Sony Alpha Rumors has an SR4 rumor for the A7SIII arriving next week.
(SR4) Sony A7sIII (or A9s) to be announced on October 18. It is a Full Frame GH5 killer?
Now that’s a camera I’m definitely interested in. They say it will have the auto focus of the A9. If that’s the case and it isn’t $5grand I have a feeling I’ll be getting it before Christmas (but let’s call it a Christmas gift). Now, SAR has been wrong before (oh brother have they) but I think they have it right this time. For you Sony fans Christmas may be coming early after all.
Christmas for me came in September when I got an A7RII though it will take me a while to build a glass collection. Why are you fixated on the A7S? I thought that the type was principally focused to low light shooting and videography. My A7RII does well at high ISO compared to most of the camera world. Last weekend, I was at a railroad museum in the Atlanta area in which the lighting conditions were difficult to say the least. Would have been flash conditions with very limited distances 99% of the cameras out there. My A7 was happy… Read more »
Well my A7S is an artifact of the Sony camera rollout and my need for clean ISO 6400. It was the first of the Sony mirrorless cameras capable of that. This capability has continued into the later cameras but I’ve been waiting for an upgrade in the full-frame autofocus. The A9 has what I want in autofocus. But I really don’t need 20 fps and I’m not crazy about the price tag. So I may be trading the A7S in shortly for an A7III. I’d like to keep the resolution to about 25 megapixels but it’s not a deal breaker.… Read more »
I get perfectly usable ISO 6400 with both my A6300 and A7RII. The auto focus with the 6300 is stunning but I don’t have the experience with the A7 to make that statement. I just ordered, but don’t yet have, a G Master 24-70, which is supposedly the Sony lens to die for. Oh, but I’m looking forward to that! There’s an irony to the A7R series with the truly fine collection of Sony, Zeiss and Sigma lenses dedicated. The irony is that all the truly good lenses are large, negating what I thought was the biggest advantage of the… Read more »
“I get perfectly usable ISO 6400 with both my A6300 and A7RII. The auto focus with the 6300 is stunning but I don’t have the experience with the A7 to make that statement.” You’ve got the good auto-focus and good high ISO performance of the Mark II and later lines. But you have no idea how terrible the auto-focus of the A7S is. It has no phase detect pixels at all. All it has is contrast detect which is like the NEX 5N autofocus, slow and really poor. Basically I manual focus using the magnify mode. Very primitive. “I just… Read more »