Fantastic 24 megapixel camera with wide lens choice.
This is a fantastic camera. There is plenty of customization available to various buttons on your camera, so be prepared to dive into the menus. The main adjustments are on the d-pad, like ISO and drive mode. Things like AF/MF and AE-L can be found doubled up to one button, I think this is good. The top panel has a dial for exposure compensation, a really welcome old school addition.
There are plenty of lenses available, like Tamron and a few Sigmas. Old alpha lenses can be mounted using an adapter. The LA-EA5 can handle all of these, whereas the LA-EA3 is for autofocus motors in the lens, and LA-EA4 works with screw-drive autofocus lenses. You'd probably want the -EA5 for screw type lenses, because it doesn't need a pellicle mirror.
Autofocus works fine, but this Sony lacks the Eye-AF that makes it's younger brother, the A7iii, famous. It's up to you if you really need this.
The camera build is rock solid. The grip works fine, although I usually put the vertical grip on so my pinky finger doesn't dangle, and there are 2 batteries in the camera.
I've taken plenty of greatly detailed 24 MP images with this body. I've used the A7Rii (42 MP) extensively, and yes it get more detail, but for most uses this detail is useless. I've printed off A3-sized images from these cameras and there are no pixels to be found!
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned