Plenty of rumor sites just posted a link to that image on Flickr from Sakamoto Mayu. They claim this could be another A7rII image. As you know EXIF and TXT data can easily be faked. But somewhat fakers forget that there are other parameters in EXIF file and they forget to change them 😉
The EXIF file from Sakamto Mayu shows the following small detail:
That’s the focal resolution of the current A7II !!! Just try to read your A7II Exif info and you will see the focal plane resolution matches.
And the A7r resolution would be
Focal Plane X Resolution : 2049.067291
Focal Plane Y Resolution : 2049.067291
So this is a upsized image guys 🙂
Unlike the Sakamotu image the Zeiss image has no such focal plane resolution image. So that is still somewhat strange (a part of the fact that’s weird Zeiss uploaded a 59MP image). So this doesn’t yet mean there is no 59MP cameras. It just means plenty of guys are taking “inspiration” from the Zeiss image to have some fun 🙂
Just to be 100% clear about the A7rII: There is yet no single proof (or at least SR5 rumor from trusted sources) saying the new A7x camera coming soon has 50+ Megapixel! All SonyAlphaRumors can tell you with a 90% reliability is that there will be a new A7 camera series announced soon! And as far as I heard from one of my good sources this should be the A7rII.
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Could it be he’s testing a new high resolution mode?
By the way, his name is Sakamoto, not Sakamotu… lol
thanks 🙂
Possibly, but 6300 (the vertical resolution) doesn’t divide by 16. Every other sensor Sony has produced that I could find info on has image dimensions that both divide exactly by 16.
most rumors are fake/false anyway. a99ii rumors started almost 2 years ago with several possible release dates in the past. that’s why it would be good to have no expectation for may 15. wish sony can get it’s act together and have more definitive plans so it can share with consumers.
Of course many rumors turn out to be wrong. But in that case we killed the rumor the minute after it has been posted on other sites.
Call Sony, tell them to send you over the specs, a picture of the camera and some sample images from the new A7R MKII. Tell them to send them post haste, we need them now…chop chop! 🙂 Thank you.
Shakespear on the rest this year.
If it is indeed fake I must say those A7 files do upsize very nicely. It is hard to believe this is not native resolution when you look at the left eyeball (viewer perspective) at 100% and see all those veins in there.
Well, that is just one explanation.
This could be a pre-production camera running on unfinished firmware based on the A7II, where simply not all EXIF fields have been adjusted yet to the new resolution.
This could easily be the case too. Even my production A7R shows wrong data in exif bit depth field on Long Exposure NR shots. Just like ILCE-7RM2 string in exif-text/file is not real proof of camera existance the wrong Focal Plane Resolution does not quarantee this as hoax. Focal place resolution is not something that needs to be dynamically calculated per image (it is constant for the given sensor) so it could be just as easily a #define statement not updated in the beta FW. There really is no 100% proof presented one way or another.
Funny enough, my A7R with FW 1.21 shows 14 as bit dept for Long Exposure NR shots. Actual RAW data analysis shows the bit dept is actually 12, is my A7R faking exif or is there a bug in the exif writing?
All the “Educated” photographers/Photoshop users could already clearly see it was upsized and commented that it was including myself.
Hope yet for a sensible A7RII with 36MP, IBIS, EFCS, etc.