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Sony Alpha A7R III Full Frame Camera (Body Only) $2800 + Delivery ($0 C&C/In-Store) @ JB Hi-Fi

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Sony Alpha A7R III Full Frame Camera (Body Only) $2800 + Delivery ($0 C&C/In-Store) @ JB Hi-Fi
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Joseph Ng on 15/08/2023 - 14:25 jbhifi.com.au (465 clicks)
Last edited 15/08/2023 - 14:27 by 1 other user

It looks like JB Hi-Fi is getting rid of their A7R III stocks. Pretty decent price for this model. Do note that this is the original version, NOT the later released “A7R III A” version with an upgraded LCD. But hey, that doesn’t matter too much if you shoot RAW by using histograms for reference, or if you use viewfinder more often.

I personally own an A7R II which shares the exact same CMOS. This 42MP IMX251 CMOS by Sony is superb af and has one of the best reputations in photography world. Still ranked in Top 10 at DxO Mark’s camera sensor ranking. Compared to IMX309 on Nikon’s D850 and both of their Z7 series, IMX251 has higher quantum efficiency which leads to better low light performance. See photonstophotos.com to learn more if you are interested.

Some quick yet important specs:
- 42.4MP full-frame BSI CMOS with Pixel Shift for enhanced image details
- 5.5 stop in-body image stabilisation (not as good as Canon or Nikon’s counterparts, though)
- 15-stop max dynamic range
- 399 phase-detection and 425 contrast-detection autofocus points, with continuous eye-detection (in a word, great)
- 10fps max cont. shooting for uncompressed RAW. In this setting the buffer holds ~30 images before it takes ~14s to clear (this is a HUGE improvement from A7R II which sucks at cont. shooting)
- 1.44MP 3" tilting-only LCD screen
- 3.86MP 0.78x OLED viewfinder
- Records video at highest spec of 4K 25/30P 8bit 4:2:0 100Mbps (with crop, pixel-binning downsampled from ~5K), supports S-Log2/3, HLG and other stuff..
- Pretty decent battery life with NP-FZ100. This is another huge improvement from A7R II

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  • ASR-Briggs on 15/08/2023 - 14:36
    +9

    Christ Sony knows how to milk a product. Got this for $2950 from Digidirect in May…..2019.

    • Rakibul on 15/08/2023 - 15:27

      Got this for lower in 2018 from Digidirect. Still one of the best in terms of noise vs megapixcel. The product is still relevent to certain applications.

      • ASR-Briggs on 15/08/2023 - 15:41
        +1

        Oh I know. I’ve used it every day for work since I purchased it. I shutter to think at the shudder count.

    • snvl on 15/08/2023 - 16:43

      Christ Sony knows how to milk a product. Got this for $2950 from Digidirect in May…..2019.

      Do not check Fuji x100 prices

  • PlushToys on 15/08/2023 - 14:56
    +1

    They call that a clearance? Lol.

    • Joseph Ng on 15/08/2023 - 15:01

      Ran a search here and this price looks good to me. Also some people here still have cash-backed gift cards handy, so the actual price could come down a bit further.

      • PlushToys on 15/08/2023 - 15:03
        +1

        Fair enough. Must be the USD. Got this for around this price in 2018.

  • Naigrabzo on 15/08/2023 - 15:07

    How did Sony climb rankings of CANON and NIkon etc in terms of sensor quality!? DAIM!>

    • Joseph Ng on 15/08/2023 - 15:26
      +8

      Might be “politically incorrect” but I’ll fire it up anyway. It’s Ozbargain and facts matter more for finding nice deals.

      1. Sony Semiconductor is the dominator behind many great image sensors, be it on consumer cameras (Fujifilm GFX, Nikon, LUMIX, etc) or smartphones (most ones other than Samsung’s). Rome isn’t built in one day.

      2. Canon is kinda a late-catcher in CMOS performance. Their current hot (pun intended) model, EOS R5, finally (almost) catches up to what Sony did years ago in image quality (DR, read noise, readout speed, etc). But I’d really love to see that they perform well to compete with Sony. Market competition is better for consumers like us, while Sony has been too big for too long.

      3. Nikon currently do not have any of their own CMOS on their consumer products. As mentioned above, some of the best models are all equipped with Sony’s sensors, albeit customised as per Nikon’s design/requests. Nikon’s well-known ISO 64 base maximises image quality in good-lighting conditions, which is something for landscape photography. But it looks like their Z8/9 (with a stacked sensor) don’t really inherit the true ISO 64 advantage, a cost for videography performance.

      • Naigrabzo on 15/08/2023 - 15:36
        +1

        DAMN MAN. Many thanks for your response. I am out of the loop with what's best. I have Canon 350D which was a like an amazing camera back in the day…. :)

        A famous dslr forum (now defunct I think) in Sydney used to auto spell check the phrase 'my bad' to 'my sony'. Sony cameras were that bad back then and the owner of the forum was that old enough to tolerate any lingo other than his own.

        • aim54x on 16/08/2023 - 14:16

          I know that forum….

          Sony wasn't bad back then, but the owner of the forum wasn't impartial and there were plenty of members who quite enjoyed ribbing anyone who didn't join in the echo chamber

          • Naigrabzo on 16/08/2023 - 14:19

            @aim54x: Damn I didn't realise that. I always thought that Sony was just bad. They seem to be enjoying absolute premium status these days.

            Forum is proper dead but those were some good ol times….

            Good to see you around man. I sent you pm.

      • Ethan Bargain-Hunt on 15/08/2023 - 15:45

        This guy cameras.

  • jerome38 on 15/08/2023 - 15:15

    Might be better to get an A7R V with cashback. Not a Sony fan by the way, but I heard Sony’s latest models has much better colour science than the previous ones. Older ones have greenish tint.

    • Halsmich on 15/08/2023 - 15:23

      I'm not sure a 1.5-2k difference in price is worth just for something that can be easily fixed in post (of course if you need the extra megapixels etc. then that's a diff story).

    • Rakibul on 15/08/2023 - 15:30
      -1

      Same sensor as the R4 which has too much noise. I would rather get the A74 or the R3 or the A1 if I can.

  • aoeueoa on 15/08/2023 - 15:43
    +2

    I'd be going for a used A7iv at this price point. You can easily get a very lightly used one for around or under this price. They lineage has been very reliable.

  • Buy2Much on 15/08/2023 - 15:48

    The newer Sony A7R Mark III A Body is the same money last month with DigiDirect 20% off promo. DD 20% off promo is regular so you will see the same (or lower) price again before end of year.

    • Joseph Ng on 15/08/2023 - 15:52

      Good catch! And looks like yet another Afterpay Day is coming soon..

      • Buy2Much on 15/08/2023 - 15:54

        AfterPay will cap at $100 so is no longer attractive…

  • Joseph Ng on 15/08/2023 - 15:49

    Looks like it already OOS, lol. Hopefully whoever got it from here enjoys!

  • jaygee on 15/08/2023 - 16:03

    Still waiting on the A7IV deal..

  • snvl on 15/08/2023 - 16:52

    Rumours of an A7c ii and a7cR announce on the 29th . Maybe a7r III will be discounted?

  • BuDWiZe on 16/08/2023 - 08:19

    its a good camera. i like it more than my mates a7rIV mainly because a little bit bettter with noise.
    i do portraits and sports ( afl ) with it. with sports its " good " not great so waiting for a9III for that

  • Buy2Much on 18/08/2023 - 13:18

    Seems to be back in stock, listed as the newer model A for the same price.

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