I was just watching he Sony presentation on the A7III. Turns out it will have the same coverage and AF point make-up as the A9. Sony did the one thing that would guarantee I’d buy their camera. That’s all I need. When it comes out in April I’ll be celebrating spring in style. Thank you Sony.
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I read about the camera, seem to be plenty appealing. Looks to be based more on the A9 than A7.
It is surprising that they used the same AF system. My only thought is they are trying to steal a march on Canikon which are supposed to unveil their competing mirrorless systems this year. I saw that Sigma added an e-mount option to all 11 of their “Art Series” lenses. These are fast lenses going from 14mm to 135mm. They’re supposed to be good lenses but I’d rather they had adapted their 150 – 600 zoom. A decent quality 600mm that autofocused would be good for wildlife, aircraft and sports stuff.
Been reading and watching vids on the A7III and note that most of the camera world seems to be flat out ecstatic about the camera. I found myself wishing that I had passed on my A7RII last fall and waited for this thing. As to the sensor resolution difference, I lived with an A850 for years and never, ever felt that I just had to have more than 24 MP. Not to mention that a significant proportion of my personal all time favorite shots were taken with my much older 12 MP A700. Certain aspects of those older camera can’t… Read more »
To be fair the usual suspects are already throwing stones because of an artifact of the AF pixel grid forming an artifact under conditions of dark room plus very powerful backlighting conditions. And I did hear Tony Northrup say that the A7R III has better low light auto-focus capability. So there are always trade-offs. But I know what you mean about 24 mpixel in the A850. I was always satisfied with the resolution. And even my 12 mpixel A7S is mostly good enough unless I really need to crop (which unfortunately happens a few times with wildlife, like my poor… Read more »
A little photography news from the far south: The wife approached me yesterday afternoon and told me that she has somehow managed to destroy, beyond redemption, her camera body and one of the lenses that I had bought for her. Her camera body is/was a Samsung NX500 that was capable of fantastic image quality. The lens was a well regarded Samsung 60mm f2.8 macro, thank God it wasn’t the Samsung 16-50 f 2.0 that was new as of Christmas. Susan wants another NX series Samsung but Samsung has exited the camera market (excepting phones of course) effective around around a… Read more »
Good Lord! You’re as bad as I am. I told Camera Girl that I’d be saving money by getting the A7 III because the better autofocus would save millions in preventing the need for repeat vacations to faraway places to reshoot bad shots. There must be a Sony Anonymous society out there somewhere.