It is a bit strange to me that Sony has yet to get any real competition to their Super-Compact full frame camera
RX1 (kewl vid), or their quality pocket camera RX100 with a really big sensor for the camera size. Will they really keep this amazing market to themselves? When nobody step up to the challenge?
My first digital camera was a 1 megapixel Sony that I actually made a lot of money with, but it took a 'memory stick' that fit nothing else and cost twice as much as any other kind of media, the camera took a bunch of very expensive accessories, and then when it developed a glitch, the repair people said Sony made these so they could not be repaired-you bought a new one. I had several hundred, or maybe a couple of thousand, dollars wrapped up in memory sticks, special lenses, chargers and other stuff, so I considered it. If it was $ 500, $800, or even $ 1,200, I might have done that, but it was $2,500. As I was carrying the box to the check out line at the camera store, I decided NO, I'm not getting on that treadmill. I started thinking of all of the broken Sony TVs, camcorders, and other stuff that I owned that I bought because I thought is was really great quality, but all turned out to be basically disposable. I sort of made a decision to never buy a Sony product again, or at least to realize Sony products are not really high quality, but disposable, when I look at buying them. But that was probably a dozen years ago.
ReplyDeleteI have been looking for a DSLR to shoot aerials, and I need stupid high resolution, like 40MP. Sony has a product called the A7R that looks like it might work, and I can get a gizmo for it that allows me to use the dozen or so Minolta lenses I have on it instead of buying all new lenses. The midwest Sony rep is really wanting me to try it. The reason I haven't bought a Nikon D800 yet is because I would have to spend another three grand or more on lenses.
I watched this video, and the guy started talking about how the camera was really great, but it doesn't do X, but you can buy a gizmo from Sony that lets you do X, and I started getting flashbacks. I started thinking about the various things the rep was saying I could get for the A7R that would make do the various things I needed. It looks like Sony is still into business tricks to get people on a treadmill. I am now wondering if the quality really sucks. I wonder if the first time the camera hickups if I'm going to wish I had simply upgraded my Nikon stuff to a D800 and got a real camera.
It's all pretty tricky.
ReplyDeleteI think Sony's cams are great, but the limitation for some of them are the too-short lens ranges.