Sony Introduced their latest camera with a hands-on event at an Upper East side mansion. The 7R VI

You can click this link to see all the specs. 

The event was complete with multiple shooting opportunities. Sets with models, and even places to get your own portrait done, although I can never understand that part of these events.

We were given a drink ticket, a poncho for the possible rain later, and some cookies.

OK, the most important part was being able to put your own SD card into the camera with a variety of shooting scenarios and lenses.

To be fair, the images you see here are just from the jpgs, as the RAW files cannot be processed by LR. Yet.

That’s the way it goes when you get a hands-on chance with yet to be available cameras.

My first take was the size and weight.

So much lighter than I thought it would be with a Full Frame stacked sensor with 66.8 MP

The grip was a bit chunkier that I thought it would be, but with the lenses I used, it was a perfect balance.

The photos here are straight out of camera, no color or image adjustment , and only this first set up has a crop, so you can see the quality of the image.

In this set, the 50mm f/1.2 was the lens mounted for shooting.

A compact, super-fast lens, that felt very comfortable in my hands.

It was set for an eye detection for the AF, not my usuals go to, but worked here.

Lots of refection, and as you would imagine a sold lighting scheme

Then I went to the top floor where we had ballet. Men and women.

With the 50-150mm f/2.0 it was the right zoom length for the room.

Here it is at 85mm, f2.0

here it is at 150MM f/2.0

I wanted to check out the 100-400 mm. and even at 400mm f/ 4.5 it performed well.

As a Fuji user, I was curious how the infamous Sony AF would perform.

For the most part it was on point, although the % of misses were higher than I thought it would be. The shallow DOF could have been to blame.

The most surprising part of the lens was although very long, the balance in the hand, and the weight were very viable.

Even handheld, the % of sharp images was impressive.

TBH, though the size of the Fuji 100-400 was more to my liking.

Overall, a good event to actually use the camera and lenses.

I’m looking forward to seeing the RAW images I captured simultaneously on my SD card.

The availability is June, and the price for the body alone is about $4500.00 

Of course until the actual release date that could shift.