Re: Pre-orders open! Sony A7R III and FE 24-105mm f/4 OSS lens!
avuroski wrote:
Total noob question - but thinking of switching systems.
The DR, ISO and silent high frame shooting have me drooling.
Two quick questions:
1) Is this going to have follow focusing internally? So you can lock on a face and it will continue to follow as camera moves?
2) will it be able to be linked to an iphone or similar through bluetooth to allow control of shooting and focus externally?
If you use a native lens, yes, it can not only follow the face but also the eye, which is more critical than the face. You can get the Eye-AF also using Canon lenses with Metabones IV or V or similar but the performance is not as fluid as a native lens. The adapter, Metabones, in this case is the bottleneck in the AF process but they are updating the FW of their adapter on a regular basis.
Taking one step further on the A9, Leica-M lenses, which are manual focus lenses, can be used on an AF adapter and you can even get Eye-AF with that camera. There is at least one adapter that is readily available from TechArt, called TechArt Pro. And Fotodiox has announced a similar adapter but I am not familiar with that. I assume that the A7r III has a similar AF system as the A9 but how it performs remains to be seen.
Remove/control shooting via bluetooth on your phone can be done with through an application offered by Sony Playmemories. It works with all A7 series camera up to this point. The status of the apps offered through Playmemories is questionable at this point, but the way we understand it at this point, the apps are not available for the A7r III and A9. Maybe some kind of replacement is at work. Who knows.
Oct 28, 2017 at 05:43 PM
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