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Luke Massey Swapped The Canon EOS 1D X Mark II For The Sony a9

Lots of Canon photographers are leaving for Sony cameras and I am not surprised. The Sony a9 is an impressive camera and offers a unique shooting experience that you simply can’t get with a Canon or Nikon camera today. Canon/Nikon’s first generation professional mirrorless cameras will be competitive, but I highly doubt it and their native mirrorless […]

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Photonstophotos: Sony a9 vs Nikon D5, Canon 1D X Mark II, Sony a7 Mark 2, Sony a7R Mark 2

Photonstophotos updated their Sony a9 results with final data and it performs very well against its competitors up till 3200 ISO, where the Nikon D5 just edges it out. It’s good to see that the electronic shutter of the Sony a9 doesn’t affect the dynamic range of the a9 much according to Photonstophotos’ results. The Sony a9, beats the […]

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Dave Dugdale Expands on Philip Bloom’s AF Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUtRfpqJp8 Dave Dugdale decided to expand on Philip Bloom’s AF test Part 1 and Part 2, with two test of his own using the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II and Sony a6500. His methodology is a little different and uses different lenses, the  Sony Zeiss 55mm F1.8 Sonnar T* FE ZA and Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM, but he has come up […]

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Philip Bloom Video Auto-Focus Mega Test Part 2

This is part 2 of Philip Bloom’s  big video auto focus shoot out between 10 cameras. In Part one Bloom started off with some pretty typical tests, before trying an impossible test and giving up. The Sony’s all do very well, but so do the dual pixel focus Canon’s. Part 2 is a little more realistic […]

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Philip Bloom Video Auto-Focus Mega Test Part 1

Philip Bloom started a pretty big video auto focus shoot out between 10 cameras. In Part one Bloom starts off with some pretty typical tests, before trying an impossible test and giving up. The Sony’s all do very well, but so do the dual pixel focus Canon’s. In this video Philip Bloom tests the Sony a7RII […]

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