Sony’s new CMOS sensor
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Sony DSLR users are going to love this…
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08013001sony35mmcmossensor.asp
Was just reading the release.
With Nikon seemingly holding out on their new FF and Canon not delivering on the much rumored 5D replacement, this certainly sounds like a shot across the bow.
Zach, I thought I read somewhere that Nikon was producing their own chips for the D3s dont quote me though)
That was one of my first thoughts to labrati, that things going to be a beast at 6.5fps 25mp. Anyone catch the buffer size in the release? With the MKIIN
Was just reading the release.
With Nikon seemingly holding out on their new FF and Canon not delivering on the much rumored 5D replacement, this certainly sounds like a shot across the bow.
Zach, I thought I read somewhere that Nikon was producing their own chips for the D3s dont quote me though) ;D
The 5D replacement is the 5D Mark II – 17.2 MP, still full-frame, 14-bit data, weather/dust-sealed body, $3000. Thats enough for me, personally.
Seriously, at a certain level, and I definitely think 10+fps qualifies, we are beginning to leave the realm of the still camera in favor of video.
24 fps is the standard rate of frames for television today.
Zach, I agree.. we’ll see it in our lifetime… BUT…….
Capture technology has a LONG way to go before this becomes a reality that you can hold in your hand or is in a similar form factor to a SLR.
Even 8GB CF cards at UDMA speeds will fill up extremely fast at 24MP x 8FPS… bump that to anything over 15FPS at 24MP and you are gonna have issues…
And non-solid-state isn’t going to cut it.. even 10,000 RPM drives aren’t going to keep up.
The 1DMKIIN +400 +1.4 is controllable with entended burst. I rarely do it prefering 3-5 shot burst typically, but there have been occasions where Ive taken extended burst of 8-16frames. No doubt though that it can jump like a jack hammer. Using a Bushhawk pays dividends for that Im sure.
Ive seen some good GIF animation of Birds of Prey swooping in on kills that are anywhere from 8 to 16frames that were taken with the MKIIN and 400s or 500s.
Back when Barry Bonds hit his record breaking HR, there was a SI shooter who wired 3 MKIIIs and synched them, such that the 3 produced 30 fps. It may as well have been a vid camera. Hard to tell from the vid but it looks like he’s using 500 f4s or maybe the 600s, but it sure sounds sweet.
Bounce is mostly a factor of mirror slap, I suspect; these new live preview cameras may essentially hybridize the non-bouncing features of point and shoot cameras with an SLR lens.
No kidding Zack, the prices are coming down a ton.
Currently I have one 4gig, three 2gig, and two 1gig Extreme III cards. I belong to the school of thought that despite the inconvenience smaller cards are “safer”. Meaning if you were to lose or destroy a card, better it happen to 2gigs worth of images, than an 8gig card.
The 1gig card I paid $130.00 for a couple years ago. I paid the same for the 4gig card about 8 months ago and I think today they sell for around $90.00.
One problem a camera like the Sony is likely going to have should someone want to take full advantage of the fps is how fast it writes to the card and clears the buffer.
An SLR with no mirror.. hmmmmmm….. I’ve played with the live preview… I guess it’s OK.. but I really would rather look through the viewfinder… the image represented on an LCD never seems to be what my eye sees through the lens (exactly)…
Hey Labrati –
Good comments again, but I’d address the assumption in your statement that the D200 is a pro-sumer/backup body.
Zach, no doubt… that’s exactly what I’m saying… before the D200 you had the D70 and the D100 in the “pro-sumer” price range, and they were both “pro-sumer” cameras… great cameras..
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