Another excellent reason for this plea is that Sony itself is merely producing useless in camera apps such as ..... a star trail time lapse movie! And I'm sure authors like Gary Friedman would be more than willing to pay tribute to a A7R extension of Helicon's applicability.

I was very surprised to read this thread. As I'm sure many others I have had to wait far too long for a high MP camera from Canon. In fact it hasn't even been announced yet! Having invested heavily in Canon "glass" there was only one option: buying a Sony A7R. If you followed the press and...