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Some 2.5 years after it courted professional photographers with its Alpha mirrorless camera series with the flagship Sony A9, the Japanese manufacturer returns with a new flagship model. While it retains its predecessor's image sensor unchanged, the Sony A9 II nevertheless brings with it a lengthy laundry-list of new...
This week's Firmware Friday roundup is rather bigger than they've been of late, bringing with it news of some interesting feature-enhancing updates for several mirrorless cameras from Canon, Fujifilm and Sony, as well as a bug fix for another Fuji camera. The models receiving new features span a gamut from the...
This week's Firmware Friday roundup is a bit of an unusual one, in that while there are plenty of cameras receiving new firmware in the past seven days -- for 10 models, to be exact -- we actually don't have a huge amount to discuss. The reasons for that are twofold. While Nikon has updated both its Z6 and Z7...
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to travel to the Kingdom of Bahrain and I had the pleasure of taking the Sony A9 along with me to document the trip. Knowing that this was probably a once in a lifetime experience, I knew that I wanted to take a camera with me that was going to be light and compact but still produce...
Though the unveiling of the Sony A6400 stole the majority of the news cycle for Sony's recent announcements, perhaps what has longer-lasting effects to the photo industry was one piece of technology inside the A6400: Object Recognition Tracking. Coming also to the Sony A9, this new advancement in autofocus that we had...
Sony has just announced its first APS-C model in many years in the form of the (somewhat oddly named) A6400. We say oddly because both the A6300 and the A6500 were announced in 2016, and it's therefore not overly clear (at least from the name) where this model exactly sits. We've been told by some that it's the logical...
Our final Firmware Friday roundup of 2018 is a biggie, bringing with it news of close to two dozen different camera updates for models from Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Sigma and Sony. And as if that wasn't plenty, we've also uncovered two movie camera updates from Sony, as well as a lens and software update...
This week, our regular Firmware Friday roundup returns after a brief hiatus with news of firmware updates for ten still cameras and three video cameras, as well as a raft of software news. If you're a Fujifilm, Nikon, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh or Sony shooter, you'll want to keep reading. If not, we'd suggest taking a...
After a brief one-week hiatus, Firmware Friday returns in style this week. Since it's such a biggie, we'll keep this preamble brief. In all, there are around two dozen cameras, video cameras, lenses and accessories receiving updates in the past fortnight, with manufacturers on the list including Canon, Fujifilm,...
Earlier this year, IR founder and publisher Dave Etchells and senior editor William Brawley attended the CP+ tradeshow in Japan, where they were fortunate to be able to meet with executives from many of the most significant companies in the imaging industry. As we work our way through a backlog of transcription and...
Our first Firmware Friday roundup of the year arrives a week later than usual, with no new releases having landed over the New Year's period. This week, though, we have news to report from Fujifilm, Panasonic and Sony, with the latter in particular having some exciting new features on offer.
Let's get right down...
At the recent PhotoPlus Expo in New York City's Javits Convention Center, IR founder and publisher Dave Etchells was fortunate to have the opportunity to interview the senior executives behind Sony's impressive Alpha camera line. Three key architects of the company's mirrorless strategy took Dave behind-the-scenes,...
For most of us, the phrase "professional sports photographer" conjures up images of big, long, heavy lenses paired with bulky, gripped DSLRs. And monopods to help support all that weight. Wouldn't it be great if you could shoot the same subjects, at the same level of speed and...
After a couple of weeks of shorter posts, this week's regular Firmware Friday roundup is a giant, bringing news of updates to six digital cameras -- one of which we already told you about midweek -- as well as for two professional video cameras and two Micro Four Thirds lenses. And as if that wasn't already plenty to...
If you've ever shot a video that included a fast-moving subject like an aircraft's propellers, you'll have noticed that they seem to be being whipped through the air and then bizarrely discarded. If so, you've been a victim of the rolling shutter effect. (Or more colloquially, the "jello effect.") This unusual...
We just can't get enough of the Sony A9! Photographer Brent Durand -- who recently penned a Field Test for us about the new Sony FE 12-24mm f/4G lens -- used that opportunity to put together an additional field test on Sony's flagship mirrorless camera. As a more...
The Sony A9 is one of the most impressive professional cameras we have seen in recent years, and that extends beyond the image quality and autofocus for stills. Indeed, though it lacks a full gamut of video features, the Sony A9 does quite a bit right when it comes to...
Frequent IR readers, especially those keeping track of our progress on our Sony A9 review, might be scratching their heads about the title here, Field Test Part II... where's Part I, you ask? Fear not. We've simply re-classified our earlier "Sony A9 Gallery...
Many of you have likely already heard of Brent Durand, as he's been a major player in the underwater photography world for some time through his work at Underwater Photography Guide and other publications. And if his name sounds familiar to you long time IR...
When the Sony A9 first became available to the public, just about immediately a video surfaced online complaining about it overheating in what should have been a relatively unchallenging environment. In that video, the photographer said that within 20 minutes of shooting...