tsdevine
Online
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: On
|
 p.50 #15 · Official: Sony A7R V announced (pre-orders now available) | |
I came from the a7R III, so I can't be very helpful with your questions as to how it compares to the a7R IV (which I've never shot). Hopefully other people may chime in.
It feels like a pretty big jump coming from the a7R III. Pretty much everything has improvements, but the a7R IV was a jump from the III as well.
The grip feels deeper than the a7R III, which feels nice, although I know it poses some problems for Rich with his Cambo Actus. But it still seems to fit well in my bags, feels good in my hand especially with some of the my larger lenses.
It's sooooo much more responsive than my a7R III. I have CFExpress cards in it and it writes blazingly fast. I don't get the "you can't do this right now" message that I'd sometimes get with the a7R III when I'd try to change settings while it was clearing the buffer.
AF is really snappy, EVF is larger and beautiful to look through, back LCD seems like a step up. IBIS seems really good, although I haven't really tried to compare it.
Hopefully someone can chime in with a7R IV experience to give you a useful delta from where you would be coming from.
All in all I'm really happy with it.
Matti6950 wrote:
@ PinkyBoy: because people like you, i delayed buying mirrorless long time, especially Sony. I didn't buy gear for 1.8 years and that's a long time. Then A7RIV came out and sony gave a testing event. I was like 'i'll probably hate it but lets go test it'. I even prepared and watched lot of video's on how the settings and menu's work on Sony so that i wouldn't loose time for crucial settings.
The A7RIII was good, but my pinky kept sliding off, and room between grip and lens was a little small (but ok for most lenses). Then i tested A7RIV (next to Z7 mark I, the shop had it there anyway). Fun fact: i prefered the Sony! The rounded Grip of the Z7 is to general, making it general and not ergo for me. The A7RIV has a very nice curve, making the grip very secure. My fingers never slide off anymore, and i never have issues with room between grip and lens anymore. I also there was ultra suprised how good the 100-400mm GM was (among other lenses).
I could be toxic to Nikon now because i chose Sony but i won't, Nikon makes incredible camera's and the Z7 mark II (fixing most stuff i hated about mark I) is a very good camera. Z9 (while not my size preference or removing mechanical shutter), is also an epic piece of camera, especially video wise. The 24-120mm F4 S lens is probably the best standard zoom on market. And it's because nikons 24-70mm F2.8 S pushing the market hard that Sony had to go so deep on their mark II gm, so i'm gratefull for this, i call this positive competition.
@ GMPhotography the NP-FZ100 batteries are 65€ now (they were 87€+ for while wich i really find expensive), so i bought two extra (now i have 4), the 4th one is anticipating the extra power hunger of A7R5 (tell me if i need to buy a 5th for a 15h hike with non stop footage, if so i'll buy another).
Now some question to A7RV owners (it's feedback seems to have slowed down, but i'm extremely intersted in any feedback about it). I own A7RIV. Reasons for me to upgrade: finally lossless compressed, as i shoot in incredible amount of images when travelling, this could easely cull tons of gigabytes, and make me need less memory cards for same amount of content. I should almost everything at ISO 100, so even if 0.2% better noise performance i would love it and the IBIS also seems great, it's a crucial aspect for me to get critical sharp images.
The IBIS is better, does this means the amount it can move is bigger? if so the corner where it moves to, could be softer, do people who shoot 1/5 secs for similar notice a single corner being very weak (more so then in past?)
The colours are supposed to be better then A7RIV (wich already were better then A7RIII. Are they? Is a1 still better or not (colours).
Does the camera start up faster, show images faster, then A7RIV?
How big are the files (lossless compressed)? I read it can go from 60mb all the way to 96mb (50-80% reduction), but the general numbers from someone would be nice to hear, is 78mb the average?
Does the higher resolution screen improve reviewing or is it still soft for sharpness inspection?
Is the EVF a big gain? I mean we keep getting them but at some point maybe they are not that necessary anymore, do you feel 16 million dot screen (a guess for next model), would actually net you something or is this a satisfactory end point?...Show more →
|
