Hating on the a7IV in 2024 (Except I Actually Like the Camera) 

One thing that no one talks about with poor rolling shutter, is how it can create/exaggerate wobbles around the edge when combined with IBIS even with minimal movement. It’s not always just about swinging the camera back and forth as fast as you can. If it were just a bit of leaning during pans, I don’t think I’d care as much, but those wobbles can ruin shots and it drives me crazy. But beyond that, you pretty much nailed all the reasons that I can’t stand using the a7iv - especially in a professional setting.

I recently got an FX3 (was debating between this and an A7IV), and being able to load in your own LUTs into the camera has been one of my fave features. Sad to hear it's not on the this camera. But great breakdown, thanks for this!

The over heating is my biggest gripe. I've even put a metal heat sink on the back and it still can over heat with in 50 minutes. I've been recently told if you use an external monitor that also will make it over heat quicker. Like you said the heat beings building as soon as the camera is turned on. I've done education doc work and a lot of it is having the camera on waiting for a moment you want. Even shooting 1-5 minutes clips the camera over heated in a couple of hours. You would think indoors would be better because it's out of the sun but it's not. With no breeze there is no air flow to dissipate the heat. My other big gripe is how they implement custom setting. I find I can't use the custom dial because things like white balance aren't universal. So for example If you used C1 for slowmo and C2 for regular. Every time you switch the custom dial it will revert to the white balance that was set when the custom setting was created.

Let's admit here, the only people that sees jello and all the camera tech talk ... is camera people like us. Just like our pixel peakings can make us say about sharpness not being up to par when the reality is we see things as we see NOT 800x the zoom. In the real world, no average person could care less when you take the technical aspects away. Do you really give your camera the baby shakes when you in the field doing any video work? No. When you whip pan, is it REALLY THAT bad? No. How often are you baby shake whipping? Not really every single time. Also, this is a hybrid camera that's still leaned to photos, but it has greatly awesome video specs. The camera actually pixel bins pretty well for a hybrid and for high 61mp... a tiny little 1.2 crop is not really gonna hurt anybody. To simply "Deal with the change of focal length"... just back up some or simply use zoom lens. You're a cine guy right? Put a Sigma 17-50mm on it or something lol you know this lol. I'm not shading brother just chattin it up but i think you are being a touch rough on it man. It's a Pro-sumer camera not a camera made by Paramount Pictures. If you're using crop on a full frame, your full frame lens will deter that problem and at 1.2 crop, that only brings your lens to a whopping 48mm my guy, take 1 step backwards there's your difference lol. You being rough!

Man i got serious about photography with this camera , and now Nikon dropped the z6iii 😅😅😅😅 I moved from nikon to sony colours Atleast Nikon had Sigma glass. Still it is all about the photographer .

First of all, this is not a cinematography-based camera, Most of your issues are about cinematography and if you are doing a lot of it, it's better to get a cinema lineup camera like fx3 or fx30. A7 IV is a Photography Camera with good video capability.

It's a donkey compared to Nikon z6iii. The Nikon is almost everything the Sony A7iv could have been.