hey what's up it's Jerad with Ditch Auto and I wanted to talk today about
whether or not the a7 r3 is worth upgrading to now this definitely isn't a
cheap camera but there's more expensive routes to go now with the sony 89 now
I've had the Sony a 9 and the camera I was shooting with previously - this was
the sony a7r - now the sony a7r 2 is still a fantastic camera that checks a
lot of the boxes and what I need in a camera so a lot of people have been
asking if the a7 r3 is worth the upgrade whether you're upgrading from an a7 r2
or maybe just an a7 200 or maybe even in a 6300 or a 6500 or something like that
like what are you gonna gain by spending the extra money to get a camera like
this so regardless of what you're coming from I wanted to talk about some of the
new features that are in this camera specifically which I still haven't done
my full review of this camera yet but this is more about whether or not it's
worth an upgrade so you'll want to make sure to subscribe to the channel here so
you can get notified when I put out my full review now I've also had this
camera for a little over three months and so I wanted to talk and another
video about having it for that period of time and what I've thought about it and
then I also have the five settings to change video that is up that you should
definitely check out as well so the things that definitely sell it for me on
this camera is the ability it has the multi select tool here which gives me
the ability to move my focus point around I use that a ton the other thing
that I use is of course being able to use the touch screen to tap to focus and
also do live focus when I'm shooting and I can move my focus point around and
actually you know control my focus point easily that way I think that those are
game-changers having the the tap to focus especially when I'm shooting video
being able to rack focus from one thing to another you can't do that on really I
mean you could do that on the a 6500 you can do that on the a9 but you can't do
it on any of the other cameras that didn't have that feature the multi
select tool which of course is on the newer versions of the camera
is a great upgrade because like I said you can move the focus point around or
you can remap it to do other things things that I used to have to rely on
the control wheel to do I like the relocated record button it's taking a
little bit of time to get used to it being there but it's a much more natural
place for that record button to be now the auto focus is extremely improved in
this camera as well over the a7 r2 and of course I've yet to play with a 7-3
but the a7 to the a 7s to the autofocus is just way better on this than some of
those older versions also the face recognition of the face detection is
fantastic as well one of the other big things is the increased battery size of
course it uses that new style of battery and with the battery grip on it it gives
me the ability to store two of those big batteries in here which is fantastic
because I get easily all-day battery life out of this camera when I'm
shooting photos that thousands of photos that I'm able to take without the
batteries running out it also has USB type-c in the side of it and I can use
that to charge the batteries that are in the battery grip if I have a battery
grip on or of course charge the battery in the camera which is typical on most
Sony cameras but to my knowledge this is one of the first ones that I've actually
been able to charge the batteries in the battery grip while plugging the charge
cable into the side of the camera that's fantastic and I absolutely love that
feature another valid upgrade point considering that the a7r line of cameras
are higher megapixel typically people are shooting things maybe they're a
little bit more important there because you want that higher resolution having
the dual SD card slots is great because those large file sizes are gonna take up
more memory also when you're shooting those those events or whatever that or
maybe a wedding and you want to have redundancy you can have those two cards
in there that's gonna make it a lot better for you as well to have that
redundancy or if you would rather have smaller cards you can have two cards in
here and have it shoot from one and then automatically go over to the other card
when the first card runs out with that extended battery life you're going to
have that chance of that happening especially if you're shooting a lot of
4k video having that second card and they're ready to go is a fantastic
option another feature that I really like is having the dedicated AF on
button on the back of the camera that means that I can enable back button
focus much easier on my a7 r2 it had that tiny little button that I mapped to
a back button focus but it was really kind of a pain in the butt to use
because it was so tiny and kind of countersunk a little bit I can disable
the AF when you press down the shutter button a little bit enabling only back
button focus which helps me get better a chance of locking focus and maintaining
focus on something in my 5 settings to change video I talked about how to set
back button focus only on this camera absolutely love having that dedicated
button there now now one other thing they changed a little bit was the size
of the body obviously they had to accommodate the bigger battery and the
body size is more in line with the a9 camera gives you just a little bit more
to hold on to and for somebody who has a decent size hand I like the way that it
feels especially with the battery grip down on the bottom so it's just a
well-balanced camera - I like you know the fact that when I'm shooting all day
there's not as much strain on me as when my camera is kind of unbalanced
especially when I used to shoot like with the a7r the first version that
definitely was not a very well balanced camera I think Sony has really started
to improve the camera by adding a little bit more bulk to it so I like that and
it's a it's definitely a little bit better than the a7 r2 although the a7 r2
is still pretty good so with that said those are some of the things that I
think would make this a valid upgrade obviously getting your hand on it and
trying it are super important there's a lot more under the hood that I didn't
discuss I was mainly discussing kind of visible things and things that I've
noticed that have really helped me out there's a lot under the hood that's been
improved in this camera that I'm not going to go into because you can go read
the specs all day long on that and I'm definitely gonna talk more about that in
a review video but for me I'm glad that I upgraded even though my a7 r2 is a
fantastic camera it was getting a little long in the tooth being you know
whatever it was close to 2 and a half 3 old or something like that so I was
really glad that the a7r three came out and that it had enough valid upgrade
reasons for me to go ahead and get one and hang on to it
so let me know what you think is this a valid upgrade I'd love to hear your
thoughts down in the comment section below definitely share those there's a
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on that there's also an Amazon link down in the description below to where you
can see pricing on the camera and more specs and information on it definitely
if you end up buying the camera it helps support our channel here or anything
else after clicking on that link this camera definitely is worth the money I
like it using it with these G master lenses is fantastic I'm not being paid
by Sony to say these things I'm definitely just a Sony fan I bought this
camera with my own money and did not get sent anything from Sony I have not been
that fortunate yet so with that said I hope that this video helped you kind of
decide whether or not this is a valid upgrade for you I look forward to coming
back and sharing my thoughts when I get my hands on an a7 3 so that we can kind
of do a comparison there I think that that's gonna be a really interesting
comparison between the a7 r3 and the a7 3 so I hope that you click subscribe so
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fun shooting and I hope to see you back here soon on ditch auto