Quote Originally Posted by Greg McCary View Post
I think it's basically an RX1 with the finder attached and changeable lenses. DXO scored it a tie with the IQ of the D800. Of course the Nikon will have more resolution.
Wait a minute - are we talking about the same camera here? I thought the high DxO score was for the A7R, which has a tweaked version of the same sensor used in the D800.

As for the A7 being like an RX1 with a finder attached, I don't think it can quite match that. One of the things that makes the RX1 so special is it has a fixed prime lens. That allowed Sony to do some really tricky engineering and resulted in the RX1's ridiculously sharp image quality (too sharp more my taste, to be honest). With interchangeable lenses, there's no way the A7 has the same tolerances and precision as the RX1. My guess is the tested image quality would fall somewhere between the RX1 and the A99.