The difference between the first gen Sony A7R and second-gen Sony A7Rii is stunning. It’s not like the Nikon or Canon systems of SLR’s where advancements amount to little more than minor refinements. A young systemĪs alluded to, the system itself is still very young. Now you might ask why I am so driven to replace them so frequently? Well, sometimes I ask myself the same question, but actually I find myself having some surprisingly sensible answers that are largely to do with the nature of the Sony system. As such I don’t find myself bonding with them as tools in the way I do with my Leicas, or indeed as I did with my Nikons before. This has the unfortunate impact of them feeling almost disposable. The issue is – even before you take into account how they function and perform – with Sony replacing these cameras every few years with new better models, I feel driven to replace them every few years. In fact, it actually works so well now that I haven’t dreamed of throwing either of them out of the window for autofocus issues, even once… But this doesn’t mean I don’t think about replacing them… Thankfully Sony thought it wise to implement autofocus that actually functions into both of these cameras. One way or another, my Sony A7R was eventually replaced with a Sony A7Rii resulting in this being my main works-camera with the Sony A7S as a backup. (Pro tip, it’s good to have good insurance if you shoot with Sony cameras professionally!) I digress. In fact on one occasion I did smash it… but that was down to its flimsy build quality and an accident in the studio, and not my frustrating experiences. In fact, I later sold the A7R after I became so frustrated with the autofocus that I felt sure I would smash it. As a first generation product the A7R had some significant limitations.
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I was very wrong! The Nikon functioned properly as a mature professional product. The original Sony A7R was built around the same sensor as the Nikon D800, so when one replaced the other, I thought the step would be easy. The first two replaced my Nikon D800 which was the last Nikon in a long line of DSLRs I’d owned dating back to when I bought my D70s when it first hit the market. I had the A7R first, then the A7S, and now the A7Rii. In reality it’s probably been about 4-5 years since the original A7 hit the market. The Sony A7Rii is one of 6 cameras that Sony has released in roughly this form factor in the last 4 and a half minutes – or at least that’s how it seems.
It’s also happened because of the previous interest in lens adapting and modification rearing its head through my playing with various compact camera lenses.
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I decided it couldn’t hurt – so one of the full frame Sony’s seemed like the logical choice. Prior to getting my M9 I kept getting asked to include a few digital results in reviews. This has all happened for a few reasons really. I posted a few in my Jupiter-3 post, there’s even a picture of one of them in the post about the Yashica lens mod… And this next photo was taken – for fun – with a Sony A7rii.
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If you pay close attention you will have noticed that photos taken with these Sony A7 series cameras have recently sneaked their way into posts on 35mmc.
In the extremes, the Sony A7Rii is a camera I love to hate and hate to love, and through this relationship with it, it manages to perfectly illustrate the worst of the problems I have with modern digital cameras… So I thought I’d write my sort of Sony A7rii review…Īctually, this isn’t the only reason I wanted to write about it. If you view it as bad, it’s ridiculously bad, yet entirely simultaneously it can be viewed as ridiculously good! I know this for a fact, since I myself have both views depending on the day you ask me. Let me just start by saying, it doesn’t matter which way you look at the Sony A7Rii, it is a ridiculous thing.
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