The complete Sony A7r II Autofocus test with FE, A-mount and EF-mount lenses
Canon pro after one week with A7Rii (SonyAlphaForum).
Secrets: starring Rachel Alexander: shot with the Sony A7rII (Mike Kobal).
Hands-on video review by BHphoto (Youtube).
Sony A7RII VS D810 Vs 5DSR Revisited (Fstoppers)
Sony A7R II vs Sony RX1R II (World of DSLR).
Choosing between a D810 or A7RII (Jorge Torralba).
Sony A7r Mark II Review (SonyAlphaLab on Youtube).
Lucy: “.here is a link to some excellent work by a photographer who has moved from micro four thirds system to the Sony A7R II and shot on the streets of Istanbul with the Loxia 35mm (Footlessfish).
A7rII store list:
In USA: at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore US, FocusCamera, Uniquephoto.
In Europe at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Wex UK and ParkCameras.
In Asia at Digitalrev, CameraPro.
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FStoppers really seem unable to put some effort into testing Sony. Chosing LA-EA4 over LA-EA3 will degrade sharpness. All this retest shows is their unwillingness to change their accustomed habbits.
They used the Tamron, too, however, this test shows what many expected: in most situations you can’t tell the difference in the final shot, your clients the least. All three cameras give you fantastic possibilities. So why search for the difference in the final bit? Post-processing skills give you much more possibilities and differences. Handling, EVF, IBIS, eye-AF or whatever are stronger discriminators for me.
The issue here is that he is just talking about adapters in a negative way. When he could at least point out that you can use the best lenses from each system on the A7rII.
Quite. Just how many real people actually spend their time searching out the finest detail. There are places for such things – architectural photography, fine art, landscape and so on. However, for portraits I do wonder, especially when reproduced at typical sizes for even wedding photos.
My guess is that lots of average people will notice the impact of turning the sharpness before any subtle changes in fine detail.
However, besides the handling issues you mention, there are some aspects of IQ that can be very important which are relevant to real world photography and that is chiefly about the performance under difficult lighting as you might find at a concert or natural light in some wedding venues. So maintenance of DR through the ISO range is very important. Unfortunately, a posed photo (even of somebody in a frog suit) in well lit studio conditions is not going to reveal any of those issues. A decent P&S would give a reasonable image in that sort of situation.
Fully agree. These are the circumstances photographers experience the differences ( the client just sees the result) and which is why I use Nikon and Sony. Here, the differences between the Canon and Nikon/Sony are large at lower ISO. The new Sony gains about a stop over my D810 at higher ISO. And exactly this is the reason we buy it for our weddings next year as we often have difficult lighting, requiring every stop headroom and DR we can get.
you use what ever tool you feel that you can get the job done with. But it doesn’t mean by any stretch, that all photographers have problems are having problems with headroom.
Check out this project by Vincent Laforet for example
http://www.laforetair.com/#intro
and http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/
you won’t find any more demanding and difficult lighting situations than these
fstop? Lenses? We shoot weddings and the more DR we get in a camera the better. Lighting conditions are oftentimes very demanding, especially at the after-wedding party at night with a huge DR (deep shadows vs. spot lights on bride and groom). We always underexpose to prevent highlights from being blown out and push in post. In the Evening you often have situations at ISO 6400 or 12800 where you can set ISO 800 or 1600, use flash and push shadows in post to get a certain look (f1.4-f2 most of the time). 1 stop additional headroom allows us to get less noise when pushing, which is great. Why shouldn’t I go with it, especially if the business pays for it? Preserves details in faces, dresses, etc. better, preserves skin tones etc. Printing a double page in a large wedding books I can see the difference. Your photography is totally different in my opinion, after looking at your work (I like it). It is not about not being able to get good work done with a D810. But I take every improvement I can get.
Not to mention that if he’s testing just IQ, he can use the exact damn lens from Canikon on the Sony. I can’t understand how hard this concept might be in their heads.
I think the biggest question mark hangs over their claim of not knowing of the general criticism of the fE24-70. It’s one of the biggest continued talking points concerning the A7 series cameras, so to deny knowledge is ludicrous, or do they live in a cave in outer Mongolia?
I’ve commented as such on their video.
EA4 does NOT degrade sharpness. SLT is not less sharp than mirrorless. I can’t believe you said that. Barely 1/3 light loss… that is all. That argument ended years ago, unless you have a faulty SLT.
I use a99 consistently over a7RII because the difference to the client is indistinguishable in final publishing, even to 100″ banner print. Just not worth the extra processing time with the big files.
Lies!!!
The title of the video, as so often with these things, is entirely misleading.
It was not a ‘complete autofocus test’, but rather a run down of this man’s opinion and experience. If the scientific community was just based on how people felt about things we’d be in a right pickle!
If you’re going to use the word ‘test’, make it a real test with defined and tangible results. Otherwise call it what it is: a personal review.
“canon pro”.. nobody knows him no realname data.. yeah sure…..
Great video!!
An additional and unnecessary optical Element will always degrade iq to some degree. Filters do so, too. Nowhere did I write that mirrorless are sharper than slt. Mirroless, for practical reasons, need to have thicker cover glass than slr and slt and that also degrades iq.
Shoot whatever you like but the fstoppers review in my eyes is still heavily biased.
Sometimes I wonder when I watch these videos. Indeed the animation of focus tracking is quite responding. What happens if you keep pressing shutter release and see how fast it actually is. DSLRs at similar price cannot present this type of animation in OVF but still doing a decent job.
I usually throw my camera at my subject. This insures face detection 100% of the time.
Yes but, the “best” ones or your “prefered” ones? Not everyone uses the same lense in the same manner. And that’s a good thing. Maybe you can use your “prefered” lense with a lot of success, or maybe not.