Originally posted by rfkiii Looks way over-sharpened here for some reason. Looks much better when I click on it and view it in Flickr. Still, it does not approach the work you do with the Z in terms of IQ.
i think that the original full-size upload on flickr is not re-compressed, but everything else they serve up is, and it's rather controversial:
Flickr Decreased Quality and Increased Compression, and Users Aren't Happy
iq on the a7rii is stellar: "The Sony A7RII runs a neck and neck image quality race with the big Pentax, and so calling a winner is almost impossible."
https://luminous-landscape.com/sony-a7rii-review-and-hands-on-report/
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Originally posted by itshimitis 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
manual focusing with evf cameras is more accurate than any af or ovf camera system, because of magnification and peaking, but it takes practice to get good at.
you can zoom in to any place in the frame, including those close areas that you want to base the hyperfocal distance on, and set perfect focus there... with a 28mm prime on the a7r, i can accurately and repeatedly focus on a ~2' tall set of address numbers, ~100 yards away... i base all my field curvature testing on that.
that focusing ability makes the hyperfocal technique obsolete, because it's not precise:
When hyperfocal distance focusing is not good enough
back when all i knew was ovf, i used to read merklinger, and i dismissed his ideas, because of course you can't focus an ovf camera on tiny objects far away... i now understand why his technique is superior to hyperfocal theory, because i can prove it out in the field, without ever even having to take the actual photo.