Canon EOS RP vs EOS R vs Sony A7III (Full Frame Battle)
Yes folks it can get worse: January 2019 camera shipments down again compared to previous year (MirrolessRumors). Dpreview CP+ 2019: Hands-on with Tamron’s trio of full-frame lenses
ZEISS Impresses with Batis Mirrorless Lenses (Shawn Steiner).
SmallHD: the New FOCUS 7 HDMI On-Camera Monitor for Small Cameras (Explora).
Techart E-mount to Nikon Z adapter (Capa).
Sony A6400 vs A6500 (TheDigitalDigest).
Sidney Diongzon compared the Sony’s new Real-Time autofocus system of the Sony A6400 versus the highly accliamed Canon Dual Pixel Autofocus system. And the good news is that Sony managed to beat the Canon!
This very same new AF system is coming on the A9 via firmware update on March 25.
At the Cp+ show Shoten displayed their new 7Artisans 60mm macro E-mount lens mounted on a long tube which was again mounted on the Sony A6000. A quite unusual view :)
You can see a Japanese video showing this combination on Fengniao.
A6400 – Reliable/Sticky Real Time-Tracking I have been surprised that one or two photographers at the A6400 launch appeared to be using inappropriate settings to track moving targets. I have seen screens from their movies with AF-S, AF-A, slow shutter speeds (1/250 second for volleyball), small apertures chosen in dark conditions and their Drive Mode set to Hi+ (no live view panning) being used.
In my own pre-production A6400 camera I noticed that Pre-AF was switched ON by default which, in my opinion, does not lead to easy subject selection when AF-C with a Tracking option is selected. This may not have been the same setup as used in the USA but when Pre-AF was switched OFF for action sequences in my own tests the camera proved itself to be the stickiest AF tracking system I have ever used. I am sure I will still be using my A9 for motorsports and Birds in Flight but the A6400 is certainly a powerful tool at the price point.
This gallery of sequences, where obstacles appear in front of my primary target, should prove my point: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmB9uuod
Normally when you take a picture, the phone will then compress it into a JPEG and then add the noise reduction. How Alpha does it is that it takes the Raw image, adds the algorithm to reduce the noise on the Raw image, then compresses it to JPEG, then you put noise reduction on top. That’s how Alpha is doing it. From Xperia 1, that’s how Xperia 1 will do it as well
The knock-on effect was that Alpha guru Kimio Maki is now head of product development for Sony Mobile and actually stopped production on what would have been a Sony XZ4. “He said “okay, so we work with Alpha here, let’s take this bit, we work with the CineAlta brand, let’s bring this bit”. He opened up the whole of digital imaging for us.”
I wonder if that will finally change the fate of their afflicted smartphone business…
