How about Sony digital camera - is it easy to use?

Introduction: How is Sony digital camera? Is it easy to use? How much do you know about Sony cameras? As a well-known manufacturer of digital electronic products in the world, Sony has always paid more attention to technological innovation, R&D and design of products. A series of high-tech digital products have been launched, which are deeply loved by consumers. So what about Sony digital cameras? Is it easy to use? Let us find out together. How about Sony digital cameras? Is it easy to use?

First, performance configuration

The shooting interface of Sony A7 is quite rich in functions, basically covering commonly used shooting functions, focusing and metering. In addition to quick adjustments through shortcut keys, white balance and ISO sensitivity can also be adjusted in detail in the shooting menu interface. The Sony A7 has a face detection function. When this function is turned on, after a face is detected in the viewfinder, the face can be accurately focused by half-pressing the shutter.

In addition, Sony A7 is also equipped with Sony’s unique automatic composition function, which can effectively assist photographers in composing pictures when beginners are learning photography. After the shooting menu is the custom menu. The custom menu can be defined according to the shooting habits of different photographers. There are many transfer users among the Sony A7 user group, so the A7 also has a built-in focus peaking function.

With focus peaking, manual focusing is obviously much easier. In addition, Sony A7 also has a "pre-AF" function. When this function is turned on, the A7 will pre-focus before the photographer half-presses the shutter button, so that the photographer can focus more quickly when he half-presses the shutter button. However, after turning on this function, it will inevitably affect the camera's battery life. In addition, the Sony A7 can also set the linkage function of exposure compensation and flash compensation.

Photographers can set exposure compensation and flash compensation to be linked, or set to adjust only exposure compensation. If exposure compensation and flash compensation are linked, when the photographer adjusts the exposure compensation that can change the brightness of the environment, the flash compensation for lighting the subject will also change accordingly. In addition, the Sony A7 is also equipped with an AF fine-tuning function, which can also correct vignetting, dispersion and distortion of the original lens.

The settings menu of Sony A7 is also quite rich in functions. Not only can we adjust the brightness of the night view display and the electronic viewfinder separately, we can also adjust the color temperature of the electronic viewfinder. In addition, the Sony A7 can also set the automatic shutdown time. However, it may be that the prototype we tested is not an officially released camera. After the camera automatically shuts down and presses the shutter immediately, the camera will not turn back on immediately. It will take a while to press the shutter before turning it back on again.

Second, user evaluation

The performance of the Sony A7 can basically meet everyone's needs. The overall performance of the A7, which combines higher resolution performance and high-sensitivity performance, is more balanced. In addition, multiple focus modes and a powerful hybrid focus system also make the A7's performance even more powerful. From the perspective of overall performance, the Sony A7 is quite competitive in the 10,000-yuan full-frame camera market.

However, the Sony A7 also has certain shortcomings: due to size limitations, the Sony A7 uses the NEX series mirrorless battery, which has relatively large limitations in battery life. In addition, the dispersion control of the Sony FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS lens is not excellent, and obvious dispersion is prone to occur when shooting high-contrast scenes. But despite its flaws, the Sony A7 is still a highly recommended "complete micro" product.

Third, appearance design

The Sony A7’s body design has a slightly retro style, especially the pentaprism-like top that looks like a classic manual film SLR. The Sony A7A7 handle not only improves the grip, but also reduces the possibility of slipping from the hand. The handle of the Sony A7 is equipped with WiFi and NFC (Near Field Communication) functions. When communicating with the camera, use a smart device that supports NFC function to touch the handle of the camera, and data transmission between the camera and the smart device can be automatically realized.

As a professional-level full-frame mirrorless camera, having more function buttons is the best choice to improve controllability. The Sony A7 is equipped with a large number of buttons on the back of the fuselage. The top of the Sony A7 is also densely covered with a large number of dials and buttons, including a shooting mode dial, front and rear dual dials, exposure compensation dial, shutter button, camera switch and a custom function button. The left shoulder is slightly empty. If the right mode dial can be placed on the left shoulder, the controllability may be further improved.

The bottom of the Sony A7 camera is equipped with a standard-size tripod quick-release plate screw hole. At the same time, the screw hole is relatively far away from the battery compartment, so that the battery compartment cover cannot be opened after the quick release plate is installed on the camera. A separate camera button is integrated near the memory card slot of the Sony A7, so that the camera can press the camera button to enter the camera mode in any shooting mode. Sony A7 supports SDHC and SDXC format memory cards, and supports Sony’s own memory sticks.