Things are getting interesting ;)

Ok, kupchenpo. With this limitation, an external recorder it's mandatory! Chungo!!!

In Voldemort's comparison, I prefer the 5D III raw image in most cases. Colours are more robust and pleasing, moire and artefacts are less evident - notice the small wall above the two big cylindrical buildings @3:53 vs 3:59, A7S is just falling apart - , but the A7S has impressive DR and lower noise in the shadows along with insane ISO. Still, even though I'm sure the A7S is a joy to use (apart from the small batteries and weird ergonomics), can't see myself replacing the 5D III even though I was ready to. Still, kudos to Sony for a very cool camera.

Vodemort's comparison seems very biased to the A7s. The exposure has not been optimized for each camera. This undermines the significance of the conclusions. The colors are also very different. It is very obvious at 0:24 with the bluish green domes, which appear almost gray in the A7s footage. And as @3Kids says, the moire is very pronounced. This surprised me because I thought the A7s with full sensor reading would produce less moire. Still, the analysis of Andrew Reid is useful, but extract your own conclusions.

I quite like the ergonomics of the a7S. The grip has a nice shape that makes it easy to hold the camera even with one hand. I can't use the control wheel while holding the camera with one hand, but I can use the shutter button and C1, which I've assigned to focus magnification. Adjacent to the grip is a flat plate, which is much better than the rubberized grip of the GH2 because my fingernails won't dig into it. Customization of buttons is quite good, to the point where almost everything I need is within one or two button presses. About the only thing I need to go into the menus for while shooting is the APS-C crop mode. Silent mode is only in the menu, but I leave it on all the time. It's brilliant. Burst shooting is faster in silent mode too.

Here's a shot that shows off the camera's dynamic range for raw stills. It's very challenging to capture the neon lights without a lot of clipping and losing saturation while also capturing the shadows without too much noise. Lots of tweaking in Lightroom on this one.

I can't belive this stupid 30-min rec time limit exists still on the world. Why don't they simply offer also a 5% more expensive model with no-video-rec-time-limit besides the limited ones?

LOL :-)

@balazer great photo. So finally great low light stills with 12MP? Or not so great without lightroom tweaks? That's what the photographers need now.

The EU that has set that 30min limit to differentiate stills cameras from video cameras. So if that limit is still there on the NTSC camera than it's a fail on Sony's side.

http://eriknaso.com/2014/07/20/things-that-drive-me-crazy-about-the-sony-a7s/

Lol - that guy is complaining about how his 'Canon lenses' didn't work well with the 'Metabones adapter' on the 'Sony FE mount'. Is there some magical universal adapter that lets you cross brands together seamlessly? Did he just start buying gear and did not know this? Maybe he shouldn't have been so quick to post about the camera in the first place...oh I get it, these are all 'evolving' reviews aka let me change my mind and not take responsibility for it.

Hostility? If he is going to rant about all these issues then he leaves himself open for criticism. How many FE lenses are in production? He didn't know that the selection is severely limited? A self confessed gear head as he states in his blog didn't know this?

think the whole evolving review thing started when Bloom redacted his initial comments about the 5D3. I'm not a Sony apologist either.

Fuck gh4, lets hack this A7s shit