With a 33MP full-frame sensor, Sony’s E-mount for lenses, and a plethora of video modes, this is the finest mirrorless camera you can currently buy. It’s utterly versatile, switching between stills and video easily, and produces results up there with the very best despite supposedly being Sony’s ‘entry level’ full-frame MILC.
With a maximum still image framerate of 10fps, and all Sony’s AF tricks including locking on and tracking the eyes of human, animal and bird subjects, this is an excellent photography tool. In video mode, you get 4K recording at 30fps using the entire full-frame sensor, but for 60fps you’ll need to shift to a Super35 1.5x crop. Either way, the three-inch fully articulating touchscreen, with its 1.04m pixels, keeps you fully up to date on what you’re shooting.
Raise the camera to your eye, and it switches to its electronic viewfinder, which packs in 3.69 million pixels for an especially sharp view. The 759-point hybrid phase/contrast-detect autofocus system covers nearly all the viewfinder area, there are 5.5 stops of in-body image stabilisation (IBIS) available, and its features combine to create a camera that’s good at just about everything – with a suitable lens or two, of course – without the enormous investment necessary to obtain one of the pro-spec bodies such as the Sony A1 or Nikon Z9.
Be warned, however, that one of its two card slots can take the expensive CFexpress Type A cards, and you’ll want one of these speedy cards to bring the best out of the camera.
