Roland Schulz
March 11th, 2018, 05:42 AM
I found some time to check my new a7III against my a6500 in regards of dynamic range.
I donīt want to write to much, simply download the original clips in the .zip and push them and evaluate yourself how many stops you would rate.
Included are Cine1, S-LOG2 and S-LOG3 clips, for the a7III additional a tuned HLG3 clip.
The wedge has a 1EV per window. The first window is always clipped to show the maximum brightness possible in the profile. The second windows is slightly exposed below using a waveform monitor connected to the camera. So start counting with the second window.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqmbjv1nnjwx593/DR_TEST_a7III_vs_a6500.zip?dl=0
(will be up ~one week)
What is not visible that good here is the fact that the a7III recordings look somewhat cleaner than the a6500 recordings.
Native ISOs seem to be ISO125 at the lowest for both cameras. a7III has a dual gain point at ISO640. The a6500 has two additional gain points at ISO500 and ISO2000.
In the test I only used the lowest reasonable ISOs (infos in the file).
What is also visible is that the sensor of my a7III has a fault. On the bottom in the left third there is sometimes a small line blinking. Sometimes when I power up the camera this is correct remapped and not visible but about 50% the power ups it is even visible in the viewfinder.
Seems I will have the camera exchanged.
I donīt want to write to much, simply download the original clips in the .zip and push them and evaluate yourself how many stops you would rate.
Included are Cine1, S-LOG2 and S-LOG3 clips, for the a7III additional a tuned HLG3 clip.
The wedge has a 1EV per window. The first window is always clipped to show the maximum brightness possible in the profile. The second windows is slightly exposed below using a waveform monitor connected to the camera. So start counting with the second window.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqmbjv1nnjwx593/DR_TEST_a7III_vs_a6500.zip?dl=0
(will be up ~one week)
What is not visible that good here is the fact that the a7III recordings look somewhat cleaner than the a6500 recordings.
Native ISOs seem to be ISO125 at the lowest for both cameras. a7III has a dual gain point at ISO640. The a6500 has two additional gain points at ISO500 and ISO2000.
In the test I only used the lowest reasonable ISOs (infos in the file).
What is also visible is that the sensor of my a7III has a fault. On the bottom in the left third there is sometimes a small line blinking. Sometimes when I power up the camera this is correct remapped and not visible but about 50% the power ups it is even visible in the viewfinder.
Seems I will have the camera exchanged.