Sony a7 II - pictures and discussions

I did not see an answer, so I'll tell you what I've found. Novoflex, Fotodiox, Metabones, Vello and the Voigtlander VM from Camera Quest as well as the close focus from Hawk's, all work just fine. It depends on how much money you want to spend and how pretty you want the adapter to look.

Some of my recent work with the A7II

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Ten Ounce wrote in post #17405914
Some of my recent work with the A7II

Great Work!

Beauty dish on most of these?

Thank you! I actually used different modifiers in all of these. First one is 2 large softboxes in front with a gridded strobe in the back as a kicker. 2nd shot is BD, last shot was a 5ft Octodome. I actually uploaded a video to my Youtube channel showing the lighting setup for the first image. You can see it here>https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=MEvg-MHixSs

Nice man.. thanks for the video... what is the Lens hood you have ion the lens?

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Sony A7 II Camera Labs review

I think many people don't know this little trick mentioned in the Camera Labs review:

It's a lens hood made by LEE Filters. It's holding an ND filter.

I would never imagine seeing a lee bellows hood at a studio shoot. It's definitely a cool hood, just unexpected. I'm guessing the filters are used to kill ambient?

it would be nice if a face is highlighted via face detection, the click zoom would zoom into the face with any lens. The whole eye/face detection has potential.

Well, at least it works with (F)E lenses. It's a very nice start.

the biggest issue with that is that I generally leave MF Assist off, I'm assuming that needs to be ON. The reason for that is because I am good enough with just peaking that I dont need face/eye focus. What happens when you leave MF assist in place is that it always zooms in when it focus, which can be fine in some scenarios, however, really annoying in others. To me, it kills too much of the flow, and should work in conjunction with a button press rather than just rotating the focus mechanism.

I generally dont find that function very useful with the ZE55, so I leave it off.

I believe you can just map MF Assist (it's the magnify tool?) to any (custom) button? Pair that with Face Recognition ON, and it should work in a similar same way, I guess?

Good question Charlie. I am actually shooting a video tomorrow detailing the entire process (covering the whys and hows). I'll have it uploaded to my channel very soon!

Some great work that some of you guys are doing. I had my a7ii for a few weeks and couldn't get used to the ergonomics of it. Body felt a little too short and had to keep changing my grip when using the front or rear control dials.

Also seems like Sony is in a difficult position when it comes to lenses. They can't change the way that physics works, as much as we want them to.

We want small, compact lenses to match the small compact bodies. Hence we get f/4 zooms, f/2.8 primes. We scream that they're too slow.

Sony responds by putting out faster primes, like the scheduled 35 f/1.4 Distagon. We complain how it's huge and expensive. We then complain that it's over priced as well. We complain how there's no macro lens, they announce the 90 macro f/2.8, again complaints about size and cost.

We have to get passed the fact that we won't get small compact, f/1.8 cheap primes. A 70-200 f/2.8 is going to be huge, no getting around it. Look at the Canon/Nikon 70-200 f/2.8, something of that size would be a nightmare to hold for extended periods of time on an a7. Also it would be incredibly expensive as well, they won't sell in the numbers of Canikon, so price will be high. They have to make compromises somewhere. It's either cheaper, smaller, and slower or more expensive, large, and fast.

i agree with you... but um... yeah those prices are ridiculous! i don;t care about the size but those prices are straight Highway Robbery!