Save $900 on Sony’s Best Mirrorless Camera With This Early Black Friday Deal (2025)

it’s too early As for the lame turkey and family jokes that always start a Black Friday deal post, so I’ll just cut to the chase. Sony’s top mirrorless camera, the A7RV, is on sale at its lowest price ever. If you’re thinking about updating, now is the time to buy.

The A7RV isn’t our top favorite mirrorless camera, but that’s mainly because at full price it’s more expensive than the rest on the market. At this price though it’s a steal, and while there’s really no best camera for everyone, the A7RV is undoubtedly the highest resolution camera you can buy. And I know, megapixels aren’t everything, but I’ve never taken an image with this camera and thought, hey, that’s a lot of megapixels.

The huge 61-megapixel, full-frame sensor in the A7R V is the biggest sensor you can get without a big, bulky medium format camera. If you want to go totally crazy, get this landscape photographer: The A7R V can combine up to 16 shots into one 240-MP image. It only works with static subjects, but if you’re ever worried about whether your images are high enough resolution to cover the side of a building in Times Square, you can rest assured with the A7R V.

Yes, the megapixel race is silly and mostly over, but I will say that I shot quite a bit with the A7R C – which uses the same sensor – and the images from this 60-MP sensor are noticeably sharp, and the dynamic range is clearly better than what I get from the A7R II (which has a 40-MP sensor). This is obviously the case onscreen, when the pixels are peeking out, but I also notice the difference when I print images.

The A7R V being $900 off makes you wonder if maybe an A7R VI is on the horizon? Anything is possible, but I suspect it’s just around the corner. The A7C R, which, as mentioned above, is almost identical in features, is still not on sale. Also, rumor has it that the A7V (no R) is due before the end of the year and Sony rarely announces back-to-back cameras.

What if you don’t want all those megapixels? After all they create large files (80-120 MB per image in my experience). The Sony A7 IV (9/10, WIRED Recommends), which uses a 33-MP sensor, is on sale for $700 less than usual.

While the sensor has only half the resolution of the A7R V, it’s significantly sharper and has some video-oriented features you won’t find in higher-resolution models. It has almost equally excellent dynamic range and one of the best autofocus systems on the market.

Without getting into the nitty-gritty of video technicalities, the A7 IV can record 4K/30p video by oversampling from the 7K sensor area. The A7R V, on the other hand, uses line-skipping to achieve similar 4K/30p recording. This method of recording results in reduced sharpness and sometimes aliasing problems.