Major Sony a9 Firmware Update Adds Animal Eye AF and Much More
Firmware version 6 for the Sony a9 adds real-time Animal Eye AF mode, interval shooting and much more.
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New Ultra-Tough SSD Drives for Photographers from Sony
Sony has recently unveiled a new series of tough SSD drives aimed at photographers and other content creators. The new drives, to be launched in the summer of 2019, come in two flavours: SL-C series featuring 540MB/s read speed and 520MB/s write speed SL-M series featuring read and write speed of up to 1000MB/s Both the SL-C and SL-M drives feature a USB 3.1 Gen 2 USB-C interface as well as IP67 waterproofing and dust rating, and a robust design that’s capable of withstanding a drop of 9 ft. IP water ratings can be a bit confusing, but IP67 is …
Sony Launching Tough CFexpress Cards Capable of 1700MB/s
The CFexpress memory card format is gathering momentum, and appears to be the logical successor to Compact Flash, CFast and XQD cards. By the end of 2019 there will be cameras from Nikon, Sony, Panasonic and Canon that use this card format. Something which never happened with the half-hearted partial adoption of the CFast and XQD formats. ProGrade Digital were first out of the gate by demoing a 1TB CFexpress card at several earlier trade shows, and now Sony have joined in by unveiling the TOUGH series CEB-G128 (CFexpress Type B). Whilst the ProGrade Digital card has the edge in …
Sony Launches New Series of Tough Waterproof SD Cards
Sony’s range of memory cards continues to grow, and now includes a new Tough series of professional grade UHS-II cards within the existing SF-G SD card range. Sony are touting these cards as the “world’s toughest SD cards”, and when you see how they are built, it’s hard to argue with that claim. Rather than being built from multiple pieces like a standard SD card, the Tough series of SF-G cards have their casings moulded from a single piece of plastic. They forgo the sliding write protection switch in favour of this more rugged design, and also lack the thin …
Mirrorless Vs. DSLR – Why I ditched my Canon gear for Sony
Switching from a DSLR to mirrorless So there are many articles out there covering photographer’s transitions from their beloved camera format to Sony, but I wanted to share my reluctant transition and obviously the ‘why’ for waiting and ultimately moving over. I was a hold out for nearly a year, very wary of the idea of moving to a smaller camera body that had a limited lens selection and would force me to really shake things up with the gear I was using. I split my photography interest between landscape photography and travel/humanitarian work around the globe so I need …
Around The World With A Compact Camera
Photographer Stefan Haworth takes us on a journey round the world and discusses his choice to only travel with a fixed lens compact camera instead of a DSLR.