these days technology has improved so much
that you'll find all kinds of camera in the market
with so many fancy features
however till this date..there is one thing
which can done by one camera only...
& that thing is....
I am sure by now you have already guessed it
that which camera I am talking about today
yes...its the Sony A7S iii
which finally got released after 5 long years
some of must have seen its review on other 
YouTube channels, where they just talk about the headline 
features
which are 4K 120p
it also shoots 16bit RAW, no record limit
its has got IBIS, its has 12.1 mpx stills resolution
& it records video in 10 bit 4:2:2 compression
these are the headline features of sony A7S iii
if you're just intrested in this, than you can leave this 
video here 
however if you're someone who wants to know more details
the details which no one is talking about
then you're at the right place guys
because now we'll discuss its less talked about features
which no one is talking about
so lets start today's video 
in this camera they have fixed all the issue 
which we were facing with the previous models
& its great to see that Sony listen to our feedbacks 
for example placement of mic jack
they've placed the mic jack in such a way that
now the cable doesn't obstruct the screen
while doing vloggs.
which still happens with other brand camera models
now if you look slightly below the jack
you would be happy to see that this camera now
has a full size HDMI port
now no more loose connection because of 
micro HDMI port
and the biggest change which you can notice
instently..its the vari angle LCD screen
we all were dieing to have that on sony cameras 
& finally we have one
& this screen supports proper touch screen
unlike other models e.g. a6400, 6600 where you
can only set you focus while touching
but you can scroll the menu or pinch to zoom an image
but on A7S iii you can do all of that
you can access & enable/disable settings through touch 
and it also supports pinch to zoom feature
and since we are talking about camera menu
I am happy to tell you that sony has changed its camera menu
if you're sony user you know their menu system is quite 
complicated
they have redesign their camera menu 
new menu is far better and easy to understand
what;s the next thing which we cribb a lot ??
that is placement of its video record button
that is also solved now
now the record button is placed near the shutter button
there is another small thing they did
if you check the other sony models Mode Dial options
you'll find that "stills' & "movie" option on the dial are 
not placed near by
there are quite a few options between them, atleast 3-4
so if you want to switch from still to video quickly
you'll have to turn the dial atleast 3-4 times 
now on A7S iii...these options are together
so that you can quickly change the mode from stills to movie
 or movie to stills
by just a click 
its a small thing..but its helpful
next change is a really good one
now the AF on button will work on manual focus also
so if you're using a manual focus mode 
and you want to quickly & accurately lock your focus on 
something
without getting out of manual focus mode.. just click the AF
 on button
it will lock the focus & once you release it..camera will 
come back to MF
its an amazing techinque to use auto focus while in manual 
focus mode
in sony's other camera models, there are 3 drive settings
slow, medium and fast
& there was no other option
in A7S iii they have provided 7 speed adjustment
so you can have greater control on drive speed
which in turns will give you a very smooth & cinamatic focus
 pull effect
it will look like that you actually hired a focus puller 
the autofocus capabilities has been drastically updated
on Sony A7S iii
as far as I saw..it looks like, its sony's best AF
implementation on any camera till the date
its has best AF capability, it has best focus tracking 
capability
just touch on the screen and see its magic 
next is storage
here you can see sony's innovative thinking
it has a dual card slot, however they have designes these 
slots in such a way
that you can either use 2 USH ii SD card or 2 CFexpress A 
type card
which are the new types of cards sony is developing
they are actually smaller then SD cards but their read and 
write speed are very high
so you got 2 different types of storage options here
by the way..you only need CFexpress for 4k 120p S&Q mode
I guess Sony understand our financial limitations
thats why they made their other video format in such a way 
that all of these can be recorded in SD cards 
unlike canon's R5..if you want to record 8k...
you need to buy a CF express card for that
which costs around 15-20k
another thing related to storage is 
you can record simultaneously on both the cards
at full quality
so its a great way to safguard you data in case of card 
faliure
you'll also get relay recording option on A7S iii
with relay recording..you can swap one of your card
without stoping the camera video recording
which means if you one card gets full.. you can change it 
without stoping the camera recording
its a great feature..in other camera's like canon's R5
the moment you open its storage card door
the camera will shut off
sony has used some new kind of cooling mechanism
on this camera .. which is very effective
what I saw that i can record 4K 60p untill its battery dies 
or you run out of memory
but never shows the overheat warning
as I told you in the begining .. that it records in 10 bit 
what I didnt tell you is that it can now record in All-i
its the first sony mirrorless which has All-i record option
in All-i mode you'll get really heavy files however
those files will work nicely at the time of editing
other wise thing they did that they used h.264 codec for 
All-i format
its an old codec which supported by all the computers as 
well as editing softwares
for h.265 lovers, which is a new codec
you can use sony's new XAVC HS format
in h.265 you'll get lighter files with slightly better 
quality then a regular h.264
but its gonna be a hard for your computer to edit this h.265
not lets talk about the crop
so in 4K 120p mode it does a very small crop of 1.1 times
& you get uncrop images on all the other modes
just to clear .. a crop of 1.1 times is not even visible 
untill you try to  see carefully
I guess its gonna be the first full frame camera 
which can shoot FHD in 240 FPS slow motion
you would be able to slow donw your clip 10 times
& it supports full autofocus capability in this mode as well
there is a USB - C port on this camera, which can be used 
for 2 things
1 it can transfer data from your camera to computer at a 
very high speed
so if your computer supports USB 3.2, than it can transfer 
at 5GBph speed
which means.. you dont need to purchase a seprate SD or CF 
card reader
2 it can be used with powerbank to recharge your camera
basically your camera will run totally on powerbank, without
 utilizing your internal battery power
now imagin this.. if you combine 
no overheating, no record limit, relay recording, USB power 
delivery support
with all these features, we are getting a camera which can 
records for days 
without even stopping
camera creats video files with naming like C001, C002 etcs
and I guess we dont have options to change name in A7S ii
now if you're into weddings & you're doing a multi camera 
shoot
all the camera will create fille like C001, C002
& when you go to system to download the data
it might create confusion
so now in sony A7S iii, we have a options to change the file
 naming
which can be really helpful in data management
it has In Body Image Stablization 
which provies upto 5 stops stablization in stills mode
they have also added an "Active" mode
which only works in movie mode 
Active mode crops the image 1.1 times..which is a very small
 crop
but it gives some additional stablization.. which is great
we can say that with active mode, A7S iii has best 
stablization among all sony cameras
however its still not at panasonic, or canon R5 level
this camera is 8 x faster then old A7Sii because of new 
processors
which has taken care of its rolling shutter problem
it has got 9.44m dots OLED EVF
which is the best in the market currently
when it comes to video cameras
the lesser the megapixel .. the better the camera
more megapixel in video camera can decrease its low light 
performance
as well as its dynamic range
thats why instead of using more megapixels 
sony went for bigger pixel size
because of that now you get 15 stops of dynamic range on 
sony A7S iii
15 stop is cinema camera level guys
and just to prove my point.. R5 which has 45mpx sensor.. has
 just 11 stops of dynamic range
since now A7S iii can record 10 bit video
now we can use sony's Slog 3 
which earlier was not usable because of 8 bit footage
base ISO for Slog 3 is 640
as per sony if you use Slog 3 on A7S iii, you would be able 
to match the colors 
with the cinema line cameras like Venus or FX9
which is huge plus...we're gonna see some huge improvement 
in sonys color sciense
if you're intrested in external recording
you can record upto 4K 120 at 10bit 4:2:2 in external 
recorder
as well as in both the cards
which means you would be able to create 3 copies
older sony camera models didnt work very well with external 
monitors
they used to make camera's LCD blank, face detection AF 
wasnt supported etc
but now all of this has solved with A7S iii
now there are separate function menu for stills and video 
modes
& they will only reflect the corrosponding modes settings 
only..
its a welcome change
its base ISO starts with ISO 80 now
which use to be ISO 100
and it goes upto 409600
& you get amazing clean shadows at high ISO
it has got timelapse feature also
lets talk about its stills features
it has got 12.1 mpx stills resolution
which is not enough from stills prospect
however if you just upload for posting on social media
like instagram or facebook
then you're anyways uploading a compressed image
you cant upload a 45 or 50 mpx photo to any social media 
site
so for social media centric people, 12.1 mpx is still 
sufficient 
it can shoot upto 10 fps
if you talk about its image buffer
with the SD card you can shoot upto 200 RAW+JPG 
& on CFexpress cards you can shoot upto 1000 RAW images
thats correct guys.. 1000 RAW images .. thats huge
it shoots RAW, JPEG as well as the new HEIF
it shoots HEIF in 2 flavours - 4:2:0 & 4:2:2
here 4:2:2 would provide better colros & dynamic range
it can lock the focus in as dark as - 6 EV
it has good 2.4 as well as 5 Ghz WiFi support
it also support FTP
if you have your own FTP server.. you can configure it in 
camera
& date would be automatically transfer from camera to your 
system 
if you connect your camera thorugh your phones network
where you can also create a LR catalogue with your images
so when you reach home.. your LR would be ready for editing
it uses sony FZ100 battery.. which provie a great performace
its one of the best when it comes to run time
so you'll get great battery life out of this camera
it has got a high quality durable shutter assembly
which can easily go to 500000 shutter cycles
this camera weigh just 614 grams
its body constructed of magnyum alloy 
and its a weather sealed body
lets talk about the pricing
it will be launch in US in $3500 so in india 
it would be under 3 lakhs 
there were many things which I didnt touch open 
as this video is getting longer now
now you tell me what do you think about this camera
i would say for filmmaking,, its the best camera
some people now argue that R5 is even better
however there are few things in R5 thats letting it down
let me know if you want a comparision video between A7S iii 
vs R5
I would love to do that for you
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