David Busch’s Sony Alpha a7R II/a7 II Guide to Digital Photography

Focus can adjust during the burst if you set Focus Mode to Continuous AF and AEL w/Shutter to Off or Auto.

RAW

with a color; as discussed below, that can be red, white, or yellow. The colored area shows you at a glance what will be very sharp if you take the photo at that moment.

Before you access the Memory item in the menu, make the desired settings in terms of camera operating mode, drive mode, ISO, white balance, exposure compensation, metering mode, and focus mode. Then, to save your current settings on your memory card in one of the M1, M2, M3, or M4 slots, just follow these steps:

the a7 II (which lacks a full electronic shutter for silent shooting).

At night, it’s much easier to achieve this effect with the 20- to 30-second exposures that are possible in low light without any filter.

For that reason, phase detection autofocus is more accurate with larger (wider) lens openings than with smaller lens openings, and, with the Sony a7 II series, may not work at all when the f/stop is smaller than f/8 (Sony says f/9 or smaller). Obviously, the “opposite” edges of the lens opening are farther apart with a lens having an f/2.8 maximum

At around $1,350, you can afford this lens, and if you shoot a lot of wide-angle images, you can’t afford not to have it.

Center Lock-On AF Options: On, Off Default: Off My preference: Off This setting, the first in the a7R II’s Camera Settings 7 menu (shown in Figure 3.19), tells the camera to detect a subject positioned in the center of the frame and then adjust focus as the camera tracks its movement. A pair of white boxes appear in the EVF and LCD monitor. Move th

DETERMINING THE BEST EXPOSURE DIFFERENTIAL How do you choose the number of EV/stops to separate your exposures? You can use histograms, described at the end of this chapter, to determine the correct bracketing range. Take a test shot and examine the histogram. Reduce the exposure until dark tones are clipped off at the left of the resulting histogr