Sony A7R Mark IV

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Sony A7R Mark IV

Sony A7R Mark IV (23.5 oz./665g with battery and card, takes two SD cards, $3,498 new or about $2,500 used) and Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G. bigger or fill screen. I'd get mine at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H or at Crutchfield, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

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(these are just snapshots; my real work is in my Gallery.)

These are all shot as Standard JPGs; no FINE JPGs or RAW files were used or needed. There are many more throughout this review, especially at High ISOs.

Seven Palms Oasis at Dusk

Seven Palms Oasis at Dusk, 6:51 PM, 15 February 2020. Sony A7R IV, Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G at f/4 for 25 seconds at ISO 400 (LV -2.6), Perfectly Clear. bigger, full-resolution or camera-original © JPG file.

 

Lincoln Continental Mark V Red Interior

Lincoln Continental Mark V Red Interior, 15 February 2020. Sony A7R IV, Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G at f/11 at 1/80 at ISO 50 (LV 14.2), Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.

 

Mexican History on a Chevy Impala

Mexican History on a Chevy Impala, 15 February 2020. Sony A7R IV, Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G at f/16 hand-held at 1/6 of a second at ISO 50 (LV 11.6), Perfectly Clear. bigger.

 

1956 Chevrolet in Nassau Blue

1956 Chevrolet in Nassau Blue, 15 February 2020. Sony A7R IV, Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G at f/8 at 1/250 at ISO 50 (LV 15.0), Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.

 

1960 Corvette in Roman Red

1960 Corvette in Roman Red, 15 February 2020. Sony A7R IV, Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G at f/8 at 1/160 at ISO 50 (LV 14.3), Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.

 

Mountain of Stone

Mountain of Stone, 15 February 2020. Sony A7R IV, Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G at f/8 hand-held at 1/25 at ISO 50, +1 stop exposure compensation (LV 11.6), Perfectly Clear. bigger, full-resolution or camera-original © JPG file.

 

Desert Home with Twin Palms at Dusk

Desert Home with Twin Palms at Dusk, 6:10 PM, 15 February 2020. Sony A7R IV, Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G at f/11 for 25 seconds at ISO 200 (LV 1.3), Perfectly Clear, perspective correction in Photoshop CS6. bigger, full-resolution or camera-original © JPG file.

 

Sony A7R IV Sample Image File

Moonrise over Manhattan, 10:48 PM, 16 July 2019 . Sony A7R IV, Sony 135mm f/1.8 GM at f/1.8 at ISO 100 for 1.6 seconds on Oben CTT-1000 mini tripod sitting on hotel desk shot and through a dirty hotel window, Perfectly Clear. bigger or full resolution or camera-original © normal JPG file.

The dirty window through which I shot is causing the fog flare effects on the lights of the buildings.

 

Sony A7R IV Sample Image File

Man and Bird. Sony A7R IV, Sony 85mm f/1.4 GM at f/1.4 at 1/160 at ISO 320, Perfectly Clear. bigger or full resolution or camera-original © normal JPG file.

 

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The Sony A7R Mark IV is a higher-resolution evolution of the A7R III, which also makes it the world's highest-resolution camera ever sold to consumers.

In fact, this 60MP A7R Mark IV looks at least as sharp as the pro-only (not consumer) $10,000 100 Megapixel Fuji GFX100 does if you compare my crops at High ISOs (A7R IV crops versus GFX 100 crops). How about that? I just saved you $6,500, and a ton of weight to carry around!

600 × 450 pixel crops from A7R IV and GFX100:

Sony A7R IV High ISO Sample Image File

Fujifilm GFX 100 High ISO Sample Image

I'd get my A7R Mk IV at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H or at Crutchfield, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

The A7R IV also adds many small features to the A7R III, some of which may be very big to you:

 

New Since A7R III

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Can save and recall many camera settings to and from a memory card, the first in any Sony still camera.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Up to 10 different camera states can be saved to any individual card and loaded into any other A7R IV. This makes it easy to configure a fleet of cameras, for me to share all my personal secret settings with you, and for you to setup a new or repaired camera to all your personal settings. These are completely different from the M123 settings; this saves and recalls all the global camera settings like copyright info — but forgets and does not save the contents of all the M123 memories — oops!

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com More battery life: 670 shots w/LCD. (same 530 shots w/EVF as A7R III.)

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com World's first 60 MP digital camera for consumers.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com New 60 Megapixel 24 × 36mm sensor: 9,504 × 6,336 pixels (60.22 MP).

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com 10 FPS with 68-frame buffer.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Only on a tripod and only with subjects that don't move, a "pixel shift" scanning mode lets you scan 19,008 × 12,672 pixel (241 MP) images — but it can't process these in-camera and thus you have to process and combine these raw files later in your computer.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com 567 phase-detect AF points full-frame. 325 sensors in APS-C!

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Real-time Eye-AF for both people and animals, for both stills and for movies. (It still requires we select ANIMAL or HUMAN in a menu for eye-AF; it still can't magically swap between them, but man, the AF system of this camera is incredible!)

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Dedicated hot shoe now accepts digital audio data directly from new dedicated microphones. It also works with older analog-output microphones.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com 5.67 Megadot OLED finder.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Dual UHS-II SD slots. (new is the UHS-II compatibility).

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Slot 1 is now on the top, not backwards like earlier Sonys.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com New card door no longer needs a lock lever. Just pull straight back like Canon and Nikon, a much better design than before:

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blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com New Rear Control Dial and new Exposure Compensation Dial:

Sony A7R IV

New Rear Control & Exposure Compensation Dials. bigger or fill screen.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Rear Control dial no longer mostly hidden inside the body; It's now out in the open where we can get to it. It's still hard plastic, not comfy rubber.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Exposure compensation dial now has darker-gray third-stop ticks; it's not all white as before.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com New lock button on the exposure compensation dial. It's push-push: press once and it's locked and press again to leave it unlocked. This is opposite from the mode dial lock, which is always locked except while pressed.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com USB 3.2.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com 2.4GHz & 5GHZ WiFi tethering.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Bluetooth.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com NFC.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Wireless PC remote connectivity.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com FTP wireless transfer.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com Production upgraded to Thailand, not made in China like the old A7R Mark III.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com New VG-C4EM grip holds two NP-FZ100 (can't use an in-camera battery at the same time; two in the grip is the maximum as the grip pokes into the battery chamber. The clumsy Multi Battery Adaptor NPA-MQZ1K can hold up to four Z batteries for remote use.)

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com New ECM-B1M microphone:

     • Eight capsules allow three selectable directional patterns created with DSP.
     • Direct digital or analog audio outputs for use with all of Sony's cameras.
     • Mono shotgun microphone only 4" (99.3mm) long through the magic of digital processing to replace the analog in-air processing all other shotgun microphones do to be directional.
     • Each capsule is so tiny that it has no directionality of its own, even at 20 kHz. The tiny capsules are much smaller than any audio wavelength so it doesn't matter in what direction they appear to be pointed when observed with visible light. Sound waves are anywhere to an inch to 50 feet long.

blue ball icon © KenRockwell.com New XLR-K3M XLR mic adapter w/ECM-XM1 shotgun mic:

     • Includes ECM-XM1 shotgun mic & fur windscreen.
     • Includes internal analog-to-digital converters to provide direct digital output to the dedicated hot shoe of the A7R IV.

 

Good

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Ultra-high resolution.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Even if you don't need 60MP, the images shot at the 30MP sitting are sharper than images made with a native 30MP camera, and images made at the 15MP setting are much sharper than images from a native 15MP camera as the lower settings of the A7R IV eliminate Bayer interpolation, which cameras shot at their native resolution can't.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Superb autofocus.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Superb High-ISO performance.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Saves and recalls ten complete camera-state setups to and from cards, and you can share and recall these setup files any way you move files.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Magnified manual focusing works extremely well in very dim light, best I've seen yet in mirrorless.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Can be set to create a new folder each day.

 

Bad

red ball icon © KenRockwell.com Offshored to Thailand; not made domestically in Japan.

red ball icon © KenRockwell.com Camera locks-up and won't shoot if either card is full, damaged or missing when shooting in two-card backup ("Simultaneous") mode, as I prefer to shoot. Thus you're dead as soon as either card has a problem, exactly the opposite of one of the reasons I shoot in backup mode!

red ball icon © KenRockwell.com While I love being able to save and recall complete camera states, which saves me from having to type-in my copyright text data and everything else each time I get another A7R IV, sadly and paradoxically the contents of the M123 memory settings are not recalled when saving to a card file and are simply reset anytime I load settings from a card. Bah!

red ball icon © KenRockwell.com The usual confused menus and harsh ergonomics as typical from Sony.

 

Missing

gray ball icon © KenRockwell.com The pixel-shifting ultra high resolution scanning mode sounds great on paper, but you can't produce these results in-camera; the A7R IV merely records sets of raw files which you have to process externally in a computer before you can get any results.

gray ball icon © KenRockwell.com Saves and recalls most settings to a card, but sadly does not save or recall the contents of the M1, M2 or M3 memory modes from a card. These reset when you recall from a card.

gray ball icon © KenRockwell.com No manual shutter speeds settable to longer than 30 seconds unless you use an external timer.

gray ball icon © KenRockwell.com No GPS.

gray ball icon © KenRockwell.com No ISO 25 setting; ISO 50 is the lowest. With linear resolution as high as the A7R Mark IV ideally we'd have lower ISOs to get the noise down. This is how the iPhone makes cleaner images than point-and-shoots which shoot at ISO 100 even with their tiny sensors. The iPhone 11 Max Pro default ISO is ISO 25 for the wide camera and ISO 16 for the smaller-sensored tele camera. For tripod shooters ISO 25 would let us get even cleaner images than ISO 50, even though the difference is invisible except when printing at gargantuan sizes — but isn't that why we buy a 60 MP camera?

gray ball icon © KenRockwell.com 782,656 pixels are missing. While gloriously and very precisely advertised as "Approx. 61.0 megapixels effective resolution" and "62.5MP total," my kids know that 9,504 × 6,336 pixels equals 60,217,344 pixels, not 61,000,000. Shameful, but every other brand fudges like this, too.

 

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I'd get my A7R Mk IV at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H or at Crutchfield, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

 

Sensor

Sony A7R IV

Sony A7R IV. bigger or fill screen.

60 MP full-frame 23.8 × 35.7 mm CMOS sensor.

9,504 × 6,336 pixels (60.22 MP), native.

Trick "pixel shift" scanning mode lets you make 19,008 × 12,672 pixel (241 MP) files.

(26.2 MP in APS-C crop.)

1.5:1 aspect ratio.

15-stop dynamic range.

No anti-alias filter.

Anti-reflection coated.

Ultrasonic cleaner.

Mechanical "5-axis" sensor-shift stabilizer claims 5.5 stops improvement.

 

ISO

Stills, regular mechanical shutter

Regular: ISO 100 ~ 32,000.

Extended: ISO 50 ~ 102,400.

 

Stills, silent electronic shutter

Regular: ISO 100 ~ 32,000.

Extended: ISO 100 ~ 102,400.

 

Video

Regular: ISO 100 ~ 32,000.

 

Auto ISO

Upper and lower limits selectable from ISO 100 to ISO 102,400 in full stops (limited to ISO 32,000 for video).

Slowest shutter speed settable in full stops from 1/8,000 to 30s in full stops, as well as an Auto setting that varies with the lens focal length. The Auto Slowest Shutter Speed setting my be varied ±2 stops slower or faster than the lens' focal length.

 

Cropped Aspect Ratios

1:1, 4:3 and 16:9

 

Autofocus

567 point on-sensor phase-detection in full frame, 325 in APS-C.

425 contrast detection points.

Hybrid AF uses phase-detection for speed and fine-tunes with contrast detection when it can.

AF range LV -3 to +20 with an f/2 lens.

LED AF illuminator, 10'/3m range.

Face recognition, but only if you activate it.

6.2× and 12.4× magnifiers.

 

Image Formats

JPG, raw or raw + JPG.

JPG: Extra Fine, Fine or Standard.

Raw: 14-bit compressed or uncompressed, even when shooting in silent or continuous modes.

 

Video & Audio

Stereo mic built-in.

Regular, S-Log2 , S-Log3 and HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma).

 

XAVC S

File Format

MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 XAVC S ver.1.0 format compliant video with LPCM 48 ksps 16-bit stereo audio.

 

Rates & Sizes

3,840 × 2,160 (4K): 29.97p, 25p or 23.976p at 100 or 60 MBPS

1,920 × 1,080: 119.88p or 100p at 100 MBPS or 60 MBPS; 59.94p,50p, 29.97p, 25p or 23.976p at 50 MBPS.

 

AVCHD v 2.0

File Format

MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video with Dolby Digital 2 channels, equipped with Dolby Digital Stereo Creator.

 

Rates & Sizes

1,920 × 1,080: 59.94p, 28 MBPS, PS; 59.94i, 24 MBPS, FX; 59.94i, 17 MBPS, FH; 23.976p, 24 MBPS, FX, 23.976p, 17 MBPS, FH; 50p, 28 MBPS, PS; 50i, 24 MBPS, FX; 50i, 17 MBPS, FH; 25p, 24 MBPS, FX; 25p, 17 MBPS, FH.

 

MP4

File Format

MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video with stereo MPEG-4 AAC-LC.

 

Rates & Sizes

1,920 × 1,080: 59.94p or 50p at 28 MBPS; 29.97p or 25p at 16 MBPS

1280 × 720: 29.97p or 25p at 6 MBPS.

 

Electronic Viewfinder

0.5" (13mm) OLED.

5,760,000 dots UXGA (Ultra-Extended Graphics Adapter).

120 frames per second update rate with regular mechanical shutter, 60 FPS with silent electronic shutter.

100% coverage.

0.78× with 50mm lens.

Auto and manual brightness control.

5 steps of manual color temperature shift.

-4 to +3 diopters.

Eyepoint: 18.5mm from the eyepiece frame, 23mm from the eyepiece lens.

Fluorine external coating to repel fingerprints, dust, water and dirt.

 

Light Meter

1,200 zone evaluative, entire screen Averaging, Center-Weighted, Spot, Spot standard or large or highlight-weighted.

Meter range LV -3 to +20 with an f/2 lens.

 

Flash Sync

1/250 sync speed, with Sony flashes.

Only works with mechanical shutter; no flash works with the silent electronic shutter.

Dedicated hot shoe and PC (Prontor- Compur) flash sync connector.

 

Shutters

Mechanical Focal-Plane

1/8,000 to 30s and Bulb.

"Tested to 500,000 cycles."

 

Silent Electronic

1/8,000 to 30s (no Bulb).

 

Self Timer

2, 5 or 10s delay.

Also can shoot 3 or 5 frames each time, and can make those bracketed.

 

Frame Rates

It runs to 10 FPS with each of the mechanical or silent electronic shutters.

Continuous High +: 10 FPS.

Continuous High: 8 FPS.

Continuous Mid: 6 FPS.

Continuous Lo: 3 FPS

 

Frame Buffer

68 frames JPG or raw.

 

Storage

Sony A7R IV

Sony A7R IV. bigger or fill screen.

Two UHS-II SD card slots.

Also uses SD, SDHC or SDXC cards.

Sony A7R IV

bigger.

 

LCD

Sony A7R IV

Sony A7R IV. bigger or fill screen.

Flips up 105º and down 40º. Does not flip left or right.

 

Body

Sony A7R IV

Sony A7R IV. bigger or fill screen.

Magnesium-alloy chassis.

 

Connectors

Sony A7R IV

Sony A7R IV and FE 20mm f/1.8 G. bigger.

 

Sony A7R IV

bigger.

Top Center:

PC Flash Sync.

 

From Top Right:

3.5mm Microphone input.

3.5mm Headphone output.

Micro-D HDMI.

USB-C 3.0.

USB Micro-B 2.0, AKA "Multi" by Sony.

 

Wireless

WiFi.

Bluetooth.

NFC.

 

Power & Battery

Sony NP-FZ100 rechargeable lithium ion battery included:

Sony NP-FZ100 Battery

Sony NP-FZ100 battery. enlarge.

 

Sony NP-FZ100 Battery

Sony NP-FZ100 battery. enlarge.

It's 7.2V, 2,280 mAh, 16.4 Wh.

Rated 670 still shots or 115 minutes of video shooting with the rear LCD

Rated 530 still shots or 100 minutes of video shooting with the viewfinder.

 

Charging

Although I prefer a folding plug charger, this universal corded charger works anywhere with the right cord.

A nice feature is the three-segment battery status indicator. It shows about 2/3 charged here:

Sony BC-QZ1 Battery Charger

Sony BC-QZ1 Battery Charger with NP-FZ100 battery. bigger.

 

Sony BC-QZ1 Battery Charger

Sony BC-QZ1 Battery Charger. bigger.

It charges via USB in-camera, or also charges in the included BC-QZ1 Corded Battery Charger.

The BC-QZ1 is rated 100~240V, 50/60 Hz, 0.38A in, and 8.4VDC @ 1.6A out.

You can charge two batteries at once; one in the camera via USB and the other in this charger.

 

Quality

Camera made in Thailand.

 

Weight

23.5 oz. (665g).

 

Announced

16 July 2020, 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo XI, first ship ever to take men to land on the moon.

 

Promised for

September 2019.

 

Price, U. S. A.       specifications       top

September 2021 (A7R IVA new version)

$3,498 new at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H and at Crutchfield.

About $2,500 used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

 

August 2020

$3,198 new at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H and at Crutchfield.

About $2,800 used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

 

February 2020

$3,498 new at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H and at Crutchfield.

About $2,800 used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

 

July 2019

$3,498 at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H and at Crutchfield at introduction, July 2019.

 

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I'd get my A7R Mk IV at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H or at Crutchfield, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

 

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Sadly the finder is slow to change its indicated aperture value as you turn a dedicated lens aperture ring, which makes lens aperture rings not as much of as an advantage as they should be since you have to wait for the finder to catch up to tell you what aperture you've set!

Not only does it take a moment for the indications in the viewfinder to catch up to dial clicks (which in and of itself makes it much slower to shoot with this camera than a DSLR which updates instantly), but worse than other brands, if you turn a control dial too quickly the A7RIV may not respond to all the clicks! In other words, I often shift settings by a full stop, or three clicks, by feel, but with the A7R IV I have to stop and wait and make sure that it responded to may attempts at changing settings

Also slow is response in playback. It might be dependant on card read speed, but my A7R IV takes too long to play once the PLAY button is hit, and too long to zoom-in once the magnify button is hit, and way too long to swap between playback images if I'm zoomed-in trying to compare magnified images. A good camera should have this all buffered in RAM so that card read speed doesn't matter, as Photo Mechanic does, but this A7R IV doesn't; you have to wait too long to make things happen.

Cards face the wrong way: the labels face away from you as loaded.

Menus are obtuse, and the camera doesn't feel good in the hand. It works, but nowhere near as well as Canon or Nikon do it. The body quickly becomes uncomfortable after any length of shooting.

Sony uses a very immature body style that may have been acceptable in the 1970s, but today everything is too straight and right-angled and hard-edged for comfort. Sony doesn't yet use properly curved or soft surfaces, and thus the camera becomes uncomfortable quickly. The control dials are hard, uncomfortable and at square angles, not soft rubber delicately and properly canted to match the way our bodies work. Canon and Nikon have learned this after decades and decades and decades of improvement. Sony is way behind here.

If you have a lens with an aperture ring, it's ignored in Program exposure mode instead of properly shifting the camera to Aperture-priority mode.

 

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The finder has excellent automatic brightness control and a great OLED panel, but its sharpness is limited by the iffy eyepiece optics.

The dinky eyepiece leads to swimmy astigmatism and you never can get the whole finder super-sharp form edge-to-edge. This is typical for most modern Japan-designed camera eyepieces with little rectangular openings; they aren't using huge eyepieces as they do for microscopes, telescopes and binoculars.

The finder can show focus distance in meters or feet.

 

High ISO Performance   Complete Images   Fine Details   Dark Detail   Blank Wall   High ISOs   performance   top

As we expect, high ISOs are great. Don't let the high resolution fool you; high ISOs are about the same as the 24MP Nikon D780 overall, but at large magnifications this A7R Mark IV has far more fine detail, so the A7R IV is better.

Resolution doesn't limit high ISO performance; image magnification, which depends on the ratio between sensor size and image display size, does. For the same size sensor and image display sizes, the higher resolution sensor usually wins or is about the same. The ISO range for higher resolutions is limited more by camera processing power than the sensors themselves.

 

Complete Images   Complete Images   Fine Details   Dark Detail   Blank Wall   High ISOs   performance   top

When seen at normal image sizes as I show below, all the ISOs look pretty much the same for colors, highlights and shadows. This is superb performance.

The only variances are that ISO 50 has more highlight contrast, and that the image becomes a little more mottled and blotchy at the very highest ISOs, but for all practical purposes for images seen at a reasonable size you can use whatever ISO you need to get a sharp picture.

Click any for the camera-original © LARGE FINE JPG files:

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Click any for the camera-original © JPG files (about 27 MB each).

 

Fine Details: 600 × 450 Pixel Crops from Above   Complete Images   Fine Details   Dark Detail   Blank Wall   High ISOs   performance   top

Sony A7R IV High ISOs

Cropped area: clock on the right. bigger.

At high magnifications, you'll see the dulling effects of noise reduction as the ISO climbs. While strong lines remain, finer details are scrubbed away with the noise when you look this closely. This is normal with all digital cameras.

These 600 × 450 pixel crops will vary in size to fit your browser window.

If these crops are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same high magnification would be about 4 × 6 feet (1.2 × 1.8 meters).

If these crops are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 8 × 12 feet (2.4 × 3.6 meters)!

If these crops are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same insane level of magnification would be about 16 × 24 feet (4.8 × 7.2 meters)!!!

Click any for the camera-original © LARGE FINE JPG files:

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Click any for the camera-original © JPG files (about 27 MB each).

 

Dark Detail: 600 × 450 Pixel Crops from Above   Complete Images   Fine Details   Dark Detail   Blank Wall   High ISOs   performance   top

Sony A7R IV High ISOs

Cropped area: fireplace screen. bigger.

At high magnifications, you'll see the dulling effects of noise reduction as the ISO climbs. While strong lines remain, finer details are scrubbed away with the noise when you look this closely. This is normal with all digital cameras.

Interesting is how ISO 50 shows light highlights on the wire screen that go away by ISO 100, the screen gradually disappears at higher ISOs past 3,200, and then the lines between the bricks disappear at even higher ISOs past 25,600, and how almost everything goes away and is replaced by blue dots at 102,400. Again, all normal for digital cameras.

These 600 × 450 pixel crops will vary in size to fit your browser window.

If these crops are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same high magnification would be about 4 × 6 feet (1.2 × 1.8 meters).

If these crops are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 8 × 12 feet (2.4 × 3.6 meters)!

If these crops are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same insane level of magnification would be about 16 × 24 feet (4.8 × 7.2 meters)!!!

Click any for the camera-original © LARGE FINE JPG files:

Sony A7R IV High ISO Sample Image File

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Sony A7R IV High ISOs

Cropped area: blank wall. bigger.

As you can see, ISO 50 is cleaner than ISO 100. This is why I wish the A7R IV went to ISO 25 or ISO 12 for even cleaner images; I can see noise at extreme magnifications even at ISO 50, which is to be expected for such a high linear resolution camera. This is why iPhones, with their similarly high linear resolution, start at ISO 16!

These 600 × 450 pixel crops will vary in size to fit your browser window.

If these crops are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same high magnification would be about 4 × 6 feet (1.2 × 1.8 meters).

If these crops are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 8 × 12 feet (2.4 × 3.6 meters)!

If these crops are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete images printed at this same insane level of magnification would be about 16 × 24 feet (4.8 × 7.2 meters)!!!

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Sony A7R IV High ISO Sample Image File

Sony A7R IV High ISO Sample Image File

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Sony A7R IV High ISO Sample Image File

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Image Quality       performance       top

I see no vertical (interline transfer ) smear even pointed at the sun at f/1.8, this is excellent!

 

M1, M2 and M3 modes       performance       top

I love these. These are the big 1, 2 and 3 settings on the top dial.

They store color settings, advance modes, self timer, pixel shift mode, stabilization and just about everything about your camera so you can quickly swap from one set of settings to another for different kinds of subjects.

These work very well, but sadly there is still a screen that pops up in your face and won't go away for too long each time you swap modes. It's sometimes faster to turn off the camera, change memory mode, and turn it back on, which skips the summary screen.

 

Menu System

Sony's menu system is the worst in the business.

While the tiny top tabs seem like they are color coded, the big highlights for every menu item are orange, so every item looks the same as you can see below. You just can't recall where to find it by color as you can with Canon. Instead, you have to look through every page to find just about anything you haven't saved to MY MENU.

Every page in each of the six main categories is distinct; you get to each next page with a single left or right click, and each item always is in the same place on the page.

As the last image shows, once you're in a menu item to set it, again it's all orange so there is no color to help remind you of where to find it next time.

Sony A7R III Menu System
Sony A7R III Menu System
Sony A7R III Menu System
Sony A7R III Menu System
Sony A7R III Menu System Sony A7R III Menu System

Canon's menu system color-codes everything, even inside a menu item, so we instinctively can find it next time.

Nikon's menu system isn't color-coded, but it is very well organized.

 

Rear LCD

Performance          top

The rear LCD is great, except for use in direct sunlight. It has no auto-brightness control.

No worries, use the superb EVF in daylight.

The LCD flips vertically, but not very far, and it doesn't swing left or right.

Honestly I never use the rear LCD. I use the EVF for everything.

 

Playback          performance       top

It autorotates as you turn the camera, just like an iPhone, if you set MENU > PLAY > page 3/3 > Display Rotation > Auto. That's great!

Oddly as in earlier Sonys, even though it's smart enough to rotate the image as you rotate the camera during playback, if you zoom the image, it won't autorotate!

Playback response is maddeningly slow. It might be dependant on card read speed, but my A7R IV takes too long to play once the PLAY button is hit, and too long to zoom-in once the magnify button is hit, and way too long to swap between playback images if I'm zoomed-in trying to compare magnified images. A good camera should have this all buffered in RAM so that card read speed doesn't matter, as Photo Mechanic does, but tins A7R IV doesn't; you have to wait too long to make things happen.

There's no way to read the file number.

It's slow to swap to other images while you're zoomed-in.

 

Data       performance       top

Cards are not properly titled when formatted. It titles cards as "NO NAME." OOPS!!!

It takes longer than other brands of camera to format cards; you actually have to wait for it.

Std Large JPGs have a median files size of about 13 MB median size, or from about 5 ~ 22 MB depending on image complexity.

Fine Large JPGs run about 25 MB.

.ARW raw files run about 117.5 MB (123,164,672 bytes).

Fantastic is that we have the menu option for it to create a new folder each day. I wish my DSLRs did that! For instance, everything I shoot on 24 February 2020 is in a folder NO NAME / DCIM / 10200224.

 

Clock       performance       top

The clock stops at the year 2037.

Ahem, my over 20-year-old Nikon D1 clock works great today and sets all the way to 2097, so what's with the A7R IV clock only good for another 17 years?

 

Power & Battery       performance       top

The battery charges via micro USB, via USB-C, or externally in the included BC-QZ1 Battery Charger.

Mine draws 473mA via micro USB.

The charge light is a nearly invisible little orange LED right by the USB connectors.

 

User's Guide       top

Sample Images   Intro   Specs   Performance

Compared   User's Guide   Recommendations

 

I'd get my A7R Mk IV at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H or at Crutchfield, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

See also Sony's A7R IV User's Guide PDF and Sony's Odd A7R IV Online User's Guide.

 

Charging

The battery charges internally via micro USB, USB-C or externally in the included corded charger.

Either USB charge method lights a tiny amber LED near the connector while charging, which simply goes out when done.

It's hard to see the camera's tiny charge LED hidden near the USB socket inside a cover.

USB also can power the camera indefinitely.

 

Power

Auto power off doesn't work that well. I prefer to turn it OFF whenever it's around my neck, but then I need to remember to turn it ON every time I bring it to my eye.

 

Set the Clock

Set this at MENU > Suitcase > page 5/7 > Date/Time Setup.

 

Format Card

This is hidden at MENU > Suitcase > page 5/7 > Format.

 

File Name Prefixes

Set this at MENU > Suitcase > page 5/7 > Set File Name.

I set mine to "7R4."

 

Automatic New Daily Folders

This creates a new folder on your card each day.

I set it at MENU > Suitcase > page 6/7 > Folder Name > Date Form.

 

Beeps

To turn off the annoying beeps that are on by default, set MENU > Camera 2 > page 9/9 > Audio signals > OFF.

 

Setting What the Controls Do

Set these at MENU > Camera 2 > page 8/9 > Custom Key (Shoot, Movie or Playback).

 

Setting the Fn menu

The Fn menu is the options you see at the bottom of your screen when you press the (Fn) button.

Set this at MENU > Camera 2 > page 8/9 > Function Menu Set.

I like to put Auto ISO Minimum Shutter Speed and Image Size, there, for instance.

There is no right or wrong, just what works for you.

 

Auto ISO

To set the minimum shutter speed if you don't assign this control to the Fn menu, set it at MENU > Camera 1 > page 9/14 > ISO AUTO Min. SS.

If you choose Auto for the slowest shutter speed, it sets it based on focal length. Slow or Fast shift it by one stop, and Slower or Faster shift it by 2 stops from the focal length.

I set 1/125 for people shots and 1/500 for action.

For things that hold still, I set AUTO, or SLOW or SLOWER if it's an optically stabilized lens.

Again, there is no right or wrong; just what works for you.

 

Face Detection

This is one of the A7R IV's most important features, but it's OFF by default.

Set it at MENU > Camera 1 > page 6/14 > Set Face Prty in AF > ON.

I never turn it off.

 

Getting Awesome Autofocus Performance

This is easy: once you've enabled Face Detection, I shoot in AF-C (continuous) and leave the Focus Area setting in its default of WIDE (either at the Fn button or MENU > Camera 1 > page 5/14 > Focus Area > Wide. Now my A7R III magically finds the subject, focuses on it, and tracks it all over the finder if it moves. It's that simple.

You need lenses that have fast autofocus. Sony's G and GM lenses are the best, designed to excel with the A7R IV.

Older lenses, or anything on an adapter, probably won't give you the performance you deserve or expect, but with the 20/1.8 G, 24-70/2.8 GM, 24-105/4 G and 70-200/2.8 GM I use, it's spectacular.

 

Manual AF point selection with the touch screen

When you set this you can slide your finger around the touch screen — even if it's off as you use the electronic finder — to position the AF points.

Set:

1.) MENU > Suitcase > page 2/7 > Touch Operation > ON.

2.) MENU > Suitcase > page 3/7 > Touch Panel/Pad > Touch Panel+Pad.

3.) MENU > Camera 1 > page 6/14 > Center Lock-on AF > OFF.

4.) MENU > Camera 1 > page 5/14 > Focus Area should be set to anything other than Flexible Spot or Expanded Flexible Spot. I use Wide.

Set all this, and you can just slide your right thumb around the dark LCD to move your AF points wherever you want them.

When you want to return to the center point, press the big center button on the back.

I don't use this mode since my A7R III usually selects what I need automatically, and if I set this mode my fingers usually wind up selecting zones at random if I touch the screen by accident.

 

Manual Focus Override

Set the DMF focus mode with the Fn button to allow immediate manual focus override with autofocus. It's so smart that it probably will magically zoom into faces as you turn the focus ring!

The gotcha here is that DMF works in AF-S (single) mode, not AF-C (continuous) mode, so don't use it for sports.

Use a lens with a mechanical focus override ring, like the 70-200/2.8 GM, and you can just grab its focus ring in the AF-C (or any other) mode for instant override. Most lenses, like the 20/1.8 G, 24-105mm f/4 G and 24-70/2.8 GM, won't give manual override unless you're in the DMF mode.

 

Focus Magnifier

I like to have the manual focus magnifier come up when I tap a button when using an adapted manual focus lens. With an adapted old lens, there's nothing to tell the A7R IV when to magnify unless you program something.

Set which button does this at MENU > Camera 2 > page 8/9 > Custom Key(Shoot.) > (choose a key, say Custom Button 2, the C2 button near the shutter) > Focus Magnifier.

"Custom Buttons" 1-4 refer to the buttons marked C1, C2, C4 and C4 (the trash button). For some unknown reason, this works assigned to C2 or C4, but not if I set it on the Multi-Slc Center Btn — but it's supposed to.

 

Silent Mode

This is a very important feature of the A7R IV, and it's off by default.

Set it at MENU > Camera 2 > page 4/9 > Silent Shooting > ON.

I always leave my A7R4 in Silent. You only need turn to this off if you want to use flash or shoot at slower than ISO 100.

 

Shooting under flickering light

If shooting under fluorescent, dimmed LED, sodium, mercury or other lights that tend to flicker at twice the power line frequency, set MENU > Camera 1 > page 14/14 > Anti flicker Shoot > ON.

You can't use this mode with the Silent mode; pick one. I skip the flicker mode and just shoot in Silent.

 

Did it Shoot?

If it's silent and you don't set Image Review, how do you know if it went off?

Easy: either the display blacks-out for a moment at slower frame rates, or becomes jerky at high frame rates.

 

Self Timer

Select the Self Timer at the Advance Mode section of the display after pressing Fn.

 

Image Review

To have what you just shot appear on-screen right after you shot it, turn this on at MENU > Camera 2 > page 7/9 > Auto Review and select for how long you'd like each to appear after you've shot it.

I don't use this; it slows me down.

 

Playback Rotation

It autorotates as you turn the camera, just like an iPhone, if you set MENU > PLAY > page 3/3 > Display Rotation > Auto — however oddly this autorotation doesn't work when magnified.

 

Save and Load Settings

These are new and save most things about the camera, like all your copyright information and most preferences and menu settings— except saving and restoring from a card forgets and doesn't recall any of the M1, M2, M3 and other Memory modes explained below. Instead, recalling from a card resets all the M123 modes. Ooops!

Good news is you can pull these files from your card, saves or transfer them anyway you like, then copy them back onto a card to restore into your camera.

They are are at NO NAME / PRIVATE / SONY / SETTING / 7RM4 / CAMSET / (CAMSET01.DAT, CAMSET02.DAT etc.) on your card.

Feel free to read them from the card and save on your computer, or put the files back into that same folder on a formatted card and pop the card in your camera to load them at MENU > SETUP > Second to last item on the last page > SAVE or LOAD.

For instance, if you'd like my personal settings file, here is my own CAMSET04.DAT file. This won't do anything on your computer or browser, but download this file to your computer and then copy it to a card in a card reader in the NO NAME / PRIVATE / SONY / SETTING / 7RM4 / CAMSET folder, then put the card in your camera and load my settings into your camera at MENU > SETUP > second to last item on the last page > LOAD.

Be sure to:

1.) Save your own settings first in case you hate mine, and

2.) Be sure to reset the copyright information to your own information, otherwise with my settings all your files will have my name and phone number in their EXIF!

 

1, 2, 3, M1, M2, M3 and M4 Memory Modes

Sony A7R Mark IV

The 1, 2 and 3 on the mode dial are instant memory recalls. bigger.

Once you've set the camera as you like it, go to MENU > Camera 1 > page 3/14 > MR Cam 1/Cam 2 Memory and save the current settings to the memory address of your liking. 1, 2 and 3 are recalled by selecting them on the top dial, while M1, M2, M3 and M4 are only recallable via the menu system (MENU > Camera 1 > page 3/14 > MR Cam1/Cam 2 Recall).

Almost everything, like AF modes, frame rates, AF illuminators, shutter type, resolution, image settings, Image Review and white balance are saved and recalled.

The top dial has only 1, 2 and 3 positions, but to select M1, M2, M3 or M4, all you do is move the top dial to any of 1, 2 or 3, and you'll see a screen with what you've selected for recall highlighted at the top. Simply click left or right to select any of the "hidden" M1, M2, M3 or M4 options, and Bingo!, you've recalled them.

The A7R IV locks-up for a few critical seconds when you move the memory setting dial. A faster way to swap between modes is to turn off the A7R IV, move the mode dial, and turn it back on. This sounds complex, but it actually works faster since it doesn't lock up when turned on in a new mode.

If you change any settings while using one of these modes, the A7R IV will wake back up the same way after being turned off. If you want to return to the originally saved settings as opposed to what you've just modified, set it to another preset and then return to other, which will now come back up as saved.

There is no "Auto Update" setting. When you're getting your new camera set, you'll have to save each new iteration manually.

I set number 1 for photos of places and things, which I set to high resolution and slower shutter speeds and ultra high color saturation.

I set number 2 for photos of people: moderate resolution and saturation, and set Auto ISO to a slowest speed of 1/125 to stop motion.

I set number 3 for sports and action, which I set very similarly to number 2, except with a 1/500 minimum shutter speed to stop action.

Memory setting
1
2
3
Set at (most of these functions can be assigned to the C buttons or the Fn menu)
Used for
Places and Things
People
Sports & Action
 
Drive Mode
Continuous Low (3 FPS)
Continuous Low (3 FPS)
Continuous Hi+ (10 FPS)
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 3/14 > Drive Mode
AF Mode
AF-A (Auto-selects continuous or single)
AF-C (continuous)
AF-C (continuous)
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 5/14 > Focus Mode
Exposure Mode
Program
Program
Program
Top mode dial (set this while programming the 1, 2 and 3 positions, then select the 1, 2 or 3 position to use these settings)
Image Size
L: 60 MP
S: 15 MP
S: 15 MP
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 1/14 > JPEG Image Size.
Quality
Standard
Standard
Standard
MENU > Cam 1 > page 1/14 > JPEG Image Quality
Creative Style
Vivid
Standard
Standard
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 12/14 > Creative Style
Saturation
+3
+1
+1
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 12/14 > Creative Style
Sharpening
+3
+3
+3
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 12/14 > Creative Style
ISO
Auto
Auto
Auto

Fn, ISO button (right side of rear controller), or MENU > Cam 1 > page 9/14 > ISO

Auto ISO Min & Max
100 & 102,400
100 & 102,400
100 & 102,400

Fn, ISO button (right side of rear controller), or MENU > Cam 1 > page 9/14 > ISO

ISO Auto Min Shutter Speed
Auto Slower
1/125
1/500
MENU > Cam 1 > page 9/14 > ISO AUTO Min. SS

 

Or, if I'm out shooting nature and landscape, places and things,

I set number 1 for quick grab shots of places and things, with Auto ISO and Pro gram exposure mode.

I set number 2 for more serious shots, with fixed ISO 50 and Aperture-priority exposure mode.

I set number 3 for tripod shots, with fixed ISO 50, Aperture-priority exposure mode, no image stabilization and a 2-second self-timer..

Memory setting
1
2
3
Set at (most of these functions can be assigned to the C buttons or the Fn menu)
Used for
Grab shots
Careful shots
Tripod shots
 
Drive Mode
Continuous Low (3 FPS)
Continuous Low (3 FPS)
2-second self-timer
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 3/14 > Drive Mode
AF Mode
AF-A (Auto-selects continuous or single)
AF-S (single and lock)
AF-S (single and lock)
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 5/14 > Focus Mode
Exposure Mode
Program
Aperture-priority
Aperture-priority
Top mode dial (set this while programming the 1, 2 and 3 positions, then select the 1, 2 or 3 position to use these settings)
Image Size
L: 60 MP
L: 60 MP
L: 60 MP
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 1/14 > JPEG Image Size.
Quality
Standard
Standard
Standard
MENU > Cam 1 > page 1/14 > JPEG Image Quality
Creative Style
Vivid
Vivid
Vivid
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 12/14 > Creative Style
Saturation
+3
+3
+3
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 12/14 > Creative Style
Sharpening
+3
+3
+3
Fn, or MENU > Cam 1 > page 12/14 > Creative Style
ISO
Auto
50
50

Fn, ISO button (right side of rear controller), or MENU > Cam 1 > page 9/14 > ISO

Auto ISO Min & Max
100 & 102,400
n/a
n/a

Fn, ISO button (right side of rear controller), or MENU > Cam 1 > page 9/14 > ISO

ISO Auto Min Shutter Speed
Auto Slower
n/a
n/a
MENU > Cam 1 > page 9/14 > ISO AUTO Min. SS

 

Explanations

Drive Mode

3 FPS lets me make one shot at a time, or several if I hold the shutter down.

10 FPS lets me catch all the action.

 

AF Mode

AF-C is best for tracking people and action, while the AF-A mode will hold and lock focus if the subject is still.

AF-S focuses once and locks for still subjects.

 

Image Size

While I often shoot still subjects at the highest resolution, for people and action 15 MP is more than enough for anything, and makes editing, storage and transmission so much faster and easier.

 

Image Quality

Standard gives me the smallest file sizes, and looks great.

 

Creative Style

I photograph places and things at extreme saturation, but that makes people look bad.

I photograph people in the standard setting, with a minor +1 saturation boost for a little more pizazz.

I like setting my sharpening to +3.

 

ISO

I usually use Auto, which I program to set ISO exactly as I'd set it manually:

 

Auto ISO Min & Max

I set ISO 102,400 as the maximum because 102,400 still looks pretty good - much better than a blurry image shot at 51,200. Of course set this to your own taste.

 

Auto ISO Minimum Shutter Speed

I set it to AUTO Slow for still subjects because this sets it based on lens focal length. I always get sharp shots at this setting.

I set 1/125 for people shots because that's the slowest speed at which most people shots won't show motion blur from people moving and talking.

I set 1/500 for sports and action as 1/500 is the slowest speed that freezes just about any motion. Remember, this is the slowest shutter speed it will use before increasing ISO.

 

Embed Your Contact Information in Every Image

I set this at MENU > Suitcase > page 5/7 > Copyright info.

This adds whatever text you want in the file's EXIF data; it doesn't draw it on the photo.

 

Recording to 2 Cards at Once as Backup

I set this at MENU > Suitcase > page 6/7 > Rec. Media Settings > Recording Mode > Simult (mountain icon).

Now it records everything to both cards at once as backup.

I do this, but if I pull out one card, it won't record at all!

Be sure to have a spare card if one fills, or know where to reset this setting if you run out of a second card because you'll be dead as soon as either of the cards isn't ready.

 

Seeing the Rear LCD in Daylight

There is an extra setting called "Sunny Day" in the LCD brightness setting menu.

Use this and it's amazing how good the rear LCD looks in direct sunlight.

 

Under- and Over-Crank (slow-mo and fast-motion video)

Sony calls this S&Q, for "Slow and Quick" motion.

It's set on the Mode Dial, and adjusted in the menu system at MENU > Camera 2 > page 1/9 > S&Q Settings.

 

More

Sony's A7R IV User's Guide PDF

Sony's Odd A7R IV Online User's Guide

 

Recommendations       top

Sample Images   Intro   Specs   Performance

Compared   User's Guide   Recommendations

If you demand the highest possible resolution in a mirrorless camera, this is it. The A7R IV can't be beat for technical image quality, although as an artist I still prefer the vivid JPGs I get direct-from-camera from my Nikons or Canons over the somewhat more sedate Sony JPGs — but that's just me. See Nikon vs Canon vs Sony Full Frame Mirrorless Compared.

Not only is this the highest resolution consumer digital camera (I'm not including five-digit price tag medium-format as consumer), the A7R IV's high-ISO performance is spectacular, as is its autofocus system. With the A7R IV you not only get ultra resolution, you get great performance in low light and high 10 FPS speed and fast autofocus for action.

I'd get my A7R Mk IV at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H or at Crutchfield, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

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