Want a great deal on the Sony A7R IV, or another digital camera, this holiday? Check out our favorite Black Friday camera deals. The Sony A7R IV is a 61-megapixel full-frame mirrorless camera. That statement is pretty incredible when you recall people jumped up-and-down over the 42MP A7R II just a few years ago. Yet here we are in 2019 and the numbers keep soaring into the stratosphere. Not that we’re complaining, mind you — especially since we got a chance to see what that resolution really means capturing a variety of subjects at the A7R IV launch event in New York City. Let’s set the table first. The new A7R IV arrives in September for $3,500. The samples we used were production-ready in terms of image quality, but the bodies and the attendant circuitry were a little squirrelly and likely to be updated before the cameras hit store shelves. Not that this impacted our shooting very much, but it does mean this is our initial hands-on impression and not a final review. The goods news is...
61MP full-frame sensor; 240MP pixel-shift mode; 10 fps continuous shooting; 4K video in full-width and crop modes; Real-Time autofocus;
Benefits of 61MP may be limited; Sony menus remain problematic;