First real Sony A7s High Iso test!

Click on image to enlarge (Courtesy of DCfever).

The Chinese site DCfever posted the first real Sony A7s High ISO test. Please remember that firmware of the camera is 0.01 only! And these are Jpegs too (as usual RAW will show a better performance). At first glance all I can say is that up to ISO 25,600 images do look pretty good. Real huge deterioration happens only from 102.400 ISO towards.

Again, I repeat: The A7s images with final firmware will look even better! And if you buy the new [shoplink 26501 ebay]Mitakon 50mm f/0.95 on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] you will be able to shoot ghost at night too :)

A7s Preorder or pure notification store links:
USA: Sony USAmazon and BHphoto.
Europe:  Sony DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, SE, FI, PL.
Asia: Digitalrev

Reminder: You will need the Atomos Shogun at BHphoto (Click here) to grab 8bit 4:2:2 4K video.

Exclusive: First Full size Sony A7s images (including 40.000 ISO photo).

[ArtBenny Video] Sony A7s iso test from benny wong on Vimeo.

Today Sony announced the A7s in Hong Kong and Japan. And our reader Benny shared videos and image to SonyAlphaRumors. The video on top shows you the High Iso performance in complete darkness. He also sent me the first full size image samples taken with the A7s. These go up to 40.000 ISO and you can download them here at Wetransfer (10MB zip file). Please do not remove the copyright note if you share them (and kindly link back to SonyAlphaRumors as source).

This is the image taken at ISO 40.000 in complete darkness and with the [shoplink 26511 ebay]Canon 50mm f/0.95 lens[/shoplink]. I know it’s noisy but as you see on the video on top the room is really COMPLETELY DARK!

And this is ISO 800 with the small lights on:

If crazy High ISO is what you need than the A7s is for you. And remember that since today you can also buy a “cheap” native [shoplink 26501 ebay]Mitakon 50mm f/0.95 on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. Also note that the A7s hd a very early 0.01 firmware version. Image Quality will improve with the final firmware which will be ready right before the first July shipment.

A7s Preorder or pure notification store links:
USA: Sony USAmazon and BHphoto.
Europe:  Sony DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, SE, FI, PL.
Asia: Digitalrev

Reminder: You will need the Atomos Shogun at BHphoto (Click here) to grab 8bit 4:2:2 4K video.

New DxOmark lens test: 28-70mm FE and Samyang 24mm A-mount lens.

DxOmark tested two great lenses:

1) The Sony FE 28-70mm lens (Click here to read the test). The surprise is that it is almost as good as the 24-70mm FE Zeiss:

Although enthusiasts will head straight for the Zeiss, anyone on a budget won’t feel short-changed from the Sony 28-70mm f3.5-4.5. It has some shortcomings, particularly with regard to uniformity at the wider apertures where it’s easily outclassed by the Zeiss but the Sony puts up a good fight overall and doesn’t cost the earth.

2) Samyang 24mm f/1.4 A-mount lens (Click here to read the test):

Wide-open performance isn’t particularly impressive but sharpness improves noticeably at f2.0, at least in the center of the field.  Transmission when measured on the A99 is excellent and both distortion and chromatic aberration are very well controlled. Vignetting is heavy at the maximum aperture but it’s not unexpected and hardly a serious problem.

First Sony A77 RAW stills for download. Will ship in late May in Canada and Europe. Full A77II presentation video.

Image courtesy: Quesabesde.

Quesabesde (google translation here) is the first site sharing original Sony A77II RAW files for download. Quesabesde is pleasantly surprised by the af speed (says could be the best af tested so far). They also write there is a low pass filter on the sensor

A77II ISO test images on Flickr.

You can also watch the full Sony A77II presentation on youtube (part one and part two).

Meantime also Sony Canada (Click here) is accepting A77II preorders and they say they will ship the camera on may 22 already (like the Sony European stores). Here is the updated preorder list:
Sony A77 body in USA/Canada at Amazon, Adorama, Sony Store, BHphoto and Sony Canada.
Sony A77 with 16-50mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, Sony Store and BHphoto.
Sony A77 body in Europe at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony IT, ES, NL, BE, AT, CH, PT, NO, SE, FI and Wex UK.
Sony A77 in Asia at Digitalrev.

Mitakon 50mm F/0.95 FE lens test! Steve Huff hands-on video.

f/0.95 sharpness test

You can see a first sharpness test at all apertures of the new Mitakon 50mm 0.95 FE lens on Flickr (Click here). The lens is quite soft at full aperture and improves marginally at f/1.4. Of course the lens is sharp at other apertures but if you buy that lens you want it because of the f/0.95 aperture! So what do you say, are you happy with the results? Consider the lens costs 14 times less than the Leica Nocticlux 50mm f/0.95 :)

It will be available soon on eBay MXcamera. And you can save that search on Slidoo to get notified when it’s in Stock. This is Mitakons second E-mount lens after the [shoplink 14656 ebay]35mm f/0.95 lens for ASP-C E-mount cameras (they are on auction here on eBay)[/shoplink]

found via DicaHub.

And Steve Huff is playing with his 000001 marked Mitakon lens he got for testing:

Listen to the sound of the 12fps A77II.

Photoblog.hk posted that “soundcheck” of the A77II at 8 and then 12 fps. Quite Impressive! Remember that Nikon D7100 and Canon 70D competition can “only” go up to 7fsp. Meantime the A77II is slowly climbin the sales+preorder ranking at Amazon (Click here to see the hourly changing ranking). And here are the full preorder links:

Sony A77 body in USA at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 with 16-50mm lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 body in Europe at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony IT, ES, NL, BE, AT, CH, PT, NO, SE, FI and Wex UK.
Sony A77 in Asia at Digitalrev.