Originally posted by SMPhoto Well, it looks pretty nice, but I laughed my way through it. Why?
All that snow + No casing or weather sealing + Dropping it once=Nightmare.
Can a Sony even work in conditions that cold? I doubt it. They certainly don't have the ruggedness of the K-7.
If Sony want to do weather sealing, they'll do it to a substantially better degree than any other DSLR maker. Their experience of weather sealing consumer electronics is unmatched.
My big picture take on Sony's recent humongous leap is... Nikon moving to their own sensors.
Sony have said F-it, we're gonna use our consumer electronics muscles and shake things up.... and they've only begun.
Their lenses tested fairly averagely on photozone recently, but they probably don't care. I expect future Sony releases to have in-camera DXO-type correction on the fly.
As has been pointed out, the last decade hasn't given us much new other than increased FPS, ISO, and video. It needed someone to scare the others into innovation and I applaud Sony for doing that.
Without doubt, Canon and Nikon are scared. The future is all about processing.
The day is not far away when all a camera needs is an F0(ish) piece of protective glass, and the processor does the rest (with or without human intervention... up to you): zoom; in focus selection, graduated bokeh; stitching; noise; blah blah blah.
Within the next decade you will have all-in-one cameras that will give you F2 @500mm equivalent, 1/1000, ISO100K. At US$1K.
I love the now.. my children won't be young when this happens, and I'm happy to invest in lenses to capture what will pass. But the future trashes all our glass, but is none the worse for it.