When I saw the announcement of the camera in January 2021, I realized: This is THE ONE for me. For content creators in the imaging as well as in the video section, this is the first camera from Sony, putting everything together into one body. After two weeks using this beast, I decided to share some experiences that may go beyond the pervasive buzz about AF performance, shutter speed etc.

In this article I am focussing especially on the high resolution features for photography and videography as well as Eye-AF.

High Resolution Photography

When you shoot with good glass, the amout of detail and the reserves for cropping right from the new 50 megapixel sensor may be already more than enough for most situations, like you can see from this example taken with the Sony G 20mm f/1.8 at f/5.6:

(clicking on the image takes you to further resolutions)

Looking into a 1:1 crop (100%) gives you an impression on the level of detail:

Finest Ballet and Latin Dance (Cuban Salsa and Reggaeton) in 3D performed by Regina (stills for "warming up" the 3D perception), Zaimy and Michel.

Latin Dance performed by "L@s Chéveres" (www.el-chevere.de). Click here to see a 2D version of that video.

The video and stills were recorded using a rig with two radio controlled Lumix GH2:

To enjoy this 3D video without the need of 3D glasses, you can open it on the new generation of 3D smartphones like the LG Optimus 3D and the HTC Evo 3D. We are sure that further autostereoscopic devices will follow.

In order to gain highest playback quality you can download the 3D BluRay ISO image here, if you have a BluRay disk writer / player and a 3D TV.