For once the Megapixel madness is over thanks to the new Sony A7s. And this allows you to shoot that kind of crazy low light stuff like the “candle-light” video you see here on top! Amazing!
Also Photoblog.hk posted two new videos: A Frame rate speed test (youtube video here) and an Autofocus test (youtube video here).
Sony A7s preorder in USA/CA at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony USA, Sony Canada.
Sony A7s EU pages: Sony DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, BE, AT, CH, SE, NO, FI, PL. And Wex UK.
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The noise at 409600 ISO is clearly unacceptable.(ha!).
The abilty to discern the red lips and I think green dress in the candle video is remarkable.
The model walking toward the surf was apparently lit by a weak moon light,
remarkable.
The camera at its price point is not for me.
Not sharp, so why bother.
When downsampled and encoded it looks good indeed and makes me appreciate it as a technology achievement. Still I can’t help but ask – is black rectangle really the Holy Grail of photography or videography? It’s OK to have more headroom but why obsess about no light. It’s like recording sounds in silence.
> is black rectangle really the Holy Grail of […] videography?
I gather the answer to that is the same as to why videographers are so interested in shallow DOF: the budget.
Shallow DOF allows to save money on backdrops.
High sensitivity allows to save money on big lighting setups.
The resulting videos would look pretty bad, but are better than nothing. And who knows, as videography falls into more hands, we might see some creative breakthrough how to use shallow DOF and high sensitivity in real interesting ways.
So noise-free it is not. Lack of light is, duh, lack of light. Pitch black is a color hard to capture.
I wonder how that would have looked at 1080p. Every pixel of 1080p combines more raw pixels of the sensor, theoretically boosting the sensitivity. That would have been an interesting test: sensitivity and resolution of 1080p vs. 4K.
Stanley Kubrick would have liked this camera 🙂
Hahahaha, thx for the negative, my personal stalker 🙂 you know, just ‘great’ ppl have personal stalkers like you! You’re giving me greatness, thx.