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Sony FE 28-70mm f/2 GM – allows you to leave your house without your primes
Sony A1 II will go on sale in December.
2Gbps file transfer speed
Dedicated microphone for tag and transfer – and speech is converted to text, and appended to metadata of the image
4-axis LCD monitor – very similar to on the A9 III
Noise Reduction shooting setting – combine four to 32 RAW files to eliminate noise
There’s a high-res mode, that allows you to create a 199MP image using multiple images
Fastest readout speed of any non-global-shutter sensor, he says
Pre-capture captures the moment before the shutter release.
New dedicated AI processing unit.
Now has automatic subject recognition – so you don’t have to tell the camera the type of thing your are shooting.
Mike Bubolo on stage to give us the detail…
918g body weight (32.4 oz)
Not just a new camera, also a new standard zoom a FE 28-70mm f/2 GM – so faster than your usual 24-70mm f/2, but with a bit less range.
50MP + 30fps + AI
So guess the sensor is the same, but new AI smarts to make this “unrivaled”?
Sony A1 II builds on feedback from Sony A1 users – and uses Sony’s latest imaging technology…
Masaaki Oshima, Head of Imaging, is on stage now, after the nice introduction… hopefully he will be the one breaking the news…
Neal Manowitz Sony President and COO is on stage… with some 10,000 people in the virtual audience
Music is running – and counting down the last few seconds until the announcement. Hold onto your seats…
Less than an hour to wait now, and there are already lots of comments in the chat box on Sony’s YouTube page. As ever, I love reading these thoughts as a wait for a big online announcement. Here is a selection of comments and wishlists from fellow Sony fans:
FlashForum says Current A1 owner. Studio photographer. My wishlist: 60MP, MUCH better AI autofocus, Wireless tethering, WiFi7 for fast wireless image transfer, GPS, Higher res/brighter screen, 360 screen, A9II body
The Sony A1 launched with a body-only retail price of $6,498 / £6,499 / AU$10,499 – and surprisingly the price of this has not fallen that much in the last three and a half years. In the US, Amazon has it discounted down to $5,498, while in the UK all the major retailers have it at £5,879.
That’s not a lot to go on – but this is obviously an update to the Sony A1, which was launched back in January 2021. Back then, its 50MP full-frame sensor could shoot burst sequences at 30fps, shot 8K video, and had real-time Eye AF for photographing birds and more.