He has also written for a wide range of publications including T3, BBC Focus, Empire, NME, Radio Times, MacWorld, Computer Active, What Digital Camera and Rough Guide books. It marries a full-frame Exmor R sensor with a latest generation BIONZ X processor to boost processing speed.

This means that you may well want to look out for discounts on the A7 III in the Black Friday camera deals, as well as E-mount lenses in the Black Friday deals. As with the others here there’s the opportunity for single- or continuous-shot AF, or switching to manual, as desired. Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor.That’s not an issue for many videographers who routinely focus manually, but it’s a little behind the times. Similarly, the automatic white balance option copes reasonably well in most situations, albeit erring towards incorrect colour casts when shooting under artificial lights. For filmmakers who like to color-grade their videos, the jump to 10-bit 4:2:2 color sampling (from 8-bit on the A7 III) is a big one.

Battery life is poor, to say the least: if you’re looking to spend a day with the camera, it simply won’t last that long. The design of the camera is a little boxy, which will be appreciated by some, but perhaps not by others. And whether you’re shooting stills or video, the Sony A7S III handles well because it offers so many controls and top-end specs. Perhaps a bigger deal for long-time Sony devotees, and indeed critics, is that the company has finally opted for a full touch UI, and it works beautifully. It has a Hybrid AF system with 759 phase-detection points and 425 contrast-detection points, Real Time Eye AF (Human and Animal) for stills and video.A quick menu, reached by tapping the function button and useful for accessing commonly used settings, is also fully customisable to the way you like to work. Even when we set the ISO to in excess of 40,000 the results were still usable for certain types of video, blowing the lid off a whole a range of possibilities when capturing content across challenging lighting conditions – for example, fireworks, candlelight, and of course wildlife photography at dusk. There’s a satisfying number of dials and buttons on the camera, which will be appreciated by the enthusiasts that the camera is aiming itself at. and 15-stop wide dynamic range, the A7SIII also boasts a double stabilisation system that’s supported by a larger battery capacity so your content creation can go on, and on, and on… you get the idea. When setting the AF point is as tricky as it is here, it would make things a lot simpler and quicker.