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Sony α7 III
Colour notes and matched recipes for this body.
- Sensor
- Full frame
- Resolution
- 24 MP
- Crop factor
- 1×
- Base ISO
- 100 / 640
- Mount
- Sony E
- RAW format
- .arw
- Released
- 2018
Editing notes
The generation before Sony's colour revision: skin tends toward green-yellow and usually wants a small magenta tint push plus an orange-band hue shift. Shadow recovery is excellent, which suits lifted-black matte looks.
Looks that suit these files: Moody matte, cool grade, CineStill-ish 800T.
The files it writes
The Sony α7 III records RAW as .arw. Predates lossless compressed, so the choice is uncompressed or Sony's lossy scheme — and the lossy one is where the faint edge artefacts around high-contrast detail come from.
What a .arw file actually contains — compression, bit depth, embedded previews and which software reads it.
Deconstruct a Sony α7 III edit
Open a photograph and its .xmp sidecar in the Studio to watch the edit replayed stage by stage — then publish the recipe here, next to the notes above.