Description

Overview

Breathtaking Resolution:

Unparalleled Resolution in a Compact and Lightweight Body

Let your expectations be upended with groundbreaking technology. The class-leading1, astonishing Exmor R™ 61.0 MP2 full-frame sensor, the same one used in our acclaimed α7R V, now comes in the α7C series compact body. With the go-anywhere α7CR, you won’t miss a single detail.

Full-frame 61.0-megapixel2 Exmor RTM Image Sensor
The back-illuminated sensor features noise reduction, gapless on-chip lenses, anti-reflection optical coating, and the elimination of the optical low-pass filter typically placed in front of the sensor. These advancements, along with other original technologies, ensure high resolution, high sensitivity, low noise, and a wide dynamic range.

BIONZ XRTM Image Processing Engine
The latest BIONZ XR image processing engine minimizes processing latency while boosting both movie and still image processing power. It delivers natural gradations, realistic color, low noise, superior image quality, and fast menu response.

High Sensitivity and High Dynamic Range with Low Noise
Advanced imaging technology supports sensitivity settings from ISO 100 to ISO 320003 for both stills and movies. The dynamic range at lower sensitivities spans an impressive 15 stops4, ensuring smooth, realistic gradations from deep shadows to highlights.

Consistently Accurate Exposure and Color Reproduction
Thanks to its advanced AI processing unit, the camera achieves accurate white balance even when the subject is in the shade. Skin tones, foliage, and other materials are reproduced with natural colors, even under challenging lighting, with lifelike gradations, such as highlight roll-off in portraits.

Advanced Optical 5-axis Image Stabilisation
A high-precision image stabilisation unit, combined with advanced gyro sensors and optimised image stabilisation algorithms, effectively detects and corrects camera shake. As a result, it provides a massive 7.0-step5 advantage for handheld shooting.

Pixel Shift Multi Shooting Responds to Changing Conditions
Pixel Shift Multi Shooting6 uses the precision in-body image stabilisation system to capture multiple pixel-shifted images. Later, these images are composited on a PC to achieve overwhelming resolution in a single image. A composite of 16 images with approximately 240.8 million pixels (19008 x 12672 pixels)7 can be produced from data equivalent to about 963.2 million pixels.

Anti-Flicker Shooting8
The camera automatically detects flicker from artificial light and fine-tunes the timing and speed of the mechanical or electronic shutter to minimize its effects.

Selectable RAW Image Sizes and HEIF
Choose from three lossless RAW compression sizes (L/M/S). M and S outputs maintain the same resolution (26MP/15MP) for full-frame and APS-C, streamlining workflows. The Light mode for JPEG and HEIF images produces easy-to-share content.

Creative Look Supports Varied Expression
The Creative Look feature offers 10 presets, which can be used as-is or modified to create a variety of “looks.” This allows creators to fine-tune the mood of their stills or movies directly in-camera.

Lenses That Maximize Resolution Performance
Sony’s optically advanced E-mount lens lineup features more than 70 models, including the G Master™ series. These lenses combine breathtaking resolution with exquisite bokeh, and the G Lens™ series offers excellent image quality and smooth bokeh. They perfectly complement the α7CR’s resolution and rendering potential, providing a compact and lightweight solution for diverse photographic and videographic applications.

Evolving with AF:

AI Processing Unit for Advanced Subject Recognition
The AI processing unit improves recognition of human subjects by using learned human form and pose data. It also recognizes non-human subjects such as animals, insects, and vehicles. This enhancement improves Real-time Recognition AF and Real-time Tracking, making Fast Hybrid AF subject acquisition and tracking more precise and reliable across a wider area.

Human Pose Estimation Using a Skeleton-based Model
Thanks to the innovative AI processing unit, the α7CR uses subject form data to accurately recognize movement, significantly enhancing human eye recognition. The human pose estimation technology detects not just eyes but also body and head positions with high precision. This ability enables the camera to lock onto and track subjects even when they face away or have their face partially obscured by objects like helmets or sunglasses.

Recognition of a Wider Range of Subjects
The AI processing unit now supports recognition of a broader range of subjects9, including the eyes of a wider variety of grazing animals, small animals, and birds. The new combined Animal/Bird setting eliminates the need to switch between modes. It also recognizes the whole or leading end of cars, trains, and airplanes, as well as the heads of insects.

Tenacious Real-time Tracking10
AI-based Real-time Tracking can be activated by specifying the subject and half-pressing the shutter button. The camera will automatically track the subject, allowing you to focus on framing and composition. Subject recognition performance and tracking reliability have greatly improved across a wider range of shooting situations.

Wide, High-density AF Reliably Captures Subjects
With the BIONZ XR engine and updated algorithms, Fast Hybrid AF performance has significantly improved. Up to 693 phase-detection points11 cover approximately 79% of the image area, accurately acquiring focus even when the subject is small. The α7CR integrates both phase-detection and contrast-detection AF to ensure fast, stable focus acquisition, even in single AF (AF-S) mode.

High-precision AF Works Even in Dark Scenes with EV -4.0
The latest AF algorithm enables shooting at EV -4.0 (AF-S, ISO 100 equivalent, F2.0 lens) in low-light conditions, even in dark scenes or indoors. A useful Focus Priority mode has also been added.

Full-time DMF12
While shooting stills with AF-C or AF-S autofocus, you can rotate the lens’s focus ring to instantly switch to manual focus mode. This feature makes it easy to adjust focus to a different subject on the fly.

Focus Bracketing to Capture the Best Shot13
The camera can automatically shoot up to 299 images with sequentially shifted focus points, allowing you to select the perfect shot or create creative composites by post-processing multiple shots with impossible focus depth.

AF/AE Continuous Shooting at Up to 8 fps14
With the mechanical shutter, continuous shooting with AF/AE tracking reaches up to 8 fps, or 7 fps during silent shooting15. This allows you to capture fleeting moments or expression changes in exquisite detail. The power of the BIONZ XR engine allows continuous shooting of approximately 320 JPEG images16, ensuring you capture every vital moment. Even when shooting or cropping closer to APS-C, 26M resolution and high image quality are maintained, making it perfect for tracking fast-moving subjects like birds in flight.

High-definition Video Recording: Mobility for High-definition Movie Recording17
The α7CR offers highly detailed 4K movie capture with 6.2K oversampling18, providing the mobility needed for gimbal or drone-mounted shooting. It also features S-Cinetone™ for a cinematic look, Log shooting, Real-time Tracking with advanced subject recognition, Active Mode19 image stabilisation, breathing compensation20, and many other refinements.

Full-frame 4K 60/50p21 Recording
The latest BIONZ XR processing engine and updated algorithms significantly improve movie image quality. In addition to support for focus, the camera’s advanced AI processing unit achieves accurate white balance, even in challenging situations such as shaded subjects. Skin tones, foliage, and other materials are reproduced with consistently natural color, and gradations, such as highlight roll-off in portraits, appear remarkably lifelike.

6.2K Oversampled Video for Stunning 4K Imagery
4K movie recording is available in full-frame and Super 35mm formats. The camera condenses approximately 2.6 times the required data into 4K21, providing high resolution, minimal moire, and sharp detail.

S-Cinetone Makes It Easy to Create a Cinematic Look
Sony’s S-Cinetone picture profile enhances color reproduction and skin tones, providing natural mid-tones, soft colors, and gorgeous highlights. This delivers a cinematic look without the need for color grading.

Log Recording and LUT
The α7CR features an S-Log3 gamma curve to maximize its 14+ stops of latitude22. Additionally, S-Gamut3 and S-Gamut3.Cine color gamuts are provided for greater post-processing control. User-selected LUTs (Look Up Table) can be applied to preview how processed footage will look.

Active Mode Image Stabilisation Supports Handheld Movie Shooting23
Active Mode24 provides precise stabilization for movie shooting with advanced gyro sensors and an optimised algorithm. It detects and compensates for camera shake while offering additional stabilization via compatible lenses24, ensuring a steady shot.

Real-time Tracking Also Supports Focus During Movie Shooting
AI-based Real-time Tracking dramatically improves performance by automatically recognizing, tracking, and focusing on a specified subject’s eyes during video shooting.

Excellent Connectivity:

Easy, Stable Transfers to Smartphones
Transfers from the camera to the Creators’ App mobile application26 are now more stable, even when the smartphone display sleeps or another app is launched27.

Easy, High-quality Live Streaming
By connecting to a PC or smartphone28 via USB, the α7CR can function as a 4K (2160p) webcam. Large-aperture lenses and narrow depth of field can be used to great effect for online meetings and live streaming, along with advanced AF functions like Real-time Recognition AF.

Creators’ Cloud Platform
Creators’ Cloud connects advanced Sony camera technology with cloud-based AI, supporting creative work from shooting to production. It fosters discovery and collaboration among creators worldwide through web, mobile, and PC-based apps.

Creators’ App
The Creators’ App is a smartphone application that links your Sony camera to the cloud, enhancing functionality and convenience for shooting and sharing.

Environment and Accessibility:

Sony’s Road to Zero Plan
Sony’s 2010 “Road to Zero” environmental plan targets a zero environmental footprint. Our Green Management 2025 plan sets intermediate goals, reducing environmental impact at every stage, from product development to packaging.

Accessible Technology on α Cameras
Sony’s α cameras offer various accessibility features, such as the Screen Reader function, which reads text on the menu aloud. You can adjust the volume and reading speed as needed, and the Enlarge Screen function lets you increase text size up to 2.5 times.