Sony Alpha 7 II
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- SimonFFM5
I switched to 7RII. I am a fulltime photographer as you know and can recommend it. Like everything it has pros and cons.
Pros:
- Lightweight and much better for travelling (half the weight of my Canon)
- 42 mp (for me the perfect size, it leaves enough for cropping and everything larger (like 100 mp) would be a pain in the ass for file handling, backupping, etc.)
- many focus points, officially 399, to me they are a bit less, because against light or in lowlight you can only rely on the ones inside the phase af zone. But there are still around 280 or so. So you can focus very much to the side of an image.
- good high ISO. I shot a portrait in iso 6400 which was printed full size in a magazine and looked perfectly fine. I would not go beyond that (for skin).
- filming is excellent, especially because you have af when filming
- i mostly shoot in aperture priority, so I select my desired aperture and have a minimum speed of 1/125s set, the camera chooses the necessary iso to make it fit (while my max iso is set to 6400), these possibilities are great
- image stabilization works great
- -5 to +5 exposure setting (-3 to +3 on my canon)
- superb automatic features (e.g. face recognition in case you want to do group shots)
Cons:
- Battery life is limited to around 400 pics (2,5 hours of shooting more or less for me), you should consider buying extra batteries and a second charger because charging takes 2 - 3 hours
- When focussing manual and activating the automatic loupe, it always zooms to the center, makes it a bit nasty for manual focussing people
- electronic viewfinder is ok but slower than that of a dslr, shooting speed will be slower
- no playback of images while being written on card, this sucks bigtime, i hope it will be solved in future firmware updates
- i mostly shoot portrait size and have to hold the camera shitty oldfashioned as i don't want to attach a grip (did not like it because I need to screw it on and off, not a fix thing)
- when watching an image on the screen and the camera is turned, zoom in turns the image back to landscape (hope will be solved in firmware update)
- skin tones require slight retouching, skin tones by phase one or canon are a small bit better (very very sublte)
Overall I am very happy. The camera has good options and as it is smaller, it makes it easier to interact with a model. You can also shoot without looking through the viewfinder.
- Nice pro and con breakdown, Simon. Danke sehr!Continuity
- Thanks Simon! appreciatedBennn
- You're welcome. Wanted to contribute because I am not a techno nerd like many people on youtube :-)SimonFFM
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- You're the best, Simsim.garbage
- I bought a Nissin Di700A for on the go. Works fine for my purposes (rarely use flash). Camera is best for available light. But pocket wiz + profoto works, too.SimonFFM