The Sony A7. II Real World Camera Review. My Camera of the Year 2. Steve Huff Photo. The Sony A7. II  Real World Camera Review. My Camera of the Year 2. Follow Steve. Huff. Photo. com on Facebookirect Links Buy the A7 II at B H Photo HERE or Amazon HEREYou just gotta love Sony. They are back yet again at the end of 2. Yep, they squeezed in the last couple of weeks of 2. My 2 for 2. 01. 4 is the Sony A7s, and those who know me and know this website know that I LOVE the Sony A7s. If you did not see my A7s review, you can see it by clicking here. The low light monster A7s really grabbed me in so many ways, from the full frame 1. MExUduBmMRYnIHx9b2ZEsj5p1tzAz6RJ4ilCKitJqiwG4iVJv7JM-a1M8TdfV6jD0=h400' alt='Magic Camera V3 6 Patch - Clean!!' title='Magic Camera V3 6 Patch - Clean!!' />MP sensor that can literally see in the dark to the beautiful color and quality that comes from it. The fact that I can shoot at ISO 4. A7s is pretty amazing. To my eye and many others Sony improved the image qualitycolor and AWB with the A7s and this made the images POP and have a more beautiful color. The Auto Focus couldcan see in and focus in the dark, even without an AF assist light. So the A7s has been my 1 camera ever since it was launched. The silent shutter and ability to shoot wide angle Leica M lenses was icing on the cake. The Amazing SonyZeiss 3. A7. II. Natural light and wide open at 1. So now today I am here to sit at my desk in a Log Cabin in the woods I rented for the Holidays. Sony A7. II. As you already know, from my opening statement aboveI love the A7. II enough to have made it my pick for Camera of the Year 2. For me, Sony stepped it up in many ways with the A7. II compared to the over one year old A7 yet it will not replace my A7s. Instead it will be an addition to it. Wow. The Leica Noctilux on the Sony A7. This patch was made for Climates of Tamriel v3. We have no intention to update it to v5. Please respect this decision. Please READ the stickys is the. Nerd Fonts is a project that patches developer targeted fonts with a high number of glyphs icons. Specifically to add a high number of extra glyphs from popular. II at f0. 9. 5. Look at the color. This lens on the A7. II is MAGICAL and in no way inferior to  using it on a Leica M, in fact, the color is much better here than with the M. Click image for larger version. For one, the build of the A7. II is all new and more beefy and solid. The camera feels like a  pro camera. Learn how to do just about everything at eHow. Find expert advice along with How To videos and articles, including instructions on how to make, cook, grow, or do. Its very nice. They also changed the ergonomics by adding a new bigger grip and changing the buttons and dials around a bit. The shutter button and custom buttons are placed in a much better way allowing your fingers to naturally fall where the buttons lay. Perfect. After much use with the A7. Ii and A7s, I prefer the shutter button placement of the new A7. Magic Camera V3 6 Patch - Clean!!' title='Magic Camera V3 6 Patch - Clean!!' />II. Take a look at my 1st look video below which was shot the day the A7. II arrivedMy 1st look video when I received the A7. Champions Online Gold Membership Hack. II The AF speed has improved by 3. A7 Mark I according to Sony and I agree and what may be the biggest news of all comes in the form of in body image stabilization. Sony is now using the 5 Axis IS system which moves the sensor itself to compensate for any hand movement or shake. This means that you will now get up to a 4 stop advantage when shooting low light and needing that extra bit of help keeping things steadyand yes, the 5 Axis IS works with classic lenses as well as modern day Leica M mount lenses though the system will revert to a 3 Axis IS similar to what is in the Olympus E M1. The 5 Axis will not make the A7. II equal the A7s but it does indeed help in low light situations. The SonyZeiss 3. A7. II. Click for larger. Sony also upped the Ante with the video, bringing in the same video possibilities as the A7s which has been heralded by some video pros as a fantastic camera for making films. I feel the video works very well with the image stabilization though I am not a video wizard and will be evaluating this camera mainly for photos. Even so, the video I shot with the A7. II was fantastic. It has a mic input and the on board mics are quite beefy. By that I mean they are not tinny sounding. They sound nice and full as a good mic should. With all of these improvements in the A7. II you would think Sony would have priced it at the A7s level, or around 2. Nope The A7. II is 1. HUGE HUGE bang for the buck and worth every penny. Every cent. Every bit of it. I remember many years ago buying an original Canon 1. Ds. I spent about 1. NON L Canon lenses. Today in 2. 01. 4 this Sony A7. II beats that old Canon 1. Ds in EVERY single way from speed to image quality to high ISO to usability and versatility. Digital Photography has come a LONG way over the past 1. With the Sony A7. II comes a camera that will let YOUR abilities shine or your NON abilities to also shine It is a camera for an amateur, enthusiast or pro, as it has enough to handle almost anything besides fast action sports shooting even though the continuous AF has been improved quite a bit. If you want a camera for the long haul, one that does not cost a fortune yet gives you results that appear that it does, one that will grow with you or allow you to flex your own photographic muscle, then I urge you to read on as this A7. II may be just what you have been looking for. The Voigtlander 4. Sony E mount using the Voigtlander close focus adapter. This 4. 00 lens is very nice with a classic rendering though does have some slight vignetting. I reviewed it HERE. But the A7. II is not perfect, and I will get into all of this as the review goes on. DISCLAIMER As you have already seen, I will also show image samples from the A7. II using all kinds of lenses from the SonyZeiss offerings 3. M mount lenses from Leica, Zeiss and Voigtlander. Even a few from the teeny Nikkor 5cm 1. S mount. With the A7 series, almost ANY lens can be used from any manufacturer with the use of adapters. For this reason, I will be showing the results from all kinds of cool lenses in addition to my favorite three SonyZeiss lenses. THIS, to me, makes the A7 series so much more desirable than any other camera system available today. Sure, you can mount most lenses to an Olympus E M1 as well but you lose out on the full frame sensor that gives you the full lens character. So a Leica 5. 0 Summilux or Noctilux will retain the same character that it does on a Leica M, in some cases even better. Amazing Just think about how special this is. Many of you will be saying I have no interest in manual focus lenses because you probably have a DSLR history or are just so used to AF lenses you are nervous to try a nice manual focus lens. I am here to tell you though   DO NOT FEAR MANUAL FOCUS lenses on the A7 II Shooting old classic RF lenses is a joy and SO BEAUTIFUL. Lenses can be had from 3. Manual focus with a Leica Noctilux, at f0. Added a filter using VSCO filters and with the focus peaking and magnification of the A7. II, manual focus is a breeze and is actually in a way more rewarding and makes using the camera even more special. With that said, the original Sony 3. There is something for everyone with this camera and that is the beauty of it. The A7. II at ISO 8. An out of camera JPEG with Noise Reduction turned OFF. SonyZeiss 3. 5 2. The SonyZeiss 3. ISO 1. OOC JPEG The color, the crispness and the overall rendering is fantastic here OOC JPEG at nightThe SonyZeiss 3. OOC JPEGThe SonyZeiss 1. A7. II at ISO 3. 20. OOC JPEGThe SonyZeiss 1. ISO 2. 00. 0 OOC JPEGThe 1. Zeiss at my Christmas 2. Getaway Where I wrote this reviewThe 1. A7. II at a Comicon fanfest in Phoenix AZFirst Impressions Build. Wow, so many photos already and I am just getting started on this review Phew My very 1st impressions of the Sony A7 Mark II was quite surprising.