That's one of your best videos, hilarious conversations between Chris and Jordan, and very complete review overall + good to see the correct settings were used to shoot 30fps!
Great job from Jordan, I really enjoyed the stills :) Also, I am very happy that Chris is getting better, I am really looking forward to seeing you two together again!
Pleasantly surprised to see you (a Canadian) wearing a "Stillwater, Oklahoma" tee-shirt, Jordan! I'm from Kansas and attended Kansas State University, but Oklahoma State, in Stillwater, is a fellow Big 12 school. Good job flying solo on this review--stay safe!
Well done, Jordan! Thanks for pulling this one together (and suffering the cold and all). Great video! I especially enjoyed the use of the 135mm GM here. Happy to see Chris looking and feeling much better now, too. Cheers!
Awesome and entertaining review, as always, guys! Glad you're on the mend already, Chris! 💪 Thanks for all the hard work you do on these (esp. Jordan this time doing a solo production outside in the freezing cold ❄️).
I came to the comments here to find out first if anyone else noticed and two if a cause was determined. It was actually a distracting vibrant purple on my monitor not 'hints of purple'
Get well soon Chris 👍 Having said that: Jordan, you did a splendid job covering the photocentric aspects of the camera. Yes, the drumshoot looked cool, but no worries, on every other shot you look cool as well. Overall I love how you both wrap your humor and the special chemistry you have around every of your review episodes. Gotta say: really cool gang of two you are 🙂👌🌈🤘🤘🤘
Don’t ever change, you guys. You are GOLD! Love watching your videos. Been following you guys since the days of old on another channel that shall not be named… :-)
Chris, it's exciting to see you look much better! I'm glad you're out of the house for the next video! Jordan you look dapper behind your electric drum kit!
Lossless compression doesn’t throw anything away, it uses a lossless compression encoding. Like gzip or lz4 or any of a number of compression formats. One thing I would hope for in a firmware update is “deferred lossless” as an option. Say, go through the uncompressed lossless shots and rewrite them as compressed lossless as a batch operation.
The best camera ever made. Thanks guys. I'm a Leica and Fuji shooter, but hats off to Sony. If I was a professional, there is now only one place to go ....
In all seriousness. The real photography news last week wasn't the Sony camera. It was the Fujifilm GFX100S...for $500 less than the Sony A1. Medium format, 100MP, great features with a line up of really good glass. Sony's price point made both the R5 and the GFX100S look really good.
Jordan great work, hopefully Chris will not loose his job. 1 question: is it normal that in the darker scene of the video I can see pixelization on the left side of the picture (ca. 12:20minutes of the video)? Where does this come from? Have a nice time Best regards Bernd
Same ergonomics, just love it when the finger knuckles rubbing against the lens and pinky hangs out and missing the grip.It must be cold over there , so cold to get orange face.
Thanks for that. BTW Lossless compressed Raw doesn't throw anything away, needed or not, it just shrinks repeating info to make the whole thing smaller... when you uncompress the data it's 100% identical to an uncompressed raw. Also were your over-heating times with the option to let it get a lot hotter enabled? As they still default to not enabling that presumably there are some down-sides, any idea what (does it just get really hot)? Oh and have you tested the R5 heating with the new firmware yet or just the R6?
Great review, Jordan! This is why I turn to DpReview first. You've pointed out all the caveats that the other "influence" click-bait algorithm bound youtubers haven't. Great job!
Ahem (3:25), Lossless compression does not throw away *ANY* infomation. For it to be lossless means that you have to be able to recover the original, bit-for-bit. This has been well understood in the computer biz for decades. (e.g. zip compression). A more recent audio comparison would be Apple's lossless audio compression which will shrink the size of a file by a factor of 2-3.
The CGI graphics you included to introduce the overheating segment was impressive. Glad to see all the money I spend watching these videos is being well-spent.
Normally Jordan's color grading is superb but I am noticing clipping in the skin tones (magentas/blues/aquas/greens) during the brighter scenes in this video (outdoors and at the drumkit). Is this because it is limited to 4.2.0 or maybe Cinetone?
Yeah, for the first 5 minutes, the forehead seems to be constantly changing in the red channel as he talks. Its almost as if they left Auto Exposure on... in a snow scene with a white sky, and the subject is wearing a black jacket. Either not the best setup/settings to show off the color science, or something is seriously wrong with the camera! By about 7 minutes in, when we see the blue sky, it seems to sort itself out. Hopefully that was by switching AE off.
Quick, Thank you for all that you do! I have been following DP Review and then your separate TH-cam channel for many years! A quick no technical question. @ just about the 11:18 time frame, there is A Building behind the car that's reads SERVICE. I think I have been in that area near Toronto (although I think you hail from the opposite cost). I was in middle of either opening or closing a TESLA Dealer Ship. Any chance that where you where? Keep doing what you do so well, Thanks Again, ToddBuff
Lossless isn't supposed to throw away any data (and I hope it doesn't). The way this works on most cameras is ZIP or a similar algorithm is applied on top of raw sensor data.
Really well carried, Jordan. Congrats! Thinking back on how reluctant you were to get in front of the camera in the early days. And the way you guys laugh off Canadian winter - impressive. As for the camera... as an α7iii shooter, it sure is tempting! Although of course we're also all curious about what the α7iv will bring.
The whole image is kinda jumping frequently at 1:11 and following and 3:45 and following. Could be seen in the left lower corner. whats going on? stabilizer going ham? is the a1 too excited to see jordan ? Seems like a windy day. - Anyway great video Jordan!
Please when doing the running test give it a bit of a challenge like turning your head to the side or running in and out of frame or running on a bit more of an angle like you would get all the time in actual sports. Or things like having your hand in front of your face briefly or putting your head down. Running towards the camera looking directly at it the whole is actually a pretty weak test.
How you know, a videographer is trying to do a photography review: He thinks, photographers wear headphones while shooting and he constantly talks about MBits regarding filesizes :-D
Waiting for the A7R5 that I'm told will track that chipmunk's eyes while its head is in the ziplock bag! Great content as usual :) Hoping for Chris to feel better soon.
Oh dear, poor jordan in the cold! It's clearly that he is freezing! Thank you Jordan! With regards to the Cinetone, I am not sure if it was the cold on your screen or Cinetone appearing too red?
You did an amazing job getting through all this (mostly?) done on your own! super cool that you’ve got an electric drum kit, just know that you’re living the dream 👊🏽
Agree for the in-body pixel shift image, also would love to have an in body HDR stacked image. Next would love to have more dynamic range at least 15 stops or even higher, and a better in body image stabilization. A built in electronic variable ND would be great and finally with the next version would love to have 24 fps lossless compressed raw up to 1 minute or 1440 images, and 4:3 sensor with 4:3 anamorphic video mode
regarding lossless compression : "it finds some smart ways to throw away some information that is not going to be useful at all" --> that would be the philosophy behind "lossy". It's not what lossless compression does. Lossless compression tries to summarize repetitive patterns and map them into a compressed file. On decompression, the map is used to "inflate" the file back. Well, many better definitions exist :D... But nice review, as always ! thanks !
I sold a 30sec clip from my K-1 for 300,- Dollar so it can't be that bad, but in general I actually like that Pentax focuses on photography because that is my profession and the k-1 is an awesome tool for photographers if you wanna do video there are a thousand other options just dedicated for video, personally I don't believe in these jack of all trades devices!
@@AndyLSB it requires “almost no grading”. As it stands, it’s more likely that he borked the magentas himself and didn’t notice. Or maybe the screen you’re viewing the video on isn’t calibrated properly, or you might be partially colourblind, etc etc. The default assumption you made can be as easily explained by any number of factors. The fact that he found the colours fit for public release after he himself graded them should cause you to be curious about why they look off to you, whether they look off to people on average, and if he would release badly graded footage. I could care less about the camera as I’m not going to dump that much money into a body for hobby use, but I do think people should try to be better critical thinkers
@@perilthecat Ok first of all do you have a personal issues or something ? If now one says anything about the colors then he might not notice, second of all my monitor IS calibrated and I'm not color blinded which it would be something you don't have to care about and third calm down because that's why people ask questions, to know what happened, that is why I asked what is wrong with the colors.
I like a drum set First of all I would like to say that I am drooling about this camera. I sat down to think about it and I realized there is not a single picture shown that I don't think I can take with my current A7RIV or A9. Don't need 8K. Thank you for all the information.
12:50 some really horrible banding in the background there, where the light falls off towards the edge of the frame. I wonder if it's TH-cam compression causing this or whether it's present in the original file. 200Mbps seems awfully low for 8K.
Just a slight correction Jordan regarding rodents in the test video. That was a gray squirrel and not a chipmunk. All kidding aside, I'm curious as to if you can engage tracking in video mode via a button rather than by tapping the back screen of the camera. On previous models, you can engage tracking via back-button focus for stills but not video. This is quite annoying and for anyone who uses Sony cameras for video work underwater when the camera is in a housing--you cannot enable tracking because the display touch pad is unreachable. It just doesn't make sense to me. Can you assign a button with the A1?
I agree, Jordan looks cool with the drum kit.
Also, good to hear Chris is doing well
I don't know that I agree with that, but I agree his wife is very sweet to tell him he looks cool.
Somehow I always thought that Jordan is a drum guy, while Chris is more a guitar dude. I'm pretty much sure he collects Strats in his basement.
And I heard familiar female voice.
did he get covid or something
You look so cool behind that drum-kit!
"Play the shutter sound through headphones..." yup, that a video guy testing still shooting...!
I just love Jordan’s stunned mullet look when the stills instructions, portraits, sports and night club setting are mentioned
That's one of your best videos, hilarious conversations between Chris and Jordan, and very complete review overall + good to see the correct settings were used to shoot 30fps!
Great job from Jordan, I really enjoyed the stills :) Also, I am very happy that Chris is getting better, I am really looking forward to seeing you two together again!
Probably the most fun and efficient camera reviews one can watch right now - thanks guys
Must be cold, Jordan’s sitting on the rock like a toddler that’s gotta pee.
Evelyn is now Jordan's Jordan.
He seems a little underdressed for the weather.
@@ThomasS17 It''s a young-guy-on-the-prairies-in-winter thing. Usually it's a jean jacket and tee shirt.
@@petermclennan6781 I'm in the prairies wearing a hoodie and shorts in -40c weather indoors
@@ThomasS17 Understatement of the century.
I do not understand why he thought that was appropriate for the weather.
Worried for him!
Pleasantly surprised to see you (a Canadian) wearing a "Stillwater, Oklahoma" tee-shirt, Jordan! I'm from Kansas and attended Kansas State University, but Oklahoma State, in Stillwater, is a fellow Big 12 school. Good job flying solo on this review--stay safe!
The drum kit looks so cool in front of you!
Good to see the review coming out fast. Hope Chris is doing well too.
Well done, Jordan! Thanks for pulling this one together (and suffering the cold and all). Great video! I especially enjoyed the use of the 135mm GM here. Happy to see Chris looking and feeling much better now, too. Cheers!
Awesome and entertaining review, as always, guys! Glad you're on the mend already, Chris! 💪 Thanks for all the hard work you do on these (esp. Jordan this time doing a solo production outside in the freezing cold ❄️).
Jordan, you DO look cool behind that drum kit
If he shows the drum kit, PLAY the drum kit!
Why do you have hints of purple on your face in the drum kit shot?
Something is way wrong with the color when he is outside 4:20
He's thawing out.
I came to the comments here to find out first if anyone else noticed and two if a cause was determined. It was actually a distracting vibrant purple on my monitor not 'hints of purple'
@@jtalstad I noticed it, too. It's impossible not to! Surprised more haven't commented...
I saw it mainly at around 11:40
Get well soon Chris 👍 Having said that: Jordan, you did a splendid job covering the photocentric aspects of the camera. Yes, the drumshoot looked cool, but no worries, on every other shot you look cool as well.
Overall I love how you both wrap your humor and the special chemistry you have around every of your review episodes. Gotta say: really cool gang of two you are 🙂👌🌈🤘🤘🤘
Don’t ever change, you guys. You are GOLD! Love watching your videos.
Been following you guys since the days of old on another channel that shall not be named… :-)
I can't believe you don't already have 300k subscribers. Your reviews are a really good watch.
No S-Cinetone on the a7Siii yet :'( Can you fellas give Sony a shout to sort their shit out. Great vid as always!
Jordan: I will record a professional video with proper mike and headphones.
Chris: Hey look what I found down the back of the sofa.
Chris, it's exciting to see you look much better! I'm glad you're out of the house for the next video! Jordan you look dapper behind your electric drum kit!
Lossless compression doesn’t throw anything away, it uses a lossless compression encoding. Like gzip or lz4 or any of a number of compression formats. One thing I would hope for in a firmware update is “deferred lossless” as an option. Say, go through the uncompressed lossless shots and rewrite them as compressed lossless as a batch operation.
The best camera ever made. Thanks guys. I'm a Leica and Fuji shooter, but hats off to Sony. If I was a professional, there is now only one place to go ....
In all seriousness. The real photography news last week wasn't the Sony
camera. It was the Fujifilm GFX100S...for $500 less than the Sony A1.
Medium format, 100MP, great features with a line up of really good
glass.
Sony's price point made both the R5 and the GFX100S look really good.
Jordan great work, hopefully Chris will not loose his job. 1 question: is it normal that in the darker scene of the video I can see pixelization on the left side of the picture (ca. 12:20minutes of the video)? Where does this come from? Have a nice time Best regards Bernd
Same ergonomics, just love it when the finger knuckles rubbing against the lens and pinky hangs out and missing the grip.It must be cold over there , so cold to get orange face.
Thanks for that. BTW Lossless compressed Raw doesn't throw anything away, needed or not, it just shrinks repeating info to make the whole thing smaller... when you uncompress the data it's 100% identical to an uncompressed raw.
Also were your over-heating times with the option to let it get a lot hotter enabled? As they still default to not enabling that presumably there are some down-sides, any idea what (does it just get really hot)?
Oh and have you tested the R5 heating with the new firmware yet or just the R6?
Great review, Jordan! This is why I turn to DpReview first. You've pointed out all the caveats that the other "influence" click-bait algorithm bound youtubers haven't. Great job!
Ahem (3:25), Lossless compression does not throw away *ANY* infomation. For it to be lossless means that you have to be able to recover the original, bit-for-bit. This has been well understood in the computer biz for decades. (e.g. zip compression). A more recent audio comparison would be Apple's lossless audio compression which will shrink the size of a file by a factor of 2-3.
Nice job, Jordan. You can see/hear his video roots showing when he talks about RAW photo file sizes in Mbps. 😜
Really enjoying your channel! You guys are hoot to watch and I've learned a lot. Thanks!
The CGI graphics you included to introduce the overheating segment was impressive. Glad to see all the money I spend watching these videos is being well-spent.
I am truly amazed at how humble, soft-spoken, gentle and down-to-earth the presenters on this channel are. ❤
Your “La Dolce Vita” poster definitely wins you major bonus points. Excellent review!
Normally Jordan's color grading is superb but I am noticing clipping in the skin tones (magentas/blues/aquas/greens) during the brighter scenes in this video (outdoors and at the drumkit). Is this because it is limited to 4.2.0 or maybe Cinetone?
I'd say tis Cinetone.
4:2:0 is only for 8k, otherwise it's 4:2:2, and also, if you downsample 4:2:0, you get 4:2:2 anyway.
Yeah, for the first 5 minutes, the forehead seems to be constantly changing in the red channel as he talks. Its almost as if they left Auto Exposure on... in a snow scene with a white sky, and the subject is wearing a black jacket. Either not the best setup/settings to show off the color science, or something is seriously wrong with the camera! By about 7 minutes in, when we see the blue sky, it seems to sort itself out. Hopefully that was by switching AE off.
4:2:0 vs 4:2:2 barely effects the image outside of things like keying greenscreens. It's most likely Cinetone and their exposure.
There may be a drawback to Jordan being in front rather than behind the camera...
Glad to see you’re feeling better Chris. I’d love to see Jordan record an episode on a Sony a5100. Lol!
“they are pretty manageable files”
laughing in 2015 macbook air
7:41 Chipmunk? LOL that's a squirrel!
Where's Camera Conspiracies to clear this stuff up when you need him
Quick, Thank you for all that you do! I have been following DP Review and then your separate TH-cam channel for many years! A quick no technical question. @ just about the 11:18 time frame, there is A Building behind the car that's reads SERVICE. I think I have been in that area near Toronto (although I think you hail from the opposite cost). I was in middle of either opening or closing a TESLA Dealer Ship. Any chance that where you where? Keep doing what you do so well, Thanks Again,
ToddBuff
Excellent as always! Chris getting well is welcomed news! Jordan did a stellar job as always!
Lossless isn't supposed to throw away any data (and I hope it doesn't). The way this works on most cameras is ZIP or a similar algorithm is applied on top of raw sensor data.
Really well carried, Jordan. Congrats! Thinking back on how reluctant you were to get in front of the camera in the early days.
And the way you guys laugh off Canadian winter - impressive.
As for the camera... as an α7iii shooter, it sure is tempting! Although of course we're also all curious about what the α7iv will bring.
The whole image is kinda jumping frequently at 1:11 and following and 3:45 and following. Could be seen in the left lower corner. whats going on? stabilizer going ham? is the a1 too excited to see jordan ? Seems like a windy day. - Anyway great video Jordan!
Windy day blowing the monopod around. I'll drag a tripod out next time.
Yep good to see Chris doing well.
Please when doing the running test give it a bit of a challenge like turning your head to the side or running in and out of frame or running on a bit more of an angle like you would get all the time in actual sports. Or things like having your hand in front of your face briefly or putting your head down. Running towards the camera looking directly at it the whole is actually a pretty weak test.
I haven't had my 9M2 very long and already I'm upgrading to the monster.
I love your Stillwater, OK t-shirt. Did you go to school at OSU? I taught there for eight years back in the early 2000s.
UK viewer....love you pair, one of my regular much watch photo / video teams on TH-cam....great team and always fun to watch
That intro was brilliant
Haptic feedback on the shutter would be my choice for a mirrorless camera when shooting silent. I just want to feel it. That’s what she said. 🤪
The photos from when Jordan is running is truly amazing.
How you know, a videographer is trying to do a photography review: He thinks, photographers wear headphones while shooting and he constantly talks about MBits regarding filesizes :-D
You mean,we should not shot with our BEATS headphones on to shoot better?I mean,who needs to hear while they are in NYC walking around??hehehehe
Great stuff guys! Love the schtick as always.. funny, entertaining and always the best info...
great review . what lens was shooting you during you were in your drum room ?
Love it, specially when a videographer reviews the photo functions Mr "Megabit" :D
Purple eye make-up, or Sony skin tones? 🤔
His wife thought the purple eye shadow would look rock and roll with the drum kit. 🤣 She was right! 👍
legit the worst skin tones I've ever seen
😂not sure if that's from the camera or because it was probably
Or reflected light from an off-camera surface or Evelyn's clothing perhaps?
...guessing it was mixed light sources and a compromise grading / white balance. But yeah, not pretty (but cool...).
@@NORWAYORNOWAY or maybe it is some kind of "tile and orange" processing that makes weird colors
Thanks for the review, guys. I can empathize with Jordan trying to film and put on a brave face in extreme cold :)
Another awesome video from you Guys👌👌. And yes Jordan, you look absolutely awesome behind your drum set 😉💪
Fab review Jordan, nailed it. 📸😷✌️
7:02 my god that is impressive continuous AF. One of those things Sony does not pull any punches on when they want to is auto focus.
Waiting for the A7R5 that I'm told will track that chipmunk's eyes while its head is in the ziplock bag! Great content as usual :) Hoping for Chris to feel better soon.
i want the eye tracking when the animal is no longer there...
The footage of Jordan behind the drum kit was bright, very sharp and spectacular. What camera was that?
Always default to your reviews. Brilliantly informative and always fun.
You guys really rolled with the punches and I've really enjoyed your covid affected videos. Real professionals.
This thing might be the Camera of the Year 2021.
Love your duo guys.
You rock. Thanks for the review
Oh dear, poor jordan in the cold! It's clearly that he is freezing! Thank you Jordan! With regards to the Cinetone, I am not sure if it was the cold on your screen or Cinetone appearing too red?
They used the a1 for a couple of shots during the Superbowl broadcast today! Very impressive piece of kit.
Hey Jordan, you the man. I want to know if you would trade your s1h in to purchase the Sony a1? Why or why not?
If you do long format video, you can power the camera with a dummy battery and it won't overheat at all.
Could you elaborate on that please.
@@youngmo77 instead of powering the camera with a regular battery, you can plug in a dummy battery and power the camera off the wall.
Great to hear Chris is feeling better
I came here for the drums, and boy did you deliver!
Thumbs up for your work in this difficult time!
You did an amazing job getting through all this (mostly?) done on your own! super cool that you’ve got an electric drum kit, just know that you’re living the dream 👊🏽
You look cool behind the e-set, Jordan. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
The drum kit works, J. Always listen to the lady. It was nice to see Sony break from their habit of 6x sensor base. Knew it would do well.
Man, behind the drumkit....your skintone and eyes are just looking SO....Sooooooo.....soooo...George-Romero-good!
Hi Chris. How are you?
Thanks for the review!
Hey you guys in Canada do know that you can do a review inside right? You don't HAVE to be out in the cold to make the video.
2:13 Tell me you’re cold without telling me you’re cold 😏
Great review guys, always enjoy your content!
Agree for the in-body pixel shift image, also would love to have an in body HDR stacked image. Next would love to have more dynamic range at least 15 stops or even higher, and a better in body image stabilization. A built in electronic variable ND would be great and finally with the next version would love to have 24 fps lossless compressed raw up to 1 minute or 1440 images, and 4:3 sensor with 4:3 anamorphic video mode
Love the blue eyes behind the drum kit.
Great work guys
Great job Chris and Jordan, despite the winter environment and the disastrous pandemic. And the stills of the little ones - charming..
regarding lossless compression : "it finds some smart ways to throw away some information that is not going to be useful at all" --> that would be the philosophy behind "lossy". It's not what lossless compression does. Lossless compression tries to summarize repetitive patterns and map them into a compressed file. On decompression, the map is used to "inflate" the file back. Well, many better definitions exist :D... But nice review, as always ! thanks !
Good job Jordan 👏🏻 very enjoyable review
Everybody comments on how you look cool because of the drums, but I have to add that you got some good taste in cinema too.
I sold a 30sec clip from my K-1 for 300,- Dollar so it can't be that bad, but in general I actually like that Pentax focuses on photography because that is my profession and the k-1 is an awesome tool for photographers if you wanna do video there are a thousand other options just dedicated for video, personally I don't believe in these jack of all trades devices!
what's wrong with the colors ? 11:02 actually in various portions of the video the Magentas look super intense and almost purple sometimes
You, uh... you did see that Jordan graded the video from s-cinetone, right? So if the tones are magenta... it’s his fault.
@@perilthecat that's why I'm asking what's wrong ? In S-Cinetone you don't have to grade basically, It already gives a Rec709 look
@@AndyLSB it requires “almost no grading”. As it stands, it’s more likely that he borked the magentas himself and didn’t notice. Or maybe the screen you’re viewing the video on isn’t calibrated properly, or you might be partially colourblind, etc etc. The default assumption you made can be as easily explained by any number of factors.
The fact that he found the colours fit for public release after he himself graded them should cause you to be curious about why they look off to you, whether they look off to people on average, and if he would release badly graded footage.
I could care less about the camera as I’m not going to dump that much money into a body for hobby use, but I do think people should try to be better critical thinkers
@@perilthecat Ok first of all do you have a personal issues or something ? If now one says anything about the colors then he might not notice, second of all my monitor IS calibrated and I'm not color blinded which it would be something you don't have to care about and third calm down because that's why people ask questions, to know what happened, that is why I asked what is wrong with the colors.
Jordan did this as a rush job, by himself, so stop bullying him about the tiny quality difference to usual.
I like a drum set
First of all I would like to say that I am drooling about this camera.
I sat down to think about it and I realized there is not a single picture shown that I don't think I can take with my current A7RIV or A9. Don't need 8K. Thank you for all the information.
Drinking game! Take a shot each time Jordan blinks. You might end up sober
Is that the road that we are hearing or you added some full stadium sound effects??
Good to hear you are feeling better.
I was finally relaxed when you put on the down jacket
lol the a9 is AWESOME for videos. I have some on my channel to back it up.
just because other profiles aren't on there doesn't mean it's bad for video
hidden comment ?? 😲😲
12:50 some really horrible banding in the background there, where the light falls off towards the edge of the frame. I wonder if it's TH-cam compression causing this or whether it's present in the original file. 200Mbps seems awfully low for 8K.
Ah, my favourite review channel.
Just a slight correction Jordan regarding rodents in the test video. That was a gray squirrel and not a chipmunk. All kidding aside, I'm curious as to if you can engage tracking in video mode via a button rather than by tapping the back screen of the camera. On previous models, you can engage tracking via back-button focus for stills but not video. This is quite annoying and for anyone who uses Sony cameras for video work underwater when the camera is in a housing--you cannot enable tracking because the display touch pad is unreachable. It just doesn't make sense to me. Can you assign a button with the A1?
Great review Jordan, well done!