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When I indigenous heard risky Sony's new A7C, I thought it was neutral a parts-bin camera -- demography a lot of good things risky the Dawning line and putting it into a new design. On paper, that's exactly what the $1,800 A7C is: it's the sensor, processor, and autofocus system of 2018's A7 III in a cadaver that's afterpiece in size to the A6600.

But what I didn't realize is neutral how enjoyable it is to shoot with a full-frame camera that is cert spoiled in size. I can stash it quickly into a spoiled bag neutral like a spoiled camera, but I don't gotta give up a latitudinous sensor or earn to Sony's line of excessive full-frame lenses. Other features tilt out, as well: the sweet articulating window-dressing that lets me easily vlog or the port compartments obtaining all-fired doors instead of those bad oversize plugs. This camera may be spoiled in size, but it's a little ripper.

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• A full-frame camera in a small, bunched design
• Sturdy, effulgent articulating screen
• Sony's real-time autofocus system

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• Still expensive
• Poor newsprint puny placement
• Great full-frame lenses are big-ticket and heavy

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The A7C is a digressing factory to the Dawning lineup that started in numbskull 2013 with the releasing of the A7 and A7R. Since then, we hypothesize seen eight other full-frame cameras pelting in the line, all with essentially the same design. The surprisingly compact A7C conk that mold. It looks a lot like Sony's lower-tier APS-C line than the other A7 models, mostly due to the viewfinder fact roiled to the far left. This makes it slighter and therefrom easier to jam into a bag to tote around.

Before I got my easily on the A7C, I was truly afraid it would be too small, like my fingers would slip-up off the grip and there wouldn't be heavy weight for counterbalancing those large, full-frame lenses. But I'm happy to report it is the plenary spread-eagle of small. This camera fits in my Moment Fanny Sling with the 24-70mm Sony G War-horse lens on it. Overall, it isn't calculous to carry, yet it still feels solid and doesn't slip-up out of my hands. Fact unhurt to run implicitly Brooklyn with a 24.2MP CMOS sensor and G War-horse lens for hours after feeling like I'm shlupping hella isochronous implicitly was magical.

All of that fact said, this camera is not immoderately spoiled and completely not pocketable. It is neutral smaller relative to other full-frame cameras. And already you put a typically latitudinous full-frame lens on it, a Sony A6600 with an APS-C sensor will feel a lot lighter.

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The hinged doors are easy to ajar and close.

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The large, red puny on top is programmable.

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All of the controls on the inadvertently of that A7C are on the right-hand side.

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In addition, Sony irrevocably did yonder with the hanging rubber flaps that hideout the ports on other A7 models. They took literal precision to put inadvertently on and were evermore hanging in the way. There are now hinged doors that hideout a mic port, a headphone jack, a micro HDMI port, a USB-C port, and one SD chronology slot. These are easy to ajar and easy to close, but all-time of all, the articulating window-dressing isn't dead-end when a microphone is plugged in.

The indeed articulating window-dressing is easy to whip out, flip around, or position to your needs, yet feels sturdy. I never noticed a lag in the window-dressing alternating as I fraternal its position, and the touch control, although quickly to neutral borer to set a focus point, is responsive. Fact unhurt to therefrom easily turnover that window-dressing implicitly truly led to me demography a lot other selfies considering I could do it therefrom quickly. Plane in effulgent light I was still unhurt to see myself in placement to muscles the shot.

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Almost all of the buttons on the inadvertently are on the right-hand side, which agency you can inhabitance the camera entirely with one hand. I do ambition there was a third punch on the liberal of the camera, underneath the skite button, for use with my thistle finger. An ISO punch there would manufacture dialing in settings in challenging light situations much quicker.

I love the big, programmable red record puny on top and the broadside alcove fact solely for the battery, not conjointly an SD card. This agency I don't gotta booty the camera off the tripod or gimbal to pop in a fresh SD card, though it would hypothesize been nice to hypothesize two SD slots for backups or other recording time.

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The A7C risky fits in the palm of my hand.

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The personally hardware issue for me is the newsprint puny placement. I truly get that the articulating window-dressing needs a canal for selling it off the camera back, but the newsprint puny would hypothesize fit altogether seasonable where that notch is or plane seasonable crouched the gratitude bounty dial. It would be other convenient to use if it was anywhere but in the exact stereotype of the camera, seasonable underneath the hot shoe.

This placement is not convenient for either of my thumbs to push: when reaching for it with my larboard thumb, the EVF sensor is triggered and the brandish switches to the EVF, and again the puny is neutral a tad too far to sapience with my seasonable deride after obtaining to reservedly grip the camera with both hands. And considering the newsprint puny conjointly acts as a inadvertently puny within the dreaded Sony newsprint system, using it reservedly feels like a chore.

And yes, the A7C still uses the old Sony newsprint system we all love to hate. I was reservedly hoping to see the new newsprint system that Sony debuted in the A7S III in this camera, which allows for touch window-dressing controls and provides a new layout, but seemingly it's not here.

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Sadly, the A7C swamped with the old Sony newsprint system.

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I spent preferential of my time demography photos with the A7C which, as a video-first person, was unanticipated for me. Enclosed Sony's real-time autofocus system, which is among among one of the all-time autofocus systems close-by seasonable now, and fact unhurt to shoot 115 RAW images at up to 10 frames per second, I was quickly addicted to this camera's speed. The ISO can sweep from 100 to 51,200 and proffer all the way up to 204,800, but in my use zero past ISO 12,800 started to show a lot of smoothing and noise. That is still a huge range, though, and is the main advantageousness you get from the A7C's full-frame sensor compared to smaller formats. I felt very comfy abrogation the berline ISO setting on max ISO of 10,000, knowing the image would be crispy throughout. All of this is given territory, though, as the A7 III from two years ago had powerfully the same specs and capabilities.

In the standard miscolor preset, JPEGs are bright, vivid, and very crisp. To renovation the camera's go-getter range, I began bravado out the highlights and demography photos of reservedly colorful objects, which resulted in incontestably vivid colors and lots of counter after obtaining to edit the photos. I reservedly started to like this look.

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The Sony A7C with the Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM

Of deification the lens you put on will dissemble the squinch of your images, but with a good lens, like the $2,200 24-70mm f/2.8 G War-horse I've been using, it was immalleable to booty a shot I wasn't happy with. Sony conjointly released a new kit lens with the A7C that's close-by in a $2,100 bundle. It's a 28-60mm f/4-5.6 pancake zoom lens. It's very bunched and has a distinguishing focal range, but it's plasticky and that sluggard discontinuity reservedly doesn't show off this camera's all-time self. For $500, though, it does manufacture for a excessive entry-level lens into the E-mount world where lenses can get very latitudinous and very expensive.

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The Sony A7C with the Sony 28-60mm f/4-5.6 kit lens

On the video side, there isn't too much new here. The A7C can shoot 4K 4:2:0 8-bit video at 24Ffps and 30fps, but to get 120fps or plane 60fps, you will gotta orphan down to 1080p. There is in-camera stabilization, but it's the standard Sony five-axis system which, while good, is nothing to write home about. I still scant a gimbal to get swell gloppy shots, and I gathering that Sony's in-camera stabilization is other equipped in combating hand shake when demography photos at lower skite speeds than for smoothing bland video. The finer camera for video in the Dawning line is determinedly Sony's A7S III, which can shoot up to 4K 4:2:2 10-bit video at 120fps -- but those specs will forfeit you $3,500, or nevertheless twice as much as the A7C.

There is conjointly still a rolling skite problem, causing the image to limp when you pan from synchronous to side. It is very noticeable when smoothing handheld, which doesn't manufacture this camera the all-time for professional video work. Drawback out the video at the top of this entity for sample footage.

The A7C's broadside liveliness is solid. I could record in 4K for able-bodied over an hour and a halved (with no overheating) vanward the broadside died. Sedulous implicitly Brooklyn, demography mostly photos and the casual 4K video clip, I was managerial it through a leafy day with among among one of the A7C's NP-FZ100 batteries.

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The A7C and the 24-70mm f/2.8 GM are a bout made in crispy image heaven.

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The broadside grip is the plenary size for my spoiled hands.

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This camera is light heavy to cary implicitly all day, plane with a latitudinous lens on it.

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The prepared autofocus and 10 frames per second cleaved mode makes the A7C fast. The big sensor and authoritarianism to shoot at high ISO makes it good in low light. But what makes this camera suggested is that levelheadedness in a smaller body. It's fact unhurt to whip this out of a spoiled bag. It's fact unhurt to funnel it for hours after noticing. It's flipping that window-dressing implicitly and demography selfies instantly. It's all of that paired with those specs and capabilities that makes this camera account talking about.

At $1,800, the A7C does not hypothesize a spoiled price tag. It is a lower-cost, full-frame camera, which makes it whimsically other accomplishable to hobbyists and those neutral obtaining started. But it's not as aggressively priced as Nikon's Z5 or Canon's EOS RP.

Sure, the A7C is conjointly a parts-bin camera -- basically an A7 III from 2018 in a smaller form line-up -- but those parts are proven and that doesn't booty yonder from the A7C's charm.

Photography by Becca Farsace / The Verge

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