Sony a7R III
Price: $3,198
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Technical Specs
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Performance
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Value for Money
The headlining video for this page runs 1¾ hours. It is the most comprehensive guide to the Sony a7R III menus available anywhere. For your convenience, the below interactive guide breaks this video down into organized sections, taking you directly to a discrete explanation of whatever menu page you’re interested in. Just click it, and a video will play back with a detailed explanation. Use the top index to skip around between menu tabs and pages.
I got inspired to throw this together after creating a menu guide for the Sony RX0 recently. Now, after lessons learned from an ongoing trans-media creative project of mine (www.95thesesfilm.com/concordance), combined with a full test run using the Sony a7R III to create www.scroogeopera.com last month, I’ve combined sample footage from that project with observations about this camera (triggered by explaining its menus), resulting in a hybrid resource of: product tutorial, review, and footage samples.
SONY a7R III MENU INDEX
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TAB 1/PAGE 1 — manual and automatic selection between full-frame mode, versus APS-C/Super 35mm “crop” mode:
TAB 1/PAGE 2 — on leaving things alone at the acquisition stage:
TAB 1/PAGE 3 — dual memory card slots:
TAB 1/PAGE 4 — (not relevant):
TAB 1/PAGE 5 — auto-focus modes:
TAB 1/PAGE 6 — auto-focus face priority:
TAB 1/PAGE 7 — (not relevant):
TAB 1/PAGE 8 — (not relevant):
TAB 1/PAGE 9 — ISO/gain, arbitrary minimum ISO in S-Log:
TAB 1/PAGE 10 — (not relevant):
TAB 1/PAGE 11 — (not relevant):
TAB 1/PAGE 12 — white balance, picture profiles/S-Log:
TAB 1/PAGE 13 — peaking:
TAB 1/PAGE 14 — (not relevant):
TAB 2/PAGE 1 — movie file formats, fast-slow motion, proxy recording:
TAB 2/PAGE 2 — auto-focus responsiveness, audio recording:
TAB 2/PAGE 3 — wind noise reduction, display markers:
TAB 2/PAGE 4 — accommodating non-native manual lenses, image stabilization:
TAB 2/PAGE 5 — zoom and ClearImage Zoom:
TAB 2/PAGE 6 — on-screen display, zebras, rule-of-thirds grid line:
TAB 2/PAGE 7 — (not relevant):
TAB 2/PAGE 8 — custom keys and menus (and avoiding the temptation to over-customize):
TAB 2/PAGE 9 — turning off the beeps:
TAB 3 — viewing/controlling from smartphone or tablet, absence of applets:
TAB 4 — playback:
TAB 5/PAGE 1 — gamma display assist:
TAB 5/PAGE 2 — overheating, world camera, cleaning the sensor:
TAB 5/PAGE 3 — touchscreen, say-no-to-timecode, wired remote control:
TAB 5/PAGE 4 — HDMI, USB options, tethering:
TAB 5/PAGE 5 — file naming:
TAB 5/PAGE 6 — redundant versus overflow usage of two memory card slots:
TAB 5/PAGE 7 — firmware version, both camera and lens:
TAB 6 — on being your own star:
The Sony a7R III is available via B&H for under $3.2k by clicking here. I hope this resource helped! Please share it with other Sony a7R III users.
I would like to know why you like the Sony A7R3 compared to Nikon 850. Thanks. Phyllis
Good day, Phyllis. Even though the Sony a7R III appears to have the best auto-focus capability overall, IF your priority is still photography and you lean towards manual focusing anyway, I have been hearing a lot about the Nikon D850 being the better camera! But as this menu guide/review of mine stipulates, I am ONLY focusing on the movie/video capabilities, and in that category, the Sony a7R III is vastly superior to the Nikon D850 in numerous ways, including quality of sensor, log color space, and much more. Hope that helps: basically, it’s all about your preference for still photography versus video…