Ever since the Sony A7III was announced, it drew quite a bit of attention. Some of the features like eye-tracking seem almost too good to be true. Photographer Manny Ortiz takes us for a ride in the driver’s sit photographers viewfinder on a shoot with the camera. I gotta say, it’s an impressive piece of kit.
The first thing Manny highlights is the eye-tracking autofocus. Look at the Gif below to judge if this is something you would enjoy working with.
Autofocus seems to be holding well even at 10 frames per second. While 10 frames per seconds is not a must for many types of work, Manny testifies that it’s nice to have the option to shoot a sequence, then select the exact split second you’d like to use.
The last piece of focusing help comes with the dedicated button to switch autofocus modes. Manny uses this button to instantly swap from whatever he was focusing on to eye tracking focus, I can see this being a loved feature both with sports and event photographers.
If you wanna see the entire shoot, head over to Manny’s channel.
[Using the SONY A7III for PORTRAITURE | Many Ortiz]
Holy clutter… at least if that’s the EVF anyhow.
It is and it can all be shut off
If you look at everything around the model- the moving cars, the parked ones, the trees, etc, that clutter is no different than what’s in the Sony’s viewfinder- except Sony’s can be shut off. ;)
That looks lovely…
Now look through the viewfinder of a Leica M4 or something of that ilk.
It’s all there.
It’s nice and all that the Sony can do eye lock focusing, and we all know it does it, but what i really want to see is close ups of the photos in post to see how accurate/sharp the eyes actually are.
Skip to around 3:00, this is the best example I could find on Eye-AF so far – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkx63DsUNx8