p.3 #1 · Sony A9III - Thoughts from bird and fast action shooters
Arguably the a9 III is more niche than the a1, and I doubt the a1 II will have global shutter. So to me they aren't interchangeable tools. If you need both, you need both. If not, then 1 of the models probably makes more sense than the other.
But if Sony is totally driven by selling cameras to gear heads, who am I to argue?
p.3 #3 · Sony A9III - Thoughts from bird and fast action shooters
Shooting video and stills of weather and lightning, the 9v3 should be a revelation! For daylight bolts, the pre-capture, coupled with very short exposures, will increase contrast against the bright sky. And GS should completely eliminate the still-frame tearing and video flickering artifacts that plague other scanning-shutter cameras, no matter how fast their scan speed. Definitely going to rent one this year for the Arizona monsoon chase!
p.3 #4 · Sony A9III - Thoughts from bird and fast action shooters
tsdevine wrote:
But if Sony is totally driven by selling cameras to gear heads, who am I to argue?
Well said
The real target group of A9III is media and photo journalism where stills and video are shot with same camera, and where the photographers still use flash. The much discussed sports photography is part of this, but not necessarily mainstream. In this kind professional work flexibility and speed are important, and slightly lacluster image quality does not matter that much.
Anybody interrested in resolution, dynamic range etc. can happily skip A9III.
A9III has also the mk1 problem. For most of us using our own money "never buy anything mk1" is a good advice. I think we can predictably say that A9IV will be much better implementation of global shutter technology with fewer drawbacks. A9V might even have some practical in-camera computational photography capabilities.
I stay happily in audience and enjoy watching technology marching forward
