The Sony a7R VI might very well be the last camera many photographers truly need. It won’t be the last camera people want , of course, but there is very little this camera cannot do, at least for still photography. It’s exceptional and, in many crucial ways, the new standard-bearer in the industry.

The Sony a7R VI has also been a long time coming. It may not feel like the a7R V is all that old, and having arrived in 2022, it really isn’t. However, that release ushered in some new AI-based autofocus performance and smoothed a few of its predecessor’s rougher edges, but was otherwise the same camera as 2019’s a7R IV.…