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Top 5 reasons the Sony a7Rii is better than the Canon 5Diii

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• published: 18 Aug 2015
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Sony a7R ii - http://amzn.to/1gMAGuv Canon 5Diii - http://amzn.to/1DWm0mN Today I'm going to give you my top five reasons why the Sony a7R mark 2 (a7Rii) is a far superior camera to the very hefty and heavy Canon 5D mark three (5Diii). Number one, resolution. 42.4 vs 22.3 mega pixels. Yeah, that's a big advantage. 42, 23, it's almost double. The sharpness, crop-ability, if that's a word, is pretty unbelievable. It's got a backlit sensor, backlit image sensor. It's just pretty phenomenal. The technology included is great. The resolution is awesome. The low light capability is wonderful. Very pleased with the resolution. You know, it's not a surprise. It's a brand new camera, this has got to be 2 or 3 years old now so it's not exactly news that it's going to outclassed in the resolution arena. Number two, built-in image stabilization. So within the body of this camera it has what Sony call's IBIS or what Canon people call Image Stabilization (IS) and this has built-in image stabilization. For Sony native lenses, 5 axis image stabilization. For non native lenses that you adapt through an adapter, like a Leica lens you can put on here, you would get three axis stabilization. So your built-in image stabilization for almost any lens you can imagine, Pretty dang good. Canon, you're only going to get image stabilization if it's built into the lens. Or you have some big image stabilizer like they do in Hollywood. You're only going to get it if it's built in to the lens. So therefore not as good. It's no where near as good as what's built in to the a7ii and a7Rii. That leads us kinda into our third point which is internal 4K video recording to an SD card. So you can do up to 30 frames per second at 4K. At 1080p you can do up to 60 frames per second in several different CODECS. AVCHD being one example. You can get 30 frames per second, 1080p, with a Canon 5D and that's it. I mean that is so yesterday because everybody on YouTube of course is recording their videos at 60 frames per second, regardless. Unless they are doing 4K of course then they're struggling to get 30. But here is an option. Video 4K. It's almost future proof to me to get 4K, until Apple releases an iPhone that does 8K. A bit of a joke. Next selection, weight. I kinda hinted at it in the beginning. We weighed this body only. No lens cap. One battery, SD card. 628 grams. Pretty light. A little heavier than the original a7 but still pretty light. Here we have the Canon 5D mark three, no lens cap, one battery, one compact flash card. 954 grams. Let me tell you, after using the a7 series of cameras for the past couple of months I have come to appreciate light weight. Doesn't mean I necessarily don't want faster lenses. This 55mm is only f/1.8. I can live with 1.8. It's not a 50 f/1.2. But it's so light it's great. Now I don't want to hear anybody comment f/4 lenses being just as good. Raise your ISO and all that. It's hogwash. I want f/2.8. F/2.8 should be the minimum speed on most lenses somebody's going to... that's serious in photography that may or may not need unless of course you are a landscape photographer or do other something special. But if you're into sports, low light, you want 2.8 or faster. So if you disagree with that give me your comments below, but I don't want to hear this f/4 is just as good. It's not. And Focus Magnification is going to be my fifth reason for why the Sony a7R mark two is better. You can set it to when you move the focus ring on a manual focus lens, it will zoom in, in the electronic view finder (EVF), which is spectacular by-the-way. Except in harsh daylight, noon day sunlight which is not too great. But it will automatically zoom in so you can nail that focus perfect. So zoom in right on they eye ball, BAM! It's great. And I said top five reasons so I'm going to mix in focus magnification with Eye AF. E-Y-E autofocus. I've got mine programmed to when I push a button the Sony automatically picks up on the eye ball of the person that I have in the viewfinder and it focuses right on the eye ball, and BAM takes a picture. So we're going to do ... We are going to change that to say Focus Abilities. A little bit late. This right here, I mean it's AF or manual focus and if you manual focus you don't get any kind of magnification or help, or assistance. Maybe that's what we should call it. Assistance from this camera you've just got to nail it. And well, sometimes that tough. Especially if your shooting on a f/1.2. On this it is a total breeze. I hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you very much for watching. My producer says that I should thank everyone, I will get more views. Right producer? Please subscribe below. Like the video. Give me ideas. Feedback if you don't like something I said. Let's go to war down there and talk about it. And if you do have some suggestions you would like to see in future videos, I am all ears. Have a good one.