{"id":38600,"date":"2017-10-25T06:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/?p=38600"},"modified":"2017-11-07T20:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:02:31","slug":"sonya7riii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/sonya7riii\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony announce A7R III with HDR video and 2 new lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EDIT:Blog post with hands on downloadable examples for stills and video here\u00a0http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/handsona7riii\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sony have just announced the upcoming release of their A7R III camera as well as two new lenses. As of writing this I haven’t had a chance to\u00a0see or use them, although this afternoon I will be getting a chance to try them out and I will upgrade this blog post after this and when I get more info.<\/p>\n

I love the A7R II, it’s my favourite Sony mirrorless camera, I have used it a lot in both my professional and personal video and stills work. More so than the A7S II in fact which produces superior video because of a number of reasons.<\/p>\n

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I take stills as well as shoot video and the 42.6 MP sensor is magnificent, way better the 12.2 MP sensor of the A7S II. The autofocus in both stills and video is much better with the A7R II than the A7S II, in fact it was the first Sony mirrorless camera that had what I would call usable video autofocus using phase detection, not as good as Canon DPAF but surprisingly good. The A7S II uses inferior, slow and inaccurate contrast based which isn’t good enough for video use.<\/p>\n

Before you say that as a professional I shouldn’t be using autofocus in video well I will disagree with you completely. In fact I find it incredibly important for certain types of shots and when it works it makes my life so much easier. I did a 3 part in depth video series about autofocus across different brands and cameras that you can see here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

There is pixel binning with A7R II in video causing some aliasing and moire at times and the 120p is only 720p. Whereas the A7S II has no pixel binning in 4K, shoots 120p in (a cropped) 1080p and of course has the magnificent high ISO performance that has become synonymous with the A7S brand.<\/p>\n

Despite this the video out of the A7R II is still really lovely as you can see in the below\u00a0 video was shot earlier this summer using the Sony A7R II using SLR MAGIC Cine Primes
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