The Sony A7C has launched and not been well received. Let’s look at some of the reasons why and decide whether this is the best compact full-frame camera.
Released for sale in October 2020, the Sony A7C has been marketed as the first full-frame camera in a camera body the size of an APSC mirrorless, such as their own Sony A6500.
However, the response online has been, why? Do we need a smaller full-frame camera? Are there no new features that we don’t already have?
Sony A7C Specs
The specification for a camera in 2020 is a little lackluster in my opinion for a camera demanding nearly £2000. I would have expected to have seen 4k 60p for example as we have on the Fuji XT-3 (and nearly £1000 less currently).
That said, things like the articulating screen are great to see for videographers, as is IBIS. Let’s have a look at the main specs and see what’s included.
- Approx. 24.2 megapixels
- High-capacity NP-FZ100 battery (740 stills on LCD or 220 minutes continuous movie recording)
- 5 Axis IBIS (In Body Image Stabilisation)
- fully articulating LCD screen, rotating 176° horizontally and 270° vertically. Approximately 921 thousand dots
- 2.35 million-dot XGA OLED Tru-Finder™ electronic viewfinder
- Standard ISO is from 100 up to ISO 51200 (expandable from ISO 50 to ISO 204800)
- BIONZ X processes images with the front-end LSI in 16-bits and outputs 14-bit RAW
- 693 phase-detection and 425 contrast-detection AF points, 4D FOCUS for wide-area, ultra-fast and steadfast tracking. 93% coverage of the image
- Real-time Eye AF with animal eyes for still shots
- Real-time Eye AF (humans) for stills and movie
- continuous shooting at up to 10 fps with AF/AE tracking, and up to 8 fps
- 4K (QFHD: 3840×2160) movies using full-pixel readout and 6K oversampling (4:2:0, 8bit, NTSC 30p,25p,24p at 100Mbps + 1080 at 120p)
- Movie recording format XAVC S: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
- S-Log3 gamma profiles with full dynamic range up to 14-stops + HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) mode allows for direct HDR movie playback and workflows
- digital audio interface through the camera’s Multi-Interface (MI) Shoe
- 3.5 mm stereo minijack microphone and headphone sockets
- Wi-Fi® (2.4GHz or 5GHz) and Bluetooth
- USB Type C supporting 5Gbps
- 124.0mm x 71.1mm x 59.7mm
- 509g weight, 424g body only
Full specs now available on the Sony website
So essentially, it is almost identical to the Sony A7 III, but 2 years later, in a smaller body and for £100 less. Question is, does this make the A7 III obsolete? Will the A7 IV be more expensive… probably.
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Would you buy the A7C?
Would love to hear what you think about this camera in the comments below, would you buy one or not? Are you mainly a photographer or a videographer?
Whichever way you look at it, always good to have another camera available to buy right!?
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