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I own one L-mount lens and two bodies, with about 40 adapted vintage lenses. I could imagine kitting up if I was on Fuji X mount or Micro 43s, but I made a decision at some point to put everything into EF mount so that I could jump between camera systems when the time comes.

That each camera owner of a particular brand buys, in this case, 1.7 lenses for his camera. From memory, almost all brands are below 2. So that means the aside from the kit lenses, buyers rarely ever consume another lens for the camera body.

What does a lens to body ratio of 1.7 mean?

At the moment the best lens to body ratio in the market is like 1.7, and a lot of that is standing on the shoulder of kit lenses. Having third party option is good, but majority of people don't buy many lenses to begin with.

I don't know what people see in new cameras really. Used ones just so much more exciting. A GFX 100 for £1800. You don't need to buy a single medium format lens for it... Bang on a 10 quid adapter and Minolta 50mm F1.4 for 50 quid and it looks like a Leica M11 with Noctilux F0,95. A7 IV for £1300... What a bargain that is. Does everything. If you need the exotic frame rates and codecs... EOS R5, 4K/120p, 8K raw, £1700. Sony a1... You can go to Japan and the flight pays for itself. The list goes on. I will never buy a new camera or pre-order one again.

My thoughts on the blog. https://www.eoshd.com/news/are-canon-back-on-top-in-specs-race-sony-a7-v-and-canon-eos-r6-mark-iii-comparison/

I agree. However, when this rumor first surfaced back in July, it seemed fake and not any kind of a leak from Sony. The FX3 and FX6 are still wildly popular cameras in the TV/doc business, so there is no urgent need to replace them. Meanwhile, the FX9 has been entirely discontinued, which is a shame as it has the best image of any FX camera. Based on market conditions, it is possible that Sony may abandon the prosumer Cine Line FX cameras in favor of the lower FX cameras. Since Burano came out at $25K, which is about $10K overpriced based on where the F5 CineAlta was priced, I've had a very bad feeling about Sony and its market segmentation.

The thing is, open gate is a pretty big deal for people in charge of social media for companies big and small. Almost everyone i know doing that kind of work is a Sony shooter and are frustrated that they don't have that option, while my S5II X does. I know of at least three folks who switched to Lumix for open gate, though that's a drop in the bucket. Still, as other companies introduce it, Sony might find themselves shedding customers if they too don't introduce it soon.

$3,000 being entry-level is crazy...the A7V is a beast but so is every single camera out right now haha. Honestly the GH7 or used G9II is whats tempting me at this point if I were going to upgrade. I'd take the smaller sensor for crazy IBIS, tons of features and great IQ that punches above what people expect from MFT. Lowlight would be fine with a sigma 18-35 and metabones 0.64 lol. But that's a totally different topic...back to the A7V. I just don't like how expensive cameras are now; seems every new model is crazy in price. Nikon are the outliers with incredibly competitive pricing. Sony not having Open Gate here is very lame. Yes you don't need Open Gate, yes the A7V is still a beast, its just that every camera is a beast right now. I could buy a 5 year old A7SIII on eBay for $2,400 USD and never need better in my life...and we had this camera 5 years ago. The fact that the A7V doesn't give me a dramatic reason why I'd want it over the 5 year old A7SIII or even the A7IV which as previously said will become cheaper...says a lot.

no H.265-based codec available in 4K in 25 fps and in Full HD.. I find the lack of 25P in Xavc-hs after 5 years is quite disturbing, I usually switch to xavc-s for 4K25p in 420 8bit 60Mbps which is bigger filesize and less flexible in post on machines that dont have fan like E10II and E1, on FX3/FX30 I just shoot 50P all the way.

They're acting like the problem is new 🙂 https://petapixel.com/2025/12/03/sony-a7-iv-firmware-6-00-still-suspended-after-widespread-malfunctions/

Horrible line skipping in Full HD. Pleasing noise in Angle of View Priority mode.

Best footage I ever shot in my life was on a XH-A1. It was the situation and lighting, not the camera. Could it have been better with a new 4K-whatever-camera? Sure! But only marginally so.

My guess is they have a lot of those sensors they need to offload and this is one way of doing it.

It once was that the pros had 16mm an 35mm film and the "amateurs" had Super 8 and videotape. Now that's all changed. Yesterday I was capturing some old videotapes from a friend's project that we did in 2011 on a Canon HV20. It looked amazing. I was expecting it to look worse than cameras of today but it doesn't. Just shows that even a camera from then, with a CMOS chip from that era, MPEG 2 encoding, 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, 1440 x 1080 frame size recorded of the wide screen image, and 8 bit colour, it still can look amazing. It just shows that cameras have been very good for a long time now. The differences are mostly ergonomics and physical size. When deciding on a camera, you have to consider what you want to spend months living with.

I've just watched Train Dreams and it's 1,46:1 🙂

The Optyczne.pl 'movie mode test' review is here - https://www.optyczne.pl/110.1-Inne_testy-Sony_A7_V_-_test_trybu_filmowego_Wstęp.html

Compared to A7IV

I wonder when the first comparison video's will turn up. Would love to see some side by sides. Not sure why there are 30 video reviews out there from people just talking about the camera without comparing it to other camera's. Specs on paper is one thing. but I want see comparision against other camera's (IQ, (crop or no crop), AF, stabilisation,...) Still think the nikon zr got the rest beat IQ wise. But would love to see it perform against the R6III, nikon zr and the panasonic s1II.

Somehow strange that they did not put this technology in the FX2. I assume the development on the photo side is stronger. For the videoside it just reduces some of the A74 biggest flaws. The Crop on 60p has cost me some nice shots, i find the rolling shutter not too problematic even though i hate the effct- haven't shot for the big screen though. Will be super interesting to see a comparison of the picture of the A74 to the A75 -again skintones is what i am most interested in...

Don't all sony cameras do this?

Thats scary response. But I hope its due to another half baked firmware, like the one they released for A7IV.

It wouldn't shock me. Those cheap Chinese brands like Viltrox that are putting out very good quality AF lenses for a fraction of what Sony sells their lenses for have to be hurting. When the E-mount was new and competing against DSLR and even M43, it needed all the help it could to expand how many lenses it had. Now, not so much. The L-Mount Alliance makes more sense for Leica, Lumix, and Sigma now, because while the alliance has grown to include some of those Chinese companies that have flooded e-mount, there hasn't been that free for all for L-Mount, presumably because of the agreements?

Apparently, the A7V AF is struggling with 3rd party lenses. When Sony was asked about the issue, their response as “We do no guarantee compatibility”. Maybe Sony has dumbed down the AF for the 3rd party lenses. Something to watch.

How is Sony's IBIS still so bad? How is it still missing features that the S5II X had 2 1/2 years ago? Even Canon has caught up. I get it's a hybrid, but this is stuff that social media professionals need/use.