What if there was a camera that was nearly identical to the aNUMBER_TOKENS III, but with NUMBER_TOKEN megapixels, the Sony aNUMBER_TOKEN's autofocusing system, ergonomic improvements and all for $NUMBER_TOKENUSD less than the aforementioned aNUMBER_TOKENS III? Well, that's not exactly what this camera is, but it's darn close. Let's get undone. [offbeat music] ♪ Gerald Undone ♪ ♪ He's crazy ♪ What's happening everybody? I'm Gerald Undone. And in an alternate universe, I review wooden furniture. Alright, disclosure. Sony lent me this camera to make this review. This is a pre-production model. I don't get to keep it. No money changed hands, and Sony does not get any input on this video's production or get to preview before it's posted. This video does have a sponsor, though, and that's Storyblocks. Normally when you do camera reviews, you talk about all the strengths of a product and then balance that with the drawbacks. This time, I'm going to flip it and start with my complaints about this otherwise nearly perfect camera. NUMBER_TOKENKNUMBER_TOKEN has a crop. Recently, I made a video with Josh Yeo listing all the things we wanted in the aNUMBER_TOKEN IV. And while Sony did achieve pretty much all of them, I suggest that perhaps they should keep the resolution at NUMBER_TOKEN megapixels and work instead on achieving an uncropped NUMBER_TOKENKNUMBER_TOKEN and reduce rolling shutter. Instead, we have NUMBER_TOKEN megapixels and a crop NUMBER_TOKENKNUMBER_TOKEN mode. Now that APC crop does have decent rolling shutter performance, which you can also enable at other frame rates if you so choose. However, the regular full frame modes for NUMBER_TOKEN, NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKENp are all doing a full NUMBER_TOKENk oversampling, which, while it creates a very sharp image, has terrible rolling shutter performance. But this is where it gets interesting. If you're the current owner of an aNUMBER_TOKEN III and don't have a problem with the rolling shutter on that camera, then this new camera is nothing but upgrades for you because the rolling shutter is pretty much identical to the aNUMBER_TOKEN III, except now you have a NUMBER_TOKEN megapixel photo camera as well. If, however, you're coming from an aNUMBER_TOKENS III or an aNUMBER_TOKEN and you wanted a second camera, please know that this camera is a major step back in rolling shutter. The same goes for the flip screen and the EVF. If you're coming from an aNUMBER_TOKENS III, these displays are worse, but if you're coming from aNUMBER_TOKEN III, they're a bit of an improvement and the panel is now fully articulating and there's no NUMBER_TOKENKNUMBER_TOKEN mode, but I really wasn't expecting that, so I'm not docking any points. There's also the bug in the pre-production models that I've already reported to Sony, but I'll document it here as well for transparency and to ensure it gets fixed. It has to do with this new selection dial added. On this camera, you have a separate selector for photo, video and s and q modes, which I think is great because it removes those functions from the top of the mode dial, making the modes independent and faster to access. However, if you swap batteries
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