Sony a7R V

Introduction

announced Oct 2022
new or upgraded features from the Sony a7R IV which better match the Canon R5 but adds in HiRes mode:
- new AI processing
- use of Sony's new much improved menu system with new interactive settings tab
- Improved AF with subject recognition
  - gains a system designed to better recognize human subjects but also trained to recognize a wide range of non-human subject types
  - will now recognize Animals, Birds, combined Animal/Bird option, Insects, Cars & Trains and Aircraft
  - choice of whether the camera focuses on Eye/Head/Body, just Eye/Head or just Eyes, for humans, animals or birds
  - “60% better Eye-AF” and better at focusing on the surface of the eye, rather than occasional eye-lash-focus
- Sensor-shift dust removal and close shutter with power off option
- IBIS now 8EV up from 5.5EV
- flash burst rate 10fps (lossy RAW) 7fps full RAW
- 3.2“ / 2.1M-dot fully-articulated rear screen on tilt-out cradle instead of just tilting
- 9.44M-dot 0.9x EVF up from 5.76M-dot 0.78x
- Reduced-size down-sampled tonally lossless Raw files (26MP/15MP) and can re-convert the Raw files in-camera
- first Sony to have a focus bracketing function built-in (with stacking via computer)
- video:
  - 8K/24p or 4K/60p video (both with 1.24x crop) but with significant rolling shutter in 8K mode
  - Full-width 4K up to 30p
  - 10-bit 4:2:2 video options, including S-Log3, S-Cinetone and HLG
- faster 2×2 MIMO Wi-Fi
- 2x faster USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps up from Gen 1's 5Gbps
- UVC/UAC USB-standard video for use as webcam
- same NP-FZ100 battery but less battery life
- controls are more like the a7S III than a7R IV and now includes full-sized HDMI port
- heavier at 723g up from 665g

Specs

60MP BSI CMOS sensor - same as Sony a7R IV
Bionz XR processor
10fps burst with AF
tripod-based sensor shift modes:
- four-shot mode that captures red, green and blue information for every output pixel location, giving greater chroma resolution and avoiding the softening effects of demosaicing Bayer images
- 240mp Hi-Res 16-shot mode that shoots four Bayer-cancelling quartets of images at slight offsets
two dual-format card slots that can accept either UHS-II SD cards or the small CFexpress Type A cards that only Sony currently uses
$US3899