Thank you for posting this video. Very informative/helpful.
GiuseppeL wrote: snapsy wrote: Charlie N wrote:
I believe it’s the first mirrorless camera to do FF 4K60, so basically A7s3....
The AF sounds horrible based off of DP review YT.
IP54 rating is good, glad they are serious about weather sealing, using magnets for scroll wheel seems awesome to keep things sealed.
Interesting camera.
The SL2 shares the internals with the Panasonic S1R, which can also do 60fps 4K (cropped). The S1R is half the price of the SL2, at least when it was recently on sale for $3k.
The SL2 shares some technology with the S1R - the excellent IBIS, the EVF (from Sony), the DFD technology, the USB power supply, the EVF optics (from Leica), the mount (from Leica), etc.). The SL2 offers 20 fps while the S1R offers only 9 fps. Do you really think this is possible if they share the same CPU and buffers ? Probably the sensor is related as it has the same resolution, but is maybe a newer version (double the frame rate ?!) ... And it has a thinner protection layer (good for vintage lenses, like M, R etc.)
The magnets were already implemented in the SL, but then nobody was interested in this detail.
The AF was at the time of the dpr review a preproduction software (and dpr successfully forgot to mention that). It is now at level 1.0 and much better. See e.g. the video from Robin Sinha (a tutorial) I expect further improvement with each new firmware release.
What remains is that the SL2 is as fast (20 fps) as the a9 II, but at double the resolution. Or twice as fast as the a7 IV (at almost the same resolution 47 Mp vs 61 Mp). And with a much faster Maestro III processor (visible in the video specs).
And the short battery life is no problem as external USB power packs (Anker and others) can be used to run the camera off them. (for days in a row if you need to).
Dec 15, 2019 at 08:46 AM
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