Oh look at that this is Dolly say hello to Dolly, Dolly the dolphin!
Well anyway this is finally announced!
Sony a7S Mark 3 we have been thinking that
maybe there will be no a7s anymore because the a7III is
good enough this and that and then there are uh
everybody else have done their full frame mirrorless camera that's really
good good at video we think maybe Sony had given up
but no this is it! This is sony a7s series reload!
back on the top thing so first up what it can do that's no 6k
8K but yeah 4k but 120p and 10 bit and 4:2:2 internally
for so many years all the Sony Alpha camera all shoot 8-bit which is not
good enough for today and today it starts shooting 10 bit 4:2:2
no holding back 4k maximum 120 frame per second and it's not some special slow mo mode
so you have sound you can even start normal slow down and then normal again
stuff like that and you have some new codec to shoot from
the highest quality is this XAVC S-I which means All-I intraframe which is a
better compression it still should 10-bit 422 internally
and it shoot 4K 60p full frame no crop the new XAVC HS
translated to H.265 is a compression gives you smaller file size
at the same quality and with this you can shoot 100 or 120
frames per second if you don't need all that high quality you can shoot with the
XAVC S which is the normal one H.264 you got even more
control for less quality but you can shoot for longer
give you smaller file size when you don't really need the full quality
last but not least the S&Q mode let you
shoot at full quality All-I in 100 or 120 frames
per second without sound. one thing to notice when you shoot
100 frames per second or more it will crop in a little bit
also just like everybody else it has raw output with HDMI i don't have any
information now but maybe when this video is
released Atomos will announce the support of the a7SIII as well
Now Sony say this a7s... i can't say it now actually
this new camera everything is new on it and i think i'm agreeing with that at
first i thought oh yeah everything is new is it what
it's a new camera it's not, not a camera at all
no i think they do fix everything annoying
on the sony camera and then some
and now let's
go through the list it's a long list a lot of things on it
are new or worth talking about let's start now quick, go!
if you don't know this already there are quite a lot of annoying quirk
on sony cameras at least 10 of them and the first one i have already mentioned
which is only shoot video in 8 bit which now they
have introduced 10 bit second thing annoying is overheating
the one thing every new sony camera comes out people will ask
will it overheated because the a7SII is probably the first sony camera that
famously overheats a lot
it's just convenient just Sony choose to release this
in summer
in this day 31 degrees celsius
under the sun and I've set it to shoot 4k
100 frames per second in PAL system Shooting H.265 and i hope the cpu has to
work harder to compress all the video feed
A little bit cloud from time to time but still it is
bloody hot! At the end it shot for 57 minutes before it overheats and shuts
down itself which is pretty impressive and
really this is an extreme environment for a still camera anything more than
this you will want to get a professional camcorder if you remember even the sony
ZV-1 a compact camera don't really have overheating problem
it's time to stop associate sony with overheating
before, no flip screen, no a7 have a flip screen ever, but now
yes flip screen! For all you cry baby keep talking about no flip screen
there you are! Fourth annoying thing: impossible menu system
you thought stubborn as Sony they will ever change that
now it's completely redesigned look at that
this is really logically divided because like
this is shooting and then this is exposure this is
focusing and then everything else for example you want to look at peaking
so you go to focusing and peaking is here if i want to look
at um SteadyShot... SteadyShot in the settings menu
image stabilization SteadyShot! what else
you can touch it finally! finally you can touch the camera! no not the
camera the menu! actually the old camera you can
touch it all you want but it don't do anything
remember this happened to everyone who use a Sony camera they show you a button
looks like you can tap it but instead it makes you look like an idiot
also this touch screen make it so much easy
to set settings with the flip screen
annoy me so much about sony camera is that the still and photo...
still and video mode have the same setting using the same setting
every time i was shooting video with this camera or some other RX100
shooting video with a Cine4 whatever s-log when i switch to photo
it's still Cine4 or s-log who shoot photo with s-log!? every time
i want to take a photo i have to change everything i have to change
AF points, color profile blah blah blah finally it is separate on this camera
and the just released ZV-1 don't even
have this what... what... what?
okay in reality they have changed this for a long time but the
a7SII still have single card slot just like many other new sony a7 camera
of course it got dual card slot now this record video simultaneously
at the same time to both cards and now we have this CFexpress type A
i thought CFexpress is new and there's an even newer one type a
this is looks a little bit like Nintendo card
thing and but so they say at the same time
both cards not can take SD card as well so don't
be too worried but a little bit worried because
you really want a fast card
in this table you can see
what kind of expensive card you have to get as you can see
you has to have at least V60 SD card and when you get this camera of course
you want to shoot with the highest quality
then you should get V90 card that means if i'm
upgrading to this camera i have to say bye bye to all my
extreme pro cards
now this is my usual a7sII in body stabilization with the
lens ois, oos? OSS! Or optical stable
SteadyShot now you have seen me use it a lot for a
lot of time already and you may be familiar with how steady
or how not steady this camera is maybe you don't because
usually i add in a stabilization in
post-production in Final Cut Pro so usually it looks
more stable than it actually is so it actually
is like this and if you don't know Sony stabilization
is kind of like a little bit just
like when you turn it on or off just slight different
And now on a7SII (correction: a7SIII) i'm using a lens without oss as well so now
it's just the inbody stabilization but oh the
face detection the eye detect detect me with the mask on but now this camera
got something new something new from ZV-1 which is
digital stabilization when you turn it on it crop in a little bit
so now this is the inbody stabilization with this much
heavier camera my shaking hands and the active SteadyShot
which is the digital stabilization like i mentioned the Sony SteadyShot
at least in video mode it really doesn't work that well
i really put high hope on this SteadyShot active mode which is digital
stabilization turns out with this it only finally
looks as good as other brands of image stabilization
which i guess is still good news at least it's caught up and it only comes
with a minimal crop just note that it doesn't work when
you shoot over 100 frames per second
now this thing probably everyone knows
that Sony camera the grip isn't really that comfortable but they
have been improved this along the years a7SII really the grip is so small i
don't that's no place for my pinky a7III improved a little bit but it's
still a struggle for my really thin pinky
now a7SIII has improved a lot even over the a7RIV
it has the biggest grip than any other Sony still cameras
personally i still think it's not round enough at the corners
but then at least it is now reasonably comfortable
so a lot of old Sony camera, "old" Sony camera
had the record button at the side at a really weird angle
which is date back to NEX era recently Sony move it to the
back just like this a7III but now
a7SIII they move it to the top it it actually replaces the C1 button on
the a7sII which i think maybe Sony knows that a lot
of people change the C1 button into record button so they
just okay just turn it into record button and
you can customize this to any other function as well which
maybe you get the a7SIII and don't shoot video with it so i don't
know it's like people have a well done steak what's the point
i don't know well no judging... well i just judged, sorry
now of course five years between
two cameras there are some features you know that
Sony will put into it from existing cameras and of course this
has real time tracking and eye AF it is really good this
is one thing that i love Sony camera so
much and yes of course it got eye AF now i walk out from
the screen and come back and i have a face mask on
as well and it's still and it's backlighting it's still able to
pick up my eyes eye switching and it's supposed to be
30% better i don't i don't have another camera to compare to but
i think it is around it's smaller even the face is smaller it can still
pick up the eyes
i'm not sure it's still picking up, I can't see, but yea...
now after i've done this test i
have a chance to test out the Canon R5 and R6 but it seems like Sony is
better at picking up eyes even with a face mask on too bad i didn't have
them at the same time so i can't do direct head-to-head comparison and of
course this has a new battery new Z-type battery much better
Z-type battery that i can shoot for whole day
this is even not a new new battery this is the old battery that Sony Hong Kong
gave it to me to use in the overheat test after it shot for
57 minutes it still has 31% of battery life and now it can run with
USB-C power deliver power and something else
the highest resolution 9 million dots EVF
much improved rollling shutter than
the a7III and something hidden in the menu for
video file name you can have the date in the file name as well although this
"Emph disp dur REC" what is this this is when you're recording it got a red
circle... not circle, the frame, it's got a red frame around
the frame it's like the Panasonic S1H and Atomos recorder
too bad it doesn't have a tally light which is something
so easy to do uh they already got a light
i don't know why they don't use it as a tally light but there's something
really minor which they probably think that
frame is good enough i guess... maybe... don't know...
especially tally light is
available on the ZV-1 which may save you from this
embarrassing situation (and i'm not enrolling)
five years ago i was here with the just announced a7SII
and take a shot of how good the low light is and now i'm here
again with the brand new a7SIII and try to do this test again
and i am just vlogging with the camera itself there's no lighting at all
the light is just from the LCD screen that's all
It is true i'm not carrying anything it's just this camera
and the screen, and that screen is not that bright this is just looks so bright
this in reality... look like this
so for the last five years there's no other camera can
beat the low light performance of my a7SII
not even the GH5s not the a7III, not the S1, S1H
why is that? because this camera only has 12 megapixels so i mean
your camera... i mean not your camera... your smartphone
probably got more than 12 megapixels and on here full frame sensor much
bigger sensor and it only has 12 megapixels each
pixels are bigger so it gather more light not even it only got 12 megapixel it has
a back side illuminated sensor
a7SII still haven't got it now it's back illuminated
now this is from a7III shooting at maximum ISO 102,400
this is similar to what i can see with my naked eye
now interesting is that my 5 years old a7sII
get the same result with one stop lower ISO but you can already see difference
when you compare it to the new sony a7sIII well of course it's newer but the
differences is even more different when you push it to higher and
higher ISO especially the old a7SII has more and
more red tint when you bump up the ISO maybe you think
how many people will actually shoot in this kind of situation
but even in the more normal situation you will see differences
now i don't have too much time with this camera so this is not that dark
but still you will see difference in the noise level comparing
to the brilliant a7III even with my old a7sII
i can shoot slightly underexposed protecting highlight but then bump up
the shadow bit in post still don't have to
worry too much about noise this is why i have been still using my
really old a7SII not that i shoot in the dark all the
time but when i shoot by myself i can't carry any lighting with me
I need a camera that gives me really clean image even if i shoot in environment
that is not that bright at all for all this year i have been shooting
in a lot of really dark situations one less thing to
worry about and more creative freedom
so this is Sony a7SIII we have been waiting for it for so long well maybe
you don't but i have been waiting for it for so long since the a7SII
almost five years now. Now when it's released, which is just now we know that
it doesn't have 8K it does don't even have 6k
but then well some people would say will argue that
especially this Canon R5 has 8K which is a great news it is good but
of course now we know that the Canon R5 overheats and when i try to
edit those my computer can't handle it either have to
transcode i have to set the resolution to lower
so that i can actually edit it so it... you probably need a new computer new hard
drive to handle that i always think 6K
would be a really great mid-ground because you can crop in
when you're editing for 4K at least my 2017 iMac can handle 6K footage from
this Panasonic S1H but then you can see that
how big and heavy this is because it has a
ventilation fan well... cooling fan not ventilation, it don't have to breathe
the a7SIII is based on this really robust a7SII now this a7SII
is given to me by B&H because when i first start my channel i don't have a
camera and they want to give me any camera that
i want and i picked the a7SII i think it's quite interesting that's
Sony being sensible this time because before that a7SII was the first
still camera that can shoot 4k internally
but then it overheats a lot but now the a7SIII
it only have 4K, "only" have 4K but 10bit 4:2:2 120 frames per second
it has all the top of the game feature set
it just has everything that you want but nothing
that you don't need and then i think the most important thing about
Sony is that they are not that stubborn anymore they have
changed everything that we are annoyed by them
and that's good become a really good choice which i really
really tempting really wants one to upgrade from this a7SII
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