(SR5) Spread the info: Sony A9II release in OCTOBER

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UPDATE. It will NOT be displayed at the PhotoPlus show but on a separate event!

There seems to be a lot of bloggers out there that still didn’t understand when the A9II will be released and don’t get how our rumor ranking works. So here the recap of this weeks rumor:

1) On September 3th I posted this SR3 ranked rumor about the A9II possibly announced in 1-2 weeks. “SR3” means it’s unconfirmed and certainly NOT reliable as I wrote within the text!!!

2) 15 hours after I got reliable info saying the camera will be released in October. The meeting happening in 1-2 weeks is just a “closed door”event with Olympic photographers to show them the A9II. But  I repeat the PUBLIC announcement is in October.

Here is the Rumor Ranking:

SR= Sony Rumor
SR1=probably fake rumor
SR2=rumor from unknown sources
SR3=50% chance it is correct
SR4=rumor from known sources
SR5=almost certainly correct!

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I got the new A7rIV and this what it feels like…

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I will not go into the technical specs and will share the first impressions feelings I had when I unboxed the A7rIV the very first day.

Note:  I owned all A7r cameras so far. This is the difference between my  “Old” A7rIII and A7rIV:

What’s good:
1) The first  things I noticed is the tactile feeling. Buttons feel better, the camera body looks like it’s better built too.
2) Opening the side doors (battery and connection) feels WAY more solid than before. They are no more flimsy and they feel pleasantly “dumped” probably because of the extra weathersealing. This is probably the best first impression point I had
3) Yes my mid sized hand fits much better on t he larger grip. Also my fingers are no more squeezed between the lens and the grip.
4) EVF is great but somehow I feel I still need  and even bigger resolution for my manual focus shooting. The EVF jump form the A7rII to A7rIII felt bigger  than the one from the A7rIII to the A7rIV.

What’s not so good:
1) That damn screen should really have gotten more resolution and grown up touchscreen functions
2) That new top rear dial position look off the place, doesn’t feel good to rotate and it also not as easy to rotate as it was before.
3) The grip still looks like as it was glued afterwards on the body. A more harmonic design would be appreciated on the next A7rV :)

Will try to post some images samples soon too!

Sony A7rIV and new accessories:
Sony A7rIV in USA/CA at BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera, Amazon, BuyDig, Henrys.
Sony A7rIV in EU at Calumet DE, ParkUK, WexUK, Calumet NL.
Sony A7rIV in Asia at Sony Japan. Sony Australia.
Sony VG-C4EM grip in USA at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, FocusCamera, BuyDig, ParkUK, WexUK.
ECM-B1M Digital Audio Shotgun Microphone at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, FocusCamera, BuyDig, Park UK.
XLR-K3M Mic at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, FocusCamera, BuyDig, Park UK.

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Sony Tidbits…

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Sony A7III – 1 Year Later

Tamron 17-28mm FE review at Fujiya-blog.
Hands-On Review: Sony Xperia 1 Smartphone (M. Brett Smith).
DPReview TV Shorts: Bring back the custom focus limiter!
Travel-Friendly Camera and Lens Systems (Explora).
Sony A6400 VS Sony A7SII! Why Pay Three Times as Much?! (TheEveryDayDad).
A6400 Street Shooting & Tips Tutorial (Michael The Maven).

Personal photos and tests from SAR Admin Andrea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and 500px.

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Sony A7III group and Sony A7III page
Note: In groups you can post your own stuff like images, news and questions. While on pages you will read the specific camera news from SAR.

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First leaked Sony A9II picture to be posted at 17:00 London time!

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Stay tuned ;)

UPDATE: Readers are reporting the website has loading issue. I will also post the image on my private Instagram account in case you cannot open SAR.

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Image Quality test: Sony A7rIV vs the Sony A7rIII

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ISO 50 comparison

Imaging Resource added the Sony A7rIV to their Comparometer Tool. My first impressions:

  1. Of course the new A7rIV produces sharper images
  2. Don’t know why…but on the images posted by Imaging  Resource  the A7rIV colors seem to be more “natural” looking.
  3. At  higher ISO the A7rIV images are  noisier….but still sharper

ISO 6400

Pixel Shift

And Albert Dros tested the A7rIV PIxel  Shift mode:

The 16 shot pixel shift functions works great if you want a crazy amount of detail. Use cases would be architectural photography and still life. I’m not sure if I will use it a lot in the field. To be honest: probably not. But I definitely would like to experiment with this more. The amount of extra detail and resolution you get from the 16 shot pixel shift is too significant to ignore and deserves a try to implement it in my workflow.

Sony a7R IV gallery update: Raw conversions added at Dpreview.
Sony A7R4 in Paris, Brussels and Bangkok with the G Master 2470f/2.8 (Traveljournalist).

Sony A7rIV and new accessories:
Sony A7rIV in USA/CA at BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera, Amazon, BuyDig, Henrys.
Sony A7rIV in EU at Calumet DE, ParkUK, WexUK, Calumet NL.
Sony A7rIV in Asia at Sony Japan. Sony Australia.
Sony VG-C4EM grip in USA at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, FocusCamera, BuyDig, ParkUK, WexUK.
ECM-B1M Digital Audio Shotgun Microphone at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, FocusCamera, BuyDig, Park UK.
XLR-K3M Mic at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, FocusCamera, BuyDig, Park UK.

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