Introduction

With the a7R III, Sony has packaged up the most alluring features of advanced digital SLRs and stuffed them into a compact, fully featured body, which boasts at least a few capabilities you won’t find in cameras from other vendors. They include a new Pixel Shift capability, which captures four different images, each displaced from the last by a single pixel, and which are then combined in the free Imaging Edge software to provide the detail you’d expect to find in a sensor with a whopping 168 megapixels. Many of the a7R III’s other features are significant upgrades from previous models and include facilities introduced in Sony’s flagship mirrorless camera, the a9.

Of course, once you’ve confirmed that you made a wise purchase, the ...

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