Sony announces successor to the Sony A7R IV, the camera with AI

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Sony held its online announcement on 25 October. The successor to the Sony A7R IV was announced. This is not a camera with even more resolution, but one whose autofocus uses AI.

The new Sony camera will be available from November.

It will be the Sony A7R V, of course. A new camera with 61 megapixels, fitted with what Sony calls the next step in software: AI processing.

The software improves the recognition and tracking of objects in the frame, especially people and animals. It tries to anticipate body movements and achieve better tracking for eye, face and head AF. All this comes under the heading of AI processing.

Autofocus recognition has now been expanded further, so it is not limited to people, pets and birds. Eye autofocus recognises a wide range of animals without any problems, including mice, squirrels and horses.

Insects are also a new AF tracking option. Sony has also built in special recognition for cars, trains and aeroplanes.

The options mentioned during the presentation include image stabilisation of up to 8 stops, pixel shift shooting for a 241-megapixel resolution image, not in-camera, but using Sony software, and two CF Express Type A slots that also accept UHS-II SD cards.

The EVF has no fewer than 9.4 million pixels, with a refresh rate of 60 or 120 frames per second. The 2-million-pixel LCD screen is notable. It is not just a tilting screen, you can also fold it out. This is a very clever design.

The camera can shoot at up to 10 frames per second at its highest resolution. The buffer has room for 88 uncompressed raw images, or 583 compressed raw images.

If you combine compressed raw with JPEG, there is room for 184 images. In JPEG, you can keep shooting without limit.

For video, the camera offers an 8K 24p resolution. At that point, you do have a 1.2x crop, just as with 4K 60p. To film without a crop, you have a maximum of 4K 30p available. The camera of course has 10-bit 4:2:2 colour depth and offers focus breathing compensation.

This is of course just a selection of the possibilities offered by the Sony A7R V. If you want to be among the first to own the camera, pre-orders start this month.

The camera will be available from mid-November.
And the price? It is estimated to be around 4,500 euros.

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