Originally posted by Imageman Sure the D4 or D4s has some advantages, but I prefer the more compact size. So jo has a point about size.
I also have a suspicion he posts comparisons for valid reasons, to expose the lightweight option, if I wanted a street tool or a second body a considerably smaller camera would make a lot of sense.
Sure, but take a look at the market the D4s is aimed at: it's not people who are
considering a camera for their vacation (
), it's not the street shooters. The only spot where the A7S and D4s really overlap is in that they're both being aggressively touted for their high ISO. Other than that they're intended for completely different markets, ones where swapping one camera for the other* is probably not going to do the job, and a simple size comparison ignores all this context to suggest that they are otherwise equivalent.
* And before anyone suggests that I'm just trashing Sony, this sentence can be read either way: swapping the D4s with the A7S
or the A7S with the D4s. Neither is likely, based on the specs we've seen so far, to perform up to par in the other's primary intended use.