Sony a7II review: 5-Axis Sensor-Shift Stabilization vs optical stabilization (OSS)
Sony A7II and Zeiss Sonnar 35mm 2.8 Unboxing *UPDATE V1* (MirrorlessReview).
Sony a7II vs a7S vs Nikon D810 Low-light/High ISO Video Test (Youtube)
Sony A7 II First Impressions at Planet Alpha.
A7II is part of the best Camera Equipment of The Year – 2014 at Luminous Landscape.
Sony a7 II Review by BeforeYouBuy on Youtube.
Plenty of new videos posted last week on Youtube.
A7II image samples by Gustav on Dyxum.
A Comparison of How Olympus and Sony’s 5 Axis Stabilization Work (ThePhoBlographer).
Japanese test at DC.watch and Itmedia.
Capture one (now 8.1) supports the new sony a7ii
USA/Canada A7II links:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for $1,698 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore and Sony Store Canada.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for $1,998 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore.
Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G SSM II Lens for $1,148 at BHphoto.
EU A7II links:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for 1.799 Euro at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Jessops UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Austria, Sony Switzerland, Sony Netherland, Sony Belgium, Sony Portugal, Sony Sweden, Sony Finland, Sony Norway.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for 2.099 Euro at Amazon Germany, Wex UK, Jessops UK, Verkkokauppa.
Asian/Australia A7II link:
Sony A7II at Sony Store Australia, Digitalrev and Amazon Japan.
A7II Bug Reminder:
The A7II has a strange bug on the 5 axis stabilization settings. David Sampson (Viramati) found the bug and Jono Slack sums it up at Dpreview:
If you attach a 3rd party lens after using an OSS (eg the 24-70 FE) lens then IBIS does not work
If you attach a 3rd party lens after using a non OSS lens (eg the 55 f1.8) then IBIS does work.
There is a workaround to fix the issue when it appears. David S. sent me this:
If you unmount (take off) an OSS lens without turning the camera off (or at least turn it off after you have removed the lens) then when you attach a third party (dumb) adaptor ‘steady shot’ (IBIS) continues to work normally. Of course this is not a thing a photographer would normally do as it usually common sense to turn the camera off when changing lenses so would still benefit from a firmware upgrade
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Yawn.
I know all you want is the A9 😉
Tony Cckthrob test Fgt camera…
I appreciate your work. Thanks so far.
Too many lenses, not enough bodies. Or is it too many bodies, not enough lenses. Things change so quickly is hard for us trolls to keep up.
Too many trolls, not enough regular readers… 😉
i wish the test would have been more accurate. a simple way to test this is put a vibrating dildo under a plate, place camera on plate and with a trigger remote fire off the shots thus getting accurate, reproducible shakes every time.
Gave you an upvote for using a dildo!
What kind of dildo would you recommend?
A flat one otherwise it won’t hold the plate.
You can make a kind of tripod using three dildos. That way you’d get randomness across all three axes. Screw the camera on it and watch the jerking in video.
Looking forward to see your test 🙂
Oh… Tony finally got the camera, no more paper models!
It appears that the A7II bug may just be a user operator issue…http://briansmith.com/sony-a7ii-steadyshot-oss-fe-to-manual-lenses/
A9! A9! A9! A9!
Finally, someone else who thinks unboxing videos are a total waste of time!
WTF is this image an advertisement of???? The big boobs in the Disqus ads I can deal with, but this is just annoying to look at.
Agreed! Every time man, so it’s not just me.
This guy’s stage name is Carrot Top (yes it’s actually a male), he’s a Las Vegas comedian. Not sure why he’s popping up, it’s not happening to me but i have ad blockers installed.