Sony A9 Review

which lens in this video please ?

Are these photos all taken in auto-focus? Doubt it but had to ask! Also, how much editing if any were done to the photos before posting on your website? I'm a beginner basically so just curious. I am looking for my, techniclly, 2nd full frame camera. I have an old Canon 6d but i'm not smart enough or have the memory to use it. Point and shoot is almost my style but want something I can change lenses on and such. I also have a Canon T5i and a my first camera was a Pentax k200d which I chose because of water resistant and used AA batteries. Plus could use old canon lenses on it. But now i want to see what a full frame camera is like. Kinda wanting to stick to canon because of all my lenses but am entertaining other brands also and still be able to use my old camera. I mainly do wildlife, outdoors photos and classic cars so no set subject matter at all. Thanks!

Wow wow wow wow what is that wow it is a beast!

Thanks, Mark. I’ll start with your suggestions and go from there.

Mark, would it speed up buffer clearing if I captured Raw in the faster of the two slots and jpeg copies in the slower card slot. Or, does it not make a difference? Thanks for the videos.

Let's just hope it doesn't over heat and don't that ugly jelly effect in video.

What a story Mark!

Las fotos que muestra, pueden perfectamente haber sido hechas con una cámara de hace 15 años, puro consumismo

Most of the newer cameras including this still using USB 2.0 and 802.11n.
Not sure why USB 3.1 or Type C and 802.11ac does not go to camera...

I would never purchase a camera that's Made in Thailand .. What a joke .. Give some respect to the buyers paying $5K for the camera and make it in Japan where the Canon and old NIkons are made .. And don't give me that story about the factories being under the eye of a Japanese managers .. That just don't hold the water ... Nikon knows he can't afford to play on this card with it's top of the line D5, so it's still made in their homeland .. I still have a Nikon D700 which is built like a tank, but I guess my next camera will be a Canon made in J.

Give me these lens and i will pull out those photos even with my first gen A7.

goals... too bad I don't have $7000 U.S dollars. lol I'll stick to canon for now. :(

Is it going to overheat?

thanks for your information ! Y can,t wait to try it out.

Great camera, but hellishly expensive! Who pays 4k for 4k? XD

Sony a9 shoots at 20 fps with continuous autofocus 12bit raw files with lossy compression which have lower quality and lower dynamic range than the common 14bit uncompressed raw files.
The Sony a9 can shoot uncompressed raw files. Sony a9 shoots maximum 12 fps with continuous autofocus 12bit uncompressed raw files.

Finally Sony can shoot 14bit uncompressed raw files only in single shooting mode or with bracketing. During continuous shooting Sony a9 shoots only 12bit raw files like all the Sony a7 series cameras.

For the record the Canon 1DX mark II 6,000$ shoots 14 fps with continuous autofocus uncompressed raw 14bit files. The Nikon D5 6,500$ shots 12 fps with continuous autofocus uncompressed 14bit raw files.

My conclusion is that Sony shoots lower quality raw photos at 12 fps and even much lower at 20fps than the Canon and Nikon flagships.

Nevertheless the Sony a9 is the king of all mirrorless cameras. I bet that Sony a9R and Sony a9S are coming. The Sony a9S will be a hell of a camera.
20 fps with uncompressed 14bit raw files is very demanding for the image processors today.

Thanks Mark for this short and sweet review! Can't wait for a Sony A9R or A9S :P

Sorry mate but the A9 EVF isn't 3,69 M pixels but 3,69 M dots or 1,23 M pixels. :)

Does the [Recall Custom Hold] work while recording video?

Great video, we what to see the photos!! more please. That burst into the final photo effect is awesome!

Wonderful job!

Great for Weddings photographers too Mark. Now dose this mean the A9 is available soon in Australia?