Sony A7C and Nauticam NA-A7C housing

Phil Rudin · Issue 119, Mar/Apr 2021 · pp. 21–27

Products mentioned: Sony A7C, Nauticam NA-A7C, Sony A6600, Olympus EM1-III, Sony A7 III, Nikon Z6 II, Canon EOS R6, Sony A7R IV, Sony Alpha 1, Inon Z330, Sony FE 28-70mm, Sony FE 28-60mm, NP-FZ100 battery, Sony ECM-B1M microphone, Nauticam mini flash trigger

During September 2020 Sony launched the A7C - a camera that combines the advantages of an advanced full frame sensor with the size advantages of a mirrorless APS-C or M4/3 camera body. The Sony A7C is almost identical in size and weight to the Sony A6600 APS-C camera with many of the same features and noticeably smaller and lighter than the Olympus EM1-III. The big difference is the much larger A7C sensor size of 35.6mm X 23.8mm v. 23.6mm X 15.6mm for A6600 and 17.4mm X 13mm for EM1 III. The updated 24.2 megapixel A7C sensor has the same 6000 X 4000 maximum resolution found on Sony’s A7 III, Nikon’s Z6 II and more than on Canon’s EOS R6 20.1 megapixel 5472 X 3648 resolution bodies. Sony has also managed to incorporate its sensor based in-body image- stabilization with a CIPA rating of 5.0 stops of stabilization into this very small package. The latest 24.2 MP Exmor R BSI CMOS sensor offe…