Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Geez you took the exact words out of my mouth. I bought both bodies and for very good reason the A7 will be my PR cam with vertical grip. The grip is nice for handholding not great for tripod it wobbles a little but the A7 will be my speed camera with AF on board for that crap work I hate but puts food on the table. I have for AF the 28-70 which will be replaced when the 24-70 comes out a perfect setup for wedding , pr folks and the like. I have the 35FE which I can use on either body, the ZA 85 1.4 can also. Than for the A7r mostly tripod bound for the real work I do than I have the Leica 19r and Zeiss 135 and any longer I rent. 2 bodies intended for different subjects . Eventually I'll get my tech cam back and still have these on board. Now why did I switch its really simple manual focus on Nikons suck and live view is just okay. The Sony hands down beats anything I seen in this mode and I prefer to manual focus and forced like twisting my arm to shoot AF. size is another factor but not the major one. I would not touch a EVF cam before this one. It is so good it looks optical and after 40 years you are so trained on optical it's very hard to go EVF. This cam I can. Than the bottom line I have the D610 and D800e in a less expensive package with the same or better results. Plus I was able to keep my best glass without buying and selling to get the same thing back. Than the added I can bolt anything to it almost that is is exciting. This is a freaking home run , sure it has a few niggles tell me a cam that don't . Trust me I bought , used everything almost on the planet looking for the holy grail and there is none but I can get closer and this one helps. Seriously I bailed on Nikon so fast after just a few shots with this. I maybe the biggest gear head slut around but it needs to make sense or I'm just being stupid and I ain't stupid in this field at all. To me that quick decision to bail even impressed me. LOL