Alec

How many real estate Gregs do you see today manage to use a lowly Google photosphere -
that's free and been there for years? But this real estate Greg somehow captured this 3-story home with like 40 rooms, and put together all those materials, tagged house features and shot videos for those tags. Reminds me of this AOL commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1npzZu83AfU - how long somebody actually doing all those things takes today, 20 years after the commercial aired?

I was about to post a really snarky comment about the Library of Congress being finally able to free up all those shelves of crusty old negs, but I watched the vid and something changed. The developer seems sincere and while, seeing his Leica and his fancy pencil all perfectly arranged leads me to believe he has a proper scanner, some folks who have nothing, may benefit from the app. It does try to maximize the quality it extracts, even though the constraints are severe (realistically, no proper light source, the film is not flat, the phone lens is dusty and gummed up, the phone is not held steady and is at an angle, and the minimal focusing distance means low res). Yet, it will help, I believe, many folks to extract web-quality or slightly better pix from negs, and some of those negs may get irrecoverably lost thereafter.

nice camera! them real world sample photos tho...

Mark9473, by means of follow focus. It engages those Mod 0.8 teeth and has a gear ratio that gives precise control over distance. In a proper production, blocking is done where distances are pre-measured and the talent stands or moves among specific pre-marked spots. Those spots are marked and numbered with a dry erase pen or pencil on the white follow focus rings and as the shoot progresses the ADP / focus puller moves the focus accordingly as the talent executes the scene.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP5YxHauyFk for example

Indeed. Panasonic DC-GH5 (and GH4 prior) have 10 bits - the whole "4K is so huge our hands are tied on color depth side" argument no longer holds water when we see cellphones, action cameras do 4K off their puny power budgets. Certainly the 1080x60P should be native 14 bit (compressed raw as you suggest). It's 2017.

Size wise, a pro camera is not fundamentally different from a pro hammer drill, a pro ski boot, etc. Human body interface over a certain area is needed for optimal control and to avoid fatigue. Regardless of how small the tech is, human body is human body.

Frankly I'm surprised they didn't make the vertical grip integrated (how many people would mind it - esp considering the mild cost & weight & rigidness advantage over the body + attached detachable grip). It would also allow to make the display a little bigger - personally I see nothing wrong with the display the size of iPhone even the larger ones. It's not like instagram users are complaining it's too big or too clear.

I still shoot two A900s. Never failed on me. I don't think failure is supported in firmware ;)

I got a D800 for video - I'll consolidate to E-mount for vid and stills, but only when I see 4K at 60fps and 10 or 12 bit video recording (either internal or HDMI). For now, even the A9's 4K is 30fps and 8 bits.

Thanks, zodiacfml - I don't deserve the credit; like you pointed out it's just common sense. PoE has been powering the security IP cameras for over a decade now, and has been getting cheaper to implement and more powerful all the time. 802.3at can deliver 25W over the Ethernet cable (enough for rapid-charging batteries and/or powering a LED light), and the same single wire could carry control and status signaling (via HTTP RESTful interface) and even stream HD or 4K video from the camera (albeit with a small lag). Just a single cable.

BBQue very true, but so were all the other products that use the stated features. Roadmaps, draft standards, engineering samples exist for a reason, so up-to-date features and interfaces can be integrated into up-to-date products. And it works. Not to mention, USB2 in particular just laughs in the face of "there was no time" argument.

The camera is lovely, but the chewed up video output spec makes me think the Cine Alta samurai came down to the Minolta guys in the camera division, whirling katanas in their faces and warning there'll be blood if A9 puts so much as a toe on their glorious land of "real" cameras for "actual" filming.

Lots to love, though:
- Customizable file prefix to differentiate camera or project.
- 3" HD lcd, with tunable zebra and focus peaking and S-Log preview
- Phase AF covering nearly full image with nearly 700 points, that work with A-mount lenses (via LA-EA3)
- SONY collaborated with Phase One to ensure great raw conversions in Capture One - no reverse engineering.
- Time code, scene data tagging in video - great for multi-camera workflow.
- Digital zoom!! Just kidding. No, I'm not. There's an entire section on it in SONY's specs, stating how the 2x one is nice and 8x is available but crap. Enlightening! No mention of in-camera HDR or distance bracketing though, and there's a curious dash in the Playmemories Apps` support's section. Hmm.

SONY's spec sheet: https://www.sony.com/electronics/interchangeable-lens-cameras/ilce-9/specifications

If this is the "9" to Sony A7 and A9S, A9R are on the way, then ok. If not, here's my "It's 2017, hello!!" list:

1. HDMI out: 4:2:2 8bit. 8bit! Off native 14. It's 2017, hello!!
2. 4K top frame rate: 30fps (int. & HDMI). Let me get this: the thing does 20fps @ 24M (WELL over 6K), in 14bit RAW. Thing does AF+AE @ 60fps. But 4K vid's 30fps. It's 2017, hello!!
3. HFR. High Frame Rate. Am I blind or not there? Cyber-shot RX100 V does 250fps HD (over 10x slo-mo). As in, SONY Cyber-shot RX100 V. It's 2017, hello!!
4. USB2. Not Thunderbolt 3/USB-C (`cause, too clean). Not even the dumb USB3 "mini" that isn't. USB2. It's 2017, hello!!
5. Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz only. Where's 802.11ac (finalized in 2013), where's 5GHz? It's 2017, hello!!
6. Actually VERY impressed it includes a wired Ethernet LAN terminal. Dare we expect a Gigabit LAN - not just 100M? Cause SONY's full specifications don't bother stating such minutiae. 10G with charging over PoE would have been fantastic. It's 2017, hello!!

Well, yes and no: there's "Nikon F5 pass" (or Pentax K1000) and "Lytro camera pass". The latter was a fad. This, to me, has "fad" written all over it.

this, too, shall pass

AAAAAAAA! Tech singularity is here. I fed it UC Berkeley's AI painting-to-photo output off of Monet's painting used in the title of the recent article here http://bit.ly/2oNMZhJ - and got this result: http://imgur.com/a/OB4iE

And Malevich's black square.

What if it were used on more paintings? http://imgur.com/a/UhN8V

Of course it's less, it's 1920 x 1200, but given the screen is 7.1”, that's 325ppi i.e. there'd be a pretty diminished return from an even higher pixel density. For "native" 4K critical focusing (without relying on magnified segments and focus aids that the recorder does have), you'd want to chain/feed the recorder's output to a 22-24" 4K display - which you in fact can do with this recorder.

It totally sucks - the reality that in this day and age even Shogun Inferno got raw capability days ago and even then with only a tiny handful of specific cameras.

The 2017 reality in which we still live is DSLR and mirrorless cameras have HDMI outputs with 8 bits per color. Until that changes to 12-16 bits, the quality difference external recorders make compared to internal recording followed by up-conversion for editing to the same codec, will be visible only to pixel-peepers, and it's harder to peep at pixels at 30-60 fps.

I'm ambivalent about the lenses cut in half. On the one hand you have a point, but on the other hand it looks like people can take them out and play with them. If I were a kid I'd go gaga over being able to do this with real lenses; it would certainly create a strong brand sentiment for kids AND their parents. The lens shape could perhaps be conveyed via a diagram.

Next development: mobile apps and AI web browser plugins that spare consumers the effort to look at this machine generated drivel and automate the buying decisions for them.

Actually we would NOT be buying the actual physical clothes - just licensing rights to have (yet another) software photoshop it in our instagram pix and such, for our followers' delight.

...Because our current clothes are still 100% fine, but we've created this culture where it's unacceptable to keep being seen in them.