the camera was powered down and then back on again. However, it seemed to struggle with a crow pecking at the ground – in fact the AF stopped working a couple of times after giving up, then came back when. The A7R V excelled at tracking wheeling gulls against a blue sky, even with its regular tracking AF and not the bird detection mode. For outright image quality, this has to be the best Sony camera right now. In our brief tests the A7R V showed all the resolution and dynamic range we've come to expect from its predecessor. Like previous A7R models, this one seems designed to shoot video when you need it, but not designed for video per se. However, if you want to capture best-quality oversampled 4K video, that's in Super35 crop mode.
SONY A7R FULL SIZE
There are mic and headphone ports on the side, and full size HDMI under the flap alongside. You might have to shift your grip to reach it with your index finger, which doesn’t seem ideal.
SONY A7R MOVIE
Just behind the shutter release on the top of the camera is the movie record button.
Underneath is a lever for stills, movie and S&Q modes, which is welcome, but why not add continuous mode too? It is one of this camera’s selling points, after all.
SONY A7R PRO
So the top plate still has an old-school mode dial (with a green ‘auto’ button? On an expensive pro camera?). The A7R V, like other Sony cameras, relies heavily on custom buttons rather than physical controls adapted to each camera’s strengths. The EVF, which has the highest resolution currently available, is excellent. The vari-angle pivot is very welcome, but you can still tilt the screen if you want to and have it stay on the lens’s optical axis. The rear screen, however, works brilliantly. But one of the characteristics of Sony’s cameras is that while the internal technologies are updated with each new version, the exteriors remain largely frozen in time. Sony still hasn’t opted for a top-mounted status LCD, even though it looks like there would be room for one if the mode dial was swapped over to the left side. But while the A7R's 8K video looks good on paper, but it's not really a video specialist. There are mic and headphone ports and a full size HDMI port under an adjacent flap. It might lead with that magic ‘8K’ headline, but the A7R V does not look by any means a video specialist. You can capture full-width video but only at 4K, and it’s not clear yet whether this is oversampled or not – and if you want 4K 60p, you’re back to the 1.2x crop of 8K video. The frame rate tops out at 24p and it comes with a 1.2x crop. We’re mentioning the 8K video last because it’s perhaps not the A7R V’s strongest feature.
The massively increased burst depth means the A7R V can capture up to 8x more raw files in a burst than its predecessor, so this in conjunction with the AI AF is bound to interest sports shooters too. This sounds more like the province of dedicated sports cameras, though it’s easy to see the benefit of enhanced subject and human recognition for wedding/event or wildlife photographers – two key areas for this camera. The A7R V now has animal/bird head and body recognition, not just eye detection, and perhaps most important of all, it can now recognize human subjects by their shapes, limbs and poses, not just from faces and eyes. This increases the range of subjects the camera can recognise and track to include insects, cars, trains and airplanes. The bigger news is Sony’s new AI-powered AF system, driven by its own bespoke AI processing unit. Some will have hoped for yet more from Sony’s resolution specialist, but 61MP is arguably enough – especially with Sony’s improved 240MP Pixel Shift Multi Shooting mode. It’s matched by the Sigma fp L and Leica M11, but there’s nothing that offers more megapixels in this format. This camera has the highest resolution sensor available for full frame cameras. The A7R V has dual CFexpress type A/SD UHS-II card slots, a useful combination, though CFexpress type B cards are both faster and cheaper.
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