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Sony a78/11/2023 ![]() ![]() So is the Sony a7 still a good camera in 2021? Honestly, yes. But I’d still be a bit anxious regarding all the weather sealing issues. Would it make me use it more? Sure! It would be so fun. I’ve debated giving my Sony a7 new life by converting it to infrared. It delivers a totally different look than my Sony a7r III. And I’ll often use it with vintage lenses or as a backup camera to my Sony a7r III. It’s easy to fall in love with this sensor. But instead, the colors are just richly colored. It’s not like chrome film the way that the Leica M9 delivers. But for randomly walking around at night and shooting photos with it, you can’t beat it. I wouldn’t shoot portraits with it unless I had a very muted lens or wanted to spend lots of time in post-production. It’s rich, vibrant, vivid, and versatile. The original sony a7 has the original 24MP full-frame sensor in it. It’s rudimentary compared to today’s autofocus algorithms! But the Sensor and Size! You have to do the old-school thing of focusing on a face and then pressing in the middle button. Getting back to the autofocus, the big problem is with face detection. It feels good, but it’s seriously just not that well built. However, your camera will continue working in the rain to a point. But the original Sony a7 really embraced it. ![]() Sony still suffers from issues around weather sealing. It Lacks the Weather Sealing Improvements Seriously, it’s the worst battery life of any camera I’ve ever used, with Sigma cameras being the exception. When I put the camera into airplane mode, it still exhausts the battery. Indeed, even with the a7 turned off and in my camera bag, it drains the battery. The Sony a7 comes from a time when the batteries were small, and the battery life was awful. This translates into problems with how you use the camera. With that said, choosing an autofocus point is a tad more arduous. It’s the same as the Sony a7c–I really wonder why Sony didn’t put one there. First, lots of photographers will be turned off by there being no joystick. I will start this by going over all the things that aren’t in the original Sony a7. We reviewed it favorably back in the day. Now, years later, is the original Sony a7 still any good? No Joystick They also delivered cameras at a furious pace, which made the rest of the industry look like snails. During that time, Sony was the only one to really answer the call. And I demanded the innovation Canon refused to give us with the Canon 6D. I yearned for the full-frame output my Olympus OMD EM5 lacked. This was a time when I wanted more than what my X Pro 1 gave me. And yet, when I bought mine, I was head over heels for it. That’s around the time period the original Sony a7 comes from. Indeed, there was a time when their battery life was pretty dismal. The joke with Sony cameras is that you used to buy it along with five batteries. ![]()
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