Sony A1II Hands-On Review (vs A1 vs A9III)

[@Jonathantuba]

As a wildlife photographer the combination of 50mp sensor to enable cropping and pre-capture for those fast moving moments is just what I wanted. The better ergonomics, multi-tilt screen and AI Autofocus are also great improvements. I have the A1ii on order to replace my A1 mark 1.

[@greatwood90]

Fantastic review as usual. I have the A9 III and A7RV, both bodies which I picked up in May. I almost shot the A9 III exclusively most of the summer and have just recently started shooting my A7RV more. When I heard about the release of the A1 Mark II I became quite interested in learning about the features and am glad to hear that Sony has brought this line up to speed with their most current bodies. For my needs the A9 III and A7RV are quite competent in their strengths. I think the A1 Mark II strikes me as almost a nice blend of the strengths of the 2 aforementioned systems. Certainly with the new AI AF and auto subject recognition it would be a super system to shoot if you planned on just taking only one camera body with you.

[@InaHorse333]

I'm Canon user but how you work with every camera is so amazing your so talented girl such an inspiration for me and every photographer please never stop doing this job your truly makes it more beautiful Julia have gorgeous day girl 🥰❤️

[@MiguelMejia]

Very informative, thanks! As an owner of the original a9, this was just the comparison I was looking for.

[@juliatrotti]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@PK-mq7vs]

Dear Julia, could you please give us your opinion: I really loved the original A1 for it's colour science. It was finally a pleasing look and I consistently found better than Canon (for the first time). Comparing your side by side images, I get the impression that the mark 2 is back to intensive greens and less pleasing skin colours. I put my A1 up on eBay and ordered the mark 2, but now I am really nervous if that's the right decision. Did you feel the need to edit the mark 2 pictures more?

[@hikertrashfilms]

Very disappointed, as a A1 owner in Sony. They crippled our camera with a lack of firmware support, once the a7IV debuted and withheld “Animal/Bird Eye Support in Video” and “Focus Breathing Comp”. They have still never provided us with Animal Eye tracking in Video, while the old a7C got that firmware update in 12/21. They will do the exact same thing with this body when the a7V debuts in 2025. I am not investing any further into Sony, as a Sony Pro Member, until I see that they change their firmware policy for the Flagship. Love your work Julia & Dan!!!

[@SatyaS_Pradhan]

Sony has the habit of doing this ... primary reason why I sold sony and moved to Canon ...

[@hikertrashfilms]

@@SatyaS_Pradhanplus 4K30 is not oversampled, unlike the a7IV at 7K downsample or Z8 at 8K downsampled when in 4K30. This camera is an abject disaster just because of this. A7IV still wrecks the A1ii at 4K30

[@BurningBroadcast]

I agree, I'd expect the support for the flagship pro model to be the longest of all the cameras. The fact they sell more A7's shouldn't matter. Sony should invest in it's professional users.

[@hikertrashfilms]

@@BurningBroadcastthey won’t. They will abandon the A1ii when the A7V debuts next year. They can never make a 85 1.2 until they get a bigger size mount. Nikon never advertised “Pre-Capture” at the point of sale for the Z9!!!! They provided a firmware update for “Pre-Capture”!!! It was never announced when that camera debuted. Sony has no respect for their Professional Customers

[@hikertrashfilms]

No CF-Express 4.0 Type A in a1ii What a joke!!!

[@harryvuemedia5106]

Sony has now perfected their Rolling Shutter Mirrorless camera. Not big upgrades to the A1-ii so its still worth keeping your A1 and using it for the next 10 years.

[@RyanREAX]

Yeah, the a9iii perfected it

[@cap3gt944]

It will break in two years though, because of the inherent build quality issues of the Sony cameras.

[@Imwphotography]

Thank you for your hard work I appreciate the video. And the noise test, where those using jpeg? Is the noise reduction technology available for raw?

[@designsbydanr]

I just wish that the Auto-Subj Recog. will come as a software update to the A7Cii. A7CR, A7IV and A7RV

[@ghas4151]

Don’t hold your breath. We are talking about Sony here…

[@juliatrotti]

Yes, that would be so great!

[@AStCG1989]

You own all those cameras?

[@designsbydanr]

@@AStCG1989 I have all of them except for the A7CR

[@AStCG1989]

@ nice

[@ThomazMartinez]

Did you adjust camera jpeg settings? i noticed that A12 is more contrasty and more color and cooler tones vs A93

[@niconic6660]

will you buy one or stay with you Sony AiVs ? Greetings from germany .. love your channel and you locations are everytime so great for portraits

[@ChemaPhoto]

Nice!!! Looking forward to test this!!!

[@metaler4274]

All-in-one, stacked sensor camera ever.

[@VishwasRavindran92]

So they are refreshing all the models by enhancing colour science and few feature updates and throwing an Ai chip ? I am happy with my a7iii , lets see what new they may bring for a7v or more or less it would be throwing an Ai chip in a7iv body and make it a7v ?

[@MRBuDWiZe]

i have the a7rv with focus AI and i can tell you now for sports that a1II at 50mp will be a beast with its 120fps refresh rate for focus along with AI. if your doing mostly portraits then yea its not really worth updating unless you want newer body/colour science

[@tobiahtayo5149]

Can you apply the in camera luts to jpegs - Fuji film simulation style?

[@ddrnold]

How did you record the display of the camera? I didn’t see an external recorder connected to the camera. 🤯

[@lauvassalloyt]

Muy bueno el video comparando las dos cámaras

[@JJCPhotography]

Great Sony A1II Hands-on Review！！

[@Crazytop12]

I been looking at the a93 if I do get it what are the best lens for making videos and what is the best microphone for it?

[@Straight2daPoint0]

Even tho I have the mark 3. I'll probably wait till the a1 mark 3 comes out. Still no global shutter or 120 fps w the a1ii

[@juliatrotti]

I'm not sure if they will add the same features from the a9iii to the a1 line, otherwise there would be no point in both camera lines existing

[@Straight2daPoint0]

@juliatrotti true. At least global shutter would definitely make me change over. I did get the a9iii for it due to also doing combat photography and video aside from my actual job in the military

[@ProEditingLooks]

lovely

[@urbantravel5897]

Sound great one

[@thefrenchexpedition]

how are you recording your camera screen?

[@josipbatic868]

7800eur in Croatia!?!? LoL Time to switch brand for me… Canon r5 mkii is 4925eur and Nikon z8 is 3960eur. I have tried Canon r5 mkii and it is a beast of a camera. Much better than my a7 iv and a7r iv.

[@jliang70]

This is simply not worth the asking price. Sony can probably upgrade the firmware on the existing A1 to bring it to the same level of feature upgrade and improvement in autofocus that A1 Mk2 now has. In a very competitive camera market today people can easily pick up a Nikon Z8 which has 45mp and similar level of features and performance for around half the price and then pick up a Fujifilm GFX100S which is the high resolution king . I honestly do not like what Sony is doing right now with its release of this camera. Very small incremental upgrade then charging higher price. For consumer I think Nikon is doing the best of the big three , Nikon has continuing provide better value for money with their continuous release of new firmware upgrade to add more improvement in their camera.

[@imadwardeh4357]

❤

[@SUPERSTARSSTYLE1YOUTUBE]

NICE CAT....I LIKE SONY

[@StuartJamesMedia]

This is such a let down. There was no reason to bring this to market.Its just frustrated a load of A1 users who invested the first time. A1 was compromised and became out of date pretty quickly and the same will happen with this when the A7V comes out. Sony have developed a camera that has a very small market and thats why they have not invested in it. No good firmware updates and nothing to write home about. It's over £2K more expensive than the R5II and there is nothing that you can point at that justifies the extra price. You certainly couldn't tell it in image quality and the autofocus is not as good now with Canon bringing Active tracking and eye control autofocus innovation.

[@mikamulperi]

Second

[@MichaelRAZAFIARISON]

portrait global shutter photography. There is still the subject face AF switch to add using the joystick, we are almost in 2025.

[@netarichie]

gets her cat fat and complains about him not moving fast enough that's bullying

[@Akingtech]

second

[@joshuajlewis1575]

Test video autofocus with a crowd of people. Single or two people isn't a good test.

[@randomperson-d6r]

Hy julia can you please buy me a camera please 🥺 please 🙏🏻

[@vivalasvegas702]

Sony A1.02 😂 100%….. Dead Before Arrival, WTF….still NO internal raw or 8k60 in 2024! Pathetic codec options, R5ii way superior in terms of codec flavors. EVF still drops rez while focusing(according to Gordon). NO top plate LCD. LCD still super low rez from 2020. NO Zebra or False color for video. Still using super slow/expensive Type A cf card(no gen4 support). Menu system still convoluted to navigate. Body ergonomics still meant for guys with super “tiny” hands. Rebadged 2020 sensor. Still the same limited AF area coverage and AF points vs R5ii. NO eye AF. A1ii overheats sooner than R5ii. NO cooling grip option. Over $2400 vs R5ii but only matching 85% of R5ii’s capabilities. Canon AF is still Sony’s benchmark.

[@alphaandomega2709]

Let me guess you’re a Nican shooter? 😂

[@peterrogers647]

Hi Julia. All these devices are a pile of scrap... Only you are beautiful ;)

[@ikoj]

First

[@mikamulperi]

Congrats man

[@MightyMigi]

Can you PLEASE PLEASE I BEG YOU GET A ND FILTER

[@juliatrotti]

Why? I use nd filters all the time for video. There's no need to use one for my style of photography

[@sa2005]

So is camera dead phones are heading leaps and bounds