News Shooter | Sony launch a7 II – world’s first full-frame camera with 5-axis image stabilisation system (Updated)

Sony launch a7 II – world’s first full-frame camera with 5-axis image stabilisation system (Updated) – Newsshooter

By site editor Dan Chung: Sony today announced the second generation of the a7 camera line. The 24.3 million pixel a7 II looks like a direct replacement for the original a7 – at this point there is no word on replacements for the video friendly a7S or the

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The a7 II’s showcase feature is the brand new 5-axis sensor shift image stabilisation system. Similar to the system in the Olympus EM5 micro four-thirds camera, the a7 II has a sensor that moves to compensate for different kinds of camera shake. Check out the video below to see how it works: