(SR5) More Sony Full Frame sensor news: 36MP sensor has six different native ISO settings!

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Two Sources sent me this graph. As a reminder: The IMX251 and IMX309 are existing sensors.  The yet to be announced sensors are:
IMX435 is a new 36Mp 8K sensor (article here)
IMX 551 is a new 60MP 8k sensor (article here)
IMX455 is a stripped down version of the IMX551 (article here).
Source 1 told me this:
IMX455 is electricity saving type Affordable price CMOS, half power of IMX251. Perhaps it target in third party market.
IMX511 order better Dynamic Range (20/6)Log10(52000/1.762)≈14.9EV, (IMX455~14.4EV), but watse more power. It’s unfriendly to the third party camera manufacturers which wanna make a High resolution camera without high speed. Also, IMX551 may is not for sell.
IMX435 STARVIS use Hecx Native Conversion Gain to Produce more SNR in Dark Scene:
(ISO 15 ~ 17.5EV/ISO 100 ~ 15.4EV/…/ISO 409600 ~ 6.9EV)
If readout all Conversion Gain, the Landscape can be extended to 120dB, like the high SNR sensor sony displayed on IEDM 2018. But IMX435 seems impossible to do this. It’s not a still picture style sensor.
Source 2 told me this:
“The star of the show IMX435 sensor has 6 native sensitivities (from base to top as seen in the table):

ISO50 = Conversion Gain -18dB, EI +12dB, DR 17.4EV
ISO200 = Conversion Gain 0dB, EI +6dB, DR 15.4EV
ISO800 = Conversion Gain +18dB, EI 0dB, DR 13.4EV
ISO12800 = Conversion Gain +36dB, EI +6dB
ISO102400 = Conversion Gain +54dB, EI +6dB
ISO1638.4K = Conversion Gain +72dB, EI +24dB

Its full well capacity at base is particularly impressive at 605k e-, A7SII sensor IMX235 is “only” 159K e- with much bigger photosite. This again highlights the power of Exmor RS.”

To be clear:
1) These sensors are open to be used by third companies too
2) To use the full potential you need to buy the rights to use the Sony proprietary SLVS-EC interface
3) Don’t expect these sensors to be used with their full potential on small compact mirrorless cameras. Camcorders are likely to use them first (bigger more powerful processor and bigger ventilation system)
My guess is that future Sony Alpha cameras will use “variations” of these sensors.
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Sony Tidbits…

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https://youtu.be/B01J9XpkGg4”

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Nearly five years old and the Sony A6000 is still the Christmas time hotseller

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In two months the Sony A6000 will become five years old. And it still manages to be the most popular camera according to Amazon Ranking (Click here to see full list). The mirrorless competition had no chance to beat this camera so far. Maybe this will change next year when Canon and Nikon will release some entry level Z and EOS-R APS-C camera?

My bet is that in exactly one year we will still see the A6000 on top of the Amazon Ranking :)

 

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New Kipon Ibelux 40mm F0.85 Mark II tested by Marc Alhadeff

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Marc Alhedeff from Sonyalpha.blog tested the new version of the world’s fastest native E-mount lens. He writes:

The Kipon Ibelux 40mm F0.85 Mark II (1800 euros) is a nice upgrade of the Handevision 40mm F0.85 with mainly better color rendering and better resistance to flare which were 2 flaws of the V1 . I wished they had strengthen the dampening of the focusing ring but it has remained as it it

Pros

  • Very good build quality
  • Excellent sharpness in the centre as of F1.4, good at F0.85 and F1
  • Spectacular portrait with creamy background at F0.85 / F1
  • Superb background blur
  • good color rendition
  • good resistance to flare
  • correct contrast at F0.85 (V1 was weaker)

Cons

  • Difficult to focus at F0.85
  • extremely heavy and unbalanced on Sony A6000
  • very expensive (1800 euros)
  • CA up to F1.4
  • Long min focusing distance : 75 cm

You are supposed to use this lens most of the time at F0.85 / F1 as you have many options starting at F1.2.

Wide open and at F1 , this lens can produce very beautiful portrait and half body photos with a very smooth blurry background and sufficient sharpness but it requires some patience and a lot of trials/errors in the beginning, but you quickly improve to focus at F0.85

With the improved coating and better color rendition I would not hesitate to use it at F0.85 whereas for V1 as was closing down to F1.4 to neutralise the color cast

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