The Sony a7 IV is soon to be released. A production model is already on our desk, so we seized the opportunity to “torture” it in our lab – no mercy as usual! And for the record, it did not disappoint us. Interested to hear more? Here is our Sony a7IV lab test. As some of you might have read in earlier posts of mine, I owned a Sony a7S II for quite a few years, and also borrowed the grab & go cam from CineD, a Sony a7 III quite frequently as a B cam. So whenever I can get my hands on a new Sony Alpha cam, I am quite excited! Back then the Sony a7 III felt like the perfect middle ground of the Sony Alpha series cameras in terms of price/performance ratio. So will the Sony a7 IV again fit into this role? Let’s have a closer look at how the lab testing plays out … The Sony a7 IV in the lab with a Zeiss 85mm T1.5 Compact Prime. Image credit: CineD Rolling Shutter of the Sony a7 IV Using our standard strobe light reveals a rolling shutter value of 26.8ms running the Sony a7 IV in 4K full-frame mode: Sony a7 IV, full-frame mode, rolling shutter measurement. Image credit: CineD Ouch – this is a rather high value (lower values are better)! For comparison, the Sony A1 in 8K full-frame mode shows 16.6ms, the Sony a7S III only 8.7ms (Lab tests here and here)!...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 26 November, 2021