Sony A7II Review

A Hands on Review of the Sony A7II

Sony plays to win, and hates to lose. A few years ago I sat next to the then president of Sony U.S. at a corporate function, and in the course of discussion he made the point that the company had identified digital imaging as a key business that they were going to be seriously committed to, and though it might take them some time it was their goal to eventually supplant either Nikon or Canon as the #2 camera company in the world.
At the time I thought those to be brave words, but now, while those other two companies have sat with their thumbs in the proverbial dark place for the past few years, Sony has forged ahead with mirrorless technology. Indeed they are the only camera maker with a mirrorless full frame camera, and not just one model, but a whole line-up of them, as well as APS-C models.
With the recently introduced Sony A7 MKII we see a continuing evolution of what was once the NEX brand and is now just Sony's Alpha brand with the new full fra...