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The Sony A7 II is a mirrorless camera with FF (1.0x) sensor and 24.3 megapixels manufactured from 2014. The range of sensitivities, including ISO extension, is 100 - 25600 ISO and it has a continuous shooting (burst mode) of 5 FPS x 28 RAW, 50 JPEG. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is 1042 €;
112 users have given it an average vote of 9.1 out of 10
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Cons: Not reliable/ build quality, AWB, Focus Peaking, slow in any aspect.
Opinion: I'm having my Sony A7II for 2 years now. In the first year the shutter was blocked. Today there is an issue with the SD card slot. I cannot insert a card anymore. I don't know such things from my Nikons.
I don't think that the Sony A7II is superior to any other camera in that range, but you can get used to it. I have accepted that the auto white balancing is not correct. The focus peaking is not usable, when you want to set the focus precisely. When you press the shutter release, there is a significant delay. It takes some time until the camera is ready for the next exposure. The battery is light and small. The battery life is poor.
Nevertheless I have had fun with the camera. With an adapter you can use a lot of lenses. I have used Olympus, Nikkor, Contax and Leica R lenses. Especially the combination with the Contax Zeiss lenses is great.
My major concern is the build quality. I would not recommend this camera to buy it used. My next mirrorless camera will be a Nikon or a Canon.
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Pros:light and small. well built. in 2021 it is at very low prices
Cons:poor iso seal, af with inconsistent and slow adapters, poor system in general and af points only in the middle area of the frame
Opinion:I joined the canon 6d to replace the latter expecting the famous precise autofocus and that does not need mirrorless corrections to use my canon lenses with adapter. Result: Sony a7mk2 + sigma mc11 + canon lenses adapter is not working well. very slow and unprecious. especially inaccurate in the dark despite the confirmation and inaccurate almost always at distances above 5m. with imprecise I mean strongly out of focus. for me precision and speed of af are the fundamental aspects of a camera. then machine resold after 6 months. I've never tried it with original lenses, but I can say that the file is really poor at high iso, in my opinion definitely worse than canon 6d.
Pros:File quality, price, stabilization, applications you can buy.
Cons:focus, single slot sd.
Opinion:I held the A7II for about 3 years, it was my first FF, and it was with her that I started photographing a little more seriously. I personally consider it an excellent machine, and considering that it is now new to around EUR 900, it would still be a very good purchase for me, if and only if, you do not need an ultra-prescious and ultra-fast MAF, as this is its main weakness. If you make landscapes there are no problems, but as soon as you change gender serious problems of focus come to light, with a flood of shots to be binned. A strong point instead are the paid apps that can be installed, one on all: Digital Filter, which allows you to simulate ND filters, generating a single RAW file, a function that alas they have removed from III onwards. As for the outgoing color it always tends to yellow-green, but still correctable in post, noise already present at iso not very high (800 ).
Pros:Full economic frame. You can mount all the lenses around, good dynamic range.
Cons:Color palette. Mandatory post-production.
Opinion:The Sony a7ii is my main machine; for my genre and street photos is also quite advanced. The difference then always makes the photographer. As for the colors I absolutely agree with the user Antonio Ibraimovic. The transition from Fuji xpro1 , xt10, xt100 was quite traumatic in terms of colors. The dynamic range is good, even sharpness, the problem is the original palette; the tones of the complexion are really bad - always tending to straw yellow even when the machine has the correct white balance. If you want to buy this machine on the used market even just to use it with vintage optics you have to buy an Xrite colorchecker as well. With color calibration the situation improves and with the use of the Lumariver program, intervening on the dynamic range the results are good. I have created a neutral profile and the color palette is now very close to the colors of Fuji which, in my opinion, remain the best machines around for portability, lenses, colors and file quality.
Cons:A little bit of everything, the engineer who profiled the color coming out, probably had raised his elbow to dinner
Opinion:Machine in general, I find the top a7s in everything , also and above all on a photographic level , with the S the files are delicious as color and shades, they are poetry, with this I tried everything, nothing, Mirrorles nonsense, I review the files and I always remain demoralized, really ugly. Then the whole thing emerges from the photos shown here. I don't have any more words, I keep it just to connect the nikon and vintage optics.
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