Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Sony has a new trade-in event for several of its full frame mirrorless cameras this winter. In addition to your trade-in value, you get up to a $500 instant rebate and a $200 bonus for trading in your old camera. You can check your trade-in value and check out the Sony A7 and A9 models here at B&H Photo.
This trade-in bonus deal ends March 31, 2018.
We’ve seen many examples of the Sony A7S and just how good it is in low light. Well, here’s another that proves it is the low light king for affordable full frame cameras.
In this short preview video, Tony Northrup walks us through the high ISO settings of the Sony A7S, Sony A7 II and Nikon D810. The Sony A7S’ reach up to ISO 409,600 puts it just head and shoulders above the low light capabilities of the Nikon D810 and the A7 II.
Whether its the right overall camera for you, however, requires examining what you need out of the camera day to day. For low light shooting though, the Sony A7S remains in a league of its own.
Sony had six new full frame lenses under glass at CES 2015, all of which will pair nicely with the Sony A7 series cameras. The new lenses includes the following: [Read more…]
The Atomos Shogun is now in stock and shipping at B&H. The Shogun was announced back at NAB 2014 and has been highlighted as themost affordable way to get 4K 4:2:2 ProRes footage from the Sony A7s. Check it out here at B&H Photo.
Want learn all the ins and outs for shooting video with the Sony A7S? In the above video, Philip Bloom walks through his A7S settings during a workshop at B&H Photo. The video clocks in at 41 minutes but there is a lot to cover in this powerful new shooter. So, if you are new to the A7S, it is a great watch.
Check out this video from professional photographer Jason Lanier as he breaks down the 10 reasons why he stopped shooting Nikon DSLRs and mored to Sony mirrorless cameras. Jason says that he “has shot with Nikon his entire life and professional career. He switched to Sony in July 2014 (not due to a sponsorship) and hasn’t looked back since.”
Sony is obviously gaining ground on Canon and Nikon, and the Sony A7 series has made huge strides for the mirrorless camera market. What do you DSLR shooters think about Jason’s claims? Are you considering a switch to mirrorless, Sony or otherwise?
How amazing is the Sony A7s’ low light capability? Watch this video.
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/105690274 w=700]The video comes from Carbon Studios an pairs the A7s with the Zeiss 55mm f/1.4 Otus and Zeiss 28mm f/2, along with the Metabones EF to NEX adapter. They detail the shoot as follows: [Read more…]
Magnanimous Media took the Sony A7S for a spin back in July for a night shoot and created a nice little short film, which you can see above, using the camera and the Movi M5.
Below is a short behind the scenes video with emphasis given to the A7S and its potential. [Read more…]
One of the few criticisms Sony’s A7 series receives is that there are not many native lenses available for the full frame cameras. Well, Sony is aiming to remedy some of that criticism by aggressively building out its full frame lens line in 2015.
In a new lens roadmap, Sony highlights its short term goal of 20 lenses in its FE line (that’s full frame E-mount lenses). I suspect we could start seeing these lenses launching as early as January 2015 at CES.
Sony announced a new Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f/4 ZA OSS lens for the full frame E-mount A7 series cameras. Of course, the new lens also works on APS-C format E-mount cameras but you’ll have to deal with the 1.5x crop factor. [Read more…]