One gives you the most dynamic range a Sony can record. The other gives you an image you can hand over immediately. Three situations where I pick each, and the ISO difference that decides it on a sunny day.
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SLOG3 is not noisy. It is usually exposed wrong. Here is PP8 versus PP9, the metering number to aim for, the zebra level that actually matters, and the ISOs to avoid on the a7S III, FX3 and FX6.
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XAVC S, XAVC HS, XAVC S-I, 4:2:0 8bit, 4:2:2 10bit. The a7S III hands you a wall of video formats and almost no explanation of what any of them do. Here is what each one actually is, and the one I film everything in.
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Three a7S III features nobody is covering: white balance while recording with Shockless WB, a punch in you can actually focus with, and an extended base ISO down to 160.
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Your eyes know that lamp is orange. Your camera has no idea. Here is what white balance actually is, why auto is the wrong place to leave it, and the four Kelvin numbers worth memorising.
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