B&H Photo’s live stream today coincides with the Sony a7RIII shipments starting and it should be informative. I hope the a7RIII lives up to all the numbers out there when I get my hands on mine. A lot of Sony fans have been waiting for this new R camera to be released to update their gear. B&H Photo also has a page set up for the event here.
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Sony a7RIII: B&H Photo
Sony 24-105mm: B&H Photo
Capture One 11 was released today with a lot of new features and improvements that make it a more attractive purchase than ever. It’s on my short list of software to replace Lightroom, but it will need GFX support to be a serious contender for me. You can see a list of the improvements below.
New Feature Summary
Performance
Miscellaneous Improvements
You can get more info here.
Tutorial Videos can be found here.
Well, I honestly didn’t think this would be possible, but Photons to Photos measured the Sony a7RIII’s pixel shift PDR and it easily tops every other camera on the market. Their site doesn’t currently allow for a direct comparison, so you will have to look at the chart above and below, but here are the numbers.
| Camera Model ▾ | Maximum PDR | Low Light ISO | Low Light EV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sony ILCE-7RM3(PSMS) | 12.97 | 15850 | 12.31 |
| FujiFilm GFX 50S | 11.90 | 7853 | 11.30 |
| Sony ILCE-7RM3 | 11.65 | 5787 | 10.85 |
| Nikon D850 | 11.63 | 41151 | 10.36 |
The Sony a7RIII is the first full-frame camera to top the recently released medium format cameras out there, but it requires the use of pixel shift technology. Sony should be very proud of this achievement and the rest of the camera world should be concerned, because there is nothing on the horizon coming to beat the a7RIII.
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Sony a7RIII: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Sony 24-105mm: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Fujifilm GFX 50S B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Nikon D850: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Now Sony has officially reached DXO’s 100 overall score threshold alongside the Nikon D850. With slightly different measurements than Photon to Photo’s results. DXO’s commentary is right in line with the marketing materials even though Photon to Photo shows no advantage from the Nikon D850 ISO 32 option.
“However, comparing the A7R III sensor to the Nikon D850’s reveals the advantage that the Nikon camera’s lower minimum sensitivity (ISO) value brings. Photographers who predominantly shoot in bright light or capture motionless subjects with the camera on a tripod will record the most information, be it color, tone, or detail with the Nikon D850 set to ISO 32. However, if they require values above that, the Sony A7R III sensor produces marginally better images.”
No matter, DXO results are news worth even though their prestige has been diminished in recent years due to a variety of oddities over the years. Maybe DXO will readjust their test now that more cameras are reaching 100 or even surpassing 100. What really matters is that many of us will get to go hands-on with our own a7RIII’s in a few days and for the first time in a long time I am excited to put a Sony camera through its paces. I am particularly interested to see how my Sony Planar T* FE 50mm f/1.4 ZA performs.
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Sony a7RIII: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Sony 24-105mm: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Sony will announce three new CFast 2.0 memory cards soon with a 530 MB/s read speed and 510 MB/s write speed.
The Sony a7RIII launch is right around the corner and RAW support is still a little spotty. Many will wait for Adobe support, but right now ON1, Capture One, and Luminar have support for the a7RIII. Of course, there is an EXIF hack, which has become increasingly common as sensors are recycled, but EXIF hacks are less than perfect. I personally do not use them, but will instead shoot RAW+JPEG until RAW support is available in my RAW editor of choice, which might become ON1 or Luminar soon, but that’s another story.
EXIF Tool – Hack Sony a7RIII Files for use in Lightroom
exiftool -sonymodelid=”ILCE-7RM2″ -ext ARW -r <dir>
exiftool.exe -sonymodelid=”ILCE-7RM2″ <rawfilename>
Image Resources – RAW Files
photographyblog – RAW Files
Michael Schmidt – SonyA7rIII – Quick Access to Crop-Mode & Clear Image Zoom
Michael Schmidt – Sony A7RIII – Quicktip 1 – SD Card Recording Media Settings
Michael Schmidt – SonyA7rIII Remote Control with Smartphone
Michael Schmidt – Hands-on: Sony A7rIII RAW File Support?! – WHAT A MESS
The Wacky Duo – Sony A7R iii & Sony FE 24-105 F4 Unboxing
HR Images – Sony a7riii unboxing & why I chose to upgrade from the Sony a7rii
SONY club – AF speed test canon 200/2.8 with SONY a7rIII
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Sony a7RIII: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Sony 24-105mm: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama