Sony ILCE7B Full Frame Compact System Camera Body (24.3 MP, 117 Points Hybrid AutoFocus, 3.0-inch Tiltable LCD, 5 fps, XGA OLED Tru-Finder) - Black

Impresive little camera. I come from a 5D MKII and have a lot of Canon glass, which I use with adapters. Since I do landscape mostly, I don't require auto-focus. Focus peaking is awesome when on manual, and the dynamic range of the sensor is outstanding.I ended up buying a Sony Zeiss 55 f1.8 and it is the perfect couple for it. The image is superb and auto-focus is not bad at all (not at 5D MKII's level though). It comes quite handy for daily use as it is really tiny and lightweight.You can have a look at a picture I shot with it and Canon's 17-40 f4L here:[...]Sorry I haven't uploaded a lot more pictures from this camera yet, but feel free to google for samples with canon glass, there are some outstanding reviews out there.

Finally dragged me away from Canon. Possibly the perfect landscape camera for me. Not as big as the DSLRs. Canon 5d has had to go. Lenses are a bit of an issue. I have the FE 35mm and the LA-EA4 adaptor which works brilliantly with the Sony 85mm 2.8 (read the reviews - quality at a bargain price) and the Minolta 50mm 1.4 AF which I picked up for £140 on eBay (this lens is awesome). I decided to keep my Canon 70-200mm L F4 IS zoom as there is nothing to match it from Sony for the money. With the Viltrox full frame EF-NEX AF converter, it even auto-focuses... and it has image stabilisation which none of the Sony lenses do. My final keeper lens is a Tokina 17mm FD mount manual focus lens.For walking and photographing I will carry just this camera the FE 35mm and my Tokina 17mm manual focus FD mount. With a tripod, a very tidy compact package.

It's probably worth saying that, the unloved Canon EOS M aside, there are no really bad mirrorless systems to buy into at the moment and that anyone in the market for the A7 or the A7R has probably also had a long hard look at the Fuji X series or an Olympus or Panasonic Micro 4/3 body.It can be a tricky decision, since for most people it’s an investment in a system including lenses and other accoutrements that rapidly cost more than the body alone. An investment that might reasonably be expected to last for 5 years or more.These other systems certainly have their attractions: The Fuji bodies have a striking retro SLR and rangefinder appeal with fast all metal prime glass purposely designed to set alight the hearts of photographers for whom a 35mm Summilux remains as dreamy as the Leica glow.The Olympus OMD EM1 pitches in with its weather sealing, quick autofocus and that very wide range of M43 lenses, all of which are good and some of which are the equal of anything made for a competing system, full frame or not.And yet, there is something about the final emergence of reasonably sized full frame in the digital world that feels to this old film SLR user like returning home to something sensible after a long and trying digital absence.Getting down to brass tacks, a few pros and cons after first use.+ Full frame at last ! No more having to multiply things by 1.3, 1.5, 1.6 or 2. DOF as she was in the 1980s when I were a lad. Stepping gently round internet flamewars about equivalence in DOF and light gathering.+ Manual lenses a plenty of course, with adaptors at £20 a pop. Buy now before the entire stock of R, OM, FD and PK lenses is exhausted in five years time and a battered Pentax 50/1.7 is going for £200.+ High ISO. Shoot with impunity. If you are printing at A4 or less it’ll look great at 6400.+ Dynamic Range. Wow. It’s good. You really do have latitude to mess up exposures and still come home with something worth looking at.+ It’s well made. The A7 has lots of metal and feels weighty but not heavy. Smaller than an M9.+ AF speed is fine for me with the Zeiss 35/2.8. YMMV of course, but no complaints from me.+ EVF is great. Refreshes quickly, dioptre adjustment works well. Sometimes it feels like an OVF.+ Looks innocuous enough in public, like any old Sony Bridge camera. No red dots to attract anyone.+ Buttons, Dials, switches, more buttons. If you would like to set the ISO with the Exposure compensation dial then Sony will not stand in your way.+ If you plump for the OMD EM1 or XT1, when the Sony A7 is rattling around second hand for £350 in a few years time, you are going to want to pick one up anyway, so why not short circuit the whole gear acquisition thing ?- Weather sealing. Yeh right. I wouldn’t shoot an A7 in the jungle any time soon. Beware.- Having to pay for useless add on applications to the firmware ? What were you thinking Sony.- firmware update process on 64 bit Mac. Plugin, run app in 32 bit mode and pray. How hard would it be to stick the firmware on an SD Card and get the camera to update itself that way ?- Auto ISO insists 1/60 is the right speed for everything all the time. If only that was 1/125. No way of changing it with the current firmware. One workaround is to shoot in manual, set the shutter speed and aperture with forward and back dials and let the ISO float.- It’s complicated. My brain hurts with so many options. No proper manual. Short instructions included in Albanian as well though, so that’s OK then.- Appeal of old MF glass is somewhat limited by the short registration distance and therefore long adaptors, the variability of adaptor manufacture (mostly of concern to pixel peepers I would have thought) and the fact that Leica M fitting wide angles (<35mm) are hit and miss depending on optical design, leading to vignetting and potential colour shifts. And having to manually focus, obvs.- I’m TAKING A PHOTO OF YOU ! LOOK AT ME BECAUSE OF MY LOUD SHUTTER ! I AM RUNNING AWAY AND I WISH I HAD BROUGHT MY LEICA M6 INSTEAD.- The Zeiss 35/2.8 is really a super lens. It should be the kit lens because it’s an affirmation of the design principle of a small FF camera. Beware that a lot future FE lenses will probably be big, heavy and expensive. It’s not going to be like Fuji X and definitely not like M43.- Sony will get bored with the FE mount in 3 years time and launch some other overlapping system with Leica S2 sized sensors and a new range of lenses, or stop making cameras altogether, or just make some other weird decision that makes you shake your head because it’s really a gadget maker not the bijou Wetzlar dream factory.I took a photo of my daughter sitting with a friend at a kitchen table. I realised later it was the first digital image I’ve taken that happily looked to my eye in all respects like film. Bokeh, DOF, framing, dynamic range, it all looked just like the images I used to capture on my Olympus Mju-II (with its 35mm/2.8). Home at last. Well done Sony.*** Update on 21 Aug 2015 after 12 months usageI remain happy with the choice. It didn't turn me into a much better photographer, but we all know that's not how it works I suppose.I did manage to knock the exposure compensation dial by accident and expose a week's worth of shots at -1 1/3EV, which was fairly stupid on my part, but the RAW images were all processable into printable photos without any trouble.My suspicions about lens size look right, the newer lenses like the Zeiss FE 35 1.4 are optically well reviewed behemoths and some of the new zooms laughably huge.Shutter sound's not actually that loud for most real life situations.At the time of writing the A7 II is a better bet because of the image stabilisation, so if you can stretch to it I would buy the newer model.

I believe this is the best camera if you are starting in the professional photography. The low light performance is really great, even taking pictures with low noise at 6400 ISO. The autofocus is smooth and the quality of the camera feels really nice.I could not recommend more this camera. The only downside is that it doesn't have in-camera stabilization, but the bigger brothers has it.

At last a full frame mirrorless digital camera. Well done Sony. It's small and light and can be used with a multitude of lenses with the correct adapters.I bought it to use with my Zeiss and Leica M mount lenses and it's perfect. The 24mp sensor captures amazing images and when paired with excellent optics it makes for a compelling package.The viewfinder is perfect and the articulated rear screen makes it easy for tripod work. When you consider this is a 1/4 of the price of a digital Leica M camera it's a real bargain.

As a newcomer to mirrorless cameras i like the layout of the dials and the results are good.