Sony a7R V User Experience Review

this is the new Sony a7r Mark V the latest in the red resolution series famous for his high megapixel count Infamous for destroying hard drive space if you weren't going bankrupt taking all these high-res photos you will now so am I new to the a7r series animal and bird eye autofocus in both photo and video introducing car and train autofocus airplane autofocus in both photo and video and Bug auto focus flipping bugs ew on top of that they're taking human face and eye autofocus to a whole nother level no way and it doesn't stop right there we're getting 8K 8 stop of in-body image stabilization and the best darn thing about this camera introducing the 4-axis multi-angle LCD screen wow so join us on this wondrous Magical Real World person present on the new Sony a7r Mark V well we are back again here in Disneyland I swear we're not pass holders we should be considering all the money we've been spending but this is the perfect place to test it all we got princesses we got horses we got roller coasters that look like trains and cars though I am a bit wary though I don't think we'll find any bugs here in Disneyland so that's gonna be a hard thing to test regardless so I think there's still going to be plenty of good stuff we can test out with a brand new auto focusing system on the new Sony a7r Mark vow I'm sorry are you okay [Music] we begin to make our way from California Adventures to Disneyland to find ourselves some princesses to capture not in a villainous sense but in a photography sense now we've come to know Sony's King in autofocus especially with human faces and eyes now one might think how can they possibly improve on that well my friends the answer lies in AI and not the AI you're thinking of so no computational photography source for you like we're seeing in smartphones but rather AI learning Sony pumped this camera with so much knowledge that it can predict human poses animal behaviors and oncoming traffic [Music] just to further emphasize this newfound sentience of this technology the Sony a7r Mark V can recognize the nose the neck the left ear the right ear the left shoulder the right elbow the left okay you get the picture while there's no focus more specifically for the subject's elbow the point is it can tell when a human subject is turned around it will keep focus on their eyes for as long as possible and once we're seeing the back of the head it will focus on that rather than focusing on the shoulder or the back which it normally would on previous models because that would be the nearest thing in the frame now being the only two adults with no kids in line for Cinderella we asked for the most logical thing for Cinderella to do a princess twirl man just look at how insane the face and eye tracking is keeping up not once did it break it went back to Standard Auto focusing and the results at F 1.2 sharp AF [Music] now any sensible portrait photographer are gonna comment and say you got her in terrible lighting did I or am I 10 steps ahead of you by also reviewing the auto exposure and the auto white balance at the same time you fools did you not notice how amazing Cinderella's skin tone look did you not notice how the highlights were not blown out while compensating for the Shadows on her face that is also the byproduct of the new AI processing algorithm that Sony implemented to the a7r Mark V so sit your butt back down because we got more auto focus tests to blow your minds all right up next uh we got train auto focus and I'm oh shoot absolutely insane it just got the front of the train nailing focus it is like whoa I think my A1 might be in trouble of course I'm obviously kidding the A1 Still Remains to be the peak Alpha Flagship not only in the Sony ecosystem but also in our hearts I mean we've seen how insane the A1 can perform at 30 frames per second but the a7r mark 5 given that it's newer it's smarter at least with cars trains and planes however it is capped at up to 10 frames per second compressed raw it would have been nice to see that frames per second increase if we drop down in raw resolution which we can by the way but at the very least the buffer clears out insanely quickly thanks to its greater processing power by the way I am using a Sony tough SD card so it's nice to know that we don't have to Shell out a moderate amount of cash for those newer bigger CF Express type A cards which at 61 megapixels we're gonna need a lot of kidneys for but with the a7r Mark V making a statement in AI focusing this Tech will likely spread to the next A9 and A1 models which those will take full advantage of the advanced and smarter object tracking combined with their insane burst all right let's take a break from the autofocus stuff for now and talk image quality you already know it's gonna be good 61 megapixels zoom in and get all those juicy details and I've always appreciated that about the a7r series you can always crop in and readjust your photos without degrading the quality much and there are more pixels to sample off of if you work in Photoshop some of my favorite photos still look amazing to this day from the previous a7rs because of their larger megapixel in nature by the way when this video is out we will already be back in Japan for some more Autumn Leaves action so be sure to subscribe ring the bell and follow the vong along but while it's the same amount of megapixels as the previous a7r mark IV I feel the 5 doesn't need a megapixel bump so it's great that Sony concentrated elsewhere like making the focusing smarter and the processing faster what is welcome though is the fact that you can now select smaller raw files something we've been desperately asking for since the original a7r all that megapixel is nice but we don't always need it especially for the more casual shoots at lossless medium we get a nice Middle Ground of 26 megapixels available both in full frame and aps-c mode in full frame mode the 26 megapixels just look extra crispier as it over samples from the 61. at an aps-c it's still just as good in fact that's always been the best thing about the a7r series the fact that you can get the best of both worlds full frame and aps-c this fly might be the best chance I have at bug auto focus but it I don't I think I need a macro for this because it's not working it's not doing anything I want a little Nintendo for flying photography it said insect photography and I classify that as an insect and I lost it no one wants photo of applied I don't think so too I wouldn't even want that insect Photography they pick the worst person to test his new camera out I hate bugs alright so we have found out that Sony invented Intergalactic autofocus we got a Wookie autofocus we got R2 autofocus but somehow haven't seen any bugs yet and I don't think we'll be able to do that test here at Disneyland I just don't think there's any bugs out here they just keep it way too clean so you would think we'll find some bugs and bugs land but it turns out that they completely removed it for Avengers campus so no more bug land here in Disney California that's our bug right there let's go as we go to try to find our favorite insect web sling superhero as a desperate attempt to get a proper insect autofocus test something magical happens out of nowhere comes Jiminy crickets leaping into our existence my Lord what a magnificent creature the Disney photography God have blessed us with the impossible the improbable the subject for our insect autofocus test all right so we're trying to get like horse photos and the autofocus was working really well and then we're like how we're gonna get bugs to test out the feature and out of nowhere Germany Cricket just jumped into the shot and I was like oh my God we got it so uh clearly that is not Jiminy Cricket but rather his long-lost cousin hop the grasshopper from a forgotten cartoon the grasshopper and the Ants a story about a playful grasshopper who did not want to prepare for winter and ultimately had to be saved by his hard-working Aunt friends and that's why he moved here to California for the good weather and for the free food a luxury that this incredibly photogenic duck is clearly enjoying my Lord you can literally see the reflection in its eyes wow we are just blessed with like animal and insect subjects here we got like this very photogenic duck that's just like eating and we're getting like such perfect test shots of the eye the body the head and you can just like get so micro specific with what you want the camera to focus on it is insane I love it now just to show you that I'm not kidding you can literally select in the menu what you want the camera to solely focus on you can choose the shifting range the persistence level the sensitivity and for animal body parts and not to mention the amount of new items that you can assign to your custom buttons but instead of listing it all I'll just tell you some of my favorites all right it looks like we got it right here proof that we got insect auto focus all right ready ready check it out Spidey Green auto focus insect auto focus oh complete you can assign a button where you can cycle through all the different subject recognition autofocus on top of that you can actually program a button to literally turn off subject recognition and still use the standard autofocus and touch tracking autofocus no longer has to be touch activated and can be assigned to be triggered via a button there is a all-in-one silent mode which is nice and we now have the double decker mode dial that we first saw on the a74 and with it we can program the custom one two and three profiles for each of the different modes it is honestly overwhelming how much customization you can do on this camera but by far my favorite thing about the a7r Mark V and literally the only thing that puts me on the edge of getting it the four axis LCD screen this is literally The Best of Both Worlds if you love The Tilt only style screen you can just use that if you love the flippy style screen you can just use that no longer do we have to have this debate anymore for me I personally love both there are advantages to both if I'm Vlogging or want to shoot photos or make tick tocks in vertical orientation the flip out style screen is immensely helpful for that if I'm mainly working behind the camera I much prefer the Tilt only style screen as the flip screen gets more in the way this screen will unify things this will bring us World Peace because it's really intuitive and honestly when they put this in the next a7s and the A1 oh yeah baby I'm upgrading to it what's also a huge Improvement is the m-body image stabilization it's still five axis but it's now offering up to eight step in compensation here's me reacting a scene from The Lion King raising the a7r5 with a 7200 G Master Mark II like Simba so here's the clip with no stabilization standard stabilization and active stabilization Now by all accounts this is a hefty setup to hold in this position for too long and it's doing an amazing job compensating for my weak arms so here's something a little easier with a 24 to 70 G Master Mark II this lens does not have Optical steady shot here it is at 24 with no stabilization standard stabilization and active stabilization keep in mind that the active stabilization still pops you in about 10 percent but well worth the trade for extra stability now I personally do a lot of these fake slider shots handheld in a lot of my videos and these just look really smooth oh shoot I think he knows I'm using the brand new Sony a7r Mark V unfortunately the rolling shutter and aps-c mode is still pretty bad on the a7r5 in full frame mode it's less apparent since we're talking about video now as expected we're getting 10 bit 422 600 megabits per second all eye and video recording wow we got 14 plus stop of dynamic range with s-log 3. cool and yes we have acinotone awesome we can do 16-bit raw output up to 4K 60p with a compatible atomos external recorder yay this also has the new breathing compensation for compatible Sony lenses I'm literally harassment for air but what I didn't expect is 8k wow 8K and I mean it's got to live up to its name right a7r R stands for resolution though it's only at 24p 10 bit 420 oh wow now hang on it's not a big deal it's a nice option to have the ability for normal consumers like you and I to shoot and process 8K is relatively still at its infancy most cameras are still barely giving us 4K 60p which brings me to my next talking point the a7r5 can shoot in 4k 60p but only in full frame mode this is a huge Miss in my opinion considering that we get 6.2 K Over sampling and aps-c super 35 mode when shooting in 4k while it can be argued that 4K 60p is at least available in full frame mode as a long time a7r hybrid shooter the best thing about this Series has always been its hybrid capabilities including utilizing abs-c mode to either get an extra reach with our full-frame lenses or straight up just use aps-c lenses while maintaining all the best video features with that said know the a7r5 does not need 4K 120 we do have to draw the line somewhere and that can be reserved for more video Centric cameras however all I'm asking is just the standardized 4K 60p as it's been nearly eight years since 4K 30 landed in the hands of the consumers aside from that what is exciting for videographers and filmmakers is that a lot of the AI autofocusing is also available in video mode so if you shoot a lot of animals or car commercials or trains and play Lanes the autofocus can recognize and keep up with those subjects anyways let's move on to overheating or lack of the a7r5 uses the same if not similar heat dissipation design like the a7s3 and the A1 just make sure to set the auto power attempt to high in the options if you plan on doing any sort of long form recordings which by the way will prompt you when you first turn on your camera at ak24p I was able to juice out two of my 128 gigabyte SD cards that's a little over two and a half hours of recording with no heating symbols showing up and that goes double for the 4K 60p as well both tests I have the camera charging via USBC by the way here are the port options and speaking of ports you know I kind of think it's a little discriminatory of them to not include boats we have cars we have train autofocus we pretty much got air land but not sea covered like that seems like an odd thing to leave out don't you think maybe boats are too slow I think there's faster boats like what the um [Music] We're not gonna do a one-piece reference on this channel okay and speaking of boats we're gonna be on one time for some low light turns so much autofocus and low light have tremendously improved according to Sony it can find Focus as low as negative 4 EV and the best test I can do is to go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride which is notoriously dark and certainly will give your average consumer cameras issues when it comes to focusing not that you want to be taking any photos on this ride anyway if you're easily susceptible to nightmares and I'm not talking about from these skeletons but the a7r5 locks on Focus quite well on these animatronics including the Deviant Captain Jack Sparrow ahoy mateys I guess we can call this the A7 yarn Mark fight let's quickly move on to pixel shifting not something I personally use but the latest Improvement on this is that it can automatically detect and correct small pixel movements such as people and leaves and images during compositing I gotta say shooting at like half a second handheld is amazing the new Ibis is doing wonders for this camera [Music] and boy let me tell you shooting handheld at such a slow shutter speed opens up a lot of possibilities it keeps us from pushing our ISO too high and it creates a decent amount of motion blur well after a 13-hour day here in Disneyland I think it's time for us to wrap things up so price and availability 3 900 US Dollars and it will be available December of this year while I am impressed with the performance of this new camera obviously it's not gonna be for everybody yes it has many amazing features including the most up-to-date AI Auto focusing the four axis LCD screen the 8-step ivis but a lot of this will likely get spread to the other models in due time and I'll be patiently waiting for them to arrive a lot of the new AI autofocusing is great but not a lot of people are going to be shooting cars trains planes and chimney crickets there are photographers out there who do specialize in those areas and they would benefit greatly with those new subject varieties but for most it's likely just portraits and animals and Landscapes which a lot of the current Sony models already excel in and if you're an a7r4 owner you can likely skip this one unless you can take advantage of the better buffer the variety of focus subjects and everything else that we talked about in this video or if you're in a crowd who's been waiting and wanting to upgrade to a higher megapixel Sony model and you're keen on a lot of the new features then this is an excellent upgrade especially with the latest menu system CF Express type A compatibility and amazing AI focusing system that will last you for at least half a decade well guys it's been an incredible day we got an amazing princess portraits we got amazing train and cars photos even duck photos and we even got our one insect photo chimney crickets saving the day even though it is a grasshopper and not really a cricket we're incredibly exhausted we can't even keep up with how well this camera performs so a7r5 guys and thank you so much for watching we'll see you guys in the next video peace Squarespace is an all-in-one platform to create beautiful websites no coding knowledge whatsoever perfect for people like me because I just want to make YouTube videos for you guys and not have to worry about coding my entire website simply just select one of their 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Length: 20min 26sec (1226 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 26 2022