this week I'm going to show you the differences between the a7 r2 and the a73
at the time of filming of this video the prices are pretty comparable this is why
a lot of you have been asking me which one to go for so I'm gonna try and show
you the differences between the two to try and help you make your mind up with
the price of the a7 r3 being a lot more expensive
the a7 3 seems like the camera to get however with the release of this camera
there have been a lot of a7 Artoo's on the market which has dropped the price
of that camera also because it's a last generation camera the price is dropping
as well as listing the differences and similarities I've also put a link in the
description below this will take you to my website where there's a link to get
some downloadable images from each camera also while you're over on my
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this is what they have in common they're both a sony e-mount and a full-frame
CMOS sensor they both shoot 14 bit raw compressed and uncompressed files
they're dust and moisture resistant and a magnesium alloy body the electronic
viewfinder is an oh le d-- display with 2,360 cave dots and a naught point seven
eight times magnification they both have five axis in-body stabilization the a 73
is a little bit better but they both do quite a good job not as good as the GH
five or say the GoPro seven but it does stabilize the image and seeing that it's
an in-body stabilization you can put non stabilized lenses on this camera and
still have some degree of stabilization they both shoot 4k video at 30 frames a
second in both full frame and crop mode they both have Wi-Fi and NFC
connectivity and also they'll both run off battery packs now these are the main
differences the size and longevity of the battery in the a 73 is so much
better I have two batteries for my a 73 and I rarely use the second one in one
day only if I'm doing a really long shoot most of the time it stays in my
bag now with the a7 arch you I have six batteries and I often use
about four or five of them so that shows the difference on a day to day basis
there's a massive difference in megapixels if you look on the screen
here this is the actual size difference when it comes to printing out this is an
a3 template and you can see the size of the a7 three image and this is the a7 r2
image there's no scaling on this this is the
actual size this is the difference between 24 megapixels and 42 megapixels
now with these extra megapixels comes the ability to be able to crop in camera
so you can actually use the crop sensor or 35 millimeter setting on your camera
in crop mode in the a7 r2 when you're taking photographs you get around about
a 20 megapixel image whereas in the a 73 you get around I think it's about 10
megapixels this means when you're using a prime lens
you've got the options of using both when I'm shooting real estate I'll
normally use the a7 r2 in crop mode with a 10 to 18 millimeter Sony lens
it gives me smaller files the camera is smaller so I don't have to lug around a
big bag but I don't have to carry around a really heavy 16 to 35 F 2.8 the menus
are better in the a7 three but they're still huge there's so much information
in there and there'll be times where I won't use a function for a while and
I'll forget where it is in the menu so this is just a thing we've got to get
used to with cameras these days I just wish that Sony would arrange them a
little bit better one other thing with the Sony a7 3 is
that they have this my menu system so you can take anything that you want and
put it into this menu it's a little bit like custom menus on the Canon cameras
the auto focusing system is better in the a 73 especially if you shoot with an
adapter on native lenses the eighth of an r2 is really good but again with a
native lens it's noticeably better on the a7 3 it's basically just a newer
auto focusing system so the a7 3 is faster when focusing a 73 has 693
focusing versus 399 on the a7 r2 when it comes to
dynamic range the a7 3 has 15 stops the a7 r2 has 13.9 this is noticeable but
only just and on a day to day basis you won't
really notice the difference when it comes to shooting speeds the a7 r2 has a
maximum drive mode of 5 frames a second the a7 3 has a maximum of 10 frames a
second with autofocus and auto exposure tracking in a burst at full speed the a
73 can take a maximum of 177 JPEGs or 89 uncompressed raw files
the a7 r2 can only manage a maximum of 24 JPEGs or 9 uncompressed raw files
the a7 are 2 files are considerably bigger though so you obviously it's
gonna fill the buffer a lot quicker when the buffer is writing to the card with
the a7 r2 you have to wait you don't have access to any functions whereas
with the a 73 you can use the function buttons playback mode and menu system
the a7 r2 has a better monitor the resolution is 1228 k / 921 k the 873 has
a touch function so you can move the focusing point really fast although it
doesn't work in the menus the a 73 has a joystick which again can be used to move
the focusing point now the one downside with the joystick is the directions
aren't customizable only way push in the joystick but at least it has a joystick
over the a7 r2 which hasn't when it comes to accessing ports and plugging in
cables the a7 3 has three different covers which seem to get in the way
whereas the a7 r2 only has two covers because of the vast difference in
megapixel count the a7 r2 RAW files are much bigger than the a7 3 they both come
in compressed and uncompressed if you shoot uncompressed raw files
the a7 3 will be about 40 megabytes and the a7 r2 will be about 80 megabytes for
the JPEG files they're considerably smaller but I'd say shoot in RAW be
as you want to get as much of the detail and information out of these cameras as
possible now when it comes to editing you'll notice the difference when you
edit lots of photos from each of these cameras I have a MacBook Pro 2.9
gigahertz intel core i7 with 16 gigabytes of RAM when I'm shooting with
my a 7r2 it does slow my laptop down considerably when I shoot with the a7 3
and I have thousands of images to go through the process is a lot quicker
the a7 3 is 650 grams 127 by 96 by 74 millimeters the a7 r2 is six hundred and
twenty-five grams 127 by 96 by 60 millimeters so basically
that extra battery in the grip means that they've had to make the grip a
little bit wider but it actually doesn't matter too much because it gives it a
more firm grip to hold on to and then of course there's the memory slot the a7 r2
only has one memory slot whereas the a7 3 has two one of the physical changes
that's happened with the a 73 is the lack of a push button on the mode dial
on the a7 r2 you have to push this button in on the top to turn the mode
dial it's actually quite annoying and I've never missed it shooting with the a
73 I actually prefer the mode dial without this push button in low-light
the a7 r2 works best in the super 35 millimeter crop setting the a 73 ad
performs the a7 r2 in both full frame and crop mode although side-by-side the
a7 are to crop mode still does an amazing job dave dugdale did a test on
this so click on the link in the corner to his video on the a7 r2 this will show
you how different the two functions are the full frame mode and the crop mode
whenever I'm shooting in low light on the a7 r2 I'll always use the crop mode
when it comes to slow motion the a 73 shoots in 120 frames a second in 1080p
full-hd however the a7 r2 only shoots in 720p
and 120 frames per second so the resolution is a lot lower with the a7 r2
they both shoot in the full frame mode 50 or 60 frames per second so you can
shoot slow-mo at half the rate the max is o on the a 73 has been updated with
the latest firmware so it's a hundred and two thousand and four hundred when
filming on the a7 our two is twenty five thousand six hundred now I think that's
everything they're both amazing cameras and they both shoot really good images
you're not going to go wrong with either one I just use one for certain jobs and
the other one for other jobs so depending on what you shoot and how you
shoot it depends on which camera you'll want in my opinion if you're looking for
a modern all-around camera with high specs go for the a7 three if you're
going to be shooting sports or fast-moving subjects this is also the
camera to go for because of the high burst rate and the other thing is if
you're coming across from Canon and are going to be adapting your Canon lenses
definitely go for the a7 three because the adapter and the Canon lenses work
much better on this newer more modern system if you are a landscape or fine
art photographer and you don't need that high burst rate then the a7 r2 would
probably be the best camera to go for with this higher megapixel count they're
smaller batteries are a pain but you can get lots of third-party batteries and
these work just fine in this camera as I said I've got six batteries and all of
the extra batteries I have a third-party batteries have never had an issue and
they've all been working just fine when shooting portraits I'll tend to grab the
a7 r2 again you get more image quality with the higher megapixel count and also
and make sure I'm shooting on native lenses only with native lenses that I
autofocusing system does work well on the a7 r2 not quite as good as the a 73
but almost also when I'm doing a job when time is of the essence I'll tend to
reach for the a 73 with a lower megapixel count this will then make the
editing process quicker as the computer will be able to churn through the files
a lot faster and that's about it sometimes I'll reach for the a7 r2 and
other times I'll reach for the a7 3 I normally have them both with me
one of them will be a backup camera do you own either of these cameras or are
you deciding which one to get if you're still undecided about these cameras
leave a comment below and I'll try and answer your questions as I said I use
both cameras on a daily basis and I have certain jobs for one camera and certain
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