Sony is boasting that the read-out speed of their BSI sensors is very close to a global shutter and they are offering it in 42mpx and 20mpx version. 12mpx of a7s could be favourable for a true global shutter using the BSI tech. The video world would implode upon announcement.
That story is ancient history. Sony cut bait on mobile phones, the branch that was failing. They figured out that it was more profitable to focus on sensors and let the other cell phone makers deal with the problems of a crowded, low margin, high turnover market. In effect, Apple has become Sony's surrogate in that market.
Just to clarify, the 7000 was the first body-driven AF SLR from any maker while the 7D was merely Minolta's first digital SLR with a single sensor. Arguably the first hand-holdable digital SLR was a Minolta: the Minolta RD-175, which came out about the same time as Nikon's E series. It used a built-in 0.4x focal reducer and beamsplitter arrangement to light separate sensors for R, G, B. It appropriately enough had a 1 model number, probably not just because it was 1.75MP, but also because Minolta clearly saw it as the first of the new form now known as DSLRs.... ;-)
Somewhere else I posited that a 4x4K grid would drive the next sensor res. But i am so naive regarding the actual video specs...I thought it worked out to 46MP not 42MP. Such is life.It is hardly "pretty much nailed the specs" when you stated that the future A9 would get 46Mp based on the premise of the pixel desity being the same as the 20Mp APS-C sensor. You may have been close with the Pixel count (42 vs 46) but the prediction was based on the wrong assumptionI wrote a post for fun 7 months ago and pretty much nailed the specs on the A7RII... except I labled it the A9
www.dpreview.com/forums/post/54992712
Bruce
http://www.pbase.com/misterpixel
Anyway, a 46Mp rumor was floating around at that time (http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr4-...era-is-coming-for-real-in-first-quarter-2015/ ) I guess you werent the one behind this, or?
I feel that there is room for a high FPS flagship. A 10fps 20-ish Mp low light Af'ing monster could be the answer for birders, sports photographers and event shooters. Positioning it around the A7R-ii and A7S is the tricky part however. Maybe Sony will need the feedback on the A7R-ii to pull the trigger on such a flagship model.
How many weddings do you attend? Hundreds per month, I assume?
Yes, they do.
I agree the battery consumption is one sticking point for many professional applications, but even DSLR users usually carry multiple batteries with adaptable chargers.
Because wedding shooters are the difference between profitability and losing money? Hardly. The consumer side of things is where a majority of the sales lie, and thus profitability is tied to adoption by the general public, not a small subset of specialized users that aren't constantly churning gear to get the latest and the greatest. CIPA says there were about 14 million bodies shipped last year between DSLR's and mirrorless, pros certainly aren't driving those sales numbers.
That is largely correct. However, I would not discount exposure through the wedding photography market as a means of gaining direct exposure to the consumer and thus stimulating consumer sales. This is one of the very few areas where the consumer has direct interaction with professional photographers. The combination of a highly charged emotional event, a life milestone with positive connotations, combined with exposure to a professional photographer using a specific brand of camera is a form of advertising that is hard to duplicate through traditional campaigns.
