Sony · Camera
Sony α7R V
Colour notes and matched recipes for this body.
- Sensor
- Full frame
- Resolution
- 61 MP
- Crop factor
- 1×
- Base ISO
- 100 / 500
- Mount
- Sony E
- RAW format
- .arw
- Released
- 2022
Editing notes
61MP means detail sliders bite far harder than on a 24MP body — texture and clarity settings copied from a lower-resolution camera will look over-sharpened. Enormous highlight recovery latitude at base ISO.
Looks that suit these files: Portra-ish 400, Tri-X-ish 400.
The files it writes
The Sony α7R V records RAW as .arw. At 61 MP the compression choice matters more than on any other body here: uncompressed files are enormous, and lossless compressed halves them for nothing.
What a .arw file actually contains — compression, bit depth, embedded previews and which software reads it.
Deconstruct a Sony α7R V 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.