Just brought this lens after watching your amazing video, kinda sealed the deal for me ! And some of my questions where answered by a few others that asked ! I used to live on Gili Trawangan for 1.5 years kicking my self for not making a trip to Komodo when I was there !
Hi Trent, really glad you liked the video!! Can't believe you didn't make it to Komodo when you were 'just down the road' for so long!! Still, it's never too late, Komodo or Raja are both worth all the pain you have to endure getting there :-) Oli
Can I ask what housing your using also ? Nauticam or Ikelite ? Do you have access to manual focus, how do you find the lens at AFing on the A7 ? I'll be using the lens for work filming clients daily dive trips....
Hi Trent, yeah, I use the Nautical NA-A7ii housing with the modification to allow the A7Rii to work with it. The housing needs an additional manual focus control which works really well, especially for macro, but otherwise, autofocus is great with this camera, although it can get a little confused when there are large schools of fish, best to set it to infinity in that case. Hope this helps!
Ah nice, I wish I had the money for the nauticam but had to purchase the ikelite for now... don't think I'll have any manual focus ability's with this lens so hoping the AF is quite good and doesn't track around too much which isn't what you want in your footage... Thanks all the best mate, keep diving !
zodiacfml All I can say is that the compressed youtube version is like looking through an old CRT TV compared to the full 60fps version which is more like ultra-sharp full HD on my TV. Such a shame youtube compressed it down so much :-( I'm going to try and post the full fat version on Vimeo soon so watch this space!
I love this video! Great processing and I also recognize that you have executed it with utmost consideration of music and timing. May I ask how you managed to increase the length of the background music? The song is something like 7 minutes long originally.
Jumlin Thanks Jumlin! Picking the right song took almost as long as editing the video itself actually! I managed to find a, wait for it, 2 HOUR LONG version of Spirit Bird on youtube which I then cut into a few different pieces and stitched them together in I-Movie. Hope this helps :-)
Wow nice video! Clean sharp smooth! Looks like Jacques Coustea to me! :) How big is your dome port 8"? How was the battery life? Also could you see pretty good using the lcd? Do you know anyone who use a sony A6300 or A6500? Just wanted compare the image quality with the A7R series.
Ha! Thanks for your comment and yes, I use the 8in glass dome port which seems to work really well with the Zeiss 16-35mm. Battery life has a bad rep on the A7 series cameras but seems to comfortable last 60 mins of intensive filming in my experience (just bring lots of spares). I can't speak for the A6300/6500 myself although I've heard that the autofocus is second to none so potentially an interesting option for UW video.
Very nice works. I was told that Sony a7 series has an error message when doing manual white balance at depth resulting poor colour. But, your footage shows excellent colour. Do you have MWB issue with A7II? How deep did you go?
lizardw Thanks! Yeah the underwater white balance setting is still hit and miss on the A7 (it wasn't that good on the RX100 either from my experience). I shot with a mixture of MWB when it was behaving, Underwater Auto preset up to around 6m and just pre-recorded a custom white balance for 6m+ all the way down to 30m (which I then edited in post production wherever possible). Hope this helps!
SunriseInTheMidwest If I'm being completely honest I didn't feel as though the IBIS was much more stable than the steady shot system on the RX100 while filming underwater. I'm still very new to diving / underwater video so don't take my opinion in isolation but I will say that if you're looking for a camera that's is incredible above water as well as very competent under it, the A7II is brilliant!
Drasko Stojadinovic | Photography Hi Drasko, glad you liked the vid- I didn't use any picture profiles for the video, the settings we're pretty much straight out of the box aside from manual white balance. I'm sure you could get much better colour rendering using S-LOG but I have no idea how to grade it!
Drasko Stojadinovic | Photography Wow, they look great! How come you manage to get them to look so cinematic (specifically the video with the train crossing the bridge?)
Thanks for sharing very impressive video. May I ask few questions? Did you apply red filter front of lens port or use white balance straight out from camera? Some shot with led light some without right? I also use the same camera and i found difficult to customize white balance. Some light conditionvery well but some
* sorry I have problem with my browser text input // so continue here Some light condition WB works well but sometime WB not work consistency i saw the same problem through out your video as mine.
Noppon Pitaklopanit Thanks Noppon! I didn't use a red filter at any point but instead either used the video lights or just natural sunlight with either Auto Underwater White balance preset or a Custom setting. You're absolutely right though, some of the reds are 'too red' as a result of post production and some of the scenes are too blue without any hope of bringing the red back in. I guess it makes you appreciate how good the pro's are!! Something to aspire to :-)
+chiawei Lee Hi Chiawei, yes, I predominantly used the lens at it's widest (16MM) but occasionally zoomed in pre-shot for some of the smaller creatures, hope this helps!!
thanks for your help! My set is sony A7r + FE35 2.8 ZA, I think this lens might be too long to shoot...but it's still a good idea to shoot some smaller creatures...and I have a gopro too which can be much more wider.. :D
Awesome video, music is perfect. Those fish schools are huge and so much diversity!
Very nice video and stunning dive site
Holy moly Batman. That was beautiful. Fantastic video thanks.
Thanks Mike, glad you enjoyed it!!!!
Absolutely Beautiful. Thanks
Thanks Paul! Glad you enjoyed it :-)
Very cool!
Just brought this lens after watching your amazing video, kinda sealed the deal for me ! And some of my questions where answered by a few others that asked ! I used to live on Gili Trawangan for 1.5 years kicking my self for not making a trip to Komodo when I was there !
Hi Trent, really glad you liked the video!! Can't believe you didn't make it to Komodo when you were 'just down the road' for so long!! Still, it's never too late, Komodo or Raja are both worth all the pain you have to endure getting there :-) Oli
Can I ask what housing your using also ? Nauticam or Ikelite ? Do you have access to manual focus, how do you find the lens at AFing on the A7 ? I'll be using the lens for work filming clients daily dive trips....
Hi Trent, yeah, I use the Nautical NA-A7ii housing with the modification to allow the A7Rii to work with it. The housing needs an additional manual focus control which works really well, especially for macro, but otherwise, autofocus is great with this camera, although it can get a little confused when there are large schools of fish, best to set it to infinity in that case. Hope this helps!
Ah nice, I wish I had the money for the nauticam but had to purchase the ikelite for now... don't think I'll have any manual focus ability's with this lens so hoping the AF is quite good and doesn't track around too much which isn't what you want in your footage... Thanks all the best mate, keep diving !
Hey Oli, very well done video. Lots of really great shots and looks like it was a lot of fun.
Impressive video quality! I wonder how it even looks like with the original, better screen, and on 60 fps
zodiacfml All I can say is that the compressed youtube version is like looking through an old CRT TV compared to the full 60fps version which is more like ultra-sharp full HD on my TV. Such a shame youtube compressed it down so much :-( I'm going to try and post the full fat version on Vimeo soon so watch this space!
Oli Anderson That's great! Thanks!
Great video, looking forward to the day when i can own this camera or maybe the next version.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful video!
Gregg Moore
Pleasure Gregg!
very nice video :-) Been on the same boat and enjoyed Jeroen's cooking -))) The world's a small place....
Awesome views under the sea! :) Thumbs up from me! :)
I love this video! Great processing and I also recognize that you have executed it with utmost consideration of music and timing. May I ask how you managed to increase the length of the background music? The song is something like 7 minutes long originally.
Jumlin Thanks Jumlin! Picking the right song took almost as long as editing the video itself actually! I managed to find a, wait for it, 2 HOUR LONG version of Spirit Bird on youtube which I then cut into a few different pieces and stitched them together in I-Movie. Hope this helps :-)
Oli Anderson Thats awesome! Thanks :) Are you on Flickr? Would love to follow more your shots of the A7 II.
Jumlin I'm actually in the process of setting one up funnily enough! Will post the URL once it's populated :-)
Jumlin Hi Jumlin- just set up a Flickr account (Oli Anderson), very much a work in progress though!!
Wow nice video! Clean sharp smooth! Looks like Jacques Coustea to me! :) How big is your dome port 8"? How was
the battery life? Also could you see pretty good using the lcd?
Do you know anyone who use a sony A6300 or A6500? Just wanted compare the image quality with the A7R series.
Ha! Thanks for your comment and yes, I use the 8in glass dome port which seems to work really well with the Zeiss 16-35mm. Battery life has a bad rep on the A7 series cameras but seems to comfortable last 60 mins of intensive filming in my experience (just bring lots of spares). I can't speak for the A6300/6500 myself although I've heard that the autofocus is second to none so potentially an interesting option for UW video.
Very nice works. I was told that Sony a7 series has an error message when doing manual white balance at depth resulting poor colour. But, your footage shows excellent colour. Do you have MWB issue with A7II? How deep did you go?
lizardw Thanks! Yeah the underwater white balance setting is still hit and miss on the A7 (it wasn't that good on the RX100 either from my experience). I shot with a mixture of MWB when it was behaving, Underwater Auto preset up to around 6m and just pre-recorded a custom white balance for 6m+ all the way down to 30m (which I then edited in post production wherever possible). Hope this helps!
Nice video. Do you think the stability of this video can be at all attributed to the IBIS or was it simply because you were underwater?
SunriseInTheMidwest
If I'm being completely honest I didn't feel as though the IBIS was much more stable than the steady shot system on the RX100 while filming underwater. I'm still very new to diving / underwater video so don't take my opinion in isolation but I will say that if you're looking for a camera that's is incredible above water as well as very competent under it, the A7II is brilliant!
got me subscribed anyway!
amazing video, great! which picture profile, setting did you use?
Drasko Stojadinovic | Photography Hi Drasko, glad you liked the vid- I didn't use any picture profiles for the video, the settings we're pretty much straight out of the box aside from manual white balance. I'm sure you could get much better colour rendering using S-LOG but I have no idea how to grade it!
Drasko Stojadinovic | Photography Wow, they look great! How come you manage to get them to look so cinematic (specifically the video with the train crossing the bridge?)
Nice! Thanks for your work!
What port you have used for the 16-35mm?
Tino Dietsche Hi Tino, I used the 180mm glass dome port from nauticam with n100 - n200 adaptor and locking extension ring 50. Hope this helps!
Oli Anderson Thanks for your answer!
Thanks for sharing very impressive video. May I ask few questions? Did you apply red filter front of lens port or use white balance straight out from camera? Some shot with led light some without right? I also use the same camera and i found difficult to customize white balance. Some light conditionvery well but some
* sorry I have problem with my browser text input // so continue here Some light condition WB works well but sometime WB not work consistency i saw the same problem through out your video as mine.
Most yellow not look yellow but mix with greenish. Over red boost sometime which very difficult to control.
Noppon Pitaklopanit Thanks Noppon! I didn't use a red filter at any point but instead either used the video lights or just natural sunlight with either Auto Underwater White balance preset or a Custom setting. You're absolutely right though, some of the reds are 'too red' as a result of post production and some of the scenes are too blue without any hope of bringing the red back in. I guess it makes you appreciate how good the pro's are!! Something to aspire to :-)
hiiiii, did you shot this video on 16mm of this len?
+chiawei Lee Hi Chiawei, yes, I predominantly used the lens at it's widest (16MM) but occasionally zoomed in pre-shot for some of the smaller creatures, hope this helps!!
thanks for your help! My set is sony A7r + FE35 2.8 ZA, I think this lens might be too long to shoot...but it's still a good idea to shoot some smaller creatures...and I have a gopro too which can be much more wider.. :D
music zero, footage amazing!
Got to be Indonesian song there