This week I'm going to show you five things I've changed from the A7iii to the A7iv
Even though the Sony a7 3 is a great camera and I really do love
shooting with it there are a few things that really bug me about it and because
I shoot everyday with it and I use it on a day-to-day basis these are really
annoying now I'm hoping that the guys at Sony do some research and find this
video and maybe take even one or two of these ideas away and add them to the
Sony a7 for when it does come out and knowing Sony's track record recently of
releasing lots of different cameras this shouldn't be too long
and also if you have any others that aren't in my list let me know in the
comments below it'd be great to hear what you would
change on this camera and what would make you want to upgrade so these are
the 5 things that I'd change and also at the end I've got a bit of advice for
Sony that is if you're watching with the screen on the back of this camera it's
really annoying that it just tilts and I wish it would flip around now you'd
think that a flippy screen would just be for vloggers but this isn't the case if
you're a photographer you've ever tried to take a shot in the portrait
orientation holding the camera really low or really high on the Sony cameras
it's still really hard to see the monitor with a flippy screen you could
pull it out and flip it back so you're looking straight down onto that screen
and especially if you're shooting at arm's length where you've got the camera
up as high as possible so I wish they'd just bite the bullet and get the rights
to having the flippy screen this would be so much better and this would be a
massive improvement to this camera now everyone goes on about the menus and
they are a little bit haphazard I can understand that there are so many
features in this camera that they need to snap the menu in a certain way but
what I found is even though the mark 3 is so much better than the mark 2 menus
it still needs refining so there are certain things that relate to
photography that there are kind of in the movie menu and
vice-versa so I wish everything was in a photography menu everything was in a
movie menu and so on and so forth it just needs a little bit of refining
and that would make it ten times better it is great that they've already had it
the my menu system so you can add stuff to this but it does just need a little
bit of refinement with the ibis or in body image stabilization it is good and
it helps your photography but if you've shot any videography with this camera
you'll know it's not that good when it's compared to something like the gh 5 it
does look really bad so I wish they'd upgrade the ibis system in this camera
making it much more effective the gh 5 is a much smaller sensor but it'd be
great if they had really usable embody image stabilization so you could almost
shoot video without a gimbal now originally when they first came out on
the Canon cameras I thought the touch screens would be a
little bit of a fad but after using them to move the focusing point around and
then after borrowing one of my friends Canon cameras and using the touch screen
in the menus a wish Sony would extend their touch screen to work in the menus
as well it's amazing how much easier it makes navigating through the menus show
you even though we've got a touch screen on the back of the camera to move the
focusing points I wish they'd put the touch screen in the menus now I know
we're not going to eliminate all of the dust that can get onto the sensor on
this camera especially if you're using a zoom that really sucks in air and sucks
in that dust however if whenever we took the lens off
the shutter would close down this would protect the sensor to a certain extent I
know on the Canon EOS our range they do this already so it'd be great if they
program this into this camera then if you remove the lens when you're outdoors
there's less likelihood of dust getting on to that sensor and that's my five
improvements that I would make if I was upgrading from the Sony a7 3 to the a7 4
they may not seem much but when you're using the camera day and day out these
little niggles can be really an or and as I've already said here's a little
bit of bonus advice for sony sony a wish you'd make some more affordable lenses
even with the proline they're so much more expensive than the competition I
wish you guys would even just price match when I used to shoot Canon I had
the 70 to 200 F 2.8 month - and it was a fantastic lens it produced some really
nice sharp images I have shot with the Sony equivalent which is the G master 72
200 F 2.8 however this is around about 800 pounds more expensive and it's the
same aperture and it's the same focal range so I wish they would price match
and I think this would bring a lot more people across from other brands to Sony
now with the canon 16 to 35 millimeter f 2.8 mark 3 that comes in at around about
1600 to 1700 pounds whereas the G master 16 to 35 f 2.8 is around about 2100
pounds so there is around about a 400 pounds difference if you were to buy
both of these lenses together you'd end up spending 1,200 pounds more in the
Sony ecosystem and this is basically the price of another Pro lens so that's a
huge difference and that's about it now you might think that I'm just moaning
about a really good camera and I am in a way
but if we almost voice our concerns about what we don't like about the
cameras and what we want to change in these cameras if Sony pick up any of
these hints and tips they're learn from real photographers and they'll learn
what our problems are with the systems now do you have any changes that you'd
like to see in the mark for when they finally do bring it out let me know in
the comments below it'd be great to hear any changes that
I've missed out or any changes that you'd like to see in this camera to
really make it stand out and stand above the competition as always if you like
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