thinking about this I am actually surprise Sony have "only" a partially stacked sensor.
I know Canon’s fast shooting is only 12 bit but in the real world I’m not sure you can tell between 12 and 14 bit.
It’s more likely a cost issue, I would assume the A7V would be around £3500 with a fully stacked sensor which would cause a lot of complaints.
They drop the bit rate and dynamic range.
As I understand things it only keeps them in the buffer, they're not written to the card until you press the shutter which means that at 30fps lossless compressed the buffer would already be full at the time of pressing the shutter
Yeah it does feel this way.
I thought u Cant get the full 30fps when using an SD card. The way Jared explained it was you need to have no redundancy if you want 30fps.
Not if it was at the time or after initially pressing the shutter. Precapture is not there to get the decisive frame per se, it's a fail safe in case you were too slow
I guess at the end of the day Sony have a business plan and know the market, they've been successful doing what they've been doing so far so who am I to question it? We all want that holy grail but these companies are businesses and so I guess it's in their interest to do as little as possible but make the product desirable enough that it'll still sell well. The only camera I can think of that they threw the kichen sink at it was the A1, I do feel that it was as good as you could do at the time. However, the A1 II seems to go back to the ethos of just doing enough. It does surprise me that it's still only compressed raw at 30fps though.
OM Systems have Pro capture (same thing) but as long as you hold the shutter half way down it keeps so many frames in the buffer. If the buffer fills up the oldest frames get deleted so you'll not miss the shot.
With was the a7V can potentially do.. will find out once raw support and real in hand usage.Not if it was at the time or after initially pressing the shutter. Precapture is not there to get the decisive frame per se, it's a fail safe in case you were too slow
I guess at the end of the day Sony have a business plan and know the market, they've been successful doing what they've been doing so far so who am I to question it? We all want that holy grail but these companies are businesses and so I guess it's in their interest to do as little as possible but make the product desirable enough that it'll still sell well. The only camera I can think of that they threw the kichen sink at it was the A1, I do feel that it was as good as you could do at the time. However, the A1 II seems to go back to the ethos of just doing enough. It does surprise me that it's still only compressed raw at 30fps though.
30fps for 1 second isn't great, but as I said I'd be choosing compressed raw anyway for this type of shooting in which case you get 3 seconds of shooting. I'm not sure why you'd need more than a 3 second burst. With regards to the using 30fps with SD cards, I'm pretty sure I can with the A1, and I would see no reason why not when using the A7V as it will use the buffer, it's only when this is full and writing to the card(s) that it will slow the frame rate. At least that's how I understand it.
I actually think the A7V looks a great camera, and is certainly one of the better updates imo.
Yeah it’s the same from what I read as soon it’s full it dumps the buffer and re fills doing this constantly until you take a shot.
Yeah exactly, so in the case of the A7V with a 1s precapture and 30fps lossless raw the buffer will always be full, just replacing one frame at a time, so the moment you fully press the shutter the buffer will be full.
As I understand it it doesn’t dump all of the buffer, just one photo at a time, I.e the oldest one.
I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing
Surely no-one has reactions so slow. I find 0.3 seconds is fine. 0.4 is possibly overkill. If you need a full second then I hope you arent drivingAs I understand things it only keeps them in the buffer, they're not written to the card until you press the shutter which means that at 30fps lossless compressed the buffer would already be full at the time of pressing the shutter
Well I wouldn’t have it set at 1s, but I bet there’s people that will especially the more elderly who’s reflexes have started to slow. But at the end of the day Sony have made it capable of doing so so it’s there to be used if you want it
I'm coming up 58 years old and my reactions are around 0.25 seconds according to the online tests. Even average 80 year olds will be around 0.5 seconds for the simple choice of reacting to movement from a bird or a big tackle coming in etc. To be fair to Sony you can use the full buffer with Pre-Capture albiet nothing will record at 30fps thereafter. It will likely just shoot at a slower shutter speed though.Well I wouldn’t have it set at 1s, but I bet there’s people that will especially the more elderly who’s reflexes have started to slow. But at the end of the day Sony have made it capable of doing so so it’s there to be used if you want it
I don’t know the stats, however regardless of whether or not they feel they have the reaction time my guess is that there’ll be plenty of people who set it to 1s, just like there’s the people that machine gun everything in the hope that one shot will turn out decent
Going to shoot my old Praktica PB lenses on it.
Original A7 was £1700 at release in 2013, adjusted for inflation that's about £2500 in today's money£2800 of an A7 V! When did cameras get so expensive?
I picked up a used a7s for £260 which is more my level
I remember two hikes since 2013, I can't remember the reason but they were pre-brexit and I don't think it was down to the value of the pound but I can't remember why. However I've got a feeling at least one was due to the rise in smartphones and the subsequent reduction in number of camera sales.
Similar here, bought kit from Panamoz on Brexit voting day and a day or two later price had gone up £200+
I remember one time was when I was looking at buying the Nikon 70-200mm f2.8, and then another time. Both were mentioned on various blogs etc.
I think Nikon have raised prices more times than Sony or canon.
Yeah it's a strange one considering what we've uncovered, however I bet most people don't even realise
It's any government.
