I’m impressed. Nice work, this.
When I saw this was digiscoped I thought I’d check out the optic she used. +4kUSD! Then I thought; no wonder they’re nice and sharp. I didn’t pay that much for the (used) amazing 300-800mm Sigma EX HSM f/5.6 I used to own.
Is it bad that I’ve been avoiding clicking on this topic like the plague due to my GAS bubbling up to insane proportions every time I see that image @LightSweep posted… 
It’s not the camera, it’s me. It’s not the camera, it’s me. It’s not the camera, it’s me…
Come on. You know you want a new toy as much as the rest of us. There are no rewards for abstaining. Nope. None. Zip. Zero.
You, sir, are an evil, evil man…
I don’t suffer from GAS because I am pained by spending money and often have buyers remorse (that is, when I buy something that shouldn’t have made it through my filter, like the Samyang 35).
I say you should buy things that will make you shoot more. If your camera body is uncomfortable to hold and has bad menus, getting a better one can make you use it more.
On the other end of the equation, don’t feel bad about selling something that you really don’t use anymore. I sold my aforementioned 35 (a poor replacement for the first one I had that broke, the buyer got a nice discount knowing that the image quality is not great) last month and I feel unburdened now.
If you want something shiny and new, don’t hold back, but make sure to rebalance your equipment. After you get it, that is, so you can be sure of what you want to get rid of.
I know this is a little late, but fun reviews were not easy to come by for a while until Sony met demand for the darn thing. I tend to enjoy Digital Rev’s reviews, I think they’re fun and don’t bother to take themselves too seriously…
so on a scale of 1-10 how bad is your GAS for the A7R II ?
EVIL. Every one of you…
If I see you all in London, and I have an A7RII - I will bonk each of you over the top of your head with it…
Yeah the A7rII looks very nice. But if I’d buy it I’d be too afraid of beating it up and would end up not using it pretty much at all. 
Might get a cheap used A7r though now that the A7rII is out. Having some more sensor area would be really nice. 
So, it looks like Sony paid attention to consumers clamoring for a full, uncompressed raw output, as they’ve recently announced 14-bit uncompressed raw for the A7SII, and will be back-porting it to the A7RII as well with a firmware update…
Well, no reason not to now, other than money. Right? Right?
I WANT MONEY!!! Anyone…? 
It depends whether or not they still drop down to 12 bit for continuous drive and bulb mode.
If they do, that’s a mighty shame.
I’m in the market for a new DSLR, and even with that announcement, I can’t see myself wanting to suffer through Sony’s ungodly software decisions. Does anyone remember minidisc?
I think I’ll get a Nikon D750 by process of elimination.
I keep off my desire to purchase thanks to vintage lens.
Cheap, good quality (some of them, at least) and great to improve.
Two of my jewels are the bokeh monster, Pentacon 135mm 2.8 (15 blades), and the Tomioka 55mm 1.4.
The last one is just superb, while the first one is more funny.
They all have a little but fundamental fault: the man behind the camera
Technically, minidisc was hardware, and a continuation of their odd and crappy avoidance of using many hardware things that are common (minidisc? what about that jacked up memory stick? or UMD cartridges for portable gaming? or possibly my single favorite item from their wtf hardware ideas: Betamax?).
In this case, they did recently do good by fixing their lossy compression on raw files at least…
I agree with you fully on UHD, Memory Stick & Memory Stick Pro (there were two of them?!), and betamax. Minidisc was good hardware (great for recording live audio in a portable manner) but Sony decided to invent their own MP3-like compressed audio format called atrack, which was absolutely terrible. That and they never really made minidisc able to do data storage (this was when zip disks were still a thing).
I don’t think I can buy the A7R… because who knows what sony will do to it?
