Image courtesy: Cinema5D
Cinema5D tested the video capability of the camera and writes:
We did test the dynamic range and found there’s about 12.3 stops of dynamic range on the Sony A7RII. So that’s very nice. The A7S does about 11.8 in 4K (with an external recorder) and the Sony FS7 goes up to 12.4 in our tests.
It is amazing though to see this kind of quality recorded internally in such a small camera body. And the A7S was recorded in ProRes, so the XAVC-S codec on the A7RII is certainly doing a god job here. Wow!
EosHD writes:
The 5 axis stabilised 42MP sensor appears at first glance to be a game changer. I have never known such a well balanced, high performance chip. It looks significantly less noisy at first glance than the Canon 5DS. I say Canon have a lot of catching up to do.
More A7rII tests:
First shots with sony a7RII – S-log2 – 35mm (Youtube).
Sony α7R II review – DAY 2: 4K VIDEO MODES, DYNAMIC RANGE AND PICTURE PROFILES TEST (Youtube).
Test shots by Matthias Walter on Flickr.
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.
21 Responses
Seeing these tests make me think I’ll be using FF for video most of the time, not what I expected since Sony downplayed the FF Video quality so hard.
The FF works best with A7S…
Can you elaborate on that ?
Read the articles instead of just the headlines.
a7RII has lower noise and sharper image with APS-C video than it does with FF. a7S is equally the same regardless.
Read the articles next time. Then you can help educate the next dope who didn’t.
He owns an a7s 🙂
The A7S sensor seems to be designed for maximum quality for 1080p with FF, and indeed it does that masterfully.
The A7R sensor is claimed to be designed to work best at 4k with Super35/APSC.
Giggitty.
Wow, not much a difference at all. For once Sony kind of understated the performance. I guess they’ve wised up to how critical the blogosphere can be. 100mbps 4k XAVC-S also seems to be working better than I’d hoped if it shows fewer artifacts than the A7S 1080P 50mbps.
I wanna grade that footage so hard.
Tony Northrope did a good comparison why a high megapixel sensor does not necessarily produce poorer video than a 12 mpx sensor. This now seems to be true. I so can’t wait to tr this camera!!! I have a 44″ Epson Printer.:-) I want to print a 40×60″
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE49e7QwHXQ …. shooting white walls is no means to test any camera. Tony for one is bias and not a techy.
Found that vídeo showing basic AF speed on rx10II it looks impressive.https://youtu.be/zga47Omx2PA
Created a vimeo group for the a7r ii. please post all your reviews/tests here.
Seems like Newsshooter doesn’t like the image quality…
“the image doesn’t fail to disappoint” so apparently the image succeeds in disappointing the good people at newwhooter.
but it doesn’t disappoint either, otherwise I’m not confident the author would have failed to not write the sentence indirectly.
The U.S. cameras are coming! Just got a notice from the shop where I pre-ordered my A7RII, the first wave arrived yesterday and my camera shipped – it will be delivered on the 5th.
May I ask was this BH? How soon did you order?
It’s a small shop, and I actually ordered on Thursday. I called them to see if they were getting the A7RII and they said the first wave would arrive Friday and he had one unsold. I bought it immediately and they shipped it on Friday, but it didn’t occur to me to upgrade from free ground shipping, so my camera is scheduled to be delivered Wednesday. I ordered from Adorama the second preorders opened, but they couldn’t tell me if my camera was part of the first wave. I went with the sure thing.
“.” That’s a bit rude . The amount of skew totally kills 4k APS-C mode for me on the A7rii. It’s a much harder fix than a little bit of noise.
It looks significantly less noisy at first glance than the Canon 5DS. I say Canon have a lot of catching up to do.
It’s not good if you have a lot of catching up to do even after you play your big trump card, is it. Still I’m sure there’s someone out there who needs slightly more resolution (but not enough to go medium format), but is happy with sub-par noise and dynamic range.
The full-frame 4K moire and noise level, compared with S35 mode, seems to suggest Sony is simply skipping 2 lines out of 4, then ditching 2 out of 4 again in the lines. At least they could use all the pixels in the lines, I suppose.