hi the a 7-3 came out about six months ago and I managed to get my hands on it
day one and I've been using it solidly ever since I want to talk to you today
about what I think six months later does it still live up to the hype is it still worth
waiting for it because there's a huge wait still yeah let's talk about that
so to give you a brief history before I own this guy I owned the a 6300 and the a6000 had a few
aps-c lenses d sigma 16 mil F 1.4 the Sigma 30mm at 1.4 as well as a couple of full-frame lenses
the sony 7200 f/4 and the sony 85 f/4 if you haven't watch my previous video talking about
this this was my first full-frame mirrorless camera well full-frame camera in general I sold
the a6000 and used some of that money to purchase this one so this became my a camera or my main
camera for most stuff and then I used the a 6300 as my B camera or my backup camera so I managed
to get this on day one I did pre-order at Henry's here in Canada and just get lucky mine was in one
of the first shipments that arrived at the store that being said we're six months later and there's
still like a three-month delay if you wanted to get this so if you wanted to pick it up at
Henry's or Amazon you're looking at two to three months at least to get your hands on it so it's
still an extremely popular camera part of that is because it's a full-frame 4k shooting camera made
by Sony which a lot of people move into now and it's a very very low price compared to some of the
other competitors I think personally that is the biggest thing why people still want it the price
is the biggest appealing factor about this camera so I've used this for a ton of different things a
lot in six months time commercial shoots family films I just shot for myself tons of weddings I
think I've shot probably 12 weddings on this now that's videos event coverages I've done vlogging
style stuff lots and lots of photos everything I'm gonna talk about is true it's honest it's a real
person's point of view of heavily using this for six months out what I like what I don't like that
kind of stuff so let's start with the things that I like right now you'll see that I do have the
grip on here I love the size of this both with and without the grip I would probably leave the grip
on it all the time if it wasn't for the fact that I still have a Zeon cream one and it can't support
the weight of this with a lens on it but with or without this the size of this is great I love it
it's such a small camera without the grip that you can throw it in your bag but with the grip if you
aren't carrying around a bag and you're just using this for the day handheld it's a great size - you
can get two batteries in there huge amount of battery life for a minimum full day's shoot and
yeah with them and out the grip I love its size the battery life is absolutely incredible compared
to the a sixty three hundred and eighty-six thousand the new Z batteries they are so good
I think I mentioned before I can show you an entire day's wedding on video of what I need
and I'm gonna be using probably about a battery and a half I don't need to use anything more than
that which is nuts because I use the a6000 and a 6300 before and no exaggeration I had 10 batteries
in my back split between those two cameras so if you said five or six batteries each quite
a big difference quite a huge improvement the new batteries in this camera are incredible not a lot
of people talk about this but I do believe the colorscience used in the a7 3 is different to
that off the a 6300 I use the autumn leaves trail of style it just adds a little bit of change the
saturation and the contrast to your image and I really like it all my videos are shot in it but
I use it both on the a 6300 and on the a7 3 and I can tell you when a trying color match them
in post there is definitely a difference so I do believe the a7 3 it has a different color science
and having used it I much much prefer it these skin tones look a lot nicer right now I'm showing
on the s6 1500 so this might look a little bit different to why you usually shoot so I can tell
you there is a definite difference between the two cameras and the a7 31 is better in my opinion is
a much nicer truer to life skin tones and nicer I just before it the low light on this is really
good people compared it to the sony a7s - I don't know if it's quite as good as that there's a ton
of comparisons with it I can use this happily up to 10,000 iso and there's a little bit of noise
but it doesn't take away from the story of the day from shooting the wedding for the most part it's
a story that matters a little bit of degradation and quality and a little bit of noise I can deal
with that to get the shot that I need to get if I'm using an f4 or something like that I haven't
had any issues with camera freezing with the a 6300 there's a couple of times I was shooing
long sequences and the camera locked up and it did save the files but it's a little bit scary or not
happens how about any issues like that with the a7 3 I shouldn't have said that because now when
it's you I've done gonna had issues you do have the two card slots so I have always shot with two
cards one on each and I use one as backup of the first one so basically it copies the contents of
the first card to the second card and I always have two cards that have both the same thing
on it so it did fail you have that there again a nice feature of the a 7-3 but yes no issues
with freezing or anything like that no issues with overheating and I can tell you this in all honesty
I did a few tests and I've done real-world tests for this I was shooting non-stop for about half an
hour in the middle of the Canadian blistering heat yes it gets hot in Canada it's not snowy all year
round there is not a glues here all year round it gets very hot here in Canada in the summer
sometimes in excess of 40 degrees and I was using this camera solidly for 30 minutes outside and no
issues with over here there was one point where the overheating cymbal came on but I was nearing
the end of that clip and it just showed me that it was getting hot but I didn't have issues with the
actually turning off I do have mine set to the higher option for when it automatically turns
off though don't know if that makes a difference but yes no real problems with overheating at all
it's held up well and what do I mean by that well I mean the body you can't really see here but well
maybe you can have a quick look around there if I took pictures of that right now and put it online
for sale it would look brand-new and that's a really good thing this camera has taken some
serious abuse and by abuse I mean thrown in and out of a bag attached to many different lenses
on or off tripods it's been on my hip on a strap it's banged into stuff it's been knocked around in
my bags I firmly believe that camera equipment is it's basically at all it should be treated like at
all you should not baby your camera equipment and what I mean baby I mean there should never be a
situation where you don't go and shoot a photo or do a video because you're scared that your camera
is gonna get damaged her we're dirty you should never be in that situation if you are then you're
not treating the camera correctly these are tools they are designed to be used like tools you should
treat you well but at the same time you should never be avoiding a shot because you're scared of
it getting a little scratch or something like that but needless to say it has held up extremely well
there on see isn't a mark quiet at all and I'm speaking with all honesty there's not a mark on
it I've had a screen protector on here since new I have replaced one I started to peel off it hasn't
cracked so make sure you get a screen protector but yeah other than that there's not a mark on
it still in great shape also to talk about how its held up I haven't had any issues with getting dirt
on the sensor I seem to have this issue quite a bit with the a 6300 I don't know why because
the sensor is bigger on this but I can tell you three times off the top of my head where I've
had a little bit of dust on the sensor just from quickly looking between changing lenses two of
which I managed to get off with a blower a little bloody thing don't know what I'm doing that but
that's what you do with a blower and it blows the dust off and the other time I used a sense of swab
one white threw in and got that dust off two seem to have a lot more issues with the a 6300 then I
have had with this and that's a good thing you don't want dust when you said something it shows
up in your photos and video it's you can't get rid of it beause you can going to Photoshop but
for video it's it's a pain so you don't want that on there and I haven't had issues with that so
that's good I can already tell this is gonna be a long video very useful for you guys but feels like
I've done a lot talking already and so let's move on to things that I haven't had a good experience
of or don't like so much about this so this is not really something that I don't like but it's
something that transpired something that happened I'm guessing it's something that was inevitable I
wanted to move to awful friend glass and if you don't know Sony forum glass is expensive it's
not the cheapest in the world compared to say can on an icon for friend lenses so I have now solved
all of my aps-c lenses including the kit lenses the Sigma 16 mil yes I sold that amazing camera
lens I've moved to all full-frame Sony lenses so you might be asking why you did a video before
talking about how you can use your aps-c lenses on your full-frame camera and yes you can however
there's one feature that I start to use a ton and I haven't been able to stop using it and I use it
all the time the ability to shoot in crop mode on video with no loss of quality is fantastic
it's such a useful feature it makes every lens basically two focal lengths so a prime lens
a zoom lens a telephoto lens whatever you're using it now becomes double the focal length so
55 becomes an 82 and 85 becomes a 127 I think so using crop mode with this camera is so useful so
convenient and I loved it and I wasn't getting that feature when I was using the aps-c lenses
because it was already in crop mode so yeah sold on my aps-c lenses and now I have all full frame
glass the lenses I now have are the 70 to 200 F for the 85 f-18 you 1635 F for the 55 F 1.8
and yeah that's it I'm looking at another lens as well but we'll keep that quiet for now so I
moved to completely full frame lenses which was really expensive but do I regret it absolutely
not now I have everything I need for this and I'm really happy with this setup I've got yeah that
aps-c mode is just too good to not have once you start using it you would want the same thing it's
just too good it's too convenient too good and if you're using a prime that you love you now have a
little bit of extra reach and too convenient too convenient what problem to having alright this
is the major issue that I have with the a7 3 and I did an entire video on it the screen 2 issues with
the screen the main one I did the video about I'm not gonna go into too much detail because I did a
whole video on it I'll put up here I hope this is the right side basically the exposure doesn't show
properly sometimes you'll be shooting something and it'll look overexposed and then you'll get
back in post and you'll be looking at the clip and you'll be wondering why isn't my exposure
right now went by my eye which is normally pretty good and the screen is not accurate I
find this is in harsh sunny environments but it's like this and I do have my screen set to these
sunny weather settings but it still doesn't show correctly but if you go through the EVF and look
it's correct the exposure is correct I've done tests for both so that is a pain in the butt a
big pain in the butt and I don't know how to get rid of that people have said it's because you're
using the sunny settings I've changed into the lower settings too and it still gave me the same
problems so whether it's an issue with my camera specifically or all of them I don't know there
are other people that said they've had the same issue but it's a problem for me so I ended up
using the EVF way more than I worthy a 6300 which I didn't have this issue with so yeah that's a bit
of a pain for me and it's frustrating sometimes if you're using the Zeon crane and it's balanced on
here you kind of look through it you just can't do it so it's a pain that is the only real big
big issue so of everything that I talk about today that is the biggest problem with this camera I'll
tell you that now before you get to the end and you hear me talk about everything else that's the
only big problem so you can deal with that great another issue with the screen it's already an
issue it's something that I guess I have an issue with maybe more than other people will the screen
quality is not the greatest I didn't have an issue with the screen really that's all it seemed fine
like in terms of quality until I used one of my friends Fuji cameras and I was like whoa why is
this screen so good and I was that shocked by it honestly it's like going from standard definition
to high-definition the difference was incredible and it's because the number of dots that someone
uses on this screen and by dots I mean like PPI pixels per inch that kind of thing it's a lot
less on this than some other camera companies used specifically Canon uses higher quality
ones Fuji uses high quality ones I think this is just under a million I know Canon and Fuji used
to three million dot ones so it's a big difference in quality and it's more of a personal preference
I suppose but once you've used something else and then you come back to this it just feels inferior
it's annoying so I wish that Sony would put a higher quality screen on this next time now I
do believe on the a7 r3 they use a higher quality screen so they probably did it to keep the cost
down but at the same time it's nice to have a good quality screen on there so just annoyance I guess
uh and then the other thing I have a little bit of an issue with or not really an issue but again
comparing it to other cameras the Ibis is okay but it's not great and you really sometimes have
to still hold it really steady if you go in hand how you can get stuff usable handheld but it's
just not fantastic compared to something like the judge 5 which has phenomenal phenomenal I this in
body image standardization and I really wish this had that but it's okay it still works for photos
it's really really good it definitely allows you to shoot out a slightly slower shutter speed and
still get a sharp image but for video you can notice it sometimes unless you're shooting 120
you should have 120 then you can just smooth out everything and it looks nice and smooth I
digress so that is my thoughts on the a 73 and my in depth kind of six-month layer how's it handling
kind of review thing I don't even know what this is just talking to you about my experiences with
this having used it for about six months time so what am I thinking about doing next with this is
it gonna continue to be my a cam well yes it is for now that being said I am looking at retiring
May 6 300 and by retiring I mean putting on Kijiji we use Kijiji here in Canada to sell stuff kind of
like the Craigslist or Ebay and I want to sell it and I want to upgrade to something else something
new that's coming out try it out when it comes out and what I'm looking at right now none of these
cameras are announced I'm looking at potentially this successor to the a 6500 which is allegedly
the a 60 no the a6000 oh the a 7000 or the a9 mini it's also been called apparently has some
very good features 10-bit color 4k 60 potentially a flippy screen and that's something I'm looking
at I'm also looking at the a7 s3 which would then make this the B cam if it has as good features as
everyone else says similar features apparently to what the a 7000 will have with 4k 6010 McCulloch
that flip screen let's just talk about that flip screen for a second I think a common misconception
is everybody thinks that we want flip screens and by we I mean people that do YouTube videos I think
people want I think people think that we want them because we want to vlog that is not the case
I mean yes some people want it for that I don't really vlog that much when I do it's a little bit
here and there yes it's nice to be able to expose yourself quickly otherwise you have to kind of
expose your hand make sure you're in focus test the clip yeah that's good you might do like two
or three takes to get it so that would be nice but the other thing is when you're done low angles off
to the side if you want to kind of film someone and just look here well you're in it like there's
so many different situations like right now I'm using a monitor you can't see my I'm using a
monitor it would be nice to sometimes just quickly set up the camera I'd be able to film a segment
and know you're in frame know you're exposed properly and flip screen is so useful for that for
people that make videos it's a useful feature and I think camera company should just put it in there
a standard it's just a feature people will use if Sony can put in that feature with 4k 60 with their
amazing autofocus 10-bit color and a flip screen I can tell you right now that camera will sell
better than any other camera next year and it's probably not gonna come till next year but I can
tell you that right now with a hundred percent certainty so I I just don't know why they don't
do it anyway I've got often a bit of a tangent there so yeah that's what I'm looking at I am also
looking at a GH five why not try out very very well review camera but it's a little bit older so
I know panasonic has some newer full-frame cameras coming next year so there's also an option but no
one's been able to test it out yet it's just spec sheets with a fake body I think people assume so
there's a lot of exciting cameras coming down the line and I'm very interested it's a very exciting
time for cameras for sure so I appreciate you watching today hopefully managed to get some
information out of this maybe you're looking to get asked some questions that you had from a real
person's point of view a real person's perspective of using this camera for six months heavily and I
can tell you've used it very heavily I've put it through its paces so hopefully I've helped you
out sub button down below click like all that stuff yeah I'll see you guys in the next video
I'm gonna end this video as well with some of my favorite shots I've shot with this the past six
months so don't go away right now it's a nice video I'll see you guys in the next one see ya