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Well, if it's any consolation, they sell the D4S for £5,200.wex photographic website in the U.K. has it listed for pre-order at £2,500.
I'm out.
Update. Rawfa, I just clicked on the link you provided and I see that wex U.K. is the source of the rumour there too.
Bit of a downer, huh?
Here's the rub. I just shot three days in a convention center downtown and shot both video clips and stills but mostly stills. I shot a couple booths that where on tripod and shot at ISO 100 and there perfect. But I shot about 600 hundred images at ISO 1600 and mostly around 5.6 at 1/60 now first of all they are handheld and on the verge of motion issues with people walking around second the noise is just a bit over the top to deliver to 4 different clients. I just ran 600 images in noise ninja and look much better. Getting that extra 2 stops would be huge here. Now on to video, I felt I was in the dark with light and I really just got by with the skin of my teeth and there okay. I did warn my client on the videos that I'm not geared up for it ahead of time, so I cleared my path before I even pressed the button. But I'm a Pro and don't like to use a excuse out of the gate either. Now I. Being critical too but I have to be. First I need to answer to myself and feel good about what I do. So the S would have been huge.You´re a lucky guy, Guy
When photography or video become my bread and butter I´ll justify to my self spending so much money on gear. At the moment I guess I suffer from unnecessarily expensive gear guilt hehehe
That pretty much sums it up, Guy. Buy the tool that is the best for what you need it for. A combined screwdriver and hacksaw won't do.Here's the rub. I just shot three days in a convention center downtown and shot both video clips and stills but mostly stills. I shot a couple booths that where on tripod and shot at ISO 100 and there perfect. But I shot about 600 hundred images at ISO 1600 and mostly around 5.6 at 1/60 now first of all they are handheld and on the verge of motion issues with people walking around second the noise is just a bit over the top to deliver to 4 different clients. I just ran 600 images in noise ninja and look much better. Getting that extra 2 stops would be huge here. Now on to video, I felt I was in the dark with light and I really just got by with the skin of my teeth and there okay. I did warn my client on the videos that I'm not geared up for it ahead of time, so I cleared my path before I even pressed the button. But I'm a Pro and don't like to use a excuse out of the gate either. Now I. Being critical too but I have to be. First I need to answer to myself and feel good about what I do. So the S would have been huge.
Now if I analyze the whole three days I shot about 100 images that needed the high Mpx on tripod kind of shooting. Okay I got that in the A7r but the A7 really did not buy me more High ISO or better video either, just more like a second body that did most of the workload. The A7s could have done a far better job both on video and the high ISO stills. So just this one gig proved my thoughts and more important justified a purchase. Having both the A7r and A7s is a far better 2 cam setup than the A7 and A7r. Now if you reread what I just wrote I summed up 500 million comments up in one paragraph and proved the need more than the want. I have to go by real life usage and real needs. I see the A7s as a need and the A7 as really just a backup. Rather have a camera serve both uses.
That is the price for the A7S Novus Lunar, the Hassey version :ROTFL:Ouch! If this is true I´m out for sure: Sony A7 gets a provisory price in UK: 2500 pounds! | sonyalpharumors
For us$3,450 I´ll keep my A7 and get a GH4 for video.
Most likely the wrong price or Sony made them pull it.It appears as of 4pm U.K. time, wex U.K. is no longer offering to pre-order the A7s. Very curious.
Saw it and bottom line how could you not want it. LOLThis iso video test is absolutely insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbUgNiHfXM
I have no doubt that it will be even better when it comes to dealing with RAW stills, but still if it's as expensive as previously advertised I'm out.