The camera is nothing short of incredible. It is the most versatile photographic device ever produced. You want medium format resolution shot in light you could never shoot a medium format? You have it (And no, that 5ds is not in this league)
You want 4k, you have it. Fast autofocus, eye focus, superb tracking you have it.
I got mine 3 days ago. Against all caution I shot two weddings with it. One the day I bought it and one today. I basically plunked a memory card in this new sexy beast and confirmed it was storing. Shouted some glee, screwed it into my spider holster and ran out the door.
Primary lens first wedding was 55mm FE 1.8
Primary lens the second wedding was 16-35 f4
Let me say this camera gave me a mid-photography life crisis. There was one point when I was 10 ' a way from my bride and I started to wonder if I had got a bad copy and it was back focusing. No.. It reflected what this camera can do. Shoot a damn pupil at 10' away sharp.
The absolute beauty of this beast is what Tony misses. How it steps up and says "I'm the mAck.. now how bout you hand me a tall glass of zeiss.. Leica.. Ya that sexy little Leitz trollop is over there in the corner. In the limelight, but don't worry. Me and Nocitlux are going on a date later.
Thats the kind of mind blowing stuff this camera casually pulls. Oh just throw a strap-on on Leica trollop and boom, she's mounted with 5 axis stabilization and enough megapixels to probably out resolve that gorgeous piece of glass (Step up 50 Cron)
But the files.. I have never handled files with this kind of latitude. It keeps up with my a7s (which I found on par with my nikon d800 and ahead of my a7. But that is because I shoot a lot of high iso. I live for pushing the sensor to its sweet spot)
They are just SO JUICY. And they come out of the cam looking like fine art. I'm not even kidding. Even with out post they got this magic.. What did my friend Tom call it?? oh ya, witch craft.
The camera is agile, it is responsive, handles battery well. The stabilization (with native glass at least) is seamless. I have not once yet gone.. Ahh darn is this really worth 4g?
There is no question.
Leave Tony N with his low dynamic range DSLRs, with their mirror slap and shutter slap and absence of stabilization requiring them to be locked down in a tripod with their mirror up focusing with that painfully slow and cumbersome live view which doesnt even know what focusing means. Oh their a little quicker.. ?? Quicker to take less exquisite photos thats for sure.. In big heavy bodies.
Don't get me wrong, DSLRs are fine and beautiful photographic intstruments that can, in many circumstances, compete with the a7rii. BUT - the a7rii steps up to any of these circumstances and will pretty much take the crown. But it does it in all of them.
A true delight. Cameras such as this may spell my end as a photographer. But there is nothing that can compare to the joy I had shooting weddings with it so far. Flash, no flash. It Danced.
