Re: Pre-orders open! Sony A7R III and FE 24-105mm f/4 OSS lens!
Fred Miranda wrote: Messier77 wrote: Fred Miranda wrote: TakenWild wrote:
Good pickup Chris. I wonder how they got the raws? I know this is beta testing, but this is some hard evidence that Sony is lying. There is no DR improvement.
As mostly a landscape photographer, I’m not sure it’s worth the extra money over the A7r2 at the moment.
It's disappointing to see zero DR advantage from this preliminary report. Sony extrapolated a bit on the marketing hype this time...
Agreed, but the battery and improved IBIS alone would sell it for me. No more battery grip needed! Also, I have terribly shaky hands, so every bit of stabilization helps.
The improved EVF and screen, UHS-II cards, better buffer, better ergonomics, and new shutter are all gravy.
I'd consider this a mid-cyle refresh and I'm satisfied with what they've offered
Sure, the new A7RIII gets close to the A9 functionality. It's basically better in everything. That's reason enough for me to get one as well.
However, after all these years, I was hoping that the A7RII successor would have a newer sensor tech with higher resolution, broader DR and lower base ISO (like 50). Basically something that would 'shake up' the market again...
I really feel Sony has something up their sleeves in terms of sensor tech. Otherwise perhaps we are hitting a plateau.
The announcement has really got me thinking that Sony has hit a plateau with sensor tech, at least as far as realistic consumer pricing goes. One has to think that if they had a reliable and reasonably priced sensor that handily beat the D850 in resolution, they would have been parading it around like the holy grail and scooping up every bit of free advertising from the "highest resolution full frame sensor ever created" mantra on all the review/news websites.
If I had to guess, I'd say that they have a brand new higher resolution sensor in the pipeline, but they are at least a year or two away from getting it down to a reasonable price to manufacture so that we're not looking at $6500+ dollar territory. Also, it would piss a lot of people off if they released their "R" (resolution) model only to trounce their own camera 6 or so months later.
Oct 26, 2017 at 07:21 PM
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