Sony Changed the Future of Cameras... Now what?
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The Sony A9 III is the first stills camera to have a global shutter! Tony and Chelsea talk about what a global shutter is, how it benefits photographers, and what it means for the future of photography and cameras.
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Now what? Now we watch Markus Pix to tear the bullshit down. :)
You have good ideas for cameras👍🏻 I would like to add two more; wireless connection to cameras might use 5G mobile technology so that photos and updates would be easier. That GPS idea of Tony's allows also automatic time to camera.
I love to see that you guys aren't giving up on your camera feature wish list. Keep hammering and maybe someday a camera manufacturer will make them happen. I agree with all of them. Make it happen Sony!
I don't understand why dynamic range apparently isn't still a focus for improvement. I know the high end cameras are great now, especially with such great sensor stabilization, but it seems like there is still so much room for improvement, in both stills and video. It's the thing i most want to improve in cameras, and the first thing i investigate in a new camera, yet it almost seems ignored by manufacturers and reviewers alike. Incremental improvements, fortunately, but never the banner headline. I want to shoot at high shutter speeds by starlight with no noise. It's crazy to be that the human eye still beats $6000 cameras.
this. and global shutter isnt new but came with a tradeoff in dynanic range. if we can have both, sure. but until now you had to pick one of the two
I’ll take dynamic range, I don’t even care about IBIS.
I just got the R8, I am amazed by the low noise at high ISO. It seems to do pretty amazing capturing action as well.
@@shawnbailey7013 i had r6ii before i believe its the same sensor? nice balance between speed and DR indeed.
The human eye isn't a better sensor. I'm explaining because it's interesting, not because it's necessary to counter point:
The human eye is very terrible and we have blind and blurry spots everywhere directly in front of us not see things clearly at ALL in terms of still imaging except for a very small area in the center of our vision called the "fovea." Your brain fills in a lot of information you think you're seeing clearly but actually not and necessarily detects motion and directs attention and focus there. This is clearly needed for evolutionary reasons. If your eyes were a straight sensor for still images in front of it, it wouldn't be the worst camera ever made. It would look like someone splotched ink on actual film through a lens dipped in oil.
@@EbonySeraphim Yes, agreed :-) I wasn't clear -- I just meant that we're better than cameras in terms of dynamic range, which as far I know is still the case with basically any camera sensor (maybe some specialty scientific sensor can beat the eye.) And there are also strange nonlinearities in human perception of dynamic range, but overall, it's something that we still beat the sensors on, which is surprising to me. Especially as an audio person, where technology has beaten the human ear (which is exquisitely sensitive) for something like 70 years, depending how you count.
I like what you said about camera makers needing to focus on reducing friction. The camera is essentially a control panel. Yet the very things we want to change from moment to moment, they hide them in menus that require you to put the camera down. Switching eye detect is one of those things. Another is switching from photo to video mode. A true "street photography" camera would never require you to stop and browse a menu.
Loved this show, I enjoy daydreaming about and over new ideas. Excellent brainstorming session.
Can we PLEASE have an electronic ND filter on mirrorless cameras?
Eliminating a big chunk of noise out of your photos by stacking frames automatically would be so cool. It would improve color accuracy and gradation and would make editing more robust and flexible. It would make medium format image quality for smaller sensors possible.
The SNR is determined by the flux of photons through the aperture, which is determined by the crop-adjusted f-stop, which isn't really better for medium format digital cameras at the moment, otherwise many of us would be using medium format speedboosters with full frame sensors
Focusing on UI and connectivity is really it. My phone is so much faster for everything the frictionless-ness of it is worth the drop in quality because production speed is time is money in the social media age. Like can I livestream from the A7V with audio? Or can I at least tether it wirelessly to my phone to stream from it? The “Shot on iPhone” apple event really changed my perspective. Obviously they had lights and colorists and all that jazz. But I literally did not notice except for a couple seconds part way through when it felt like they had been all wide angle the whole time. Feels like a watershed moment. Competing for a dying slice of the market doesn’t feel like the play. DJI feels like they’re moving the right way. Even Instagram with the 360s and such. Anyway I’m very rambling. Thanks for your videos as usual. 📚✨
Yep, connectivity is what cameras actually need today. When I take people on guided hikes, even if they KNOW they're going to buy my photos, they still ask me to take their phone to repeat shots I take with equipment that costs thousands of dollars. Because they want to share pictures immediately instead of waiting for me to edit and send my pics to them.
Imagine having the camera be easily discoverable by androids and iphones, and sending specific shots quickly to people to share instantly. Imagine also if you could do quick edits in camera beforehand. White-balance, shadows, highlights, contrast, saturation, even using the touch screen to create basic masking or gradients. Sidecar file stored on the memory card, so you can keep the edit, or refine it on a computer later.
Sony had “send image to smartphone” - a 2MB jpg for a long time, it was a nightmare on my A7RIV and the previous app as iPhone, but they released a new connection app that works great now and the connectivity is as it should be. I switched to RV meanwhile, not sure how it works on older cameras, might be a wireless card on the camera issue rather that the app.
What I want to say is, the functionality exist, and even with questionable implementation in the past, you could still pull it off.
Not sure how/if other manufacturers do it.
Hope it helps
Imagine someone stealing your world class art or sports photo!😉
@@tomdemeo2708 You would give permission for each phone connecting, with a unique code for each phone user to enter.
@@rszebin Yeah, I meant having it actually working :D
Yes, I have heen using the Canon connect app since my old 5Dmk4 to copy wirelessly to my phone.
If you dont want people copying your photos @ events, hikes, etc, make sure you are taking photos that phones cannot. Eg, telephoto, high speed action, low light.
It's a process, technology will improve, don't get caught up in marketing hype, what photographers really need are 20 fstop dynamic range, and lower noise i.e much better high iso performance for low light , not eliminating a bowed golf stick .
Thank you for all you do to give an interesting perspective to photography technology!
Thank you!
I need a return arrow for those times I accidentally press a small button - not knowing which one - and I can't find out how to undo what I accidentally did. And, no, I don't want to reset the whole camera, just go back one step to undo what I accidentally did and can't for the life of me figure out how to undo it.
That is how i started. Using my smart phone. I bought a Panasonic Lumix G95 last year. Yes, I still have very much to learn. But, I am enjoying the process. Love photography. Love your channel. I have learned so much. Thank you 😊
I'd like to see what I call EC AI. Basically auto exposure comp that would be useful during times of fast action. For example, the required EC changes instantly when a flying bird changes altitude from bright sky backlit to a darker vegetation background. The amount also depends on whether a dark bird or one that is both dark and white feathers for example, or neutral colored. Essentially I want the camera to assess whatever I'm eye tracking, assess the background, and then constantly adjust the EC for me. I can imagine this would also be useful for sports photographers, such as a dirt bike going airborne and then back on the ground, or ski jumper, etc.. It also impacts wildlife quickly moving from sun to shade. Not hard to think of other examples when the lighting is very fluid.
Now let's use them and actually take pictures 😬
or add a "Phone Call" function to the camera :)
@@Whatsgoodmydude2222 camera gearheads existed long before the first digital camera. There has and always will be gear obsessed camera users
As you noted, the lack of wireless transfer is really backwards. That feature is my biggest camera want.
I have been transferring photos from my using 5d4 to my phone using the Canon Connect app since 2016.
Don't some camera mimic their own WIFI to get photos? sure they're not raws but if I'm needing photos right away i just connect to my A7c mimic WIFI with the imaging app
I could not agree w you guys more! Making a camera easier to use would help them immensely! I would love the auto eye focus for animals without having to keep changing the settings. There is nothing worse then being on safari and something showing up out of nowhere and you not having the proper settings selected 😑
Well, apparently the few available implementations are more of a gimmick. Because the AF is simply more reliable when in a specific mode, the auto mode is there but normally not used.
Very good ideas especially wireless communication. Top of the list is a check mark or whatever to show it is an original digital pic. Happy holidays
I gotta say, the Canon Connect app isn't bad...at home. In the field, I don't connect my phone to my R7 becaude file transfer is too slow via bluetooth, even at reduced file size. But when I get home, i get my R7 onto my home wifi where my phone or tablet automatically connects to. And I transfer my full sized files this way. Though mind you, its only jpeg and not my raw files. I would love for the same connectivity with my laptop or desktop, for my raw files and video files.
Best channel for photographers, love your content.
Thanks!
Controlling yourself should be on Menu syestem !! 😄 Thank you for sharing these exciting ideas and the futuristic concepts this camera might bring to life. Can't wait to see the boundaries it'll push and the innovations it'll introduce to photography and cinematography.
Now drop a 85 F1.2 GM
Thanks for all you guys do to bring cameras into a useable condition. Keep up the great work:)
Great conversation and interesting points. Thanks, T & C!
With the introduction of global shutter, I'm hopeful we might see stacked sensors in more Sony cameras, especially in the APS-C line.
It'll eventually be in everything, including $200 phones
Agree. Sony with a93 has broke the upgrade path for a91/2.
I just hope that a7v will have stacked sensor. If not that means there will be only expensive alpha a12 with stacked sensor and ai chip…
Some specialized cameras can take video up to one million frames per second. At a certain speed, you can see light propagate. Very cool.
But they are extremely expensive.
Can't agree more with Tony on the FPS. I like this episode's discussion.
I think the delay of A1 II is to have it compatible with CFexpress 4.0 (PCIe 4.0). I think we might see 8K@60fps in H.265 10bit 4:2:2. Also we might see a new body design and maybe internal fan and a new set of processors as those processors are now 3-4 years old, albeit being dual in A1 and A9III.
Hey guys this is your best wishlist video *ever* - I love everything and think you are a 100% right with all your requests. Why do the cam manufacturers not get it? They will lose all business to Apple-Samsung&Co. if they’re not reacting very quickly. So Thanks a bunch for this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I know many are listening to your videos - hope it all becomes real very soon.
I like the idea of Unlimited Dynamic Range using image stacking with computational photography. Also, better connections to my smartphone.
I see the high fps mostly as an opportunity for computational features. If the camera could do exposure bracketing or focus stacking virtually instantly, then you'd get infinite dynamic range and you'd be able to fine tune real depth of field in post. Also, stacking for noise elimination becomes a real possibility. I think anyone who's not excited about global shutters becoming a reality hasn't really thought the consequences through.
Awesome discussion! You two rock!
One thing I love about the Nikon menu system is they have a "?" icon where you can get a short description of almost every menu item and how it should be used.
IT IS the first full frame global shutter, and stacked. People think it's just the first still camera with global shutter, but the sensor itself is the first FF global shutter, and stacked.
Don't you miss the swappable imgefinder screens in the Nikon F and F2? Some screens just made some images faster and clearer to look at. Or to to mark crop dimensions on. And that would be so easy on digitsl viewfinders.
Simplify, simplify, simplify is a definite need. It can and will expand the user base and build loyalty. Also some computational photography, better conductivity and GPS are all great improvements. I would also like to see some depth map info built into the photos, but recognize this is not easily done.
I'm still waiting for a mirrorless camera from DJI with L mount. It could have great menus and UI, great connectivity and great firmware updates.
Is the global shutter great? Yes
Is it going to change photography as we know it? Probably not.
Right now we're at a point where technology is trumping art.
The part about anti-theft technology was interesting. I'm not sure how you could implement encryption with 2 factor authentication. Whether it he a code or a physical attribute like a hardware dongle linked to your online account.
I remember a lot of my audio effects software like universal audio, waves and although i never used it protools does it. Perhaps they could use the camera as a dongle and offline files need that link before your files are transmitted or downloaded between mediums.
I am sure there is an easier way to explain this.
The one thing I like is the flash sync at any speed. I pretty much had that with the Nikon 8000 way back in the early 2000s because it had an electronic shutter… but for some reason they removed the flash sync capability from all cameras with electronic shutters after that.
Tony, program a button for subject selection. On the top plate of my a7Rv in still mode I have the red movie trigger programmed to subject selection. In the menu I have checked only Human, Bird/Animal, Insect. I unchecked cars, trains and planes and use the combined bird/animal to keep scrolling shorter. I have C1 programmed to toggle subject ID on/off since I don't always want it.
using a custom button for subject selection still requires a second step.. picking the selection. I wish Sony would allow custom buttons to not only toggle a feature on/off but also be able to toggle between 2 features/settings. Press it once for first feature, then a second time for second feature, again to go back to first feature. Instead of burning 2 valuable C-buttons to do this today. Examples: toggle between human and animal eye focus or toggle focus area between wide and flexible spot. I would love these kind of quick changes instead of always using the FN menu screen.
I'd like to see better weather sealing across the board, bodies and lenses. I work in wet environments, around the ocean primarily. Just ran into an issue out in the field where my Voigtlander lenses were fogging up and unusable, while the native Sony lenses were fine. That said, my a7rIV body has been a constant battle with errors and weird quirks...99% sure it's all moisture (and salty moisture at that) related. I can literally stick my phone underwater and take photos and videos, why can't my camera function properly simply being AROUND water.
Totally agree that the wifi and bluetooth is a huge area for improvement. I don't use cloud storage because of transfer times and the sheer volume of pro shooting. If my camera had, say, Verizon 5g built in and did it automatically, I'd probably revisit it. Imagine if the cameras transferred wirelessly to the computer and interfaced with Adobe. Any images you then tag a specific way in Lightroom (say 1 star) the camera would detect and automatically upload to your cloud storage. That would be very useful. Adobe building that in would be more likely, easier to implement and equally useful.
Also agree that the menus need improvement, though (from your previous video on this subject iirc) I don't think it should be dumbed down to the level of the rote beginner.
I'd like to see more advanced software options (which would virtually require better menus) to, say, focus stack while simultaneously exposure bracketing. Probably obvious at this point, I'm a landscape shooter. Give me the ability to focus stack front to back AND also bracket exposures 2/3 of a stop apart with one click and I could die happy. While I'm being greedy, also let me pixel shift lol.
Love these videos, hope the manufacturers are listening!
I want to see the ZV-E10V2 with Global shutter.
@12:10 Canon already have prioritization on eye AF. I use my R5 for wildlife but sometimes I forget to switch the subject back to people when needed but it still works, as long as there is no animals in the frame then it looks for eyes on people.
I experience the same thing with my R6, although the dedicated people setting does a better job imo. The R6 ii and I believe the R7 already have an automatic subject detection mode which works great.
For security, the shutter button could be a fingerprint scanner as well, so the owner only can take pictures. It also will add ability to sign up photos with digital signatures. There could be many registered fingerprints for different people, and different signatures.
The viewfinder may also have an iris scanner…
@@codebunnies it could be smart - for example, scan only once per day / per battery change
We need voice controlled menu and setting changes. And wouldn’t it be nice to be able to just say something like, 'ISO, 1000' or 'shutter, 2000" or 'f, 2.8' without ever having to look down, move your hand or fingers? Voicing your changes that can be confirmed with a quiet beep and/or confirmation in the viewfinder would be great if were fast enough. It would be an option for times when you’re not in an environment where speaking commands softly is a problem.
iPhone has the Live, which is kind of burst and the phone pick the best photo for you, however, sometimes I go check on it, and I realize that it did pick totally the wrong picture, but it is a nice feature.
For security reasons make it possible to put a pincode in the camera. They all use touchscreens, so that shouldn't be a problem and you can make your own decision to use it or not.
This way you could probably/maybe also encrypt your memorycard.
Where do you get instantanious?? what is the delay from shutter press to image? The delay on my A7R3 and A74 is causing me continuing issues for capturing podium speakers. Precapture is awesome but all I want for this particular problem is the ability to see the client look up and I can determine when to push the button to get the eyes open. With my current cameras the moment has already passed because of the delay in the viewfinder.
How about the ability to quickly toggle between faces in a group shot when using eye auto focus?
I love your brainstorming! Listen up manufacturers!
10:40 ABSOLUTELY! I’ve known dozens of people who buy the latest greatest camera for their first camera because it has all the bells and whistles to “make life easier,” but then they give up because it’s too complicated. It takes a fraction of the time to learn how to focus and recompose with nine auto focus points than it takes to learn how to navigate and customize sixty pages of focus functions in the menu. I think canon (or whoever) would sell a ton of cameras if they started getting super niche and specific with their entry level cameras, like market a $400 body as a “portraits of your kids” camera and all it has is a single button and single knob, permanently stuck in AV with auto ISO, and always ONLY uses eye AF… I’d buy the heck out of that.
Great video guys! I just need a bigger and clearer screen not 120 frames a sec.
May be 4 or 5 years until this tech hits their more mainstream cameras but still very excited for the progression even though I'll have to wait a number of years before it will be at the price point that I'd consider it.
Are you guys doing a best lenses list this year?
Other manufacturers can add more DRAM buffer to increase the pre-shutter press cache.
Definitely, the traditional camera manufacturers can add Google, Apple, etc, depth sensor information and processing to improve picture quality even more.
Auto selection of pictures is one thing, but with 120fps interpolation using AI would be no big deal since the sequence itself can act as training data. That way a sequence could use another storage format (RAW Sequence) and in post you could select any number of images from the 'stream'. Actually the camera would gain a feature called fps-invariance, (akin iso invariance) where the right picture could be generated out of camera just as well. Instead of series of photos you just show one, with a slider underneath to select the time offset in mSec.... Like the kind of interpolation which already is used in movie files to increase framerate, but with added AI for picture refinement.
Thank you ❤
When are you going to get your hands on the Nikon zf?
Thank you ❤. Great
Such a good points!!
I want a Leica set up with global shutter…
I’m torn between old school but wanting just the necessary core components…
Finger settings and aperture rings etc etc…
But with a heart worthy of the space shuttle… torn between worlds…but hey…
I started with a Argus range finder and the
(BDE) Basic Daylight Exposure… shutter speed on ASA…
Full sun lit frame @ f-16…. Expose for shadows… print for highlights… that was about it…🤷🏽
This is great. Thanks for sharing. Love the content. Literally everything you guys asked for I agree with. They will one day. Apple and google are wayyyyy bigger $ wise, than Sony, canon or Nikon. If they combined or shared tech they can integrate. Your ideas are great this will age like fine wine.
1024 fps would be awesome for science/discovery/research. Imagine the slowmo shots you could achieve for video. I’m with Chelsea on this one. I suspect we’re bumping up against the properties of light when we go this high, though. Higher fps probably requires more light.
@11:16 And even easier than that --- I want to select the next moving thing in the frame --- current Sony's kind of do do this already, but it isn't a bad idea as an option.
Could U have connected an Xperia to the a9iii and have it do a live feed broadcast during the event?
Would it be better to have yet another control surface -- a sliding switch or button that's a little hard to reach like the DOF preview -- to be able to immediately switch between human and animal and train, etc. portraits?
Samsung had the best menu system of any camera. I loved using my NX1 and the ease of the menu system was a big part of it.
Instead of 120fps at the same aperture and speed. How about 120 frames - 500 frames at every aperture and speed permutation stored in a single heic file? And computational photography where it can use that data to auto select photo, auto combine frames for HDR, etc
Is itt look like while from CCD to CMOS senspr?
You guys are spot on! 👍🏁👏
The good thing is about these videos is to make people feel inadequate and buy new stuff, the upside is, there are many fantastic deals on the second hand market. Thank you!
What about instant mega-megapixel images? Stack some images, but while moving the sensor. Then use AI to align those even if the camera or subject moved, then calculate up a 256 megapixel image. It won't matter if the sensor is only 24 megapixels, if they can instantly generate any resolution you want.
Here's a thought, re making cameras easier to use. Apple's Logic Pro software has a global preference for simple options (good for learning) and full pro options. I think every camera should have this option. And BTW, "auto" settings aren't good enough.
Global shutter doesn’t mean Zero (0) readout times it just means that entire sensor has every pixel exposed all at the same time but their still is a delay in transferring that entire pixel map to a readout before it resets every pixel at once. The engineers now need to work on the dir3ct recording globally vice an internal temporary hold register to allow recording while resetting the global sensor for the next exposure.
Your ideas are awesome and should be implemented immediately.
WiFi and GPS for pictures locations and camera tracking, I agree.
Cellular should definitely be an option. Especially for professionals. After the last set of big fires here ( Australia) I saw a picture a rig a photographer was carting round to shoot the fires. They needed a laptop with cellular to switch in the cards they were shooting on , while in the fire zone. At the very least a 5G handgrip should be available so that the office can dial in and down load the shots they want, without the photographer having to shelter in place just to upload photos in the middle of a disaster zone. Fire is my obvious example but any natural disaster or human catastrophe is pretty much in the same category.
Great video!
there's so much tech in smartphones that has been around for years that needs to be in cameras, maybe get them running a bespoke version of android? Also Chelsea kind of touched on it, a sensor that would have the same dynamic range as the human eye in real time (not just being able to pull it back in post) but as you view it through the view finder, so multiple exposure values for 1 shot, correctly exposing high contrast scenes as your eyes see it.
Phone are only processing images from a very tiny sensor.
@@bngr_bngr I was more referring to things that Tony and Chelsea mentioned like security, wifi and blutooth connectivity, maybe dual processors would help
I'm here mostly for the fun banter / Chelsea roasts! 🤣
Thank you for your great contributions and contents as usual! Please do the same on Abode Lightroom/Photoshop....lots of things need to be improved and get ride of LRC to focus on one Lightroom...
Brilliant takes! Listen up, Sony and friends!
If A9III had a faster card and larger RAM to allow a longer burst, it would be magnificent. If it had base ISO100 too, it would be the ultimate speed camera in everyone's imagination.
The hardest part of photography for myself is choosing the image to edit... as the person who took them, they all kinda look the same to me. Shooting in burst modes seriously compounds that stress, and I always choose single frame captures over machine gun mode. 🔫 I have no idea what to do with 120 frame captures... this must be a colab with the hard drive manufacturers like Seagate or WD?
is a wildlife photographer I don’t need global shutter. what I am interested is better low light performance where I could focus and track and photograph owls at night without the use of flash.
The best and the easiest way for manufacturers is integrate smartphone with camera. Smartphones already have better screens better processing better software. Just imagine an iPhone with Sony stack sensor and the f/1.2 lens
It looks like a good camera,but why are they using a CFexpress A that can't keep up on the buffering ? And a ISO with low settings of 1/250 ?
But why don't I improve the white balance so that I don't have to change the settings when I go indoors or the scene changes? That would indeed be an improvement. And why don't we have internal memory like phones yet? Why do I have to run after cards when an internal memory would be faster than the speed of a card and I wouldn't have the problem of a card not registering.
Auto subject detection would be a bad thing, imagine if your at an auto show and the camera keeps focusing on people close to the car, or if you want to take a photo of a model beside a car, but the camera focuses on the car or if you want the car to be the subject but it keeps focusing on her eyes. Just one of many hazardous settings that can happen. You want to take a photo of a model near a tree but the camera focuses on some random bird, insect or a small animal. You want to take a photo of Chelsea beside your dog, does the camera focus on her eyes or the dogs eyes? Let alone it will ruin any creative ideas unless you have a better idea, like having the focus option on a touch screen so you can just toggle the option on or off with a touch of the screen, press it a long second or two and the different subject options appear, that would be cool and more efficient than an auto select whatever it thinks option 🙂
Some good ideas.
Have AI in the camera that can see the offense and the defensive sets of each team. The AI in the camera will calculate 3 moves ahead of the play . Then it will use autonomous steering technology to guide the user or drone to the correct spot. This will eliminate the need of high shutter rates in some situations like the apex of the jump shot to get a lower iso. There will be no need for a high shutter rate because AI will make the correct judgement when the shutter will be released. This will eliminate culling and increase workflow.
Exactly what I´ve been thinking for a while. The shutter should be like a throttle.
what if I want to film a bullet leaving a gun? how many FPS do I need to capture that to slow mo the action?
I am excited about a Global shutter but I am concerned about dynamic range too. Historically, Global Shutters have adversely impacted a sensor’s dynamic range. Hopefully, this is not the case with the Sony A9iii. I think the benefits are there for sports and motion but I want to know the dynamic range.
@@Whatsgoodmydude2222 Remember the days when Sony people talked about the superiority of their sensors because the DR was superior? Now it's so yesterday. Straight golf clubs and baseball bats are the thing now. DR? Phhhhhttttt. Eventually, this will be the norm, but there's a lot we don't know yet. Let's see what the production models do in the field. Sony doesn't make junk, so I suspect the camera will be good, but will it live up to the hype?
Fun show, good stuff
GPS, baby!!!!
Even if I get a relatively new SONY a6700, I gotta run a separate app on my phone to track my route, Then I gotta go through a whole workflow, just to get GPS coordinates into the metadata of my images. It's insane. My Olympus TG-4 has frikkin' GPS. And it can even track my route for me as well.
Funny thing about "photographers" (hobbyist duffers included). As Chelsea said "We always want the latest gear!", even if 99% of "us" can't use it - "I am now poorly composed and over-exposed at 65 mP with a globale shutter!".
ON the other hand, "old stuff" fascinates equally. A clean-out at work left something called a "Robot Voll-Automat Star II" on a trash heap; scoopped it up immediately! Defintiely 35 mm film and it still goes "pfffft-Click!" when I push the shutter cable. I will now obvioulsy load it with film and spin knobs to try to figure out how it works. ;-p
(seriously - it seems to be a German range-finder. Aperture and shutter speed are there; plus a bunch of extra "What does that do?" knobs, levers and pulleys.)
I love the prospect of the global shutter. It will push Canon, Nikon and others to get better. Taking off camera flash at any speed is game changer.
There is a camera that can watch the photons from a light source move through a clear bottle of Coca-Cola is called a Phantasecond meaning it’s can trace a single photon through the entire frame of the image. So there are reasons for professionals to need a global sensor above 120 frames per second.