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I’m honestly really happy they didn’t incorporate the α9iii / α1ai grip onto the α7RVI. I understand why long time Pros favor that size grip, it’s basically identical to the long running Nikon/Canon grip styles you see on their Olympic bodies. However, I invested over 30K in Sony because of the smaller grip, that makes it much better for one-handed shooting. I have trainhopped and backpacked all around America and been to all the major stores and have expressed these sentiments as a backpacker and traveler. Sony is the best camera brand in the world for hikers and backpackers who favor smaller glass and smaller grips for ultimate portability. Because grams turn into ounces, ounces turn into pounds, pounds turn into lost mileage.
The Nikon Z8 is a brick in the hand, it’s ridiculously huge, and that is as small as you can go to match what the α1 brings to the equation. I refuse to ever purchase a Sony camera that incorporates the grip of the α9iii / α1ai. Canon is complete garbage, they can’t even put a tilt screen on a sports camera. R5ii would be a great camera if it had the Z8 tilt screen, but only putting a video-centric screen on it, you cripple the ability to shoot from the hip and be blazing fast for street. Yet all these Boomers eat it up, because they are so brainwashed.
I am disgusted with the decision to speed up this camera. Sony is being cucked by the R5ii & Z8, and they feel that have to lower themselves to what the competition is doing. The issue is all these YouTubers and people pushing short form social media video content. They kept crying and complaining about the atrocious readout speed of the α7R4/5 and the warping when panning really fast…. Well you know what, I have a stack to shoot video, and I have a 61MP slow sensor for landscape/tripod stills.
I do not want a video-centric R camera. Think about this people… YouTubers, Gen-Z, Gen-Alpha have every single Japanese full frame camera designed to cater to their “video-first” workflow right now, and for “stills-first” shooters who want the most pixels & DR for static scenarios we only had one choice and that was the 61MP slow sensor. Which I am perfectly fine with, and I use my R4 for strictly stills.
These jabronis ruined the α7CR by putting a flappy screen on a 61MP stills-first camera. That’s like putting dump truck wheels on a Ferrari. They already debuted the 4-axis screen earlier with the α7RV. They ruined the α1ai by not dropping the new CPUs, motherboard & CF-A Gen 4 write speeds for 60-100FPS from 30FPS.
Yet all you marks bought the α1ai, and now you want to cry about the α7RVI stepping on its toes…well it should step on its toes. It’s a trash camera, it is complete and utter garbage, and no Sony Rep or Camera Store Rep can defend Sony against me when I enter the room…
Remember how they crippled the α1 when they dropped the α7IV with Focus Breathing Comp in Video & Animal/Bird Eye AF in Video? They screwed their Flagship customers for nearly 2 years before dropping the FW to bring Focus Breathing Comp over…but to this day they never updated the α1 to enable it to lock onto Animal/Bird Eye AF in Video…. On December 19th, 2021 they updated the BIONZ X chipset on the OG α7C to enable the α7iii architecture to destroy the $6,500 flagship α1 for wildlife video.
Sony screwed up by not leading. They lost their masculinity and got dragged into the mud by Canon. What they did was the complete opposite of “Alpha”…. Releasing the α1ii a year later would have allowed much more improvements, doing it in November of 2024 was a “Beta” move and once they did that the wheels fell off.
They could have elected to not engage the R1 immediately, and wait a year. But all you Press Agencies cried and complained and forced their hand, because you were threatening to drop Sony for Canon…. You blackmailed Sony…. I know people in AP and Getty who are Sony Pros who threatened to leave for the R1…Doug *cough* Mills…. That dude caused Sony to stick their hand in a garbage disposal.
I own and shoot nothing but Sony:
20G / 16-35GMII / 50GM 1.2 / 70-200GMII / 135GM & 400GM
I have the best glass in the world for E-Mount. (50-150GM is a boat anchor and I have better Primes)
Going from 61MP to 67MP is a slap to the face of the majority of people who invested in your brand for “stills-first” photography. So the new camera will have more DR if you use Mechanical Shutter…yeah ok…I have maybe taken 15 shots with the mechanical shutter on my “R” and over 300,000 actuations in electronic. I’m not going to use mechanical shutter all day long shooting exposures indoors for Museums across the nation. I invested all this money into your brand and you decide intentionally to take the one special camera for stills and ruin it by making it video-first.
Really hoping the real α1ii doesn’t arrive until the 2028 Olympics at the earliest. They should not cripple the Flagship by putting binned chips in it, like they did with my α1. They should debut a new bleeding edge CPU, Motherboard and throw the kitchen sink at it. Quit crippling your flagship, Sony. Quit allowing Canon to drag you into the mud with forcing the α1ai release to answer the R1 when it was half-baked. Quit ruining the “R” series by putting flappy screens and exponentially increasing the video specs while doing the absolute bare minimum to raise the bar for stills.
They get away with this, due to the fact they have a near monopoly on sensor technology. Why go beyond 61MP when the competition can’t even punch above 45MP on mirrorless FF? Nobody is pushing Sony, therefore Sony laughs while they raise prices & while at the same time slowing down and cutting back on new features…and they know they can get away with it, because you marks will eat whatever slop them throw in the trough, instead of standing tall and telling them to, “take a hike”.
We as consumers can affect these major corporations by refusing to play their game, and boycotting their new releases. I did the same with the α7RV & α1ai, because they offer little to no improvements when you compare the jump from α7RIII 42MP to α7RIV 61MP. What about α9ii jump to α1?
They can innovate and deliver. They just choose not to throw the ball down field right now, because you people keep buying their new cameras. If you quit playing their game and bleed them, then they will have to alter their tactics.
α7RVI should have been 80MP, and I have the glass to shoot 80MP on FF and get those details we can’t see today. Going from 42 MP in 2017, to 61MP in 2019…then parking the bus like José Mourinho did at Chelsea, and refusing to go on offense for 7 years…and in 2026 only giving us a 9.84% increase in Megapixels from 2019…. They are literally peeing down all your backs and telling you, “It’s raining!”
The stingy bean counters couldn’t even give us 10% improvement. This isn’t the camera you people want, it’s the camera you deserve…
Edited on May 12, 2026 at 03:46 AM · View previous versions
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. Is it as light as 300/2.8 and as big as 400/2.8? It doesn't add up for a zoom with 4.5 aperture. I think it should be slightly lighter and smaller than 200-600.