{"id":6417,"date":"2022-03-21T11:54:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2024-01-10T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:47:29","slug":"favorite-mirrorless-camera-showdown-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/blog\/favorite-mirrorless-camera-showdown-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Mirrorless Camera Showdown, Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Choosing a camera is one of the most important and often tricky tasks for video creators. For one, it involves a significant financial investment, even if you’re looking to buy\u00a0the best budget video camera<\/a>. Another reason is that buying a camera is a commitment to that model’s features, image quality, advantages and, more importantly, disadvantages.<\/p>\n

Since the best way to learn is from experience, we asked filmmakers who have it to spare – the filmmakers who create stock footage<\/a> for the Artlist catalog. And in the spirit of March Madness, we decided to make a bracket-styled tournament out of it, one that will determine the favorite mirrorless camera among filmmakers.<\/p>\n

Mind you, the operative word here is\u00a0favorite<\/strong>\u00a0and not\u00a0best<\/strong>\u00a0because we feel there is no objective metric that can decide between cameras of the same tier, so we’re dealing here with subjective opinions. And when you gather many subjective opinions, you get as close as possible to objectivity, also known as the wisdom of the crowd.<\/p>\n

For the sake of conciseness and sanity, we gathered 8 of the best mirrorless cameras out there (instead of 64) and pitted them in 4 head-to-head match-ups, asking our filmmakers which camera they prefer.<\/p>\n

Here is the bracket.<\/p>\n

\"mirrorless<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s break down the match-ups of the first round.<\/p>\n

Sony FX3 vs. Sony A7s III<\/h2>\n

\"sony<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Feature<\/td>\nFX3<\/strong><\/td>\nA7s III<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Price<\/td>\n$3,898<\/td>\n$3,498<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max video resolution<\/td>\n4K\/120fps<\/td>\n4K\/120fps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Viewfinder<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n1.3 cm Quad-VGA OLED<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sensor<\/td>\nFull-frame<\/td>\nFull-frame<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cooling<\/td>\nInternal fan<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Last year we broke down the\u00a0differences between the FX3 and the Sony A7s III<\/a>, but now we asked our filmmakers for their thoughts.<\/p>\n

The FX3 and the Sony a7s III have more similarities than differences. Still, when it comes to our filmmakers’ preference, the results were pretty clear.<\/p>\n

Most cited FX3’s lack of a viewfinder and A7s III’s versatility as the deciding factors between the 2 models.<\/p>\n