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Bought this item for landscape photography as I was attracted by the full frame high resolution sensor and for this purpose the camera is excellent giving extremely sharp images.As a bonus, the camera works well with other manufacturers lens via a suitable adapter - this has allowed me to bring my old leica R fit lenses out of retirement. On the flip side, it should be noted that this camera unlike the later mk2 version has no in body image stabilisation system so unless using sony lenses with built in stabilisation, you will have no form of stabilisation when taking hand held shots. Due to the high resolution sensor the old rule of thumb that minimum shutter speed = focal length of lens is no longer appropriate - min shutter speed of double the focal length is nearer the mark. Also this may not be the best camera for photographing fast moving subjects as by all accounts the focus tracking is not quite up to the standards set by the latest cameras. However for static subjects like landscapes and architecture this camera is an excellent buy.Read full review
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Set this to Auto mode and point-and-shoot and it is a fine composition camera. Otherwise there is a learning curve; for instance, in Manual mode there is no straightforwardly easy way to set shutter exposure time. But you can wend your way over to Scene mode and pick scene-styles like a 1990'2 pocket camera: landscape night portrait, beach, that sort of thing. Why would anyone want to buy an expensive mirrorless 36mp, full-frame camera to do that with it? The manuals and user guides published by SONY read like they were written by a bored engineer who flunked basic essay writing. But in that AUTO mode, the thing never misses. Its an amazingly lightweight high-res camera. I *am* going to learn to be proficient with this thing; but with a Canon, Nikon or Minolta, that takes a few hours.. This is going to take months. It'll be worth it. Recommended, if you want instant gratification with a looong learning slope afterwards. The a7r is a modern classic, as such. Pros: long battery life, AF switch on camera, not on SONY "FE" (full-frame) lenses, crisp images, light weight, good EVF Cons: ergonomics are poor, as cited above. Won't shoot 4k vid. Mechanical shutter noisy, can cause blur if you don't hold unit firmly or use tripod. No GPS. WiFi tricky to link.Read full review
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The A7R is the smallest and lightest full-frame camera one can buy right now. Yes it uses old technology but it's 36 mega-pixel sensor and lack of anti-aliasing filter enables it to take fabulous high-definition photos. It's successors, the mark II, III and IV are all much heavier and significantly bigger and so the A7R is so much more suitable for candid photography and landscape work for which I use it. In fact, I prefer this camera to my Nikon D800 and D750 and my Sony A7II - I now have two which I use with light-weight Zeiss prime lenses when I go hiking in the UK to shoot landscapes. The only down-side is that the camera shutter is very noisy and some have said that this causes image-blurring vibration at some shutter speeds when used on a tripod, but I haven't experienced any such problems. The focusing system is 'old-school' contrast-detect rather than phase-detect and so this makes for a camera that isn't suited to fast-paced photography like sports and action. On the second-hand market, this camera is a bargain-buy in my opinion.Read full review
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The Sony A7R is a high megapixel camera with a retro look. It is capable of some great image quality. However, I found the focusing to be iffy, and the loud shutter action to be distracting.
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