Is the A7RII LCD is total garbage or am I an idiot?

[jpodjpod007]

I'm an praying that I am just an idiot and have some settings wrong but my LCD display on my a7rii is useless when it comes to reviewing photos. When shooting and reviewing images they look blow out, color looks horrendous and frankly overall looks like complete dogsh!t. Am I doing something wrong or does this $3,500 camera body seriously have a crap LCD display?

 

For clarity, the EVF displays a great image while shooting and in playback. Im wondering if I have a bunk unit or the LCD display just sucks. Any feedback is MUCH appreciated! Thank you forum!

[adwb]

There are two menus for the lcd one is auto , the other manual adjust, check you are not in manual with some weird settings?

 

go to tool box _1_ first two items.

[andyfowlie]

I can confirm that my A7Rii is not like yours, the display and the viewfinder appear the same in my camera. So either you have some strange settings (please check as suggested by adwb) or you could have a defective display.

[MichaelZelbel]

The display on my A7 r II has an excellent quality. But you can easily check yours:

 

• go into the Setup menu (bag symbol), page 1
• choose "Monitor Brightness"
• verify that "Brightness" is set to "Manual"
• verify that the correction is +-0
• validate that you can see all segments of the grayscale and the color chart

 

Ok, you have to be in a reasonably dimmed room in order to see really all the segments. You can't do that at the beach in the sun. But you should be able to see immediately whether or not anything is wrong with your display.

 

I think in general the display of the A7rII is great. I just wish it was a free-angle display, like on my stone old Canon 650D. That's much more versatile in a lot of video situations.