The Adorama Fair on the 14th June provided a hands-on with the Sony A7R II according to user reports. I haven’t verified the claims so take this news with a pinch of salt for now, but with or without salt the A7R II is looking very tasty indeed.
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Sony just made another quantum leap. They have added internal 4K across the board to their new cameras, the A7R II, RX10 II and RX100 M4. There’s some exciting new technology that makes all this possible. I’ll also touch on the RX10 II’s party trick – incredible slow-mo abilities.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFwXztcOzA[/youtube] This video very clearly shows how impressive the new Kipon EF adapter is for Micro Four Thirds. It is shown working with the Canon 70-200mm F2.8L on the Panasonic GX7. I might even expect performance to be more impressive on the GH4 thanks to its faster AF engine.
(Thanks to A1ex for the tip off). Developer “leegong” of Nikon Hacker has made enormous progress in getting raw video from the live view function of the Nikon D5100. Early builds of the patch output raw frames to the card and A1ex of Magic Lantern has written a prototype / test DNG converter.
As the megapixel race continues, there’s something the average consumer doesn’t realise. Most of them are walking around with 6MP lenses on their 24MP DSLRs.
On the EOSHD forum a second image, supposibly from the A7R II has been pointed out. This one has full EXIF data and shows the camera model as A7R II, resolution 59MP and the lens used in this case is the 55mm F1.8 FE mount.
Feast your eyes on this 9K image from Zeiss. Sony Alpha Rumors makes a good case for it being from the updated A7R II. I’d say it has a good chance of being real and here’s why…
Numerous times Canon have touted the XC10 as a perfect drone camera. Let’s see if they are right.