a7R IV Field Review

As promised, this is my long field review of the a7RIV.

I'm focusing on photographers who, like me, are moving to the FE system from the older Sony A-mount and comparing the two systems.

Conclusion: this camera is a beast.

https://carucci.photography/blogs/blog/review-sony-a7r-mark-iv-in-the-field

Some 100% crops.




Let me know what you think. Thanks!

It is good that you like the camera, but your complaints are a bit, well, I do not know. Like you are saying what everybody else says.

You write: "The menu system is typical Sony, not brilliant, but I’m used to it" What is wrong with it in your opinion? Did you compare it to other brands? I find the Sony menu system fine and to me better then Canon for my use (YMMV).

You also write: "The usual Sony (horrible) connectivity options are there" Why do you consider it "horrible"? You get a plethora of options and using them is no different compared to the competition.

You write then "The iPhone app is a bit of a joke: I do not understand how hard it is to connect the camera to the phone via bluetooth, negotiate a wifi connection and send over the images without having to spend 5 minutes to set everything up every single time I want to send a photo from the camera to the phone." Maybe you should switch to Android (I like my Sony Xperia 1 ). I find the Sony app and camera connectivity easy to use and much better then the Canon equivalent. I use WiFi to connect to the camera btw, not Bluetooth.

If Sony would build a camera and app that allows to directly send pictures from the camera to the internet using your phone's connectivity, that would be a game changer, but none of the other brands has succeeded to do so either.

You say little about the handling of the camera compared to the A99m2. I just compared the Sigma Art 35/1.4 on the A99m2 compared to the A7r2 and I find it pleasant on the A99m2, not so on the A7r2. And yes, the A99m2 screen is brilliant, to bad they did not bring it to FE-mount yet.