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

This feature is different from the Lock-On AF option, described in Chapter 4. They key differences: Menu/Key Access. Center Lock-On AF must be selected from this menu, or summoned with an assigned custom key. Lock-On AF, when active, can be triggered simply by pressing the shutter release halfway.

Multiple Exposure ($4.99). Some other cameras offer a feature that lets the user take several photos that are composited into one, a straightforward function. Add this app and the a7R II/a7 II can also do so, but you get far more versatility. You can select a theme and the app will automatically composite your series of photos into one, after optim

In crop mode, the a7R II and a7 II enlarge the cropped image to fill the EVF and LCD monitor, and it’s more intuitive to frame and compose your images already cropped. Sports photographers and photojournalists who fire off 1,000 shots at an event won’t be eager to go through their digital files and manually crop images. It’s easier to crop as you s

(If you shoot in RAW & JPEG, the JPEG images, but not the RAW files, will be affected by this camera feature.)

HDR Painting. Produces a painted look by taking three pictures consecutively and then using HDR techniques to enhance color and details. It’s at Mid by default (for a medium intensity); press the left/right buttons to specify Lo or Hi intensity. The camera will quickly shoot three photos, at varying exposures, and combine them into one. (This is mo

Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA lens. This tiny lens is a perfect match for the compact a7R II/a7 II. At a mere eight ounces and measuring 2.42 × 1.44 inches, it makes a great walk-around lens for stealthy photographers. The image quality is great, but you’d expect that from a Zeiss lens that, at $800, is not bargain-basement cheap.

Auto Mode Options: Intelligent Auto, Superior Auto Default: Intelligent Auto My preference: Superior Auto

if you use the widest setting of such a zoom, and point it at a part of a scene that’s at the proper 90-degree angle from the sun, the areas of the scene that are at the edges of the frame will be oriented at much wider angles from the sun. Only the center of the image area will be at exactly 90 degrees. When the filter is used to darken a blue sky

The problems pop up because the e-curtain is, in effect, too fast. It reduces the shutter lag to the point that the iris may not have sufficient time to close completely before the exposure begins. So, the f/stop used at the beginning of the exposure can be different from the one used for the rest of the exposure (after the iris closes down to the