Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well if it is a dog then it's a dog that can hunt, Nathan. I've been using either the A7 or A7r for the past few months. They seem to work very well. The Zeiss 55mm is perfect. I haven't tried the Sony 35mm but my Leica 35mm f2 asph works just fine. I don't see the corner "smearing" either, but I don't shoot photos of newspapers. In the real world it's fine. Where things get great is with longer lenses. The 100mm APO f2.8 R lens does very well on this camera. I use a Novoflex adaptor for the R (and M) lenses and they seem quite up to the job. But I'm not a pixel-peeper kind of shooter. I got very good results with a Leica 50mm f2.0 on my NEX-7 as anyone who has looked at the enlargement in my living room can attest. The A7r is substantially better in terms of how it handles and the images it makes. I actually think it IS a breakthrough camera. EVF's wont' get worse. They'll get a lot better. Sony will, I suspect, hear the critiques of the current cameras and make better ones. I'll be able to buy those and STILL not have spent what I would have to spend for an M. So, for me, for the way I work, for the images I make, it's just fine. It's not a rangefinder. It's not (gasp) a Leica. But it's a very good and very useful camera for me. Your mileage may vary. Adam On 2014 Feb 18, at 11:42 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Sounds like a dog, when reading the cons.