This is seriously one beast of a camera … the Sony Alpha A7R III
On paper, Sony’s $3,200 full-frame mirrorless Alpha A7R III is a beast. With an ultra-high-res 42.4-megapixel sensor that can shoot bursts at 10 fps, you can capture landscape photos one day and sports the next. It also handles video like a boss, recording 4K without line skipping, and super-slo-mo 1080p at 120 fps. To find out if the performance measured up with the specs, I took it for a weeklong spin with high expectations and can report that the A7R III is the real deal — provided you get to know it, first.
Borrowing from the more expensive A9, the A7R III has a beefier, deeper handle, something that might convince (some) Canon or Nikon pros to consider it. As some reviews have pointed out, though, the handle is a bit too close to the lens mount, making it hard to grasp the camera with gloves on.
There are manual controls for everything on this camera, and the buttons and dials are largely the same as on the A7R II — except for two major changes. The first is the addition of a touchscreen, which is dedicated to changing the focus region with just a tap. The other is a joystick, which offers more convenient focus point adjustments when you have your eye to the electronic viewfinder (EVF).
Speaking of, the EVF is both larger and has a higher resolution than the A7R III’s predecessors. It’s also impressively fast, though that’s something to be expected on a high-end mirrorless camera nowadays.
The bigger body allows a bigger battery with over twice the capacity of the last model, meaning you won’t be sweating battery life (as much) on a shoot. However, you still get just 650 shots max compared to 1,840 on the A7R III’s biggest rival, the $3,300 45.7-megapixel Nikon D850.
Source: Engadget
