Sony Japan announced the A7II! And it will cost around $1,500 and ship on December 5 already!
It has an amazing fast hybrid AF and the Olympus “Borrowed” 5 axis stabilization!
Sony Japan announced the A7II! And it will cost around $1,500 and ship on December 5 already!
It has an amazing fast hybrid AF and the Olympus “Borrowed” 5 axis stabilization!
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I’m amazed at what sony is doing. I’m so happy I didn’t trow more money away on samsung nx! This camera has gorgeous specs at an incredible pricepoint! And I’ll wait for the a9 to see what it adds.
Please tell me all this tech will be put into the NEX7000. Pleeeaaaassssseeeeeee…. 🙂
Ugly, seems to have lost nice propotions of older model to fit IBIS. However, price is right and should be huge competitor to 6D and D610 for some photographers
Hahaha, note metal mount. And people complained when I said stock mount on A7R was cheap
Well, de gustibus! I find it much better looking than those ‘fat’ dslr like mirrorless (nx1, gh4, …).
Those are a lot more comfortable to hold, so take your pick.
Not for my hands.
Awesome, Sony rocks, maybe I’ll jump from Oly, but will wait to Jan see what comes out in 2015
Yes, sony rocks indeed. I still don’t have a single sony camera, but they made the best ones in most segments. This a7 ii is priced lower than some pretentious aps-c cameras and offers outstanding value! I have some old yashica and konica legacy lenses that could be used with this body, gaining stabilization! Wonderful.
But let’s wait for the a9!
The NX1 is a totally different camera, for different market. Like 15 fps instead of 2.5 fps with continuous focus, etc. Also the 16-50 and 50-150mm f/2.8 lenses would be pretty uncomfortable to hold on A7 body. For me the NX1 is a better choice for the same money. For you? Maybe something else.
True. I don’t need more than 3fps, particularly when the focus hit rate on eyes is low, so that I have to inspect a lot of pics to save – say – 30% of them.
So if this camera does 2.5fps with eye tracking focus and has a big buffer, then I prefer!
And ibis..wow, I love it!
Eye AF has decent hit rate if light is very good, in medium to low light it was pretty terrible and would often either fail or focus on the background (if face is at an angle and eye box overlaps background). This camera might be better. My main complaint with A7 is it was entirely separate function, you press a different button to activate it. I wish they tied it in with normal face detection. On A7II i don’t know what they do.
I really like the A7 cameras, don’t get me wrong, this one looks great for legacy lens shooters with IBIS, but that is really about the only improvement to the A7, maybe some AF improvement as well? Haven’t looked too closely. I am glad to see IBIS is Olympus too, my A99 IBIS was not too good. It was okay, but not great.
Why would you say that? Eye focus in standard living room light ans on moving targets (children) works flawlessly on Sony cameras. I understand that you would be sad to see tecnoworld dump Samsung for Sony but it’s just the way things are. Sony has a much better system and even from an aesthetical point of view, the choice is easy. Try to stay calm and act with dignity: it’s time to let him go. Plus, think of all the entertaining posts we will get once reality hits…
Yup, and the millions users going for sony instead of samsung are stupid, aren’t they? Samsung simply does not deliver and they try to send out as many free cameras as possible to famous photographers, hoping that somebody makes it his main system, but with zero luck. I laughed when I read that imaging resource guy is too invested in other systems to go samsung. And this is true for most serious photographers. So dead end again!
Of course this true for most serious or not so serious photographers… Samsung is just beginning to launch the NX line, would you expect anyone to ditch their system and buy Samsung? Isn’t that stating the obvious? On a side note, the Imaging Resource “guy” never said such a thing unless I missed it…
As for not delivering… so far, the NX1 seems to be delivering the goods on IQ, AF and video, pretty much in line with what was said but if you have any credible source of the opposite, I’m all ears…
Sorry, my bad, it was the guy of luminous landscape who said that! Anyway I guess the only pros using samsung will be those getting one for free. And I think that none of those would spend a penny on nx otherwise.
Awesome, Sony rocks, maybe I’ll jump from Oly, but will wait to Jan see what comes out in 2015
A7M2 5axis image stabilization video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M-EkOju5JY
Outstanding!
I love what sony is doing but the user interface on the cams is still counter intuitive to photography as I know it and every other camera out there. I’m trying to get used to it.
Meanwhile a could of native autofocus fast primes would help A LOT. 24mm / 85mm please…and a 50/100mm macros
Nice one sony… you have release more body then lens till now…