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Looks like a painting.

Olympus magic.

In theory the A9iii looks like it has the hardware to pull the same multi-shot tricks of smartphones. What seems to be missing is the will and the software to make it a reality.

This is a common problem with many camera manufacturers...

Look at the A9III gallery on this very site and you will see a large chunk of people do not like Sony colors, low DR, clipped highlights and noise. At least with the A9III.

Actually, I would say the OM-1 has a similar buffer limitation as the A9iii.

I've shot at 120 fps before (fixed AF though). Not many situations where that is useful. If someone finds it useful, more power to them.

Surprisingly, the A9III buffer is rather small so it is also another limitation for the 120fps mode.

Liveview upgrade. The cameras were only 6 years apart. Roughly the same price at launch.

If I had the mortgage the house for a camera upgrade, I'd rather buy a Z9, A1 or maybe even a GF100s. Older tech but proven and more balanced. A9III is too specialized for my tastes with unacceptable compromises.

They did the artificial lighting to show the global shutter could take it. Of course, they also showed the image quality isn't all that great.

6000 dollars in 2024 gets you the IQ from 20 years ago.

Let me spell it out for you: Constant f5.6 or F8 zooms, like a 20-60 F5.6. So "sub f4" meaning slower, not faster (with a smaller F number).

Canon has the variable aperture kit zooms, but not quality zooms which just happen to be slower (and smaller). Something that would go well with a fairly compact travel camera. Canon doesn't offer this type of camera (yet)), but Sony does. Yet Sony is not pushing slow lenses like Canon is. I just wish Canon went even further.

You misunderstood...

Cool. This is not for me (too big, too pricey still), but I like how some (FF) manufacturers taking chances releasing slow lenses.

So far I haven't seen the same enthusiasm with the more normal range. Some slow variable aperture kit zooms from Canon for the soccer moms, yes, but no constant aperture stuff below F4. It seems to be a psychological barrier still.

Cool.

Photos look kinda nice until you look at them at full resolution.

unremarkable compact camera IQ... in a tough and waterproof body.

Glad I never was tempted to buy into that system. I knew from the start it was only a stopgap system. Though I'll give them credit for keeping the system alive longer than Nikon 1.

With that gloating out of the way, I think if I had bought into M mount, I think I would have half enjoyed it (until this point). The 22mm prime looks like a classic and that macro lens with lights built-in was a neat idea (hope someone else steals it).

Dude has some long nails.

It's still too much camera for me.

I just want them to update their Z6/Z7 lines and do it in a more meaningful fashion than their mark II's.

Wow looks like an amazing lens. I wish it'd would zoom beyond 20mm but I'm being greedy here. The size, the stabilisation, 10mm. All awesome. Yeah, it's not cheap but all thing considered, this is a lot of lens

I skipped on RF mount, but the lens lineup has always been very tempting.

The photographer got up early. Scoped the area for an hour. Found a possible photo op but 50 meters away in the middle of a pond.

He rowed his boat 10 meters close. it was better but not perfect, maybe he could crop later? Nah, he just remembered the 150-400 has a built-in teleconverter, he engaged it and bingo, perfect framing.

Confident in the hardware and his own settings, he waited for his shot. No worries, the OM1 has long battery life.

The mother bird often got in the way and obscured the babies. Not satisfied, he circled counter-clockwise a quarter of the way.; some of the leaves in the foreground moved closer to the edge of the frame, effectively giving him a better vintage point.

The mother returned and was getting her and her babies in profiles. He took the shots. Many, many shots in fact.

Satisfied, he returned home. But he grew apprehensive with a familiar dilemma for Olympus users: with so many killer shots, which one would he choose for the DPR challenge?

None of them.