A Wedding Cinematographer’s Review of the Sony A7S II from Matt @ WhoIsMatt.com on Vimeo.
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I want this camera. Can one of you SARS reader get me one?
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/mflens/20150805_715028.html
Japanese review of the Lomography Minitar LC-A Art lens on A7II.
If it wasn’t so expensive it would be a fun (body cap) lens to own.
One would hope a body cap is thinner than that…even thinner than the adaptor. And indeed that’s an insane price to charge. It may be worth half, and that’s still a stretch.
Epic beard Matt ! Love it
Thanks Tonya!
great video.. when using slog 3.. what programs are good for editing video… i have the sony a7rii and a7ii was thinking of gettinng the sony a7sii .. i have all sony lenses..
Premiere Pro should work if you get some nice LUTS like DeLuts or VisionColor.
Also what gimbal or stabilizer do you use or recommend
I’m still using a Glidecam HD-4000. I may get a gimbal once they make one that I can throw around without worrying about it breaking.
He’s shooting sRGB…
Going 120fps will probably push up the shutter speed and add some noise, and it’s even noticeable in this low res video(I’m watching it in low res)…so what’s wrong with Twixtor? It’s not as if people in these scenes are moving too fast for interpolation.
Hey! The review only featured video at 60fps, not 120. I didn’t record any 120fps at that wedding. 120fps does add more noise, but it isn’t horrible.
Strange, as one would think that without any captions the video directly played after the mention of 120fps would be 120fps. And there’s more noise then I would have expected from a7SII.
Haha I wish I had actually shot some 120fps at that wedding! Here’s some shots in 120fps: https://www.lightstock.com/videos/girl-walking-by-riverbanks
How long does it take to render for Twixtor? Even if people are moving slow, what if there’s hair or other obstacles? You’ll get weird artifacts instantly. As opposed to being able to shoot 60 (or 120) out of the cam and just interpret it.
Also the great thing about this cam is both 60 and 120fps records sound so you have option to slow it down or simply use the footage in real time.
Twixtor isn’t slow, since you shouldn’t be using more than a few seconds of it every time. I tried 50% and it wasn’t so easy to get artifacts, hmmm.
As for sound, I think Audition could solve it, though I never tried before.
Great review Matt! I work with a crew who all use 5D3s and at least some of us are making the move to the a7Sii. We haven’t tried using SLOG yet as our existing workflow doesn’t include color correcting so we’ve always had to try to get the best results out of camera as much as possible. As everyone has said Canon definitely does pleasing colors right out of the cam, but it seems more difficult to achieve on Sony. The colors just doesn’t seem as nice, especially for skin tones. Do you have any advice there or is the best practice with Sony cams is that we must shoot in SLOG and color correct?
Hey Kenneth! You have a couple options when shooting with the A7sii if you don’t want to color grade. Your first option would be to shoot in SLOG 2 or 3 and apply a LUT. This is incredibly simple because you won’t be needing to color grade, just dropping a preset onto the footage to color it. There are a ton of options, one of the more popular are the Impulz LUTs: http://www.vision-color.com/impulz/
If you don’t want to work with LUTS, the A7Sii has a lot of non-SLOG picture profiles included. The Cine 1,2,3, and 4 picture profiles allow for similar (but not quite as much) dynamic range to that of SLOG, but without the need for heavy grading. Watch this video and check out the PP3 settings in the description. The colors look pretty good without grading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJdnqdEu790&feature=youtu.be
Hope that helps!