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Purchased a Sony a7II yesterday. Have tried a few times taking pictures. It is surprising that the shutter click sound is so loud and my left hand feels its vibration. Is it normal by Sony's standards? Thanks.

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.)