Sony has unveiled the $3,900 A7R V, its newest mirrorless camera optimised for shooting portraits, landscapes, and other subjects requiring high resolution. The new model features the same 61-megapixel resolution as the A7R IV, but a far more powerful new Bionz XR engine, which enables enhanced AI focusing, greater shaking reduction, and 8K 24p video.
The main enhancement is in focusing, since the A7R V is Sony’s first camera to have “human position estimation.” The technology can detect 20 distinct places on the human body and hence determine where the eye should be. This enables it to precisely monitor someone who is moving and turning away from the camera, and to continue watching them even if they temporarily vanish from view. Furthermore, it can now distinguish between various things such as vehicles, trains, grasslands, animals, and insects.
