A7SII - 50p/60p in S35 or FF?

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andk

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Hi there,

wondering if the A7SII is shooting 50p/60p in crop mode or full frame mode?

Thanks
 
Thanks for the reply.

I'm going to buy a new camera and I'm shooting
50% 25p in 4K
50% 50p in 1080p

I want the 50p footage to look as good as possible.
Would you go for the A7RII or A7SII? (or any other camera)

Note that I have only FF lenses that I would like to keep.
 
andk said:
Thanks for the reply.

I'm going to buy a new camera and I'm shooting
50% 25p in 4K
50% 50p in 1080p

I want the 50p footage to look as good as possible.
Would you go for the A7RII or A7SII? (or any other camera)

Note that I have only FF lenses that I would like to keep.
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I am keeping my A7s, but would go for the A7rII over the A7sII which I sent back.

All the A7 cameras need external battery and external recorders for Video, these also help solve any overheating problems.

I use a FullFrame 28-135 Cine lens
 
Yet, 1080p60 at FF on the a7S is pretty bad, I always went to APS-C for that. It would be nice if somebody with the a7S II and/or a7R II tested this...
 
My best A7s Video quality so far has been with an external 4k recorder.
I DownRes 4k to 1080P30 with my 7Q+.
Even ProRes LT is better than anything I have recorded internally on the A7s or A7sII.

I have heard that the crop works really good on the A7rII
I do not crop the A7s Sensor and use a FullFrame 28-135 Cine lens.
 
Samuel H said:
Yet, 1080p60 at FF on the a7S is pretty bad, I always went to APS-C for that. It would be nice if somebody with the a7S II and/or a7R II tested this...
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I second that - i will test it this weekend with s-log2/sgamut3cine and cine4/sgamut3cine and post results in this thread. I can already however that the 120fps is absolutely usable(unlike the a7s where it was horrible)
 
adaptation said:
I second that - i will test it this weekend with s-log2/sgamut3cine and cine4/sgamut3cine and post results in this thread. I can already however that the 120fps is absolutely usable(unlike the a7s where it was horrible)
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A7sII 1080P120 is horrible at 6400 ISO and above
 
ectobuilder said:
Does this improve with a speed booster?
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Perhaps, the SpeedBooster might let in more light with the right lens.
I would not be able to use my 28-135 Cine, but could use a Rokinon.
My main problem with that is I need a lot of DOF because my camera is stationary (stand alone) and the subject is moving.

You are already shooting with a 2.2 crop of the Sensor,
so I suppose you could shoot in DX mode + SpeedBooster?
 
andk said:
What does the A7SII output on the HDMI port?

60p? 120p?
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Good question.
Although the 7Q+ will record 240 fps from a FS7 it will not from the A7sII.
A firmware upgrade is speculated but not promised.
I think the PIX E-7 will do it but not sure about that or the Assassin.
 
Samuel H said:
Yet, 1080p60 at FF on the a7S is pretty bad, I always went to APS-C for that. It would be nice if somebody with the a7S II and/or a7R II tested this...
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Did some testing this weekend which i can't post unfortunately - but i can tell you that APS-C is still better, but FF 60FPS is definitely a lot better then it used to be. I considered it unusable on the a7s - now im comfortable using it. The crazy Moire/aliasing has reduced a lot. APS-C remains a bit sharper however.
 
1080P60 internally on the A7sII may be better than on the A7s but still not even as good as 4k DownRes to 1080P30 externally using ProRes LT and there are two better ProRes codec available + DNXHD.

What I use to critique my bowling is Free VLC Player and the +- keys on my keyboard for slow motion.
I found that shooting with 120s shutter and 4k DownRes to 1080P30 is better for this than using 1080P60 even externally recorded.
 
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