Sony a7iv

Hi Joe,

I had only the A7R2 in E-mount to compare it with (don't consider my full spectrum converted NEX-5N as a serious alternative ).
That one could never compete with my A99ii for me. Used it mainly for manual lenses and didn't like the ergonomics and battery drain and missed the fully articulating screen.
The LA-EA3/4 on A7R2 were below A99ii performance.

That's all taken care of with the A7IV (and LA-EA5), with great AF capabilities as extra bonus.
For the first time now I start to consider changing my main camera. Never would have thought that before, since I am still in love with my A99ii. Often I carry two camera's anyhow, so that will allow me to make a choice (or not).
I have a Tamron FE 2.8/28-200 and FE 2.8/20mm just to walk around if I want to.
I still have to try the real tracking with e.g. my 70-400mm, but for now I can surpress the E-mount glas GAS .

I am sure I will extensively try it out further and keep you posted.

Micholand wrote: You have the possibility to select the folder with images to convert and another folder to save the converted files; and even embed the original RAW into the DNG. But presumably you cannot use it as an importer of the card to transfer the RAW and at the same convert to DNG (have never tried that). In my workflow I import the RAW files from the card into a folder on the computer first and then do the conversion into the same folder (not embedding the RAWs), which gives me RAW + DNG for each image. After that the folder can be imported into LR(5); only the DNG will show up in the catalog, the RAWs will be skipped as they are not supported.

Got it installed and took some test shots with the a99ii in RAW .
Rather than transferring the images to my PC and then converting to DNG , then importing to Lightroom , I left the RAWs on the card in the card reader and selected that as the source files , and set the portable drive I use as the destination .
I've just transferred the DNG's to the hard drive , and not bothered transferring the Sony RAWs .
I then I set Lightroom to add them to it's catalogue .
Everything worked fine , so I'll stick with LR5 and Adobe can keep their subscription !
I'm going to try a few comparisons of converting to DNG's with their lossy compression and seeing if there's any noticeable difference between that , non-lossy compression and JPEG's .
Apart from crop-ability , the a99ii and a7Riv has much more resolution than I require , 24mp is enough for me from the a900 and a77ii , I bought these two cameras for other reasons .