Sony Alpha ILCE-7RM2: everything is new
In 2015, another revolution took place in the world of photographic equipment, which so far goes unnoticed by many photographers. Someone just did not keep up with the news, someone did not attach due importance to what happened. Meanwhile, technology took several steps forward. In this test, we will not only show the capabilities of the new Sony Alpha ILCE-7RM2 camera - one of the brainchild of the revolution, but also focus on the most iconic innovations that can turn your eyes on the photo. Check price Sony Alpha ILCE-7RM2Race megapixels. Part 2
The resolution of the sensors of the top full-frame cameras in just one year increased sharply and unexpectedly. More than forty megapixels (honest, sharp megapixels) in a compact case - this is today. DSLRs and mirrorless images by this parameter instantly caught up with their bulky and ultra-expensive medium-sized counterparts. And this is not another marketing move that we are used to over the years of the megapixel race at the beginning of the XXI century. This is a new approach to working with images: with more flexible and efficient noise reduction, amazing detail, almost unlimited framing options, a huge affordable print format.
The author of the photo is Yuri Afanasyev. Click on the image to open it in full resolution. Pay attention to the detail level of the frame.
ILCE-7RM2 / FE 24-70mm F4 ZA OSS Installations: ISO 320, F11, 1/160 s, 62.0 mm equiv.
4K video is one of Sony Alpha ILCE-7RM2's many strengths
Brand new matrices
An increase in resolution would in itself be an empty phrase, if not one technical detail: in 2015, for the first time in many years, the world saw a fundamentally new type of full-frame matrices. BSI-sensors - they are also called "backlit" - began their victorious march from mobile devices, some time ago equalizing compact cameras and smartphones. Admit it, you are increasingly leaving your DSLR at home and shooting on your mobile phone? Then they gave a second life to premium compacts, taking their image quality to a new level. And only now matrices with backlighting have grown to full-frame format, having debuted in the Sony Alpha ILCE-7RM2 camera. Just a technical detail? But, perhaps, this particular detail will soon make you forget about such a setting as the photosensitivity of the matrix, giving it completely to automation. Shooting hands-free in any situation without thinking about the settings and getting an excellent result is worth a lot!Sharp and smooth
Every photographer dreams of perfect sharpness of images, and every videographer dreams of smooth videos. The urgent problems of both of them can be solved by the same device - an optical image stabilizer. Let's be honest: we saw the first five-axis stabilizer for a full-frame matrix in the previous Sony camera of the seventh series - Alpha ILCE-7M2. However, in the Sony Alpha ILCE-7RM2 novelty, it was revealed 100%, saving photos from micro-grease and movement (with a 42-megapixel matrix, this problem is very acute!), And videos from jerking and twitching. And note, when using any optics.
Sony Alpha ILCE-7RM2 implements a five-axis full-frame matrix shift image stabilization system
21st Century Auto Focus
Perhaps I will surprise one of the readers, but the focusing systems used in most cameras in recent years have come to us from the last century. Phase focusing, carried out using separate sensors, is widely used in classic SLRs and SLT cameras. Actually, the mirror in such cameras is also necessary in order to deflect part of the light to the autofocus sensor. This technology has been over thirty years old. The first serial SLR with phase autofocus - the Minolta 7000 - was released in 1985. Since the end of the 1990s, contrast autofocus based on the analysis of data from a matrix has been widely used in photographic equipment. This principle is used in compacts and smartphones. Automation rotates the focusing ring of the lens and determines the moment when the image becomes as contrasting as possible, that is, sharp. In this case, the matrix can “see”, and the processor recognizes the scenes being shot, giving priority when focusing, for example, to people's faces. The principle is good, but not always fast enough. Only relatively recently, hybrid autofocus systems began to appear, combining both working principles: phase sensors and information from the matrix about the nature of the image. Sony Alpha ILCE-7RM2 uses 4D focusing with 399 phase sensors located directly on the matrix. They cover a significant area of the frame, providing confident focusing and holding a moving object in sharpness even in low light up to -2 EV. But the very logic of the photographer’s work with autofocus has been greatly changed: instead of manually selecting a specific point, it’s much more convenient to use tracking of the selected object (this is where the “eyes” of the matrix are needed) or face recognition.How much is a million pixels?
A little less than fifteen grams: such a mass will be obtained for one million pixels, if we divide the mass of the camera by the number of megapixels implemented in it. Such an approach, only at first glance, may seem frivolous and even comic. But joking with modern technology is not worth it. Perhaps in the near future, huge black cameras will look as archaic as phones with a twisted wire and dial dial. It is the weight and dimensions of the photographic equipment that the photographers did not take with them on a trip, for a walk or for shooting that deprived humanity of millions of unique pictures. This empty niche is unsuccessfully stormed by mobile phones with tiny built-in cameras, but still the pictures from them are not always of technical quality to become masterpieces. So let's leave art photography to the real cameras: with a large matrix, high-aperture optics, beautiful bokeh ... Without a mirror. Cameras like the Sony Alpha ILCE-7RM2.
Don't be confused by the compact size and light weight of this camera. This is a professional tool with developed and finely tuned ergonomics, the ability to work with a huge number of accessories and additional equipment, the widest fleet of compatible optics
