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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snowcat" data-source="post: 642068" data-attributes="member: 44121">Thanks everyone for such a war welcome!I liked A77 and A77II caneras (those are crop SLT cameras), but then I've decided to move to A7II (FF mirrorless) and for me it was a disaster... It's image quality is good, no problem with that, but other then that A7 series are awful for my tastes... It has a TINY-TINY battery, while the camera itself constantly draining power. So if you use it while walking around it drains the battery while I take only 100 (ONE HUNDRED!) pictures. It's not about number of pictures, it's about keeping the camera on. 3-4 hours and it is drained. That was really getting on my nerves, I have 5 batteries, I always don't know which if them are full, which are empty, e.t.c...It has an eye sensor that switches between screen and EVF and back. This sensor is TOO sensitive, it switches off the screen if you are as close to the camera as 10cm. Even more, if you turn the screen up, the sensor sees the screen and... turns if OFF! Camera has LOTS of cusomizable buttons but you cannot assign ti one of them a simple function of switching between screen and evf. That is pure stupidity, everyone wants this function and sony does not want to add it with a firmware update. I tend to use turning screen alot so this was bugging me regularly... Additionally this sensor prevents camera going to sleep.Camera has awful grip. It is very uncomfortable if you use good zoom lenses (which I like to use). A battery grip can be added, but it is gigantic and cumbersome, turning the camera into a square monster - not THAT comfortable also.A7II has significant shutter lag. So if you are taking pictures of your kid, most of the pictures are like "this is the moment just AFTER my child had a cute smile". All A7 series are plagued with huge shutter lag.AF system of A7 series is not that good. I never realized that actually before I took a modern Nikon in my hands.And finally, Sony's E mount lenses are fantastically expensive. You can use Canon and Nikon lenses with AF via adapters, but their work is not perfect. Some better, some worse, some are not working at all.All that bugged me for 6 months when I had A7II as my only camera. I hoped I will get used to it. But that did not happen.My father gave me Nikon D5500 and said "go and try it". I've shot some test pictures with BOTH camera. And surprisingly I have found that APS-C D5500 is at least as good as FF A7II. It lost only in ONE THING - it has 1 stop worse noise. Well of course there is a difference between FF and crop (lesser DOF) but that is rarely really used by me so I decided to move to D5500. Now I am in a trip in China and I can say that I was totally right.</blockquote>

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