Sony Kicks Butt

Putting it All On The Table

This rant will be brief, because it's so obvious. Yesterday (June 10, 2015) Sony kicked some serious butt with the announcement of the A7R II.
That Sony was going to reach for the top position in the Mirrorless segment was a given for some time. But that they would do it so convincingly and so relatively quickly, was even a little surprising to those, like me, who have been observing the industry for some time.
The high points of A7R II read like a wish list of everything photographers have wanted....
– Full frame 42.4MP BSI CMOS sensor
– rugged 500,000 actuation shutter with an electronic front curtain and silent mode
– 5 axis sensor-based image stabilization
– a new body based on the excellent design of the recent A7 II, which finally gets rid of the infamous Sony interface gremlins
– ISO to 102400
– 4K video in-camera video recording, with Super 35mm crop mode or full-frame mode without pixel binning
– S-log 2 gamma
– fast on-sensor phase detection
– 5 F...