Sony's much-anticipated A7 V is here with a faster 33MP sensor and 4K 120p video

Sony has launched its mid-range flagship mirrorless camera, the A7 V, with a strong emphasis on speed but a bit less on video than some may have hoped. The new model sports a 33MP partially stacked full-frame Exmor RS sensor and an all-new Bionz XR2 processor with built-in AI, powering what the company calls its fastest, most accurate subject-detect autofocus ever. At the same time, it can shoot 14-bit photos at up to 30 fps (rather than 12-bit as before) with 16 stops of dynamic range, the highest ever on a Sony (or nearly any other) camera.

On the video side, the A7 V now supports 4K 10-bit S-Log3 video at 60 fps using the full sensor width with supersampling from 7K. 4K at 120 fps is also possible with an APS-C crop. However, the A7 V doesn't offer any resolutions beyond that, unlike its primary rivals in ...