Grading up a Sony A7SII test atm. First observation, Rolling shutter is just as bad 4K / Metabones with Canon lenses as the A7S and A7RII. The HD is just as good.... :-( Nice to have S Log 3 in my opinion at first glance its very close to grading V Log L on the GH4 as in using Slog3 gamutstoRec709 LUTs in Davinci are pretty similar to VLogtoRec709 results.

A7SII recording 4K in camera completes 30mins of recording with ZERO overheating resulting in a single 21.6Gb file. 30 mins recording hit 47% battery life with lcd on :-)

Hi @Ralph_B 120 fps HD is soft but better than 96fps on GH4 and Ill check out the 60p stuff shortly.

we hope this time color will be better with s-log3 :)

Thanks, Nick. Be sure to check full frame mode at 60P. This is the one area where I hope there would be an improvement. For comparison, shoot the same scene at HD 24P full frame. If Sony did make an improvement, the two should look the same regarding fine detail.

Quick test using VLogtoRec709 cube. Like V Log on the GH4, S-Log3 shares similar characteristics to the Cineon gamma. :-)

I just got my a7s II and tested yesterday. A lot of little improvements, that make life easier and filming with it better, but I found a strange change to the a7s1. You can´t use aps-c mode with 4k anymore. I liked the lesser problems with rolling shutter and the ability to work with metabones adapters (with speedbooster and without). Ok if it doesn´t work with internal recording, there might be processing power reasons for this, but it doesn´t work with external recording on shogun either. With A7s1 it was no problem at all to use the aps-c crop mode on external 4k recording. You still can use aps-c crop but only in fullhd recordings. On the other hand I subjectively tend to follow some findings that I found in some review. On the a7s 2 fullframe recordings seem to be cleaner than aps-c crop recordings (which seems logical somehow) On the a7s 1 it was the other way round.

Bottom line: If you work primarily with Metabones Adapter and canon glass recording externally to shogun, you might be better off sticking to the a7s 1. (the only glass that worked in fullframe mode with metabones EF nearly without vignetting are my zeiss zf primes) If you go with internal recording and sony glass, the a7s 2 has a lot of improvements (slog3, mount more stable for heavy lenses,rec button assignable, less noise and so on), nice handling(slog3,2 Lut inside, faster AF, better viewfinder especially when you wear glasses)

Brighton / couple images Sony A7SII. Rich colour and fantastic in 14 bit RAW

@Ralph_B 1080HD 60p APS-C/Super35mm ON/OFF for your perusal in Slog3 Cine (PP8) + 4K 30p / 24p

HD60p APS-C / Super35mm ON Link https://www.dropbox.com/s/yx53yxz7z0k7knf/C0037.MP4?dl=0

HD60p APS-C / Super35mm OFF https://www.dropbox.com/s/z77gzrp4jqtopok/C0038.MP4?dl=0

4K 30p FF https://www.dropbox.com/s/aqh7jtuwf9nvlkv/C0035.MP4?dl=0

4K 24p FF https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvsmfe66zu83xdn/C0034.MP4?dl=0

My A7sII should be here by Thursday. I am wondering how many "defaults" I need to turn off to use it on a TriPod for Video? Other than IBIS and WiFi are there others?

Still mixed reports on overheating. One user said he ran the camera at 4K in 74 degree room for the life of the battery (1 hr 20 min) and it overheated twice.