Sony’s $3,200 A7R Mark III incorporates a 42.4-megapixel sensor, which is already pretty impressive in itself, but photographers can take things even further with a new Pixel Shift shooting mode that shoots four photos while moving the sensor one pixel each time. These can be combined using Sony’s new Image Edge software to produce a single monstrous 170-MP composite shot.



This new feature takes advantage of the advanced in-body image stabilization system control capability available in the A7R III, precisely shifting the sensor in 1-pixel increments to capture four pixel-shifted images containing a total of approximately 169.6 million pixels that are later composited using a computer to achieve overwhelming subjective resolution in a single image. Image size after compositing is approx. 42.4 million (7952 x 5304) pixels.

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