Description
Sony ILCE7B Full Frame Compact System Camera Body (24.3 MP, 117 Points Hybrid AutoFocus, 3.0-inch Tiltable LCD, 5 fps, XGA OLED Tru-Finder) – Black. Operating temperature is 0 to 40 degree Celsius. The camera display does not automatically switch from the LCD screen to the viewfinder: The eyepiece or viewfinder sensor is automatically disabled when the FINDER/MONITOR(FINDER/LCD) is set to Monitor (LCD). Therefore, the camera display will not automatically switch looking through the viewfinder with this setting. Having the LCD screen active all the time gives the Live View function priority, which helps in achieving better compositions on a low or high shooting position. To switch to the viewfinder mode, press the Finder/Monitor (Finder/Lcd) button on the camera. Check on the following if the display still does not switch after switching to viewfinder mode: Make sure that the eyepiece or viewfinder sensor is clean. Wipe off dusts or anything that might be blocking or on the sensor. For cameras with tilting display screens, in some cases, light reflection can activate the eyepiece sensor to switch displays. Set the Finder/Monitor (Finder/Lcd) setting to Monitor (LCD Monitor) to prevent the camera from switching display automatically.
From dpreview:If there’s one thing that you can say about Sony’s digital camera business, it’s that they’ve experimented with many different concepts. From SLRs with dual autofocus systems and Translucent Mirror Technology to its NEX mirrorless line-up, Sony has gone down virtually every avenue in digital imaging. Its latest products – the Alpha 7 and Alpha 7R – may be the most exciting products to come out of the Sony labs in some time. The company has managed to create full-frame cameras which are about the same size as the Olympus OM-D E-M1. In other words, the Alpha 7s are much smaller than their full-frame interchangeable lens peers (such as Nikon’s D610 and the Canon EOS 6D), an achievement made possible primarily because they’re not SLRs addition, Sony is also unifying the Alpha and NEX brands, so all future interchangeable lens cameras will now fall under the Alpha umbrella. Being mirrorless, the a7 would have otherwise likely been prefixed with the letters NEX a7 and a7R are identical in terms of physical design, with the main differences being the sensor and autofocus system. The a7 features a full-frame 24 megapixel CMOS, while the a7R has a 36 megapixel CMOS sensor with no optical low-pass filter. The a7 uses a Hybrid AF system (with on-chip phase detection) similar to the one found on the NEX-6, while the a7R has traditional contrast detection. The a7 is also capable of electronic first curtain mode, which allows for a quieter shutter, and reduces the potential for ‘shutter shock’ vibration; this is absent from the A7R. Both cameras use Sony’s latest Bionz X processor and also have XGA electronic viewfinders, tilting LCDs, Wi-Fi, and weatherproof bodies that resemble that of the Olympus E-M1 you’d expect, Sony had to come up with new lenses to take advantage of the full-frame sensors, and they’ll be known as ‘FE-series’. Five lenses were announced to start with (listed below), with ten more promised by 2015. Existing E-mount lenses will work, though the image will (necessarily) be cropped. If you have A-mount lenses laying around, those too will work, as long as you pick up either of Sony’s full-frame-ready adapters (the LA-EA3 or LA-EA4) a7 key features
