Sony A7C R Is the image quality of A7CR in super35/aps-c mode still FF quality?

[james_uk]

Hi, I currently have a Sony A6700 and was looking at maybe getting the A7CR and selling my A6700.

I was looking at the features of the A7CR and was intrigued by it's super 35 / aps-c 1.5x crop option, which seems really useful.

I wondered though, when using this option, would the quality of the image look like it was from a 26MP sensor or does the quality drop to looking the same as a APS-C camera, similar to my A6700?

Are there any other big negatives to using this option?

Regards
James

 

[iamdlewis]

All Sony FF cameras have an APS-C mode. What this mode is doing is basically cropping the image to the center 50% before you take the picture. The image quality of newer generation Sony cameras is better than older ones but since the release of the A9 it is more likely that you can pick out which image uses a better lens than which uses a sensor with more MP. The real advantage of more MP is the ability to crop more, not quality of image.

Below you have 3 different cameras ranging from 24MP to 61MP and 3 different lenses covering all of the Sony levels (kit, G and GM). Feel free to guess which were originally 24MP and which were 61MP.

 

[rcreamer]

Hi, I currently have a Sony A6700 and was looking at maybe getting the A7CR and selling my A6700.

I was looking at the features of the A7CR and was intrigued by it's super 35 / aps-c 1.5x crop option, which seems really useful.

I wondered though, when using this option, would the quality of the image look like it was from a 26MP sensor or does the quality drop to looking the same as a APS-C camera, similar to my A6700?

Are there any other big negatives to using this option?

Regards
James

I was thinking that maybe the a7cr has larger sensor photo sites and that may give it better noise vs the a6700 but a quick search showed they're almost identical so no SNR benefit:

"The identical photosite sizes of 3.76 to 3.79 microns mean that if you take an image from both cameras and zoom in to "100% crop" (examining a single pixel), the noise performance looks virtually indistinguishable."

 

[iamdlewis]

Post processing tools have also gotten so good that noise isn't what it once was. Besides not everything needs to be so sharp.