tashley
Subscriber Member
Marc, I do agree but I think you're in a minority of those purchasing the A7R because AFAIK there are comparatively few people with a bag of ZA glass in mounts that don't need large adaptors.
I should have written more specifically: for those that already have Sony mount lenses and don't mind using those huge adaptors, the A7R makes some sort of sense as a system extension - but even for them I can't help think that the 'normal' full frame size lenses on an adaptor on a tiny body are likely to look and feel weird and won't allow the owner to capitalise on the promise of a size and weight saving. That's a high price to pay for 36mp and were I a current Sony system owner with those legacy items I would rather have an Alpha line camera with the same sensor, personally.
For the rest of us, with a mixed bag of lenses of different types and mounts, the same holds for the legacy full frame SLR glass, except the adaptors are likely to remove some or all of the functionality. Which largely leaves us with RF lenses which, by comparison, are small in size and take small adaptors and therefore fit the A7R beautifully - except a lot of them won't work satisfactorily. Otherwise it's small recherché legacy primes, a niche but interesting.
So I still think it reasonably fair to say that for an awful lot of actual and prospective A7R purchasers, it is novelty, which most of us like and from which I am certainly not immune, and hope, either that their legacy RF glass will work (some will and some won't) or that the FE range grows quickly and well...
I should have written more specifically: for those that already have Sony mount lenses and don't mind using those huge adaptors, the A7R makes some sort of sense as a system extension - but even for them I can't help think that the 'normal' full frame size lenses on an adaptor on a tiny body are likely to look and feel weird and won't allow the owner to capitalise on the promise of a size and weight saving. That's a high price to pay for 36mp and were I a current Sony system owner with those legacy items I would rather have an Alpha line camera with the same sensor, personally.
For the rest of us, with a mixed bag of lenses of different types and mounts, the same holds for the legacy full frame SLR glass, except the adaptors are likely to remove some or all of the functionality. Which largely leaves us with RF lenses which, by comparison, are small in size and take small adaptors and therefore fit the A7R beautifully - except a lot of them won't work satisfactorily. Otherwise it's small recherché legacy primes, a niche but interesting.
So I still think it reasonably fair to say that for an awful lot of actual and prospective A7R purchasers, it is novelty, which most of us like and from which I am certainly not immune, and hope, either that their legacy RF glass will work (some will and some won't) or that the FE range grows quickly and well...