- This is not my Uber, I'm sorry.
(laughter)
This is Keith.
- Hi, hello. - He's a professional
photographer, and we are going to shooting some
really nice cars.
So, yeah, I think I mentioned that
I'm not a morning person.
Six A.M.
So Keith's just taking me to a spot.
- Your home for the next half-hour.
- Wow, luxurious.
(rock music)
Here, they're coming.
Ohh.
Some may say that this is a basic model,
but a lot of people would consider this
to be an entry level camera, actually.
Oh, yes, 10fps.
But what we usually think of as entry level,
or basic models, is that they usually designed
to make you think, like "Oh I wish
"I should have got that better camera."
But not the case with this.
A great first impression, 10fps
doesn't feel like basic at all.
10fps raw, with AF tracking.
And the burst rate is the same as a7RIII,
which is, which was, ooh, this, this one's fast,
which was crazy because a7RIII, 42 megapixels, 10fps,
that was crazy, but this one, with a better AF system.
It's got 693 phase detection points,
which is 93 percent coverage.
Buffer size up to 89 raw files, 89!
(rock music)
There is not something you
usually do when you shooting cars.
Which is turn on the silent mode.
Silent mode is silent.
Good for movie sets, golf, something like that.
Yes, over that distance shooting 10fps, did you miss that?
Sometimes it's rolling shutter issue, but if they fix this,
shutterless camera could be the next thing after mirroless.
Okay, well I can't say it's really good enough
as a professional sport camera.
Sometimes they are few miss focus here and there.
Especially when I'm using focus tracking
rather than center-point.
But the hit rate is still high,
really high, up to what I expect.
You can definitely have lots of fun and lots of keepers.
(rock music)
(shutter clicks)
Now you might have heard that it got a new battery,
it's got a Z-type, sounds like some
intergalactic fighter in Japanese cartoon, Z-type,
but this battery, double the size,
but battery life's more than before.
They claim that 610 shots in one charge,
which is more than all the mirrorless cameras
across all brands.
And to test it I actually took it to a shoot.
I shot for like four hours, a really normal shoot for me.
To my experience, if I was shooting with the a7SII,
I would have wasted three batteries,
but this, one battery is close to
three batteries of my a7SII.
That is, wow, so.
Talking about video feature, this is pretty good,
I meant, no, this,
it's actually better than the more expensive A9
because it's got S-log, A9 don't got S-log.
It's better than a7RIII because this
use the full width of the censor, not the a7RIII.
(Correction: a7RIII use full width, but with pixel binning
So the question is how does it compare to the current
video-oriented a7SII, over there.
Both camera do full pixel readout and no pixel binning.
That's good for a camera so much cheaper than my a7SII,
all right, oh good,
but when we zoom in, a7III produce sharper
more detailed image, probably because the oversampling
6K down to 4K.
That's good, although that's really slight, really,
it's really tiny edge over my lovely a7SII,
just really tiny, yeah, really.
Okay this is really simple test
of low-light, see this is pretty low-light,
and this is, uh, that's a mosquito,
just in front of the lens, I don't know, can you see that?
There's loads, lots of mosquitoes here,
so I'm going to do this quick, yeah, low-light test.
But I'm going to turn off light.
Oh shit, I can't, I can't see.
Now this is auto-focus, face detection on,
auto-ISO, auto-ISO is set to maximum to the max,
which is, I can't remember.
See, it's still not as good as my a7SII, yes!
I mean, oh, that's, um, good game, good game, good game.
But the still photos is really clean up to ISO 6400,
getting a bit noisy after 12,800.
By the way that's my silver button,
which is the best object to test
high-ISO in my home, yeah, scientifically, yeah.
Now, for a camera this capable, it's not expensive at all.
Well come on, 2,000 dollars, it's not cheap.
Of course it's gonna be good.
Well we have to consider comparing to
other entry level full-frame cameras,
and compare to when they were new.
But I think the only thing I would complain about
is it's getting heavier.
I mean this is still much lighter than lot of APS-C cameras,
well, especially for a full-frame camera,
it's ridiculously, ridiculously light,
but it's still one heavier than another.
One of the things about this camera is that
it's really buying a basic model, and I'll, let me,
no this is not, I am not copying Casey Neistat c'mon,
anyone drawing on a piece of paper is copying Casey Neistat.
Hand drawing this, it's already terrible, and then,
and drawing in this situation.
For some the original a7R, had a lot of resolution,
but not much fps.
Later, a7R has had a lot of resolution,
and then quite crazy fast fps.
Or if it's an A9, fps all the way to over there,
resolution, so so, A9.
And then a basic model, usually,
when you think of basic model is kind of
like around here, basic, but this one,
the thing is really funny basic model is that
it's something around a7III.
So that's why I think either this camera is
re-defining what is basic model,
or it's not basic at all, it's an all-around camera.