Today i'm going to talk about the different options that are available the
a7c the a7iii the a7siii the a7r4
and probably the upcoming a74 as well and why they don't really matter
now the a7 series has started to become crowded a bit like the a6000
series and it's weird that they brought out this a7c
i suppose what they're doing is trying to make the full frame
form factor smaller now gerald undone did make a really good point about this
and he said even though this isn't that kind of interesting camera to bring
out it is in fact the a7 iii in a smaller
package and what he said was he's kind of
looking forward to what they bring out in the future
and that makes sense and i definitely agree with gerald now i'm not going to
go over any specs or anything like that with the a7c
gerald has a really good video on that already so click on the i in the corner
if you want to see that one or click at the link at the end chris
howe did a really nice review on this camera as well
and one thing he pointed out was the form factor and how
it could really help us as photographers i used to live in dubai until recently
and security were a massive problem i'd go out
and i'd get hassled time and time again chris howe brought this up
and said when he's in toronto he gets the same problem
they're kind of asking what you're doing do you have a permit this that and the
other i was out taking photographs of my wife
on a skateboard and within two minutes two security guards came up
on a golf cart and asked us if we had a permit and i was like
i'm taking a photo of my wife i'm not taking photos of government buildings
i'm not taking photos of any other people or anything like that
so this is really frustrating and chris howe brought this up in his
video so the form factor of the a7c would be really good and will kind of
help this kind of problem well that's what i'm
hoping anyway the rules are different from country to country
so if you are worried about security coming up to you
just find out where the rules lie in the country that you're living in at the
moment now like i've already mentioned the a7
series is becoming crowded like the a6000 series as well
so with the 6000 series you've got the 6000 the 6100 6300 6400 6500 and the
6600 so it's really hard to choose which one
to get and it is the same nowadays with the a7
series you have the older variations of the a7
the a7r and the a7s we all know what they are the a7 is the
bog standard camera the a7r is the high resolution the a7s
is the kind of special low-light amazing camera and we all know the
capabilities of the a7s especially with the a7s3 that has just
come out now the reason why i'm kind of going through this thought process
is because i'm looking to buy a new camera
i sold my a7r ii recently and i sold a lot of other kit to be honest because i
had to fit all of my camera kit and what i could from my studio into a
backpack and into the checked luggage as well to
fly to bangkok so i am kind of looking to get my kit sorted so i've got
a camera for each job that i need to do basically to make my job as easy and as
efficient as possible so basically the a7c is an a73
in a smaller body it's a similar size to the a6600 the autofocus is updated
and also it has that flippy screen as well so they're probably aiming this
towards vloggers towards videographers and towards hybrid shooters
you still have that 24 megapixel sensor so
it pretty much is the same sensor as the a7 iii it'll be interesting to see
how it does in the market there's a lot of people that already have the a7
iii so what would kind of make them want the
a7c now a lot of vloggers do have the a6600 or the a6000 range a lot of them
also have the m5 was it m50 from canon i think
it's the m50 yep a lot of vloggers have the m50 from
canon and that's a really good one as well
so they're using crop centered cameras at the moment
but i see with cameras like the a7c the vloggers will start coming into the
full frame world and with the likes of small lenses like the 35 millimeter 1.8
they're 24 millimeter 1.4 at 55 or the 50 millimeter
and the 85 1.8 you have lots of different options
and also the tamron range as well so if you get the 17 to 28 and then the 2875
and then their other one which is what is it the 70 to 180
very quickly you can have one really small camera body with
three really small lenses going from 17 to 180 millimeters
so it really does make it a small form factor now at the moment
travel photography is almost non-existent
we're all traveling just within our own countries
but this camera might be really good for a travel photographer
and someone who wants to do a little bit of videography as well
now the flippy screen i see that being a benefit to photographers as well
because at the moment with that flippy screen on the a7 iii
and a lot of the others where it just flips up or down
it's actually really hard to shoot in portrait from a really low angle
whereas if you've got that flippy screen you can flip it out and have a look
so that will really come in handy for photographers in certain environments
so the a7c and the a7 iii will sit in a very similar market
but the a7 iii i think will still draw more photographers
whereas the a7c will draw more videographers then if you're a higher
level videographer or you've got a bigger budget the a7s range
is fantastic for this with the a7 s3 that's
just come out that has so many fantastic functions now
one function that the a7c doesn't have or i think it doesn't have
is that active stabilization in the a7s iii it's a real shame
because that is an absolutely grand feature to have
in a camera as a videographer if the a7c had that active stabilization i would
have bought the a7c straight away and i'd be on the
pre-order list but i'm still debating i do a lot of filming to camera as you
know if you're a regular subscriber i make two videos a week so i need
something that's a really good videography camera so i'm
still debating between the a7c and the a7 s3 not sure which one yet
so that's something that i've got to mull over and work out and
kind of work out what i'm going to do in that respect i also do a lot of
photography so the a7r iv isn't out of the question
either this would be a great upgrade from my
a7r ii that i sold recently but that 61 megapixels is huge and i
think my laptop and my computer that i'm going
to be getting which will sit somewhere here
that might struggle a little bit with those 61 megapixels i know my laptop did
because i went to the opening and i got some raw files from one of the
test models and i tried some of those raw files on
my laptop so my laptop's getting quite old now
actually um i didn't think it was that old but i've got the 2017
um yeah i've got the 2017 macbook pro so it's getting a little bit slow
compared to say the modern day 2020 macbook pro and this struggles with
those 61 megapixel images so there's so many things to think about
when buying the camera i just wanted to kind of
share with you the thought process that i go through when
choosing a new camera and what i need and what i want
can be two very different things if i could afford it
i'd get the a7c i'd get the a7 s3 and i'd get this a7
r4 as well so i'd have the whole range but
i can't afford that so i need to get one maybe two cameras out of the range
now as the a7c has just come out and it's so similar to the a73
i'm guessing that the a74 is going to come out pretty soon
i don't know whether it is or not but i'm just kind of guessing so
i think the a74 will be out soon i'm guessing probably in the new year
maybe early to mid new year maybe march time i could be
completely wrong but they'll have probably bought the a7c to
hit the maybe the christmas market so it's
coming out what late october so that's ready for the christmas market
and then if they bought the a74 out before christmas
that may hamper sales of the a7c so that's my thinking behind that now
going back to the a7r4 with that 61 megapixel sensor
it is great to have all of that detail and to be able to punch in
but as a professional photographer sometimes it's really not practical
i might be out shooting an event or a sporting event or
i might be doing portraits for some big corporate companies where
i'm just flying through so many different people and different headshots
really quickly that if i was to have 61 megapixel images
and probably two or three thousand in a day that would take up so much space
and that would kind of grind my computer to a halt
so i don't know why camera companies still do this megapixel wall
it's good to have those megapixels for certain kind of
certain projects but then we've got the what's the fujifilm
fuji 100 whatever it is probably should do a bit more research on this
gfx that's it so if you actually have a job that requires
a ridiculously high megapixel level you do have
really specialized cameras like the fuji gfx 100 or
and i think there's the gfx 50 as well so
there's two really specialized cameras that have those
ridiculously high megapixel counts for the rest of us doing commercial
shoots doing anything like that most of the time you don't really need
that many megapixels for things like product photography and
certain portrait shoots you might need higher megapixel counts
but for most kind of applications and most
jobs that we do 24 30 megapixels 35 at most
is more than adequate especially because a lot of the companies they may be
printing in small reports or they may be printing on
flyers if they're going down that route still
but apart from that everything else is going online i've
done quite a few projects and contracts where
the job has literally been for everything to go online
now the a7 iii is perfect for that it's got a 24 megapixel cam so you can crop
in a little bit but not too much you can crop in that
little bit so that's enough so the a7c and the a7 3
could be quite a nice combination say for shooting events and things like that
because the a7c still does 10 frames a second so it's
not as high as something like the a9 for sports
but it does a really good job so i'm kind of
probably talking myself out of buying the a7r
iv even though i do really want it as for the a7 s3
i'd love that camera and it'll be fantastic for filming these videos
especially the astro photography videos however
that 12 megapixel count is a little bit too low
for when i'm using it say for photo shoots
so in theory i could get the a7s 3 and the a7c now then i'd have
two cameras for photography one as main one as a backup then i'd have one as a
videography camera so the a7s iii so
i'm probably talking myself out of one expensive camera and talking myself
into buying two
relatively expensive cameras now one thing that's fantastic is that
each camera company is pushing each other once again
canon has stepped up the mark with the r5 and r6
even though they're not brilliant videographers because they overheat
if we ignore the whole overheating issue i think they'll
get around that in the end but if we ignore that for now
canon are producing some good photography full-frame mirrorless
cameras nikon r as well with the z6 and the z7
so they're kind of pushing sony ahead sony are responding to that
by bringing out cameras like the a7c and hopefully the a74 will come out soon and
hopefully the specs will be really good in that and we'll have
all of the things that we need in that and it'll be a step up again but they
are really pushing each other again so it's
fantastic and i really do like this because it means
that technology is being pushed forward by all the companies now if you remember
back to the start of the video i did have that caveat of
why it doesn't matter and what i mean by this is
it doesn't really matter that camera companies are bringing out all these new
cameras and all these new toys for us if you've
got a camera and it works for you and it does the job
it doesn't matter if it's doing a good job there's no need
to upgrade if it's getting the photos that you want
again there's no need to upgrade so have a think about the camera that
you have right now and ask yourself whether you need to
upgrade or not i suppose this is coming down to needs
and wants i do actually need another camera
but i also want another camera so it is you know i go through the same
battles as you guys do when it comes to that good old gear
acquisition syndrome and i'll probably eat my words and end
up buying a few different cameras but it does come
down to the fact of whatever camera you have on you
at that time when that certain thing is happening in front of you
that's the best camera that you've got so
say for instance you've got an a7r4 and it's sat at home
if something amazing happens in front of you and you've got your phone on you
that's the only thing that you can use whichever camera you have and which is
the most portable and the easiest to use that's what you
are going to use so if you have problems with the kit
that you've got or you're having frustrations
that's when you need to think about upgrading but you need to go through the
same thought process i did and kind of work out where one camera
would sit and where another camera would sit
whether you want to change brands or keep to the same brand how expensive it
would be and whether you can afford it or not the
end of the day you can have a point-and-shoot or you could have a
camera phone and you can still take fantastic photos i follow a few people
on instagram and a few people on facebook that
do iphone photography they do it really well
i also did a video recently on astro photography and the cheapest way to do
it and i think i got the price down to about
two to three hundred pounds so about 250 to 400
or somewhere around there i had two really cheap cameras and quite old
cameras i still got some good results from those
so if you haven't seen that video yet click on the i in the corner or the link
in the description now no matter where you are or what budget you have
you can get into photography in a certain way or another
you might have to buy a really old secondhand camera or
you might be able to afford the latest and greatest camera that there is
whichever one you get it's all down to you as a photographer
as to how good your photos become and that's what i was getting at
in that first statement it doesn't really matter
because no matter how good the camera is if you don't develop your skills
as a photographer then it's not going to take very good pictures
so if you are just getting into photography and you really want to learn
more about photography check out my channel i've got loads and
loads of tutorials on there i've also got a link down in the
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genres and in alphabetical order just to make
it easier to find them because i know here on youtube
when you do search for something you might get a whole load of videos and
some of them will kind of take you down the coffee
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now what do you think about all of these new camera releases
do you think they're saturating the market and giving us too much to choose
from or do you think it's a good thing do you
think it's pushing technology forward let me know in the comments below it'd
be great to hear your thoughts now if you haven't seen that video by
gerald undone click on this link here that'll take you to his video
it's well worth watching and if you want to learn about photography
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