GAS never goes away
Hi Jorgen
Trouble is, saying that µ43 is good enough is tantamount to saying you don't really care about quality . . . . whereas the A7r allows you to grab small without having to admit to modest ambitions.
Whereas, let's face it, its really about the image, not the pixel depth.
I really want to play in the A7 game . . just like I really wanted to play in the MF game a year or so ago, but it's hard to create an argument that it will help to make better snaps . . . . and really, honestly and truly, that's what I want to do.
Most of us seem to want to have it both ways -- "all those pixels in the A7r's snazzy new sensor must give a magic something, but, hey, it's really just a means to better snaps, it's the photographer, not the camera..."
I've somehow worked myself up to the Tim Ashley level of "coverage." I have a 39 MPx MF back for a couple of EBay Hasselblads and some nice lenses to go with it, an M240 which finally arrived and some nice lenses to go with it, and both the E-P5/VF4 and the E-M1, with some nice lenses to go with them. (The Olys snuck up on me during the long wait for the M240, and have certainly earned their current acclaim.) I can't see why I would want the A7r, even to use with my Leica lensbag. I'm currently printing up some shots for display on the empty walls of my new office in a new building. I'm using pictures from a multiyear project done with M9 and M240, and even at my most ambitious I have to reduce the Leica images by at least 2X to reach an affordable print size. And for web display...
I was interested to see Ken Tanaka, who shoots anything he wants to shoot, including Phase One P45 and IQ2 gigapixel backs, say (on TOP) that he thought the MF equipment would soon be unnecessary.
But, you know, it's nice to use new equipment to see familiar material in new ways. The Olympus set of medium telephoto primes opened my eyes to some of the pleasures of popping away at interesting stuff in the middle distances, after shooting everything in context, filling the frame edge to edge, never using any lens longer than 50 mm.
scott