Original Release livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/OeDNTq5OvQI
And DPReview: https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-a7r-vi-review
Impressive, expensive, probably unnecessary for amateurs.
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Probably don’t need “probably”.
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Marginally more resolution. How much will the DR improve? Similarly to the A7 mark V?
I already find the Z5 II to be too good, and that’s nowhere near the best camera – there are several classes of cameras far better than mine spec-wise.
I’ve found an information that it’s got 16 stops
I think you’d have to shoot sports/action for the most prestigious magazines to use this camera to its fullest
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To what SNR threshold sampled at what image area?
I don’t think the article I was reading contains an information to that kind of detail 
Here, you might find what you’re looking for in this article:
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Oh, in video everything is different.
Well, I’ve never examined dynamic range that much, since it doesn’t mean much to me in the end. I don’t even know where to look for such information
Probably not much, because (1) we are a the limit of current technology, (2) most use cases don’t need high DR at all whatsoever. As far as I am concerned, it is an utterly irrelevant metric these days, all cameras are good, ±0.3 stops simply does not matter.
I don’t see the point of the 10Mp EVF either, diminishing returns kick in at around 3 Mp for most people.
That said, illuminated buttons are a great idea… that’s all I find revolutionary about this camera. I am sure it is packed full of technological feats, high resolution sensor combined with (comparatively) low rolling shutter and fast burst speed (in that resolution class).
But these things fail to interest me, and are probably irrelevant for most people, unless “action landscape” is a valid photography genre.
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Even for video seems the claimed stops of dynamic range needs a large asterisk, not that any of this is relevant to what I do.
Great for avalanches
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Interesting read
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Afaik the D850 had them, but I’m not sure if that feature made its way into any other subsequent camera from Team yellow.
While that sounds like a great thing to have, I have never needed it even in the dark – cameras are very ergonomic and their button placement is a muscle memory anyways
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I was going to rant a bit about dynamic range, but the article you linked actually did a far better job than anything I’d have said. Great article!
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This is a nice read, and I indeed also found media abusing the term DR for SNR/etc. all other stuff.
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Cheaper than this, though.
I thought so too, and then Sony did this with the A7m5:
More dynamic range is better. I particularly think it’s useful for treating highlights more the way we did on film, with gentle rolloff and increasing desaturation as brightness rises far past what’s already white.
I agree and disagree with the PetaPixel article. I’ve taken some insane photos on my 5D classic in scenes that you’d expect to be pushing the limits of dynamic range, but with good exposure it’s not really that bad.
But at the same time, I want headroom to handle highlights even better, particularly when the highlights aren’t white.
The better the resolution, the better you can manual focus without peaking (which covers the edges you’re supposed to be looking at). But most people are autofocusing 100% of the time these days, so I wouldn’t disagree. I’ll continue to stick to my Canon 1-series bodies with their huge OVFs, personally.
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B&H has it on pre-order with a kit lens*. Looks like a must-have for taking photos of the grandkids! 
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/l/sony-a7r-vi#lens-section
- FE 100-400mm f/4.5 OSS GM lens at US$4298.
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Yep. It allows me to use highlight-weighted matrix metering on the Z 6, and I can reliably pull shadows up to acommodate. I rarely find the need to use the denoise tool.
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