Sony A7R III sensor review: The Nikon D850 meets its mirrorless match
The first cameras in Sony’s Alpha 7-series of mirrorless full-frame cameras were announced in October 2013 and are credited with bringing compact system cameras (CSCs) to the attention of professional photographers. Since then, they’ve proven extremely popular and helped Sony win a huge chunk of the interchangeable-lens camera market.
The Sony A7R line is the high-resolution offering, and the 42.4Mp A7R III replaces the A7R II, which itself was the replacement for the original (36Mp) A7R.
While the A7R III and A7R II have a backlit sensor with the same pixel count, the Mark III’s sensor is augmented with a front-end LSI