MBearr1221 I lol’d at this😂

Sony fanboy spotted

Haha good point the camera cool dude look wearing a beanie to bed

Hey Philip, honest question. I felt as though every review talked extensively about the ISO and Focus (which I admittingly also talked about, because how could you not), but didn't talk at all about design, or about the things that still weren't great. Yes, the design is identical to that of the A7R3, but if that camera didn't interest the viewer, then this would be their first experience with the re-design. So, my pitch was "at this price point" here are the things that matter most to me - and that most people seem to be glossing over or not addressing at all. - D

Vistek | Your Visual Imaging Experts ok cool. Good overview!

Vistek | Your Visual Imaging Experts Click-bait title, dude, just admit it.

clickbait

Haha. Good vid, but yes, a little click-baitey. :)

Thank you Mario! I really appreciate the kind words.

I honestly can't think of another justifiable use for the 100,000 ISO.

Thank You Hussain! When you're a KZfaqr you have to have a thick skin and be ok with the open criticism. I super appreciate the nice comments when I get them. Thank you again!

Hussain BH hey what did you end up choosing? I’m trying to decide between them as well. (Wildlife and astrophotography)

@@BrokeSpaceLaser Definitely A7iii and maybe get an APS-C body (a6400) for wild life.

Saad Azzahrani You dont need apsc if You hsve this full frame with crop option in this model, You have two in one and silent mode to wildlife as well.

Thanks Huong!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks Gilly V!

My goal is to keep people on the edge of their seat. :)

I have carried both my a7s and my a6000 like that from day 1. I have big hands too and the fingers just sit perfectly on the hand grip, never dropped one YET !!!!!

Did you watch the last 5 seconds? Unnecessary anxiety inducing end to the video!

Thanks Remen! Really appreciate the comment!

I've never needed one, but that's just me. Not everyone shoots like me.

lolololol

A7 III has touch screen focus now, why use the joystick?

Joystick is really not a must. 1 good center focus point is just work fine even for 95% of time with some focusing skill.

Touchscreen will replace joystick

Thank you Iguana Divergent! Appreciate the comment!

Thanks Brett! Super appreciate the comment!

keeblerhunts Focus system in the a9 polls the sensor 60 times per second. The a7iii 20 times per second. If you’re tracking fast action, the focus systems are Not the same. They just have the same focus Sensors and processor.

Thanks Joey, really appreciate the comment!

Really? You've seen videos of people doing high ISO tests in daylight? Hmmmmmmm.

Thanks Jeffery! That was my goal - since I didn't want to just re-hash what everyone else was saying.

Thank you Fritz! Really appreciate it!

Great points Sea Panther. Thanks for the comment.

Previous jog wheel/stick didn’t move the focus around unless you mapped a key to press first, then move the point, then set it...was a pain when changing it often and if you accidentally clicked one of he sides then there you go changing iso it one of the other functions...I’ve had lots of find with this lol

Sea Panther "Sony is great at listening at their customers"? Really?Took them years to implement a semifunctional touch screen! Only on a few cameras of course! How about articulating screen? Nope! Functional menu? Nope! Lenses much? Nope! That's Sony...

I can agree on most of those points but will disagree on the lenses, Sony has introduced a ton of lenses in the last three years

Sea Panther well, I kinda agree with everyone here. Personally I can live without a touchscreen, however the menu system is something that I can't imagine how it can be so hard to just reorganise. I'd even be fine with the old menu system that we had from the a7 and a6000 till the a7rii, if they'd just reorganised the functions and grouped for example focus setting together. The next big complaint I have is also the hdmi port, they should at least put a mini-hdmi port, instead of that micro-hdmi port, I've already killed about five or so hdmi cables on that stupid port. And then there are the buttons. I used a friend's canon 1dsiii a while back for an event shooting and after switching back to the a7 series those sony cameras felt like 20$ toys. The buttons are mushy, the dials don't really click. Now I wanted to get started on the video features, but then I realized, that there are cameras like the fs5 and fs7 :D. However, I think sony could blow all of their competition out of the universe, if they'd release the fs5 with a dci 4k full frame size bsi sensor and ibis and good autofocus (the one from the a7rii or so), even while keeping everything else the same (codec, body, etc.). And I'm fairly confident they could do it for less than 10k$, although they wouldn't, because pro-video-cam-market haha. Cheers

Thank you USS!

Thanks Amit! Really appreciate the comment!!

Darlington Football Club Which is one of the reasons why Brits voted out.

Well that would be fantastic. Especially if they lifted the limit with a firmware update.

Yup - exactly right. Here is the FujiRumors article about it: www.fujirumors.com/yes-eu-import-duty-reason-fujifilm-x-h1-limited-30-minutes-will-change-2018-2019/

EU is the kindom of tax !

Pretty sure that is also a rule in the US, and I don't know how much the tax is, but I'm not sure if I would want to pay significantly more for this camera so that it could record more than 30 minutes of video if I meant to use it for, you know, taking pictures, which used to be the primary purpose of all cameras but these days who knows.

Devon VP I think it’s part of withdrawal syndrome of cocaine

Negative guys. Keep a positive outlook for Pete's sake he's a fan of Christian Löffler: Seriously he looks just like him! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrR6h7l9q9XYomQ.html

A Google User He's wearing a beanie under the hoodie. I think it's more for comfort and aesthetics.

Good video but Clickbait

hahahahahahahhahaha Oh man I laughed so hard with this comment!!!

Michael, you're a good man. Thank you!!!

Takes one to know one :)

Thank you Gregor!

Yep. Just for shits & giggles i checked what would happen if i sold my D810 and go with a A7R3 (i need those extra MPs for detailed/dense Tokyo Urbanscapes) - but to get my most used lenses in Sony format ? 14-24/2.8, 70-200/2.8 - 50/1.2

@We McLaughlins like sigma and tamaron best thing about this is you can use your old apc lens until you can afford a full frame lense yes you will only be using half of the sensor doing this but it gets the job done if your working on a budget.

Thanks Mario, really appreciate the comment!

Thank you Ben!

Thank you Tom!

Thank you Ajoy! Appreciate the comment!

Thanks Builder! I really appreciate it. Glad someone could understand the constraints of what I was trying to accomplish.

I do something very similar on the GH4/5. Works great. Thanks for you comment Lex!

Hi Adam. Thank you very much! I agree - but I think that's asking a lot from a full frame sensor in a mirrorless. You'd basically melt the camera if they enabled that. 60pfs @4K is easy to do from a micro 4/3 without overheating.

Thanks Ibaadof. I will let the community answer this - or perhaps ask the Google this question. I haven't had an opportunity to use it with strobes. Though, I can't see what it won't work as well as any other new camera.

Hi Jake - thank you for subscribing and the great comment. I might leave it to community to answer your question, but a 24-105 ( i think that's the range) f4 is a good all arounder when you consider how good the low light on the camera is (so you can afford the 1 stop loss over the 2.8 lenses). I'm not sure the price though.

Thanks Art! Very much appreciate the thorough comment!

Thanks Obi. May the force be with you.

Haha. Thanks SSDMS. I appreciate the support :)

Thanks AV Life!

Hey Stephen! Thanks for your comments! I'd love to be able to test cameras longer, and do weather sealed tests, but I'll likely never be given that opportunity. At least in the same way that that LPTG can do. But, I'm always dubious of mirrorless manufacturers who claim their products are fully weather sealed. You get what you pay for and there also seems to be a lot of parts, which make me suspicious of how well all off that can be sealed. As for the lenses - I have no additional knowledge to share beyond what you already know. I'm often kept in the dark like everyone else, until something lands on my desk (like the A73) and the company is like "here - review this. You have 24 hours." That said, I don't really demand robust mounts for still lenses. This is generally only an issue with big cine lenses, which is why Sony developed the locking E-Mount on their FS7 Mk2. For everything else, it's just assumed you lock the tripod to your lens, not the camera - and the camera's are so light it literally makes zero difference. Thoughts?

Hi Dale, thanks for your reply. To be clear, none of the manufacturers claim that their cameras are weather-sealed, they claim they are "weather-resistant." For example, Canon specifies that their pro 1D-series bodies will withstand a Class 7 rainstorm. The question is a practically significant one rather than a "statistically significant" one: Sony claims the camera is "weather resistant" but suffered significant ingress of water in the Imaging Resource tests. The Olympus OM-D E-M1II by contrast, did not. Also, Roger Cicala has a teardown article on the Sony A7RIII that demonstrates no weather-resistance seals on the bottom deck, hence his concerns. Regarding stiffening of camera frames, I am thinking more of use scenarios for stils sports/racing photojournalism (I do pro motorsports photojournalism, to provide you with some context), where very long, heavy fast prime telephotos need to be mounted safely and securely, in addition to the mounting maintaining the requisite very small optical tolerances. Fuji addressed this specifically by re-engineering the X-H1's frame to be 2X as strong and significantly stiffer (with respect to tension loads) than the X-T2's so as to be able to mount a lens e.g. their forthcoming 200mm f/2.0, which will be long and heavy, along the lines of a Canon 300/2.8. They described the engineering they did to meet these requirements by publishing an engineeirng white paper on the subject. To date, I've seen virtually nothing similar about this from Sony. The A7III body looks to be exactly the same with respect to strength/stiffness as the A7II body. Bottom line: I just don't trust Sony; they have an established track record of cameras and lenses that have significant failure modes from not thinking things through thoroughly and rushing products to market.

Jason likes it when I pronounce his name like that. I do it for him.

Doesn't Canon just close the file and automatically open a new one (without dropping a frame)? That's my understanding at least. Seems like a viable workaround- why can't Sony do the same thing?

Canon do that for spanning files exceeding 4GB, not for exceeding 30mins. One is a limit on file sizes using FAT32, the other has to do with EU import tariffs. PS Sony do spanning files, but for anything using XAVC-S they insist on using ExFAT cards which don't have a 4GB file limit (and therefore don't have to span).

Yes EU bureaucrats are morons!

Then why didn’t they provide for the possibility of removing this restriction using firmware, such as in the a6400?

Thank you Tloopfan!

Thank you JD T!

I'm 100%. I've been flipping cameras and lenses for years and I haven't dropped one. Yet....

Agreed. Very good point, Sid. Thanks for taking the time to express this!

Hi James. Sony couldn't confirm that with me, but they did say that it is currently in our Mississauga store until EOD tomorrow (March 17th).

Hi Janet - thanks so much for your comment. I agree with you, mostly. It's seems however that because people are achieving such great results with mirrorless cameras we are becoming more spoiled over all. I also caution you from judging the pulse of consumers by the rhetoric in KZfaq comments. In reality there is a time and a place for every type of product. No one product is perfect, and there are always sacrifices to be made - like compression, or functionality for example. This is why simply judging on picture quality isn't the best course of action because there is considerably more to the story. I think you will find that most high-frequency users or professionals know this, but they simply don't find any need to share their opinion on YT or other social media comment forums. Thanks again! - D

Hi Drew, our Sony rep dropped it off for me to try for two days after the camera was announced. People like Jason Lanier are Sony artisans and get to test these products well ahead of launch.

No idea. Probably around 18mbps (guess). Me talking to camera was shot on my GH4 with a very dodgy Russian lens from the 1960s. Why? Because it doesn't matter.

thank you. sorry, what doesn't matter?

Cheap Traveling Trev. For Video GH5 Is Good With 4K At 60 And 30 Fps. And Have 10bit Rate.

Hi Storai, no denoiser was used. What picture profile are you shooting in?

Hello Greg, I don't think so. I think USB is just for tethering.