Awesome... May be able to sell both my A7s and A7II and converge on this camera. Was headed towards buying A7RII for stills and keeping A7s for video (and low light) but depending on how little moire and aliasing there is in the Super 35 (Crop) 4K mode (there's too much aliasing/moire on the A7II - really yuck video compared to the A7s) and high ISO performance downsampled to 12MB, may be no need for the A7s...
I wonder if they are trying to converge the A7s and A7R bodies, or if there is a monster A7sII coming out next.
Got to love Sony for pushing innovation. I hope this is a smashing success and pushes Nikon/Canon forward.
Chuck Eklund wrote:
42 MP sounds interesting. The number is unusual enough to portend that it was made that size to include some really nice capabilities. I think the new shutter is very appealing. More than I wanted to spend, but I probably will.
Chuck
Yea maybe a touch high but given the feature set its hard to pass on.
Time to wait now a few months to read reviews and experience especially with third party lenses on this camera/sensor. I am especially curious if the function of rangefinder lenses improved with this sensor or if it remains unchanged.
retrofocus wrote:
The sensor itself seems to be only slightly changed from the one used in the A7R if there isn't something added which we don't know yet. The backlit property might be interesting for higher ISO performance.
i think the "backlit" property of this sensor by definition refutes your statement that the sensor is "only slightly changed". read up on "backlit" i think this is going to be one of its greatest upgrades. it's not a "small" change to completely flip the electronics on the sensor and the benefits are significant.
ecarlino wrote:
i think the "backlit" property of this sensor by definition refutes your statement that the sensor is "only slightly changed". read up on "backlit" i think this is going to be one of its greatest upgrades. it's not a "small" change to completely flip the electronics on the sensor and the benefits are significant.
And the new D7200 APC sensor is much better than the sony a6000 sensor.
Hard to compare Samsung's BSI with Sony as Samsung has been behind Sony in sensor tech. One way to look at it might be that Samsung has been able to catch up with Sony only after adding BSI and that a BSI sensor from Sony would be even better. But we won't know until we see the results from Sony BSI.
Also in this instance DXO results don't match the studio comparison at dpreview. Looking at that comparison, NX1 is distinctly cleaner than A6000 and is more or less the same as D7100 with D7200 being slightly better.
Higher resolution, sensitivity, and readout speed
As the world's first1 35 mm full-frame image sensor with back-illuminated structure, this 42.4-megapixel CMOS sensor enhances light collection efficiency, expands circuitry scale, and, with the help of a quick-transmission copper wiring layer, outputs data about 3.5 times faster4, while minimizing image noise to reveal fine details in every picture.
ecarlino wrote:
i think the "backlit" property of this sensor by definition refutes your statement that the sensor is "only slightly changed". read up on "backlit" i think this is going to be one of its greatest upgrades. it's not a "small" change to completely flip the electronics on the sensor and the benefits are significant.
If high ISO performance is of importance. It isn't for me though.
retrofocus wrote:
Time to wait now a few months to read reviews and experience especially with third party lenses on this camera/sensor. I am especially curious if the function of rangefinder lenses improved with this sensor or if it remains unchanged.
I was wondering about that. They made a nice little drawing about the BSI. It clearly shows the higher angle of light rays and no blocking aluminum wiring. I imagine this should help with corner performance. At least vignetting.
GMPhotography wrote:
This helps all those Leica M lens owners too
Higher resolution, sensitivity, and readout speed
As the world's first1 35 mm full-frame image sensor with back-illuminated structure, this 42.4-megapixel CMOS sensor enhances light collection efficiency, expands circuitry scale, and, with the help of a quick-transmission copper wiring layer, outputs data about 3.5 times faster4, while minimizing image noise to reveal fine details in every picture.
Looks great, I'm in. Wonder if they are trying to converge A7s and A7r line, or if there is a scary monster spec A7sII coming out. The video spec looks great and if there is very little moire/aliasing in Super-C (crop) 4K mode, then the A7sII will need to have a killer feature set to differentiate it for the video crowd. Hopefully rolling shutter is much better with the faster readout speeds.
curious80 wrote:
This is very significant!! I have never been interested in LA-EA2 / LA-EA4 and have been hoping Sony would enable PDAF with LA-EA1/LA-EA3.
But wouldn't this work only in crop mode, as these adapters were designed for APS-C sensor coverage.
