Sony A7 topic

I played around a bit with the Sony A7 (supposedly the first full frame
mirrorless SLR) and it seemed rather solid. It's a lot cheaper than the
RX1R I bought a couple of months back (which I *love*) but will probably
ramp up when you start adding lenses of course.

It had three function buttons, and on on the thumb, so you can assign ISO
to that one and easily get to ISO selections while still looking in the
viewfinder.

Some problems I found in about ten minutes of fiddling:

1. EVF sucks for SLR work. The recent thread nonwithstanding. It's just way
way too slow and panning a scene just hurts your eyes, and the presence of
pixels are very obivous to the eye. This is FAR from replacing an optical
viewfinder, and this one is supposedly one of the better EVF today.

2. Startup time is still way too slow. This is a problem on my RX1R as
well, it still takes slightly over a second to start up, and while it may
not ruin any possible shots, it still ruins the experience

3. The thumb knobs are awkwardly placed. The body is so thin so there is no
way to hold it comfortably, so the knobs end up in strange places. And
while I like the C1 programmable button near my index finger, it's still
very uncomfrotably positioned. But I do like that the A7, in contrast to
the RX1, has both a back and front knob.

4. For all the compactness of the body, most of the lenses were still
pretty damn huge.

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