Sony a7R III Demonstration Shots

Despite the pixel count, 42 MP only has 1.3x the resolution of 24 MP. However the A7Riii does not have an AA filter, and that increases the effective resolution by another 50%.

 

It's a good thing you can use nearly any lens on the Sony, otherwise the transition from DSLR would be prohibitively expensive. Once you've used a GM lens, or even most of the high-end Sony/Zeiss lenses, recycled DSLR lenses don't seem all that good.

Selling your 5D MK IV, wow. Guess Canon really lost you. We will miss seeing your shots in the Canon Forum. I am wondering if Canon is going to make significant improvements on the rumored release of the 5DSR Mark II in 2018. They need to do something. The 50 megapixels or more if they can increase dynamic range and improve low noise ISO might keep me if they don't seriously cripple the camera for fear it will compete against some other model. Still, I am considering selling my older 6D and 7D and possibly put toward a Sony A7RIII. It is all up in the air for me. I am not ready to give up the 5D MK IV yet. But a Sony and a Canon in my arsenal might be OK, especially since I could still use my Canon lenses. I wish Canon would have left out the AA filter on the 5D MK IV. And why didn't they go with CF Fast cards and UHS-II or UHS-III cards? And doing lame stuff like cropping 4K video and limiting the HDMI output port so it won't pass 4K. And maybe having done a bit more in R&D to get a sensor that can seriously compete with the competition...just a couple things they could have gotten better. I think they have some serious ground to makeup and a number of shooters are getting tired of waiting.. There are a lot of folks moving to the Sony and Nikon camp.

Selling your 5D MK IV, wow. Guess Canon really lost you. We will miss seeing your shots in the Canon Forum. I am wondering if Canon is going to make significant improvements on the rumored release of the 5DSR Mark II in 2018. They need to do something. The 50 megapixels or more if they can increase dynamic range and improve low noise ISO might keep me if they don't seriously cripple the camera for fear it will compete against some other model. Still, I am considering selling my older 6D and 7D and possibly put toward a Sony A7RIII. It is all up in the air for me. I am not ready to give up the 5D MK IV yet. But a Sony and a Canon in my arsenal might be OK, especially since I could still use my Canon lenses. I wish Canon would have left out the AA filter on the 5D MK IV. And why didn't they go with CF Fast cards and UHS-II or UHS-III cards? And doing lame stuff like cropping 4K video and limiting the HDMI output port so it won't pass 4K. And maybe having done a bit more in R&D to get a sensor that can seriously compete with the competition...just a couple things they could have gotten better. I think they have some serious ground to makeup and a number of shooters are getting tired of waiting.. There are a lot of folks moving to the Sony and Nikon camp.

 

Mark, I know your pain. I've only recently gotten to my current position, after starting in August, with the a9, Metabones and only my EF lenses.

 

In total honesty, I actually SEE the increased dynamic range of the a7RIII vs. the 5D4. It's so flexible at low ISO that you literally look at the highlights in the EVF, get them to the color you see with your eye (in the EVF mind you), then raise shadows in RAW conversion and you're pretty well done. Then, you can turn around and shoot at ISO 20,000 or 25,600, add a bit of NR, raise the Micro Contrast a bit and you've got a quite presentable, printable, image. Anything under ISO 10,000 is a breeze.

 

I do think that, if decide to try to switch, you need to budget for at least one G Master or G lens, to see the potential of the whole shebang. The eye-detection AF is truly astounding, as is the "Wide Lock-On" AF, which locks onto a subject and follows it around the EVF, so long as you keep the AF engaged. It's like cheating.

 

I'm not a video guy, but everyone sings the praises of the alpha's video. The In Body Image Stabilization is another wonderful thing, so you've got five-axis IS for ANY lens.

 

The Metabones MkV only starts to be challenged with the big EF super-telephotos. It works darn good, but after being spoiled by the performance the G Master lenses, which are staggeringly good. Here's a shot that I tossed off with the a9/500/1.4/Metabones combo. (I was trying to see if I thought that the a9 had better AF and I don't think it does, in this application, just 20-fps):

 

Formation Flying by David Stephens, on Flickr

 

This one still qualifies for the Canon Forum, so I'll be posting for a while, until Sony comes out with its own super-tele.