Annna T
Active member
Why are you standing up in arms as soon as someone makes a mild remark concerning a possible disadvantage ? I feel you are like a Don Quichote : there are no Sony haters coming to this forum that I know. I see only pros and enthusiasts weighting the advantages and disadvantages of different type of gear. Personally I'm not disturbed by the fact that non Sony owners are sometimes visiting this forum. To me it just means that they are possibly interested by what Sony does. I think that they have the right talk about it just like the owners of Sony's cameras. The fact that you were always standing with Minolta/Sony is rather an exception here. Most of those telling what they use have gone through several kinds of systems; for me that increases the interest of their remarks.Jorgen, I am sure they care about market share but they may care more about satisfying their targeted group of consumers. Sort of like a publisher that prints Bibles. There are lots of books sold of all types to all kinds of people but some publishers just try and do the best they can for their targeted consumer groups. Sony just might not want a consumer who's only reason to not buying a A7 is as silly as a battery life issue. Or one so dug in against change that they have a blue knuckle grip on their OVF's and will dig 6 miles down past all a cameras advantages to find something to cry about to justify their archaic norms and the tools they use. I have to ask how many other companies lenses can they use on their bodies and still have full function, AF, and IBIS with all of them??? To me this is a far bigger plus than battery life is a minus but hey I am a Sony customer what do I know?
I have no coin in this game and actually could care less what anyone uses. When I read "sky is falling" intensity complaints about a (at worse) slight annoyance issue for some genre photographers like battery life stopping a potential buyer my BS alerts go off being as I own and use this gear for work and pleasure. I should really just say nothing and let them puke their complaints on the net so others like them also don't buy a7's and infest Sony forums with their obsurd thinking but ..... After seeing it 40-50 times my switch goes off I guess. I don't classify Sony hardware any better than any other manufacturers gear out there but then on the flip side it surely is no worse. There is a select group of photogs that use a specific brand camera who if I was Sony I would strive to not getting them as customers. Lower marketshares due to the lack of sales to that group would be a plus.
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