Now I See: Sony A7S Low Light
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Read the "evolving review of the Sony A7s" here: gopb.co/a7s
Everyone had been saying the just out Sony A7s is a low light monster of a camera. There was only way to find out. To try it out!
I had a think about what I could do that could show it off and blow people's socks off. After all if it could do what people were saying...
To be able to shoot at crazy high ISOs is not about just seeing in the dark, At times I am shooting "night for day" here and for the most part it's not something I would actually ever want do. I want night to be dark....but doing this here really does show just how much the sensor can see.
The biggest benefit for me with this camera's sensitivity will be shooting in low light situations where normally you are at the top of your camera's ISO before it gets hideous and also wide open at F1.4. This sort of shallow depth of field may look pretty but it's not much fun trying to keep moving people in focus! To have a camera that could shoot in these conditions, have a clean image AND have a nice depth of field to solve focus headaches? This could be a very valuable tool indeed.
James Miller and I went down to our favourite shooting haunt, Brighton with our matching A7s to see what we could get and try out different profiles. James shot mostly S-Log. I mostly shot various Cine gamma modes.
Pointing away from practical lights so I could push the ISO up to see just how far you could push it. Just how much can you see in the dark?
Brighton Beach has no lights on it of course. There are lights on the promenade but there are a lot of people who sit out there in the dark that you can barely see with your eyes. This camera though? Well take a look!
I shot most of the daylight stuff at ISO 100 in Cine Gamma 4 and S-Gamut colour. A very flat image, not quite S-Log but close.
My glass was: Canon 24-70 F2.8II, Canon 70-200mm F2.8 IS II, Sigma 35mm ART F1.4, SIgma 50mm ART F1.4
I used the Small HD DP4 as a monitor/ viewfinder, additionally I had a Tiffen variable ND filter and my Really Right Stuff tripod with FH-350 head. To top if off I also had my new Special Edition Kessler Crane "Burl Wood" Pimipn' edition for the odd slider move!
With the shots where in goes from dark to light and vice versa, these dark parts are what I could see with my eyes. They were all shot with high ISOs and graded down to show you what I could see and what the camera could see if it was set to around 800-1600iso as opposed to what I actually was shooting at. At night between 6,400-80,000!
It was incredibly dark out there so even though I could see everything way better than my eyesight could some of the shots with dark area in them were just too noisy not to fix. I used the ever marvellous Neat Video to get these results.
So there is no cheating here by grading it dark. I made it look exactly as it would do and to prove it watch after the credits for a shot where I cycle through the ISOs!
Music is "Now I See" (so apt for this film I took it for the title too!) by Dario Lupo from The Music Bed
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Graded with Colorista II. FIlmConvert and custom LUTS from James Miller.
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GadgetIn brought me here. 😁
6 years past , The King has returned .
now that is just insane.. who needs infrared when ya got A7s
That thing could pay for itself in a week finding money and drugs on Brighton beach.
Remember all those films and TV shows that blatantly over light the nighttime "behind the wheel" scenes? Yah, that's a thing of the past.
it's insane to think about how this camera basically has better visions than our eyes, without many compromises like relying on IR-light or suffering from heavy noise
nice video man
i could take a hidden photos in a beach now
nice camera
storror hometown?
Watching these (already astonishing !) sequences nearly 7 years later got me thinking... if we've gone that far, what shall it be 10 years from now ?
This is one of my all-time favorite videos on KZread.
Thanks Phillip! Your Reviews have sold me on purchasing this camera. As I primarily shoot in low light situations ( Haunted Attractions). Thanks for taking the time to create such in depth reviews.
I feel like this is the perfect companion for a vlogger; you can just take it anywhere & it'll cope & bring you the best results possible. The perfect tool to capture your life to share it. The tool you'd want.
My hometown! Wish I stumbled across you shooting this haha. Fantastic, as ever.
I think this video sold more Sony a7s’ than entire Sony’s marketing campaign of the camera. Personally, I’ve watched it three or four times since it was first posted. I’ve always been a Canon guy, but, finally, 9 years later I snapped one on eBay just for the fun of it. It’s still an amazing camera that aged very well.
that is simply amazing... I cant wait for the full Review!!!
That is amazing and beautiful the way the stars pop, thanks for sharing
Just got this camera and am happy to find this video of pretty much my workplace down on Brighton beach, I'll have to see if I can replicate any of these shots some pleasant eve soon.
Hello! I absolutely loved your video. It has inspired me to examine buying the Sony A7Sii and since I plan on doing some longer distance videography in very low light conditions, I was really excited to see that you gave such a detailed description of how to filmed, the conditions, your starting points for the darker shots, as well as the lenses that you used... and especially the lenses because I have been having a very challenging time determining which way to go as I am quite new to the world of DSLR and how to determine best focal length as it relates to magnification. I've narrowed down my search to Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS Lens, but I was thrilled to see that you were providing such beautiful footage with the Canon 70-200mm F2.8 IS II in these low light conditions. If I may ask... what do you think is the best mounting solution to the E framed Sony for your Canon 70-210 and do you lose auto focus functionality when pairing with the Sony camera, or perhaps due to moving the lens forward on the adapter, is there the possibility that the image will not fill the entire sensor? As you can see... lacking some experience! I don't have a lot of money, but I love the night and was just so blown away by your footage that I am going to make the leap into learning what I need to know about low light photography so that I might capture some of the beauty that it offers. Any suggestions or advice would be most welcome and please keep up the wonderful work. Respectfully, James Bostock