![]() Not to get too philosophical here but photography companies owe it to their customers to do better and to improve. The bottom line is that we should expect better and Sony needs to step it up (supposedly they have with the a9, but that is yet to be seen). That shouldn’t be the case when you’re spending $2k plus on a camera. I treat my gear like gold, because frankly, I don’t have the money to replace it (yes I have insurance) and if I felt like a situation was too severe for the camera I just put it away. The battery life was down right atrocious. It shut down in hot weather, in extreme cold weather and in any sort of wet or damp environment. If rain, water fall mist or anything of that nature even so much as blinked at the a7R it would literally shut down. The a7R had some serious weather sealing issues. When I say that a camera has a problem it’s not taken lightly and it’s not a brash or off hand comment. It could have been something that you had been chasing for a very, very long time and now that moment is gone.Īdditionally, anyone that tells you that Sony doesn’t have a weather sealing issue is either paid by Sony or is the luckiest person on earth when it comes to their gear. That shot could have landed you a cover, could have sold a ton of prints or it just could have meant a ton to you. Let’s say you’ve got a 10 second window to capture ‘that’ moment and you fire off as many shots as possible only to find out, upon reviewing your files, that none of them are even useable. That problem alone gave me serious pause and it really made me re-evaluate my equipment. Yes you heard that right 1 in 10 images were useable when using longer lenses on the a7R. Whenever I shot with anything longer than, say, 100mm with a longer lens I always had to take at least 10-15 shots to ensure that I had one useable file. In all honesty the a7R should have never left the manufacturer floor with how bad the shutter-shock issues were… and yes I’m being serious. The menu layouts could have been betterĪll in all I loved my system, don’t get me wrong, but it did have some serious shortcomings and they began to become even more evident as I started to work with longer lenses.Įnter shutter-shock.Shutter shock will ruin your life and no I’m not kidding.Autofocus is useless when pairing Canon lenses with the a7R (this was mostly remedied with the a7R ii, but still limited).Waterfall mist and rain literally caused my camera to shut down on multiple occasions.The already mediocre weather sealing of the Sony a7R was further compromised by the use of a lens adapter.That was all well and good but there were a few things that I started to realize after shooting with that franken-system for a few years: I had moved on from my trusty Canon 5D Mkii to a Sony a7R with a Metabones Mkiii Adapter and Canon L glass to save weight, increase dynamic range, increase megapixels and to improve the overall Raw file quality. I was in a bit of a weird situation when it came to my photography gear. So why the change in heart? My Love-Hate Relationship with Sony I was determined to stick to a full frame system because I wanted more DR, more megapixels and more technology, plain and simple. The main reason being the lack of Dynamic Range, (ability to pull detail from shadows and retain detail in slightly overexposed regions of the image) followed by the lower megapixel count and the noisier high ISO files. The limited technology of the sensors in the APS-C cameras always turned me off for a number of reasons. Let me start by saying that I had honestly never even considered switching back to an APS-C format camera or even to Fujifilm for that matter until a few months ago. My journey to the Fujifilm X-T2 wasn’t exactly straight and narrow and it definitely wasn’t conventional by any stretch of the imagination but 8 weeks into the switch, here I am writing about the whats, the hows and the whys of why I started down this amazing path.
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