Originally posted by Gareth Iwan Jones I agree that the size is very useful and a refreshing change, i'm looking forward to travelling light.
I do have a little niggle in the back of my mind about clients on shoots and wondering why I'm using such a small camera. Sounds ridiculous but I'm pretty sure it will happen.
That niggle will go when you produce the work from it, and the quality lenses make up for a lack of girth on the camera itself. Especially if you use an iPad or tablet and show them the results via the wifi app.
My number one choice would always go to the Z. But if the weight or size of the Z system is ever an issue, then the A7RII is still a great camera, better than much of the competition. With the Loxia 35 f/2 I can actually get it in to (albeit large) coat pocket. The Z is better for sure, but a good photographer and image processor will be able to get fantastic results from the A7RII. The files are about the same size with the uncompressed raw as the Z.
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I think the key lens is going to be the 24 - 70 on the A7 series. There is talk of a f/2.8 native FE. The f/4 is ok, but not stellar. You can get good results from it stopped down, but I find the Tamron with an adaptor more useful as I have a real distance scale on the lens rather than relying on focussing by wire. Manual focussing with native FE lens is my biggest bug bear with the camera, as it is imprecise. But with Zeiss lenses like the Loxia and Batis and third party lenses you can sidestep this. At some point, it would be great to be able to programme into the camera what distance you want to focus to in the distance scale of your choice, metres or feet... The technology is there