In a shop I tried all my Leica M lenses on the Sony A7R and was initially delighted with the handling and especially the speed and apparant exactitude of (manual) focussing on this camera. For the first time I (thought) I could do something approaching 'fast snapshotting' (pardon my English) with my Noctilux f1. The results looked promising on the little screen and with a large measure of sentiment I already saw my M9 body traded in.....
Oh ye, (or rather, 'me') of little faith!
When at home with my rather crude 'test photo's' both in RAW and JPEG I discovered that only Iridient could recognize the RAW format and that Phase One and DxO could only play around with the JPEG's. Unfortunately the majority of my photo's came out kind of flat, bleached, lacking any punch. In contrast, what came out of my M9 that same afternoon, trying out my newly arrived Voigtlander 35/1.2 was nothing short of spectactular or was at least very satisfying. I am convinced that the fault lies with me (bleak morning light vs flaming sunset) I got a similar negative result with an earlier try with the then new NEX 7, this in contrast with all web published reviews. I might also mention the fact that earlier test photo's made with the Sony RX1R came out very nice....Any idea's?