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A7II with Minolta MD 85mm f 1.7 (SonyAlphaForum).
Check out these wonderful Tuscany pictures from Trubak at SonyAlphaForum.
Filmmaker Brandon Li knocks it out again with Balinese (AlphaUniverse).
Sony A7R II w/adapter versus Canon 5DSR (Ken Rockwell).
40 Things You Didn’t Know You Needed in Your Camera Bag (Explora).
9 Annoying Things Only Photographers Understand (SonyAlphaCameras).
XEEN Cinema Lenses First Impressions (Cinema5D).
Photography, Sony and Minolta’s legacy (Vladimirmarkov).
Joshua: “Last summer I got the pleasure of producing a short film shot on the Sony A7S, it was challenging but so much fun. We recently got featured in a blog called “the metropolist” for their top 5 short films of the week and we will premiere in the theonlinefilmfest.com starting in November. I would love for our film to be featured in your blog to show the production capability of the A7S. Let me know if I can provide anymore information to make this happen.
Blog Entry: http://www.themetropolist.com/film/latest-film/short-list-top-5-short-films-see-week/
Film Website: http://www.reformationfilm.com
Film Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reformationfilm
Vimeo Trailer: https://vimeo.com/119932929
Vimeo Full Movie: https://vimeo.com/140886716
Youtube Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU74UtqTO_k
Youtube Full Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qIuGKZMfR“
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Stupid comparison from that Kenrockwell.com….. why didn’t he compare with A7R-II with Sony 16-35z or 16-35 fe ? and simply concluded that Sony is horrible (he repeated a few times) with wide angle lenses ?
I found the image at center is much better with A7R-II over 5DSR, he didn’t show the center crop and just said “which are about the same as each other” ….. I personally suspect that he intentionally not showing the center crop….
What he’s pointing out is important, at least to me. It is pretty clear that some of the Canon EF lenses do not behave well on the A7 series sensor. Up until now I would have expected all SLR lenses to behave.
Most likely it’s restricted to wides, and I guess it’s caused by the sensor toppings on the Sony cameras being thicker. What he didn’t investigate is at what point this stops being an issue. What about f/11 with the same lens? What about the wide Canon EF primes? Some of these I’d have considered owning, but now I’d check them out for this issue before buying.
The question remains, why the canon is worse on the Sony. As that is a retrofocus design, it shouldn’t be. Is there something with the glass layer on the Sony sensor that creates a problem, not only for Leica wide angles? Or did Ken fudge the results a bit.. Anyway, he has a talent to show the Sony in as bad a light as possible.
People who read lensrental blog know that adapters can have a big impact on the picture quality in the corners and borders. This result is not unexpected and is due to the precision (quality) of the adapter.
Stupid and Ken Rockwell are synonymous. For the life of me I don’t understand why this site keeps promoting his stupidity.
KR must have a bad lens or camera adaptor. I’ve never seen any online reviews, even with the cheap $100 adaptors, show images that poor when magnified. My Canon 16-35 f/4 is FANTASTIC on the the A7rii and sharp as a tack when pixel peeping. The way SONY has so many people’s panties knotted up with their new cameras is really interesting. I feel, as a Canon professional user who is now using A7Rii as main body, it’s more about being frustrated with Canon’s “slower” body updates. The 5Ds is a fantastic camera. I’ve rented one for high MP jobs. However, for someone , like myself, who depends on T/s manual focus lenses, the SONY is way much more friendly. The DR allows me to pull out detail from distant areas (example dark woods far back from building) without ugly noise or having to mask in higher exposure.
Came here to say this. I shoot the a7RII + the Canon 16-35 f4 regularly and just dug through my pictures, and I can’t find any weirdness at the edges. It looks fine… but his sample definitely looks awful! I’m using the Metabones IV adapter, if that changes anything.
We’re already planning a test against the Sony 16-35, so we’ll include this.
I’d be willing to bet money it’s the adapter, and it’s an individual case – see how big the commotion was around the edge discolouration, yet even then the pictures were never so bad at those edges; if the corners were so unsharp, there would’ve been a huge fuss about it. I think he should’ve checked more in-depth, maybe with other adapters as well, before jumping to conclusions.
The handle / mustache video is plain silly, bordering on painful.
I’ve read that post on B&H before, and I was thinking to myself whether the author goes down to a walk in the park with a 40-pound backpack “just in case”? I prefer my gear to be light, and with just the time-proven bare essentials, as sometimes I can’t take much on trips and treks.
i’m NOT gonna watch anything from 4K creators again. maybe this site could make a ‘funny’ department for people who think this stuff is hilarious
Stupid annoying video
FWIW I don’t have any edge unsharpness with that same combination (but with the Metabones IV adapter). So, it might be an anomoly. We’ll do more tests.