A7r with RF glass

thompsonks said:
"I should have got the A7 myself!"

Maybe I missed it – did you explain why?

(Can't helpworrying about this, with an A7r on the way!)

Kirk
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If you will use it with RF glass: my advice, send it back unopened and swap for the A7. You save money and it works better with the wides.

But the A7r is pretty fun anyway:

A7r and my 28 cron:


DSC03629 by unoh7, on Flickr


DSC03626-3 by unoh7, on Flickr


DSC03637 by unoh7, on Flickr


DSC03609 by unoh7, on Flickr

uncorrected 🙂
 
uhoh7 said:
Nice shots 🙂 A7 shots are welcome. I should have got the A7 myself!
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Terrific shots! 🙂 (Just read your response to a similar question as mine.)

So, at what wideness does the A7 do better than the A7R? The widest I've tended to use is 35mm. I do have the Zeiss 28mm/F2.8, but don't use it anywhere near as often.
 
goo0h said:
Terrific shots! 🙂 (Just read your response to a similar question as mine.)

So, at what wideness does the A7 do better than the A7R? The widest I've tended to use is 35mm. I do have the Zeiss 28mm/F2.8, but don't use it anywhere near as often.
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I think at 35 the A7 will smear less at wide apertures with many RF lenses; however this is yet to be fully documented.

Melancholy said:
What´s the story behind this Nikon, got more pictures of it?
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Just click on the shot, go to flickr and ask the shooter 🙂

Yesterday I had the canon LTM 50/1.8: my copy has some haze.


DSC03649 by unoh7, on Flickr


DSC03656-2 by unoh7, on Flickr


DSC03679-3 by unoh7, on Flickr


DSC03688 by unoh7, on Flickr


DSC03719 by unoh7, on Flickr

Imagine a good copy!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by thompsonks View Post
"I should have got the A7 myself!"

Maybe I missed it – did you explain why?

(Can't helpworrying about this, with an A7r on the way!)


"If you will use it with RF glass: my advice, send it back unopened and swap for the A7. You save money and it works better with the wides."


I'm still confused – I'd heard that the A7r would work better with wides, because of angled photosites? That's what Sony rep said when he visited a local camera store, but he didn't actually seem to know much about the camera.

If A7 is actually better with 28-35 focal lengths, I'd certainly do as you say – especially because I liked the focus peaking when I tried it (rep had only A7, no A7r).

Kirk
 
The A7R has focus peaking. If you set the camera to record RAW + JPEG + Monochrome + Focus peaking in red the camera is very easy to use. According to someone who's opinion I trust. That includes the 75mm/1.4 Summilux. A lens that is notorious for focus difficulty on many film & digital Leica cameras whose rengefinders aren't tweaked for the Summilux.
Search the LUG Archives online during the last week for the story and samples.

Wayne
 
thompsonks said:
Quote:
Originally Posted by thompsonks View Post
"I should have got the A7 myself!"

Maybe I missed it – did you explain why?

(Can't helpworrying about this, with an A7r on the way!)


"If you will use it with RF glass: my advice, send it back unopened and swap for the A7. You save money and it works better with the wides."


I'm still confused – I'd heard that the A7r would work better with wides, because of angled photosites? That's what Sony rep said when he visited a local camera store, but he didn't actually seem to know much about the camera.

If A7 is actually better with 28-35 focal lengths, I'd certainly do as you say – especially because I liked the focus peaking when I tried it (rep had only A7, no A7r).

Kirk
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Most wides work as well or better. I've tested my 35mm Summilux FLE, 21mm Summilux ASPH and 12mm Heliar SW on both cameras.

On the A7 there is a minimum of red corners and smearing with the 12mm, on the A7 smearing is greater, and the entire peripheral is red-purple tinted.

There is very minor red corners with both Summiluxes on the A7r. None with the A7. Both tend to smear a little with the 21mm at f1.4, but clears up at f2. Vignetting also seems to be a bit worse on the A7r.
 
Thank you both for advising me. I would use an A7 or A7r body for just one rreason: to augment my M9 when I need higher ISOs. The lenses I'd use are 28, 35, 40, and 50mm. I've already been persuaded (by examples I've seen) that my 28 Cron would be pretty ugly on either Sony body. My 35s are v4 Cron and FE; apparently the former is messy in color and smearing, while the latter is definitely better. I'd be using the Sony body for higher ISO and would want to set aside my f1.4 lenses. Crons have lovely bokeh and should be finefor my work, with higher ISOs.

My favorite lens, however, is the 40mm Summicron. I've seen 40mm Nokton and Rokkor shots with little or no vignetting, but I'm wondering about the 40 Cron.

If the 40 Cron doesn't vignette or smear, I'd pretty much weld it onto the Sony body and only rarely use a 50. Does anyone know about this lens – on either body?
 
I am so tempted... My all time favorite lens is the 40f2 from the cle followed by the 35 cron v4 and the 21 and 90 f2.8.

I am planning to wait this out... C how others including fuji responds.

Gary
 
thompsonks said:
Thank you both for advising me. I would use an A7 or A7r body for just one rreason: to augment my M9 when I need higher ISOs. The lenses I'd use are 28, 35, 40, and 50mm. I've already been persuaded (by examples I've seen) that my 28 Cron would be pretty ugly on either Sony body. My 35s are v4 Cron and FE; apparently the former is messy in color and smearing, while the latter is definitely better. I'd be using the Sony body for higher ISO and would want to set aside my f1.4 lenses. Crons have lovely bokeh and should be finefor my work, with higher ISOs.

My favorite lens, however, is the 40mm Summicron. I've seen 40mm Nokton and Rokkor shots with little or no vignetting, but I'm wondering about the 40 Cron.

If the 40 Cron doesn't vignette or smear, I'd pretty much weld it onto the Sony body and only rarely use a 50. Does anyone know about this lens – on either body?
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40 cron is pretty good on both. I would still advise A7 over A7r.


DSC02488 by unoh7, on Flickr


DSC02466-2 by unoh7, on Flickr


DSC01580-2 by unoh7, on Flickr

that's the M-rokkor 40/2 which as you know is pretty much identical. Both on A7r
 
Thank you – now I'm confident re: camera's impending arrival!

I was able to find some 40 Cron images on FredMiranda, and they too were excellent.

Hope to be posting in a week or so.

Kirk
 
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