The latest Canon news and rumors:
Yesterday Sony China uploaded a new teaser for an upcoming camera on their Weibo account. It appears that the teaser shows the evolution of a compact camera on the first row with the question "What's the next?". The second row has three full frame cameras, one of them with a fixed lens (RX1).
Sony has been rumored to announce a new RX1R III camera or another RX model. Stay tuned for more details.
Photonstophotos published their Sony a9 test results with some comparison data from the Canon 1D X Mark II and Nikon D5 cameras:
Photonstophotos updated their Sony a9 results with final data and it performs very well against its competitors up till 3200 ISO, where the Nikon D5 just edges it out. It’s good to see that the electronic shutter of the Sony a9 doesn’t affect the dynamic range of the a9 much according to Photonstophotos’ results. The Sony a9, beats the Canon 1D X Mark II across the board, but falls just behind the Nikon D5 in low light, while besting it in maximum dynamic range. (SonyAddict)
| Camera Model ▾ | Maximum PDR |
Low Light ISO |
Low Light EV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sony ILCE-9 | 10.47 | 6612 | 11.05 |
| Sony ILCE-9(ES) | 10.64 | 5709 | 10.84 |
| Nikon D5 | 9.42 | 7178 | 11.17 |
| Canon EOS 1D X Mark II | 10.46 | 5189 | 10.70 |
Next is a comparison between the Sony a9, Sony a7 Mark II and a7r Mark II:
Some of the latest US camera and lens rebates from Tamron, Olympus, Nikon, Canon, Sony, Sigma, Fuji and Panasonic are set to expire next week:
The Sony a9 full frame mirrorless camera ($4,498) just started shipping a few days ago and we already have the first overheating reports (Sony had several overheating issues with different cameras over the years):
"After 20 minutes of shooting That 1 Cameraguy experienced an overheating indicator in 80-degree weather after 20 minutes of shooting.: (SonyAddict)
Here is the related video:
A similar report came also from dpreview:
But one unnerving thing was that the high temp warning came on. I was admittedly in the sun most of the time but it's only around 65 degrees today in NJ. I did have the camera on and shooting probably for 40-45 minutes nonstop. (No video, by the way.) I set the sleep timer to 10 seconds and that seemed to help. But this worries me a bit for summer/warm weather shooting.
Few other issues reported by Sony a9 owners:
Here is an updated list of upcoming cameras from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus and Leica that have already been registered with various government agencies but are not yet announced:
The Latest Nikon Rumors The Latest Leica Rumors
