Author Archives: Louis Ferreira

Sony a9: AF Performance With Native Glass/A-Mount Glass/Canon Glass and More

The Sony a9 has impressive speed in many ways, but performance is very lens dependent and so far I haven’t seen anything out of the a9 that my Fujifilm X-T2 can’t achieve beyond maybe having a slightly higher hit rate. Of course, it can fire at 20 fps vs 14fps, but I’m not sure it’s […]

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Sony a9: Overheating Debacle Getting Resolved

The original source of the Sony a9 controversy that1cameraguy was contacted by Sony and they believe the issue is isolated. This is good to know and should reassure people considering a purchase. Further, the last word took some measurements and found no issue with the Sony a9, but his test was very controlled. I live streamed a portion […]

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Sony a9: Heat Testing

Sony a9 Testing Posted by Sony Addict on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Earlier today I shot the Sony a9 consistently for 2 hrs 39 minutes and 19 seconds before killing a fresh battery that started at 100%. I live streamed about 30 minutes of the test past the one hour mark to show that the camera […]

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Sony a9: Technical Testing Roundup

The Sony a9 is being picked apart by some of the best technical reviews out there now and there aren’t a lot of huge complaints about the camera compared to the cameras it’s designed to compete with. The Last Word did a lot of great testing of the Fujifilm GFX so I am looking forward […]

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Sigma Working on MC-11 Firmware Fix For Sony a9

Translated Release: For customers using Sony “α9 (ILCE-9)” Thank you very much for your continued support of Sigma products. This time, in the combination of our MOUNT CONVERTER MC – 11 (SA – E, EF – E) and some zoom lenses to “α 9 (ILCE – 9)” which was released from Sony Corporation on May […]

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Upcoming Sony Camera Teaser

Yesterday Sony China released a teaser for a new camera, and Photorumors thinks it might be a Sony RX1R Mark 3 or new RX model. It’s rare that we don’t have a pretty good idea about what is coming, but I doubt it will be an RX camera since that was recently refreshed and since […]

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