a7S II

lessons learned: Shoot 4K even if your final video will be 1080p. Downscaled video looks a lot sharper and also denoised. 1080 footage looks horrible on those cameras. You should have tried it. Also bitrate is not enough to handle wide shots as far as I remember. (but I'm not sure if a7iii shoots 50

I've done a few weddings with the a7sii and oh my god, I hate it. The rolling shutter is awful and the autofocus was so whack, and I was using native Sony lenses. For hobby and beginner type stuff, maybe you can make it work, down the line you can sell the body and buy a better one

Hey there, Z6III video shooter here. I'll preface this by saying I don't shoot a lot of video, but I make a couple of travel videos a year when I go on holiday and almost all of them contain some level of low-light/nighttime footage. I will regularly shoot up to and at 12,800 on the Z6III and be com

I think it’s nice. A7sii footage was very hard to work with back in the day

keep the a7iv for photography and more run and gun stuff. IMO 12,800 iso on sonys is overrated and used moreso as a crutch for event videographers. It is helpful for dark wedding receptions and concerts where you can’t always setup lights. But if you’re transitioning to more commercial stuff you’ll

I shoot photos and reels on my a7sii for clients and autofocus is shit. Ive learned to take more than one take to avoid this problem. (real headache on live events).It lacks 10 bit video. Slog 3 on this 8 bit camera is a lie. But I get by with Slog2. 120FPS HD is awsome when its useful. I dont use 4

I tried it out, and while it did an ok job, I felt the grade presets that you could choose from were very limiting. A lot of them felt similar to one another. It did a pretty good job of matching a A7SII & a A7III in Slog2 with a A9III in Slog3 though, but it doesn't do any advanced grading like mas

Do you have a total budget? You need lenses for these cameras along with media, power and more, so the total cost is typically way more I'd argue the look of full frame is pretty small in most uses. Fast glass on a smaller sensor will give a similar look, and if you don't have a way to make money fr

I don't recommend the A7SII since it only shoots 8-bit 4:2:0. You’ll want a camera that supports 4K 4:2:2 10-bit for much better color grading in post.

The cameras thstbwere sold to the EUROPEAN market - in order to make them more appealing and cheaper for European consumers- and vlsave TAX (VAT etc) they found a LOOPHOLE - that basically renders the camera as a stills camera and NOT a VIDEO CAMERA due to the STUPID 30 min limitation. The EU since