Why Sony are (now definitely) the new Canon

[Andrew Reid]

It is true that the Sony name now demands a premium, more so than ever before – because E-mount is the best mount. Pure and simple.

It's like the Canon EF days all over again!

And in most places Sony is selling the same amount of mirrorless kit (if not even more) than Canon so they don't need to do a bait and switch with their pricing any more.

Full article on the blog...

https://www.eoshd.com/news/sony-a7v-negative-online-discourse-why-sony-are-the-new-canon/

[ND64]

So it uses the dual gain HDR in mechanical shutter mode just like S1ii to achieve 15 stops. But noise reduction applied on all ISOs.

Panasonic got the same DR but without NR, thanks to its lower resolution/bigger pixels maybe 

We still see the Japanese stubbornness dealing with ISO. Even with extremely low read out noise at base ISO, they don't apply it as metadata-only settings to let the software increase the brightness digitally to save the highlights at higher ISO. The sensor is ultra clean yet you lose 3 stops of potential highlight recovery at ISO 1600.