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Hello All I was wondering if I can get some info on E mount vs A Mount. I see that Sony has Full Frame using both of these mounts. Is there a major difference between the two. I would hate to try to maintain two separate mounting systems if I don't have to. I now have the A6000 but was thinking about getting a larger camera. If the E mount will work fine I will probably stick with the E Mounts. I hope you understand what I think I am trying to ask. Thanks Rick

Hi Everybody, I'm about to get my new A7m2 and I'm researching lenses. I want to get a super tele zoom (like the tamron 150-600) and the only options I see are third party. Is there a difference between A-mount and EF or other mounts? since I will be using an adapter anyway? I'm not planning on using the Sony made adapter as it's kind of large and expensive, I will probably get a Fotodiox adapter. Thanks in advance, Itay

Here's the thing. Sony has been steadily innovating its cameras, perhaps in a way carrying on the way Minolta's design philosophy would have done had it still been around. Innovating not just new features in an incremental way, but radical new departures not envisioned or anticipated elsewhere. So, in Sony's drive to eradicate all things mechanical in its cameras, isn't it about time develop: 1) Complete electronic curtain and eliminate the shutter completely, and then leading to.... 2) Once you have an effective electronic shutter, it should then be possible to optimize shutter component of exposure by pixel or group of pixels level. In other words, allow a myriad of sensor segments to have independent electronic exposure cut off, thus allowing different parts of the sensor to have different levels of exposure. This should boost usable dynamic range enormously by effectively eliminating blow outs and black spots as each extreme should be perfectly exposed at the points where they are projected on to the sensor. 3) Shutter noise and vibration should be consigned to history. 4) The frame rate could potentially increase enormously. No mechanical shutter reset necessary, it's all electronic so big numbers could then be possible (numbers of frames per second). As this is a concept, is this at all feasible or just a wishful thinking sponsored fantasy? (Yes, I'd love on sensor hybrid pdaf/cdaf or whatever works 'better' for A mount as well.)