{"id":12144,"date":"2015-09-01T08:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2015-09-01T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:04:40","slug":"sony-a7r-ii-focus-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/sony-a7r-ii-focus-accuracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony A7R II Focus Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diglloyd.com\/blog\/2015\/20150822_1402-SonyA7R_II-focus.html\">Lloyd Chambers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/diglloyd.com\/blog\/2015\/20150822_1402-SonyA7R_II-focus.html\">\n<p>The DSLR is looking like not just a dinosaur, but a lame dinosaur, given these advances. How long will CaNikon watch Sony advance without responding? The optical viewfinder is great for some things, but I say <em>get rid of it<\/em>&mdash;it is a huge liability for most things. Mirrorless is now the leading technology on the market, solving real issues for real photography.<\/p>\n<p>The Sony A7R II makes <a href=\"http:\/\/diglloyd.com\/blog\/2015\/20150822_1154-SonyA7R_II-examples-DanaGlacier.html\">outstanding images<\/a> with low noise and excellent dynamic range at 42 megapixels that are always in focus. Notwithstanding <a href=\"http:\/\/diglloyd.com\/blog\/2015\/20150819_1136-SonyA7R_II-posterization-BlueLake.html\">some file quality limitations<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/diglloyd.com\/blog\/2015\/20150817_1548-SonyA7R_II-LongExposureNoiseReduction-EggShapedBoulder.html\">disappointing 12-bit behavior in certain situations<\/a>, nothing else can touch this track record of ultra-high hit rate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2015\/08\/31\/diglloyd-sony-a7r-ii-focus-accuracy\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2015\/08\/31\/diglloyd-sony-a7r-ii-focus-accuracy\"><p>With the combination of fast phase-detect autofocus across the majority of the sensor, subject tracking, face- and eye-detection, an image-stabilized sensor, auto-ISO with programmable minimum shutter speed, very low noise at high ISOs, and incredible dynamic range, I&rsquo;m finally breaking my long-held habit of taking three or five nearly identical photos at each opportunity to ensure that one of them is sharp and usable.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Chambers: The DSLR is looking like not just a dinosaur, but a lame dinosaur, given these advances. How long will CaNikon watch Sony advance without responding? The optical viewfinder is great for some things, but I say get rid of it&mdash;it is a huge liability for most things. Mirrorless is now the leading technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152,153,764],"class_list":["post-12144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-camera","tag-photography","tag-sony"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12145,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions\/12145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}