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so october 2015 sony releases

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the a7s2 and the world goes crazy

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because it was a small compact mirrorless camera

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relatively affordable that could just destroy

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any camera in low light and for years we

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here at LMG were using the a7s ii as our daily driver camera until we

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switched to our reds even till recently nothing has really

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beaten the a7s2 in terms of low-light flexibility

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and performance until today because sony

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after five long years has finally announced

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the a7s3 so let's begin funny thing is

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it's july 2020 right now and

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cameras are just coming out left and right we have

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the canon r5 at the beginning of the month we have the blackmagic

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ursa 12k that's coming and shipping in september

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and then this camera whoa

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okay this box is uh very non-descript

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so i assume that this is not what you're gonna get when it comes to factory

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packaging this is a i think a prototype model and then they

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also sent along one of their tough 64 gig sony sd cards

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because the data rates on this thing are

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insane and we will get into that in a second

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sony was gracious enough to send us a couple lenses for testing

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i believe i requested a 24-70 f 2.8 and

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a 35 1.4 andy are you ready oh yeah

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let's see this is basically a camera box

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we have a little HDMI like cable

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lock thing not interesting

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okay oh you know what i'm not gonna take the camera out first i'm gonna i'm gonna go through the rest of the box

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and then i'm gonna take the camera out so let's see what else is in here

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we have a power plug a type c cable because this camera has type c which is

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amazing okay we have a battery um

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we have a charger i can't take that for granted fuji didn't include a charger in

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their camera so like thank you sony for not being crazy and not including a

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charger properly uh camera strap which no one uses

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wow i have our original a7s2 right here

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and you can tell right off the bat that the grip has

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increased in size quite a bit which i

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appreciate because again on on the a7s ii the grip was always a

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little bit on the small side it was better than the a7s one but besides that i mean when you look at

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the top of the camera they haven't changed that much there's a dedicated

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record button on the top of the camera look at this top of the camera dedicated

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record button look at the record button that was on this camera it

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was on the side and it was like mushy and weird i always remapped it to

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the shutter button just because that's way better

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so on the back of the camera you can tell they haven't drastically changed

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anything but they have added very nice additions

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the dial that's on the a7s2 which is like under the top of the camera is now

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just like completely exposed it again the little things like this

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where you can just kind of reach this dial from any angle

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that's nice and the height adjustment of it makes it easier to access

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they've also added a joystick and the a7s iii has a touch screen

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if you've been watching me unboxing anything on ShortCircuit recently you'll know

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i am a very big fan of proper flip

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out screens i think that was one of the biggest downfalls of the a7s2 is the

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monitor on the back of the camera was just not very flexible you could do

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certain things with it but it was just a pain to use if you were

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able to build the camera up if you were okay with that kind of setup it was way

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nicer to always add your own monitor after the fact they have fixed that

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and they added a proper flip out display

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look at that full articulation canon has

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been using this screen design for a while fuji followed suit i was really happy

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when i saw that and i'm also really happy that sony's doing it

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these doors are nice this door is not perfect

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but the doors on the a7s

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too they just kind of like flop there like

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they were so annoying and they also flopped down so then whenever you had

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something like whenever you had a cage or something near the camera on the side

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it would get in the way because you just have these like two things hanging there like i would love to have just cut these

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off i should have just cut them off okay so i o wise we have

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a microphone jack a headphone jack

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type c nice and then a micro usb

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and a full size HDMI now HDMI is not

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perfect but when you compare it to the

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micro HDMI that was on the a7s2

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i am very thankful that sony made this adjustment while i would have still

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preferred sdi ultimately this is still a mirrorless camera it's a compact camera

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i bet that there's a version of a camera that one day might exist that will have

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sdi in this form factor you could argue that the komodo is that

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camera not quite the same thing but guys this HDMI port can output

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16-bit raw there isn't even an external recorder

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that can fully record 16-bit raw yet i'm sure they'll come but

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it's nice that sony has designed this with the future

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in mind and so when recorders come out that can take in

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that output that's great one of the coolest things that i saw on

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the spec sheet for this camera and now that i'm finally seeing it in person i'm really excited about is that this camera

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has dual sd card slots but not just dual sd

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card slots it has dual cf express

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type a slash sd card slots you could have

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two sd cards or one sd card

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one cf express type a or

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two cf express type a that's a lot can

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you can someone come up with a better name for that card type than cf express type

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a that essentially gives you the option to have two sds two cf's

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or interchange the two okay let's talk about the sensor

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there it is full frame 12 megapixel sensor

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but it's significantly improved the processor in the camera

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is eight times faster than the one in the a7s ii

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and the pixels themselves are larger

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which just allows better dynamic range lower noise

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higher low light performance overall and

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sony has also done a lot of work on the actual sensor itself they've basically

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changed the order in which they layer the sensor which

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allows them to read data off the sensor faster so when they pair that

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with the faster processor in this camera you get the ability to have fatter

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codecs because this camera can record up to 600

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megabits per second the iso range on this camera the maximum

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iso is 409 600.

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you would never use an iso that high

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the fact that the sensor is capable of doing that is in itself amazing

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i would have to admit that compared to other touchscreens on cameras that i've

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used this feels not bad

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the one thing i don't like right off the bat though is that the menu button

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is the back button so you have to press menu

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to go back it's not preferred to do that

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though i would have loved a back button like right here around the joystick area

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or the control dial area the menu seems to also have improved significantly

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though because again if anyone has used a sony menu

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like the a7s2 this menu is a bit of a nightmare

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let's put lens on this guy

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so sony sent the 35 1.4

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this lens does not have image stabilization but thankfully

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the camera itself has five stops of image stabilization

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let's put in one of these tough sd cards

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unable to use memory card slot one huh

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why so we figured out the sd card issue

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we were having we can't shoot at the highest bit rate 4k that this camera can shoot at

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but we can still shoot at 4k and i want to just do a quick autofocus test

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jonno's sitting behind the camera so he's going to walk towards me i'm rolling now

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that looks pretty good it looks like

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in terms of autofocus the r5 has quite the contender

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with this a7s3 there's andy

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len's case andy

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len's case and there's very little

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hesitation i just have to press

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and it goes for it i've had the camera on for about

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five minutes now and i was just rolling maybe three different clips just now and

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i can feel the camera is warm sony has stated

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that this camera can roll at 4k 60fps

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for a full hour with no overheating whatsoever

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you're generally not rolling one single clip for an

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entire hour so in theory

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even as the camera starts to warm up it should never

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overheat to the point where it turns itself off

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s-log 3 typically has a minimum

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iso for example the fx9 when i was using the fx9

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in s-log three the the minimum iso you use on that camera is a thousand

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so even with the built-in nd i needed more nd if i wanted to shoot it like f2

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f one point four so i'm going to choose s log three on here

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and let's see if you're limited

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by iso at all

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guys what

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i'm at iso

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160 in s log 3 s scan it cine that is awesome so you

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get the full benefit of s-log's dynamic

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range and color profile with no downside

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because now you have the choice to use whatever iso you want

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from 160 and up that's amazing the

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rolling shutter that played the a7s2 is not

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visible on the a7s iii the rolling shutter i'm gonna roll the camera right

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now and i'm just gonna like shake it again

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this is not a realistic use of a camera you would never do this

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but it does show you how good

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the rolling shutter can be and i'm holding this handheld

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not really being that careful about how steady i am

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and it's pretty good guys

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knowing what the a7s2's rolling shutter looked like even off of the evf

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this is significantly better they fixed all the tiny little issues

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that were plaguing this camera like if you do travel vlogs and you want to

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throw your camera out the window to get the scenery

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that's flying by it doesn't have to look diagonal the

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entire time anymore how great is that

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it would be a disservice to you guys to not

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show you some footage and we'll even try to include a download link so that you

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can see the clips for yourself even though this sd card can't record at

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the highest quality 4k that this camera offers we

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are still with a 128 gig cart only gonna get an hour

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and 47 minutes of 4k off of this camera as it is right now

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but the nice thing about that one hour and 47 minutes of 4k

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is that you could shoot it all in one clip because yes this thing has no limit on

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the record time so for anyone who has owned an a7s2 who

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still uses an a7s2 who wants a b cam that's small for an fx9 or even

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maybe a venice in certain situations sony's finally delivered five

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years later great autofocus image stabilization

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faster better low light full frame sensor 15 stops of dynamic range and a body

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that is not much bigger than their other cameras in their lineup

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good job sony i'm excited to review this

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but for now i'm really stoked

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that after five years this camera is finally here so i hope you guys enjoyed

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the video if you have any other questions about the a7s iii

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i hopefully will answer them in the review let me know in the comments

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if i should do a review on LTT i probably will regardless but you know

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let me know if you think it's a good idea see you guys later