A99 with Samyang 14mm F2.8 on Steadicam Pilot from The Lightshapers Studios on Vimeo.
Sony and Zeiss, Up In a Tree (TheOnlinePhotographer).
Snow In The City: a real world shooting experience with the Sony RX1 (Mike Kobal).
Win a free place on a Photography Workshop in Iceland (Enrique Pacheco)
The evolution of Dream Camera (AlphaCorner).
The Evil of DxOMark (Foto-Biz).
MeFoto GlobeTrotter and RoadTrip Travel Tripods with The Aviator Travel Jib and OliviaTech Motorroid Slider (Oliviatech.com)
Adorable 35s – Big 35mm Speed Lens Comparison (Leica, SLR Magic, Mitakon, Canon + Speed Booster, Samyang) at 3D-kraft.
NEX-3n reports ay Yodobashi (japanese).
Sony HDR-AS15 video channel on youtube.
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I love the article about the evil of DxO.
It is a non scientifiy and subjective test. period. It just tells you that for the subjective viewpoint of DxO camera A is better than camera B. They even dont look at the results, the camera is producing. No body outside DxO has a chance to verify their axioms. So this is simple buzz fuzz for the magazines and the statistics believers.
Great article. Thanks for pointing to it.
The tests are scientific, as are the results. The conclusions are not.
Hence why I look at the data, not the summary.
Reading such an subjective article based on someones emotions was a waste of time especially referring to the car point at the end. If you take a look at professional photography quite a large amount of pictures were taken using MF and LF, while those formats are clearly chosen for their image quality.
I keep asking Sony to scale up the nex7n sensor to full at 56 megapixels.
I also know that some paople are getting tired of hearing it.
I do apologize for that market but I don’t know any other way to get sony to hear me.
I am just as frustrated by hearing people trying to convince sony to make just another better 24 megapixel camera. I don’t have an objejection to that as long as they also make a high megapixel version for people like me.
Sony has been listening to those voices and produced the A99.
Now it’s time to listen to voices like me and make a really high res camera, easily portable and affordable. They have already demonstrated the ability to make it.
Almost all of you will want such a camera eventually.
Please bear with me even if I sound repetitive or better yet join my voice. Thank you.
I want a 56 megapixel camera too and Im sick and tired of all these jerks that don’t want anyone to have one.
I like what the animal guy has to say.
What I am sick of hearing over and over again is how the world will come to an end if Sony makes a higher
megapixel camera.
My voice is on the more megapixel side.
How large a print can a 56 megapixel camera deliver? 12 megapixels is like, what, 11×14″@300dpi. I want a sensor that can do 20×30″ prints–any larger than that and I don’t give a carp. I rarely ever want to make 30″ prints. 15×20″/12×18″ is nice.
30″x20″ at 300ppi or 60″x40″ at 150ppi.
If you print at the hghest possible quality at 600ppi then 15″x10″.
Thanks I need all the voices on my side I can get.
I’d love to have a high megapixel camera too, but only if it had a mode that allowed you to shoot in a lower resolution while still capturing images in a RAW format. Half-size perhaps.
The high megapixel images would be great for shooting art, but the post production workflow (with current CPUs where they’re at) would be a nightmare in the case of a 1500+ images wedding shoot!
Yes it should have a choice of varios lower resolution options.
Sony could also combine pixels to reduce noise and increase dynamic range.
Since these things are being done on current cameras they will probably also be available on the new camera.
As a wedding photographer wouldn’t it be nice to be able to shoot horizontal, crop verticle and still have 24+ megapixels left.
+1 I wouldn’t want to put 100s of those files through on my PC, but select images maybe. Sometimes I find a little treasure hidden in an image after the fact. Would be great to aggressively crop out and blow up.
That’s right because Sony read your every comment on the subject….
If Thats true and sony is reading this please add TIFF to the available file formats. This will be particularly useful with the larger file sizes this camera can produce. It has no compression no processing required and uses less storage space than raw.
And thus you gave away that you have no f*cking clue about what you are talking. Obviously never done raw file work. Proprietary raw file compression is always superior to lossless tiff in terms of storage space. By a huge margin.
Here is your random thread on the topic. Get some education there: http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00aZtn
You may or may not be correct depending on whos raw system you are talking about. Stotage space today is cheap and plentiful.
The more important issue is the processing time that TIFF files do not need.
Raw would still be available. No one wants to take that away just add another choice.
This issue is a minor point and should not sidetrack us from the more important issue of getting a higher megapixel camera.
According to your reference source you are correct about file size and i stand corrected on that statement.
The only advantage of TIFF is a saving of processing time. I never intendeded it to replace raw and hope I did not give that impression.
Raw also has quality advantages over any other formats.
I would like to see Tiff as an option,too. But not mainly because the size or the losslessness (is that a word?), but because that is the standard for Printing and it would be great to have large files with a embedded profile and applied creative modes ready to print without any quality sacrifices. (Even if this would mean only 1-2 FPS)
Did you send them a letter? Shoji Nemoto is responsible for the Digital Imaging Business. You’d be surprised at what kind of letters sometimes get read in such corporations.
But you could also just wait, since the technical progress will certainly also find it’s way into Sony cameras. I’d bet their sensor department already has some 100+ MP prototypes in the making.
I sure hope so. The reason for limiting my request to 56 megapixels is that it fits current technology and is therfor more likely to happen.
It is most definitely not my intention to suggest an upper limit on technology.
Be confident! The more I think about it, the more I believe they’re on the right track.
Have you seen their projections on image sensor sales for the next four years? They clearly foresee an increased price for each D-SLR type sensor sold, which should mean that larger sensors (FF) with a higher value (lots of MP) should see the most sales growth. Absolutely not understandable that Sony would not take part in that movement with their own cameras.
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I have not sent a letter but if you would be kind enough to post contact info i would like to do that.
Thanx.
Sony Corp., Attn. Mr. Shoji Nemoto, 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan
As this is a general post I think it is appropriate to talk more about the Sony fullframe mirrorless camera. It’s arguably the most interesting subject for most readers here!
Recently another photo blogger made a slip of toungue and wrote this:
“If they do a FF model it will be an all new mount (as per Sony to me when they brought me the NEX-7 to review) which means it will not be a part of the NEX system, which is APS-C bodies and lenses.”
What do you think about that?
My speculation is Sony could make a kind of module mount similar to Ricoh GXR just without sensor in the module. In this way they could use optical constructions like the lens on RX1 that would be difficult to make for a traditional twist bayonet. Also it would be easy to make modules for A- and E-mount lenses that would look as a part of the camera and give the lenses full functionality as on Alpha and NEX cameras. Making modules for any other lenses would of course be easy to do as well!
The most believable rumor I have heard is that sony will make a new hybrid mount fully compatabe with current a a and e mount. I have not heard anything credible about a new mount. Nor do i know of any reason sony woulld be considering it.
Interesting. The ‘hybrid’ mount has been rumored here at SAR for at least two years. There’s definitely something to it, irrespective of our understanding of what hybrid means, and whether it will ever be pushed out of research and into the market. Senior SONY executives have also hinted in interviews that the mount for fullframe mirrorless will be different to E-mount.
Wasn’t e mount made specifically for aps-c sensors? I don’t see any way they could factor that into full frame without cropping. Sony needs to think long and hard about the future of it’s cameras. Too much fragmentation, and no one will buy enough of anything to be profitable. Designing an a-mount nex with sensor stabilization seems like a good bet, if they can manage it
No. There is already a fullframe E-mount camcorder – the VG900. E-mount internal throat diameter is also wider than other fullframe mounts. There are other motives behind these decisions. The reason why A-mount only is not feasible is because of the flange distance.
I see everyone today is talking about 56 megapixels.
I find that topic really sexy.
I would love 56 megapixel for studio work. Weddings, events? Not so much… but for studio, hell yes!
My thhanks to all of you who like me want a high resolution alternative to the current generation of camera. One that’s the small enough to take with us and econmical enough to buy.
Than you for speaking up on this posting.
I plan to continue to talk about high res on other sar postings.
Please join me so anyone that reads and tunes in later will know we are here and that we all want higher resolution for different reasons.
Please release a 56 mega pixel camera. I will buy it. Full frame preferrably.