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Been spending a lot of time on here!
No camera warmongering intended. Worth a look:
LensRentals.com - Sony A7R: A Rising Tide Lifts All the Boats?
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I do agree that the biggest hurdle to adaption is the fact that it relies on a whole new system. it's hard to invest that much money on future promises. but that said, any FF mirrorless will essentially require a new lens series anyways to really take advantage of the mirrorless distance and size. so that issue really just comes with the territory when developing such a camera. i think "game changer" refers to the idea that there may well be a whole new series that will be developed around or for this format (and for this camera to be viable there kind of has to be).
personally love the idea of smaller lighter camera + gear without the need to compromise on anything. i kinda hope this does gather traction and takes off.
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Here's a cheap Sony A7R outfit for you.
Sony Alpha a7R Digital Camera ILCE7R/B
A7R $2,298.00
Sony A7, A7R Full-Frame Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Compact: First Look from Adorama Learning Center
Zeiss Sonnar 35mm f/2.8 $799.99
Zeiss Sonnar 55mm f/1.8 $999.99
Zeiss Vario Tessar 24-70/2.8 $1,199.99
Sony 70-200 G 2.8 SSM II $2,999.00
$8298, (well, less four cents)
Exactly my point. A very obnoxious, intrusive shutter sound. Loud, long, slow, and clattery. Decibels are not a simple progression. The Olympus's shutter noise is approximately one-fifteenth as loud as that of the Sony. So, is a shutter fifteen times louder than a competing mirrorless model a good thing? It's as loud as a big, honking Canon 1D-series with its flapping, high-speed mirror. And yet, the Sony has no mirror. Huh.
To me, the Sony's shutter sounds somewhat like a ponderous, vintage, cloth focal plane medium format SLR's shutter. But hey...great optics...interesting design...and best of all it's made by SONY. It's a nifty concept. If it took a lens mount that had some lenses, it might even sell well.
Noise Comparisons
It will be interesting to see what happens. Maybe it'll take the world by storm, the way Sony's a900 and a850 models did. Ot maybe it'll be a big sales hit, like the a99 was, with dozens of people buying it every day, all across Japan. It's just hard to know. The Fred Miranda cult of pixel-peeping landscapers with tens of thousands of dollars' worth of Leica M-series lenses might like it. People who can afford a $4,000 50mm lens might like it as a powerful statement of luxury and prestige. The sheer MTF 50 scores would earn the possessor of such a camera/lens combo high status in the measurebator's clubs.