Announcement: Sony a7s III

On July 28, 2020, the Sony Alpha a7S III camera was officially announced.

Sony a7s III

Sony a7s III

Key features include:

  1. Sony E-mount full frame mirrorless camera with an emphasis on video
  2. Exmor RS sensor BSI CMOS 12.1 MP (4240 X 2832 maximum photo size)
  3. ISO 80-102.400 expandable to ISO 40-409.600
  4. Claimed 14 stops of dynamic range for stills and 15 stops for video
  5. Maximum Burst Speed ​​10 fps (JPEG / RAW)
  6. Support HEIF and HLG
  7. Minimum excerpt mechanical shutter 1/8000 s
  8. Focus with 759 phase points and 425 contrast focus areas, sensitivity from -6 EV
  9. Real-time focus tracking with eye tracking for humans and animals
  10. EVI QXGA OLED Tru-Finder EVF at 9.44 million dots, 0.9x magnification, 120 fps
  11. 5.5 steps integrated image stabilizer
  12. 4K video 120p (ntsc) 100p (pal) with full readout of pixels from the entire matrix, 10-bit 4: 2: 2 to memory cards
  13. Full HD 1080p 240 fps video
  14. Video 16-bit RAW 4.2K 60p (4264 x 2408) to external storage
  15. HEVC / H.265 and XAVC S, SI, HS video up to 600 Mb / s bitrate
  16. Video with S-Log2, S-Log3 (with S-Gamut3.Cine space), HLG (with BT.2020 space), All Intra
  17. A special design that dissipates heat, the camera claims to shoot 4K60p in 60 minutes without any problems. There is no limitation on the recording duration in any mode
  18. Protected enclosure
  19. 3-inch 1.44 million-dot touch main display, swivel
  20. Dual memory card support SD with support for UHS-II and two CFexpress Type A (both can be installed)
  21. Full Size HDMI A Port
  22. USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C + 3.5 microphone and 3.5 headphone jack + multi-jack + Wi-Fi + Bluetooth + LAN 1000BASE-T (via USB Type-C)
  23. New menu structure
  24. Price: about $ 3.400. Prices for modern Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras can be look at E-Katalog

Appearance

All Sony FE Lenses and Cameras

Fixes:

  1. Sony FE 14 mm F / 1.8 GM [April 2021, AliExpress price]
  2. Sony FE 20 mm F / 1.8 G [February 2020, AliExpress price]
  3. Sony FE 24 mm F / 1.4 GM [September 2018, AliExpress price]
  4. Sony FE 24 mm F / 2.8 G [March 2021, AliExpress price]
  5. Sony FE 28 mm F / 2.0 [March 2015, AliExpress price]
  6. Sony FE 35 mm F / 1.4 GM [January 2021, AliExpress price]
  7. Sony FE 35 mm F / 1.4 ZA [August 2014]
  8. Sony FE 35 mm F / 1.8 [July 2019, AliExpress price]
  9. Sony FE 35 mm F / 2.8 ZA [October 2013, AliExpress price]
  10. Sony FE 40 mm F / 2.5 G [March 2021, AliExpress price]
  11. Sony FE 50 mm F / 1.2 GM [March 2021, AliExpress price]
  12. Sony FE 50 mm F / 1.4 ZA [July 2016]
  13. Sony FE 50 mm F / 1.4 GM [February 2023]
  14. Sony FE 50 mm F / 1.8 [March 2016, AliExpress price]
  15. Sony FE 50 mm F / 2.8 Macro [August 2016]
  16. Sony FE 50 mm F / 2.5 G [March 2021]
  17. Sony FE 55 mm F / 1.8 ZA [October 2013, AliExpress price]
  18. Sony FE 85 mm F / 1.4 GM [February 2016, AliExpress price]
  19. Sony FE 85 mm F / 1.8 [February 2017, AliExpress price]
  20. Sony FE 90 mm F / 2.8 Macro G OSS [March 2015, AliExpress price]
  21. Sony FE 100 mm F / 2.8 STF GM OSS [February 2017]
  22. Sony FE 135 mm F / 1.8 GM [February 2019, AliExpress price]
  23. Sony FE 300 mm F / 2.8 GM OSS [November 2023]
  24. Sony FE 400 mm F / 2.8 GM OSS [June 2018]
  25. Sony FE 600 mm F / 4 GM OSS [June 2019]

Zuma:

  1. Sony FE 12-24 mm F / 2.8 GM [July 2020, AliExpress price]
  2. Sony FE 12-24 mm F / 4 G [May 2017, AliExpress price]
  3. Sony FE 16-35 mm F / 2.8 GM [May 2017, AliExpress price]
  4. Sony FE 16-35 mm F / 2.8 GM II [August 2023]
  5. Sony FE 16-35 mm T / 3.1 PZ G C [November 2020]
  6. Sony FE 16-35 mm F / 4 ZA OSS [September 2014, AliExpress price]
  7. Sony FE 16-35 mm F / 4 PZ G [March 2022, AliExpress price]
  8. Sony FE 20-70 mm F / 4 G  [January 2023]
  9. Sony FE 24-50 mm F / 2.8 G [February 2024]
  10. Sony FE 24-70 mm F / 2.8 GM [February 2016, AliExpress price]
  11. Sony FE 24-70 mm F / 2.8 GM II [April 2022, AliExpress price]
  12. Sony FE 24-70 mm F / 4 ZA OSS [October 2013, AliExpress price]
  13. Sony FE 24-105 mm F / 4 G OSS [October 2017, AliExpress price]
  14. Sony FE 24-240 mm F / 3.5-6.3 OSS [March 2015, AliExpress price]
  15. Sony FE 28-60 mm F / 4-5.6 [September 2020, AliExpress price]
  16. Sony FE 28-70 mm F / 3.5-5.6 OSS [October 2013, AliExpress price]
  17. Sony FE 28-135 mm F / 4 G PZ OSS [September 2014]
  18. Sony FE 70-200 mm F / 2.8 GM OSS [October 2017]
  19. Sony FE 70-200 mm F / 2.8 GM OSS II [October 2021]
  20. Sony FE 70-200 mm F / 4 G OSS [October 2013, AliExpress price]
  21. Sony FE 70-200 mm F / 4 Macro OSS II [July 2023]
  22. Sony-FE 70-300 mm F / 4.5-5.6 G OSS [March 2016]
  23. Sony FE 100-400 mm F / 4.5-5.6 GM OSS [April 2017, AliExpress price]
  24. Sony FE 200-600 mm F / 5.6-6.3 G OSS [June 2019, AliExpress price]

Autofocus full-frame lenses for Sony E / FE mount are also available from other manufacturers:

All Full Frame Sony E-mount Cameras

Materials on the topic

  1. Full frame mirrorless systems... Discussion, choice, recommendations.
  2. Cropped mirrorless systems... Discussion, choice, recommendations.
  3. Cropped mirrorless systems that have stopped or are no longer developing
  4. Digital SLR systems that have stopped or are no longer developing
  5. JVI or EVI (an important article that answers the question 'DSLR or mirrorless')
  6. About mirrorless batteries
  7. Simple and clear medium format
  8. High-speed solutions from Chinese brands
  9. All fastest autofocus zoom lenses
  10. All fastest AF prime lenses
  11. Mirrored full frame on mirrorless medium format
  12. Autofocus Speed ​​Boosters
  13. One lens to rule the world
  14. The impact of smartphones on the photography market
  15. What's next (smartphone supremacy)?
  16. All announcements and novelties of lenses and cameras

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Comments: 39, on the topic: Announcement: Sony a7s III

  • koba

    A great camcorder just got the best I think. In addition, the already excellent sensor (kill me, but strangely everything coincides with the old and excellent sensor, which is in Nikon D3s), they added a backlight and today I already looked at pictures on dprevew, up to ISO 3200, in fact, the picture does not lose anything, it looks like ISO 400, with high dd and contrast, not degraded structure and brought to flat feet by noise reduction and curves, in order to increase dd. But the price of the camera was set as a good video camera - 3500 dollars.

    • Pokemon

      The sensor is still different:
      “12.1 MP Exmor RS BSI CMOS sensor (maximum photo size 4240 X 2832)
      Claimed 14 stops of dynamic range for stills and 15 stops for video. "
      The D3s sensor had no BSi and according to DD it was analogous to the d700.

      • Arkady Shapoval

        And they would hardly use a sensor that is 10 years old :)

        • koba

          of course, this is a new sensor, but my opinion is that this is still the same redesigned sensor, such technologies are not thrown away, and there is no need to create from scratch, so they are finalizing it, especially since this is enough for photographers, moreover, with such excellent noise performance, and even better in video. Let's remember together that the T62 tank has the same engine that was once in the T34 tank, only now it has been greatly improved. For example, a kenon, we created the best we could, put it in the top Dx then, transferred it to 6D without a filter and it still shows the best picture of all kenon, then the same sensor, maybe a little modified, was put in DX2, and now we put it in the newest DX3 and in the mirrorless R6, and will continue to use it for a long time, since above 12-20 megapixels, it is honestly not possible to get really low noise at high ones. Yes, manufacturers will relabel the old, slightly change, add backlighting, but the sensor remains the same, for lack of a better one, besides, the real situation and real manufacturers are almost always hidden even from very inquisitive by many marketing moves. In a word, let them do whatever they want, but the 12MP sensor with top-end characteristics is alive and even got a version with BSI, and that's just fine, it's a pity that no one will use it in DSLRs, and even in mirrorless cameras, since buyers need a lot and a lot megapixels.

          • Arkady Shapoval

            if it is recycling, then there is nothing left of the old, I would not get attached to this

          • Rodion

            So BSI can't just be taken and added. In fact, this is a different sensor architecture.

          • Ivan

            The sensor or matrix is ​​not the most important thing. Just as we see not with our eyes, but with the brain, in which information received from different senses is processed, the processor and other processing elements are of greater importance in the camera.

  • Pavel Gorbunov

    "Up to ISO 3200, in fact, the picture does not lose anything, it looks like at ISO 400"

    Reduce the number of megapixels even more - the picture will look even better.

    • copenhagen72

      12 megapixels is 4K, you can't go less - there won't be 4K resolution.
      In the iPhone, they did the same cleverly and also left 12MP, although Android smartphones are all with 40-100 megapixels.

  • Vsevolod

    Probably worth adding information about double iso https://www.facebook.com/groups/SonyA7sIII/permalink/988177681628362/

  • Alexey

    If A7s (and even A7s2) were devices for a wide range, including amateurs, then A7s3 was somehow sharply thrown into the professional league.

    • Pokemon

      I also drew attention to this.
      Apparently, full-frame cameras will continue to rise in price along with the lenses for them.
      The number of people who can afford an EOS R5 at launch is less than those who could buy a 5d mk4 or EOS R at launch.
      They walk on thin ice, the ice will crack somehow, and there Fuji is sitting with his not so expensive GFX50.
      And someone runs the risk of going after Olympus to the land of eternal hunting.
      And all because you cannot be greedy.

  • Sergei

    it's better then canon 8K for the same money

    • Rodion

      But they seem to have problems with cooling and they shoot 8K for a very short time ... Plus there was always a question: who watches 8K? This is perhaps of some relevance for VR.

      • Ivan

        8K is relevant for marketers.

      • Ivan

        The problem with cooling is easily solved - two chambers are bought. While one cools down, the shooting is carried out on the other.

        • Alexey

          - at the entrance to the courtyard, I will put two machine guns.
          - why two?
          - one is overheating.

        • Vsevolod

          according to the stories on these your Internet, after 20 minutes of cooling it gives you 2-3 minutes of video. You need to take at least heels of cameras to get something)

  • Dmitriy

    I consider it necessary to add that the camera will record 4-channel sound when purchasing the appropriate accessory.

  • Ivan

    Interesting matrix FF 12MP 16bit.
    16bit from the matrix can read only medium format matrices.
    I would like a camera to be made on its basis, and not a video combine with an exorbitant price for our realities.
    It is a pity that these are only dreams.

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Here 16-bit seems to be only for video

      • Ivan

        Who cares?
        In the sense that the matrix itself allows 16-bit color output. Whether the processor in the camera will process this color or not - these are already the problems of the camera developer.
        About 16-bit color from the matrix, I know that another matrix from sony has this property, but only in APS-C 26MP format. The one in fujifilm xt-3 / xt-4 cameras. This matrix is ​​even trickier. According to the datasheet, this 26MP matrix gives out 16 bits and Toptygin speaks about this when reviewing fujifilm xt-4, but in the documentation for fujifilm xt-4 there is not a word about 16 bit color.

        • Arkady Shapoval

          The difference is that it does not produce 16-bit photos in ARW

    • Alexander

      And where did you see the exorbitant price ?! less than 2000 dollars in the USA, this price confirms what I wrote above, the calculation is that they will buy as a second / third camera

      • Arkady Shapoval

        And share a link where Sony a7s III in the US is less than 2000

    • Alexander

      low price proof

      • Arkady Shapoval

        What a horror, if you cannot distinguish a7 iii from a7s iii, then how can you take what you wrote above seriously?

        • Alexander

          Yes, terrible horror, all the cutlets let me go with my words, scored Sony R7S III in a search on Amazon, but gave this one first, did not pay attention because I was blind at my age, hurried people to laugh, but no matter how horrible

          • Arkady Shapoval

            It's no longer worth making excuses. And in principle it cannot cost 2000 at the start of sales.

            • Alexander

              Thank you for your friendly attitude towards visitors to your site, it is always nice to remember that man is a wolf to man

              • Arkady Shapoval

                I am always very loyal to readers and commentators, to you in the same way. I note that I only pointed out the inconsistency in the data that you provided in the comments, and also very seriously ask you to notice that I personally have nothing personally in the comments to you. If you offended somewhere, I apologize

              • Archie

                Arkady is definitely not a wolf. Not even a spinning top.
                But no one likes to be argued with. I think even Srila Prabhupada might have gone berserk, not just Radojiva.

  • Den

    16 bit will not be on 16-bit will be converted to 12 bit and these twelve will be written to the atomos recorder. now there are no hard disks at atomos which will allow writing 16 bits

    • Alexander

      What does 16-bit color have to do with 16-bit writing to disk?

  • Dmitriy

    16 bit will not be at the beginning, and then it will be if the aunt Sony wishes. The main thing is that its competitors move, they say that this camera could have been presented back in 2018,
    but waited for Canon R5 / R6 and released.

  • Alexander

    Another twist from sony, this company has always thrown out a lot of experiments on the market that they tested at the expense of the buyer. 12mpixels today (for any photographer) it is clear that there is only enough for portraits, that is, studio shooting or in daylight, in any case you don't need a lot of ISO parrots, it turns out that the camera is purely for a narrow focus - shooting with non-standard light in the evening / at night - we get consumers among photographers of events in nightclubs, concerts, etc., I can not say that there are not enough of them, for this and the calculation of greedy manufacturers such as sony, all these photographers will buy this camera, and will begin to replicate better quality images than with the same Z7 under the above-described shooting conditions, and other photographers will also start buying as a second / third camera just in the rare case of night shooting, even wedding photographers will buy a third camera, so sony will get rich, out of the blue without creating anything new.

    • Rodion

      But that's what it is called - "to occupy a niche." Whose problem is it that no other manufacturer provides a full frame with a bold pixel?

      • Arkady Shapoval

        By the way, modern reportage Canon EOS-1D X Mark II, Canon EOS-1D X Mark III, Nikon D5, Nikno D6 have quite tolerable 20 MP in full frame.

  • Dmitriy

    Sony a7 sIII just to shoot at night, filmed kittens that climbed trees in the evening on the Sony a6500 had to set ISO 8000) there were such noises that it would not seem like a little.

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