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Ever More Inspiring

Enter a whole new world of photographic expression with incomparable image quality and processing speed. A powerful new choice now joins the α7R series, offering even more advanced connectivity and enhanced reliability demanded by professionals.

Incomparable Rendering:

Creators’ Cloud
Creators’ Cloud is a platform that supports creative work from shooting to production by combining advanced Sony camera technology with cloud-based AI. It’s also a place for discovery and collaboration with other creators worldwide. Explore web, mobile, and PC-based apps that provide efficient solutions, integrating cameras with shooting and production apps and services.

61.0MP Full-Frame Back-Illuminated CMOS Sensor
The newly developed Exmor R CMOS image sensor offers incomparable high resolution. Thanks to its back-illuminated design, it provides high sensitivity and low noise, despite the sensor’s extraordinarily high pixel count of 61.0MP.

The Latest Image Processing Engine
The BIONZ X image processing engine, along with the front-end LSI, maximizes the performance of the high-resolution sensor, delivering up to 15 stops of dynamic range.

Wide Standard ISO 100-32000 Range
Despite the increased pixel count, the α7R IV maintains a high standard ISO of 32000 and reduces noise in both low and mid-sensitivity ranges. As a result, it achieves high-quality imagery.

In-Body 5-Axis Image Stabilization
The in-body 5-axis image stabilizer algorithm is optimized to maximize the performance of the 61.0MP image sensor. This ensures reliable handheld shooting, equivalent to a 5.5-stop faster shutter speed.

Shoot in Absolute Silence
Silent shooting offers a distinct advantage in quiet environments and eliminates vibration that can cause camera shake and blur. By using a vibration-free shutter, the camera maximizes the α7R IV’s extremely high resolution, ensuring crisp, clear images.

Blur-Reducing Structure
To take full advantage of the α7R IV’s incredible resolution, Sony re-engineered the shutter unit with dampened screws to absorb shutter shock. This, combined with an enhanced image stabilizer algorithm, significantly reduces blur and reliably captures pin-sharp details.

Shake-Free Remote Shutter Release
By using the optional wireless remote controller (RMT-P1BT), you can operate the camera remotely, avoiding shake caused by pressing the shutter button. This ensures the high resolution of the image sensor is fully utilized.

5.76-Million-Dot UXGA OLED Tru-Finder
The 5.76-million-dot electronic viewfinder reproduces fine details with approximately 1.6 times the resolution of the α7R III. You can select “High” quality mode for high-precision realism while suppressing moiré and jaggies, allowing for better concentration. With a 120/100fps frame rate, it’s easy to track moving subjects.

Striking Response:

The Highest-Level Burst Speed in Its Class
Despite its remarkable image resolution, the α7R IV maintains a shooting speed of up to 10fps with a mechanical shutter (or up to 8fps in live-view continuous shooting mode). This allows you to capture decisive moments—such as the motion of wild animals—with subtle details made possible only by the 61.0MP resolution.

Useful 26.2MP with APS-C Cropping
Thanks to its extraordinary image resolution, the α7R IV ensures that even after cropping a full-frame image into APS-C size, you can still achieve approximately 26.2 megapixels of high-resolution images. This makes it ideal for bird photography, where cropping is often required to magnify captured images.

Wide AF Coverage
The new image sensor provides wide and high-density AF coverage with 567 phase-detection AF points (approximately 99.7% height and 74.0% width). Additionally, 425-point contrast-detection AF supports precision focusing.

Fast AF Despite Higher Resolution
With the enhanced Fast Hybrid AF, the α7R IV captures subjects in remarkable detail, delivering swift autofocus even in dim lighting.

Steadfast AF Tracking Further Improved
Increased AF points, a wider coverage of the AF sensor, and an improved AF algorithm further enhance subject-tracking performance, ensuring consistent shooting even during complex or sudden movements.

High-Precision AF in Underlit Conditions
Advanced AF algorithms contribute to precise focusing at light levels as low as EV-38. The “Focus Priority in Aperture Drive” option ensures more accurate focusing in dim lighting, even when the aperture is stopped down.

Shoot Up to 68 Images Continuously
With 1.5 times larger buffer memory, the α7R IV maintains a burst shooting speed of up to 68 images. In APS-C shooting mode, you can capture approximately three times more photos than in full-frame shooting mode.

Dual Media Slots, Both Supporting UHS-II
Both SLOT 1 and SLOT 2 support UHS-I and UHS-II for fast data writing. The α7R IV can simultaneously or relay record, separate RAW/JPEG data and stills/movies, and copy data between cards.

Extend Shooting to Professional Length
The α7R IV uses a high-capacity NP-FZ100 battery. For longer shooting sessions, combine it with the optional VG-C4EM Vertical Grip, which holds two NP-FZ100 batteries. This doubles the number of shots you can take compared to using a single battery.

Rely on Smart AI-Based Real-Time Tracking
AI-based Real-Time Tracking greatly increases your success rate in challenging shots. Simply designate a subject, press the shutter halfway, and rely on the camera to track it. The “Face/Eye Priority in AF” function automatically switches tracking between the face and eye when the subject is a person.

Technology Basis for Real-Time Tracking
Sony’s proprietary AI subject recognition technology processes large amounts of data captured by the image sensor in real time. This enables accurate tracking of moment-to-moment subject changes by using factors like color, pattern, subject distance, and human face and eye information.

Real-Time Eye AF with Animal Eye Tracking for More Success
With an improved algorithm, the α7R IV now supports both animal and human eye tracking, enabling fast, precise, automatic detection and tracking. This feature greatly increases your success in capturing images of animals in the wild or pets at home, even when obstacles appear or the camera’s orientation changes.

Maximized Productivity in Professional Portrait Shooting: Real-Time Eye AF:

Evolution of Portraiture
Real-Time Eye AF represents the evolution of portrait photography. This AI-powered technology provides immediate and accurate eye detection and tracking, ensuring crisp, clear focus on the subject’s face—even when capturing fast-moving models. This allows photographers to focus on composition, resulting in a smoother workflow.

Instant Focusing on an Eye
When Face/Eye Priority in AF is active, you can simply half-press the shutter, press the AF-ON button, or a custom button. The camera automatically focuses on the subject’s eye.

Right/Left Eye Selection to Meet Your Needs
Now you can select a specific eye—left or right—before or during shooting via a custom button. This enables you to focus on composition, lighting, and other essential details.

Works with Real-Time Tracking for Eye-Catching Portraits
Combining Real-Time Eye AF with Real-Time Tracking ensures precise tracking, even with dynamic subject movement. This teamwork enables accuracy, making portrait shooting more comfortable.

More Efficient Workflow
The α7R IV supports a variety of remote shooting and data transfer options, including 5GHz Wi-Fi. This allows you to take full advantage of more flexibility and convenience in remote shooting operations and data backup.

Wireless Tethered Shooting for Flexible Settings
Use PC Remote to control the α7R IV or transfer data to a PC via the Imaging Edge™ ‘Remote’ software. The faster 5GHz Wi-Fi option offers greater flexibility for shooting.

Even Faster PC Remote with Wired Connection via USB
Use the USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C™ port for faster transfers with a new algorithm, ensuring smooth workflow even when transferring large, uncompressed RAW images.

Support for FTP Background Transfer
The α7R IV supports FTP background transfer during and after shooting, making JPEG and RAW file delivery quicker. You can assign up to nine FTP servers in advance.

For Full-Scale Flash Photography
The α7R IV minimizes release time lag for smooth, responsive flash photography, allowing continuous flash shooting up to 10fps. You can also select slow sync or rear curtain sync for wireless off-camera flash, providing greater versatility.

Standard Sync Terminal
The standard sync terminal enables convenient synchronization with studio flash units and other external lighting equipment, making it easier to set up desired lighting conditions for studio photography.

Imaging Edge™ Remote, Viewer, and Edit Desktop Apps
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Tactile Realism:

A Different Dimension of Fidelity
The α7R IV now supports compositing 16 images with Pixel Shift Multi Shooting. The sensor shifts in half or one-pixel increments to capture 16 images, which are then combined into a high-precision image of approximately 240.8MP, offering true-to-life detail, texture, color, mood, and 3D-like realism.

Built for Professionals:

Save/Load Settings
The Save/Load Settings function allows you to save and load camera settings from an SD memory card, making it easy to share settings with other cameras when needed.

Efficient Image Selection
Apply star ratings and image protection directly from the review playback display. You can also jump between groups of 10 or 100 photos, making image selection more efficient.

Improved Menu Interface
The updated menu interface illustrates custom key settings, simplifying usage. Additionally, you can easily switch between menu tabs using the front dial or Fn button with one hand.

Pro Movie Features:

High-Resolution 4K Movie
You can select between full-frame and Super 35mm formats for 4K movie recording. In Super 35mm mode, the camera condenses approximately 2.4 times the amount of data for high-detail 4K with minimal moiré and jaggies. The advanced image processing system ensures more accurate skin tones and smoother highlight gradations.

S-Log3 and HLG for Wide Dynamic Range
The α7R IV supports S-Log3, offering wide dynamic range up to 14 stops, as well as S-Gamut3/S-Gamut3.Cine color space. It also supports HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) for HDR workflows, ensuring recorded movies appear true-to-life with no blocked shadows or blown highlights.

Steadfast AF Tracking for Stunning Movies
The α7R IV meets the rigorous autofocus demands of 4K movies, offering enhanced Fast Hybrid AF with high speed, precision, and tracking performance for smooth, stable AF movie shooting.

Real-Time Eye AF Now for Movie Shooting
Real-Time Eye AF now works during movie shooting, detecting and tracking the subject’s eye. As the camera keeps that eye in precise focus, you can concentrate on composition.

Touch Tracking for Persistent Focus on Your Subject
When shooting movies, touch a subject on the LCD monitor, and the α7R IV begins focusing and following. If the camera detects a human eye, Real-Time Eye AF activates and tracks it as well.

Digital Audio Interface for Clear Sound Recording
The Multi Interface Shoe (MI Shoe) has been enhanced with a digital audio interface. You can use the ECM-B1M Shotgun Microphone or the new XLR Adaptor Kit to record high-quality sound with minimal deterioration.

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