I'll add one more, sure to be unpopular, opinion. It's always safer and easier offering opinions and making decisions for others than for yourself.
I'd still keep the M240 (despite our disagreements on color rendering) and jettison all the rest.
I have a nagging perception that all these other "modern" cameras have a digital look and feel to them. Not that digital is bad, but when it is too obvious it becomes unsettling for me. Hard to describe, but easy to spot when it is there. :thumbdown:
Many times it is the lack of realistic depth or initial impact even though the file is technically hard to fault. Oddly, this perception is what has kept me from loving the A99 over the A900 even though the A99 is the better over-all camera with more useable features and a so called improved sensor. It gets the paying jobs done which is the primary reason for it sticking around, but I ain't lovin' it … and after a couple of years now I probably never will. It's a work horse for work courses, nothing more.
BTW, I ain't lovin' the A7R files either … yet.
Other than the high ISO A7R stuff I shot while in Miami, I wish I had shot all the rest with the M9P I so foolishly (intellectually/rationally) sold. :banghead:
The A7R has a few redeeming aspects … it is small to promote take with but still FF; it makes a huge file which is easier to work on, correct, manipulate; it can do AF with a bunch of lenses I already have and manually focus a few loved M lenses; and (revealingly) I don't shoot all that much serious color work other than with the S2.
It's a small investment comparatively speaking … yet, after a reasonable amount of time if it doesn't ring my bell with the files I'll come to shun it … the first step toward offing it despite all the intellectual/rational arguments in its' favor.
Live is too short to make pictures that don't ring that internal bell of satisfaction, especially when you get older like I'm getting.
My $2 worth.
- Marc