The A7rII is shipping in EU and Asia and will ship in six days from now in US according to Amazon (August 5). And here are the latest A7rII news:
1) You can download the full A7rII Help Guide here: http://helpguide.sony.net/ilc/1520/v1/en/print.pdf
2) Pixel peepers can download the many A7rII JPG and RAW images at Photographyblog.
3) High ISO images by Ricky Ban on Flickr.
4) A7Rii first impressions thread at SonyAlphaForum.
5) Sean Cook: “I just opened the files you linked to this morning, and for the first time we have a true high-iso photo. I have opened it in Adobe Camera Raw, and have attached the fullsize photo, a 100% crop and a 2000 pixel wide version. The photo is shot at ISo 25,600, and being an A7s owner, I have to say the file looks really good. I don’t generally shoot my A7s at 25,600 of couches in daylight, so I can’t say exactly how it compares, but it looks basically on par with the A7s. Maybe 1/2 stop behind: https://www.flickr.com/photos/97048644@N07/albums”
A7rII preorder list:
In USA: at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore US, FocusCamera, Uniquephoto.
In Europe at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT. Wex UK.
In Asia at Digitalrev, CameraPro.
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Well, I don’t have an A7S to compare it with, but I did compare the noise levels to my D800’s, and the A7RII does an amazing job. Can’t wait to see what it can do in Video mode.
The high ISO samples are very good considering the high pixel count, the BSI sensor looks very promising.
Sounds promising for a7sII
Those photography blog samples are USELESS! What are they thinking?
Can someone please just post some full size samples that you can clearly see quality from? Without stupid, ugly processing and with a subject that is appropriate?
Go to dpreview, Sony FE FF forum, UK users are posting their RAW files.
The printing screen pattern is totally covering the noise levels at photographyblog.
I appreciate the effort. But this subject is completely unsuitable for a noise test.
Don’t bother.
It’s still hard to believe that that’s out of a 42mp sensor. My a7 at 6400 is about on par with the 25600. The 100% crop couch image is much more telling than cardboard box.
I’m no authority on compression, but I thought the files would be smaller? they’re all around 41MB which seems like it would be what you would expect from lossless compression? Can anyone explain?
With lossless compression, I’d expect increasingly larger files as ISO increases.
I totally mis wrote that….. I mean no compression. Sorry….
With no compression at all?
41,000,000 pixels with 14-bits per pixel (14*41million)/(8*2^20) = 68.4 megabytes, not to mention whatever else going into a file.
That makes sense. I do primarily video so I’ve never taken the time to really learn the math on compression. Thanks for the info.
Pictures of a cardboard box. Mkay.
A high resolution target would have been much better for evaluating ISO performance which looks very good.
I wanted a more natural scene so that I could play around with shadow detail. I am not too concerned with high ISO performance. I have a Canon for that. I’d be more interested in evaluating the dynamic range at low ISO.
nobody cares what you personally want. nobody caters to you and your needs.
Sony books highest Q1 profit since 2007 on strong sensor sales
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/30/sony-results-idUSL3N10A2PZ20150730
I’m struggling to think of what could be a worse setting to shoot these samples than an already noisy printed cereal box. Not to mention the other samples off a guy’s couch. Good lord, take 3 steps out the door and shoot a landscape for the sake of the entire internet.
It seams so…I don’t know….curreal.
what did the author of these photos smoke? Why to take a picture of a box?
Clearly, he was thinking out of the box…
Notice the CMYK micro ink drop patterns in the box, he is trying to demonstrate the ISO performance. Clearly chroma noise performance is good while maintaining a good amount of details at higher ISO.
I take back what I said earlier about waiting for professional IQ reviews. A printed cereal box? Really? Why not a landscape? A person with hair? this makes even endless pictures of cats look good.
Hype is why. It’s a 2.5% bump in IQ over the A7R. You’re buying it because of all the other innovations- in a sleek fashionable package. IQ is at the bottom of the list as to why anyone will buy this camera. Hence the crappy review.
IQ at the bottom of the list?
improvements over the a7r:
– better grip
– IBIS
– more resolution
– better noise performance
– 4k video
– 5 fps
– much improved AF
– When shooting, remove the front lens cap from the front of the lens.
Thank god the help guide mentioned this. Don’t know what we’d do without it.
But where does the lens go????
He could pick a better subject to test ISO on, but its already clear that this camera handles ISO noise incredibly good.
Hope the A7S Mk2 won’t be far off
Great camera for hobbyist
or even professional. don’t be that guy
Where are rumors for a9, a7sII?
this JUST got released. its not even shipped in most places. calm the hell down. there is no proof a9 is even coming. a7s ii will probably come end of the year or early next year.
A question to A7rII (and other A7 series too): as a long-time user of A-mount bodies (A700, A900, A99) and owner of A6000 I see a difference in the operation of A-mount and E-mount cameras during AF/exposure metering with shutter button half-pressed. Essentially, with A-mount bodies it is possible to adjust the aperture/shutter time/ISO/exp. compensation, with A6000 this doesn’t work: the dials have no effect, you need to release the shutter (loosing the AF), adjust and half-press shutter again. This is obviously annoying as hell and is a major reason why I don’t consider A6000 ergonomics pro-level. How do A7-series cameras behave with this respect? Obviously, I’m not going to upgrade to A7rII if this issue is not solved, as ability to interactively adjust exp. comp whie framing and tracking the subject is crucial for journalist & street photography.
No. Compare the ISO100 and ISO3200 of the CMYK micro ink droplet pattern, it degrades~ on the white and black region. Still not ISO100 looking ISO3200, but I must say they hold the chroma noise very well~