Ni hao film jammers now the Sony a7III camera here has been a top contender in the camera market this year
Have you been thinking about upgrading check out these five reasons we think you should
Now this little baby has a full-frame sensor no crop no micro four-thirds none of that nonsense now for a professional photographer
Full-frame has a lot of advantages and for filmmakers
It's a huge plus it allows you to get that beautiful shallow depth of field in your photos as well
Goodness gracious great balls bokeh
Battery life Sony's new battery is a game-changer with the older
a6500 or the a7sII you had to carry handfuls of batteries on set
batteries and batteries and handfuls of batteries and batteries
Ground control to Houston this battery packs a punch now with a7III one to two batteries will keep you juicing all day
Which is just one less thing you have to worry about on set the a7III is also the only camera in this group that
Has two SD card slots along with the new longer-lasting battery. These features can be key on longer shooting days
Daddy likes that
No more overheating one of our biggest complaints about the a 6500 was that the camera could often overheat and at crucial moments while filming
We often saw that overheat symbol pop up less than 15 minutes into shooting 4k footage
Now with the more robust body on the a7III and more modern tech built into it. We haven't seen it overheat once yet
The a 6500 was by far the quickest to overheat
A7sII also overheated the a7III did not overheat in our tests which went up to 2 hours
Autofocus the new autofocus system in the a7III is killer
Leaps and bounds better than the a7sII for video and photo and a market improvement over the
a6500 for photography the a7III autofocus has 93% coverage on the full-frame sensor
It's fast and it really locks on quickly. The face detection especially in photo mode is really great
The a 6500 locks on pretty well with the autofocus
The a7sII is really slow and didn't seem usable for real-world shooting
The a 7III had the best autofocus of the three and it locked on almost the entire time we tested it
Okay, okay
Low light performance sensor the a7III has added a new BSI full-frame CMOS sensor this not only improves the low-light performance
But it gives you an amazing 14 to 15 stops of dynamic range
The sensor is incredible in low-light, it's much better than the a 6500 and it's nearly as good as a7sII
But with the benefits of higher megapixels 24.2 megapixels versus 12.2 megapixels
And it'll shoot 10 frames per second here on a 7III vs 5 frames per second on the a7sII
Next we're gonna do a quick low-light shootout between the three cameras
We shot the same footage with all three cameras using the same camera setting for each we started with 800 ISO
Here's 6400 ISO
At 20,000 ISO to a
6500 is starting to get a bit grainy while the a7 s and the a7III only show a minor amount of grain the a
6,500 taps out at twenty-five thousand six hundred ISO. We'll keep going with the a7sII and the a7III
here's
64,000 iso
The highest setting the a7III is capable of is one hundred two thousand four hundred ISO. It's pretty good
but the a7sII can keep going and
going and going
The a7sII tops out at four hundred and ninety thousand six hundred ISO pretty impressive for a little camera
here's a comparison of all the cameras set to twenty five thousand six hundred ISO the a
6500 is showing a lot of grain here the a7sII and the a7III are still pretty even
At 102 thousand four hundred ISO the a7sII and the a7III are still pretty similar the a7III seems to be slightly less grainy
And has more saturated colors
So here's a comparison of all of the tests
We did in all three cameras each has their benefits
But the a7III really seems to lead the pack in most of the settings the a7sII still is the best low-light camera
We hope this video is helpful. We think it's a great time to upgrade to the a7III
It really is the best hybrid camera of 2018. It's amazing for both photos and video. So what's the price of all this goodness?
Well right now a7III runs 1998 on amazon.com
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