Great video, my friend!!! I have enjoyed the a7rii, a7riii, and now the a7r5. The autofocus on the r5 is crazy good for landscape, birds inflight at 10fps! I love shooting the camera for infrared with a 72 filter, and the view finder has awesome resolution for doing manual focus. I'm thinking of converting my riii to full-time infrared!!! I've shot the r5 as high as 12,800 iso taking owl photos in low light hand held with the 200-600 lens and lightroom cleaned the noise up nicely. Fantastic image stabilty!!!! I love the camera! I also have the a9 if I need 20fps! My computer is a gaming machine so the compress raw films are no issue!!!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Glad you enjoyed it!! With a powerful computer and for wildlife, I'd get the r5 too 🙂 Curious how you end up liking the infrared conversion if you do it, I'd like to do that one day with a spare camera as well.
I have the same camera and I agree with you; the RIV or RV are too noisy and expensive. The pixel count in the R3 is more than enough. Great channel, my friend! You've earned a new subscriber!
I have the same camera as you, and I am very happy with it, but this year my nephew bought himself a Sony A6700, we did comparisons in shooting, including with a TTL flash. So, the Sony A6700 chooses exposure much better, and the TTL flash mode works just fine. But my Sony A7RIII completely failed the TTL test, all the shots were seriously underexposed, and everyone who looked at it laughed. Flash exposure compensation simply did not work. Then I turned on manual flash control and showed who is who. Of course, I will wait another 3 years, and then I will change the camera. And as for 61 megapixels, now there is Gigapixel8 from Topaz, and you can change the file size to any value. Here you also need to keep in mind that you can change equipment gradually and the first is the ability to get a higher resolution, and then the ability to edit. I recently started editing old low-res photos and even AI creates such artifacts that I have no desire to continue using it.
That's really interesting about flash! I would have never known. Thankfully I won't be doing flash photography any time soon 😄 And yeah, Topaz plugins are really powerful, though of course sometimes there's only so much you can do.
Nice. For landscape, the a7r iii is totally fine but for the other photography genre, especially for wildlife is worth the upgrade. Regarding video are even more reasons to upgrade. As long you are happy with your gear and you are focused just in landscape pictures, the upgrade is not necessarily, better to invest in quality glass.
I love my A7R V but I was upgrading from a much, much worse camera, and I tend to stick with a body for a long time once I have it so I prefer buying new. I love the articulating screen because it allows me to capture some macro and astro images much more ergonomically, and it has been a big advantage for me in those types of shooting, but it really isn't that much better when shooting landscapes or city scenes. The image quality is outstanding and I've been able to render large prints-even large prints of crops!-but I also already had a computer that could handle the files when I bought it. Your reasons for not upgrading make perfect sense to me- I would wait until there was a feature I couldn't live without, as well.
I don't know why all cameras don't have an articulating screen! I mean, I can guess it's cost-cutting, but it's just such a great feature. Thanks for validating my reasoning 🙂
I`m a Canon user for years but I decided to switch to Sony for the same reasons everybody else is doing. Not a month ago I bought an a7RIII and after just two weeks with it I sold my beloved 5Ds. I also have a 5D classic but his one I`m keeping. As the 5Ds is a 51 megapixel sensor, I was already thinking in upgrade my Intel based MacBook Pro. Although I do agree with your reasons, I do intend to upgrade to the a7RV mainly cause of the new grip, the articulated screen and the sensor cover. However, I will wait until Sony releases the a7RVI to upgrade. Reason being is that I'm also happy with my a7RIII bu t these three points are worth to me to upgrade to the RV. Keeping one generation before I can find an body cheaper maybe even new in sales
I actually compared the a7R3 to 5Ds (or maybe 5Ds R) since I was a Canon user and the RF line wasn't out back then, and it was no-contest! I'm curious to see what the a7RVI will bring too, maybe by then it'll be worth it and time for a new computer, we'll see 🙂
The A7RV is great as a Studio Cam when you control the light and use the lowest isos. Images start to fall apart quickly when you raise the iso, pretty underwhelming performance i ended up using my S5II instead for Wildlife and other stuff and believe it or not the AF on the Panasonic works better for this purpose as well. A7RV often misses the eye and is not on point. Moreover its very slow and clunky with blackouts at burst shooting. Id not get it again honestly…
Great discussion/analysis, Yuriy!
Thanks for watching Scott, glad you enjoyed it!!
Great video, my friend!!! I have enjoyed the a7rii, a7riii, and now the a7r5. The autofocus on the r5 is crazy good for landscape, birds inflight at 10fps! I love shooting the camera for infrared with a 72 filter, and the view finder has awesome resolution for doing manual focus. I'm thinking of converting my riii to full-time infrared!!! I've shot the r5 as high as 12,800 iso taking owl photos in low light hand held with the 200-600 lens and lightroom cleaned the noise up nicely. Fantastic image stabilty!!!! I love the camera! I also have the a9 if I need 20fps! My computer is a gaming machine so the compress raw films are no issue!!!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Glad you enjoyed it!! With a powerful computer and for wildlife, I'd get the r5 too 🙂
Curious how you end up liking the infrared conversion if you do it, I'd like to do that one day with a spare camera as well.
I have the same camera and I agree with you; the RIV or RV are too noisy and expensive. The pixel count in the R3 is more than enough. Great channel, my friend! You've earned a new subscriber!
Thank you, and welcome!! 🙂
I have the same camera as you, and I am very happy with it, but this year my nephew bought himself a Sony A6700, we did comparisons in shooting, including with a TTL flash. So, the Sony A6700 chooses exposure much better, and the TTL flash mode works just fine. But my Sony A7RIII completely failed the TTL test, all the shots were seriously underexposed, and everyone who looked at it laughed. Flash exposure compensation simply did not work. Then I turned on manual flash control and showed who is who. Of course, I will wait another 3 years, and then I will change the camera. And as for 61 megapixels, now there is Gigapixel8 from Topaz, and you can change the file size to any value. Here you also need to keep in mind that you can change equipment gradually and the first is the ability to get a higher resolution, and then the ability to edit. I recently started editing old low-res photos and even AI creates such artifacts that I have no desire to continue using it.
That's really interesting about flash! I would have never known. Thankfully I won't be doing flash photography any time soon 😄
And yeah, Topaz plugins are really powerful, though of course sometimes there's only so much you can do.
Nice. For landscape, the a7r iii is totally fine but for the other photography genre, especially for wildlife is worth the upgrade. Regarding video are even more reasons to upgrade. As long you are happy with your gear and you are focused just in landscape pictures, the upgrade is not necessarily, better to invest in quality glass.
Yep, I figured for wildlife it would be a compelling upgrade for sure!
I love my A7R V but I was upgrading from a much, much worse camera, and I tend to stick with a body for a long time once I have it so I prefer buying new. I love the articulating screen because it allows me to capture some macro and astro images much more ergonomically, and it has been a big advantage for me in those types of shooting, but it really isn't that much better when shooting landscapes or city scenes. The image quality is outstanding and I've been able to render large prints-even large prints of crops!-but I also already had a computer that could handle the files when I bought it. Your reasons for not upgrading make perfect sense to me- I would wait until there was a feature I couldn't live without, as well.
I don't know why all cameras don't have an articulating screen! I mean, I can guess it's cost-cutting, but it's just such a great feature. Thanks for validating my reasoning 🙂
I`m a Canon user for years but I decided to switch to Sony for the same reasons everybody else is doing. Not a month ago I bought an a7RIII and after just two weeks with it I sold my beloved 5Ds. I also have a 5D classic but his one I`m keeping. As the 5Ds is a 51 megapixel sensor, I was already thinking in upgrade my Intel based MacBook Pro. Although I do agree with your reasons, I do intend to upgrade to the a7RV mainly cause of the new grip, the articulated screen and the sensor cover. However, I will wait until Sony releases the a7RVI to upgrade. Reason being is that I'm also happy with my a7RIII bu t these three points are worth to me to upgrade to the RV. Keeping one generation before I can find an body cheaper maybe even new in sales
I actually compared the a7R3 to 5Ds (or maybe 5Ds R) since I was a Canon user and the RF line wasn't out back then, and it was no-contest! I'm curious to see what the a7RVI will bring too, maybe by then it'll be worth it and time for a new computer, we'll see 🙂
The A7RV is great as a Studio Cam when you control the light and use the lowest isos. Images start to fall apart quickly when you raise the iso, pretty underwhelming performance i ended up using my S5II instead for Wildlife and other stuff and believe it or not the AF on the Panasonic works better for this purpose as well. A7RV often misses the eye and is not on point. Moreover its very slow and clunky with blackouts at burst shooting. Id not get it again honestly…
Oh, that's good to know! I don't rely much on autofocus or do burst shooting as a landscape photographer, so I would never notice, but I'm surprised!