Sony Alpha ILCA-77M2 Body

Advantages: Picking, electronic adjustment for the lens (adjustment), shooting speed, focusing and autofocus, hot shoe for any flash, HDR and DRO - perhaps the most advanced of these functions is in Sony.

Disadvantages: For me personally, replacing GPS with Wi-Fi - for others, this can be a plus. Replacing the autofocus backlight on the strobe flash.

Comment: It is not the camera that photographs, but the photographer is the main thing! And it doesn't matter if Sony is in your hands, Canon, Nikon or something else. Good photos can be made and a simple soap box.

Advantages: +++

Disadvantages: They are in everything

Comment: I will not talk much about the camera, it’s already said a lot about it. I’ll say that it is excellent in its class. Who writes, the comment is at the bottom, that you don’t believe the camera. There are flaws in everything, as you wrote above Yes, and if they write that the camera shoots badly and the ISO is better not to bully more than 400-500, then this person simply grows hands from the place where we sit. The 77th I have a RPS and you need to understand what it is before buying a camera Yes, reporters and all those who are professionally involved in this business prefer canon.nikon brands, but the price of the same d4 is for the amateur, Witzlaus all valid predely.Vot something like this.

Advantages: in importance to me
- Skinton and color rendition.
- Autofocus. He is fast ... very fast
- Swivel screen. Efect Wow. spinning ... extends .. very convenient.
- Built-in image stabilizer
- workers with a stretch can be considered ISO 3200
- JPEG is quite decent can be used for non-commercial. Shooting.
- no one wrote, but I want to note a very informative menu. Electronic viewfinder (presence of shooting parameters on it)
- The buttons to the disgrace are very conveniently located, and all are programmed as needed!

Disadvantages: - Viewfinder delay when shooting
- Weak battery
- Autofocus as a plus and minus unfortunately often wrong
- the joystick is not Ice ... not comfortable
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Comment: I want to mention I'm not a fan, but an active user of the Canon system. Specifically, 5D Mark III, six plus an extensive fleet of L optics. Therefore, it was not very correct, but I had to compare with it. The more I was surprised at the quality and all the advantages that I noted.
Whale Sony 16-50 2.8 is not worse than Canon.24-70 2.8 of the first version, off topic, but I would like to note this ... I was surprised ...
- Skinton, what does not allow me to become a fan of Nikon. And here Sony is not inferior, even beats my top three in difficult shooting conditions ... and this is what made Sony fall in love !!!
now why won't I change my canon ...
- Viewfinder delay when shooting. I do not shoot in series, I value my time when processing photos, I do not need 50 photos in 5 seconds to choose one. I will take 5 shots in 5 seconds and select the right one. In this model, the camera does not do it ... And this is a huge disappointment! For most of you it does not matter, so you can not attribute to the minuses.
Well, autofocus is clearly not slower than Mark, but, but, I could not make friends with him .. There are an order of magnitude more mistakes than canon, and this is very important in a commercial shooting ... Here is the answer for you why the pro is not enough Take off Sony. And the quality of the picture can be safely put in a row with the Canon 7D Mark II and Nikon 7200
but ... the device is not for hasty, not commercial shooting.
Do not judge strictly ... something like this.

Advantages: Excellent auto focus, fast shooting, electronic viewfinder (I cursed myself, but when I tried the first a77 I was pleasantly surprised, it’s amazing and you immediately see the finished frame), the swivel screen, monochrome display, at high ISOs, shows itself perfectly, there is WI-FI ( Now you need it, you can quickly throw a photo via Wi-Fi and NFC on a smartphone), the price is very cheap for this functionality. Magnesium case.

Disadvantages: For this money and this functionality they are not there, well, maybe the battery sits faster at the expense of EVI, but this is a trifle, as compared to competitors, it does not lose much by the number of photos on one Akum. You buy a second Akum and everything is fine.

Comment: For the reportage, I use it at weddings as a second camera for reportage shooting, I don’t miss a single moment. A competitor canon 7DII loses and costs more. Before that I used, Canon 60D, Canon 7D, Canon 5dII, Sony a77 Sony a850,
Sony a99

Advantages: A set of qualities and options that make the device the best for sequential shooting.
- Autofocus, its tenacity and speed, an exhaustive variety of autofocus parameters.
- Electronic viewfinder, besides the picture showing the most of the required parameters and allowing you to quickly adjust to the shooting conditions.
- A wonderful harmonious combination of the matrix, the processor and the built-in software, which provides a good picture and high-quality color reproduction even in relatively poor shooting conditions.
- Surprisingly well-working "full automatic", when the camera itself determines all the parameters and shooting modes. Although it is believed that “true professionals” should manually set everything up, however, in reportage photography it is often impossible to have time to set parameters under rapidly changing conditions - and automation often saves.

Disadvantages: -

Comment: Prior to that, he shot full-length Nikons, then a full-length Sony A900. Having bought Sony 77M2 for almost two years of work, he made sure that there is no point in dragging heavy, cumbersome and expensive full-length photo reporters. Let wedding photographers for ponts or studio photographers wear them.

Advantages: + Realistic color sensor
+ Fast and accurate autofocus
+ Powerful processor
+ Built-in image stabilizer
+ High-quality digital viewfinder
+ Swivel screen
+ Excellent build quality
+ Comfortable ergonomics (especially for quiet shooting)
+ Large assortment of compatible optics

Disadvantages: - Relatively low sensor sensitivity (loss of 1/3 stop luminosity)
- Only one memory card slot
- Primitive programs for auto selection of parameters
- Viewfinder delay during continuous shooting

Comment: The camera is very convenient for calm and thoughtful shooting (portrait, landscape, macro). A lot of convenient functions: digital magnifier, focus-picking, zebra-backlighting, AF-modes of object tracking, focusing on the eyes and faces, swivel screen, many customizable buttons at hand, and much more. This is one of the most "clever" and at the same time convenient cameras. Everything is done qualitatively, nothing dangles, everything is clearly pressed, it works quickly and is not buggy.
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The camera sensor provides realistic color reproduction even in difficult conditions (for example, shades of purple under halogen lamps). The sensitivity of the sensor is relatively low, so you can shoot without noise up to ISO800-1250. However, in high-ISO processed images, the difference is almost imperceptible when compared with the best crop cameras of competitors.
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The fast processor pulls the viewfinder without delays, even in low light. The viewfinder naturally behaves even when displaying highly contrasting scenes (fire at night, object against the sun). A huge advantage is the complete repetition in the viewfinder of absolutely all the functions available on the small screen. Digital Magnifier allows you to perfectly focus on remote objects manually. Focus picking is an indispensable thing for macro photography. Zebra backlighting helps to capture DD in landscape photography. And all this in the viewfinder. Problems with the flare of the screen does not exist when there is a high-quality digital viewfinder.
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Unfortunately, the camera is not very suitable for sequential shooting, despite the high speed of the series of 12 frames / sec. When recording a series of shots, the image in the viewfinder begins to “lag” and there is a chance to lose sight of the target if it moves quickly and erratically. Auto selection of ecopoparameters are primitive - you can only set the ISO range. There is no priority to the rate of change of ISO, or limitations on exposure. With not the most sensitive sensor, this is the omission of the developers of the firmware. So this camera is convenient for quiet shooting and performs this role perfectly well.

Advantages: Great camera, super autofocus, very good soundly made device, suitable for all modern lenses, works with old Sony and Minute lenses. The image is very sharp quality. The colors are great. The camera is working out my money, I'm happy.

Disadvantages: Everything seems to be good in this camera, I didn’t find any oddities in work and flaws. However, in this camera a frequent problem is a back-up on the objects, in the copy-camera I adjusted the camera and made an adaptation to it, at the same time I cleaned the matrix after some time of shooting on the street.

Comment: If there are problems with the focus or poor compatibility with some lenses, you need to adjust the autofocus in the

Advantages: Fast, accurate and with a wide frame coverage aftfocus. tracking afthofocus is truly tracking, and not just an option available in the presence of my old sony a-580. beautiful durable dust and moisture protective case. The presence in the menu of micro-adjusting the aft focus for each lens is simply super; there is no need to travel to a service center for alignment.Video recording on sony a-77 m ll can surpass many amateur video cameras in the cost of $ 1500 in quality and speed of afthofocus.

Disadvantages: A major drawback in my opinion is the light foggy moire that remains on the photo from a translucent mirror. Quite noisy images are obtained in raw format. at 800 iso the noise is already strong.

Comment: It is an acceptable model. I bought for the reason that my sony a-580 had already begun to fail little by little, sometimes involuntarily going to hibernation at that moment when I wanted to take a photo + I needed a good afthofocus in photo and video mode the same, but this is so far only in sony a 77 M ll especially if the fleet of lenses under the alpha bayonet. The camera liked the Sony SAL2470Z 24-70mm f / 2.8 and Sony SAL1650 16-50mm f / 2.8 lenses the most. at all focal lengths on the diaphragm 3.2, very clear images were obtained; however, 16-50 2.8 had to be clamped to 4 aperture. The Sony SAL1680Z DT 16-80mm f / 3.5-4.5 lens also performed well for him and purchased the camera. The full potential of the Sony SAL135f / 18Z 135mm f / 1.8 ZA Sonnar lens did not reveal, with all the careful alignment, good pictures start from the preloaded aperture 2.5-2.8. The open hole does not work, all the same, the matrix drop factor does not reveal the full potential. as for noise with high iso, then everyone has their own requirements. . If you work taking pictures of a commercial and you want to give people really neat photos, it is better to work only up to 500 iso in photo mode and video mode 1600-2000 iso. and the last about comparative trials. in the test on the comparison, my old mirror sony a-580 took part, which gave the result a little better in terms of sharpness and colors of the pictures, when the test was performed, the same conditions and settings of the cameras were observed. The RLL gives a quick afthofocus, but at the same time it lowers the purity of the image a little + zanzhaet workers iso. I repeat it can be found only by comparing, so it looks quite good especially when carefully ustustiruete lens on the camera. I hope the review was useful for demanding photographers.

Advantages: A large number of focus points and all absolutely working!
A smaller percentage of rejects focusing than on A57
ISO interim values
Excellent camera JPEG, including high ISO. despite the loss of low-detail parts, the pictures are very clear up to 2000 and clear up to 4000
Less RAW noise compared to A57
24 megapixels, which really allow you to see small details
A lot of really useful features that are not in the low-end models.
The stabilizer in the carcass gives very clear frames from 1/13 s
The presence of three user modes
Electronic viewfinder (presence of shooting parameters on it)
Greater range of possible shutter speeds, 1/250 with flash
The presence of wi-fi and the ability to transfer pictures to the phone
Fast loading photos when viewing after shooting
Presence of AF AF (though I don’t need it at the moment)
Tracking focus, but I have not used it yet
Focus mode switch

Disadvantages: No contrast focus (adjusting the phase focus in contrast)
No metering in a small area around the focus point
No gps
PPZ not hermetically (although the other models still)
Slow operation of the red-eye removal function (most cameras have about the same).

Comment: Overall a great camera. Very satisfied. Akkum, I think, keeps well. It happened that I took more than 1000 shots from a single charge, usually 600-800, bought a second battery, he helped me several times when I was on hikes from early morning to evening and photographed.
But if the dust gets on the matrix, then the dust particles will be visible in the pictures against the blue sky (against the background of everything else, there is usually no). So almost all my photos from the Crimean journey turned out to be stained (on the third day I found spots, and there was no time to look for a pear to the very end). Now it remains to edit them in photo editors.I remove raw + jpeg, if you want to edit, for example, trim or remove red eyes, I edit more often raw, but jpeg is not worse at all. In landscapes on all lenses (16-50 / 2.8, 35 / 1.8, 85 / 2.8) the smallest details are resolved.

Advantages: Everything. Prior to this camera (in order of acquisition) was the Sony H2, Nikon D50, D90, Sony A33, A65 All cameras are good as they grow, but this is the best I've ever had. Almost no flaws. I especially like the algorithm for entering settings, and the presence of 3 variants of programs created at your discretion is a class !!!

Disadvantages: The capacity of the battery, the presence of the second - is necessary. The cloud price after the introduction of freaking sanctions. The cheapest version of 64990 is something!

Comment: Great camera, I recommend.