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Sony A7r II User Experience Review

14 Essential Tools for the Great Outdoors—Frozen or Thawed (Explora).
Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM by Mark Galer: https://youtu.be/mk_eIw2N4As
Days of Zeiss with the Sony.
Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 Heliar III for Sony E-Mount at Movingelectrons.
Yosemite wedding photography with the Sony a7II & Sony lenses (movetomirrorless)
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A.: “Edward sharpe and magnetic zeros – wake up the sun – music video. Shot my director Noaz Deshe (White Shadow) on a Sony a6300 https://vimeo.com/170266301”

Jaako: “just wanted to share a small blog post that I did about a Mountain Bike Enduro race that was held in Åre Sweden on 8th of july.
There is a lot of photos on the blog and all the photos are taken either wth A7rm2 or A7s cameras. I used SEL70200F4G and SEL55F18z on A7rm2. With A7s I used SEL35F14z and Zeiss batis 25mm F2. http://www.jaakkoposti.com/BLOG/Areenduro2016”

Kutlay: “I recorded an auto focus test video with newly released viltrox ef-nex III. and It’s performance was awesome. Maybe faster than metabones. I have used two lens on a7 II. 70-200 f2.8L II and 50mm 1.4 Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnHX78S9Ot4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_4x_lcgAHs”

Lightroom CC 2015.6 & Lightroom 6.6 UpdateSony Tidbits…

Sony to Reduce Investment in CMOS Sensor Manufacturing Expansion (Image Sensor World).
Zeiss Distagon T* 28mm f/2.0 AEG tested on the Sony A7 (Phillip Reeve).
A7 Mk2 Zeiss 50m 1.7 (SonyAlphaForum).
2 Days in Prague with the Sony A7II (DSphotoblog).
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Hikeventures: “Pictures with the Zeiss Batis 25 and A7: http://www.hikeventures.com/Finnmark/ http://www.hikeventures.com/Kaldoaivi/”

Evan: “I did a yacht shoot for Resident Magazine. I discuss the equipment I used for the first 4 min 23 seconds of the video, such as the Sony a7RII with the Sony 24-70mm GM lens.. Plus the Phottix Indra 500 lights controlled by the brand new Phottix Odin II for Sony.
Hope you enjoy the video: https://youtu.be/ld4YjP7GYUE”

A.: “Edward sharpe and magnetic zeros – wake up the sun – music video. Shot my director Noaz Deshe (White Shadow) on a Sony a6300 https://vimeo.com/170266301“

After Euroepan stores also the world’s biggest online store sold out their entire Sony A7 camera Stock with the exception of the A7sII. Check out:
1-2 months shipment time for the A7rII
1-2 months shipment time for the A7II
1-2 months shipment time for the A7r
1-2 months shipment time for the A7s
1-2 months shipment time for the A7

And also the A6300 kit version will ship in 1-2 months only.

Why does this news matter for the future camera releases? it’s hard to imagine Sony announcing and shipping any future Sony A9, A99II or A7m3 camera soon. Those camera are more likely to ship in early 2017 instead :(

In a previous report I told you that European stores have the same Stock issue. They got told by Sony that a new Sony A7 camera Stock is expected to arrive in September only.

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SAR reader Christine A. sent me that picture of her Sony NEX-7 attached on the [shoplink 33180 ebay]2000mm Nikkor[/shoplink]. That lens sells for around $20,000 on [shoplink 33180 ebay]eBay (see here)[/shoplink]. Only 300 of these catadioptric lenses have been built by Nikon!

I asked Christine if she could send me some image samples taken with the combo but the answer was:

I don’t have any photos taken with it, as it weights 27.5 kilos, including the gimbal and I can’t find anything to mount it on!

Sony A7 camera series and ZEISS Loxia lenses – Manual focus to explore creative freedom

Three Days with a Pile of E-Mount Lenses, an a6300, an a6000, an RX10 III (Hugh Brownstone).
Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm f/2.8 C/Y + A7II (SonyAlphaForum).
Understanding ISO (Explora)
Solar Paper – Lightweight USB Solar Panel Review (Photochirp).
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Anonymous: “Here is a video that was mostly shot with the A7SII, Phantom and a little FS5. I think that your viewers may like to watch it. https://youtu.be/RSFDnKhi50I”

Fred: “I am doing a rolling review for the new FE 50/1.4 ZA lens. Here is the link:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1443700/0
It’s a stunning lens but my tests show how impressive the smaller FE 55/1.8 still is. :)
Here are my preliminary conclusions:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1443700/1#13666410“

Two Sony news:

1) Fdtimes reports about the new Sony 16-bit X-OCN format (eXtended tonal range Original Camera Negative). Like RAW, it retains everything the sensor sees. Unlike RAW, it promises lower bit rates and greater ease of use (see image above). Could be useful for future high End E-mount cameras too!

2) Thewrap reports: Sony Corp Unveils Plan to Raise $3.6 Billion via International Stock and Bond Offering. Sony plans to use the money from the issuance of new shares to increase its production capacity of stacked CMOS sensors in its Devices segment, which it hopes will lead to additional profits.

found via Slashcam and ImageSensorWorld

Something different: Help out Rob to clean his dirty A7rII sensor. More about it on SonyAlphaForum. yY personal advise is to use the Eyelead sensor gel cleaning kit you can buy on [shoplink 22691 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it. Watch the video below to see how it works.