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This compact camera offers professional-grade performance with a 61MP full-frame sensor, ensuring high image quality and clarity. Its advanced AI-driven autofocus enhances subject tracking, making it ideal for capturing action shots. The camera's lightweight design and fixed 35mm f/2 lens make it perfect for travel, while improved battery life ensures longer shooting sessions. Creative presets and step crop modes provide flexibility, allowing users to achieve various artistic effects straight from the camera.
A compact, always-there camera with performance that rivals Sony's professional mirrorless models, the RX1R III is the long-awaited third generation of the fixed-lens full-frame camera. Featuring a higher resolution 61MP BSI CMOS sensor, improved AF and video performance, an updated body design, larger battery, and the same beloved ZEISS Sonnar T* 35mm f/2 prime lens from past models, this is the high-performance companion camera that melds extreme image quality with a highly portable size.
61MP Exmor R BSI Sensor
Borrowing the proven high-resolution sensor from the a7R V and a7CR cameras, the RX1R III features the full-frame 61MP Exmor R BSI chip, along with BIONZ XR processing, that achieves incredible resolution, high clarity, low noise, and a wide 15-stop dynamic range. The sensor's structure promotes impressive image quality, and a copper wiring layer dramatically improves data transmission speed for creating 14-bit, 61MP stills with a native sensitivity range from ISO 100-32000.
Matching the sensor is the adept BIONZ XR processor, which offers up to 8x greater processing performance compared to previous generations, which enables faster overall performance, impressive image quality with wide sensitivity and dynamic ranges, and more fluent processing that's capable of handling a bevy of AI tasks and intelligent AF alongside imaging processes. This processing system also reduces rolling shutter and other motion distortions for clean rendering of moving subjects.
Using dedicated processing, the RX1R III's autofocus is greatly benefitted by more intelligent subject tracking and recognition capabilities along with the reliable hybrid AF system Alpha cameras are known for. Real-time Recognition AF works with seven different selectable target types:
Real-time Tracking benefits from AI-based subject recognition for following moving subjects, making it particularly well-suited to sports and action subjects. Also, Human pose estimation allows the camera to distinguish between multiple people and maintain focus on the targeted subject; even if someone crosses in front, the camera maintains focus on the key person.
Covering 79% of the full-frame image area, or 100% of the APS-C cropped area, a Fast Hybrid AF system incorporates a dense 693 phase-detection point grid for quick and precise focusing in a variety of lighting conditions with sensitivity down to -4 EV. This focusing system is available for use in all recording modes, to benefit both video and stills applications.
Full-time DMF (Direct Manual Focus) enables using the lens's focus ring for manual focus control at any time, making it easier to switch focus to a different subject even when working with AF.
Especially accurate metering and white balance is possible thanks to AI-powered algorithms, like Human Pose Estimation, to detect skin areas for more accurately balance exposures when shooting portraits. This AE method is approximately 20% more reliable, even in backlit or direct sunlight situations, or even when the subject is not directly facing the camera. Deep learning technology, along with external visible light and IR sensors, also contributes to more accurate color reproduction and auto white balance processing.
Suiting a high-resolution fixed lens camera, the RX1R III introduces Step Crop modes that simulate the field of view of lenses other than the built-in 35mm lens. By default, changing these modes is set to the C1 button and lets you cycle between 50mm (29MP) and 70mm (15MP) settings to make tighter in-camera compositions.
Also befitting a fixed lens, carry-everywhere camera, a series of new Creative Look settings have been added to impart a unique aesthetic to frames straight out of the camera. There are now 12 presets total, including the classic filmic FL setting; a new nostalgic FL2 film mode; a contrasty, slicker FL3 slide film-inspired look, and IN is reminiscent of instant film.
