Jim Kasson: Camera resolution and 4K viewing — a7S, a7III, a7RIII, a7RIV, downsampled

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His conclusion:

  1. The Siemens star shows the differences most clearly. As the resolutions go up, the false color decreases, and the star is resolved nearer the center.
  2. For the text, that is also true, but the resolution differences are much more subtle. Except for one paragraph with a lot of false color in the a7III shot, the false color is about the same as the a7RIV. So is sharpness. The a7S shows a lot of false color, and it is not limited to just one paragraph.
  3. There are three checkerboard patterns of varying fineness to the right of the Macbeth color checker. There is negligible false color in those, even with the a7S. At this resolution, none of the cameras can resolve the checkerboard immediately adjacent to the Macbeth chart, which is the finest. All of the cameras resolve the checkerboard on the right of the set, which is the coarsest, and it looks about as sharp in all four images.
  4. The focusing target between the checkerboards is slightly more poorly resolved with the a7S, but the other three cameras do about the same job with it.
  5. The rest of the image look the same with all the cameras, except for color differences due to a combination of the camera’s CFA spectra and the Adobe Color profiles for each camera.
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