If one can say such a thing about a camera.

Sony is good, and is willing to push design boundaries.

Reminds me a bit of my dad's old Leica.

Leica in hand, and light meter on lanyard around his neck, are pretty much how I remember him.

I could have bought a Leica back and the sixties, but it was the end of the month and the month lasted longer than my army pay.

It's tempting, but I think I'll stick with my Sony NEX 5N. Not the newest, or greatest, or fanciest, but it's good enough for a duffer like me.

I look at gear like that and my first impulse is that having a better camera will make my photos better, but it ain't so. When I was a kid with a Brownie Hawkeye, and begged my dad to buy me a 35mm camera like the one he had, he told me that I should first get the very best images I could with what I had before I considered getting something fancier that I wouldn't know what to do with. So I stuck with the Hawkeye and got some pretty good pictures. I never really outgrew it before I grew up and got married and put my photo hobby in the closet for 40 years.

Once I learn how to use all the features of the NEX and genuinely feel restricted by its limitation, then I'll upgrade. Given that I'm 70, realistically, that's not likely to happen.

Getting up and down is an experience at 70 and suffering a touch of vertigo. The great sensor in my EPM2 has convinced me to stay with this camera. I am waiting for a good price for an Oly EPL7 body.

The box of film is marked 47 cents! I don't even know it they make that type anymore.
My present camera is a Nikon D5300 and I love it plus I still don't "Know" it very well. The menu looks like something out of a science fiction movie.

Seems like I get the "camera fever" every time a new model comes out but to my credit, I wait and let it pass...however...there's the new Sony a7rII that's looking mighty fine and I thought tha....

The only difference between 120 (the current "standard" medium format film) and 620 is the spool it comes on. The company Film for Classics built their own mold for 620 spools; they buy cases of 120 film and wind it onto new spools.

I guess? the prices depend on the lens used. I didn't see a "Body only" price.

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– 20MP Live MOS sensor (made by Sony)
– 50MP high resolution shot mode
– 5-axis camera shake correction. Five stop correction (CIPA)
– Creative dial to directly access four functions
– 2.36 million dot organic EL EVF (S-OVF mode to extend the dynamic range)
– Mechanical shutter: 60 seconds -1/8000 seconds
– Electronic front curtain shutter (anti-shock mode): 60 seconds -1/320 seconds
– Electronic shutter (silent mode): 60 seconds -1/16000 seconds
– Video full HD60p
– Interval Shooting
– 4K time-lapse movie
– Continuous shooting of 10 frames / sec (5 frames / sec in the AF tracking)
– Wi-Fi built-in. Remote control via smartphone
– 3 inches 1.03 million dot movable LCD monitor
– AF tracking pad: EVF is capable of moving the AF point in the touch panel at the time of use
– Media SDHC / SDXC (UHS-II compatible)
– Included with an external flash FL-LM3. Guide number 9.1. Bounce possible
– ISO200-25600 (LOW: ISO80 equivalent)
– Color Black and Silver
– Price is 1499 Euro with kit lens.