It’s been a few weeks since the end of another epic edition of Digital penalty shootout, a lavish two-week scuba diving, photography workshop and contest. But the folks at Backscatter didn’t sit back and fantasize about Bonaire’s azure waters: There’s a lot of content on Backcatter.com out of all that activity, and it started with Jim Decker’s review of the “low-end” Sony full-framer — a7 Mark IV.
If your immediate thought is, “Why would I buy an a7 IV when I can pay little more to be more impressive a7R IV, a7S III or even a1? ” – then you are asking a question that seems to be a lot of Backscatter customers having trouble purchasing a Sony Alpha full-frame camera. Jim helpfully tackled this conundrum at the outset and came back to it throughout the review as he assessed image quality, continuous shooting speed, autofocus performance, balance performance, and more. white and video quality.
With all that built in, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that Jim was amazed by the a7 Mark IV’s performance in a number of areas: It seems like many of the “best bits” from the models Sony’s more recent higher-end — valuable for underwater shooters — has really filtered down to the base Alpha 7 model. The result, in Backscatter’s estimation, is “a real camera.” valuable, can produce good quality stills and will work well for a video/photo combo camera. “
Test review to explore Backscatter’s take on the a7 Mark IV.
