8. Large dynamic range. 9. At 6400 iso quite good pictures for publication on the Internet. 10. Electronic front curtain, which means that the shutter is released not twice, but only one for each frame. That is, theoretically, the resource that the shutter has is 150,000 operations.

Disadvantages: 1. Ergonomics: Inconvenient viewing of the footage on the camera, it was better in the nex. Menu button on the left, you definitely need a second hand to press it! When you enlarge a photo during viewing, it immediately increases to 100%, which is too much, you have to reduce it. 2. Immediately I advise you to buy 2 batteries, the viewfinder is electronic, so it eats energy both during framing and at the time of shooting.

Comment: Commentary: I was hopelessly hooked on manual optics, before that I shot with sony nex 5. I wanted to use 100% of the existing film lenses. In addition, a viewfinder was needed. The camera is simply designed to be used with manual optics. For 2 years of active use, no problems have been identified.

Advantages: Full frame. Price. A very interesting picture. Great video. With autofocus, it clings to the face so that you cannot pick it off. Light. Very hand-friendly. Looks very nice. The controls are conveniently located - the drums of the iso, extract and diaphragm rotate with one hand. conveniently and quickly switch other modes. White balance switches and sets instantly.

Disadvantages: It turns yellow, in general the picture is a little cartoonish. The matrix makes a noise when the battery goes out in a moment. There is no touch screen, with such excellent autofocus it is really needed. Noisy matrix, 6400 is out of the question. Optics are worth crazy money and their range is very, very limited.

Comment: Buy boldly - a great camera. Very, very pleasant for hands and eyes. Excellent photo and video.

Advantages: - The most inexpensive (if I may put it that way) full frame at the time of purchase (I took it from my hands in winter 2016). - Nice classic appearance, metal body. - Convenient when using manual glasses, you can put any glasses through the adapter, exposure metering works with them, there is help in focusing (the camera highlights the focus areas in color, the x10 approximation by the button for precise focusing directly in the viewfinder). - The swivel screen is very convenient for shooting from the ground or from outstretched hands over an obstacle. - You can shoot indoors without a flash and a tripod even with a whale on an open one and get decent pictures (in fact, for which the full frame was bought). Noises are visible, but do not cause rejection. See examples of photos from the camera. - Buttons and wheels are customizable.

Disadvantages: - The biggest complaint about Sony is a plastic bayonet on a not cheap camera (you can change it yourself to a metal one) - Price per full frame.

Comment: The best idea of ​​the camera will give pictures from it. All photos in the album were taken by A7 with a whale lens in different lighting conditions without flash and tripod by an average photographer.Shooting in RAW, lightroom development.

Advantages: I had experience with Sony A7 for a year and a half. I had it with a whale lens. During this time, there was not a single breakdown. Once the camera even fell on a dirt road. Good color rendering, great photos, full frame. I took a lot of photos with this excellent camera and was pleased with the result. The electronic viewfinder is very good, the focusing system, but it is not a reportage camera.

Disadvantages: This camera is inferior in focusing speed to SLR cameras. At the expense of the compactness of the device. Of course it's smaller than DSLRs, but I only carried it in my bag the whole time. You can't put it in your pocket, unless you put it in a down jacket. So that it can be called compact with a big stretch. The whale lens lathers on all focal lengths, if you don't find fault with this, then for family photos it will do.

Comment: A very good and decent model. Photos can be viewed here - http://www.newsfrol.ru/index.php?id_catalog=181&id_position=433

Advantages: It sits well in the hand due to its low weight and comfortable grip Affordable price considering that this is a full frame Excellent detail, the quality of the images is just super The menu is clear, easy to understand

Disadvantages: I would like a bigger battery if long seeds are planned far from the power source, but this is easily solved by buying a spare. Yes, probably no more so far, perhaps, especially considering the relatively low cost

Comment: Long agonize over the choice of what to take up to 100 mp and comparing all the pros and cons, I decided that only crop can offer taxes from competitors, and the choice became obvious. I figured it out quickly.