sony a7ii manual focus

1. Samyang 14 Sony A7II. Good luck with your adventure, you have some very fine glass there and a a7ii would allow you to use get even better results than in the film days. Thats why from what Ive been reading the a7 sensor might be important. Thank you very much for a great post. Gruss, Peter, I dont think I will find time for that too soon but maybe this older guide in German is helpful to you: https://www.systemkamera-forum.de/topic/94662-ein-kleiner-einstellungsf%C3%BChrer-f%C3%BCr-die-nex-6/, Hi Phillip, thanks a lot, will have a look. I would like to extend my photography experience with a manual focus lens and I would like your advice. Read your review about manual lenses was a really pleasant experience. I recently tested the Zeiss 2.0/100mm and only can say I love that a lot. Set Finder Quality (Anzeigequalitt) to standard for getting slighty more moir effect. I looked into adapting a Leica M lens (or m mount lens) to the Sony, but the rangefinder wide angles are not a great fit with the Sony A7 series. I find myself preferring the metabones over the Novoflex . There is a manual but there are no reference or example how to Brilliant thanks, I have done this and am getting much improved results already. eBay Product ID (ePID) 16027883901. I have a studio with high ceilings and a very big window. Thanks for your info! The a7ii will be a lot sharper in the center and at least as sharp in the corners. I cant tell you if they will work well for you because that depends on what and how you shoot. For the sake of debating theres a couple thing I dont agree 100%: For image stabilisation to work with manual lenses I gather that you have to input the focal length of the lens to the A7ii. MF lenses are my favorites. Well, Ill let you judge for yourself. Thanks Kit and good luck with the a7rII . Being a manual lens, it didnt need to stop down to the taking aperture, it stayed in f/8. If you dont want the better resolution and other features of the rII Im not sure I would pay that difference just for these differences. The Metabones mounting system seems to be better though. I usaually only use two or three aperture settings this makes it easier to remember them but thats what I do. After just a few practice, I can achieve >95% accuracy in focusing stationary and slowly moving subjects (eg, my dog) WITHOUT adding Focus Magnification (shooting RAW). I adore it and put up with its flaws because of its very small size for a 300mm. I would like to have a 35mm lens and 135mm. I did not get sharp images, like expected. My question is how the view finder correction wheel (for people needing glasses or optically challenged) is disturbing the result of the search for sharpness. erst Mal danke fr den informativen Artikel. Just use A-mode and the camera will do all the metering. Especially one lens from my youth always seemed like the dream lens to me, the Vivitar Series 1 70-210. IBIS should be effective enough for stabilizing the image. Thanks for you fast return ! I have shot a wedding with manual lenses and my friends were very happy with the results as well as kids. So basically I pay a lot less for similar results as I would get with modern lenses and I have more fun taking them. The 7rII has slightly better performance at high ISO than the 7II. And Ill see if I miss a tele prime. I seached for the review with your recommondation but I haven`t found it. At f/11, this lens is outstanding. Highly active question. again thank you, Hi Phillip, http://www.marktomaras.com/weddings/ac#8. Any idea how effective the ibis would be while in magnified mode while hand held trying to focus. If you can teach me some method to improve the results, I would appreciate. Should I set mine to low, and of yes why is that, is there a benefit to having it set to low? I just dont want to break the bank because I cant afford 500+ lenses at this point? The reason Im looking at ibis is for use with longer lenses ie 200/300mm for shooting windsurfers/surfers. Well here it gets more complicated but if we only look at sharpness the 24MP a77ii/a6500 image will always be as good or better than the a7rii 18MP image since it has a higher resolution. Do you use the a7 and manual lens combo with an external flash sometimes? For ILCA-77M2, SLT-A77V, SLT-A99V, or DSLR-A900 models. Ive been looking into purchasing a 7II so I can use many of my old lenses because I really dont enjoy using lenses where the aperature is accessed only through the camera body like on my Oly MD5. Basically, you dont have to worry if your focus is right when shooting landscapes, cityscapes etc. Minolta MD 135mm 1:3.5, o49mm To save the highlights I had to underexpose this image a lot. I have: I use it 95% of the time. I just bought an 80mm, set to arrive late next week. Is there a way to get a sharp focus on these manual lenses? The big problem with Sony FE system compared to fujifilm ,as I see it,is very expensive native lenses ore much more weight. Turn on back button focus. If you have any questions or suggestions just leave a comment! . This will determines the focal length you need. I dont do a lot of this type of shooting to justify the likes of the Sigma 150-600mm or the shorter more expensive sony lenses, but like the challenge, Ever try anything like this ? I really wonder why to this date there arent any programmable E-mount adapters with exif for manual lenses. It is a better camera than the a7 but if you look at the larger picture the differences arent huge. I bought a Minolta 28-70mm 3.5 MD zoom lens from an eBay seller who claimed to be the original owner and lens was in excellent shape. So far, the results were not good. On top it also has a removable dent with an arca profile alllowing you to mount heavier lenses on a tripod. Or does the f1.4 function as a different aperature when mounted to the Sony? Slightly better lowlight focus too. But there are certain looks you can only create with older lenses. As to focusing methods (focus magnification or focus peaking), please explain. Which is the best for you? The 100-300 is big, heavy, it can be difficult to stabilize it from 200 to 300mm, but it gives really really impressive photos. Im using an ais nikon manual 28 f3.5 on my a72 with metabones n-fe, and getting great results, barely any fringing except at f22 etc, has he set the cam to release without lens enable? Thanks for your advice, Phillip. Does the 42MP BSI sensor have the same advantages it has against the A7II also have against the stacked A9 sensor with i.e. BH Online Videos . To anyone on a budget that enjoys or wants to get into photography/ post processing (and a little bit into the technical side of gear) I can recommend to look for a used Sony a7m1 that you can get starting at <400EUR. Focus peaking only works on sharp edges so its usually useless for many subjects. Maybe useful for others as well: C1 Zebra on/off (quite easy to reach this one here for me, just toggels the function), C2 Selftimer prior to Auto-Bracketing when using a tripod (I dont use it that often, that is why I set it up on a key which I found less easy to reach with with my finger when I have the a7 in front of my eyes), C3 Grid Lines (I quite often take architectural pics), Control Wheel ISO (quickly able to override Auto-ISO here, which I use by default), Control Wheel top button standard (Monitor Display settings), Control Wheel left button standard (Drive Mode), Control Wheel middle button Focus Magnifier (quite optimal on this key as one has to subsequently click through the magnifications with this key anyway), Control Wheel inferior button Steady shot on / off (freehand / tripod). But, what concerning the conclusion? And last but not least it is dirt cheap at $20-30. Again, I am not saying that it is useless but those two stops rarely make the difference between a good and a lost picture. Thanks a lot for your help and counsel Phillip! Fotodiox Adapters seem to work well enough. I did not make a lot of pictures so far, but my first impression is disappointment for the quality of the results. I have tried some FD lenses and looked at their raw image and histogram: Open the menu button. The 42Mp sensor is also quite abit better at higher iso. I recently found an optimal way to set my A7s, NEX5R, A7iii to manually focus legacy lenses (Leica M-35mm, 50mm, Minolta Rokkor 35, 58, 135mm lenses). (have not found the menu with focal length you mention for A7 in A 6000), I use S-mode with auto-ISO and set whatever shutter shutter speed I need. So you would have lost very little. And theres also an Nikon G adapter available allowing to control aperture by means of a f stop scale. TheSony Alpha 7r has a 36 MP sensor and it is very affordable, but its louder mechanical shutter can cause vibrations which degrade image quality. Thanks to your recommendations, I now have pretty much every lens you have recommended except the 85mm ones. Then you need two adapters:A Canon FD to E-mount adapter* and aMinolta SR to E-mount adapter*. As a recently retired portrait photographer I am looking for my last camera. I think I will be switching to Sony thanks to your recommendation. These are truly modern times now thanks to Sony. And might be overkill i shoot primarily with a7s so colossal amounts of detail is not what im after. Thank you so much! Very few adapters (the Techart pro is the only one Im aware of) allow this on the Sony, and even then its very fiddly process. Thank you so much for all of the wonderful reviews and content. - Izzy \u0026 Adam *************************************************SONY a7 II TUTORIAL | How To Do Manual Focus on Sony Alpha 7 II Cameras Could you post a picture, tx! Getting started with an (Alpha) camera. You coul think about a used Zeiss 2/35 ZE. Its my understanding that the IBIS performance in this first generation system for FF sensor falls considerably short of Sonys marketing claims. Hello Phillip, Have you tryed the old Zuiko om lenses? (If you get charged at customs for extra, I found the supplier refunds the extras as soon as notified.) Your cameras EVF is better than my screen, indeed. . Please keep working on your great works! I am goingbwith the A7ll because of the reported lens mount issue with the A7, again I am looking for my last camera. it wont vignette. One of them is a Tamron 70-300mm f/4-6.5 and I would like to know your advice about which lens to go, knowing that I travel a lot (Voigtlander primes are quite light), I like landscapes very much, and sometimes a 70 to 300mm range can be very useful (I remember nice close-ups of puffins in Iceland). 2) Set Focus Peaking to Low (I use yellow as my color), 3) In Creative Style: go for the CLEAR mode with Contrast set to -2, Sharpness set to +3 (for A7iii, it can be found in Menu >Camera 1 > page 12> choice 4 down). General information about PlayMemories Home. It would be great to receive advice on that. Habe gerade eine fr mich optimale Belegung der Tasten meiner a7r iii fr die Fotographie mit manuellen Linsen gefunden, vielleicht ist das fr den einen oder anderen ntzlich: C1 Zebra ein/aus (leicht erreichbar, toggelt die Funktion), C2 Selftimer vor Auto-Bracketing vom Stativ (weniger oft benutzt, daher auf eine Taste die schlechter erreichbar ist), C3 Gitterlinien (ich mache oft Architekturfotos), Steuerrad ISO (rasches overriding der von mir meist benutzten Auto-ISO Einstellung), Steuerrad oben wie Standard (Monitor- Einstellungen), Steuerrad links wie Standard (Bildfolgemodus), Steuerrad mitte Fokuslupe (optimal auf dieser Taste, da man danach ohnehin mit der Mitteltaste durch die Vergrsserungen muss), Steuerrad unten Steady shot ein / aus (Freihand / Stativ), Steuerrad rechts Steady shot Brennweite manuelle Wahl (optimal auf dieser Taste, da man danach mit dem Steuerrad rasch die gewnschte Brennweite whlen kann). I do a large variety of different types of photography. which perform great on the Sony a7 series. Ive also got a 28mm F2.8 Konica, 50mm Summicron, and 90mm Elmarit, all of which are M mount. They are very accurate in length with practically no variation in machining. I needed a flash with built in radio receiver no reason to have a radio slave receiver attached to a flash anymore all I want is a transmitter on the camera and the receiver built into the flash. To Use A Manual Lens On The Sony A7ii, You First Need To Mount The Lens To The Camera. I have used Focus peak (not always very good) but I cannot find the focus magnifier (not same menu as A7 for which you explain). Unfortunately I was one of the first to review it on Youtube and now the prices have climbed a lot especially with the surprise A99ii arrival. To make sure I got the right one that would definitely fit the A7ii, I emailed their technical support in US and had a helpful reply back within 15 minutes which impressed me a lot! I just need to train my eye to see the shimmering better and quicker. So, I was very interested in two points you make in your blog post, one is the peaking sensitivity. Myreview | $999 at Amazon.com* | B&H* | ebay.com*. Colorshift will be worse on the a7II. I own quite a lot of Metabones adaptors, which -with one exception- are all well crafted and work flawlessly. Try rotating the camera for increased effect when the texture does not align with the rake of the EVF. In a different focal, what do you think about voigtlander 50 f2 APO ?It seems to have a special rendering like the voigtlander 21 1.4, and to be very easy to handle. I use the Sony A7 R 2 with my Leica M3 black and my Nikon FA. Control Wheel right button Steady shot focal length selection (quite optimal on this key as one can subsequently use the Control Wheel to quickly chose the focal length). It can be an exceptional tool if you are into video or do lots of high ISO work but for most users its 12 MP sensor will bring more disadvantages than advantages. The Fotodiox adapter seemed ok, but there might be better ones. In order to pinpoint my focus, I then push CF1, bringing up the focus aid rectangle. By the way the MD rokkor 100mm f4 macro is great (plus eq 150 mm gets you closer. I love manual lenses and I am on a budget so I thought this would be a good idea share my old nikon manual lenses with sony a7 ii and not buy and modern lenses. @David B-M: I have been a commercial photographer on and off since I was about 19 two Nikon F Photomic head bodies and lenses (and the massive Pentax 67 camera; another story)and much like 4/3rds today, had the extraordinary OM1 with a few lenses for personal work (all the while being a television and film director). From what I have seen I dont think the Leica M lenses work extremely well on the SL, so I doubt the Panasonic is any better. I bought a a7ii back in March and I am stuck with the kit lens. 1. The thing is that lens adapters have margins to guarantee infinity focus so the lenses usually focus well past the infinity on the infinity hard stop, thus calibrating them enables you to shoot these vintage lenses as they meant to be shoot on film cameras. Even though I only had the a7 with its compressed raws. In the Custom Key Settings go to Menu 2. I have much fun using my 30 years old Nikkor 1,4/50 with Novoflex adapter for close-ups with f 2 or 2,8 for little deepth of field. The FD lense have a better contrast, the FE lens looks flat compared to them ( at same fstops). Thanks for the article! I have just happened across your website after searching for manual focusing with Sony A7. My photos at : Voigtlander M mount 15 mk2 Albinar ADG 28mm 1:2.8 Macro Focus, o52mm Please do make this video. Already have several E>A manual adapters and plenty of vintage glass to work with before I get an LA-EA4 for the AF lenses. Both of these cameras have an anti-alias filter that works only in one direction: Vertical on the Nikon but horizontal on the Sony. I am quite happy with themgot much better in photography going full manual. Contents. White Balance: AWB (Auto White Balance) Focus Mode: AF-A, which is a combination of AF-S and AF-C modes, works pretty well for most situations on the A7R II. The adaptor is very well made i think its a solid metal thing and did not notice any movement when using it. Hello Phillip, Ive been shooting a Leica M6 for years. The Canon FD 1.2/50 L and a Canon FD 2/100. If I set ASA to manual at ASA100, the view finder can become very dim at low light even the lens is fully open for F2 or F1.4 large aperture lens. I think the Samyang is a very nice lens for portrait: Very smooth bokeh and good sharpness from f/1.4. It will look fine on the screen but the image is over or under exposed. Still, a clear advantage for the Sony. Compare that to anything new today, both in terms of price and of weight !! Works great. My main focus was available light and dance/theatre work in Sydney in the 80s, and I shot dress rehearsals, so the shutter noise was no problem. The photographer mingles amongst the crowd with camera close to the chest and flash nonchalantly held in the left-hand. Thanks for the very helpful guide! The lightest 50mm E-mount lens is the Sony FF 1.8/50 at 186g and the Samyang 1.8/45 is even lighter at 162g, while the heaviest lens, the Sigma Art 1.4/50, weighs 910g. I think on all E-mount cameras it is activated by default, thats why I didnt mention it. Voigtlander M mount 40/14 3. determine the numerical value. I already own an APS-C Canon 70D with zooms only. Personally I have the luxury of owning a FE 4/16-35 aus well but most often I use a manual 28mm lens. My mount became so loose that it affected image quality but I use my camera a lot. The EBAY seller listed it as Minolta AF 24mm 2.8 / Sony A7 well turns out that its an A mount not an E mount. MD or MC are sure signs that it will fit. You know how to write an article and entertain and educate reader at the same time and Not BORE at all. Image Stabilization only Sony has it. How do I focus manually on a Sony Alpha a7II? Once focus is established, i switch off the focus aid and dial in the final aperture and exposure, using the histogram in my viewfinder. Some reviewers even claim the Sigma MC-11 would handle better than the Metabones IV AF adaptor, because Metabones features a distracting Arca mount!! Personally I would choose the smaller and lighter Voigtlnder. A $20 Minolta MD 2/50 will eprform mcuh better. Thanks for the constant prodding, Phillip. How I shoot manual lenses on my A7II. It has two design issues you should be aware of: The sensor is unusually reflective which can be a real issue for some applications and the mount can become loose which can be fixed by a replacement. You can learn to use it like this: The sharper your lens, the easier it is to see. No such problems with the MC-11. 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