I am assuming mf/magnifier behavior hasn’t changed since the A6000, I am comparing it with the A7rII and noticed you have to press a designated button to activate the mf zoom window, you will have to press the button once or twice to get back to full view again. On the A7rII, when in mf mode, any button assigned to af will activate the mf zoom and half pressing the shutter release will take you right back to full view (same behavior on the first gen A7series). Read the rest of this page >>
Secrets: Rachel Alexander: shot with the Sony A7rII from Mike Kobal on Vimeo.
It has been a while since I pressed the video button during a photo shoot 
Check out Rachel Alexander’s BTS fashion essay’s here: http://girlyourecrazy.tumblr.com/
shot with the Sony A7r at 120fps at 720, upsized to 1080, holding up great!
Lenses used:
Zeiss FE 55mm
Sony FE 28mm
Zeiss FE 16 35mm
Sony 10-18mm
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