Not mentioned in the article, but I've read that the ~20ms sensor readout speed is based on 14-bit RAW. With 12-bit RAW, the readout is supposedly much faster. Is that actually true?
In my experience shooting family gatherings and children and taking cameras traveling into museums, markets, and on the street, especially at night, using electronic shutter with a camera other than an A1xx or A9xx results in unexpectedly ruined pictures from two sources: LED lights and subject distortion when a moderately moving subject is close to the lens and/or occupies a large part of the frame.
This will certainly vary for different people and shooting styles, but for me it means i have mostly given up using silent shutter on my A7CR bodies. This is a loss, but I still like the size and form factor of the A7CR enough to give up silent shutter in order to use the camera. I do wish Sony could at least make the mechanical shutter in the A7CR quieter. It is among the loudest of Sony's shutters, and that doesn't help when one is trying to shoot discreetly.
I do think there would be a real market for a camera body of modest size, with a genuinely fast stacked sensor, a good viewfinder, excellent AF and IBIS, and without a high FPS rate.
It would be a photographer's camera in the same way the Leica M series cameras are, though with a different design and technological philosophy.
It is surprising to me that there is no camera like this on the market.
Not mentioned in the article, but I've read that the ~20ms sensor readout speed is based on 14-bit RAW. With 12-bit RAW, the readout is supposedly much faster. Is that actually true?
In my experience shooting family gatherings and children and taking cameras traveling into museums, markets, and on the street, especially at night, using electronic shutter with a camera other than an A1xx or A9xx results in unexpectedly ruined pictures from two sources: LED lights and subject distortion when a moderately moving subject is close to the lens and/or occupies a large part of the frame.
This will certainly vary for different people and shooting styles, but for me it means i have mostly given up using silent shutter on my A7CR bodies. This is a loss, but I still like the size and form factor of the A7CR enough to give up silent shutter in order to use the camera. I do wish Sony could at least make the mechanical shutter in the A7CR quieter. It is among the loudest of Sony's shutters, and that doesn't help when one is trying to shoot discreetly.
I do think there would be a real market for a camera body of modest size, with a genuinely fast stacked sensor, a good viewfinder, excellent AF and IBIS, and without a high FPS rate.
It would be a photographer's camera in the same way the Leica M series cameras are, though with a different design and technological philosophy.
It is surprising to me that there is no camera like this on the market.
Not mentioned in the article, but I've read that the ~20ms sensor readout speed is based on 14-bit RAW. With 12-bit RAW, the readout is supposedly much faster. Is that actually true?
In my experience shooting family gatherings and children and taking cameras traveling into museums, markets, and on the street, especially at night, using electronic shutter with a camera other than an A1xx or A9xx results in unexpectedly ruined pictures from two sources: LED lights and subject distortion when a moderately moving subject is close to the lens and/or occupies a large part of the frame.
This will certainly vary for different people and shooting styles, but for me it means i have mostly given up using silent shutter on my A7CR bodies. This is a loss, but I still like the size and form factor of the A7CR enough to give up silent shutter in order to use the camera. I do wish Sony could at least make the mechanical shutter in the A7CR quieter. It is among the loudest of Sony's shutters, and that doesn't help when one is trying to shoot discreetly.
I do think there would be a real market for a camera body of modest size, with a genuinely fast stacked sensor, a good viewfinder, excellent AF and IBIS, and without a high FPS rate.
It would be a photographer's camera in the same way the Leica M series cameras are, though with a different design and technological philosophy.
May 15, 2026 at 04:28 PM
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