This may just be the best deal you can get in a camera right now.
Hey everyone, Camber here back with you, and today we are talking about the a7iii and why
this may just be the best deal you can get in a camera right now.
And if you're new here this channel is all about teaching you how to use your camera
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And a quick disclaimer, I'm not saying this is better than cinema cameras.
This is the DSLR realm so, there ya go.
Now, I got this about a month and a half ago to replace the a7Sii that I'm shooting on
right now, and so far I've used this in a wedding.
I've liked the results; you can check out the whole video if you want here somewhere.
I just took it last week to Europe, and shot a bunch of vlogs throughout London and Paris.
Those will be coming out soon as well, but this thing; it just blows me out of the water.
I'm going to be telling you mostly upgrades that it has from the a7Sii, but also if you're
coming from a different brand, why this may be a good idea to switch.
I've got links in the description for the a7iii so you can check that out while you're watching the video
So the first thing you'll notice if you're coming to this from one of the original a7's
or from the mark ii versions is the grip is much bigger.
The whole camera is a little bit bigger, and that's mainly due to the bigger battery.
a7Sii battery, a7iii battery.
You can see right there it's much bigger.
Mirrorless cameras are known for having bad battery life because of small batteries; Sony
fixed that right here...huge improvement.
Next up is dual memory card slots.
It even has a nice little door here that pops open.
UHS-II slot on the bottom, UHS-I slot on the top.
Door shuts and clicks easy.
Not sure why they couldn't make both of them UHS-II, but never the less it's still a nice
improvement because now that gave me great peace of mind shooting a wedding and being
able to record to two cards in case one of them failed.
They added a USB-C port to the side of it so those of you like me who have the
new MacBook that only has USB-C ports in it; now I don't have to carry this thing around
with me everywhere.
I can just unhook the plug from the power outlet, stick it in my camera, transfer the
files, stick it back in and start charging my computer again.
And so, really nice addition there, and you can also charge off of it.
Next up is the addition of the touchscreen, which doesn't work for the menus, but it's
really nice for focusing because with most mirrorless lenses, they are electronic focus motors.
So trying to do any kind of rack focus is pretty difficult to get it spot on even with
focus peaking; so being able to touch what I want to focus on was really nice throughout
the whole time.
Or even using a gimbal when I was doing sliding moves, I could touch my initial point, slide
over, touch the finishing point when I wanted, and it worked really great; and I didn't have
to spend multiple times trying to get that focus just right.
They added a joystick here, which I don't really use much.
It's useful in menus, but if you like it, cool.
Next improvement is APS-C in 4K.
Before on the a7Sii you couldn't crop in to the APS-C mode when you're in 4K; now they
fixed that, and you can so that's a nice option to have.
So next up is 120 frames per second with no cropping in on the sensor.
With the a7Sii you could shoot at 60 frames per second with using the full frame sensor,
but as soon as you went to 120 it would crop in.
And so you would have to change your lens in order to get the same equivalent focal
length that you had at 60 frames per second.
But now they've fixed that; you've got the full frame with 120 frames per second.
So you can just leave the same lens on there, switch back and forth really easily.
They've changed the placement of the record button to here.
It used to be on the side of the a7Sii.
It makes more sense there; it's easy to push and you know you've pushed it.
It's not hard to find so good improvement there.
So if you're coming from a different company, one of the complaints with these Sony cameras
is that the menus are ridiculous; and, yes, there are a lot of them.
This one has 35 pages of menu settings.
Part of the reason for that is that there is so much customization; there's so many
great video options for this that it's definitely worth it.
So aside from the custom 1, 2, 3, and 4 buttons, you can customize just about every other button
on this camera so you don't even have to dig into the menus to change the settings that you need.
But one thing they did improve on the menus with this camera is that at the end of them,
there's a customized menu where you can go in and take the settings that you wouldn't set
to any of your custom buttons and then set that in your own custom menu.
So you just go straight to that menu and change the the things you would normally need to do like
formatting your card.
So if you're coming from a different camera manufacturer like Canon, this thing has focus peaking,
which is quite useful for manual focusing.
It has a marker display so if you plan on using any kind of letterboxing on your videos,
you can have those markers on the screen and see what you shot is going to look like.
It has a 5-axis stabilized sensor so instead of having to buy lenses with image stabilization,
you can just use any lens and the camera will compensate stabilization
based on the focal length you're using.
And if you're using Sony glass,
it will automatically detect which focal length you have and stabilize as necessary.
But if you have any other kind of brand that you are using an adapter with, you can go
in and manually choose your focal length so that it'll stabilize correctly based on the
focal length you're using.
So they added a setting called "S&Q" and that stands for Slow & Quick.
So you can switch to that and get slow motion, or you can have it set to get a timelapse
and you can go as low as 1 frame per second.
But that really isn't that great for doing timelapses, and that's what leads me into
the first downfall of this camera is that you don't have access to get applications
on the camera anymore.
On my a7Sii, I downloaded the timelapse app because I use timelapses all the time; I get
them everywhere I go, and it's really nice having the flexibility to change the length
of time of your timelapses to change the style and the look of how you do them.
And this camera is very limiting on how it does that.
So even though this does almost everything I want, I still have my a7Sii body with me
so that I can get those timelapses when I want them.
And the only other downside for me that this camera has is that it still has the same old
flip screen that just tilts up and down.
It is nice for shooting handheld and being able to look down at the camera like this.
I can have the camera on the ground and still see the picture just fine.
Or if I have it up high on a tripod or monopod or gimbal, I can tilt it down and still see
my picture well.
So it is useful, but as far as vlogging goes or times like this where I want to see what's
going on in the camera, being able to maybe have this extend further and flip straight
up so you could see yourself would be nice or an extra hinge on the side so it could flip out.
And, of course, the a7Sii is great in low light; it's one of the best low light cameras
out on the market right now.
And this camera has twice as many megapixels so it's not as good in low light, however,
it still does quite well.
So if low light is your thing; if you really need the best performance then definitely
the a7Sii would still be the way to go.
But I find myself trying to light my stuff as best as I can, and this thing did just
fine throughout my whole wedding video.
And one of the best things about this camera is that it is only $2,000 for the body, which
may sound like a lot of money; but the a7Sii cost me $3,000 and this thing improves on
almost everything that the a7Sii can do.
But this camera is great.
I definitely suggest getting it if you're looking to upgrade or switching from another
manufacturer, it is definitely worth it.
I got links below for you so you can check that out.
And also, if you want to see that wedding video, you can see it up again, I'll leave some links for it.
And that's all so if you made it this far go ahead and hit that thumbs up and let me
know down below if you have any more questions about this camera or its capabilities.
Go ahead and subscribe if you haven't, and remember that the only way to get better at
something is to practice.
So get out there and film something.
See ya soon!
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