Quote:That reminds me of a nighty walk with my new 6D when I just had received my Nikkor 55mm f1.2 from Japan. There was some light art through the city and I was taking some snaps from projections on a church, handheld (just to see how this lens performs). Next to me there were two men with cameras on tripods, one had a small MFT camera and the other not sure... maybe a Pentax, I do not remember really. The MFT guy was boasting to the other guy how sharp he got everything on the display or something.
While I was taking some snaps, the MFT man turned to me asking how it went with handheld shooting. I showed him my lens and said that I was trying out my new old f1.2 lens, and that higher ISO's were no problem with the camera.
When I walked on, it dawned on me just how much more portable my "fat" FF DSLR was than his MFT with tripod setup... Kind of ironic.
You are right of course, that the A7r (and A7) are designed for compactness. There are people who like "mirrorless" for that quality, which is understandable and sane. There are also people who like mirrorless for the lack of mirror, and see it as a replacement for everything and every situation. That is a bit less sane.
Not sure why, but some who call themselves "landscape photographers" think they need the highest resolution sensors. It is those who will want to use the A7r for its sensor, not for its form factor.
Ironic though, that those "landscape photographers" stop down to get "everything sharp", and then incur so much diffraction softening that the higher resolution sensor is kinda useless ... The high res. sensors are of benefit for those who shoot with relatively large apertures... Street photographers, portraits and so on. Also ironic (in that "landscape photographer" scenario) that the A7r on a tripod gets hit by the shutter vibration. And that those "landscape photographers" drag along tripods, making the compactness of mirrorless a bit pointless.
Is it ironic also that my spellchecker keeps complaining about "mirrorless"?
Does it mean one cannot use a tripod if he uses a mirrorless camera? ;-)
One can buy a small MFT system they will use 90% of the time handheld, but still want to use a tripod during these rare occurences when they need it.
Maybe that guy wanted to use a slow shutter speed for some reason. Or he wanted to use the lowest possible ISO?
I don't see a contradiction here.