Pretty sweet picture lol. The A99 is still in play for me when it comes down to it and its a plug to hear your positive review on the ISO.
The A7 didn't fair so well with another member on here and was shipped back as fast as he got it. Ill let him do his review on here if he wants to
I'm amused by all the positive press for the A7. The lavish praise seems so excessive, with people praising weaknesses as strengths.
Oooh... you can adapt a million old lenses to it. But to varying levels of control -- slow AF or manual AF, no stabilization, perhaps no aperture control. So spend $2000 so you can have unstabilized manual control over lenses??
Oooh.. the IQ is similar to other full frame cameras. So being in a "tie" suddenly makes it the best?
Oooh... It's fairly small.... Though once you put an adapter on it, a large lens...... it's not really any smaller than a large camera.
It IS pretty amazing that they made an interchangeable lens camera, full frame, at such a relatively compact size. It probably does represent the future. So I understand the enthusiasm, the whole, "the future is here" mentality... but to me, it's not here yet. I fear it may be like laser disc players -- Early adopters thought they were so much better than VHS... recording is going digital! And they were right later on -- things did go digital with the CD. But the laser disc wasn't there yet.
Mirrorless fullframe may indeed be the future. Just not sure if the A7 if the first consumer CD player, or if its laser disc.
The more I use the A99, the more I like it. Though I do fear one down side --- It's similar in size to the A77. So if you are used to a larger dSLR, it's fine. But it is MASSIVE next to the A55. I do fear that the bulk may discourage me from carrying it at times.
But I am loving the level of direct control... the fast shutter, the whole build quality, the image quality. As to noise, I go back and forth as to how much better it is than the A55. When properly exposed, it can be much better. I want to play around a bit more with MFNR. Though it is present on the A55, seems to work better on the A99. May give me decent mid-size images at ISO 25600.
