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not sure why it wasn't awarded a gold, seems like excellent performance throughout.

Interesting that the price of the bodies have been ignored
R3 = £5.9K
A9II = £4.2K
(for perspective A1 = £6.5K)

Before making sarcastic comments I suggest you try to understand what someone has posted. I didn't say anything about the prestige for the press organisations. I was talking about the prestige for...

This isn't about the money or units sold in this deal, same as with the other deal they made with associate press.

Reminds of this video
https://youtu.be/4iMu14-LVmw

It's all about the prestige.

Its available to anyone and everyone for price of £79. its basically a scratch card you can buy and add it on to any of your gear. its also transferable which is nice if you plan to sell on your gear.

That is quite unfortunate. Even more unfortunate you have 3 Sony cameras to deal with. In my part of the world: Sony provides 2 years warranty at the moment but most camera manufactures all only ...

Heat dissipation is not problem on bodies like A1 or A7SIII. Do you have heat dissipation problems with your bodies? The only advantage I can see is a more robust construction since it's ...

I think more than R3/Z9 but let's see...

You should read the other replies on this thread. Many hobbyists and enthusiasts inc. myself who are buying this body since we can use it for everything. I don't need to wait many years till these ...

But are a hobbyists any less real? Birds are more challenging than shooting in a closed arena with predictable subjects and 30fps.

Could be useful for those wanting to use e-mount Voigtlander and Zeiss Loxia lenses with electronic connections. They are fully manual, so AF performance is not of much consequence.
But I imagine...

It's always the early adopters who will make your new tech a success. Pros who shot weddings etc didn't really make a move till A7III. Sports/wildlife shooters didn't really seem to consider Sony ...

exactly so we know Sony are capable of designing a good body+grip system, just just haven't bothered! :-x

And my point is there is no reason why these can't also be mass appeal cameras. A1 I feel now has the mass appeal with similar level of capabilities of R3/Z9. For the people that demand such a ...

Sony sold you cameras saying they will be at the olympics? So you wouldn't buy other brands simply because they are not used to shoot at the olympics? been shooting with Sony far before they became ...

And what technical reason is that? I really can't see many. So I feel they are artificially bloated. They aren't much smaller, certainly more elegant (and also robust as I noted) but you lose a lot ...

There isn't much reason in this day and age for an artificially bloated body. Feels like they are living in the past trying to satisfy a few old customers stuck with them in the past. Sony's ...

A9II still does true blackout free shooting that R5 doesn't really do. Also A9II tracking in general I have read is better than R5. For example even dpreview writes: "Back when I wrote our review ...

fair enough, my bad looks like I misread your comments. I shoot flying birds too with 200-600mm but admittedly not shot swallows with it yet. I have shot Arctic Puffins if that counts? Weight ...

not sure why you care but here's one https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/the-amazing-sony-a1-a7-a9-aps-c-anything-else-welcome-mega-thread.511885/page-2010#post-8987256