Disclosure:
- The opinions in this review are my own and not persuaded by anyone or any company. I did not receive payment from Sony to make this review.
- Although I’m a member of Sony Pro Services I did purchase the camera equipment for this review with my own money from Allen’s Camera my go to source for camera equipment.
- For many years I’ve field tested a wide variety of cameras for Nikon, Olympus, Sony, and others. I generally select these cameras based on their merits for the images I am trying to make.
- I use the camera equipment I personally enjoy and often trade my cameras in for the latest and greatest, just my personal philosophy. This helps me with articles and teaching clients showing up with a wide variety of cameras on tours and workshops.
- Always remember, it’s the photographer and not the camera that creates an image, and “a good image is a good image” regardless of what camera produced it.
A7RIV Limitations:
- You’ll need higher shutter speeds in general with the higher MP’s, I noticed at least a stop difference over my D850, plan at least two stops over a D5.
- It’s still not possible to move the focus points or access some of the key menu items while buffering.
- The uncompressed RAW files can be a massive 120MB, so you’ll want fast SD cards, and an upgraded laptop with SSD.
- EVF blackout significant while shooting uncompressed RAW, much less while using APSC crop or on continuous high +. Use this setting for birds in flight or action. The files still look great.
- The silent electronic shutter suffers from bad rolling shutter. Shoot mostly with the mechanical shutter. I actually missed my shutter click sounds when I turned it off anyway.
- Like all mirrorless cameras the sensor attracts a bit of dust so make sure to carry a sensor cleaning kit with you into the field, or be prepared to remove spots in post.
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Aaron Baggenstos
In the last 10 years Aaron has lead over 200 photography tours around the world. He has earned a reputation for his gracious teaching style to photographers of all skill levels and extensive knowledge of Nikon, Sony, Canon, Olympus, and Panasonic digital cameras.
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