Extremely fast, low noise and sharp 12MP photos!

The package includes the camera, external power supply with European plug standard and for abroad, another adapter to charge the battery in the camera, two batteries (NP FW 50), carrying strap, and the usual brief instructions CD and software.

The camera thanks to the metal / magnesium housing a stable and sophisticated look and is pretty hard and securely in your hand.

Now I will not beat around the bush and just get straight to the point:

Despite the 12 MP photos are very sharp and also at f 4 is still thanks to full-frame a very nice depth of field to achieve.

The ISO range is from ISO 50-409000 (in manual mode with mechanical shutter) .The alpha 7s also has an electronic shutter to choose from which is practically silent, but only at ISO 200 starts.

I can say to ISO 51000 you can go with the photos, if you still want to print in A4. After that already begins to act but to disturbing noise.

The autofocus is also at night in the park fail in low light. But then takes about 1-2 seconds ..
The flash assist illuminator lamp for one can shutdown.

Photo default, the camera offers pretty much everything you need. Manual, semi and fully automatic, diverse scenes programs, a really rich set of image profiles for video and photo, you can adjust pretty much all parameters ... of saturation, details, gamma, black levels, lights, shadows and so there ... Slog2 with a huge dynamic range and a lot of space for the color grading on the PC ...

The video mode:

There are modes MP4, AVCHD (28MB), XAVC S (50MB / sec) in Full HD or HD .. as you like.
If, on to NTSC, you get 60fps in Full HD or 120fps in HD for very beautiful slow motion ...

Caution:

4K recording is only possible with external recording devices via the HDMI output of the camera! For example, the Atomos Shogun (the support 4K recording).

XAVC S recording is currently only available if fast 64GB (80-94mb / s) SDHC card is inserted, otherwise bleats Camera with shooting with this card can not be ...
At 32GB, the camera will not record in XAVC S mode. As fast as it may be .... only with 64GB or higher. Perhaps that is so fixed times with an update ... Too bad otherwise to all the other fast 32/16 GB SDHC card which you can use as though everything, but just can not absorb the best video mode.

The video quality is very good (in XAVC S mode), much more detailed than with AVCHD.
A slight noise in the video mode can be seen on the PC only as from ISO 64000. From 80000 -100000 wirds conspicuously and in 200000 to 409000 ISO because it disturbs quite something, but not too extreme.

If you play around with the image profiles or receives in slog2, the picture is very flat and low contrast, but it roars again significantly less than in the default settings .. also the dynamic range is much larger .. for postproduction just ...; )

Battery / batteries ...

The going in LiveView but also with electronic viewfinder very quickly down.
The exact number of images or video number I can hardly appreciate, depending on what you use it all. For a day trip are definitely 3-4 batteries mandatory if you want to worry about himself.

Tip:

Who no wireless needs, should enable the airplane mode. For out or can be found here at W lan not.
The wireless eats the battery literally gone. In Flight mode, it goes somewhat.

Otherwise, the camera around 2400 is currently quite expensive, however, identical to the other alpha 7 Series Modellen.Aber She is currently the best compromise between professional video settings, image quality even with 12 MP and extremely low-noise images at high ISO speeds, the flash on so makes quite unnecessary.

One should also note the still small number of full-frame lenses, with the marking (FE). Taking other lenses such as the NEX series or APS C DSLM'S, then limited the image area on APS C area (1.5 Crop) and a resolution of only 5MP.