Sony A7C II Camera Silver with FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G Lens Kit

Key Features

Sony A7C II Camera Key Features

• 33 megapixel Exmor R full-frame CMOS sensor
• 8x faster processing with the BIONZ XR image processor
• Dedicated AI processing unit with advanced subject recognition and tracking
• 759-point phase-detection AF covers 94% of the sensor area
• 5-axis IBIS for up to 7-stops compensation
• Max. 10fps with AF/AE tracking
• Capture up to 1000 JPEG fine and 44 RAW images in burst mode
• Record 4K 60p (APS-C) with full pixel readout video and 4K 30p in 4:2:2 10-bit oversampling
• Profiles include S-Cinetone, Creative Looks and Monitor LUTs
• Wide dynamic range and low light performance
• Great ergonomics and durable battery performance
• Vari-angle LCD with touchscreen control
• Rugged built with weather sealing

Sony FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G Lens Key Features

• Compact and portable ultra wide angle zoom
• Fast f/2.8 maximum aperture with 11-blade circular design
• Quick dual linear AF motors
• Perfect for both stills and video
• Breathing compensation and Active stabilisation-ready
• De-clickable aperture switch
• 67mm filter thread
• Dust and moisture resistant with Fluorine coat

Sony A7C II Camera Silver with FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G Lens Kit Summary

This bundle combines Sony’s ultra-compact full-frame hybrid mirrorless camera with a versatile ultra wide-angle zoom, as the Sony A7C II in silver with the FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G Lens. It offers creators a lightweight and extremely capable setup for hybrid stills and video storytelling.

The A7C II is equipped with a high-res 33MP back-illuminated full-frame sensor, records 10-bit 4K video, and features a dedicated processor for fast hybrid autofocus, which is all packed into a travel-friendly rangefinder-style body with a stylish silver finish. It’s ideal for photographers and hybrid creators who need professional results without carrying a big, heavy full-frame system.

This silver A7C II body delivers a stylish finish while retaining all of Sony’s contemporary tech, including AI subject recognition and up to 7-stop 5-axis image stabilisation. When put together with the compact FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G lens, this kit excels for landscape photography, travel content, street photography, and vlogging, thanks to a constant f/2.8 aperture and excellent close focusing capabilities.

The camera and lens are capable of excellent image quality, fast performance, and the versatility to shoot in almost any lighting, all from a portable kit that weighs just around 850g. Whether you create content in holiday locations or capture high-resolution images in everyday scenes, this combo delivers great image quality and ease-of-use that punch well above its weight.

Sony A7C II Camera Silver with FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G Lens Kit in More Detail

Sony FE 16-25mm F/2.8 G Lens

The Sony FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G is a compact ultra-wide angle zoom lens with a constant f/2.8 aperture, which is ideal for hybrid content creation. The ultra wide 16-25mm focal range suits everything from interiors and landscapes to vlogging and handheld video recording. The optical design includes three ED and four aspherical elements to suppress distortion and deliver edge-to-edge sharpness, even wide open.

Autofocus is handled by Sony’s comprehensive dual linear motor setup for quick, silent performance, and it’s fully compatible with the latest subject tracking and breathing compensation features. The lens also supports video-centric focus transitions and reduced focus shift when zooming, while weighing in at just 409g, which is ideal for gimbal mounting.

With a close focus distance of 17cm, this lens is a dynamic stills and video zoom option, delivering excellent image quality from a small, balanced size that pairs perfectly with compact full-frame bodies like the A7C II.

Sony A7C II Mirrorless Camera Body Silver in More Detail

New 33 megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor

This full-frame mirrorless camera houses Sony’s 33 megapixel Exmor R BSI CMOS sensor, which is a big leap up in resolution from the previous generation camera. The sensor has more than double the surface area compared to an APS-C camera, which provides a wider angle of view and shallower depth of ?eld. These attributes are ideal for subject-driven content, which includes portraits, street photography, vlogging and similar genres, where you gain greater control in order to experiment with depth of field.

The sensor enables you to capture outstanding detail and resolution in 3:2 format JPEG, HEIF and RAW, with image sizes measuring up to 7008 x 4672 pixels. The camera also combines the power of the BIONZ XR processor with a dedicated AI processing unit, which render more accurate colours and skin tones, graduations, dynamic range, and overall enhanced image quality.

Upgraded BIONZ XR image processing engine

With updated resolution comes greater processing capacity, which is handled by Sony’s advanced BIONZ XR image processing engine. This is a tried-and-tested solution found in flagship cameras across the line-up and delivers high-end performance, with up to 8x the processing performance of the previous model’s BIONZ X.

New Real-time Subject Recognition AF from an AI Processing Unit

A dedicated AI processor harnesses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence in order to recognise a wide range of subjects, human poses, vehicles and insects, and accurately track them across the frame. This dramatically improved AF performance, with more tenacious tracking, as well as providing improved auto white balance and colour rendering of skin tones.

New Human pose estimation

Among the benefits which the AI processor brings is subject form data, which recognises movement. This provides an improvement in human eye recognition accuracy, as well as adding human pose estimation, to precisely recognise the subject’s eyes, as well as their body and head position. The result is the ability to lock onto and track a subject, even when they are facing away from the camera, wearing a mask, or glasses.

New subject tracking

For both stills and video, as well as human eye, head, body and poses, the Sony A7C II recognises animals and birds, insects, cars, trains and airplanes. Heads and bodies are now recognised for Animal, and Bird settings too, which improves the hit-rate for your photos and accurately tracks subjects when recording videos.

Thanks to additional new subjects, enhanced tracking and wider sensor AF coverage, you can concentrate on framing your shot and capturing emotive images, without worrying so much about tracking the subject.

Wider AF with improved features

A series of upgrades help you come away from any situation with great results, which include:

• 759 phase-detection AF points (vs 693 in the previous gen)
• Focusing in lower light, with -4EV (vs -3EV)
• Full time DMF in AF-C or AF-S, for manual focus override whenever required
• Focus bracket with up to 299 images

Improved natural skin tones and consistent colour

Alongside improved auto white balance, creators gain more accurate skin tones when shooting human subjects with the updated A7C II. Natural, healthy-looking colours are consistently and accurately achieved, with features such as smooth skin toning applied during live-streaming, contributing to all-round improved image quality.

New Creative looks

Creative looks allows you to get more out of the camera by applying automatic processing in keeping with the mood or look which you’re going for. The A7C II camera includes 10 unique presets, and skin tones in stills and movies can be enhanced with AE (automatic exposure), which detects the skin area and controls exposure accordingly.

By changing various image parameters such as tone, saturation, contrast, sharpness and brightness, the same subject can be given different styles or looks. For additional control, you can also fine-tune various characteristics and render your own unique style.

New Selectable image quality

The Sony A7C II mirrorless camera joins other models in Sony’s range by introducing Lossless Compressed RAW. You can select S/M/L for HEIF format, and HLG photo mode. Another advantage which this model has over its predecessor is high-frequency flicker-free shooting, whereby the variable shutter reduces the impact of flickering automatically. This can occur when ambient artificial lighting is present, or you need to compensate when shooting with LED lighting.

Upgraded 5-axis optical image stabilisation

Within the second generation A7C II lies a high-precision stabilisation unit and gyro sensors, which work together with upgraded image-stabilisation algorithms to provide up to 7-stops of shake compensation. This provides exceptional handholding capabilities with far longer shutter speeds, as well as low light prowess and the ability to capture a greater variety of shots without relying on a tripod as often.

Upgraded sensitivity and wide dynamic range

Shoot stills and movies with the A7C II at a native ISO 100-51,200, which is expandable to ISO 50-102,400 when shooting stills.

Improved burst shooting and buffering

Not only has the resolution and image quality been improved, but continuous shooting is now available in electronic and mechanical shutter mode at up to 10fps, with autofocus and automatic exposure (AF/AE).

When burst shooting you can keep up with fast-paced action and capture more images too, thanks to improved buffer memory for over 1000 shots in Fine JPEG, 44 RAW files and 35 RAW and JPEGs combined.

New support for focus while recording video

Thanks to the AI processing unit, real time recognition AF and tracking for video are supported in the Sony A7C II camera. You can even maintain subject tracking while using Clear Image Zoom or the digital zoom function, so your subject stays sharp all the time.

Real time tracking for movies covers 97% of the sensor vertical and 93% horizontally and can be customised.

High quality video recording from a compact body

Video quality has been significantly upgraded in this generation camera and the A7C II allows you to record full-frame 4K 30p in 7K oversampling, with full pixel readout without any pixel binning. 4K 60p recording is also possible, without pixel binning in Super 35mm format (APS-C).

For even greater slow motion effects you can capture 120p high frame rates in Full HD, for expressive slow motion segments in your films.

XAVC S-I and XAVC HS are provided along with S­-Cinetone, Creative Looks and Log recording with LUTs, monitor LUT/lmport LUT and HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma), with 4:2:2 10-bit.

Substantial upgrades for video content

Sony has introduced a series of features to aid with video content, solo productions and hybrid content creation for any channel. These include:

1. Auto-framing, where the camera recognises the position of your subject within the frame, in order to automatically crop around the body edges. You can even keep your subject in a fixed position within the frame, even while you’re walking alongside and moving erratically.
2. In-camera time-lapse can be created showing the passing of time, which is all handled in the A7C II body.
3. Improved 4-channel audio and wind noise reduction, with volume control while an external analogue video mic is attached.
4. Active mode stabilisation, which doesn’t impact video quality
5. Advanced movie support features include:

• AF assist
• Focus map
• Breathing compensation
• Focus peaking during AF
• REC display emphasis
• Shot Mark
• Shockless WB
• Image stabilisation metadata

MI Shoe (digital audio interface)

With the addition of Sony’s digital audio interface you can record up to four channel audio with the latest cable-free, battery-free and space-saving microphones, XLR adapter, and utilise MI shoe compatible Sony fit flashguns.

Updated body with improved ergonomics and useability

On the exterior of the Sony A7C II mirrorless camera body you’ll find a 2.36 million dot XGA OLED viewfinder with approx. 0.70x magnification and 60fps or 120fps display options.

A vari-angle touchscreen LCD gives you greater shooting freedom withe a large 3-inch screen and new menus join the C-series camera, which offer more intuitive control, such as swipe access, touch and menu control, operation during playback and more.

The body itself features an improved grip for better hold of the camera body, and an optional Sony A7C II and A7CR Extension Grip for the ultimate handling. Operation is significantly easier now thanks to a new front dial button, another C button and a switch for Stills/Movies/S&Q dial.

Power management has also been updated, with the second generation camera also supporting the powerful Sony NP-FZ100 Rechargeable Battery for up to 540 images using the LCD. USB-PD charging support and USB-C super speed 5Gbps is also available.

Robust and reliable build quality

Despite being the smallest interchangeable camera in the range, the Sony A7C II features a dust and moisture resistant design, and magnesium alloy parts for rigidity and durability.

E-mount lenses for every situation

A huge range of Sony mirrorless lenses is available to choose for every style of photography and video content, from lowlight fixed focal width primes and versatile zooms, to specialist Sony cine lenses.

Using native E mount lenses for your content provides a number of benefits, which include fast autofocus to image stabilisation and iris control, and breathing compensation compatibility with the AC7 II camera. Sony even released a new generation 16-35mm f/2.8 GM II Lens alongside the camera, which is smaller, lighter and offers enhanced image quality over the original.

If you would like an all-in-one kit from the outset, the Sony A7C II Silver Camera with 28-60mm Lens Kit is available, which combines the world’s smallest zoom of its kind with the silver body.

Sony A7C II Image Samples

Sony A7C II with Sony FE 50mm F/1.4 GM Lens. Exposure: 1/2500sec. f/1.4. ISO 100

Sony A7C II with Sony FE 70-200mm F/4 G OSS II lens. Exposure: 1/250sec. f/4. ISO 125

Sony A7C II with Sony FE 50mm F/1.4 GM Lens. Exposure: 1/2500sec. f/1.4. ISO 100

What's in the Box

• Sony A7C II Mirrorless Camera Body Silver
• Rechargeable Battery NP-FZ100
• Shoulder strap
• Body cap
• Accessory shoe cap
• External Battery charger NOT INCLUDED
• Sony FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G Lens
• Front and rear caps