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Sony a7S II with Sony 24-70mm f4 lens in video mode, SteadyShot ON I was shooting an event hand-held using a camera cage, and I felt pretty good about holding the camera steady. I was very disappointed when I viewed the footage. The video floats or rock and rolls. The SteadyShot function definitely added motion to my video. FYI, I am an experienced cameraman having worked professionally for more years now than I want to say. Am I using this function improperly? I have looked at years of hand-held video, and I am not happy with this result of smoothing out the video with SteadyShot. Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you! BTW, I love this camera ... the look, the photographs, the feel ... all good!

I work entirely with manual glass, so I have not had a chance to test autofocus capabilities on the A7R II. That being said: The Good: I have found significant improvements in moiré on the A7R II. I had recently been using the A7II and this had been a problem for me. SteadyShot is fantastic. I did not expect this to be that useful with my old manual glass, but it has worked very well and the results are much sharper than I expected. The still image quality is very good. The same could be said of the A7 or A7II, but I have been very satisfied with the quality of images coming off the A7R II. Noise at up to ISO 6400 seems good, and the noise profile on this camera is very pleasing compared to Canon DSLRs and Panasonic mirrorless cameras. The Bad: I have had my A7R II menu system freak out on me at one point in the past week of testing. Items were rapidly scrolling and the menu was unresponsive. Turning the camera on and off fixed the problem, but I am not thrilled with this happening so soon into owning the camera. I have found that out of the box sensor dust is a problem. The camera arrived with dust on the sensor and self clean mode + a blower has not removed it. I had not had this problem with the A7 or A7II, both of which arrived clean and responded well to a blower. I did not expect to have to swab the A7R II on arrival - not the end of the world, but annoying. The lack of ability to assign APS-C/Super35 sensor crop on the functions menu is a problem. I have had to use the Custom Modes to make my seperate Super35/SLog2 Video mode and Full Frame Stills Mode. Surely Sony could have anticipated that users would want these combinations and made them easier to assign from the functions menu. Shutter readout/jello shutter has been very disappointing - particularly in Super35 mode. You cannot shoot in SLog2 when using the smart remote app and a smartphone/tablet. This is absurd, and basically eliminates the usefulness of the smartremote/wifi functionality for those of us hoping to use it when recording high-quality video. People have been complaining about this since the A7S. I would hope that Sony would consider fixing the SLog2/smart remote issue and also adding more options to the functions menu.