I liked how you stretched the word "Entre Level" and Basic Camera on a $2,500.00 Camera lol. For most people The price is NOT entry level. 😅 but I'm still considering pre ordering one. I think for the kind of content I make on my other channel, this is a really good camera vs using my smartphone. I killed the camera from my Note 9, every time I try using it to record I get an error screen so I got Note 20 now but I can't do that with my Note 20 ultra lol!
Claps for that intro video! I've been following you since a long time to learn about photography techniques and technologies, and your production quality is increasingly professional in each video.
Great video thanks, my biggest disappointment about this camera (given the sizable price increase) was that Sony didn't manage to squeeze in a stacked sensor to once again cement them as the mirrorless leaders, offering cutting edge features at a great price like so many A series models have done before it. Sony could have still kept the A7iv artificially capped at 10fps to protect the A9 and A1 sales but I think to have quite a sizable rolling shutter and probably a nasty banding issue too when shooting in silent shutter mode is unacceptable at $2500 in what is essentially 2022. I would love to see some silent shutter banding tests, maybe a comparison shootout against the A9i which is actually the same price as the A7iv and so makes for a very interesting proposition!
Good work, so far the best review yet. Looks very cinematic. The revamp of the exposure dial is a literal reinvention of the wheel and was unnecessary. I hate it actually. I prefer being able see without powering the camera up what the current configuration is. If I forget to reset the dial, I spot it before I power up the camera. I also can't see why I would not have a dedicated exposure wheel for video or stills, so remapping this is not something I would do. I also prefer the secondary wheel to be sunk into the body like the A7III. They made the IV look like an unfinished prototype. Other than that, no doubt, it's a great camera albeit with the smallest improvement being still image quality. But AF, 10 bit Video, shutter covering the sensor, S-Cinetone... 33mp, yeah, really good.
This is an excellent introduction to the coming 7/IV----thank you so much. Your reviews have improved greatly from the first I saw years ago on the venerable Canon f4 24-105. Congratulations on your dogged persistence at growing. But I do have a few questions of personal concern--questions to which none of the reviews has addressed so far. Before I go further I'd like to state this categorically: Anyone can find out what a camera's features are by simply reading a spec sheet. But how easy are those features to use to get the needed result? This is what I find missing in almost all reviews, and this is the basic concern of my post. How is the peaking???---on the A7III it was HORRIFICALLY unusable---the bottom of the barrel regarding this feature. Is the stabilization hand held any better? It was quite substandard on the A7III-really bad? Is the color any better? Trees were good but faces were terrible on the A7III, ugly with weird color, at least in video. Next, I HOPE the EVF is better than the A7III---Is it now useful? Same for the LCD. A7III--terrible! You neglected to mention any of these. The upgrades are cool looking and significant---but what of correcting the glaring faults of the A7III? But my real questions have to do with some specific things regarding video---video is all I shoot, and these are capabilities I view as essential if you want to shoot video, rather than doing little more than using the camera as a glorified point-and-shoot. Right now I shoot the X-T4---and it is, with no understatement, fantastic: beautiful image--high bit rate 4k image down sampled from 6k, great dynamic range, LOG that is excellent and easy to grade (far better than the nightmare of the S-LOG II) with a series of outstanding LUTs. First, does the Sony have a one push white balance you can program on a button that will allow you to perform and lock a white balance instantaneously when you need to---and do it in less than a second? Fuji does. Fuji's AWB-L is enormously useful in run and gun video. I use it constantly. Next,, shooting MF is a dream. Stabilization is very good, AF very good, and, for video, the peaking is class leading---superior to all but the best cinema cameras. Plus, (and this is REALLY important) you can punch in, perform your MF, punch back out, hit record, and while recording, move the focus box to another object, punch in, and perform a perfect, detailed focus pull using the enlarged punched in image, punch back out, and stop recording at your pleasure. Review your recording-- you get a perfect and perfectly timed focus pull----first try every time. Can the A7 IV do that on the Sony??? Can you punch in while recording and perform a focus pull? Can you do a mechanical focus on the fancy new Sony lenses---or do they cripple the ability to do a manual focus pull on the lens with focus-by-wire? If you can't, then I have no interest---because these and other capabilities the X-T4 offers make shooting REAL video in cinematic style possible. So far, I've seen no other camera with this capability. The irony is all of this is that all of this in the X-T4 is being offered by what 98% of people regard as an exclusively mirrorless stills camera manufacturer.
Where can I go to see one of your vids with these features you talk about or a tutorial vid? I am a stills photographer wanting to play around with trying some video. Basically, I need a new camera to do so! Thanks for any replies , if any.
You’re a great salesman… This camera almost had me sold… Most exciting thing you said was that the 4K video was sharper than the a7SIII… I had to play that line over several times to make sure I heard it right. But the one thing that you breezed over… The big dealbreaker for me? Rolling shutter. I shoot a lot of action and I hear the rolling shutter is complete shit. That’s so horribly sad. The rolling shutter on the a7sIII iS up there with the Alexa.
Great Video, congrats! - Yesterday was my first shooting with a7 IV. I love it. Great progress compared to its predecessors, but I have one big complaint: When you use a headphone to monitor sound, you can't turn the lcd screen up. I think this is a huge mistake.
Now that's great! I thought from reading the first reviews that I really wouldn't need to upgrade my A7III but after seeing your video, I got a GAS attack! Sheesh...
It depends what you mainly do, for video its a solid upgrade. If you only do photos you wont really notice the difference, ive seen many reviews strictly based off photography and in the end the difference is so minimal why would you pay extra for it
@@hamishmatthews21 So what 30+mp camera does 4k60 full frame for $2500? Every single time I see someone saying it's "not good enough" they fail to provide an example of a camera already doing it, so clearly it's just fine for the price. You may have WANTED more, but that doesn't mean the camera is bad for not having what you want and sometimes what you're asking for is simply not possible. The new higher resolution sensor has about the same readout speed as the A7 III's sensor, meaning 4k60 full frame is impossible without line skipping.
Hi, congratulations for the very interesting video. I'd like to ask you a question. For me the stabilization of a camera is very important because I make all my 4K documentaries around the world freehand, without tripods and without stadyshot. I DON'T take pstills. If I had to buy the Sony A7 IV and the Sony FE 24-105mm f / 4 G OSS, could the two stabilizations, both of the camera and that of the lens, work together and in synergy? Do you think the Sony A7 IV with Sony FE 24-105mm f / 4 G OSS might be the right camera for me or is it better that I look to another camera with better stabilization? Thank you very much
I don’t know what you’ve done but the detail shots are almost pornographic. I love them. And then you have some kind of like blue chromatic aberration oversharpen(?) on shots like 2:53…that is almost cyberpunky… is an interesting look!
Breathing assist.... my god :D the hell is that tech. I would love if they included more of these features in Canon cameras, rather than 54678658 options for Wi-fi, expo compensation, HDR and ISO bracketing and whatnot :D I would throw at least 30 Canon "features" for this one.
That makes it about $100 AUD cheaper than in Australia. Personally I think they made a big mistake with the pricing. I guesstimate that it should have been about $750 AUD cheaper.
As a wedding photographer and videographer I see no reason to upgrade our Sony a7iii. The only good reasons are the screen and 4k 60p. The rest of the reasons are not ver major o important to pay for a new camera.
I am sitting on the fence between getting this and a new lens or splashing the cash and getting an a1. I only shot stills so the 50mp in the a1 is drawing me in
Can I replace that top Exposure Compensation dial? I like having the adjustable exposure thing... I use it all the time and now that the dial is blank, I basically cant use it - going blindly
I'm sure I'll get flack for this but it all seems a bit overrated to me. Some bias, I'm one of the 10 people that invested in Panasonic cams S1& S5 and outside of AF (which really isn't bad for photos, though a mile behind Sony / Canon) thos cams have consistently proved to be the best bang-per-buck full frame cams on the market. So much less expensive than this yet so many of the features like 10-bit, 4k60, full sized HDMI etc etc are all present in those cams yet their praises go unsung. Here we have a fantastic Sony camera but one that is hardly the groundbreaking achievement of the A7III being feverishly hyped up without mentioning some of the odd draw backs. Like that, yes you can definitely cope with the 1.5x 4k60 crop but you really shouldn't have to now, the dated and poor back LCD screen and drop to only 5fps when shooting in RAW. Hardly the leap many people make it out to be. I get it, Sony cams have a huge community and not for good reason. But as a working photographer/ videographer there just not enough constructive criticism aimed at the cams. The only reason I didn't get the A7III was because I had to dig pretty deep before the flaws were made apparent. Anyways, again, no hate. This is an awesome cam. Just a bit frustrated by the hype and believe me as a Panasonic user who loves wildlife photography I am am one envious mofo if that incredible AF!
Lumix s5 vs a74 what would you say those two.. aha i know many of would say yeah blah i love sony and brainwash people will still buying a73 now that a74 is announced every single one of you is gonna rush to this camera. Any I'm lumix shooter with s lineup and i own lumix s5 but i must say sony this does great job with everything it's almost beat s5 but not very sure coz we still have the advantage of 6 12bit hld footage with full frame capacity and best ibis in the world. Last but not least dual native iso which obviously perform better than alpha line 6k photo mode in which you can get 6k video internally. That is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
