Sony A7 Mark II & Zeiss 16-35mm f/4 OSS
December 31st
On the last beautiful day of 2014, I walked around Granville Island with the Sony A7 Mark II and the new Zeiss 16-35mm f/4 OSS zoom. The majority of images in the gallery are from that combination, but there are a few from the excellent Sony 70-200mm f/4 OSS and the Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 too.
This is the first real opportunity I've had to shoot with the A7 Mark II and the new 16-35, both borrowed from the Beau Photo rental dept. Images were processed in Adobe Lightroom v5.7.1 and honestly, I struggled with the highlight contrast. It may be due to initial early support from Adobe for the A7II, but it felt as though the tone curve made for too bright and contrasty highlights? The detail seemed to be there, just clipped during raw conversion with Adobe's default settings. I did manage to get most of it back but it was much harder than with many other cameras I've had experience with.
The A7 Mark II is a solid upgrade from the A7 and performed quite well, once I customized its controls to my liking. Sony's new Zeiss 16-35mm f/4 OSS proved to be an excellent lens, with great centre sharpness wide open and surprisingly nice bokeh for an ultra wide angle. Extreme corner and edge sharpness is a bit weak at wider f-stops but is rock solid once you get to f/10. Distortion and CA were well corrected for automatically in Lightroom, once lens corrections were turned on. Flare control was decent, although some focal lengths proved worse than others. Overall though, I'd say this is a very good native ultra-wide-angle zoom for Sony's FE mount! Lastly, this is also the first time I've really shot with the Sony 70-200mm, and it proved to be very sharp... I'm overall quite impressed with it too.
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