Sony’s A7s has already been touted to be able to have lots of dynamic range and some crazy low light abilities. But we didn’t expect that it was able to see in near pure darkness. The folks over at EOS HD decided to put the 12MP high ISO camera to the test. To do this, they shot in nearly pure darkness at ISO 8000-40,000 and shot with the Canon 35mm f1.4 L lens–one that is softer than the latest Sigma iteration.
What the video shows us is that the footage holds up really well up to 102,400 but then we start to see a loss of details after that–but that could also be YouTube’s compression doing it nasty thing. Still though, this is much better than many other cameras out there and in the real world all that matters is what folks see on their screens. NoFilmSchool has featured many different tests like one with Canon gear against Kodak Film and Canon vs Panasonic. But it seems like Sony is really taking the lead now. Canon may have to respond to this in some way or another–especially at the price point of the Sony A7s.
The video is after the jump.
