Hi, this is JP Morgan and this is Kenneth Merrill and today we have with us
Ellen ho
Ellen is our model who's gonna help us do a comparison of these three mirrorless cameras
We've got here the a7 r3 which is not a new camera
But we think competes very nicely with these two cameras and we've got the canon eos R and the Z7
and the z7
So we've had these cameras in our hands and it's given us an opportunity to kind of get a sense of how they set up
And how they shoot. I mean we haven't shot a lot with them yet, but it gives it just general sense of them
So we're gonna look at dynamic range
we're gonna look at image quality going to look at the ISO test and auto focus, but the night comes not working very
Focus test because our Nikon is just not working at all and I get the sense. It's not the model. It's our specific camera
There's something wrong with this. So there you go
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So we're gonna take a look at dynamic range here
We're shooting four stops over and five stops under ya can do five under
Yeah, we probably don't have you four over
Honestly, these digital cameras can't it's gonna fall apart pretty quickly r5 under I've seen Nikon sold 500 for so, okay
There's our first three images the the just the standard images properly exposed properly expertise or faces properly exposed
That's what we're gonna work. Everything on is is her face make sure her face is probably exposed
I will say it's the Nikon all Nikon's are rate
They're very sensitive cameras, and you can already see that just in this starting image because they're clouds in the background
And they're heavier clouds in that image than there were in the others. But yeah just blown out already
Just blown out. Yeah, the Nikon wants to be underexposed. Now we go minus one
They all look really good and we were still holding
This is at at minus one
If we go up to minus two, no trouble holding the highlights
And any of them is anything happening there that feels weird to you. No, nothing. So minus three, I mean
They look really good. I feel like when you blow them up
That's this is when you're gonna start seeing some problems and you do see it a little bit you blow it up a hundred percent
On their eyes and there is some noise the cannons handling super. Well the cannon really is it's pretty soft yet
It's not it's not Melanie as gritty as the Sony and the Nikon or yeah, it surprises me
usually the Sony does really well underexposed but
That's a three-stop. So we're three stops under thriller under expose
Let's see what four stops looks like - four stops is a lot to expect from a camera
But again that the Canon handles it more gracefully than the others
I would say the Sony kind of loses out on this because you're getting this discoloration next to her eye boy
You really are and it were just really
Pixelated I mean it the Canon really is holding it the best. We're still holding the background
We're still holding the the wall here
We go - five. They just fall off a cliff man. That's so neat
Just the Sony is like it's yeah, I would say for under exposure. The Canon went out which is a surprise to me
Yeah, that is interesting to me though. You are getting this weird. Look at this streaking. The streaking is weird
Yeah, that feels like a sensor pattern to me. It does to me - it's like yeah, it really does
Let's look at let's look at plus one now
it's interesting how one stop and
You're always already seeing significant issues with the Canon in the whites in the Nikon way problems
The Sony's holding the plus one much better. Yes Sony's holding the wall. It's holding most of the clouds back there. Yep
I mean, she looks fine at Plus once and this is really her
She she is plus one. Stop that wall is probably plus five. Oh, yeah, you know, yeah, that sounds good. It does
So let's go to plus two here at plus two
The Canon and the Sony still look good on her face. Her face looks fine, you know two stops overexposed
But the the Nikon I mean look at her nose. It's discolored your burning out the information there
So you got a plus four and there now our plus three. I mean, yeah, there's all this plus three
Yeah, plus three. I mean nobody's holding the building on the left anymore
But the the Nikon is you're just it's really bad in her face
It's just the white the highlights have started to just blow out even on her face. Mm-hmm, and if we go to plus four
Yeah, that's where they all yeah mess up so what do we draw from this
I feel like the Sony did really well overexposure, but not very well under exposure
Canon was
alright neck and neck with
overexposure
And it did really well with under exposure way better than I thought it was going to actually the Nikon was good with under exposure
But it sucks when you blow it out
So yeah, I feel like the Canon is the it's a good winner
You know wins by a neck in the dynamic range Department and the Sony is close. Very very close. Yeah, they're really neck-and-neck
They really are that
Surprised me though that the Nikon is that is that I would have expected the 99 to outperform the other two. Yeah, me too
That's really surprising to me
Of course when the most basic tests you can do with the camera is to just do a great well lit portrait
We're looking at tonality
resolution skin tones color response
we're gonna shoot a kind of a head shot here with Ellen and then we're also gonna shoot a
shot of this little the public BD
That there were just looking at resolution how the detail is rendered in each camera
These are all pretty high resolution
Except the camera Canon which is only 30 megapixels. Only only
But the others are in the 40s and those are in the 40s pretty amazing. So they are all different lenses
So that's that's a factor. But again, I figure most people are gonna be shooting with native lenses
That's what we like to stick to most of the time
So with this test, we're just look we just wanted to look at two different photos
We want to look at first at a portrait and we didn't do any color adjustments or anything to these
These are straight out of the camera. You can see right off the bat. The sony is darker
It's not as sensitive as the others. It is a little bit. Yep
The Nikon is the most, you know, the brightest which we've already talked about which is kind of overrated. It's it's a little too bright
And the canons always kind of write
The I feel like the Nikon Hollis has this hard contrast yes, it's nice
It has almost like a commercial feel right out of the the box. Mm-hmm, but it's a little contrast II for me
Whereas the Canon and the Sony have a more smooth tonality
Let's just look at just a simple. You know, this is out of the wall
This is a better. This is better. Look cuz this is all detail. That's all it is. Yeah, yes details
So if we blow this up to 100%
Just on the chalk. It was hard with a Nikon because the autofocus wasn't working
so we were I but we
Struggled with the autofocus on the Nikon and I think we had a bad camera or something. Something was just not working for us
so it was
well, I think in this situation that Sony a7r 3 is
Overall winner. Yeah, I just think it is
Wise well not necessarily more so than the Nikon but you're just it edges out the Canon those two kids
the Canon does lose a little bit on the detail and I think at that point it's just do you want an icons tonality and
Color, do you want Sony's - analogy? Yeah, and they both look good
But so so the winner here I think is the Sony or the Nikon and that's gonna be more of a system or color preference
For you, you know, what? What do you like?
What do you like to look of or the feel of Canon loses out a little bit because of the detail?
So we're doing the autofocus test, which is really just our model walking straight towards the camera
Which is the hardest thing for cameras and really to follow in to track?
The candidate exceptionally well, and the sony does exceptionally well our Nikon is not working
The autofocus is just not working
Something wrong the camera it is not the autofocus
So we don't have a really a good way to test that but we'll look at these two compared to each other. This is the
Sony so let's just take a look at her here
She goes we've looked through every one of these with them blowing up with a high percent and the reality is she's sharp
She's walking towards the time
Yeah, I mean it's hitting 5 out of 6 photos and at the very end we lose the Sony completely
I think it's because she got too close so close to the lens, but it tracked it tracked
Extremely. Well, I mean you couldn't you couldn't ask for better than that really and the Canon you know what the Canon was
Amazing absolutely amazing
33 photos and only one was unusable and two of them were a little soft
Yeah, so I I mean the sony was
Incredible and I think the Canon was even better. So I think those two are incredible
I wish we could have tested the Nikon I from where everything I read though. I probably would have fallen way short
I think it was my top pick as the canon and the sony is a super close second what we're talking
Super close here. Super close. All right
So for the ISO test we started at 1600 ISO because these days everything up to that is pretty clean
So yeah, let's look at that dark grey chip right under lack there on the spider checker girl feds there
Yeah, we are seeing so you're seeing something some noise some noise in each of these but look at no look at the nikon
It's way more on the nikon. It is more. Yeah, I would still use the photo still looks good
I gotta say the sony as always is about a stuff underexposed here. Okay, let's go on to
3200 here. She's looking good all the images of the although it parts of the images that are brighter looking pretty good
Sony is starting to look a little colorful in that noise getting a little bit of you getting some the night reds
That kinds getting kind of gritty to not colorful but just gritty and thick is it just no
It's not just me that the canon is definitely looking better better. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's looking nice
So if we go to 6400
That kind of seems the grittiest
It seems the grease and also color wise seems probably the most neutral the sony seems just a little bit green
The candidacies a little bit magenta. Yeah 12800. I'm sure her eyes gonna look really good
Nikon does have a consistency to it, but it's not performing as well as the canon I canon it's just still so good
I'm shocked at 12,800. It really is
Probably it's the cleanest by far. Yeah, I can and starting to see it now. It doesn't look as good
No, it doesn't look good. But look at the sony it's got yellows and greens got kinds of colors going on
You know, the the Nikon is gritty, but it's not colourful
So it's yeah, so so I think the conclusion it here is Canon is a clear winner in the ISO
Yes, and Nikon is comes in a second
But it's not nearly as good as the Canon and then the Sony it just kind of doesn't really perform very well
It doesn't really do very well. Does it?
When it comes to video features, this is kind of a mixed bunch
I mean you have the Nikon the Sony of course has tons of video features really on the forefront in
Terms of that and then we have the new Canon r we're gonna test them in 4k mode just to see the resolution
See if they're all resolving as well as each other and then we're gonna shoot in 1080p mode
Okay, so we're looking here at 4k footage from all three cameras now
We we shot the Nikon and the Sony footage at the same time. We could shoot side-by-side because they shoot full-frame 4k
Whereas the Canon had we had to clear the other cameras and move the Canon back back - Rafi
Is only about 10 feet to give us the same crop the cannons 4k footage looks good to me
This this is classic cannon color. It's really sharp
Might be a little overly sharp. I probably turned down the sharpness in camera
But it looks nice it looks very nice, that's nice I wish you weren't so cropped
It feels to me like the sony is a little more naturalistic
The cannon felt like it had been sharpened a little bit on the edges
And then let's look at the Nikon. This is my least favorite image of the bunch feels kind of contrast II first off
But it certainly feels sharp. You know, it's like too sharp though. It's almost yeah
So just straight 4k I think the Sony wins
Disregarding everything else just 4k image quality. I think the Sony wins
I think the Canon is a pretty good second and the Nikon would be my last pick Wow
The 1080 on the Canon looks terrible boy the 4k was so much better so much better
This is really bad. The Sony 1080 doesn't even look that good either great super super mushy and soft
I'd say kind of the same problem as a Canon and then here's the Nikon this looks really overly crunchy
very very handy contrast again
Well, I think it it there are some things that surprised me about it
I was really impressed with how well the ISO the Canon handled the ISO. That was very impressive
I was impressed with the autofocus on the Canon and the dynamic range
Yes, I mean all those things were really impressive to me
But I just felt like it it because it doesn't do 4k in an on crop mode if you want a crossover camera
It's not a it's not a winner. It's not it, you know
if you want a still camera, its
Might be the best choice my it's not very unless you need those extra matrix, which I do
I I just and I love the Mart of the a7 r3 because it's got a great megapixel
It's a great video camera. It just all around it
just
it really
hits them hits the spot on all those things but the dynamic range just is not good better hit your exposure and the ISO is
Not amazing. It's
funny because I was really really excited for the Nikon because I've when we've been
Testing like the D 850 over and over again
I've kind of fallen. I actually think the Nikon d50 is the best DSLR out there. It's an amazing explanation. It really is
So I so excited for the Nikon mirrorless camera just kind of watch them below everybody else out of the water in the mirrorless department
and it kind of fell on its baby, but I make it I
We didn't test the autofocus, but I've heard the autofocus isn't great
It doesn't have that 3d tracking the image quality was not as good as I expected
I feel like it wasn't even as good as the d50 didn't get why I had the dynamic range
You didn't quite have the sensitivity it lost to the Canon in
Every department, you know
Which is mind-blowing because I did not expect the Canon to come out and beat the Nikon in all the photo departments
That just doesn't make any sense doesn't make any sense. So it was this was definitely a an upset for me
I agree with you. I think the sony is overall the best camera
But if you're gonna be shooting stills, I might say go with the candidate
they're a couple chairs on top of that too because the Canon has a
Close shutter when you turn the camera off and remove the lens
Unlike the Sony and an icon where you take the lens off and the sensor is exposed to the elements right there
Which has always been more of a problem than you would expect
There's a couple of things that bug me about it about both the Nikon and the Canon and that was single card slot
Everyone complains about that because you can't back up as you're shooting. Yeah. Also we go to shoot and
I'm going are you kidding me? It doesn't take an SD card. The Nikon the Nikon takes this cute executing XQD card
And I'm going no, I mean, okay
I get it new technology and all this kind of but the industry is just so focused around SD cards
everyone has them that's you know, now you gotta buy these cards for 128 is like
$140 but between the three cameras if you're going for a mirrorless camera
I'm gonna say if stills is your main gig and you're not really concerned with video
Surprisingly, I would pick the Canon interesting even though it's a it's a 13 megapixel even though it's lower
But if you need an all-around camera crossover camera that shoots great video and has great stills and a super high resolution
The sony is kind of a winner
It's someone is definitely a story and that's why I use the sony a7r 3 just because of that
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